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Mackworth, Humphrey |
Humphrey Mackworth (1603-1654)
Born the eldest child
and only son of Richard Mackworth (died 1617) of Betton Strange, Shropshire, a
modest landed family.
Humphrey practised law and by the 1630s was prominent
in the administration of Shrewsbury, as alderman and legal advisor. His godly
religious views inclined him to parliament and he supported the war effort. From
1643 he was appointed to Shropshire committees, even though the county was then
in royalist hands. By summer 1643 he was captain in Thomas Mytton’s regiment of
horse, based at Wem during the autumn and on into early 1644, when Mackworth’s
troop was described by the royalists as ‘broken’. Deemed by the Committee of
Both Kingdoms to be vital to parliament’s still fragile hold over parts of
Shropshire. In 1644 he was promoted to colonel early in 1645 and although he
does not seem to have taken part in the capture of Shrewsbury in Feb. 1645, he
was soon based there and in command of a regiment of foot raised largely from
militia units. He was present at the fight at Stokesay on 8 June 1645 and
commanded Shrewsbury units at the siege of Shrawardine Castle in July. By summer
1646 he had been confirmed as governor of Shrewsbury and commander in chief of
all the ‘standing companies’ in Shropshire. He was very active on Shropshire
county committes from 1643 onwards.
He was active in ensuring the security
of Shropshire in the face of renewed royalist threats in 1648 and 1651. He also
acquired a string of offices – the recorderships of Shrewsbury, Wenlock and
Bridgnorth, attorney general for North Wales and deputy chief justice of the
Chester circuit. In Feb. 1654 and despite hithero limited experience in national
government, he was appointed to the Protectoral Council of State and became a
very diligent and active member of the Council, down to his sudden death at his
Whitehall lodgings in Dec. 1654. He was buried in Westminster Abbey but his was
one of a number of corpses exhumed and removed at the Restoration.
References: Oxford DNB; Dore, Brereton letter books, 2. 394; HMC, 13th
Report, Appendix 1, 141-3; BL, Add. Ms. 18981, f. 69; CSPD, 1644, 514; CSPD, 1644-45, 259; CSPD, 1645-47, 441; H. Johnstone, ‘Two governors of
Shrewsbury during the great civil war and interregnum’, English
Historical Review, 26 (1911); Mercurius
Civicus, 12-18 June 1645; The Kingdom’s Weekly
Intelligencer, 1-8 July 1645; JHC, IV, 614, V,
122; Intelligence from Shropshire of Three Great Victories
obtained by the Forces of Shrewsburie (1645).
Armies: Shropshire
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Maghull, Robert |
Robert Maghull
A lieutenant, then a captain, in John
Moore’s Lancashire regiment of foot.
References:
Gratton, Lancs. war effort, 291.
Armies: Lancashire
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Maguire, Rosse |
Rosse Maguire (died ?1647)
A
corporal in Captain Master’s troop of horse; later lieutenant in Sir William
Waller’s regiment of horse; and by Nov. 1645 captain-lieutenant to the colonel’s
troop in Edward Cooke’s regiment of horse. He remained there until the
disbandment of the Massey brigade and was a signatory to the petition of its
officers in July 1647. A few weeks later he was convicted at the Old Bailey of
murder. Colonel Henry Sanderson appealed to the Commons for his reprieve, but
they merely laid debate on it to one side on 6 Sept. It is not certain whether
he was hanged or not.
References: Temple, ‘Massey
Brigade’, 438-9, 441; Spring, Waller’s army, 147; JHC, 5.293.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association); Massey Brigade
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Mainwaring, - |
- Mainwaring
Perhaps of the family of Ightfield,
Shropshire, a captain in command of one of the companies of Shropshire foot at
the siege of Lichfield in spring 1646, on 26 May ordered to march to
Worcester.
References: Carr and Atherton, Brereton Staffs., 280.
Armies:
Shropshire
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Mainwaring [Manwaring], Henry |
Henry Mainwaring [Manwaring] (born 1605/1606, alive in
1666)
Of Kermincham, Cheshire. Eldest son of Henry Mainwaring of Kermincham
(died 1637x39) and his wife May, daughter of Anthony Kinnarsley of Loxley,
Staffordshire. He married Frances, fourth sister and coheir of Sir Edward Fitton
of Gawsworth, Cheshire. His son Roger married Sarah, daughter of Randle
Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst, Derbyshire.
An active JP in Cheshire in the 1630s.
In 1641 Mainwaring was a supporter of the pro-episcopal and pro-court Sir Thomas
Aston, but in 1642 chose to support parliament. In Dec. he raised the country
and saw off the earl of Derby’s attempted venture into Cheshire and expelled the
royalists from Macclesfield. Reinforced by Manchester forces, he compelled the
royalist commissioners of array to flee and on 10 Dec. garrisoned Nantwich.
Having established a position of strength, Mainwaring was one of the two
parliamentarian negotiators for the very short-lived cessation of arms within
the county which was negotiated at Bunbury on 23 Dec. 1642, and which was
followed by both sides.
However, a month later, when Sir William Brereton
came north as commander-in-chief in Chesh, Mainwaring brought his independent
troop of horse to the headquarters at Nantwich.
In Jan. 1644 Mainwaring was
one of the commanders who came to the battle of Nantwich. However (like the
other captains who had come to Brereton in Jan. 1643), he was evidently becoming
more distanced from the more militant war being fought by Sir William.
On 7
May 1644 the Commons resolved that Mainwaring and another Cheshire man active
early in the war be deprived of their offices: ‘Resolved, &c. that Henry
Manwaring, and Henry Vernon, Esquires, two deputy lieutenants of Cheshire, in
regard of their Disservice to the Parliament in many Particulars, be forthwith
discharged and removed from their said Places, and other Power of Command in any
military Way, in or gathering or receiving Monies: And that all Horses, Arms,
Ammunition, and Money, now under their or either of their Commands, belonging to
the State, be, upon Demand, delivered up to Sir Wm. Brereton, to be by him
disposed of and employed for the said Service of King and Parliament: And that
the said Persons be called to account for what Monies, Arms, and Ammunition they
have; and accordingly to restore the same for the publick Service’ (JHC, 3.484).
The ‘disservice’ remains obscure, and the
resolution does not seem to have taken effect immediately, perhaps because of
the crisis in the north. On 25 May Mainwaring’s and Robert Duckenfeild’s
regiments were drawn up at Stockport, powerless to oppose the march of Prince
Rupert; on 30 June his regiment was part of the force that marched from Nantwich
to relieve Thomas Mytton at Oswestry. On 30 Apr. 1645 Mainwaring was still
formally named as a colonel of a regiment of foot of four companies and ‘about
160 men all countrymen’ (Dore, Brereton letter books, 1.
326). Nevertheless, Dore found no evidence of Mainwaring ‘still exercising
military command’ in 1645 (Dore, Brereton letter books, 1.
332).
Mainwaring, like the other gentleman who had brought their troops to
Brereton at Nantwich, had by summer 1645 withdrawn from military service. The
doubts about his loyalty were pursued when Mainwaring found himself facing
sequestration as a delinquent, although he was cleared.
In 1659 Mainwaring
took part in the Booth Rising, as a colonel charged with recruiting in Northwich
Hundred.
In Oct. 1646 Mainwaring had been admitted, alongside his kinsman
Elias Ashmole, as a freemason at Warrington, the first known Masonic lodge in
England.
References: Dore, Brereton
letter books, 1. 326, 332, 420; Morrill, Cheshire, 9, 16, 53, 66, 71, 80, 215, 272, 311; Civil
war in Cheshire, 29-34, 36-7, 116-7117, 130, 134, 241-3, 245, 247;
HMC, Portland manuscripts, 1.94-6; Vis.
Cheshire, 1613, 161; Vis. Cheshire, 1666, 73;
Ormerod, Cheshire, 3.i.80; D. Stevenson, The origins of freemasonry: Scotland’s century, 1590-1710 (1988),
219.
Armies: Cheshire
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Mainwaring, Philomen |
Philomen Mainwaring
Dore identifies him as of Great
Warford, Cheshire, illegitimate half-bro. of Colonel Henry Mainwaring (Henry was
the eldest son of Henry Mainwaring, died 1639, and his first wife; Philomen was
the son of Henry and his second wife, Felicia, daughter of Thomas Baskerville,
but born before their marriage.) He acquired the estate at Great Warford, where
he died c. 1674, through his marriage to Margaret Parsons, daughter and coheir
of a Macclesfield alderman.
Dore makes a very strong case that Mainwaring
was lieutenant in Captain Humphrey Bulkeley’s troop of horse in Brereton’s horse
regiment, and that following the capture of Bulkeley and most of his troop near
Wrexham on 29 Apr. 1645, Mainwaring was probably transferred to Myddelton’s
forces in Wrexham, and was captured in Oct. 1645 when part of that army under
Colonel John Carter was attacked at Eccleston. Thereafter he was linked with
Bulkeley in the prolonged negotiations for an exchange and was evidently finally
released in Jan. 1646., though in the interim, he managed to smuggle out
information about the state of Chester; on 21 Dec. 1645 his letter to Brereton
began, ‘I have thought good to acquaint your honour (having a convenient and
trusty messenger) with what news my intelligencers have informed me’ (Dore,
Brereton letter books, 2. 407-8).
References: Dore, Brereton letter books, 2.
99-100, 407-8, 463, 480-1.
Armies: Cheshire; North Wales
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Mainwaring, Randall |
Randall Mainwaring (died 1652)
Born Whitmore,
Staffordshire, son of Edward Mainwaring. He married in London in 1618, became
active within the Grocers’ Company and became a colonial trader in partnership
with members of his wife’s family, the Hawes. Treasurer of the Company of the
Artillery Garden (now the Honourable Artillery Company), 1631-5. Prominent in
radical City politics during the 1640s, became a member of the London militia
committee and a very active supporter of parliament’s war effort.
‘His Shope
is In Cheape Side neare Ironmonger lane by Colonel Towse’ (BL, Harl. 986, p.
2).
Captain in London Trained Bands in 1639.
Major of the Red regiment,
London Trained Bands (Colonel Thomas Atkin) in 1642, and its lieutenant-colonel
by 26 Sept. 1643. Appointed sergeant-major-general of the City of London in Oct.
1642 to replace Philip Skippon. Colonel of a regiment of Redcoats (1642-Jan.
1644) raised for the earl of Warwick’s short-lived reserve army raised to cover
London, which, however, survived to be used to police the metropolis under
Mainwaring as sergeant-major-general. He was with them at the first battle of
Newbury.
He died in autumn 1652.
References: Oxford DNB; Overton 1642; Thrale 1642;Nagel,
‘London militia’, 58, 59, 85, 86, 87, 316; BL, Harl. 986, p. 2.
Armies: London
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Mainwaring, Robert |
Robert Mainwaring
(1607-1652)
Born 1607 in London, son of William Mainwaring, Citizen and
merchant tailor. Robert became a wealthy officer of the London Customs House and
was noted by Symonds as being of the Custom House, living in Aldermanbury.
Addmitted to the Company of the Artillery Garden (now the Honourable Artillery
Company) in 1642.
Recorded in a spy’s report of a Trained Bands muster in
Sept. 1643 as Third captain of the Green regiment, London Trained Bands. Richard
Symonds annotates: ‘Hath a Troope of horse besides & quitted this
Capt[aincy]’ (BL, Harl. 986, p. 38).
The troop was evidently in Colonel
Edmund Harvey’s regiment of London horse, of which he was Major by Dec. 1643,
when he sought to stem the flight of his troops at a skirmish in Olney,
Bedfordshire, reportedly breaking his pistol on their heads, and still the
regiment’s Major on 9 May 1644. Money was owed for the cost of quartering part
of his troop in Grub Street, 11 Jan.-26 May 1644. On 24 July 1644 he received 14
days’ pay for the regiment and for his troop. He was still with the regiment
when it was disbanded in spring 1645.
He later served as a common councillor
for Cripplegate Without and within the sixth London classis. He was appointed to
the London militia committee during the attempted Presbyterian coup of 1647, but
was removed after the restoration of army and Independent control. He died at
his home in Grub Street in 1652.
References: Oxford DNB; BL, Harl. 986, p. 38; G. Paine, A
true relation of all the skirmishes between our forces and the Cavaliers at
Owlney (1643), 2; TNA, SP28/15/66, SP28/17/119; CSPD,
1644, 155.
Armies: London
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Malbon [Mauberne], George |
George Malbon [Mauberne]
Son of Thomas Malbon
(1578-1658) of Bradley and Nantwich, gentleman,, whose manuscript ‘Memorial of
the Civil War’ is reprinted in Cheshire tracts, 23-225;
brother of Thomas Malbon.
Captain of a company of Nantwich townsmen in
George Booth’s regiment of foot in Sir William Brereton’s Army by 30 Apr. 1645,
the company shortly after discontented after Booth resigned for want of
pay.
Commissioned Major in Thomas Croxton’s militia regiment of foot, 22
Aug. 1650.
References: Cheshire
tracts, xii-xiv, 136-7, 148; Dore, Brereton letter
books, 1. 325, 329-30, 371, 372; CSPD, 1650,
510.
Armies: Cheshire
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Malbon [Mauberne], Thomas |
Thomas Malbon [Mauberne]
Son of Thomas Malbon
(1578-1658) of Bradley and Nantwich, Cheshire, gentleman, whose manuscript
‘Memorial of the Civil War’ is reprinted in Cheshire
tracts, 23-225; brother of George Malbon.
Captain of a company of
Nantwich townsmen in George Booth’s regiment of foot in Sir William Brereton’s
Army by 30 Apr. 1645, the company shortly after became discontented after Booth
resigned for want of pay.
Malbon and his brother, both captains, fought at
taking of Cholmondeley Castle, 7 July 1644.
Commissioned captain in Thomas
Croxton’s militia regiment of foot, 22 Aug. 1650.
References: Cheshire tracts, xii-xiv, 136-7,
148, 225; Dore, Brereton letter books, 1. 325, 329-30,
371; CSPD, 1650, 510.
Armies:
Cheshire
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Malbon, Henry |
Henry Malbon
Ensign to Major Kett in Myddelton’s North
Wales Army, as proved by a pay warrant of 6 Apr. 1644 for £5.
References: TNA, SP28/346, no. 85.
Armies: North Wales
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Mall, John |
John Mall
By early 1645, major in Valentine Walton’s
regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army; he continued to serve in that
capacity after John Hobart had taken command of the regiment in spring
1645.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.104.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Mallery, Robert |
Robert Mallery
In Sept. 1642 lieutenant to Captain
Cosby in the regiment of foot which formed part of the earl of Essex’s Army
under the earl of Stamford and which then formed the core of Edward Massey’s
garrison and army at Gloucester.
