Sir William Mason’s Regiment of Horse
- Service History
  - 1643
  - 1644
  - 1645
- Notes
- Flags
- Notable Officers
  - Sir William Mason
- Strength
- See Also
- Links

Sir William Mason’s Regiment of Horse

Active	1643 to 1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Sir William Mason
Area Raised
Flag Colour
Flag Design
Field Armies	Newcastle 1644
	Langdale 1645

Royalist regiment of horse serving in the Marquis of Newcastle’s army in 1644 then with Langdale’s Northern Horse

Service History

1643

Raised

1644

July: Battle of Marston Moor

1645

February: Battle of Melton Mowbray
March: Battle of Pontefract
May: Storm of Leicester
June: Battle of Naseby
October: Battle of Sherburn in Elmet

Notes

Flags

Notable Officers

Sir William Mason

A barrister from Norfolk, he raised a force from the Inns of Court to guard the King's person in January 1642 and aided Charles in the attempt to seize the five members. In 1643 he was commissioned Colonel in Newcastle's army¹⁾.

Strength

Links

¹⁾ The Old Service: Royalist regimental colonels and the Civil War, 1642-6 P.R. Newman, Manchester University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7190-3752-2

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