Lord John Stuart’s Regiment of Horse

Later the Earl of Cleveland’s, Colonel John Fleetwood’s, then Colonel John Stuart’s Regiment of Horse

Royalist regiment of horse serving with Hopton and with the Oxford army

• March: Battle of Cheriton, Stuart killed
• Lord Stuart replaced by the Earl of Cleveland
• June: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
• August: Skirmish on Braddock Down
• August: Battle of Lostwithiel
• August: Skirmish on Caradon Down
• October: Relief of Portland Castle
• October: Second Battle of Newbury, Cleveland captured

• July: Battle of Langport
• August to September: Besieged at Bristol?

• February: Battle of Torrington
• March: Surrender at Truro

Briefly commanded by Sir Horatio Cary then handed over to Lord Stuart while Cary raised another regiment of horse.

Lord John Stuart or Stewart, killed at Cheriton in March 1644.

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland

Earl of Clevelands Regiment of Horse

Lieutenant Colonel

Sargeant Major Clark Ment. I.O.

Captain Lieutenant Phillip Bell I.O. L + W Captain Lieutenant Henry Mildmay I.O. Somersetsh. Captain Lieutenant Thomas Reresby I.O. Nottinghamsh.

Captain Richard Atkins Ment. I.O. Captain Atkinson Ment. I.O. Captain Barber Ment. I.O. Captain William Cownly I.O. L + W Captain Griffith Cox I.O. L + W Captain Robert Hill I.O. L + W Captain John Topham (1) Captain Edward Vernon Ment. I.O.

Lieutenant Byerley E.311.12 of his Brigade Lieutenant George Dangerfield I.O. Worcester to Capt. Vernon

Cornet Henry Cave I.O. L + W to Capt. Atkins Cornet William Smith I.O. Wiltsh. to Capt. Barber Cornet Francis Wandsford I.O. Hampshire to Capt. Atkinson Cornet Samuel Wells I.O. Bedfordsh.

Quartermaster Abell Button I.O. L + W to Sgnt. Maj. Clark Quartermaster Thomas Clark I.O. Dorset to Sgnt. Maj. Clark Quartermaster John Gibson I.O. Somerset Quartermaster William Gilbert I.O. Dorset to Sgnt. Maj. Clark Quartermaster Henry Hornabrook I.O. Devon. Quartermaster Theophilius Linch I.O. L + W to Capt. Hill Quartermaster John Newman I.O. Somerset to Captain Barber Quartermaster Thomas Nicholls I.O. L + W Quartermaster Thomas North I.O. Yorksh.

Captain John Mozyn Ment. I.O.

Ensign John Mascal I.O. Worcestersh. to Capt. Mozyn

(1) WO55.423. 26 die Aprilis 1644

Received out of his Majesties stores according to ye warrant within written for the use of the Earle of Cleaveland

Pistoll Powder 50 lb Pistoll Carabine Shott 50 lb

John Topham Captaine

dvd. me The Pistolls and swordes within mentioned were delivered to the said Captaine Topham by indenture

SP29.7.65 Extract. 9th July 1660 To the Kings most excellent Majesty The humble petition of Charles Apleford Clerke Sheweth that your petitioner was a true son of the Church of England for which he was ejected out of his fellowship of Queens Colledge in Cambridge.And that afterwards he served your Majestyes father of ever blessed memory in the late unhappy warres under the conduct of the right honourable the Earle of Cleveland and others that commanded that brigade for which he hath suffered much.

• March 1644: 6 troops at Cheriton