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White Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands

Flag Illustration1)
Active1642-
CountryEngland
AllegianceParliamentarian
ConflictsFirst Civil War
TypeFoot
ColonelIsaac Penington
Thomas Player
Joseph Vaughan
Thomas Allen
John Lawrence
Coat Colour
Area RaisedCornhill, Langbourne
Lime Street, Broad Street
Bishopsgate: London
Flag ColourWhite
Flag DesignRed Lozenges
Field ArmiesWaller 1644

Regiment of foot of the London Trained Bands

Service History

1642

1643

1644

1646

1658

1659

1660

Notes

Flags

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

Notable Officers

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

Isaac Penington

Isaac Penington

Thomas Player

Colonel in 1646, replaced by Vaughan in 1647 then restored by the Independents

Joseph Vaughan

Colonel in 1647 under the Presbyterians

Thomas Allen

Grocer and alderman. Colonel in 1658.

John Lawrence

Haberdasher and alderman. Colonel from 1659 to 1660

Officer Lists

April 1642

2nd Regiment, The White Regiment “The Distinctions Gules being lozenges”3)

September 1642

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

September 1643

The White Regiment of the London Trained Bands (7 companies)5)

October 1646

Lining the route of procession at the Earl of Essex's funeral6)

City White Trained Band

July 1647

Officers granted arrears in the final hours of the Presbyterian Militia Committee’s existence on 23 July 1647 7).

City White Trained Band

December 1647

Officers after re-organisation under the dominance of the Independents8).

City White 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) The Militia of London 1641-1649 PhD Thesis, Lawson Chase Nagel, King’s College, University of London, 1982.
7) , 8) The Militia of London 1641-1649 PhD Thesis, Lawson Chase Nagel, King’s College, University of London, 1982.