Colonel Thomas Blagge’s Regiment of Foot

Royalist regiment of foot of the Oxford Army, later in garrison at Wallingford

• October: Quartered at Claverley, Shropshire
• 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill
• 12th November: Storm of Brentford
• November: Taking of Syon House
• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green
• 5th December: Storm of Marlborough
• 9th December: Garrison of Wallingford

• 20th September: First Battle of Newbury

• June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
• August: Battle of Lostwithiel
• September: Relief of Basing House (det of 60 musketeers)
• October: Second Battle of Newbury

• January: Skirmish at Long Crendon?

• May to July: Besieged at Wallingford
• July 27th: Disbanded at the surrender of Wallingford

A history of the regiment is available online at Earl Rivers Regiment of Foote website.

Just possibly black flags, if the regiment that Samuel Luke (the Parliamentarian scoutmaster) noted was Blagge's. Samuel Lukes Journal 20 or 22 June 1643 A Regiment of Foot with Black Colours marched out of Oxford yesterday to Wallingford BLAGGE ??

Equipped with matchlock muskets

Thomas Blagge

From original research by Victor Judge aka BCW user 1642

• Colonel Thomas Blagge
• Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Lower Ment. I.O.
• Sargeant Majo

• Captain John Barber (8) + I.O. Suffolk
• Captain Thomas Bayly Ment. I.O.
• Captain Thomas Blagge (6)
• Captain Chester (5)
• Captain Thomas Clark Ment. I.O.
• Captain Dun Ment. I.O.
• Captain Bernard de Gomme (2) + ment. I.O.
• Captain John Snelling I.O. Suffolk
• Captain Taylor (2)
• Captain Cromwell West I.O. Berks.
• Captain Richard West (3) + (4)
• Captain Wharton Ment. I.O.

• Lieutenant Philip Anderkin I.O. L + W to Capt. Wharton
• Lieutenant Jasper Brydon (7) + I.O. Suffolk to Capt. Clark
• Lieutenant John Demaret I.O. L + W to Lt. Col. Lower
• Lieutenant Ralph Dinsdale I.O. Yorks. to Capt. Dun
• Lieutenant Edward Evans (1)
• Lieutenant Thomas Londall I.O. Suffolk to Capt Bayly
• Lieutenant Thomas Lowdall (6)
• Lieutenant Peter Lugge I.O. L + W
• Lieutenant John Welham I.O. Suffolk to Capt. de Gomme

• Ensign Richard Freeman I.O. Berks.
• Ensign Gregory Grainger (5) to Capt. Chester
• Ensign Thomas Naylor I.O. L + E

• Samuel Gooch (4) (rank unknown)

• Captain Edmund Barber I.O. Suffolk

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

From original research by Victor Judge aka BCW user 1642

(1) WO55.423.14/15 1. November 1642 Received out of his Majesties magazine for the use of Coll. Blagges Regiment

• Powder 150lb
• match 150lb
• Muskett shott 150lb

Edward Evans Lueitenant

(2) Sussex Record Office. Add. Mss. 487

To De Gomme and Taylor to raised 2 Companies £100.00 no date.

(3) West Yorkshire Archive Service QS1/13/4/6/5 Pontefract 1674 Petition of Christopher Wilson of Reedness A soldier under the command of Captain Richard West, eldest Captain in Colonel Blagges Regiment. Served from Nottingham to Oxford and Wallingford. Lost an eye at Reading.

Possibly the same man as

PRO/31/1/7 To Marquess of Ormonde Dublin Charles R

Right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin & Councellor wee greet you well. Wee have att the humble suite of Captaine Richard West bearer hereof given him a licence for a time to repaire into our Realme of Ireland to settle his affaires there, about his particular Estate. And forasmuch as he hath faithfully served us here:Wee are gratiously pleased to recommend him hereby to you for your countenance towards him, if he shall have occasion for it during his abode in Ireland. And so wee bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Oxford the 4th day of November 1643.

By his Majesties command Edward Nicholas

WO55.458. Book 2 f.6 Wallingford Garrison powder for Capt. West. Signed Tho. Blagge 15.5.1643

(4) SP23.192.337 Extract.

The humble petition of Samuel Gooch of Bradfield in ye County of Suffolk Sheweth that your petitioner hath been in Armes against the Parliament and was in Wallingford Castle at the time of its surrender.

26th September 1646 Referred to the Sub Committee

(5) WO.55.423.122 Deliver to Ensign Gregory Grainger, Ensign to Capt. Chester at Wallingford. Musket shot 11.2.1642/3

(6) Harl. Mss.6804 f.151 Commission for Lieutenant Thomas Lowdall Lt. to Captain Thomas Blagge in Colonel Blagges Regiment. 28.5.1644

(7) SP23.195.758 Extract. The humble peticion of Jasper Brydon of Cambridge

Most humbly sheweth that your peticioner haveing been in actuall service in the Garrison of Wallingford against the honourable the high Courtt of Parliament and now comming in upon the Articles granted to the said Garrison desires to Compound for his delinquencie…

Accepted the 24. Novemb: 1646

8) E.264.9 Capture of Captain Barber type as these are horse from Donnington and Wallingford.

Harl.Ms 4712 f 88 +89 Printed letter and Mss Letter about Captain Edmond Barber and the garrison of Wallingford 1646

E.5.11 Blagge letter surrender of Wallingford.

SP29.361.110 His petition to Charles II for assistance stating that he served Charles I in the late unhappy wars and had a son at Eton intending to go on to Kings College, Cambridge.