Sir Hardress Waller’s Regiment of Foot
| Active | 1646 to 1649 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Allegiance | Protestant |
| Parliamentarian | |
| Royalist | |
| Conflicts | Irish Confederate War |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Sir Hardress Waller |
| Peregrine Banastre | |
| Sir Edmond Verney | |
| Area Raised | Munster |
| Coat Colour | |
| Flag Colour | |
| Flag Design | |
| Field Armies | Inchiquin 1646-9 |
| Ormonde 1649 | |
Later Colonel Peregrine Banastre's Regiment of Foot, subsequently led by Sir Edmond Verney and known as the Lord Lieutenant's or Ormonde's Regiment
Munster regiment of foot of Inchiquin’s forces massacred at Drogheda in 1649
Service History
1646
- January: Serving in Munster
1647
- August: Serving in Inchiquin's army
- November: Battle of Knocknanus (led by Lt Col Crocker)
1648
1649
- Serving in Inchiquin's army
- August: Battle of Rathmines?
- September: Besieged at Drogheda
- September: Massacred at Drogheda
Notes
Banastre probably took over Waller's regiment in 1647 (See Officer Lists below). The same regiment is apparently still in Inchiquin's Army in 1649, but is now called “The Lord Lieutenant's regiment” i.e. Ormonde's. No Colonel's company is listed but it appears that Sir Edmond Verney was now serving as Colonel of the Regiment. Besieged by Cromwell at Drogheda the regiment was destroyed in the subsequent massacre with Verney killed there.
Coats, Flags and Equipment
Notable Officers
Sir Hardress Waller
Sir Hardress Waller Cousin of Sir William Waller with interests in Ireland. Initially he served as Lt Col of Lord Inchiquin's foot in Munster, then came to England where he led successively a Southern Association and the New Model Army regiment. He seconded Colonel Pride during Pride's Purge and was a signatory of the King's death warrant. He returned to Ireland with part of his New Model Army regiment in 1649. As a regicide, he was imprisoned for life at the Restoration.
Peregrine Banastre
Previously served as Major to Lord Inchiquin’s Regiment of Horse. He was a member of Inchiquin's council of war signing nearly all the survivimg orders in 16471). Contrary to the suggestion in the Egmont Mss, he is almost certainly not the Captain Banestre complained of by some of the English officers as “a common drunkard”
Marquis of Ormonde
James Butler, Marquis of Ormond apparently nominal commander of the regiment in 1649.
Sir Edmond Verney
Sir Edmond Verney previously served Ormonde in Ireland and fought in the First Civil War in England. He was said to have been killed in cold blood by Cromwell's men at Drogheda.
Officer Lists
August 1646
(This list is slightly conjectural. The documents on which it is based gives amounts paid to undivided lists of companies but the bulk of them do appear to breakdown into the 3 regiments of Inchiquin, Hardress Waller and Henry O'Brian)2)
- Colonel Sir Hardrass Waller
- Captain Dowdall
- Captain [Thomas]Southwell (later the regiments Major)5)
- Captain John Hassett
- Captain Hugh Crocker
August 1647
from8)
- Colonel Perigrine Banastre
- Lieutenant Colonel [Walter Crocker?]
- Major Richard Boyle
- Captain Dowdall
- Captain Crocker
- Captain Hassett
1649
From 9)
- Colonel Sir Edmond Verney
- Lieutenant Colonel Byrne
- Major Boyle
- Captain Bent
- Captain Jefferyes
- Captain Dowdall
- Captain Crooker
- Captain Fisher
Contemporary Documents
CSPI July 1646
Sir Hardress Waller asks leave to carry over some officers and 500 or 600 men to recruit his regiment in Munster. It was the first raised by the Lord President, and devolved on Sir Hardress after his death. The Committee decide to consider and report on the sending of recruits to all regiments.
Strength
- 21/08/47: 275 men + officers
- August 1649: 540 in all; Colonel, Major, 9 Capt, 11 Lt, 9 Ens, 23 Sgt, 27 Corp, 13 drums, 429 private soldiers, 10 reformados, preacher, chaplain, chirurgion & mate, quartermaster, carriage master, marshall10)