References: Peachey
and Turton, War in the West,6.646-7.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mallory, Robert |
Robert Mallory
Captain. He was not one of the original
captains in the earl of Stamford’s regiment of foot in 1642, nor is he listed
amongst the officers at Gloucester in Apr. 1643. He had joined by Aug. 1643, and
fought during the siege of Gloucester, leading a sally on 14 Aug.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 6. 642-6; Bibliotheca, 46, 214.
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Manaton, Samson |
Samson Manaton
Ensign in Captain Christopher Burgh’s
company in William Bampfield’s regiment of foot in Lord Wharton’s Army for
Ireland in 1642. Instead, he went with Bampfield’s regiment as ensign into the
earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock,
Army lists, 70, 40.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Manby, William, junior |
William Manby, junior
Son of William Manby senior and his wife Alice, daughter
of Mr Long of Wiltshire. Of St Helen’s Bishopsgate.
During the Presbyterian
domination of the London militia committee, Manby junior was captain in the
White regiment, London Trained Bands (Colonel Joseph Vaughan). This had been his
fa’s regiment, so perhaps he had held unrecorded lower commissioned ranks before
then. A Presbyterian satire implies that he was still in the regiment later that
year, after his father had been reinstated, suggesting that ‘the Puppy his
Sonne’ be made Major (A paire of spectacles for the Citie,
(1648), 9).
References: Vis. London,
1633-5, 2.76; Nagel, ‘London militia’, citing pay warrants in TNA,
SP28/237; A paire of spectacles for the Citie (1648),
9.
Armies: London
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Manby, William, senior |
William Manby, senior (died 1660)
Lieutenant-colonel. Admitted to the Company of
the Artillery Garden (now the Honourable Artillery Company) in 1618. Son of
William Manby of London, fishmonger, and his wife Alice, daughter of Thomas Nash
of Evesham, Worcestershire. He married Alice, daughter of Mr Long of Wiltshire.
Father of William Manby, junior.
Buried 8 Dec. 1660 in St Helen’s
Bishopsgate, where his rank of lieutenant-colonel is noted in the parish
register.
Member of Fishmongers’ company, treasurer of the Artillery Garden,
1639, and noted as clerk of the Leathersellers’ Hall by Richard Symonds (BL,
Harl. 986, p. 14).
Lieutenant in the Red regiment, London Trained Bands
(Colonel Thomas Atkin), 1642; by Sept. 1643. Third captain of the White
regiment, London Trained Bands (Colonel Isaac Penington) and by Oct. 1646
lieutenant-colonel of the same White regiment, London Trained Bands (Colonel
Thomas Player). In 1647 the Presbyterian militia committee put him out in favour
of Robert Thomson, but he was re-instated later that year by the Independent
militia committee.
References: Vis.
London, 1633-5, 2.76; Reg. St Helen’s
Bishopsgate, 309; Nagel, ‘London militia’, 316-8; Barriffe, Mars, sig. 2r; BL, Harl. 986, p. 14; A paire
of spectacles for the Citie (1648), 9.
Armies: London
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Manestey, - |
- Manestey
Captain in the earl of Manchester’s
regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army, serving until the regiment
disbanded. He became a captain in Sir Thomas Fairfax’s regiment of foot in the
New Model Army, down to his death in autumn 1645.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 2.63;
Wanklyn, New Model Army, I, 43, 55.
Armies: Eastern Association; New Model
Army
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Maning, Samuel |
Samuel Maning
Colonel’s ensign in the Yellow regiment,
London Trained Bands (Colonel Sir John Wollaston) in summer 1642.
References: Thrale 1642.
Armies:
London
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Manley, John |
John Manley (c.1622-1699)
The third son of Cornelius
Manley of Erbistock, Cheshire (died 1623). His elder brothers Francis (later
chief justice of the Carmarthen circuit) and Roger (army officer and historian,
see Oxford DNB) were both royalists. The surviving pay
warrants, covering the periods June to Dec. 1643 and May 1644 to June 1645, give
no clue to any rank (frequently, even if the rank is not given in the warrant
itself or the signed acquittance, it is noted on the clerk’s endorsement on the
back, but not in Manley’s case). He evidently rose to the rank of Captain, the
rank with which he appears in a pass to travel abroad in 1652 and in the
complaint against him by the sheriff of Denbighshire in 1659 when he and Captain
Sontley were active against local royalists (CSPD, 1652,
555; CSPD, 1659-1660, 159).
Apprenticed to a skinner
in London in 1639. Greaves dates to 1643 his public attack on infant baptism, on
the clergy as unlawful and unchristian and his claim that he was as much an
apostle as Paul. He married Isaac Dorislaus’s daughter and was
Postmaster-General, 1653-5 and MP for Denbigh in 1659. A loyal servant of the
republic in Denbighshire and persecuted after the Restoration for dissent, he
returned to London as a brewer, was active in radical Whig politics and was on
the fringe of the Rye House Plot and served as a major in Monmouth’s Army. MP
for Bridport in 1689.
References: Oxford DNB; HoP: The Commons, 1660-1690,
3.13-4; Greaves and Zaller, BDBR,2.211-2;
Tucker, Denbighshire Officers, 69; TNA, SP28/346; CSPD, 1652, 555; CSPD, 1659-1660,
159.
Armies: North
Wales
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Mann, - |
- Mann
Captain of dragoons in
Kent.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 70.
Armies: Kent;
Waller (Southern Association)
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Mann, William |
William Mann
By early 1644 captain in Valentine
Walton’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army; he continued to serve
in that capacity after John Hobart had taken command of the regiment in spring
1645.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.104.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Manwaring, Andrew |
Andrew Manwaring
Captain in Sir William Waller’s
regiment of foot (later of dragoons) from at least 16 Nov. 1643 to Dec. 1644.
Perhaps the Captain Mainwaring, captain of a troop of horse in Waller’s Western
Army.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army,149; Peachey and Turton, Fall of
the West, 7.716.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association); Waller (Southern Association)
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Manyford, - |
- Manyford
Cornet.
References:
Mayo, Dorset Standing Committee, 377.
Armies: Dorset
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Marbury, John |
John Marbury
An officer in Brereton’s Cheshire Army.
Marbury was commissioned Major and had been Major in Brooke’s regiment of foot
(though no longer by Apr. 1645). Half-brother to William Marbury of Marbury,
deputy-lieutenant and enemy of Brereton, and brother to the latter’s heir
Thomas, he seems to have shared William’s alienation (although Dore suggests to
a lesser extent than the Booths). In Nov. 1645 he was one of three officers,
along with Captains Massey and Whitney of Booth’s regiment, whose arrest was
ordered as ‘it appears that they are dangerous and do much disturb the peace of
the county’.
References: Dore, Brereton
letter books, 2. 225.
Armies: Cheshire
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March, William |
William March
A captain in John Booth’s Lancashire
regiment.
References: Gratton, Lancs. war effort, 285.
Armies: Lancashire
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Margery, Ralph |
Ralph Margery
From the raising of the troop in his
native Suffolk in autumn 1643, he served as captain of the troop in Oliver
Cromwell’s regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army, through the
absorption of the troop in Colonel Pye’s regiment of horse in the New Model
Army; Margery continued to serve as captain in that regiment (by then under
Rich) until 1653.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.23; Wanklyn, New Model
Army, I, 53, 63, 74, 83, 95, 108.
Armies:
Eastern Association; New Model Army
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Markham, Anthony |
Anthony Markham
Brother of Henry Markham. Captain in
Edward Rossiter’s regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army and stayed
with the regiment when it transferred to the New Model Army. He left the
regiment in 1648 and in 1649 he succeeded his brother Henry as governor of
Belvoir Castle.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 2.91; Wanklyn, New Model
Army, I, 52, 62, 73, 83, 94.
Armies: Eastern Association; New Model
Army
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Markham, Henry |
Henry Markham
Brother of Anthony Markham and, like
him, having served in Rossiter’s horse regiment in the Eastern Association Army,
he transferred with it into the New Model and by the end of 1646 was a captain
in the regiment. He left the regiment in 1647 and between Nov. 1647 and Jan.
1649, holding the rank of Major, he was governor of Belvoir Castle. He served in
Ireland for much of the 1650s.
References: Wanklyn,
New Model Army, I, 73, 83.
Armies: Eastern Association;
New Model Army
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Markland, Gerrard |
Gerrard Markland
Markland came from a family of
mercers in Wigan, Lancashire captain of a troop in the Lancashire regiment of
horse of Colonel Ralph Assheton, senior, later of Colonel Nicholas Shuttleworth.
He was owed arrears of £59 17s ⅗d and of £843 19s 1¼d in Oct.
1650.
In Feb. 1644 Markland brought the first summons from Fairfax to the
countess of Derby to surrender Lathom House. He later served at the siege of
Chester.
In 1659 Markland joined Booth’s Rising.
References: TNA, E121/4/8; Lancashire military proceedings, 163; Dore, Brereton
letter books, 2. 437-8.
Armies: Lancashire
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Marr, - |
- Marr
Ensign in Major
Archibald’s company in Sir William Waller’s regiment of dragoons.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
145
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Marriott, John |
John Marriott
In late 1644, cornet in the colonel’s
own troop in Sir Samuel Luke’s Bedfordshire-based regiment of horse.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 92.
Armies: Bedfordshire
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Marrow, George |
George Marrow
Captain in Viscount Saye and Sele’s
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 30.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Marrow, Peter |
Peter Marrow
Captain in Sir John Seaton’s/George
Melve’s regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s Army, from or by 30 Nov.
1642 to at least early Mar. 1643.
References: TNA,
SP28/4/361, SP28/5/205, 206, 334.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Marsden, Robert |
Robert Marsden
Lieutenant, and later captain, of a
company in Richard Shuttleworth’s (later Ughtred Shuttleworth’s) regiment of
foot in Lancashire. He was owed arrears of £632 16s 17½d in May
1659.
Whilst a lieutenant, Marsden fought with distinction at the defeat of
the earl of Derby at Whalley, 20 Apr. 1643: ‘Amongst those that came in to
them…was Marsden then a lieutenant after mad a captaine, a man of courage and
hardie spirit. He incouradged the souldiers much with manly words to goe one,
God would fight for them, and the like’ (Warr in
Lancashire, 33). Commissioned captain in Thomas Birch’s militia
regiment of foot in Lancashire, 16 Aug. 1650.
References: TNA, E121/4/8; Warr in Lancashire,
33; CSPD, 1650, 509.
Armies:
Lancashire
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Marsh, - |
- Marsh
A captain in Cheshire. He is mentioned in a
passing reference, dated Warrington, 10 Oct. 1644, to goods taken up to ‘Captain
Marshes’.
References: TNA, SP28/225, f.
6.
Armies: Cheshire
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Marsh, John |
John Marsh
Of Shenley, Hertfordshire, and owner of a
St Albans inn. In 1643 captain in and then lieutenant-colonel of one of the
militia-based regiments of foot in Hertfordshire.
References: A. Thompson, The Impact of the First
Civil War on Hertfordshire, 1642-47 (2007),
xxiii.
Armies: Hertfordshire
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Marshall, - |
- Marshall
A captain serving
with Sir William Waller’s army in June and July 1644. Possibly the same Captain
Marshall who was in Christopher Potley’s/David Leighton’s regiment of
foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, app. 2, p. 3.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association)
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Marshall, - |
- Marshall
Lieutenant in Thomas
Essex’s regiment of foot in 1643. He was accused of involvement in the royalist
plot to betray Bristol to the king’s army in the published confession of Robert
Yeamans. He is there described as commanding the sergeant-major’s
company.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the West, 6.650-l; Seyer, Bristol,389.
Armies: Bristol
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Marshall, - |
- Marshall
Of Stokesley, Yorkshire (North Riding), a
parliamentarian lieutenant in Yorkshire.
References:
Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 95.
Armies:
Yorkshire
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Marshall, - |
- Marshall
Captain in
Christopher Potley’s/David Leighton’s regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
113.
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Marshall, John |
John Marshall
Ensign in the Colonel’s company in
Edward King’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 1.47.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Marshall, Lewis |
Lewis Marshall
In 1643-4 lieutenant in Francis De
Latoure’s troop in Waller’s regiment of horse. Although cashiered from that
regiment for abusing his Captain, by the beginning of 1645 he had become
lieutenant in Francis Duett’s troop in Edmund Ludlow’s regiment of
horse.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 91, 147.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association)
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Martin, - |
- Martin
In Apr. 1645, on the eve of its disbandment,
lieutenant in William Wade’s company in the regiment of foot in the Eastern
Association Army then commanded by Sir Thomas Hoogan and formerly by Sir John
Palgrave.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 2.80.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Martin, - |
– Martin
Cornet, Captain Newdigate’s troop
of horse.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the West, 5.531.
Armies:
Dorset
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Martin, Gabriel |
Gabriel Martin
Early in 1645 he probably became a
captain in the earl of Essex’s own regiment of horse, commanded by Stapleton,
succeeding Lionel Copley, to whom he had been Lieutenant. Like several officers
of that regiment in the earl of Essex’s Army, he transferred to the New Model
Army in spring 1645, becoming a captain in Thomas Sheffield’s New Model horse
regiment and serving in that capacity until summer 1647.
References: Wanklyn, New Model Army, 1. 51,
61, 72, 82, 150
Armies: Earl of Essex;
New Model Army
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Martin, John |
John Martin
Successively cornet in Captain
Newdigate’s troop in Sir Walter Erle’s regiment, lieutenant in Captain
Blackford’s Dorset troop, and lieutenant in Captain Jaques’s troop in Waller’s
regiment of horse in the Southern Association Army.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,149
Armies: Waller
(Southern Association)
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Martin, John |
John Martin
Ensign in Captain Titus’s company in
Thomas Ayloffe’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army in Apr.
1645.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 1.9.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Martin [Martyn], Robert |
Robert Martin [Martyn]
Captain of a company at
Dartmouth and Plymouth in 1642-3, which served in the summer of 1643 at the
defence of Exeter.
By Mar. 1644 Martin was a lieutenant-colonel at Plymouth.
Following the death of Colonel William Gould on 27 Mar., the command of the town
was put in commission to the mayor, Colonel Crocker and Martin, until Parliament
sent down a new governor. On 16 Apr. the other two passed full command to
Martin, who ordered various sallies against the royalist blockade. He was still
in command in early July, by which time Colonel James Kerr had arrived from
London to take command. Martin was buried in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth, in
Oct. 1644.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the West, 3.361, 4.441; Worth, History of Plymouth, 111-5; Continuation.
Armies: Devon
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Martyn [Martin], Francis |
Francis Martyn [Martin]
At the start of the war
lieutenant-colonel in Ballard’s regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army.
