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| The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports|Cinque Ports]] Trained Bands of 1638 consisted of 1,975 men armed with 1,649 muskets and 326 corslets (body armour, signifying pikemen). They also mustered a small contingent of 14 horse. | The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports|Cinque Ports]] Trained Bands of 1638 consisted of 1,975 men armed with 1,649 muskets and 326 corslets (body armour, signifying pikemen). They also mustered a small contingent of 14 horse. | ||
| + | In March 1640 it was ordered that Trained Band men should be shipped to Newcastle for service against the Scots: // Cinque-Ports 300. To be shipt the fourth of June at Gravesend, to be at the General Rendezvouz the twenty first of May, to march thence the first of June.//((http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rushworth-papers/vol3/pp1085-1149#h3-0002)). | ||
