Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s Regiment of Foot

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Active	1643 to 1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Foot
Colonel	Sir Arthur Hesilrige
	James Holborne
Area Raised	London
Coat Colour	Blue
Flag Colour	Blue
Flag Design	Unknown
Field Armies	Waller 1643-4
	Holborne 1645

Later Colonel James Holborne’s Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian regiment of foot of the army of the Southern Association serving with Waller

• August: Commissioned to be Raised
• November: Siege of Basing House (5 coy)
• November: Siege of Basing House (5 coy)
• November: Standoff at Farnham (5 coy)
• December: Storm of Alton Church
• December to January 1644: Siege of Arundel

• March: Battle of Cheriton
• May to June: Besieged at Lyme Regis (3 coy)
• June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
• December: Relief of Taunton

• Garrison of Wareham
• March: Skirmish at Dorchester?
• April: Reduced into Sir Hardress Waller’s Regiment of Foot of the New Model Army

May 1644 Col. Cooke’s were reduced into the regiment. July 1644 two companies transferred to Colonel Holborne’s Regiment of Dragoons.

Blue coats. Blue flags, design unknown ²⁾.

A list of officers is shown in Laurence Spring's Waller's Army, The Regiments of Sir William Waller's Southern Association The Pike and Shot Association 2007 ISBN 978-1-902768-34-2

Sir Arthur Hesilrige

James Holborne was a Scots officer.

John Birch later of Colonel John Birch’s Regiment of Foot

• November 1643: 400 men (5 coy?)
• March 1644: 5 or more companies led by Birch at Cheriton