When Ballard left in summer 1643, he succeeded him as the regiment’s colonel and
as such led it under Essex at the relief of Gloucester and first battle of
Newbury in 1643. In spring 1644 Martyn and part of the regiment garrisoned
Aylesbury, until its disbandment in autumn or winter 1645-6. As such, he
features from time to time in Sir Samuel Luke’s letter books and a handful of
letters to or by him survive there.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 43; Luke Letter
Books, nos. 256, 821, 824, 888.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Mase, John |
John Mase
Lieutenant in Sir Thomas Myddelton’s North
Wales Army. Surviving warrants record payments to him, authorised by Sir Thomas
Myddelton, covering the period 22 July to 1 Dec. 1643; it is notable than in the
endorsements he makes a mark and so presumably was unable to sign his
name.
References: TNA, SP28/346, no.
260.
Armies: North
Wales
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|
Masham, Anthony |
Anthony Masham
Lieutenant in Lord Wharton’s regiment
of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 31.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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|
Maskall, - |
- Maskall
Ensign in Major
William Bridges’s company in the Worcestershire regiment of foot (Colonels
Edward Rous/William Dingley [Dineley]), 16 Apr. 1646.
References: TNA, SP28/138, part 17, f. 51r.
Armies: Worcestershire
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|
Mason, Benjamin |
Benjamin Mason
Captain in Colonel John Fiennes’s
regiment of horse in Oxfordshire. On 10 Aug. 1644 he was paid £50 at
London to set forth his troop and to discharge his soldiers’ quarters, convoying
arms and saddles to the regiment; on 20 Aug. £27 1s 11d was paid to
several innkeepers in Warwick for discharging the quarters of Fiennes’s and
Mason’s troops. He last appears in the accounts on 4 Sept. 1644, a significant
omission as the captains are generally recorded thereafter up to the regiment’s
disbandment in Aug. 1645.
References: TNA, SP28/139,
Part 19, f. 205r.
Armies: Oxfordshire
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|
Mason, Besney |
Besney Mason
Colonel’s ensign in the Orange regiment,
London Trained Bands (Colonel John Towse) in summer 1642.
References: Thrale 1642.
Armies: London
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Mason, Bestney |
Bestney Mason
Captain in the regiment of dragoons in
the earl of Essex’s Army which was commanded by Sir John Seaton and then George
Melve in 1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 57.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mason, John |
John Mason
In 1644 appointed by
John Hutchinson captain of a newly-formed company of foot raised for the
townsmen of Nottingham to defend the town. According to Lucy Hutchinson’s
account, he soon became a rotten egg, recalcitrant, disobedient, a supporter of
her husband’s opponents and perhaps a closet royalist.
References: Hutchinson, Life, 168, 180, 191,
192, 204, 206, 210, 225.
Armies: Nottinghamshire
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Mason, Thomas |
Thomas Mason
Probably a late arrival in Sir Thomas
Myddelton’s Army in North Wales, described by Thomas Mytton to the Speaker in
1646 as ‘a soldier these 20 years and lost his command in Ireland because he
refused to bear arms against the Parl.’. He probably joined no earlier than
1644, sat on a council of war of 11 Apr. 1645 (Dore, Brereton
letter books, 1. 194), and serving under Mytton was prominent in the
conquest of North Wales in 1645-6. There he remained, serving as a commissioner
for the propagation of the gospel in Wales and he fell under the radical
influence of Morgan Llwyd and Vavasor Powell (his support for them in 1653-4
lost him his place as commissioner).
References: Dore,
Brereton letter books, 1. 144, 194.
Armies: North Wales
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Mason, William |
William Mason
Ensign in Captain Richard Hill’s company
in Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s/James Holborne’s regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
59.
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Massey [Massie], Edward |
Edward Massey [Massie] (died
1674)
He was the fifth of eleven sons of John Massey of Coddington,
Cheshire, and Anne (born 1582), daughter of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton,
Cheshire. He was probably born between 1610 and 1615.
See Oxford DNB, which covers fully his military career in the 1640s, his
political Presbyterianism in the late 1640s, his royalism in the 1650s and his
post-Restoration career.
MP for Wootton Bassett in 1646 and for Gloucester
in Convention and Cavalier Parliaments.
He served in the Low Countries and
in the Bishops’ War of 1639-40 as a captain of Pioneers under Colonel William
Legge.
According to the hostile Clarendon he was with the King at York in
1642 and only decided to join the Parliamentarian cause when he saw no chance of
preferment; he later claimed that he had been undecided between the two sides,
but was persuaded by parliament’s claims of self-defence and constitutional
conservatism.
He became lieutenant-colonel in the earl of Stamford’s
regiment. When Stamford marched west in the autumn of 1642, Massey was left at
Gloucester with a regiment, formally as deputy-governor under Stamford and from
June 1643 as governor. He became a leading figure in the defence of the town,
especially after the storming of Cirencester on 2 Feb. 1643 swept away many of
the local levies. Shortly before that, he had taken Sudeley Castle, which now
had to be abandoned. In June 1643 he was formally made governor of Gloucester,
and commanded there throughout the siege (Aug. 1643) and until May 1645.
Warmington, Glos., and Warmington’s
biography in Oxford DNB provide excellent
accounts both of Massey’s military achievements in 1643-5, and his ability to
feud with Gloucester civilians of any political hue and his own officers.
In
May 1645 Massey was appointed general of the forces of the Western Association
(Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and Wilts). His brigade earned a reputation
for disorder.
A leading Presbyterian. An enemy of the New Model Army, which
opposed his appointment as lieutenant-general of the army in Ireland in 1647. In
Aug. he was one of the eleven Presbyterian MPs singled out as incendiaries by
the army, and fled to the Netherlands when it occupied London.
References: Oxford DNB; Warmington,
Glos.; R. Howes, ‘Sources for
the life of Colonel Massey’, Transactions of the Bristol and
Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 112 (1994), 127-41.
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Massey, Edward |
Edward Massey (1604x09-1674)
Born a younger son of
John Massey of Coddington, Cheshire. Two of his younger brothers, George and
Robert, served under him during the civil war. He probably fought on the
continent during the 1620s and 1630s and in the Scots Wars of 1639-40. In 1642
he supported parliament and became lieutenant-colonel in the earl of Stamford’s
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army. As such, in winter 1642-3 he
remained with much of the regiment, its commander in all but name, when Stamford
moved on to take command of parliament’s forces in Devon. Commanding Stamford’s
old regiment – he was in due course appointed its Colonel, probably in Nov. 1643
– and raising further troops, Massey supported Waller’s campaigns in the region
during the opening months of 1643, including the recapture of Cirencester, the
engagements at Highnam and Ripple and renewed attempts upon Hereford and
Worcester, but by summer 1643 he and his men were bottled up in Gloucester; his
stout defence of the town in the face of a huge and lengthy royalist siege
during summer 1643 made Massey a hero in the eyes of many parliamentarians.
Although still short of money and resources and also involved in sometimes
vicious squabbles with parliamentarian administrators and some members of the
county committee, during 1644 and early 1645 Massey was able to go on the
offensive, slowly recovering much of Gloucestershire, venturing into
Herefordshire and Mons. and capturing a string of royalist bases, including
Westbury, Newnham, Beverston Castle, Malmesbury, Tewkesbury, Beachley and
Monmouth.
In May 1645 he was given a broader remit by parliament as general
of a western brigade which supported the relief of Taunton and parts of the New
Model’s campaign in the area, including the battle of Langport and the capture
of Bridgwater.
In autumn 1646 much of Massey’s Western Army was disbanded
and he took his seat as Recruiter MP in the Long Parliament. Always a moderate,
by 1647 he was seen as a leading political Presbyterian and opponent of the New
Model Army. He went into exile in the Netherlands for a time, was back in
England and in London by late 1648 but was secluded and imprisoned at Pride’s
Purge. In 1649 he escaped and fled to the continent. By 1650-1 he was openly
supporting the royalist cause in Scotland and was an officer in the
Scottish-royalist army of invasion in summer 1651, but he was badly wounded a
few days before the battle of Worcester. He recovered and was again imprisoned,
but he again escaped and went abroad. He was back by 1660, actively supporting
the Restoration, which brought him a knighthood, office and a renewal of his
parliamentary career.
References: Oxford DNB.
Armies: Earl of
Essex; Gloucestershire; Massey Brigade
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Massey, George |
George Massey (born 1614x19)
Ninth son of John Massey
of Coddington, Cheshire, and Anne (born 1582), daughter of Richard Grosvenor of
Eaton, Cheshire and younger brother of Colonel Edward Massey, governor of
Gloucester.
Massey was not initially in the earl of Stamford’s regiment of
foot (of which his brother was Lieutenant-Colonel). By 18 Aug. 1643 he was at
Gloucester, when he was engaged in a sally, and a few weeks later was wounded
when the parliamentarians were outnumbered at Bruckthrop Hill. He was governor
of Sudeley Castle, Gloucs., by Dec. 1644, when the garrison mutinied: over pay,
according to one account, whilst another conceded that Massey had killed the
ringleader, but had merely pricked him in the thigh (the same account, somewhat
implausibly, claimed that they mutinied because their pay was just one day
late). Sir Samuel Luke was told that Massey ‘has killed a gentleman there
[Sudeley], whereupon there arose such a mutiny in the castle that he was forced
to fly to his brother at Gloucester for relief’ (Luke, Letter
books, 117).
If so, Gloucester was still too close and he needed
to get further away. By 30 Apr. 1645 Masssey was serving in Sir William
Brereton’s Army around Chester, as captain in George Booth’s regiment of foot.
About a week later Captain Massey, ‘brother to the governor of Gloucester, and
near 20 gentlemen and officers and about 40 common soldiers’ were taken in and
about Wrexham by Welsh royalists (Dore, Brereton letter
books, 1. 369-70).
Massey had been released by 7 Nov. 1645, when
the committees for examinations at Westminster ordered the arrest of Massey
(alongside Major John Marbury and Captain Hugh Whitney) upon complaints received
from which it appeared that ‘they are dangerous and do much disturb the peace of
the county’ (Dore, Brereton letter books, 2. 225). The
reasons are uncertain, and Dore suggests that in Marbury’s and Whitney’s case
they may have been victims of the clash between Brereton and his Cheshire
enemies. If George shared his brother’s Presbyterianism, he may also have been
brought in as against Brereton. However, given his past reputation, and if he
was like his brother in behaviour, he might very well have been guilty of the
charge.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the West, 6.644-6; Bibliotheca
Gloucestreiensis, xcix, 74-5, 216; The Letter Books of
Sir Samuel Luke, ed. H.G. Tibbutt, Bedfordshire RS, 42 (1963), 117;
Dore, Brereton letter books, 1. 325, 330, 366, 369-70, 2.
225; J.W. Willis Bund, The Civil War in Worcestershire,
1642-1646, and the Scotch invasion of 1651 (1905), 145;J.P. Rylands, ed., Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral
Certificates, A.D. 1600 to 1678, RS of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol.
6 (1882), 98, 101 [for calculation of date of birth].
Armies: Gloucestershire; Cheshire
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Massey, George |
George Massey
Captain. A younger son of John Massey of
Coddington, Cheshire, and Anne (born 1582), daughter of Richard Grosvenor of
Eaton, Cheshire and younger brother of Colonel Edward Massey. He was not
initially in the earl of Stamford’s regiment of foot (of which his brother was
Lieutenant-Colonel). He was engaged in a sally on 18 Aug., and a few weeks later
was wounded when the parliamentarians were outnumbered at Bruckthrop Hill. He
was governor of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire by Dec. 1644, when the garrison
mutinied: over pay, according to one account, although Sir Samuel Luke was told
that Massey ‘has killed a gentleman there [Sudeley], whereupon there arose such
a mutiny in the castle that he was forced to fly to his brother at Gloucester
for relief.’
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the West, 6. 644-6; Bibliotheca, xcix, 74-5, 216; Luke Letter
Books, 117 (for quotation).
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Massey [Massye], Hugh |
Hugh Massey [Massye]
Despite his
Cheshire name, Dore could not place Hugh Massey with either the Coddington or
Audlem families of that name who both provided parliamentarian army
officers.
By autumn 1644 Massey was a captain in Sir Thomas Myddelton's
brigade, serving in Sept. in Myddelton's invasion of Montgomeryshire, and on 2
Oct. with the detachment that stormed the Red Castle. By mid Jan. 1646 Massey
was acting along with Captain William Daniel of Sir William Brereton’s Army in
besieging Holt Castle. By then, like the remainder of Myddelton’s original
brigade, Massey was serving under Colonel (acting Major-General) Thomas
Mytton.
References: Dore, Brereton
letter books, 1. 520; Phillips, Wales, 2.212;
National Library of Wales, Chirk Castle Ms. 1/Biii, 93.
Armies: North Wales
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Massey, William |
William Massey
Of the Moss House, Audlem, Cheshire.
Lieutenant-colonel of George Booth’s regiment of foot in Cheshire on 30 Apr.
1645. He succeeded Booth as colonel following the latter’s resignation by 8 May
1645. He was for a time governor of Chester, and was serving as such on 30 June
1647 when he was arrested by mutineers.
Massey was active in Booth’s Rising
in 1659.
References: Dore, Brereton
letter books,1. 55, 327; Morrill, Cheshire, 200-1, 295.
Armies: Cheshire
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Massingberg, Drayner |
Drayner Massingberg
Captain in Lord Willoughby’s
regiment of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army and the Eastern Association
Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.108.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Eastern
Association
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Masters, Edward |
Edward Masters
Cornet in Captain Francis Sydenham’s
Dorset troop of dragoons, references June and July 1643. By Oct. 1646, a
captain, and evidently serving (1 Dec. 1647) in the Poole garrison.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 5.536-7; Mayo, Dorset Standing Committee,
41, 295, 377.
Armies: Dorset
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Masters, William |
William Masters
By Dec. 1643, captain in William
Springate’s regiment of Kentish foot, later entering Ralph Weldon’s regiment of
foot when Springate’s regiment was broken up in 1644.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
126.
Armies: Kent; Waller (Southern Association)
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Masterson, William |
William Masterson
Captain in Jonas Vandruske’s
regiment of horse by 21 Jan. 1644. He was captured (possibly at the second
battle of Newbury) and was released from imprisonment from Donnington Castle in
Nov. 1644.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 138.
Armies: Waller
(Southern Association)
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Masterton, - |
- Masterton
Captain of a company
in St Augustine Lathe regiment of auxiliaries garrisoning Canterbury by 26 Jan.
1648.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 76.
Armies: Kent
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Mathew, Simon |
Simon Mathew
Captain in Colonel George Melve’s
regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s Army, as confirmed by pay warrants
of 23 Jan. and 25 May 1643.
