Colonel Herbert Morley’s Regiment of Foot

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Active	1642-6
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Foot
Colonel	Herbert Morley
Area Raised	Sussex
Coat Colour	Red in 1642
	Grey in 1645
Flag Colour	Sky Blue
Flag Design
Field Armies

Parliamentarian regiment of foot based at Chichester

• November: Raised from the remains of Colonel Denzil Holles’ Regiment of Foot
• December: Siege of Chichester

• December to January 1644: Siege of Arundel Castle??

• June to November: Siege of Basing House (6 Coys)
• September: Fail to prevent relief of Basing House
• November: Fail to prevent relief of Basing House

• May: Relief of Taunton
• July: Men transferred into Colonel John Pickering’s Regiment of Foot and Sir Hardress Waller’s Regiment of Foot of the New Model Army.
• November to March 1646: Siege of Donnington Castle?

• March: Taking of Donnington Castle

The survivors of Hollis's that formed the basis of the Regiment were dressed in red coats as were the original recruits raised to strengthen them (see Contemporary Documents below).

Carried six blue colours to the siege of Basing in June 1644 ²⁾. Six Companies of the skie colour Regiment of Colonell Morrels (sic) at Dorchester May 1645 ³⁾

The Gray Coates of Col. Morleyes, and Col. Leytons are put in Col. Pickerings and Col. Wallers Regiments. (E293.23) The Moderate Intelligencer Thursday July 17th-Thursday July 25th 1645.

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

Herbert Morley

“deliver unto Collonell Herbert Morley for the service of the County of Sussex sixty redd coates sixty capps shoes and shirts and other necessities which are for the cloathing and furnishing of that recruted Regiment which was comanded by Collonell Hollis” 29th November 1642 (NA SP28/262/374)

Colonel Denzil Holles’ Regiment of Foot