Sir William Fairfax’s Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian Regiment of Foot serving with Essex’s army at Edgehill then reconstituted as part of Ferdinando Fairfax’s army of the Northern Association

• 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill
• 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green

• January: Storm of Leeds
• May: Storm of Wakefield
• 30th June: Battle of Adwalton Moor
• September to October: Siege of Hull?

• April: Storm of Selby
• April to July: Siege of York
• July: Battle of Marston Moor
• July: Siege of York

Probably grey-coats from August 1642 ¹⁾.

According to Parliamentary Army Chaplains by Anne Laurence (Suffolk 1990), Thomas Morgan may have been given command of the regiment after Sir William Fairfax was killed leading his regiment of horse at Montgomery. Possibly it was reduced into Colonel Thomas Morgan’s Regiment of Dragoons??

• Major Titus Leighton (01/01/43 - 13/08/43)
• Captain Francis Bland (27/03/43 - 16/04/44)