References: TNA,
SP28/5/115, SP28/7/92.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mathews, Humphrey |
Humphrey Mathews
Lieutenant-colonel.
Lieutenant-colonel in the Gloucester garrison. An officer in the Gloucester city
regiment of foot commanded by Henry Stephens (and later Edward Massey and Thomas
Morgan). In Aug. 1643 he was part of a sally against the royalist forces
approaching Gloucester.
References: Peachey and
Turton, Fall of the West, 6.625-7; Bibliotheca, 208.
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Mathews, Richard |
Richard Mathews
Captain. A captain in Gloucestershire.
On 26 Aug. 1646 Colonel Thomas Morgan, governor of Gloucester, ordered him to
issue warrants to the chief constable of Berkeley Hundred to summon men to
slight Berkeley castle.
References: HMC, Fifth Report, 356.
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Mathias [Matthews], Christopher |
Christopher Mathias [Matthews]
Captain in the earl of
Essex’s own regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists,
25.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mattersby, - |
- Mattersby
Captain-Lieutenant of the Colonel’s
company in the earl of Manchester’s regiment of foot, known to have served 7
May-15 July 1644.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.61.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Mattersey, John |
John Mattersey
Lieutenant in Lord Brooke’s regiment of
foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 34.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Matthew, Robert |
Robert Matthew
A clothier of Leeds, Yorkshire (W.
Riding). Captain in Yorkshire.
References: Hopper,
‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 113 [citing TNA, SP19/123/15; SP19/23/23;
SP19/158/128; SP23/135/239].
Armies: Yorkshire
|
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Matthews, - |
- Matthews
An officer in, perhaps lieutenant-colonel
of, Nathaniel Whetham’s Northampton-based regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 165.
Armies: Northamptonshire
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Matthews, Henry |
Henry Matthews
Cornet in the Colonel’s troop in John
Middleton’s regiment of horse by 1 Mar. 1644, but by 13 Mar. another officer had
succeeded to that position.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 96.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Waller (Southern Association)
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Matthews, Humphrey |
Humphrey Matthews
Initially an officer in the Hull garrison. He was lent with
a company of 140 men to Sir John Gell in Oct. 1642 and formed the initial core
of Gell’s forces in Derbyshire. In Nov. an order came from Hull for his arrest
for reasons that are unclear, and he was taken prisoner back there (Gell
allegedly got hold of some of Mathews’s property which he left with his landlord
for safekeeping, and as late as 1658 Mathews was threatening to kill him on
sight). On 13 Mar. he was a prisoner in the Gatehouse prison, Westminster,
ordered to be sent to Ipswich. However, he must have been soon released. He
became lieutenant-colonel in the Gloucester city regiment of foot commanded by
Henry Stephens (and later Edward Massey and Thomas Morgan). In Aug. 1643 he was
part of a sally against the royalist forces approaching Gloucester.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 6.625-7; Bibliotheca, 208; Brighton,
‘Civil War’, 44; Brighton, ‘Governor’, 1-3; JHC, 2
(1640-1643), 1000-2.
Armies: Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, Gloucestershire
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Matthews, Nicholas |
Nicholas Matthews
Captain in Lord Willoughby’s
regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern Association,
2.111.
Armies: Eastern
Association
|
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Matthews, Richard |
Richard Matthews
Captain.
References: Bayley, Civil War in
Dorset, 337.
Armies: Dorset
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Matthews, Simon |
Simon Matthews
Lieutenant of Lord Grey’s troop of
horse in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642, according to the contemporary printed
list.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 48.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Matthews, Thomas |
Thomas Matthews
Lieutenant in Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Thorpe’s troop in George Thompson’s regiment of horse.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
141.
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Mauleverer, James |
James Mauleverer (baptised 1590/1, died 1664)
Of
Arncliffe, Yorkshire (North Riding), second and eldest surviving son of William
Mauleverer (baptised 1557, died 1618) of Wodersome, Yorkshire. He married
Beatrice, daughter of Sir Timothy Hutton.
Mauleverer was colonel of a
regiment which he raised for service in the North, but which never got
there.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’, 392;
Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 92.
Armies:
Northern Army (Fairfax)
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Mauleverer, John |
John Mauleverer (1610/11-1650)
Of Letwell township,
Laughten-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire (West Riding), eldest son of John Maulverer of
Letwell and his wife Margaret Lewis. He married Dorcas, daughter and coheir of
John Matthew and granddaughter of Archbishop Tobie Matthew.
Mauleverer was first
active in the Rotherham area, fleeing to the West Riding clothing districts in
May 1643 after the local triumph of the royalists. He may have commanded the
south Yorkshire forces at Adwalton Moor. He headed the list of prisoners
captured at Bradford on 2/3 July 1643, but was soon released or escaped.
He
went to Hull where, probably in Mar. or Apr. 1644, he was made colonel of the
garrison regiment. In Apr. 1645 Sir Thomas Fairfax, appointed governor, upon his
father’s recommendation, made Mauleverer his deputy-governor (i.e. de facto governor). Hull’s MP Peregrine Pelham reported some
dissatisfaction at the appointment, though the town welcomed him both then and
in 1648. He was superseded at Hull by Robert Overton about Mar. 1648.
In 1648
Mauleverer commanded a regiment of foot at the siege of Pontefract. The regiment
remained in being after the castle’s surrender. On 4 May 1650 it was one of five
selected to form a ‘marching army’, and accordingly, Mauleverer led it into
Scotland, where he died of ‘the megrims’ at Edinburgh in Dec. On 28 Dec. 1650,
supporting the claims of his widow and seven children, Cromwell commended him to
the Commons as one who ‘had a spirit very much beyond his natural strength of
body, having undergone many fits of sickness during his hard service in the
field’ (Firth and Davies, Regimental history, 2.530).
Command of the regiment passed to Richard Deane.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’, 392; Oxford
DNB; Firth and Davies, Regimental history,2. 529-530; Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 113; Wanklyn,
New Model Army, I, 162.
Armies: Yorkshire; Northern Army (Fairfax); Northern
Army (Poyntz); Northern Army (Lambert); New Model Army
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Mauleverer, Sir Thomas, first baronet |
Sir Thomas Mauleverer, first baronet (baptised 1599, died 1655)
Of Allerton
Mauleverer, Yorkshire (West Riding). Baptised 9 Apr. 1599, eldest son of Sir
Richard Mauleverer of Allerton Mauleverer (c.1528–1603), high sheriff of
Yorkshire in 1588, and his second wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Ralph
Bourchier of Beningbrough. He married (1) Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Hutton,
Justice of Common Pleas; (2) Elizabeth (d. 1653), daughter
of Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire.
MP for Boroughbridge in the Long
Parliament and a regicide.
Lord Fairfax appointed him as a negotiator of the
local neutrality pact made at Rothwell on 29 Sept. 1642. After its rapid
collapse, Mauleverer was besieged at his house until rescued by some of
Fairfax’s horse.
Maulverer claimed to have raised two regiments of foot
(Oxford DNB says one) and a troop of horse early in
the war. He was associated with James Mauleverer. He was present at Adwalton
Moor (30 June 1643), escaping from the rout by boat from Selby to Hull with Lord
Fairfax, and at Nantwich (Jan. 1644).
(His son Richard (baptised 1623, died
1675) fought for the king, for which his father took away his £500 annual
allowance; he was knighted at Oxford in 1645, was captured in a royalist rising
in Yorkshire in 1655 and escaped from Chester Castle.)
Sir Thomas died in or
by 1655.
References: Hopper, ‘Yorkshire
parliamentarians’, 102;Greaves and Zaller, British radicals, 2.228; Keeler, Long Parliament,
270-1; HoP: the Commons, 1640-1660
(forthcoming).
Armies: Yorkshire
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Maunder, Richard |
Richard Maunder
In 1642 cornet in James Sheffield’s
troop of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army and then Cornet of the Colonel’s own
troop in Sheffield’s regiment of horse in Essex’s Army probably from its
formation in summer 1643 through to its disbandment in spring 1645; unlike
several officers of the regiment, he did not transfer to the New Model
Army.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 49; Wanklyn, New Model Army, 1.
150.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Maurice, David |
David Maurice
Son of Thomas Maurice of Llangedwin,
Montgomeryshire.
By Jan. 1644 Maurice was senior commissary officer to Sir
Thomas Myddelton. He served in that role with Myddelton’s brigade when it
invaded Montgomeryshire in Sept. 1644, and into 1645 supervised the magazines at
Myddelton’s castle strongholds at Montgomery and Red Castle. By 1646 Maurice was
second-in-command at Chirk Castle (occupied by parliamentary forces in early
Mar.), and by 1648 was described as a gentleman of Chirk Castle, leasing a house
at Halton in Chirk parish from Myddelton until his death in 1653. Maurice’s will
was dated 25 Apr. and proved on 29 July by his widow Ellin and father
Thomas.
References: TNA, SP28/346, Part 1, no.
301, Part 2, no.14; National Library of Wales, Chirk Castle Ms. 1/Biii, 93; W.M.
Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accounts, 1605-1666 (1908), 21n.
and passim.
Armies: North Wales
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Mauser, Joseph |
Joseph Mauser
In 1645-6, by which time it was
commanded by John Fielder, ensign in Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy Baines’s company
in the Surrey regiment of foot based at Farnham Castle.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 74.
Armies: Waller
(Southern Association); Surrey
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Mawdesley, William |
William Mawdesley
Commissioned captain in Gilbert
Ireland’s militia regiment of foot in Lancashire, 16 Aug. 1650.
References: CSPD, 1650, 509.
Armies: Lancashire
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Maxey, - |
- Maxey
In May 1643, captain serving in one of the
three regiments of foot formed from the Essex militia, part of the Eastern
Association Army that contributed to the siege of Reading in spring 1643, the
siege of Greenland House in summer 1644 and probably to some other actions in
which the Army was involved.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.33.
Armies:
Eastern Association
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May, - |
- May
Cornet in the Colonel’s
troop in Sir Michael Livesay’s Kentish regiment of horse by 24 Apr.
1643.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 79.
Armies: Kent,
Waller (Southern Association)
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May, - |
- May
Captain in Randall Mainwaring’s Red regiment of
foot, in Olney, Bedfordshire, in Nov. 1643 when Edmund Harvey’s regiment of
London horse was routed by the royalists.
References:
George Paine, A true relationof all the skirmishes between our forces and the Cavaliers at Owlny
(1643), 3.
Armies: Bedfordshire
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May, - |
- May
Captain in Thomas Rainsborough’s regiment of
foot in the Eastern Association Army.
References:
Spring, Eastern Association, 2.90.
Armies: Eastern Association
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May, Anthony |
Anthony May
Ensign in Captain Henry Catcott’s company
in the Arundel Rape Trained Bands by 10 Dec. 1643.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
124.
Armies: Sussex
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May, Thomas |
Thomas May
Lieutenant in Captain Arthur Saville’s
company in Strode’s Trained Band regiment, 19 Sept. 1642.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 5.549.
Armies: Somerset: Col. William Strode’s Trained Band Regt.
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Maynard, Thomas |
Thomas Maynard
Captain in the regiment of dragoons in
the earl of Essex’s Army which was commanded by Sir John Seaton and then George
Melve, by early Mar. 1643 until at least late June 1643.
References: TNA, SP28/5/205, SP28/7/452.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mazieres, - |
- Mazieres
Colonel of a regiment of horse raised in
Essex in summer 1643. However, it experienced difficulties recruiting and seems
to have been quite short-lived, disappearing from the records by spring 1644.
Mazieres himself was French, his brief command of this regiment seems to have
been his only military contribution to the civil war and in 1645, orders having
been given for his arrears of pay to be met, he returned to France.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.67; Holmes, Eastern Association,
176, 177.
Armies: Eastern
Association
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Mazy [Massey], Francis |
Francis Mazy [Massey]
Captain in a London militia
regiment in 1647, put out by the Presbyterian militia committee in 1647, ‘for
stopping and breaking open the Scotch Letters in May last, though the thing was
approved and hee acquitted by the House of Commons; yet Alderman Bonch [Bunce]
said it was a Jesuetticall plott to keepe him in’ (Clarke
Papers, 1.155).
After the entry of the New Model Army into London
in Aug. 1647, he was appointed captain in the Tower regiment (Colonel Robert
Tichborne).
References: Clarke
Papers, 1.155; Firth and Davies, Regimental
History, 2.572.
Armies: London
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McKenzie, George |
George McKenzie
In spring 1645, lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army commanded successively by
Colonels James Holborne and William Davies. Unlike Davies himself and a few of
his other officers, he did not transfer to the New Model Army.
References: Wanklyn, New Model Army,
1. 149.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Meadows, - |
- Meadows
Down to June 1644, captain in the earl of
Manchester’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.65.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Meares, Moses |
Moses Meares
Captain in the Red regiment, London
Auxiliaries (Colonel Samuel Harsnett), commanding a company from Fetter Lane and
Holborn (uncertain date, probably 1644). Major of the same regiment on 22 Oct.
1646.
References: TNA, SP28/121A, Part 5, f. 620
r. & v.; Nagel, ‘London militia’, 317; Marshall, Essex
funeral, 12.
Armies: London
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Medcalfe, Robert |
Robert Medcalfe
Commissioned captain in a regiment of
foot in the Yorkshire militia.
References: CSPD, 1650, 506.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Medlam, Thomas |
Thomas Medlam
Medlam served in Nottinghamshire, and
was successively Gentleman of the Arms in Captain Charles White’s troop of
horse, 14 Dec.-4 Aug. 1643; Cornet in Captain Lawrence Palmer’s troop of horse,
11 Sept. 1643-21 June 1645; and lieutenant in Captain Michael Dolphin’s troop of
horse (formerly Palmer’s), 21 June 1645-7 Nov. 1646.
References: TNA, SP28/133, Part 2, ff. 83r.-88v.
Armies: Nottinghamshire
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Meech, Henry |
Henry Meech
Cornet.
References:
Mayo, Dorset Standing Committee, 387.
Armies: Dorset
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Meering, William |
William Meering
Lieutenant in Captain Needham’s
company in John Barker’s/Thomas Willoughby’s regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 23.
Armies: Warwickshire
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Meldrum, John |
John Meldrum
Not the Sir John Meldrum who was active
in the East Midlands and whose attempt to capture Newark in Mar. 1644 ended in
disaster. This separate and different John Meldrum began the civil war as one of
Balfour’s officers – initially, in 1642, as lieutenant in Balfour’s troop of
horse in the earl of Essex’s Army – but in 1643 was promoted to colonel and
commissioned to raise a new regiment of horse. He and his regiment fought under
Waller in spring 1644, including at the battle of Cheriton where Meldrum was
wounded and he died, presumably from those wounds, a few weeks later. His
regiment was reduced and absorbed into one of the regiments in the earl of
Essex’s Army.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 101;
Peacock, Army lists, 48; TNA, SP28/4/146, SP28/5/521,
SP28/7/285.
