Earl of Warwick’s Essex Trained Band Regiment of Foot

Essex Trained Band supporting the Parliamentarians in the First Civil War, but joining the Royalists and besieged at Colchester in 1648

• April: Siege of Reading, forming part of Lord Grey of Wark's force
• June: Major Dawkins annoys Lord Grey of Wark by returning to Maidenhead rather than marching to Caversham
• November: Mustered at Saffron Walden

• July: Siege of Greenland House
• July: March back home through London in time for the harvest

• June: Defect to the Royalists
• June: Taking of Braintree
• June: Taking of Colchester
• June to August: Besieged at Colchester
• August: Surrender at Colchester

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In August 1643 Warwick's regiment received 2 new colours with 'spots' as devices. At the siege of Greenland House the three Essex Trained Band regiments carried blue, white and yellow flags. However its not recorded which regiment carried which.

A list of the regiment’s officers is shown in Laurence Spring’s Regiments of the Eastern Association¹⁾

Robert Rich, Second Earl of Warwick (1587-1658) was Lord High Admiral.

Lieutenant Colonel to Warwick, he led the initial Royalist uprising in Colchester and led the regiment as a Royalist colonel during the siege.

• Supposed to be 1000 men in 1643, but Barrington's only mustered 200 in the July

David Appleby's very informative article on Farr and the Essex Trained Bands Colonel Henry Farr