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| - | |**Active**|1642-44| | + | |**Active**|1642 to 1644| |
| |**Country**|England| | |**Country**|England| | ||
| |**Allegiance**|Parliamentarian| | |**Allegiance**|Parliamentarian| | ||
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| |**Colonel**|Sir William Constable| | |**Colonel**|Sir William Constable| | ||
| |**Area Raised**|| | |**Area Raised**|| | ||
| - | |**Coat Colour**|Blue| | + | |**Coat Colour**|Blue lined White| |
| | |Red or Grey?| | | |Red or Grey?| | ||
| |**Flag Colour**|| | |**Flag Colour**|| | ||
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| ====1642==== | ====1642==== | ||
| - | *October: Battle of Edgehill | + | *23rd October: Battle of Edgehill |
| - | *November: Standoff at Turnham Green? | + | *13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green |
| ====1643==== | ====1643==== | ||
| *April: Siege of Reading | *April: Siege of Reading | ||
| - | *September: First Battle of Newbury | + | *11th August: Constable leaves for North |
| + | *8th September: Relief of Gloucester | ||
| + | *20th September: First Battle of Newbury | ||
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| + | ====1644==== | ||
| + | *1st March - 18th April: Service as dragoons under Col Cunningham (det)? ((N.A. SP28/265/300)) | ||
| + | *29th March: Battle of Cheriton (det)? | ||
| + | *24th April: Regiment reduced | ||
| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
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| =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | ||
| Issued blue coats in September 1642, they were next issued coats in August 1643, which were probably red or grey ((//ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot//, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846)). | Issued blue coats in September 1642, they were next issued coats in August 1643, which were probably red or grey ((//ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot//, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846)). | ||
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| ====Sir William Constable==== | ====Sir William Constable==== | ||
| [[http://bcw-project.org/biography/sir-william-constable|Sir William Constable]] | [[http://bcw-project.org/biography/sir-william-constable|Sir William Constable]] | ||
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| + | ====Officer Lists==== | ||
| + | ===1642=== | ||
| + | *Colonel Sir William Constable (left regiment 11/08/43 to take up a command in the North) | ||
| + | *Lieutenant Colonel Robert Grame (Led regiment from 11/08/43 to 24/04/44) | ||
| + | *Major Henry Frodsham | ||
| + | *Captain Thomas Eure | ||
| + | *Captain James Breckham (Peckham) | ||
| + | *Captain John Fenwick | ||
| + | *Captain Simon Needham | ||
| + | *Captain Benjamin Cecil | ||
| + | *Captain Humphrey Jones (Fownes) | ||
| + | *Captain James Gray | ||
| + | *Captain William Hill (18/11/42 - 08/02/44) | ||
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| + | ===April 1644=== | ||
| + | As Lt-Col Grame is not mentioned in the pay receipts from which the following names are drawn, one of the new captains may have been leading his company as a Capt-Lt | ||
| + | *Major Henry Frodsham | ||
| + | *Captain [Simon] Needham (Needham himself was absent serving as Lt Col of Constables northern regiment) | ||
| + | *Captain James Gray (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Lt Coll under [[parliamentarian:foot-regiments:godfrey-bosseville|Colonel Godfrey Bosseville]]) | ||
| + | *Captain [James] Peckham | ||
| + | *Captain John Clarke (18/11/42 - 25/04/44)((N.A. SP28/253B/pt2/30v)) | ||
| + | *Captain Humphrey Fownes (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Capt under Col Richard Fortescue 15/04/44 - 19/09/44) ((SP28/36/78)) | ||
| + | *Captain John Dugdale (had previously been Lieutenant to Captain Eure, taking over the company 07/04/43.((N.A. SP28/37/462)) Served as a reformado from 20/03/44((N.A. SP28/37/458))) | ||
| + | *Captain Arthur Young (possibly the man who had been Ensign to Captain Eure in 1642. Probably the Capt-Lt Young of Constables regt who received pay for absentees from several regt's in Dec. 1643((N.A. SP28/11/284))) | ||
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| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | *October 1642: 800 men(([[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0968344510365223]])), falling to approx 500 after Edgehill | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| [[Sir William Constable (Northern)]] | [[Sir William Constable (Northern)]] | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
