How much did medieval horse armor cost?
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I was able to find one single clear citation from this 1967 PhD thesis:
WIEDEMER JR, JACK EARL. Arms and Armor in England, 1450-1471, their Cost and Distribution. University of Pennsylvania, 1967 (p. 60).
At some time during the later 1460's, the earl of Oxford asked Sir John Paston to purchase three horse harnesses of the best quality for Oxford's use, adding that he was willing to pay up to £7. each for them, and that Lord Hastings had recently paid between £6. and £7. for one such harness. These figures prove that armor for a horse could cost as much as that for a man, which is probably another reason why horse armor seems to have been comparatively rare.
A footnote for this section cites The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509, ed. J. Gairdner. London: Chatto and Windus, 1904 (Vol. 4: 686).
One note: The currency symbols in the typed thesis are hand-written and look to my eye like a "Z" with a horizontal crossbar through the middle. Based on surrounding context I'm pretty sure this is meant to be the symbol for pounds sterling (shown in my transcription above).
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