Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
|
royalist:horse-regiments:lord-molyneux [09/08/2015 14:22] tim |
royalist:horse-regiments:lord-molyneux [28/12/2016 00:43] (current) tim |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line 39: | Line 39: | ||
| =====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 Caryll 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)). |
| + | |||
| + | 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===== | ||