Adriaen van Ostade (1610 - 1685) The Violinist, 1673

 

Horse grenadier 1685

 The Royal Regiment of Horse was made up of three troops of 200 gentlemen and a troop of 60 Horse Grenadiers recruited from the usual commoners. Equipped with a long carbine 'strapt', sword, a pair of pistols, bayonet and grenades. Pic by me. 

On Horse Grenadiers 5 December 1683
The King had now augmented his guards with a new sort of dragoons, who carried also granados, and were habited after the Polish manner, with long peaked caps, very fierce and fantastical.

Prince Rupert's Dog

 Mark Turnbull AuthorNEW EPISODE

#CavalierCast Podcast

Professor Mark Stoyle reveals all about Prince Rupert's dog, Boye.

In this fascinating episode Mark details what we know of Boye and explains how superstition, belief, and witchcraft come together in the propaganda that made him infamous.

It's a story that takes us to the very heart of the civil wars itself.

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Seventeenth century boots – who owned them, who made them, what did they use them for, and what did they cost

Interesting article

 Costume Historian: Seventeenth century boots – who owned them, who made them, what did they use them for, and what did they cost

Tangier - 1680 : The diary of Sir James Halkett

 

North Star Military Figures

 

Coldstream Guards 1672 North Star 1672 - North Star Military Figures

''One of my favourite painted regiments we have in our 1672 range.
The musketeers in the regiment were uniformed in red with green facings, but then the pikemen were dressed in reverse, green with red facings.
The officers in this period were not expected to wear the regimental uniform, so we painted the Ensigns in their civilian fineries.
The flags I consider to be right for this period. They were green in a slightly later period, and then white with red cross into the 1680s. Iain at Flags of War kindly produced these for us.
Sadly, I don't think they actually fought as a regiment in the 1670s. Elements were sent to Tangiers and Virginia to fight, and also to France to be part of the 'English Regiment' in the service of Louis XIV but were uniformed in grey for that conflict.
The regimental motto 'Nulli Secundus' was created in this period. They were put into the Royal Guard following the Restoration of the Monarchy, but were placed 2nd Senior regiment of the Household Troops. Their motto was a reply to that position as they were an older regiment than the 1st Foot Guards (The Grenadier Guards), the Coldstream's history going back to the Civil War.''

Review at Putney Heath 1684

 'On the 1st of October, sixteen companies of the Royal Regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James Hackett, were reviewed, with a number of other corps, by Charles II,. on Putney Heath. ''The Coldstream, my Lord Dumbarton's, and the Admiral's Battalions, successively exercised all three by beat of drum, the military postures of pike, sword, and musket, every man dexterously discharging his duties with an exact and general readiness, to the great delight of their Majesties and Royal Highnesses, who vouchsafed, all the time of exercise, to grace the arms with their presence. The other two battalions of the Royal Regiment had not fallen short of the like performance, if illness of weather, when they just intended it, had not prevented{ the day proving wet and showery was a general impediment from proceeding at that time to any other motions customary upon the like reviews: and all decamped sooner than otherwise they would have done.''