Note 8 — HISTORICAL RECORD
Reading edition
According to the estimates of this period, the following sums were usually paid for the clothing of the horse:—
£s.d.
Scarlet coats3100
Corporal's ditto4100
Red cloaks, lined250
Hats edged with lace0150
Sword and belts100
Carbine belts070
Cloth waistcoats015
Buff gloves076
Horse furniture,—viz.: housing and holster-caps, embroidered150
Jacked boots160
Cartouch boxes026
Each Captain clothed his own trumpeter, and the Colonel the kettle-drummer.