Colonel Richard Townsend's Regiment of Foot

Foot raised in England for service in Munster

• September: Regiment commissioned

• March: Regiment quartered around Bath and causing disturbances in local area
• April: Parliament orders Townsend to “cashier the native Irish and such as shall not be fit for service”¹⁾
• Late June/Early July: Regiment lands in Munster ²⁾
• October: Regiment in winter quarters “in Cahir, Grace Castle and nearby”³⁾
• November: Battle of Knocknanuss. (Townsend commanded the main body of foot)

The regiment was based around Colonel Thomas Ceeley’s Regiment of Foot in which Townsend, Phaire and Northcott had all served.

It is not clear where in its progress across Dorset and Somerset the regiment had managed to acquire “native Irish” soldiers

Richard Townsend

Officers Commissioned September 1646⁴⁾

• Colonel Richard Townsend
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert Phaire
• Major Francis Foulk
• Captain Thomas Reaslake
• Captain Richard Hart
• Captain Samuel Jerveys
• Captain Thomas Northcott
• Captain Sampson Daniell
• Captain Walter Clifford

21/08/47⁵⁾

• Colonel's company
• Lieutenant Colonel's company
• Major's Company
• Captain Francis Foulk (It is unclear why Foulk who had originaly been commissioned major was now only a captain)
• Captain Hart
• Captain Jervis
• Captain Daniell
• Captain Kersluck (Reaslake?)
• Captain Clifford
• Captain Spence

• 21/08/47: 762 men plus officers⁶⁾

Colonel Thomas Ceeley’s Regiment of Foot

A family history of Richard Townsend “AN OFFICER OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND HIS DESCENDANTS Being some Account of the Life & Times of Colonel Richard Townesend of Castletown [Castletownshend) & a Chronicle of his Family” (1842) ed. Richard & Dorothea Townesend is availible online at https://archive.org/details/cu31924027972276