Sir George Wentworth’s Regiment of Foot
| Active | 1643 to 1645 |
| Country | England |
| Allegiance | Royalist |
| Conflicts | First Civil War |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Sir George Wentworth |
| Area Raised | Yorkshire |
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| Field Armies | Newcastle 1643 |
Royalist Regiment of Foot serving in the Marquis of Newcastle’s army and in garrison at Pontefract
Service History
1643
- May: Battle of Wakefield
1644
- December to March 1645: Besieged at Pontefract
1645
- March: Battle of Pontefract
Notes
Flags
Notable Officers
Sir George Wentworth
Officer Lists
From original research by Victor Judge aka BCW user 1642
- Colonel Sir George Wentworth
- Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Bland Ment. I.O.
- Captain John Bretton (1) + I.O. Midd'x.
- Captain William Empson I.O. Lincolnsh.
- Captain William Wentworth (2)
- Captain Thomas Wheatley I.O. Yorksh.
- Captain Henry Woolrich I.O. Yorksh.
- Captain Lieutenant Nicholas Morris I.O. Yorksh.
- Lieutenant Thomas Bradsbury I.O. Yorksh. to Capt. Woolrich
- Lieutenant Francis Day I.O. Yorksh. to Sir Thos. Bland
- Ensign Thomas Jackson I.O. Yorksh. to Capt. Wheatley
- Ensign Thomas Killingbeck I.O. Yorksh.
- Ensign George Liddell I.O. Yorksh.
- Quartermaster Richard Bullock I.O. Yorksh.
Contemporary References
From original research by Victor Judge aka BCW user 1642
(1) SP23.179.724 Extract.
The humble petition of John Bretton Sheweth, that your petitioner was Captaine of a Foote Company under the Command of the Earle of Newcastle in which service hee acted for ye space of one yeare and upwards, but being convinced of his error did about the moneth of December 1644 desert his employment, and hath since lived att Bretton in ye County of Yorke, then and now being under ye power and obedience of Parliament.
(2) Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire
William a Captain under Sir George Wentworth, son of Thomas Wentworth of Kirby.