Armies: Earl of Essex;
Waller (Southern Association).
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Meldrum, Sir John |
Sir John Meldrum (died 1645)
Born probably in the
early 1580s, of obscure Scottish origins and little is known of his parentage or
early life. He seems to have fought with Scottish or English forces in Ireland
in the early seventeenth century, as well as on the continent. He was knighted
by James I in 1622. He later supported Buckingham’s Ile de Rhé expedition
before returning to fighting in the Thirty Years War.
In summer 1642 he came
out strongly in support of parliament and commanded a body of reinforcements
sent to strengthen and to hold Hull, beating off a rather lacklustre royalist
siege. In Aug. and early Sept. he supported Waller in his recapture of
Portsmouth. In effect he commanded Viscount Saye and Sele’s regiment of foot and
two other regts. forming an infantry brigade under him at the battle of
Edgehill. He formally took command of the regiment soon after and led it until
summer 1643.
From the latter half of 1643 onwards Meldrum was generally
employed to lead or support operations in the (East) Midlands: ‘a
trouble-shooter in the midlands’ is how the Oxford DNB
describes this phase of his military career. Despite the failure of his siege
operation against Newark in spring 1644 and the ignominy of having to surrender
his army to Rupert, he was generally quite successful in this role; he played an
important part in the victory at Montgomery in summer 1644 and went on to
recapture Liverpool later in the year. In spring 1645 he had command of the
siege of Scarborough. He survived both falling from the cliff-top, when his
cloak acted as a parachute, and being ‘shot through the Codds’, but in May he
was shot in the stomach when leading the assault and endured probably a long and
lingering death from that wound.
References: Oxford DNB
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mellor, Henry |
Henry Mellor
Presumably a kinsman of Robert Mellor of
Derby. Captain of foot in Derbyshire. In Dec. 1644 he was one of the signatories
of a petition of Derbyshire officers against Sir John Gell.
References: Brighton, ‘Governor’, 26.
Armies: Derbyshire
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Mellor, Robert |
Robert Mellor (died 1656)
Of Derby, son and heir of
Henry Mellor, first mayor of Derby, and himself a mercer of Derby. He married
(1) Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Willimot of Chadsdon, Derbyshire and (2)
Susanna, daughter of Henry Sanders, citizen of London.
Mellor raised a
company for Sir John Gell’s regiment of foot from the burgesses of Derby in
1642. In Mar. 1643 he was left to garrison Derby when Gell went to take command
at the siege of Lichfield after Lord Brooke’s death. By the end of 1644 (if not
earlier) Mellor, a county committeeman, was restive about the way Gell managed
to exclude all but those closest to him from the administration of the war
effort, and in 1645 he fell out with him. In Sept. Sir John’s enemies proposed
Mellor as a candidate to stand against his brother Thomas Gell in the recruiter
election for Derby. Sir John disrupted Mellor’s campaign by sending Mellor and
his company first to Chatsworth and then to join Poyntz in the attack on Newark,
and it was only in Jan. 1647 that the Commons committee of privileges ruled that
Thomas Gell’s election should stand.
By 1650 Mellor was a sequestration
commissioner.
References: Vis.
Derbyshire, 18; Turbutt, Derbyshire, 3.1061,
1063, 1066, 1068, 1070, 1085, 1099.
Armies: Derbyshire
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Melson, Edward |
Edward Melson
Lieutenant in Rochford’s regiment of
foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 32.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Melve, George |
George Melve
When its original colonel, Sir John
Seaton, headed North in winter 1642-3, Melve – on 19 Nov. 1642 a pay warrant had
been issued for him as a colonel and general adjutant for the earl of Essex’s
Army – was given command of his regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s
Army, though the regiment seems to have been broken up in summer 1643.
On
the evening of 23 Apr. 1643, Essex sent out Melve with four troops of his
dragoons, in a party with horse led by John Middleton and Sir John Meldrum,
which clashed with royalists at Dorchester upon Thames.
‘Melve’ is his own
spelling of his name, though others sometimes spelt his name Mill or
Mills.
He is probably the reformado colonel paid by warrants dated 29 Feb.
and 29 Apr. 1644.
References: TNA, SP28/3b/406,
SP28/5/204, 225, 334, 340, SP28/7/79, 94, 348, 401, SP28/9/255, SP28/12/179,
SP28/14/384; JHL, 6.17.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Melve, Thomas |
Thomas Melve
Captain in the regiment of dragoons in
the earl of Essex’s Army which was commanded by Sir John Seaton and then by
(presumably his kinsman) George Melve in 1642-3, from at least mid-Mar. 1643. He
continued in that role despite the breaking up of George Melve’s regiment in
summer 1643 and served as a Dragoon captain in the earl of Essex’s Army until at
least mid-Feb. 1644.
References: TNA, SP28/5/171,
SP28/7/93, SP28/5/205, 206, SP28/7/345, SP28/8/139, SP28/12/125.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Melvin, John |
John Melvin
In 1642, probably at and from its
formation, lieutenant in Lord Robartes’s regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s
Army. In Apr. 1645 when the regiment was disbanded and the Lords wished to
appoint Robartes’s officers en bloc in place of the
officers chosen by Fairfax for John Pickering’s regiment, Fairfax instead
appointed Melvin captain in the New Model regiment of foot originally intended
to be commanded by Edward Aldrich but then given to Walter Lloyd and after the
latter’s death commanded by William Herbert.
Melvin was wounded at the
storming of Bristol in Sept. 1645.
When Herbert agreed to take a regiment to
Ireland in 1647, Melvin was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the regiment formed
when the men of the existing one proved recalcitrant, a regiment allegedly
intended to form part of an anti-New Model force by the Presbyterian leadership.
He left the regiment after the defeat of the Presbyterian attempted
coup.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 37; TNA, SP28/9/5; Temple, New Model Army’, 61, 72; Firth and
Davies, Regimental history, 1.384-6; JHL, 9.219.
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Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mercer, - |
- Mercer
Major in a Southwark regiment, probably the
Southwark Trained Bands regiment, in late 1643.
References: TNA, SP28/131, Part 13, f. 5v.
Armies: Southwark
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Mercer, Christopher |
Christopher Mercer
During 1644 served as captain in
the earl of Manchester’s regiment of dragoons in the Eastern Association Army.
He later served as a captain in Okey’s New Model Army dragoon
regiment.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.58; Wanklyn, New Model
Army, I, 50, 60, 71, 81, 92, 104.
Armies:
Eastern Association; New Model
Army
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Mercer, John |
John Mercer
In 1642, probably at and from its
formation, captain in Lord Robartes’s regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s
Army.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 37.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mercer, William |
William Mercer
Lieutenant in John Urry’s troop in Lord
Wharton’s regiment of horse in Wharton’s Army raised for service in Ireland in
1642. Instead, he continued as Urry’s lieutenant when Urry became captain, later
major, in Sir William Balfour’s regiment of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army.
In late Aug. 1642, when he was paid £48 mounting money as Urry’s
lieutenant, it was noted that he had already been listed for the Irish service
(the last certain reference to the troop is dated 19 Oct. 1644).
By 1644
Mercer was serving as a reformado captain of horse in Essex’s Army, between at
least 29 Feb. and 1 Oct.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 67; TNA, SP28/1a/217, SP28/2b/411, SP28/12/176,
SP28/14/384, SP28/17/110, SP28/19/1.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Reformado
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Meredith [Merredith], William |
William Meredith [Merredith]
Captain in Lawrence
Crawford’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army from Mar. 1644 until
its disbandment on 17 Apr. 1645.
Meredith, despite his surname, appears to
have been a Scot (a constable of Covent Garden certainly thought so). He is
almost certainly one of the officers in Crawford’s regiment who had originally
served in Ireland (although his name does not appear in published lists of
Ormonde’s officers in 1642).
On 24 May 1645, in a brawl which developed when
Crawford and his officers tried to get released from impressments the General’s
servant, Richard Man, a Covent Garden constable, ‘then seized on Captain
Merydith, disarming him; and he, with several others of his Company (who also
railed most bitterly ... against the Scottish Nation), kicked him, and beat him
most inhumanly, calling him a beggarly Scotts Rogue, and Scotts Cur, and Rascal,
with many other opprobrious Words’ (JHL, 7.393). On 27
Aug. 1645, ten days after Crawford’s death, Meredith appeared before the Lords
to represent the case of his commander’s widow.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.14;
TNA, SP28/25/488; Davies, ‘Eastern Association’, 94; JHL,
7.393, 555; JHC, 3.428.
Armies:
Eastern Association
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Meredith, Edward |
Edward Meredith
By May 1644 until at least Jan. 1645,
captain in the earl of Manchester’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association
Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.64.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Merrett, Richard |
Richard Merrett
At the time of its reduction, in
spring 1645, lieutenant of Thomas Hammond’s troop in the earl of Manchester’s
regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern Association,
1.54.
Armies: Eastern
Association
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Merrick, John |
John Merrick
In 1642, probably at and from its
formation, lieutenant in Lord Robartes’s regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s
Army.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 37.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Merridith, - |
- Merridith
By the beginning of 1645 ensign in Azariah
Husbands’s company in John Pickering’s regiment of foot in the Eastern
Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 2.85.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Merser, Francis |
Francis Merser
Captain-lieutenant in the colonel’s
company, Southwark auxiliaries regiment (Colonel James Houblon) on 16 Apr.
1644.
References: TNA, SP28/121, Part 3, f.
339r.
Armies: Southwark
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Mewer, Nicholas |
Nicholas Mewer
Cornet to (presumably his kinsman)
Captain Mewer in John Browne’s regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s Army
1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 57.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mewer, Robert |
Robert Mewer
In the 1642 army
list, he is shown as a captain in John Browne’s regiment of dragoons in the earl
of Essex’s Army.
References: Peacock,
Army lists, 57.
Armies: Earl
of Essex
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Mewer, Thomas |
Thomas Mewer
Lieutenant to (presumably his kinsman)
Captain Mewer in John Browne’s regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s Army
1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 57.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Meyrick [Merrick], Francis |
Francis Meyrick
[Merrick]
In
Aug./Sept. 1642 captain in Sir John Meyrick’s regiment of foot in the earl of
Essex’s Army.
Probably son of Sir Francis Meyrick of Fleet, Monkton,
Pembrokshire and thus younger brother of Sir John Meyrick and cousin of Rowland
and Thomas Laugharne.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 28; TNA, SP28/2b/512; Meyrick, Welsh pedigrees, 1.137.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Meyrick [Merrick], Sir John |
Sir John Meyrick
[Merrick] (c.
1600-1659)
Born a younger son of Sir Francis Meyrick of Fleet, Monkton,
Pembrokshire; through his mother he was cousin of Rowland and Thomas
Laugharne.
Like his father and uncle before him, he pursued a military
career, fighting on the continent during the 1620s and 1630s. He was elected to
the Short and Long Parliaments and in 1640 commanded a regiment of foot in the
Second Scots War. A friend of the earl of Essex, in summer 1642 he raised and
part-funded a regiment of foot in the London area. His regiment supported the
recapture of Portsmouth in Aug. and Sept. 1642 and then joined Essex’s main army
in the Midlands, but it was employed to garrison Worcester and so was not
present at Edgehill, though Meyrick and at least some of his men were present at
the subsequent defence of London. During 1643 the regiment had a rather
fractured existence, part of it garrisoning Plymouth and part of it garrisoning
Gloucester; some of those troops were drawn out to serve under Waller in summer
1643 and so fought at Lansdown and Roundway Down. Merrick and some of his
regiment fought under Essex at the relief of Gloucester and first battle of
Newbury. Much of the regiment was then disbanded in late summer 1643, though
parts of it probably survived and Meyrick was certainly with Essex in his doomed
march into the south west in summer 1644, escaping with him by boat. His
military activity finally ended with the Self-Denying Ordinance.
He was
secluded and for a time imprisoned at Pride’s Purge and then effectively retired
to Pembrokshire. He was certainly dead by 1659, possibly somewhat earlier than
that.
References: Oxford
DNB; Peacock, Army lists, 28.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Micklethwaite, Elias |
Elias Micklethwaite (baptised 1611, died 1644)
Of
Swine in Holderness, Yorkshire (East Riding), third son of Elias Micklethwaite
(died 1633), merchant and twice mayor of York and a Jacobean MP there and his
wife Dorothy Jaques (died 1611). Baptised at Holy Trinity, York, 7 Feb. 1611. He
attended the Inner Temple.
Captain of horse. Probably recruited early in
1643 and was captain in Lord Fairfax’s regiment of horse. He remained in Hull
when the rest of the horse was withdrawn. In Apr. 1644 he marched to Selby with
Fairfax. He was at the siege of York and was killed at Marston Moor. His will
was proved at York on 13 July 1644. Brother of Joseph Micklethwaite.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’, 393-4; Yorks. Vis., 2.359-60; Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’,
102.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Micklethwaite, Joseph |
Joseph Micklethwaite (1594-1658)
Of Swine in
Holderness, Yorkshire (East Riding) and of York, esquire, eldest son of Elias
Micklethwaite (died 1633), York merchant and mayor, and elder brother of Elias
Micklethwaite. Baptised 8 Nov. 1594 at St John’s, York. JP and committeeman for
the East Riding in the Northern Association. Will made 8 Sept. 1658, proved 2
Dec. 1658.
A captain in Yorkshire but little evidence survives of his civil
war activities.
References: Yorks.
Vis., 2.360; Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 101; Jones, ‘War
in the North’, 394.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Middleton, - |
- Middleton
Captain in Colonel
George Mill’s (later Waller’s) regiment of horse.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
147.
Armies: Waller
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Middleton, David |
David Middleton
Captain-lieutenant. Son of
Lieutenant-General John Middleton. He was a reformado cornet in Apr. 1643. He
served as captain-lieutenant of the colonel’s troop in his father’s regiment of
horse in 1644 and early 1645. In Apr. 1645 his troop was stationed in Surrey and
was ordered to rejoin the regiment in the West.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
105.
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Middleton, Francis |
Francis Middleton
Captain in the regiment of dragoons
in the earl of Essex’s Army which was commanded by Sir John Seaton and then
George Melve in 1642-3, by early Mar. 1643 to at least late June 1643.
