Westminster Liberty Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands

Flag Illustration	1)
Active	1643-
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Foot
Colonel	Sir James Harrington
Coat Colour
Area Raised	London
Flag Colour	Red
Flag Design	White stars
Field Armies	Waller 1643-4

Westminster Regiment of the London Trained Bands serving as part of Harrington’s Brigade

• September: Muster at London
• November: Siege of Basing House
• November: Siege of Basing House
• November: Standoff at Farnham
• December: Storm of Alton Church

• July: Garrison of Abingdon
• October: Second Battle of Newbury

They are sometimes confused with the Red Regiment of the London Trained Bands, as both units carried red colours.

The regiment carried red flags with white stars in September 1643 ²⁾.

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 James Harrington, colonel from 1643 and still leading the regiment in 1646.

The Westminster “Libertye” Regiment of Trained Bands (7 companies)³⁾

• Colonel: Sir James Harington, Bt.
• Captain-Lieutenant: (blank)
• Lieutenant-Colonel: Hopton
• Major: Taylor
• Captain: Fauconberg
• Captain: George Warren, a tailor in Sheere Lane
• Captain: Walter Biggs
• Captain: Thomas Constable

• Captain Richard Warren (07/10/44 - 15/12/44)⁴⁾

• September 1643: 80 officers, 854 pikemen and 1084 musketeers (2018) in 7 companies