"Cornish pikemen at Lansdowne?" Topic

Ok, ECW know-wots -- any indication that Grenville's Cornish pikemen wore uniform colours at Lansdowne? If so what was it?

I am no expert but I don't think that anyone knows. If it were me, I would paint them in a variety of civilian colours -- browns, greys, etc. -- but then you might well choose a different path and I would not criticize your choice.

-- Jeff

There are various myths that Cornish regiments wore blue coats and carried the Cornish flag of black with white cross. They are just myths, the Cornish regiments most likely had no uniforms and wore bunches of ribbons around their arms to identify the regiments. For flags they may well have had older trained band style flags, with stripes or quadrants of different colours

Cornish- no uniforms- country grey (Like hodden – anything form grey to brown

No black with white C18th myth from what I gather

Ribbons- probably attached to the top of their sleeves. Also tied around pikes and musket rests- but that probably didn;t last long on campaign! – source is an early war muster

You've always got the Sealed Knot regiments. Of course not all reenactment coat colours are fixed around solid source material, but certainly acts as a starting point. Have regiments like Slannings and Godolphhins with Light Blue/grey coats with yellow hooped sleeves. Course, read somewhere, might be in Reid's "All the Kings Armies" of a move in thought towards Hodden Grey coats due to the ease of obtaining undyed wool in that part of the country. Hope that helps :)

HOOPED SLEEVES!
There are NO records of any Regiment of foot, horse or dragoons ever having been issued with coats with hooped sleeves in the English Civil War.

It appears to have arisen from a misunderstanding of what was meant by ribbons on their sleeves.

I always thought hooped sleeves might have been a misinterpretation of laced buff-coat sleeves – like the Charles Cavendish painting at link