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Colonel Richard Holland’s Regiment of Foot
| Active | 1642 to 1646(?) |
| Country | England |
| Allegiance | Parliamentarian |
| Conflicts | First Civil War |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Richard Holland |
| Area Raised | Lancashire |
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Parliamentarian regiment of foot serving in Lancashire during the first civil war
Service History
1642
- September: Siege of Manchester
1643
- February: Storm of Preston
- March: garrisoned at Lancaster (two companies)
- April: Storm of Wigan
- 30th June: Battle of Adwalton Moor
1644
- 25th January: Battle of Nantwich
Notes
Raised in the Salford Hundred by the local gentry who ‘with their tenants and well-affected neighbours’ joined in the defence of Manchester 1) Holland was described as cautious and conservative.2) March 1643 the regiment was ordered to march for the relief of Wem in Shropshire; Holland wrote that his troops were suffering 'sicknesse, diseases and other disasters of warre', of those who were fit they were 'discouraged and mutinous through want of pay and clothing'. Lord Derby's night attack on Bolton (28th March 1643) meant the order was cancelled.
Flags
Notable Officers
Colonel Richard Holland
Richard Holland Governor of Manchester, MP for Lancashire
Captain Thomas Chetham
Thomas Chetham (baptised 1599, died 1657) of Nuthurst, Lancashire. Eldest son of James Chetham of Nuthurst and his wife Margery, daughter of John Cudworth of Werneth, Lancashire. Cousin of Sir Humphrey Chetham (founder of the the Bluecoat School and Library in Manchester, Parliament's treasurer of Lancashire). He ‘fought both within and outside Lancashire between 1642 and 1646’ 3)
