Sir Horatio Cary’s Regiment of Horse

Flag Illustration 1	1)
Flag Illustration 2	2)
Active	1643-1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Sir Horatio Cary
Area Raised	West Country
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	Cartoon & Motto
Field Armies	Hopton 1643-4
	Oxford 1645

Royalist regiment of horse raised by Sir Horatio after changing sides from Parliament

• December: Skirmish at Westbourne?

• March: Battle of Cheriton?

• May: Storm of Leicester
• June: Battle of Naseby
• August to September: Besieged at Bristol
• October: Battle of Sherburn in Elmet??

• May to June: Besieged at Oxford

The history of this regiment is intertwined with that of Lord John Stuart’s Regiment of Horse, later led by the Earl of Cleveland, and likely some details are confused. Cary was originally Colonel of what became Cleveland’s but handed command over to Lord John Stuart in late 1643 then raised his own regiment.

Cary's cornets were noted by Symonds in April 1644.

Cary's own troop's cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto 'come out you cuckold' (Illustration 1) referring to the Earl of Essex's notorious marital problems. The creature might be a 'fox in a barrel' or perhaps a stag or reindeer without his antlers.

The major's cornet simply bore the motto 'cuckolds we come' (Illustration 2).

Previously led Sir Horatio Cary’s Regiment of Foot in Waller’s Parliamentarian army of the Western Association.

• May 1645: At least 200 at Leicester³⁾