Sir William Constable’s Southern Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian Regiment of Foot serving as part of Essex’s army

• 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill
• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green

• April: Siege of Reading
• 11th August: Constable leaves for North
• 8th September: Relief of Gloucester
• 20th September: First Battle of Newbury

• 1st March - 18th April: Service as dragoons under Col Cunningham (det)? (N.A. SP28/265/300)
• 29th March: Battle of Cheriton (det)?
• 24th April: Regiment reduced

Issued blue coats in September 1642, they were next issued coats in August 1643, which were probably red or grey ¹⁾.

Sir William Constable

1642

• Colonel Sir William Constable (left regiment 11/08/43 to take up a command in the North)
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert Grame (Led regiment from 11/08/43 to 24/04/44)
• Major Henry Frodsham
• Captain Thomas Eure
• Captain James Breckham (Peckham)
• Captain John Fenwick
• Captain Simon Needham
• Captain Benjamin Cecil
• Captain Humphrey Jones (Fownes)
• Captain James Gray
• Captain William Hill (18/11/42 - 08/02/44)

April 1644 (As Lt-Col Grame is not mentioned in the pay receipts from which the following names are drawn, one of the new captains may have been leading his company as a Capt-Lt)

• Major Henry Frodsham
• Captain [Simon] Needham (Needham himself was absent serving as Lt Col of Constables northern regiment)
• Captain James Gray (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Lt Coll under Colonel Godfrey Bosseville)
• Captain [James] Peckham
• Captain John Clarke
• Captain Humphrey Fownes (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Capt under Col Richard Fortescue 15/04/44 - 19/09/44 (SP28/36/78))
• Captain John Dugdale (had previously been Lieutenant to Captain Eure
• Captain Arthur Young (possibly the man who had been Ensign to Captain Eure in 1642)

Sir William Constable (Northern)