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| |**Colonel**|Lord Molyneux| | |**Colonel**|Lord Molyneux| | ||
| |**Area Raised**|Lancashire| | |**Area Raised**|Lancashire| | ||
| - | |**Flag Colour**|| | + | |**Flag Colour**|Unknown| |
| - | |**Flag Design**|| | + | |**Flag Design**|See below| |
| - | |**Field Armies**|| | + | |**Field Armies**|Derby 1642-3| |
| + | | |Byron 1644| | ||
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| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| + | Lord Molyneux made his way south by 1645 and was given command of [[royalist:horse-regiments:prince-maurices-lifeguard|Prince Maurice’s Lifeguard of Horse]], perhaps incorporating remnants of his own regiment. | ||
| =====Flags & Equipment===== | =====Flags & Equipment===== | ||
| - | Lieutenant Colonel Caryl Molyneux's cornet featured the a stag's head supported by five hands and the motto //AD QUID EXALTATIS CORNU//, translated as //to what do you exalt this horn?//. The motto alludes to the Earl of Essex's cuckolding and perhaps the Five Members. The colour of the flag was not recorded((The English Emblem Tradition, Vol 3 Emblematic flag devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660. Alan R. Young, Toronto 1995, ISBN 0-8020-5739-X)). | + | According to Blount: //The Lord Mollineux figured a Sun obscured by a Cressant, the word from the Sun was, QUID SI REPULSERO? from the Cressant (which darted its horns (as they call those of a new Moon) to obscure the Sun) VAE CORNBUS MEIS. By the Sun surely was meant the King, and by the corniferous Cressant the Earle of Essex//((//The Art of making Devises// 2nd Ed, Thomas Blount, London, 1655)). |
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| + | Lieutenant Colonel Caryll Molyneux's cornet featured a stag's head supported by five hands and the motto //AD QUID EXALTATIS CORNU//, translated as //to what do you exalt this horn?//. The motto alludes to the Earl of Essex's cuckolding and perhaps the Five Members. The colour of the flag was not recorded((The English Emblem Tradition, Vol 3 Emblematic flag devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660. Alan R. Young, Toronto 1995, ISBN 0-8020-5739-X)). | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| ====Lord Molyneux==== | ====Lord Molyneux==== | ||
| - | [[http://www.molyneuxs.com/64415/64854.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*|Richard, First viscount Molyneux of Maryborough]] | + | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Molyneux,_2nd_Viscount_Molyneux|Richard, Second Viscount Molyneux of Maryborough]] a Lancashire Catholic, his military biography is available online at [[http://www.molyneuxs.com/64415/64854.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*|Lord Molyneux's]]. |
| - | ====Lt Col Caryl Molyneux==== | + | ====Lt Col Caryll Molyneux==== |
| - | Younger brother of Lord Molyneux. | + | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryll_Molyneux,_3rd_Viscount_Molyneux|Caryll Molynuex]] was the younger brother of Lord Molyneux, succeeding him as Viscount in 1654. |
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