References: TNA, SP28/5/206, 452.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Middleton, Henry |
Henry Middleton
By Feb. 1644 and continuing in the
regiment until spring 1645, captain in Sir John Norwich’s regiment of horse in
the Eastern Association Army. From 1645 to 1647 served in Vermuyden’s New Model
Army regiment as a captain, down to his dismissal in late 1647.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.74; Wanklyn, New Model Army, I,
52, 62, 73, 83, 94, 107.
Armies: Eastern Association; New Model Army
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Middleton, John |
John Middleton
Ensign in Thomas Grantham’s regiment of
foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 41.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Middleton, John |
John Middleton, first earl of Middleton (1606-1674)
A
Scot, eldest son of Robert Middleton, laird of Caldhame, Kincardineshire. After
experience fighting on the continent during the 1630s, he returned home and
joined the Covenanter army in its wars against Charles I in 1639 and
1640.
He fought in England for parliament during the main civil war,
beginning as colonel of a regiment of dragoons in the earl of Essex’s Army,
though he soon relinquished that command on becoming colonel of a regiment of
horse previously commanded by or earmarked for Basil, Lord Feilding. He fought
at Edgehill and commanded the left wing at the first battle of Newbury.
In
May 1644 Middleton fell out with Essex’s Commissary-General Hans Behr, who
(according to the diarist Thomas Juxon) ‘had affronted Colonel Middleton and the
Scots nation’ (Juxon, Diary, 59); Juxon also claimed that
both men had been committed for a time. Behr’s broadside of 1 May answered a
number of charges, which did include that he had ‘detracted, by ill Language,
from the Honour and reputation of the Scottish Nation in generall; and in
particular, from the Honour of his Excellency the Lord Generall Lesley [i.e.
Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven]’ (Behr). Moreover, he accused the Scottish
officers of trying to undermine the happy union between the two kingdoms:
‘divers Commanders who have laid downe their Commissions in his excellencies
Army, upon no other ground, but that it standeth not with their honour to serve
where the Robber of their Nations honour is tolerated’ (Behr). Middleton headed
the list of four officers who responded in a counter-broadside accusing him of
cowardice.
Thus in spring 1644 he transferred to Waller’s southern army,
becoming his lieutenant general of horse. As such, he brought with him his
existing regiment of horse, raised in 1643, which had already fought at the
relief of Gloucester, the first battle of Newbury and the battle of Cheriton,
and in summer 1644 he raised and commanded a new regiment of horse, though it
incorporated one or more troops already raised for service under Sir Richard
Grenville. His old regiment later returned to Essex’s Army; his new regiment
probably fought at the second battle of Newbury and in the West before it was
disbanded shortly after Middleton left his command and left
England.
Middleton played a prominent role in the Battle of Cropredy Bridge
and led a brigade which tried to harry the rear of the king’s army and thus
relieve the pressure on Essex in the far South West. On 20 Aug. he reported to
the Committee of Both Kingdoms that, in accordance with Waller’s orders, he was
suppressing all levies and stopping all provisions in Somerset, and had driven
nine royalist colonels to Minehead, blocking their attempts to raise troops in
the county. He was wary, however, of advancing too far into Devon, leaving the
Bristol and Bridgwater garrisons in his rear. After the escape of Essex’s
cavalry, it joined up with Middleton’s force between Taunton and Bridgwater.
Middleton and Behr were ordered to bury personal differences. Some found it
convenient to blame Middleton rather than Essex for the latter’s disaster at
Lostwithiel, and on 21 September the Commons received a letter from the Earl at
Portsmouth protesting that it would be impossible for his cavalry to serve under
Middleton whose dilatoriness in coming to the aid of the army in Cornwall had
been the cause of their miseries.
Middleton resigned his English commissions
in spring 1645 and returned to Scotland. He raised a regiment of horse in spring
1645 in England, ‘all for the most part of our owne nation’ (Oxford DNB), but including some Englishmen, and on 5 May received
permission from the Scottish commissioners in London to join the Army of the
Solemn League and Covenant.
He fought in the Covenanter army against
Montrose, before supporting the Engagement and fighting in the Scottish-royalist
army defeated by Cromwell around and south of Preston in Aug. 1648; he was
captured, but was allowed to return to Scotland. By the 1650s a committed
royalist, he played a prominent role in the Scottish-royalist invasion of summer
1651, escaped from Worcester but was captured shortly afterwards, only to escape
from the Tower and reach exile in France. He was a leader of royalist military
resistance in the Highlands in the mid-1650s, but again eluded capture and
rejoined Charles II in exile. Raised to the peerage, he resumed his colourful
career resumed after the Restoration; initially in favour and high office in
Scotland, he fell out with Lauderdale, lost office and for a time lived in
retirement, only to come back into favour and end his career and his life as
governor of Tangier.
References: Oxford
DNB; TNA, SP28/1a/132, 2b/424, 425, 460, 461,
3a/207, 251, 3b/335, 341, 359, 4/159, 304, 423; H. Behr, The
declaration of Commissary Generall Behr (1644); There
hath bin a printed paper lately published ([2 May] 1644); CSPD, 1644, 293, 434; Gardiner, 1. 362, 2.15, 29, 31;
Spring, Waller’s army; CSPD, 1644,
293, 434, 439-40, 448, 469-70, 491; Stoyle, Soldiers and
Strangers, 89-90.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Waller (Southern
Association)
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Middleton, John [later first earl of Middleton] |
John Middleton [later first earl of Middleton] (c. 1608-1674)
Eldest
son of Robert Middleton (died 1645), laird of Caldhame, Mearns, Kincards., and
his wife, Helen Strachan, a daughter of Alexander Strachan of Thornton,
Kincards. In July 1639 he married (as her third husband) Grizel Durham (died
1666), the twice-widowed daughter of Sir James Durham of Pitkerro.
John
fought in the Thirty Years’ War in the 1630s, serving first as a pikeman in Sir
John Hepburn’s regiment of foot in France. By 1639 he had returned to Scotland
and in 1639 was a captain in Montrose’s army and fought with distinction at the
Brig o' Dee (19 June).
In 1642 he joined the English parliamentarian army.
By the end of July he was colonel of a regiment of dragoons (the three captains
named in his regiment had appeared in the published list of Essex’s Army as
Captains of the firelocks in Essex’s own regiment of foot). On 3 Sept. 1642 he
was commissioned colonel of a regiment of horse, previously commanded by Basil,
Lord Feilding (later earl of Denbigh), and relinquished his command of the
dragoon regiment Middleton commanded the left wing of Essex’s horse at the first
battle of Newbury (20 Sept. 1643).
In May 1644 he fell out with Essex and
transferred to Waller’s Southern Association Army, where he became
lieutenant-general. He was to the fore at the battle of Cropredy Bridge in June,
commanding one part of Waller’s divided army. It was reported that he badly
wounded and captured Lord Wilmot (who was later rescued from his guards).
However, Middleton’s force was routed by royalist charges. In Aug. he was sent
into the West with a force of 2,000 men to support Essex’s Army by harrying the
enemy rear and impeding royalist supply and recruitment at the taking of Wareham
(Dorset) and ordered to support and cover Essex’s Army by approaching as near
the king’s army as it could. On 20 Aug. he reported to the Committee of Both
Kingdoms that, in accordance with Waller’s orders, he was suppressing all levies
and stopping all provisions in Somerset, and had driven nine royalist colonels
to Minehead, blocking their attempts to raise troops in the county. He was wary,
however, of advancing too far into Devon, leaving the Bristol and Bridgwater
garrisons in his rear. After the escape of Essex’s cavalry, it joined up with
Middleton’s force between Taunton and Bridgwater: Middleton and Essex’s
Commissary-General Behr were ordered to bury personal differences. In fact, the
House found it convenient to blame Middleton rather than Essex for the latter’s
disaster at Lostwithiel, and on 21 Sept. the Commons received a letter from
Essex at Portsmouth protesting that it would be impossible for his cavalry to
serve under Middleton, whose dilatoriness in coming to the aid of the army in
Cornwall had been the cause of their miseries.
Middleton was offered command
of a regiment of horse in the New Model Army, but as a Scot declined. Instead,
he raised a regiment of horse in spring 1645 in England, ‘all for the most part
of our owne nation’ (Oxford DNB), but including some
Englishmen, and on 5 May received permission from the Scottish commissioners in
London to join the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant.
He was appointed
major-general of the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant, which he reached on
20 June 1645. He was second-in-command at the defeat of Montrose at Philiphaugh
and on 4 Feb. 1646 was appointed commander-in-chief in Scotland. In Jan. 1647 he
was appointed major-general of the Scottish New Model Army.
He supported the
Engagement and was a senior officer in the Scottish-royalist armies in both the
Preston and Worcester campaigns, and after the latter escaped trial for treason
by escaping in his wife’s clothes and making his way to the king in France. In
late 1653 he was commissioned captain-general of the forces raised in the
Highlands by the earl of Glencairn, which were routed by Monck and Colonel
Thomas Morgan at Dalnaspidal on 10 July 1654.
At the Restoration he was
appointed commander-in-chief in Scotland, governor of Edinburgh Castle and lord
high commissioner to the Scottish parliament. In 1662-3 he imposed an
espicopalian and authoritarian regime in Scotland. After his fall, he retired to
England and in 1668 was appointed governor of Tangier, where he died in
1674.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’, 393;
Firth and Davies, Regimental history, 1.239-40, 2.554-7;
Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 120; Oxford DNB;
Spring, Waller’s army, 95; CSPD,
1644, 434, 439-40, 448, 469, 491; TNA, SP28/1a/132, 2b/424, 425, 460,
461, 3a/207, 251, 3b/335, 341, 359, 4/159, 304, 423; CSPD,
1644, 293, 434; Gardiner, Great Civil War,
1.362, 2.15, 29, 31.
Armies: Yorkshire;
Northern Army (Fairfax); Northern Army (Poyntz); Northern Army (Lambert);
New Model Army; Earl of Essex; Waller (Southern Association)
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Middleton, Thomas |
Thomas Middleton
Possibly captain in Sir John
Douglass’s regiment of foot in the earl of Northumberland’s Army raised to fight
the Scots in 1640.
Fourth captain in Thomas Ballard’s regiment of foot
raised for Lord Wharton’s Army for service in Ireland in 1642; when Ballard’s
regiment of foot instead became part of the earl of Essex’s Army, he remained
one of its Captains.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 88, 69, 43.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Milbourn, Matthew |
Matthew Milbourn
Ensign in Lord Mandeville’s regiment
of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 36.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mildmay, Anthony |
Anthony Mildmay
In 1642 listed as captain of a troop
of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 51.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Mildmay, Henry |
Henry Mildmay (1619-1692)
Born the eldest son of Sir
Henry Mildmay of Graces, Little Baddow, Essex, a family which had risen to
greater prominence in the sixteenth century and had acquired much monastic
property.
He supported parliament during the civil war and sat on an array
of Essex committees during the war and beyond. He also took up arms at the
outset of the war and in 1642 was listed as captain of a troop of horse in the
earl of Essex’s Army.
In 1649 he declined to sit in the high court appointed
to try the king, he was an opponent of the Protectorate although elected to all
three Protectorate Parliaments and in 1659 was arrested (though swiftly
released) on suspicion of involvement in Booth’s Rising. However, he seems to
have had reservations about the Restoration regime and was not again an MP until
the three Exclusion Parliaments, in which he supported exclusion. By the time of
the Glorious Revolution he was clearly a Whig.
References: HoP: The Commons, 1660-1690, 3.
64-5.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mildmay, Henry |
Henry Mildmay
From the county of Essex, he was a
captain in the earl of Essex’s Army during the first months of the civil war,
but in summer 1643 he became a colonel and was given a command of a regiment of
foot in the Eastern Association Army, at least part of which served under him
during his time as governor of Cambridge.
References:
Spring, Eastern Association, 2.67; Holmes, Eastern Association, 121, 125, 126, 215-16.
Armies: Earl of Essex;
Eastern Association
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Mildmay, Robert |
Robert Mildmay
Listed in 1642 as cornet in (presumably
his kinsman) Henry Mildmay’s troop of horse in the earl of Essex’s
Army.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 51.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Miles, Thomas |
Thomas Miles
Captain in the regiment of foot in the
earl of Essex’s Army commanded by Lord Oliver St John and then Thomas Essex in
1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 31.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mill, John |
John Mill
Captain in Lord Robartes’s regiment of foot
in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642. He first appears receiving money for the
regiment, totalling £1,244 8s on 20 Aug. 1642, Robartes endorsing the pay
warrant that he had appointed his servant John Mill to receive the money. Named
as captain on pay warrant for 28 days from 30 Sept. 1642. He was still in the
regiment as captain in Oct. 1644 and at its disbandment in 1645, the rank he
held when the Lords attempted unsuccessfully to have the officers of Robartes’s
regiment en bloc taken into the New Model in place of those proposed for John
Pickering’s regiment in the New Model Army by Fairfax.
Although that
proposal was dropped, with the formation of the New Model Army Mill was
appointed captain of Richard Ingoldsby’s New Model regiment of foot. By July
1648 Mill was major of the regiment, and acting governor of Oxford, dealing with
a failed conspiracy within the university. In Sept. 1649, while commanding five
of the companies stationed at Oxford, he was seized during a brief Leveller
mutiny within the regiment. In 1651 he was promoted acting, and then permanent,
lieutenant-colonel, and in Sept. 1655 colonel. He was loyal to the Protectorate,
one of three officers entrusted to enforce the exclusion of MPs from the 1656
Parliament, but he became an opponent of Cromwell accepting the crown,
presenting the petition of a hundred officers against it in Feb. 1657. He was
loyal to Richard Cromwell but displaced in favour of William Sydenham in June
1659; in Feb. 1660 he was re-instated as lieutenant-colonel of the regiment
under Sir John Lenthall.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 37; TNA, SP28/1a/123; SP28/2b/358; SP28/19/35;
Temple, ‘New Model Army’, 58; Firth and Davies, Regimental
history, 1.377-84; Temple, ‘New Model Army’, 71; TNA, E121/2/2/25,
second moiety # 37; E121/2/10/49 # 610 [both G].
Armies: Earl of Essex; New Model Army
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Millard, John |
John Millard
Lieutenant in William Colemore’s company
in John Barker’s/Thomas Willoughby’s regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
22.
Armies: Warwickshire
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Millard, William |
William Millard
Cornet in Battersby’s troop in
Hesilrige’s regiment of horse in Waller’s Army.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
64.
Armies: Waller
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Miller, - |
- Miller (died 1645)
Quartermaster in Cheshire. Buried
26 Sept. 1644, Nantwich.
References: Cheshire tracts, 258.
Armies: Cheshire
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Miller, - |
- Miller
At some point before the reduction of the
regiment in spring 1644, at which point he left the army, captain in the earl of
Manchester’s regiment of dragoons in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 1.59.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Miller, - |
- Miller
Captain in Colonel Robert Duckenfeild’s
regiment in Cheshire by 12 Nov. 1645, though not recorded on list of
Apr..
