Sir Thomas Lunsford’s Regiment of Foot

Flag Illustration	1)
Active	1642-1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Royalist
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Foot
Colonel	Sir Thomas Lunsford
	Henry Lunsford
	Prince Rupert
Area Raised	Somerset
Coat Colour	Blue
Flag Colour	Green (Thos. Lunsford)?
	Black & White & Grey/Blue
Flag Design	Unique
Field Armies	Hertford 1642
	Oxford 1642-3
	Rupert 1644
	Oxford 1645

Later Henry Lunsford's Regiment of Foot, then Prince Rupert’s Regiment of Foot

Originally raised in Somerset, they went on to become Prince Rupert’s Own Regiment of Foot, fighting as part of the Oxford Army and on York March

• August: Skirmish at Wells
• September: Besieged at Sherborne Castle
• September: Skirmish at Babylon Hill
• September: Shipped from Minehead to Cardiff
• 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill - Part of Colonel Richard Fielding's Brigade (Front centre) Capture of Thomas Lunsford
• 12th November: Storm of Brentford
• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green
• 9th December: Garrison of Reading

• February: Storm of Cirencester
• March: Besieged in Malmesbury?
• 13th - 27th April: Besieged in Reading
• May: Quartered at Culham Camp
• June: Skirmish at Chinnor (det)
• June: Battle of Chalgrove Field (det)
• 26th July: Storm of Bristol - Part of Belasye's Brigade. Death of Henry Lunsford.
• Garrison of Bristol
• August to September: Siege of Gloucester (det)
• 4th September: Skirmish at Stow on the Wold
• September: First Battle of Newbury

• March: Skirmish at Market Drayton
• May: Storm of Stockport
• May: Storm of Bolton
• June: Siege of Liverpool
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
• Garrison of Chester

• January: Battle at Chrisleton
• January to February: Besieged at Chester
• 31st May: Storm of Leicester
• 14th June: Battle of Naseby

Clad in suits of coats, breeches and montero hats in July 1643 along with the other Royalist foot regiments then in Oxford, they were noted as wearing blue coats in 1644 and 1645 ²⁾. In 1645, under Prince Rupert, the regiment carried black, white and blue-grey flags of a unique design (Illustration 1), these were sketched by Symonds before Naseby and illustrated by Turmile afterwards, there are differences in the depictions, discussed by Peachey & Prince ³⁾.

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Officers and Regiments of the Royalist Army by Stuart Reid (Partizan Press).

Sir Thomas Lunsford was Lieutenant of the Tower of London in the run-up to Civil War and was taken prisoner at Edgehill.

Brother of Sir Thomas, he took over the regiment after Edgehill but was killed at the Storm of Bristol.

Prince Rupert

John Russell, later commanded a regiment of Charles II's foot guards.

• Sir Thomas Lunsford’s Regiment of Foot Second Bishops' War
• Sir Thomas Lunsford’s Regiment of Horse First Civil War

The regiment is today re-enacted by Sir Thomas Lunsford's Regiment of Foote of the English Civil War Society, Prince Rupert's Blew Regiment of Foote of the Sealed Knot and Prince Rupert's Regiment of Foot, First Captain's Company of the English Civil War Society of America.