This page of illustrations was published in A History of the Uniforms of the British Army (vol 1) by Cecil C P Lawson (1940). The illustrations are by Lawson himself but they are not mentioned in the text and the differences of uniform are not explained, nor the source from which they are taken. The two men at the top of the page wear wide-brimmed hats and carry muskets that are either flintlock or snaphance. If they are to represent men performing different functions in a regiment then one of them would be expected to be a pikeman, but pikes were becoming obsolete by the end of the 17th century. These two ‘hat’ men have different coats but have waist-belts with powder-horn, plug bayonet and a sword. The ammunition pouch is on a shoulder-belt.
The figure, lower left, is a grenadier, wearing the earliest version of the grenadier cap, fur with a cloth bag falling behind. The man on the lower right has a different cap and might be a man of the light company, but light troops did not appear until the mid-18th century when muskets were better developed.
A contemporary source describes the uniforms of the 9th ‘Francis [sic] Cornwall’s Regiment’:
‘1687 Red lined orange, grey breeches, white stockings. A deserter (in undress) grey coat lined black.
1692 (as brigadier Stewart’s Regiment). Officers blue coats lined blue with gold loops, gold laced hats; caps, pouches, cartouche boxes of crimson velvet embroidered with gold and silver for the Captains and 2 Lieutenants of Grenadiers.’
