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Colonel James Sheffield’s Regiment of Horse

Active	1643 to 1645
Country	England
Allegiance	Parliamentarian
Conflicts	First Civil War
Type	Horse
Colonel	James Sheffield
Area Raised
Flag Colour	Red?
Flag Design	See below
Field Armies	Essex 1643-5

Parliamentarian regiment of horse serving with the Earl of Essex’s Army

Service History

1643

17th July: Sheffield commissioned Colonel
8th September: Relief of Gloucester
20th September: First Battle of Newbury

1644

August: Battle of Lostwithiel
August: Skirmish on Caradon Down
October: Second Battle of Newbury

1645

April: Enters the New Model Army as Colonel Thomas Sheffield’s Regiment of Horse

Notes

Flags

Col. Sam. (Jam.?) Sheffield (another of the Earl of Mulgrave Sons) figured an armed Horse-man attempting to climb up a steep rock, and an Eye in a cloud, with this motto, PRO DUCE, BIL DESPERANDUM ¹⁾.

Thomas Sheffield's troop served in the regiment from July 1643, his cornet was red in the New Model Army and, according to Blount: Col. Thomas Sheffield (second Son to the Earl of Mulgrave) bore this motto only without figure, NEC TIMIDUS, NEC TUMIDUS²⁾. He may have used the same in his brother's regiment.

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