Catch-pole, mid-16th century, (1843). A weapon, dating from the reign of Henry VIII, said to have been used to take horsemen by the neck in battle, and drag them from their horses. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).
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