Sir William Bradshaw’s Regiment of Horse

Royalist regiment of horse raised in Lancashire, later serving in Yorkshire and then with the Northern Horse

• April: Battle of Whalley Abbey?
• October: At York?

• March: Battle of Hunslett
• March: Bradford, Bradshaw captured**
• April: Battle of Selby??
• July: Battle of Marston Moor, Major Thomas Vavasour killed
• August: Battle of Ormskirk

• February: Battle of Melton Mowbray
• March: Battle of Pontefract
• May: Storm of Leicester
• June: Battle of Naseby

Newman provides a history of the regiment and biographies of its officers¹⁾.

Raised from Lancastrians, perhaps prior to the disaster at Whalley or perhaps out of the 'refugee' Lancashire horse retreating to Yorkshire thereafter. After Marston Moor the regiment seems to have been swallowed up into the broader 'Northern Horse'.

On October 20th 1643 Quartermaster John Walmsley signed at York for two trumpets for the regiment to the value of £3.

Officer lists are shown in The Royalist Army in Northern England 1642-45 (2 vols) Peter R Newman, PhD Thesis, The University of York, 1978.

A Catholic of Haigh, Lancashire. He was knighted during the Civil War.