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Orange Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands

Flag Illustration1)
Active1642-
CountryEngland
AllegianceParliamentarian
ConflictsFirst Civil War
TypeFoot
ColonelJohn Towse
Nathaniel Camfield
Rowland Wilson
Thomas Gower
Richard King
Thomas Bludworth
Richard Browne
Coat Colour
Area RaisedFarringdon Without: London
Flag ColourOrange
Flag DesignWhite Trefoils
Field Armies

Regiment of foot of the London Trained Bands

Service History

1642

1643

1644

1645

1647

1650

1658

1659

1660

Notes

Flags

The regiment carried orange flags with white trefoils in April 1642 and September 1643 2).

Notable Officers

John Towse

Towse was a grocer and alderman, serving as Sheriff of London in 1641. He died in May 1645.

Rowland Wilson

Wilson was a vintner. He commanded from 1645 to his death in 1650, though Camfield was Colonel in 1647 under the Presbyterians.

Nathaniel Camfield

Colonel in 1647, demoted back to Lt Col under the Independents

Thomas Gower

Gower was a grocer, he commanded the regiment in 1658.

Richard King

Mercer and alderman, Colonel 1659 to 1660.

Thomas Bludworth

Vintner and alderman, Colonel in 1660

Richard Browne

Browne was a woodmonger, he commanded the regiment between 1660 and 1668.

Officer Lists

April 1642

6th Regiment, The Orange Regiment “The Distinctions Argent being Trefoils”3)

September 1642

The London Bands Alarm Places4) The Orange Regiment of the London Trained Bands

September 1643

The Orange Regiment of the London Trained Bands (6 companies)5)

July 1647

Officers granted arrears in the final hours of the Presbyterian Militia Committee’s existence on 23 July 1647 6).

City Orange Trained Band.

December 1647

Officers after re-organisation under the dominance of the Independents7).

City Orange Trained Band

Strength

See Also

1) Flag image by kind permission of Wargames Designs
2) ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846
3) The Names Dignitie & Places of the Severall Colonells…, London 1642. British Library Thomason Tracts E669 f6 (10).
4) British Library Thomason Tracts E669 f6
5) The London Trained Bands Mustered in Finsbury Fields 26 September 1643; Ensignes of the Regiments in the rebellious Citty of London, National Army Museum Ms 6807-53
6) , 7) The Militia of London 1641-1649 PhD Thesis, Lawson Chase Nagel, King’s College, University of London, 1982.