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Lord Grey of Groby’s Regiment of Horse

Flag Illustration	¹⁾
Active	1643 to 1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	Lord Grey of Groby
Area Raised
Flag Colour	Red & Blue
Flag Design	See below
Field Armies	Essex 1643
	Meldrum 1644

Parliamentarian regiment of horse based at Leicester and drawn out to serve with Essex and Meldrum

Service History

1643

Grey's troop leaves Sir William Balfour’s Regiment of Horse for service under Lord Grey in the Midlands
20th September: First Battle of Newbury

1644

16th January: Skirmish at Nottingham
February to March: Siege of Newark
March: Skirmish at Hinckley
March: Storm of Muskham Bridge
March: Battle of Cotes Bridge
March: Battle of Newark
April: Battle of Selby
August: Battle of Ormskirk?

1645

May: Besieged at Leicester?

Notes

Lord Grey of Groby's troop at first formed part of Sir William Balfour’s Regiment of Horse, fighting at Edgehill, then left the regiment to serve under Grey in the Midlands.

Flags

Lord Grey's Cornet

According to Blount; The Lord Grey of Groby represented the Parliament house guarded with many swords in hand, and the motto, PER BELLUM AD PACEM²⁾.

According to Prestwich; Lord Grey fonne to the Earle of Stamford, Per pale Azure and Gules ; over which, in fess, the sun in its glory; in it a left-eye, Sable ; and on the fun an unicorn Ermine, armed Or ; fringed with filrer and Gules³⁾ (Illustration 1) and The Lord Gray, fonne to the Earle of Stamford. Per pale Azure and Gules ; over which, as in pale, a theatre, like that reprefenting the Houfe of Commons on one of the Seals of the Commonwealth, the ground of gold tile, the oblong fquare ; a theatre ftone, in which nine men feated, properly appareled and hatted, four on each fide, and one at the upper end ; In the near end a fquare table, before which a man with a purple robe, as if addressing his audience, his arms difplayed, and back to us ; without all this, in circle or orle, eight hands couped at their wrifts, as lozenge parted, and grafping each a fword, all in different directions, their hilts Or, blades proper ; the whole within a circlet or garland of laurel ; and in chief, above all, a label or fcroll, with thefe words, PER BELLUM AD PACEM⁴⁾.

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