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| ====== Hertfordshire Trained Bands ====== | ====== Hertfordshire Trained Bands ====== | ||
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| The Hertfordshire Trained Bands of 1638 consisted of 1,500 men armed with 750 muskets and 750 corslets (body armour, signifying pikemen). They also mustered 27 lancers and 53 light horse. | The Hertfordshire Trained Bands of 1638 consisted of 1,500 men armed with 750 muskets and 750 corslets (body armour, signifying pikemen). They also mustered 27 lancers and 53 light horse. | ||
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| + | In March 1640 it was ordered that Trained Band men should be shipped to Newcastle for service against the Scots: //Hertford 650. to be shipt the fifth of June at Harwich, to be at the General Rendezvouz the twentieth of May, to march thence the one and thirtieth of May.//((http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rushworth-papers/vol3/pp1085-1149#h3-0002)). | ||
| Colonel Mitchell's and two other regiments of Hertfordshire Trained Bands served at the siege of Greenland House in July 1644. In early 1645 a green regiment was noted as serving with General Browne, this is likely one of the Hertfordshire Trained Bands ((//ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot//, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846)). | Colonel Mitchell's and two other regiments of Hertfordshire Trained Bands served at the siege of Greenland House in July 1644. In early 1645 a green regiment was noted as serving with General Browne, this is likely one of the Hertfordshire Trained Bands ((//ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot//, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846)). | ||
| The Hertfordshire Militia horse, apparently numbering 500, were attached to a force commanded by [[new-model-army:horse-regiments:richard-graves|Colonel Richard Graves]] in September of 1645 and might possibly have fought at Rowton Heath, but more likely returned home before reaching Cheshire. | The Hertfordshire Militia horse, apparently numbering 500, were attached to a force commanded by [[new-model-army:horse-regiments:richard-graves|Colonel Richard Graves]] in September of 1645 and might possibly have fought at Rowton Heath, but more likely returned home before reaching Cheshire. | ||