Records survive of pay to him and to other officers and soldiers of
Major Bradshawe’s company and specifically to Captain Miller for himself,
officers and soldiers 14 days’ pay, for his service in the leaguer before
Chester and as part of Colonel Duckenfeild’s regiment.
References: TNA, SP28/224, f. 57.
Armies:
Cheshire
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Miller, John |
John Miller
Down to summer 1645, ensign in Peter
Burgoyne’s company in John Barker’s/Thomas Willoughby’s regiment of
foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 22.
Armies: Warwickshire
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Miller, John |
John Miller
Served as ensign to Captain Robert Cobbet,
both in his company in Lord Grey of Warke’s short-lived regiment of foot in the
Eastern Association Army during the first half of 1643 and in Colonel James
Carr’s regiment of foot in Sir William Waller’s Army from the end of 1643. He
was a lieutenant, and by summer 1647 a captain, in Barkstead’s New Model Army
regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.38; Wanklyn, New Model
Army, I, 87, 99.
Armies: Eastern Association; Sir William Waller; New Model Army
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Miller, William |
William Miller
A captain of this name may have served
in the latter half of 1643 in Sir John Pickering’s short-lived regiment of
dragoons in the Eastern Association Army.
References:
Spring, Eastern Association, 2.82; Holmes, Eastern Association, 169.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Miller, William |
William Miller
Ensign in Sir William Constable’s
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 42.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Mills, John |
John Mills
Lieutenant in Captain Henry Pinckney’s
company in the Red regiment, London Auxiliaries (Colonel Samuel Harsnett) when
it mustered on 27 Apr. 1644. He had been promoted captain by 22 Oct.
1646.
References: TNA, SP28/121A, f. 694 r. &
v.; Nagel, ‘London militia’, 317; Marshall, Essex funeral,
11.
Armies: London
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Milner, George |
George Milner
At late 1644, ensign in John Jenkins’s
company in John Pickering’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association
Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.102.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Milton, John |
John Milton (died ?1661)
Of St Dunstan in the East,
London. In 1638 he was resident in Port Lane, where he was assessed at a rent of
£25.
Admitted to the Company of the Artillery Garden (now the
Honourable Artillery Company).
Quartermaster to the White regiment, London
Trained Bands (Colonel Isaac Penington) (Thrale 1642 calls him John Melton). He
was captain-lieutenant in the same regiment (then serving with Sir William
Waller as part of Richard Browne’s London brigade) on 29 Mar. 1644, when he was
wounded and taken prisoner by the royalists at the battle of Cheriton: ‘but we
hope to morrow to redeeme him by a strong hand’ (Letter of
Captain Jones). In Mar. 1645 he was a captain at
Whitechapel, where he had arrested a royalist suspect. By Oct. 1646 he was
captain in the White regiment (by then under Colonel Thomas Player). By 23 July
1647 he was major of the White regiment (now Colonel Joseph Vaughan), paid for his
service within the London lines of communication from 11 June until then by the
Presbyterian militia committee. The form of the warrant is consistent with other
officers known to have been purged then, but other sources show he was retained
(and had possibly been promoted) by the Presbyterian committee. He was involved
in the invasion of parliament by the London crowd on 26 July to force the Houses
to reinstate the Presbyterian militia committee. With the failure of the
Presbyterian coup, ‘valiant and resolute Major Milton’ was put out (A paire of spectacles for the Citie, (1648), 9). On 24 Sept.
1647 the Commons voted that a John Milton junior be indicted of High Treason in
King’s Bench.
On 29 Jan. 1658 Ann, wife of Major John Milton, was buried in
St Dunstan in the East. There may have been two John Miltons in the parish by
the late 1650s (or just possibly one who remarried quickly). A John Milton was
buried in the parish on 7 June 1661.
Indeed, there were probably two John
Miltons in London in 1647-8 (as the ‘junior’ in the 1647 accusation implies, and
excluding the poet), and possibly two in St Dunstan in the East in the late
1650s. Three days after one (almost certainly the militia officer) was named in
Apr. 1648 as involved in the invasion of parliament, (presumably) another was
named as a collector for Tower Ward of the arrears of assessments for the Army.
The military career which can be reconstructed makes most sense as belonging to
one man, but the Quartermaster and Captain-Lieutenant might be different
men.
References: Thrale 1642; Nagel, ‘London
militia’, 317-8, 320; W.N. Parker, Milton: a biography, 2
vols. (1968), 2.894-5; Life records of John Milton comp.
J. Milton French, (5 vols. 1949-58), 5.405; A letter from Captain
Jones to a worthy friend of his dwelling in Bartholmew Lane : being a more
full and an exacter relation of the particular proccedings of Sir William
VVallers armie then any that hath yet been published (1644); Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer, 21-28
Sept. 1647, no. 228, 683; A paire of spectacles for the Citie
(1648), 9; JHC, 5.317; JHL,
10.219, 230: St Dunstan in the East
registers, 2.6, 8, 71, 73, 77; Dale, 1638, 50;
CCAM, 1.519.
Armies: London
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Minshaw, John |
John Minshaw
Lieutenant in Major George Hutchinson’s
company in William Bampfield’s regiment of foot, raised for Lord Wharton’s Army
for Ireland in 1642. Instead, he served as captain in William Bampfield’s
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 70,
40.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Minshull [Minshall], Edward |
Edward Minshull [Minshall] (died 1643)
Buried
Nantwich, 14 July 1643. Captain of a foot company, probably that commanded after
his death by Captain Thomas Malbon in Colonel Booth’s regiment.
References: TNA, SP28/224, f. 327; Cheshire
tracts, 256.
Armies: Cheshire
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Mitchell, Edward |
Edward Mitchell
Of Haslehead, Thurlstone township,
Penistone, Yorkshire lieutenant in Captain Adam Eyre’s troop; in Jan. 1647 they
went together to meet the committees to state their accounts.
References: Eyre, 2, 21; Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’,
117.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Mitchell, Thomas |
Thomas Mitchell
Of Liversedge, Yorkshire (West Riding),
a parliamentarian lieutenant in Yorkshire.
References:
Hopper, ‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 104.
Armies:
Yorkshire
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Mitchell, William |
William Mitchell
Of Morthen, Whiston parish, near
Rotherham, Yorkshire (West Riding), son of Christopher Mitchell of Morthen and
grandson of James Mitchell, merchant. His cousinage included William Spenser and
Francis Rogers.
By spring 1645 Mitchell was a captain in the Hull garrison
in Colonel John Mauleverer’s garrison regiment (from early 1648, Robert
Overton’s). He remained in that New Model Army regiment, going with it to
Scotland. By 21 Sept. 1650 he was a major, given joint command of the garrison
at Linlithgow. He was later promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, and
in spring 1655 he became its colonel. Whilst the regiment was stationed in
Scotland, Mitchell spent much of his time in England and in 1658 pledged his
support to Oliver Cromwell and upon the latter’s death he and his regiment
accepted Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector.
In 1659 Mitchell lost his
command upon Overton’s restoration. He was to be compensated with the creation
of a new regiment, and he may have been given a company at Hull towards it, but
it is not clear whether the regiment was ever formed.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’, 393; Firth and Davies, Regimental history, 1.239-40, 2.554-7; Hopper, ‘Yorkshire
parliamentarians’, 120; Wanklyn, New Model Army, I, 89.
101. 103; TNA, E121/5/7, no. 79.
Armies: Yorkshire; Northern Army (Fairfax); Northern Army (Poyntz);
Northern Army (Lambert); New Model Army
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Molanus, Johannes Conradus [John Conradt] |
Johannes Conradus [John Conradt] Molanus (died
1661)
Of Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, but in his origins a Dutchman,
Molanus evidently came to England with the drainage engineer Cornelius
Vermuyden, acting as his agent at Hatfield Chase in 1628. Vermuyden’s
involvement in the drainage of the Dovegang Mine at Wirksworth brought Molanus
to Derbyshire. He was living in or near Middleton by 1633, and was Gell’s tenant
by 1642.
Gell commissioned Molanus Major in his regiment of foot in Nov.
1642; he also acted as Gell’s Commissary until 7 Jan. 1643.
In Dec. 1642
Molanus commanded a force of 400 foot and a company of dragoons which stormed
and looted Bretby Hall. He commanded, or jointly commanded, a number of the
expeditions of Derbyshire forces outside the county. In Dec. 1642 he helped the
Nottinghamshire parliamentarians in repairing the defences of Nottingham, and in
Feb. 1643 took part in the unsuccessful attack on Newark. In Apr. he and Thomas
Gell took 500 men to help Lewis Chadwick in Staffordshire to take Sutton
(Derbys.).
In Sept. 1643 Molanus was sent to the support of Nottingham with
a force of horse and dragoons. He helped drive off royalists who were bombarding
the castle (according to Gell, Molanus’s men drove them off; according to Lucy
Hutchinson, the royalists had withdrawn without fighting and Molanus let them go
whilst his men looted the houses). Molanus did refuse to join with Colonel John
Hutchinson in attacking a fortified bridge across the Trent: ‘the maior of
Derby, an old dull-headed Dutchman, sayd ten thousand men could not doe it’
(Hutchinson, Life, 157-8). He returned to Derby, but was
sent back to take the fort, which the royalists abandoned after they were driven
from their trenches.
In Dec. 1643 Molanus was engaged in skirmishing in
Staffordshire and Derbyshire. In Feb.-Mar. 1644 he was at the siege of
Newark.
In late 1645 Molanus was sent to besiege Chatsworth; after its
surrender he joined up with Poyntz’s Army, and he was at the storming of Belvoir
(17 Nov.).
On 25 Mar. 1646 Molanus and the Derbyshire foot stood firm when
the royalists attacked Poyntz’s camp at Stoke.
In the political attacks on
Gell, Molanus was accused of involvement in Gell’s alleged peculation. By Feb.
1646 Molanus had evidently fallen out with Gell (Thomas Gell in a letter alluded
to when Molanus had accused Sir John of treason).
During the war Molanus had
kept up his business, renting a smelting mill and buying ore from Sir John Gell.
He remained a mine-owner and lead-smelter at Wirksworth after the war and was
alive in 1655.
References: Brighton, ‘Civil War’,
46-49; Slack, Man at War, esp. 33, 72, 76, 81-4, 91-2, 97,
102-3, 134, 137-9, 147, 161.
Armies: Derbyshire
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Molden, Daniel |
Daniel Molden
Captain of horse of long service in an
unidentified regiment in Yorkshire, claiming arrears of £682 19s in
1648.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’,
394.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Molyneux, Josias |
Josias Molyneux
Lieutenant in Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s
regiment of horse in Waller’s Army. Captain-lieutenant in John Butler’s New
Model regiment of horse (lately Sir Arthur Hesilrige’s and later Thomas
Horton’s). When Butler left the regiment in 1647, Molyneux became captain of the
troop, and remained as such until 1649.
References:
Spring, Waller’s army, 54
Armies: Waller (Southern Association); New Model
Army
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Momford, Peter |
Peter Momford
Captain in Thomas Ballard’s regiment of
foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 43.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Monings, William |
William Monings
Lieutenant in Sir William Ogle’s
regiment of foot in Northumberland’s Army against the Scots in
1640.
Lieutenant-colonel in Sir William Fairfax’s regiment of foot in the
earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock,
Army lists, 86, 43.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Monorgund [Monogrund], - |
- Monorgund [Monogrund]
An
officer in Gloucestershire, noted 12 Apr. 1643.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 6. 635 [citing TNA, SP28/299/720], TNA, SP28/129, Part 5, fol.
4r.
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Montagu [Mountague], Edward [later first earl of Sandwich] |
Edward Montagu [Mountague], later first earl of Sandwich
(1625-1672)
Born Barnwell, Northamptonshire, second but in due course eldest
surviving son and heir of Sir Sidney Montagu (died 1644), of the Montagu family
of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon; the earl of Manchester, commander-in-chief of the
Eastern Association, was a cousin.
He was in his late teens when in summer
1643 he was commissioned colonel of a regiment of foot in the Eastern
Association Army. Raised in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, the regiment
spent much of winter 1643-44 based at Newport Pagnell and taking part in
operations in the area, including the capture of Hillesden. During 1644 it
besieged Lincoln and York, took part in the campaign and battle of Marston Moor,
the ensuing capture of a string of minor royalist bases in southern Yorkshire
during the rest of the summer, followed by the campaign and second battle of
Newbury during the autumn. He supported Cromwell in his subsequent attack upon
his cousin. In winter 1644-5 Montagu and his regiment spent further time at
Newport Pagnell and in Henley-on-Thames, of which Montagu had been appointed
governor. The regiment transferred more or less complete, initially still under
Montagu, into the New Model Army upon its formation in spring 1645 and played an
active role in the New Model’s campaigns of summer and autumn 1645, fighting at
Naseby and Bristol. In Oct. 1645 he was elected Recruiter MP for Huntingdonshire
in the Long Parliament and resigned his army command in line with the
Self-Denying Ordinance.
Although he withdrew from parliament at Pride’s
Purge, he returned to politics after the ejection of the Rump, as a member of
the Nominated Assembly and of Cromwell’s Protectoral Council; from the mid-1650s
onwards he was also active and successful as a naval commander
(‘general-at-sea’). He actively supported the Restoration, ensuring that the
fleet was loyal, and he was rewarded with an earldom and high office. He served
Charles II both as a diplomat and at sea as an admiral in the second and third
Anglo-Dutch wars. He perished in a naval battle in Southwold
Bay/Solebay.
References: Oxford
DNB.
Armies: Eastern
Association; New Model Army
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Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester |
Edward Montagu, second earl of Manchester (1602-1671)
Eldest son of Henry Montagu,
first earl of Manchester (died 1642), of Kimbolton, Huntingdon. Edward
represented Huntingdonshire in the later parliaments of James I and the opening
parliaments of Charles I, before being raised to the peerage in spring 1626 as
Lord Kimbolton, as well as gaining the courtesy title of Viscount Mandeville. In
that year, too, his second marriage to a daughter of Robert Rich, second earl of
Warwick, cemented his links to a group of peers who during the 1630s became
disaffected from and out of favour with the king. He was critical of royal
government in the Short Parliament and was one of the peers who pressed for the
summoning of another parliament in summer and autumn 1640. He was a prominent
critic of the king’s government during the opening phase of the Long Parliament
and in Jan. 1642 he was the only peer named alongside the 5 MPs whose arrest
Charles unsuccessfully sought on charges of treason.
