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This soldier wears an issue coat, in red wool lined with off-white wool, with flat pewter buttons. On his head is a knitted Monmouth cap, made of partly felted natural brown wool. His breeches are of heavy brown wool, lined with linen, fastened with pewter buttons. Two sets of linen ties hold the knee of his breeches closed and the hose up. The hose are knitted from natural grey wool, and his shoes are of  black leather, with the rough (flesh) side out. They have open sides and square toes.

His short sword, with a rapier style hilt, is supported on a wide leather baldric, and his powder is carried in a collar of bandoleers, consisting of a leather belt with turned wooden bottles for individual powder charges, a priming bottle and a small leather bag for bullets and so forth. His natural goatskin snapsack is open at the bottom, so it can be accessed from under the left arm, and he also has a flask shaped leather water bottle.

His weapon is a short 12 bore doglock (a type of flintlock) weapon, called a dragon.