An ivory and ebony chess set, 17th or early 18th century the knights answer the description in Rowbothum’s The Plesaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts renewed in 1562 as having “his top cut aslope, as thoughe beynge dubbed knight”, a type of knight which continued to be made while the rook is as described in Beale’s introduction to The royall Game of Chesse-Play in 1656 as being represented sometimes with a round head and sometimes with a castle.