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Gentleman's Magazine 1853 part 1 p.615
my supposition is correct, these "milk-white cloths" were spotted with the local baronial mark. On the other hand your statement may be correct too, the white cloths in your case being spotted* with the national mark. However this may be, you will hardly doubt that the Kendal men were the wearers of the "spotted cottons" and the manufacturers of their own wear at the battle of Flodden Field, and that is the main point of my history.
Yours, &c.
CORNELIUS NICHOLSON.
The Hill, Hornsey, May 23, 1853.
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* The "crosses of Saint George" were clearly not "spotted" or printed on the coats of the soldiery, but formed of red cloth sewn over the white. - Edit.
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