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No 18 Coat
The word Coat seems to have been in ancient times applied cheefly if not intirely to armor
Mail Coats of mail Coat armor Privy Coats &c afterwards it was used for the uniforms of Soldiers & the Liveries of Great men for danish Coats of mail See Strutt vol 1 P 26
1527 Howe in his Chronicle speaking of the Pomp of Cardinel wollsey says Then marchd he forward from his own house in westminster through London having before him of Gentlemen a great number 3 in Rankes in Velvet Coats & all his yeomen followd himwithnoble men & Gentlemens servants all in orange Towne Coats
again in the account of his Pomp when Ambassador to the Emperor his servants his yeomen & mean officers are said to have worn coats of fine Scarlet Garded with black velvet a hand broad
1485 The soldiers in the Left wing at the Battle of Bosworth were clad in a white hood & coats of Frize Baker
1553 in Speed we read of Capt Bret & his band of White Coats also of 1200 1554 Northern White Coats & of Sir H Benfield with 100 soldiers in Blue Coats
1312 There was
1470 The Lord welles & Sir Robt Dymock his Son in Law were beheaded Sr
Robt weles on hearing this [formd?] battle with the King Edwd 4th near Stamford where he was defeated on this occasion the Licolnshire men to make themselves the Lighter to Run away threw off their Coats for which cause the Battle was afterwards calld the Loose Coat Field Baker p 208 Steed p 692
1582 their Coats and jerkins are divers Colors Some close to the body Some Loose reaching down to the thigh like bags or Sacks hiding the proportions of the body Some are buttond down the breast some under the arm & some down the back Some with flaps over the breast some with great Sleeves some with small & some with none some pleated & Crested behind Stubbes anatomy of abuses
Liveries Liveries were deleverys of victual & clothing from Great Persons to their servants & dependents
Hen 8th Livery was Red guarded with yellow Howe
1603 The Train of the high Sherif of Herts had blue Livery Coats & white Doublets Howe
Richd 2nd had one coat that Cost him 30,000 marks Hollingshead 1110
see cloaks for the beginning of the Present Fashion or our Coats 1633
Burnette a Burnette Cote being there withall Chaucer Remont of the Race 226 Burnette was a Rich Stuff forbidden to the midling classes