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| ====1642==== | ====1642==== | ||
| + | *Summer: Rolle in command | ||
| + | *August: Arthur Bassett attempts to disband the regiment | ||
| *December: Skirmish at Torrington | *December: Skirmish at Torrington | ||
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| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| + | Pollard had commanded the trained band since at least 1630, but seems to have quickly lost control to the Parliamentarians, indeed he may have been dead by 1642. In August 1642 Royalist Arthur Bassett was commissioned Colonel of the regiment formerly Sir Samuel Rolle's which was ordered to disband and disarm. Plainly this was ignored. | ||
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| =====Flags===== | =====Flags===== | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| ====Sir Lewis Pollard==== | ====Sir Lewis Pollard==== | ||
| + | Royalist, he died in 1641 or 1645? His elder son Sir Hugh Pollard was Royalist governor of Dartmouth leading [[royalist:foot-regiments:hugh-pollard|Sir Hugh Pollard’s Regiment of Foot]]and his second son Sir Aymes Pollard led [[royalist:foot-regiments:aymes-pollard|Colonel Aymes Pollard’s Regiment of Foot]] at Langport. | ||
| ====Sir Samuel Rolle==== | ====Sir Samuel Rolle==== | ||
| - | Rolle swiftly replaced Pollard at the start of the Civil War | + | [[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rolle_(died_1647)|Sir Samuel Rolle]] swiftly replaced Pollard at the start of the Civil War |
| ====John Luttrell==== | ====John Luttrell==== | ||
| Captain 25/09/42; Major 14/02/43 - 08/08/43 Then Colonel 02/06/44 - 01/12/44 | Captain 25/09/42; Major 14/02/43 - 08/08/43 Then Colonel 02/06/44 - 01/12/44 | ||
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| *Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Stephens (01/07/44 - 01/12/44) (N.A. SP28/39/200) | *Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Stephens (01/07/44 - 01/12/44) (N.A. SP28/39/200) | ||
| *Major Richard Harris (01/07/44 - 02/11/44) | *Major Richard Harris (01/07/44 - 02/11/44) | ||
| + | Both of the above two officers could have served in Luttrell's volunteer regt. | ||
| *Captain Robert Bennett (1643. later Colonel of Foot) | *Captain Robert Bennett (1643. later Colonel of Foot) | ||
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| * 374 men were paid by the town ((R. Cotton: //Barnstaple and the northern part of Devonshire during the great civil war, 1642-1646// (1889))) | * 374 men were paid by the town ((R. Cotton: //Barnstaple and the northern part of Devonshire during the great civil war, 1642-1646// (1889))) | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| + | [[parliamentarian:foot-regiments:col.-john-luttrell|Colonel John Luttrell’s Regiment of Foot]] | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
