The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

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took' place among the light-armed cavalry and infantry,
complete suits of armour being still used among the
heavy horse. Buff-coats continued to be worn by the
city trained-bands till within the memory of persons
now living, so that defensive armour may, in some
measure, be said to have terminated in the same materials with which it began, that is, the skins of animals, or leather."-GIios;'s Military Antiquities.
Lond. 1801, 4to, vol. ii. p. 323.
Of the buff-coats, which were worn over the corslets, several are yet preserved; and Captain Grose
has given an engraving of one which was used in the
time of' Charles I. by Sir Frances Rhodes, Bart. of
Balbrough-Hall, Derbyshire. They were usually lined
with silk, or linen, secured before by buttons, or by a
lace, and often richly decorated with gold or silver
embroidery. From the following curious account of a
dispute respecting a buff-coat between an old roundhead captain and a justice of peace, by whom his arms
were seized after the Restoration, we learn that the
value and importance of this defensive garment were
considerable: "A party of horse came to my house,
commanded by Mr. Peebles; and he told me he was
come for my arms, and that I must deliver them. I
asked him for his order. He told me he had a better
order than Oliver used to give; and, clapping his
hand upon his sword-hilt, he said, that was his order.
I told him, if he head none but that, it was not sufficient to take my arms; and then he pulled out his
warrant, and I read it. It was signed by Wentworth
Armitage, a general warrant to search all persons they
suspected, and so left the power to the soldiers at their
pleasure. They came to us at Coalley-Hall, about