A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with blade of flattened hexagonal section with inscribed central fuller on each face of the forte and ricasso engraved on one face with a Maltese cross, the iron hilt of slender bars with straight quillons (one missing), arms, three upturned concentric ring-guards on the outside linked to the slender knuckle-guard and inner trifurcated guard linked to the arms, tapering cylindrical pommel, and later wooden grip, early 17th Century; and a composite English rapier, the tapering blade of flattened diamond section with inscribed central fuller on each face of the forte, the iron guard comprising shallow octafoil shell pierced and chiselled in low relief with conventional foliage, short quillons with bifurcated ends with button terminals, globular pommel chiselled with foliage, and wire-bound wooden grip, mid-17th Century