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| + | *Grey's troop leaves [[parliamentarian:horse-regiments:sir-william-balfour|Sir William Balfour’s Regiment of Horse]] for service under Lord Grey in the Midlands | ||
| *20th September: First Battle of Newbury | *20th September: First Battle of Newbury | ||
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| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| + | Lord Grey of Groby's troop at first formed part of [[parliamentarian:horse-regiments:sir-william-balfour|Sir William Balfour’s Regiment of Horse]], fighting at Edgehill, then left the regiment to serve under Grey in the Midlands. | ||
| =====Flags===== | =====Flags===== | ||
| ==Lord Grey's Cornet== | ==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 PACEM//((//The Art of making Devises// 2nd Ed, Thomas Blount, London, 1655)). | According to Blount; //The Lord Grey of Groby represented the Parliament house guarded with many swords in hand, and the motto, PER BELLUM AD PACEM//((//The Art of making Devises// 2nd Ed, Thomas Blount, London, 1655)). | ||
| - | 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 Gules//((Prestwich's Respublica, London, 1787)) 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 PACEM//((Prestwich's Respublica, London, 1787)). | + | 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 Gules//((Prestwich's Respublica, London, 1787)) (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 PACEM//((Prestwich's Respublica, London, 1787)). |
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| ====Lord Grey of Groby==== | ====Lord Grey of Groby==== | ||
