Sir Robert Strickland’s Regiment of Yorkshire Trained Bands

Regiment of foot of the Yorkshire Trained Bands, supporting the Royalists in the First Civil War

• Strickland commissioned Colonel of a North Riding of Yorkshire Trained Band

• Strickland commissioned to march his Trained Band regiment to Newcastle by the Earl of Northumberland

• June: March to York to support the King
• July: First siege of Hull

• September to October: Second siege of Hull

• March: Repulsed from Bradford
• April: Battle of Selby
• April to July: Besieged in York

A North Riding of Yorkshire Trained Band, they marched to support the King at York in 1642, led by Edward Duncombe who was swiftly knighted. Strickland followed on, while Duncombe raised a volunteer regiment, Sir Edward Duncombe’s Regiment of Dragoons prior to Edgehill. The remnants of the regiment might have been combined into Lord Belasyse’s (Northern) Regiment of Foot after Selby, and stayed in York rather than fighting at Marston Moor?

Sir Robert Strickland

• 1638: 900 men