1842, S.R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page 6:
In the year 1367 , in the chamber, one haubergeon, two pairs of plates, one pair of paunces, one pair of sleeves of mail of steel, . . cuisses of steel, two pairs of gauntlets of steel, five lances, one shield, three basinets ...
2017, Donald J. La Rocca, How to Read European Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art (→ISBN), page 11:
... covered the armpits or the crooks of the elbows and were attached to arming jackets, garments specially tailored to be worn under armor; and mail breeches, called brayettes or pairs of paunces, could be worn by men fighting on foot.
