AN OFFICER`S COATEE, SHOULDER-BELT AND SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, KENDALL AND LONSDALE REGIMENT, WESTMO

AN OFFICER`S COATEE, SHOULDER-BELT AND SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, KENDALL AND LONSDALE REGIMENT, WESTMORELAND LOCAL MILITIA, 1809-14 the double-breasted coatee of scarlet wool, with dark blue cuffs, lapels and collar patches and white turn-backs to the skirts; lined in glazed cream linen; with an additional fillet of scarlet wool at the front-waist suggesting a contemporary alteration; pair of skirt ornaments, each in the form of a `garb` or wheatsheaf, in silver wire and sequins on a blue wool ground; the buttons gilded and barely domed, embossed with a crown between the initials W, L and M, all above the title KENDALL & LONSDALE - 20 to the front, 4 to each cuff, 1 to each collar side, 10 to the skirts and 1 to the epaulette; with a single epaulette to the right shoulder, of gold vellum lace, edged with purl and with a double row of gold bullions descending from a gold bullion crescent; the shoulder-belt of whitened buff leather 2½in wide pierced for a belt-plate and terminating in a sword frog; the shoulder-belt plate of gilded copper 3¼in x 2½in, slightly domed, fitted with a hook and two studs to the rear and engraved on its polished face with a crowned strap-and-buckle containing the title KENDALL & LONSDALE and enclosing the initials W over LM, all upon a horizontally hatched ground (3) The Kendall and Lonsdale Regiment of Westmoreland Local Militia was formed on 22nd April 1809 from the Kendall and Lonsdale Volunteers and from other companies of Volunteers in that area of Westmoreland; it was disbanded in 1814.