Colonel William Cromwell’s Regiment of Foot

Later Colonel Robert Broughton's Regiment of Foot

Regiment of foot raised for service in Ireland, returning in 1644 to fight for the Royalists

• Raised in England
• June: Shipped to Dublin¹⁾
• In Ormond’s army of Leinster

• In Ormond’s army of Leinster

• February: Shipped from Ireland to Neston, Cheshire and Beaumaris under Broughton
• 21st March: Battle of Newark
• May: Storm of Stockport
• May: Storm of Bolton
• June: Siege of Liverpool
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
• September: Siege of Montgomery Castle
• September: Battle of Montgomery Broughton captured

• 31st May: Storm of Leicester
• June: Battle of Naseby

• March: Battle of Stow on the Wold?

Often said to have been clothed in green coats on their return to Britain, there’s no clear evidence for this, unlike Colonel Henry Tillier’s Regiment of Foot, their ‘sister’ regiment. However, at the Battle of Marston Moor a brigade of Royalist greencoats is mentioned, implying more than one regiment, that could be Broughton's and Tillier's.

A list of the regiment's officers in Ireland is shown in An English Army for Ireland by Ian Ryder, Partizan Press. While a list of the regiment's officers in England is shown in Officers and Regiments of the Royalist Army by Stuart Reid (Partizan Press).

Of the Broughton family of Marchwiel.

Collonell Cromwell's regiment²⁾

• Colonel William Cromwell
• Lieutenant Colonel Roger Bradshaw
• Sergeant Major John Chichester
• Captain Robert Broughton
• Captain John Bingley
• Captain Edward Broughton
• Captain Gregory Cromwell
• Captain Henry Honniwood
• Captain George Lisle.

• 1642: Establishment of 1000 men³⁾
• November 1642: Col. Cromwell's company numbers 19 at Dublin
• February 1644: 1000 men together with Sergeant-Major-General Henry Tillier’s Regiment of Foot