Lord Willoughby of Parham’s Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian regiment of foot of the Eastern Association

• February: Siege of Newark
• July: Storm of Gainsborough
• July to August: Besieged in Gainsborough
• October: Siege of Bolingbroke Castle

• 16th January: Defence of Nottingham
• February to March: Siege of Newark
• March: Storm of Muskham Bridge
• March: Battle of Newark
• March: Defence of Bradford??
• April: Battle of Selby

After surrendering Gainsborough to Newcastle in August 1643, Captain Clement Benson, said to have led a company under Willoughby, turned coat and joined Royalist Colonel Gervase Holles’ Regiment of Foot.

“To the right honorable the Lord Willibee of Parum

Bought of Alexander Vener as followeth

for 10 silke Ensignes of ritch watchet tafitie with distinctions of white crosses, furnished with staves and tassels at 4 pounds a peece”

[payment received 12 Feb 1643]¹⁾

A partial list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association²⁾

Francis, Lord Willoughby of Parham

• Captain Menbey
• Captain Bower
• Captain Wayecraft
• Captain Soute?

• Captain Walter Sibbott (01/07/43 - 30/11/43)³⁾
• Captain Humphrey Dix (04/05/43 - 29/08/43)⁴⁾
• Captain Richard Burrell (23/02/43 - 01/09/43)⁵⁾

• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Russhie⁶⁾
• Captain Thomas Baizer⁷⁾
• Captain Thomas Kingersbie⁸⁾
• Captain John Kirke⁹⁾
• Captain [W?] Davison¹⁰⁾
• Captain Francis Grantham¹¹⁾

• Captain Henry Lillingstone¹²⁾
• Captain Edward Marsh¹³⁾

• 600 foot drawn out of Gainsborough in July 1643
• The 6 companies paid on April 4th 1644 contained a total of 24 officers and just 66 men. The 2 companies paid in July added 16 men and up to 11 officers.