Sir William Springate’s Regiment of Foot
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Active | 1642 to 1644 |
Country | England |
Allegiance | Parliamentarian |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Type | Foot |
Colonel | William Springate |
Area Raised | Kent |
Coat Colour | Red |
Flag Colour | White |
Flag Design | Unknown |
Field Armies | Essex 1643 |
Waller 1643-4 |
Parliamentarian regiment of foot that served with Waller’s army of the Southern Association
Service History
1642
- Raised in Kent
1643
- 8th September: Relief of Gloucester
- 20th September: Battle of Newbury
- December: Storm of Alton Church
- December to January 1644: Siege of Arundel (5 coys)
1644
- January: Garrison of Arundel
- February: Reduced into Colonel Ralph Weldon’s Regiment of Foot
Notes
Reduced into Weldon’s following Springate’s death.
Coats and Flags
Red coats, white flags, design unknown 2).
Notable Officers
Sir William Springate
Wounded at First Newbury, he caught the typhus while in garrison at Arundel and died in February 1644.
Officer Lists
Newbury Campaign 3)
- Colonel Sir William Springate
- Captain-Lieutenant Blucke
- Major Nicholas Kempson
- Captain Bevill Cruttenden
- Captain William jones
- Captain [ ] Bramfield
- Captain [ ] Sharpe
- Captain [ ] Spenser
For the Regiment while serving under Waller see 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
Strength
- 1642: 800 men
See Also
Links
1)
Flag images by kind permission of Wargames Designs
2)
ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846
3)
N.A. SP28/197/37-42