| Active | 1650 to 1660 |
| Country | England |
| Allegiance | Parliamentarian |
| Conflicts | Third Civil War |
| Glencairn’s Rising | |
| Restoration | |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Edward Sexby |
| Thomas Reade | |
| Area Raised | |
| Coat Colour | Red |
| Flag Colour | |
| Flag Design | |
| Field Armies | Monck 1651 |
| Monck 1659-60 | |
Later Colonel Thomas Reade’s Regiment of Foot
Regiment of foot raised for service in Ireland, instead serving in Scotland throughout the 1650s and supporting Monck at the Restoration
A history of the regiment is given in The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army by Sir Charles Firth and Godfrey Davies, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940.
Sexby’s regiment were raised in June 1650 for service in Ireland but were instead sent to Scotland, where they served under Monck. Sexby was Court-Martialled in 1651 for hanging one of his soldiers and was replaced by Thomas Reade. Under Reade the regiment mainly served in garrison at Stirling, with detachments in the Highlands.
Reade was loyal to Monck and continued to lead the regiment up to the Restoration. It was disbanded at Tower Hill in October 1660.
Red coats.
Edward Sexby (c1616-1658) was an agitator, originally serving in Cromwell’s Ironsides, who rose to be governor of Portland in 1649. Made colonel of a newly-raised regiment in 1650, he was cashiered in 1651, became a prominent Leveller and plotted to kill Oliver Cromwell, he died as a prisoner in the Tower of London in 1658.
Reade had previously served with distinction as Lieutenant Colonel of Colonel Robert Overton's Regiment of Foot