Yellow Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands

Flag Illustration	1)
Active	1642-
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Foot
Colonel	Sir John Wollaston
	Ralph Harrison
	Laurence Bromfield
	Robert Tichbourne
	William Vale
Coat Colour
Area Raised	Farringdon Within, Castle Baynard
	and Aldersgate: London
Flag Colour	Yellow
Flag Design	Black Mullets
Field Armies	Waller 1644

Regiment of foot of the London Trained Bands

• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green

• 29th March: Battle of Cheriton
• April: Siege of Bishop’s Waltham

• June: Escort Royalist prisoners to London from Naseby
• Wollaston relinquishes Colonelcy

• Ralph Harrison Colonel

• Bromfield Colonel until Harrison restored by the Independents

• Robert Tichbourne made Colonel

• John Owen made Colonel, replaced by William Vale Colonel to 1660

The regiment carried yellow flags with black stars in April 1642 and September 1643 ²⁾.

A list of officers is shown in Laurence Spring's Waller's Army, The Regiments of Sir William Waller's Southern Association The Pike and Shot Association 2007 ISBN 978-1-902768-34-2

Sir John Wollaston, Lord Mayor of London in 1643.

Colonel in 1646, replaced by the Presbyterians in 1647 then restored by the Independents

Colonel in 1647 under the Presbyterians

A skinner, he commanded the yellow regiment in 1658

A stationer, Colonel 1659

A vintner, Colonel 1659-1660

Bludworth transferred from the Orange Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands and was colonel from 1660.

3rd Regiment, The Yellow Regiment “The Distinctions Sable being mullets”³⁾

• Colonel: Sir John Wollaston
• Lt-Col John Venn; Lt John Fenton; Ens Patrick Bamford
• Major William Geere; Lt William Burles; Ens Robert Ashton
• 1st Capt Richard Turner; Lt Samuel Turner; Ens John Alford
• 2nd Capt Ralph Harrison; Lt Charles Jennings; Ens Ralph Woodcock
• 3rd Capt Richard Cuthbert; Lt William Hichcot; Ens Edward Brandwood
• 4th Capt Robert Tichbourn; Lt Matthew Andrewes; Ens Hamon Hart
• “Colonel's Captain” William Bariffe; Lt Robert Farington; Ens Samuel Manning
• Quartermaster: John Melton

The London Bands Alarm Places⁴⁾ The Yellow Regiment of the London Trained Bands

• Colonel: Sir John Wollaston: West end of Cheap Side
• Lt Colonel: John Venn: Newgate within
• Major: William Geere: Ludgate within
• Captain: Richard Turner: Puddle Wharf
• Ralph Harrison: Aldersgate St by Longlane End
• Richard Cuthbert: Austingate in St Paul's Churchyard
• Robert Tichbourn: Aldersgate within

The Yellow Regiment of the London Trained Bands (7 companies)⁵⁾

• Colonel: Sir John Wollaston, Knight, Alderman
• Captain-Lieutenant: John Brett, a Grocer silk painting colours
• Lieutenant-Colonel: Ralph Harrison, Woollen draper in Watling St
• Major: Richard Cuthbert, a woollen draper in Fleet St
• Captain: Robert Tichborne, a Linen in Cheapside
• Captain: Walter Lee, a haberdasher in Ludgate
• Captain: William Hitchcock, a woollen draper living in Watling St
• Captain: (blank)

Lining the route of procession at the Earl of Essex's funeral⁶⁾

City Yellow Tr. Band

• Col Ralph Harrison
• Lt Col Richard. Cuthbert
• Major Walter Lee
• Capt Andrew Neale
• Capt John Haine
• Capt John Fenton

Officers granted arrears in the final hours of the Presbyterian Militia Committee’s existence on 23 July 1647 ⁷⁾.

City Yellow Trained Band

• Col Laurence Bromfield
• Lt Col Walter Lee
• Major Andrew Neale
• Capt John Haine
• Capt Nicholas Widmerpoole
• Capt Henry Potter
• Capt John Hinde

Officers after re-organisation under the dominance of the Independents⁸⁾.

City Yellow Trained Band

• Col Ralph Harrison
• Lt Col John Fenton
• Major Doyle
• Capt Gervase Blackwell
• Capt John Stone
• Capt White
• Capt Sherborne

• April 1642: 7 companies
• September 1643: 506 muskets 448 pikes about 70 officers (1024) in 7 companies
• March 1644: 7 companies at Cheriton