Sir John Digby’s Newark Nottinghamshire Trained Band of Foot

Later Colonel Anthony Gilby's Newark Nottinghamshire Trained Band of Foot

Nottinghamshire Trained Band supporting the Royalists in the First Civil War

• August: Repulsed from Coventry
• Garrison of Newark

• February: Besieged in Newark

• February to March: Besieged in Newark
• March: Battle of Newark

• March: Battle of Pontefract?

Anthony Gilby took over the Regiment of Sir John Digby before January 1644/5. It appears the unit might have included a troop of horse as quartermaster Tye was a cavalryman.

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Sir John Digby, Not to be confused with Colonel John Digby, a Royalist leader in the West Country, or Lord Digby, courtier and Colonel of a Regiment of horse in the Oxford Army.

From original research by Victor Judge aka BCW user 1642

• Colonel Anthony Gilby

• Captain John Barker Ment. I.O.
• Captain Patrick Cox Ment. I.O.
• Captain Benjamin Marshall I.O. Yorks.
• Captain Pate Ment. I.O.
• Captain Abraham Wharton I.O. Lincs.
• Captain William Wombwell¹⁾ + ment. I.O.
• Captain Lieutenant John Tye I.O. Notts.
• Lieutenant William Broadhead I.O. Notts. to Capt. Cox
• Lieutenant William Grundy I.O. Notts. to Capt. Pate
• Lieutenant Ralph Royston I.O. Notts. to Capt. Wombwell
• Lieutenant Jonathan Wray I.O. Yorks.
• Ensign William Howson I.O. Lincs. to Capt. Barker
• Quartermaster John Tye I.O. Derbys. of Horse