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

• Raised in Kent

• 8th September: Relief of Gloucester
• 20th September: Battle of Newbury
• December: Storm of Alton Church
• December to January 1644: Siege of Arundel (5 coys)

• January: Garrison of Arundel
• February: Reduced into Colonel Ralph Weldon’s Regiment of Foot

Reduced into Weldon’s following Springate’s death.

Red coats, white flags, design unknown ²⁾.

Wounded at First Newbury, he caught the typhus while in garrison at Arundel and died in February 1644.

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

• 1642: 800 men