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| | |Thomas Birch| | | |Thomas Birch| | ||
| |**Area Raised**|Yorkshire| | |**Area Raised**|Yorkshire| | ||
| - | |**Coat Colour**| | | + | |**Coat Colour**|Green lined yellow | |
| + | | |Red| | ||
| |**Flag Colour**|| | |**Flag Colour**|| | ||
| |**Flag Design**| | | |**Flag Design**| | | ||
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| ====1647==== | ====1647==== | ||
| + | *July: Still serving in the Northern Association, the regiment elect agitators | ||
| ====1648==== | ====1648==== | ||
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| ====1660==== | ====1660==== | ||
| *January: Lambert replaced by Eyres | *January: Lambert replaced by Eyres | ||
| + | *February: Put down mutiny by [[commonwealth:foot-regiments:sir-bryce-cochrane|Sir Bryce Cochrane’s Regiment of Foot]] at Gravesend | ||
| *Dispersed to Canterbury (5 coy), Dover (2 coy), Rye (2 coy) and Sandwich (1 coy) | *Dispersed to Canterbury (5 coy), Dover (2 coy), Rye (2 coy) and Sandwich (1 coy) | ||
| *Eyres replaced by Birch | *Eyres replaced by Birch | ||
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| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| A history of the regiment is given in //The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army// by Sir Charles Firth and Godfrey Davies, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940. | A history of the regiment is given in //The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army// by Sir Charles Firth and Godfrey Davies, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940. | ||
| + | Unusually the June 1646 muster describes the rank and file as "Centenells" suggesting they may have been a garrison at this point. | ||
| =====Coats and Flags===== | =====Coats and Flags===== | ||
| + | During the 1645 Battle of Pontefract, "Colonel Bright... his regiment was clothed in green, lined yellow, and he upon a white horse was observed to be active in ordering his men. Extract from George Fox's "The Three Sieges of Pontefract Castle, The First Siege, page 45" (ISBN 0946534047). | ||
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| Red coats during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. | Red coats during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
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| [[http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/fleetwood.htm|Charles Fleetwood]] | [[http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/fleetwood.htm|Charles Fleetwood]] | ||
| ====Colonel William Eyres==== | ====Colonel William Eyres==== | ||
| + | [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eyre_of_Neston|William Eyre]] of Neston | ||
| ====Colonel Thomas Birch==== | ====Colonel Thomas Birch==== | ||
| [[http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/birch.htm|John Birch]] | [[http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/birch.htm|John Birch]] | ||
| ====Captain John Hodgson==== | ====Captain John Hodgson==== | ||
| - | Wrote an acoount of his Civil War experiences. | + | [[https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Hodgson,_John_(d.1684)_(DNB00)|John Hodgson]] wrote an account of his Civil War experiences. |
| + | ====Officer Lists==== | ||
| + | ===First Civil War=== | ||
| + | *Colonel John Bright | ||
| + | *Lieutenant Colonel Simon Needham (06/12/45 - 20/07/46 Needham apparently took this reduction in rank to keep together the men of [[parliamentarian:foot-regiments:sir-william-constable-northern|his old Regiment of Foot]] that had been reduced into Bright's) | ||
| + | *Captain Lionel Fanshaw (02/07/44 - 24/06/45)((N.A. SP28/46/278)) | ||
| + | *Captain William Jackson (Took over Needham's company from Constables regiment when it was reduced in to Bright's)((N.A.SP28/253B/pt2/35)) | ||
| + | ===June 1646=== | ||
| + | *Colonel John Bright((N.A. SP28/302/760 the second sheet of this muster is seperated at SP28/302/242)) | ||
| + | *Lt Colonel Simon Needham | ||
| + | *Major Andrew? Carter (The muster just gives Major Carter but is signed by Andrew Carter) | ||
| + | *Captain (Henry) Pounall (Pownall) | ||
| + | *Capt [John]((N.A. SP28/302/400)) Greenle[a]f | ||
| + | *Captain John Clayton | ||
| + | *Captain Coate | ||
| + | *Captain Hewley | ||
| + | *Captain Spencer | ||
| + | ===August 1648=== | ||
| + | *Colonel: John Bright | ||
| + | *Lt Colonel: Andrew Carter (?) | ||
| + | *Major: Henry Pownall | ||
| + | *Captain: John Hodgson (?) | ||
| + | *Captain: Spencer | ||
| + | *Captain: John Cobbett (?) | ||
| + | *Captain: Lister | ||
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | *June 1646: 810 men + officers (plus a few men sick or absent) | ||
| *1660: 10 Companies | *1660: 10 Companies | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
| - | Bright's Regiment of Foot are re-enacted by [[http://www.johnbrights.org.uk/|John Bright's Regiment of Foote]] of the English Civil War Society. | + | Bright's Regiment of Foot are re-enacted by [[http://www.english-civil-war.org/johnbrights/|John Bright's Regiment of Foote]] of the English Civil War Society. |
