Sir Michael Livesey’s Regiment of Horse

Flag Illustration	1)
Active	1642-4
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Sir Michael Livesey
Area Raised	Kent
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	See below
Field Armies	Waller 1643-5

Parliamentarian Regiment of Kentish Horse serving in the South and with Waller's Southern Association

• Raised in Kent
• December: Siege of Chichester

• July: Put down rising at Severnoaks and Tonbridge
• November: Standoff at Farnham Castle
• December: Defence of Bramber
• December to January 1644: Siege of Arundel

• March: Battle of Cheriton
• June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
• October: Second Battle of Newbury

• April: Enter the New Model Army as Colonel Henry Ireton’s Regiment of Horse

In January 1643 one of the troops, that commanded by Capt Gibbons, were dragoons.²⁾

Livesey's cornet was red with the motto FOR KING AND PARLIAMENT illustrated above.

Sedascue, thought to be German but in fact Polish, Johannes Sedowski, had a red cornet with the sun at top left, a storm cloud top right and the motto POST NUBILA PHREVE on a three part scroll. ³⁾

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 Michael Livesey

• March 1644: 5 troops at Cheriton