Lord Willoughby of Parham’s Regiment of Horse

Parliamentarian regiment from Lincolnshire fighting alongside Cromwell in 1643 but reduced after the Battle of Newark in 1644

• Raised in Lincolnshire
• October: Skirmish at King’s Norton?
• October: Battle of Edgehill, arrives too late to see action

• April: Battle of Ancaster Heath
• July: Storm of Gainsborough
• July: Battle of Gainsborough
• July to August: Besieged in Gainsborough?
• October: Siege of Bolingbroke Castle
• October: Battle of Winceby
• November: Taking of Mablethorpe Hall
• December: Storm of Gainsborough

• 16th January: Skirmish at Nottingham
• February to March: Siege of Newark
• March: Storm of Muskham Bridge?
• March: Battle of Cotes Bridge?
• March: Battle of Newark
• Reduced into Colonel Edward Rossiter's Regiment of Horse

Lord Willoughby's cornet was plain black with a foliated pattern in dark grey¹⁾.

However, according to Blount: The Lord Willoughby of Parham sem'd not to ayme at the King but his evil counsellours, when for his devise he depainted the sun enveloped with clouds, and the motto, NON SOLEM, SED NUBILOS²⁾.

Captain Massingberg's cornet was blue with a blue and white fringe with a knight on a white horse, clouds in the top left bearing the motto DEVS and a scroll showing OCCULI NOSTRI DE FIXI SUNT INTE³⁾.

Wray served as a gentleman volunteer in Earl of Essex’s Lifeguard Troop of Horse then likely served as a captain in Willoughby's regiment by January 1643. According to Blount: Sir Christopher Wray figured a Hand with drawn Sword, and the motto in English, THAT WAR IS IUST, WHICH IS NECESSARY⁴⁾.

A list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association⁵⁾

Francis, Lord Willoughby of Parham was blamed for the Parliamentary defeat at Newark.

• February 1644: Reported to be 500 strong