AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD, the blade (one edge damaged) with central fuller on each face of the forte inscribed respectively 'Sebastian' and 'Hernandez', iron hilt of 'mortuary' type composed of flat bars and a hand-guard chiselled in low relief with conventional foliage framing male heads in contemporary costume and a grotesque mask, and globular pommel chiselled with foliage (grip missing), mid-17th Century