In autumn 1642 he
raised a regiment of foot within Essex’s Army – generally referred to as Lord
Mandeville’s regiment of foot – but it performed poorly at Edgehill and was
probably disbanded shortly after the stand-off at Turnham Green in Nov. 1642.
Having succeeded his father as earl of Manchester, in Aug. 1643 he replaced Lord
Grey of Warke as Major General (and thus commander-in-chief) of the Eastern
Association Army, at which point he raised and commanded a trio of new
regiments.
His regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army was raised
in late summer 1643 and fought at the battles of Winceby and Marston Moor, after
which it took part in the short campaign to mop up minor royalist bases in
southern Yorks; it was back with the main Eastern Association Army for the
campaign and second battle of Newbury in autumn 1644. In spring 1645 the
regiment was absorbed into the New Model Army.
His regiment of foot in the
Eastern Association Army was raised in Essex in summer 1643. Despite some
initial problems both recruiting to and equipping the regiment, for a time it
was very large, with eighteen companies nearly a double regiment. During 1644 it
campaigned in the east Midlands and Lincolnshire, including playing a role
during the campaign and battle of Marston Moor. It was broken up and in large
part disbanded in spring 1645 rather than being incorporated en bloc into the
New Model Army.
His regiment of dragoons was raised in Essex in Aug. 1643;
it was reduced in size and taken over by John Lilburne in spring 1644 and it was
thus Lilburne who commanded it at Marston Moor and in capturing a string of
royalist outposts in southern Yorkshire in summer 1644.
As well as actively
campaigning and leading these regiments and the Eastern Association Army in
1643-4, Manchester worked to improve the running, administration and finance of
the Eastern Association from his base at Cambridge; he also attended parliament
from time to time.
Having led the Eastern Association Army at the siege of
York in spring 1644 and to success at Marston Moor on 2 July, his comparative
military inactivity over the succeeding weeks and months and the criticism which
he attracted for alleged lethargy during and immediately after the second battle
of Newbury in Oct. – though he was far from the only senior parliamentarian to
under-perform there – led to the bitter clash with Cromwell later in the year
and, indirectly but in turn, to the Self-Denying Ordinance and the creation of a
new army which ended his military career.
From his base in the House of
Lords, Manchester retained political office and influence in the mid and later
1640s; in July 1647 he supported the Army when it restored order in London and
Westminster. He opposed and had no part in the regicide and was effectively in
retirement and out of office during the 1650s.
He welcomed the Restoration
and, while his political role during the 1660s was not huge, he returned to
favour and office at the court and in central and local government.
References: Oxford DNB
Armies: Earl of Essex; Eastern
Association
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Montgomery, George |
George Montgomery
Major in the earl of Manchester’s
regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army down to Jan. 1645 or
later.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 1.62.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Moody, John |
John Moody
Captain in Colonel Charles Fleetwood’s
regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army by spring 1644 and served with
that regiment through to spring 1645, but does not appear to have transferred
with it into the New Model Army.
References: Spring,
Eastern Association, 1.35.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Moody, Samuel |
Samuel Moody
By autumn 1643 and continuing to serve
until the regiment transferred to the New Model Army in spring 1645, captain in
Vermuyden’s regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.102; Holmes, Eastern
Association, 240.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Moore, - |
- Moore
Regimental chaplain to the Southwark
auxiliaries regiment.
References: Spring, Waller's Army
Armies: Southwark
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Moore, Daniel |
Daniel Moore
Captain in Southwark Trained Bands
regiment questioned in parliament as a defaulter refusing to do his required
guard duty; described by Richard Symonds as ‘not confided in by the Parliament’.
A dyer by trade.
References: Nagel, ‘London militia’,
92; JHC, 2.946.
Armies: Southwark
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Moore, Edward |
Edward Moore
A captain in the Lancashire regiment of
foot commanded by (perhaps his kinsman) John Moore.
References: Gratton, Lancs. war effort,
291.
Armies: Lancashire
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Moore, Hugh |
Hugh Moore
Ensign in John Bodley’s company Anthony
Stapley’s Sussex regiment of foot by 2 Feb. 1645.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
122.
Armies: Sussex; Waller
(Southern Association)
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Moore, James |
James Moore
In 1642 listed as lieutenant in Francis
Fiennes’s troop of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 51.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Moore, James |
James Moore
Lieutenant-colonel in the earl of
Denbigh’s Army, receiving payments on 11 Sept. 1643 and 28 Apr. 1644 (on the
latter occasion he was paid £10, half to bear his charges to London, half
for his quarters).
References: TNA, SP28/131, Part 12,
ff. 12, 24.
Armies: Earl of
Denbigh
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Moore, John |
John Moore(c. 1599-1650)
Of Bank Hall,
Walton, Lancashire, eldest son of Edward Moore (c.1577-1632), merchant, of Bank
Hall, Walton, and his wife, Katherine (died 1641), daughter of John and Margaret
Hockenhull of Prenton on the Wirral, Cheshire. His wealth was based on land and
trade.
Mayor of Liverpool in 1633 and MP for Liverpool in the Long
Parliament, where he served on several committees.
In Apr. 1642 Moore helped
organize the resistance to James Stanley, Lord Strange (later earl of Derby) and
as a colonel in West Derby Hundred helped secure Liverpool for parliament. From
Aug. 1642 to Apr. 1643 he was colonel and captain of the guard of horse and foot
in Westminster.
In Aug. 1643 Moore went back to Lancashire as colonel of a
regiment of foot, captain of a troop of horse, and governor of Liverpool
(records of debentures in TNA, E121/5/7 suggest that he had at least three
troops under command). He escaped from Liverpool by boat when the town fell to
Prince Rupert in May 1644, and although re-instated when it was recaptured, his
role in its failed defence remained controversial and there were attempts to
displace him. He finally relinquished the governorship in May 1645 under the
Self-Denying Ordinance. He was again active in parliament, although he returned
to Lancashire in autumn 1645 to help in the final parliamentarian
victory.
In 1646 Moore raised a new regiment and went to Ireland, where by
early 1647 he was governor of both County Louth and Dundalk and a commissioner
for Ireland.
He returned to England in Jan. 1648 and was a supporter of
Pride’s Purge and signed the king’s death warrant.
In 1649 Moore claimed
arrears of £2,368 16s 4d. In June he returned to Ireland and served there
as a colonel until his death. He fought at Rathmines (Aug. 1649) and died of a
fever whilst besieging Tecroghan Castle, County Meath.
References: Oxford DNB; Keeler, Long Parliament, 277;
Gratton, Lancs. war effort, 290-2 and passim; Warr in Lancashire, 10, 44; Blackwood,
Lancashire gentry, 108; Firth
and Davies, Regimental history, 2.650-2; Moore Mss.; HoP: The Commons, 1640-1660
(forthcoming).
Armies: Lancashire; London; Ireland; New Model Army
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Moore, Nicholas |
Nicholas Moore
Captain in Sir William Waller’s (later
James Holborne’s regiment of dragoons) from 1 Aug. 1643. Possibly the Nicholas
Moore who became major in John Okey’s regiment of dragoons in the New Model
Army, although the latter may have been Major Nicholas Moore of the earl of
Manchester’s regiment of dragoons in the Eastern Association.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,
41.
Armies: Waller (Southern
Association)
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Moore, Robert |
Robert Moore
A lieutenant-colonel in the Plymouth
garrison, 1645-6.
References: Worth, History of Plymouth, 134.
Armies: Devon
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Moore, Robert |
Robert Moore
In Feb. and Mar. 1644 he was
lieutenant-colonel in James Kerr’s [Carr’s] regiment of foot, before going west
to serve under Kerr at the same rank in his Plymouth garrison
regiment.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 37.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association); Waller
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Moore, Roger |
Roger Moore
Ensign in Captain Robert Long’s company in
Lord Wharton’s regiment of foot in Wharton’s army raised for service in Ireland
in 1642; later that summer he went instead with the regiment as ensign in Lord
Wharton’s regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 68,
31.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Moore, Sackville |
Sackville Moore
Major in the earl of Manchester’s
regiment of dragoons in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.57;
Holmes, Eastern Association, 201.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Moore, Thomas |
Thomas Moore
Captain of dragoons in Dec. 1642,
probably in Waller’s own regiment of dragoons. His account in June 1643, for
monies owed from Waller and Essex for Feb. and Mar. in Sussex and Hampshire,
refers to a cornet, suggesting horse rather than dragoons.
References: Peachey and Turton, Fall of the
West, 7.715; TNA, SP28/6/40.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Waller
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Mordant, - |
- Mordant
In May 1643, captain serving in one of the
three regiments of foot formed from the Essex militia, part of the Eastern
Association Army that contributed to the siege of Reading in spring 1643, the
siege of Greenland House in summer 1644 and probably to some other actions in
which the Army was involved.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 1.33.
Armies:
Eastern Association
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Mordaunt, John, first earl of Peterborough |
John Mordaunt, first
earl of Peterborough (1599-1643)
Born Lowick, Northants, the son
of Henry Mordaunt, fourth Lord Mordaunt, into a prominent but Catholic family,
though John was brought up a Protestant. He became a courtier and close to both
James I and the duke of Buckingham, given office both at court and in
Northamptonshire and in 1628 created first earl of Peterborough. However, he
became increasingly distant from Charles I, resisting both ship money and
service in the Scots Wars, he supported parliament in 1641-2 and in summer 1642
was created colonel and given command of a troop of horse and a regiment of foot
in the earl of Essex’s Army.
In autumn 1642 much of the regiment garrisoned
Banbury, though Peterborough himself – who was also General of the Ordnance –
and some of his men were present at Edgehill. His lieutenant-colonel defected to
the king in the course of the battle and much of his regiment performed poorly
and surrendered Banbury shortly afterwards. Although the regiment was partly
refounded late in 1642 and took part in the siege of Reading in spring 1643, by
then Peterborough was ailing – probably of consumption – and he died in June
1643. After his death, his regiment appears to have been broken up and much of
it disbanded.
References: Oxford
DNB; Peacock, Army lists, 25, 28, 48; TNA,
SP28/2b/390.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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Mordent, Lewis |
Lewis Mordent
Ensign in the regiment of foot in the
earl of Essex’s Army commanded by Lord Oliver St John and then Thomas Essex in
1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 31.
Armies: Earl of
Essex; Bristol
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More, Edward |
Edward More
Perhaps a younger son of Thomas More of
Larden, Shropshire. Captain in Thomas Mytton’s regiment of horse by July 1645,
when he was based at Oswestry. Still there in Dec. By Mar. 1647, when one of the
commissioners for the surrender of Harlech Castle, promoted to major.
References: Perfect Passages, 9-16
July 1645; Dore, Brereton letter books, 2. 392; J.R.
Phillips, Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the
Marches (1874), II, 333.
Armies: Shropshire
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More, Richard |
Richard More
Lieutenant in the regiment of foot in the
earl of Essex’s Army commanded by Lord Oliver St John and then Thomas Essex in
1642-3.
References: Peacock, Army
lists, 31.
Armies: Earl of
Essex
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More, Samuel |
Samuel More
On Linley, Shropshire, son of Richard More
(died Dec, 1643), the MP for Bishop’s Castle in the Long Parliament.
Samuel
was appointed to the Shropshire county committee in 1643 and by autumn 1643 was
an officer, probably Captain, in garrison at Brampton Bryan Castle on the
Shropshire/Herefordshire border. By early 1644 he was commanding the garrison in
nearby Hopton Castle, Shropshire, resisting a prolonged siege and repeated
attacks before surrendering on minimal terms; he was taken prisoner and survived
but most of the garrison were then killed. He was exchanged duringthe spring and
by 20 June was an officer at Wem. He was with the Shropshire horse in the attack
on and capture of Shrewsbury in Feb. 1645 and by Oct. was governor of Montgomery
Castle, Montgomeryshire. By the end of 1645 he was a colonel and he and his
troop, together with other Shropshire horse, were serving at the siege of
Chester. He commanded a Shropshire force which on 8 Mar. 1646 at Church Stoke,
Shropshire, cornered and forced the surrender of what remained of Sir John
Watts’s garrison who were retreating from Chirk Castle. A colonel commanding
both Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Forces at the siege of Ludlow in spring
1646. He became governor of Ludlow Castle upon its surrender in June 1646 and
later in the summer was appointed Mackworth’s deputy and thus second-in-command
of the remaining Shropshire county forces. He was a very active committeeman,
named to all Shropshire committees 1644-8.
References:
HMC, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath, I
(1904), 29-30, 36-40; Warws. RO, C2017/C9/98, C2017/C9/133; Dore, Brereton letter books, 2. 162, 204; Colonell Mitton’s
Reply to Lieutenant Colonell Reinking’s Relation of
the taking of Shrewbury (1645); Perfect
Occurrences, 8 May 1646; CSPD, 1645-47, 441;
JHC, IV, 614;
Armies: Shropshire
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Moreland, Thomas |
Thomas Moreland
From 1642 down to 1646, ensign in
Robert Colemore’s company in John Barker’s/Thomas Willoughby’s regiment of
foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s
army, 23.
Armies: Warwickshire
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Moreton, - |
- Moreton
Served for a time as major in James Kerr’s
[Carr’s] regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 37.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association)
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Moreton, Leonard |
Leonard Moreton
Lieutenant in Thomas Ballard’s
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 43.
Armies: Earl of Essex
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Morgan, - |
- Morgan
Captain of dragoons in
Kent by 6 Jan. 1644.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 70.
Armies: Kent; Waller (Southern Association)
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Morgan, Miles |
Miles Morgan
In 1642 cornet in William Pretty’s troop
of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 49.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Morgan, Thomas |
Thomas Morgan (1604-1679)
Colonel. Eldest of the four
children of Lewis Morgan, landowner, of Llangattock Lingoed, Monmouthshire. He
married firstly an unknown woman on the Continent in 1632 and (2) Delariviere
Cholmondeley (died in or before 1683), daughter of John Cholmondeley of Braham
Hall, Spofforth, near Knaresborough, Yorkshire in Aug. 1644. A professional
soldier from the age of sixteen, he served in the Low Countries under Sir Horace
Vere and Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, and alongside George Monck and Charles
Fairfax.
By Apr. 1643 a captain raising dragoons in the Elland and Barnsley
area of Yorkshire. His company was in the forlorn hope at Adwalton
Moor.
Promoted major, and in Sept. 1643 took his dragoons and then into
Lincolnshire and to Nantwich, where his brother, his lieutenant, was
killed.
Chief engineer at the siege of Lathom House, March 1644.
March
1644 promoted colonel of dragoons in the regiment formerly Sir William
Constable’s/Sir William Fairfax’s.
He was at the siege of York and Marston
Moor, and at Pontefract on 1 March 1645, when he held Ferrybridge long enough
for the parliamentarians to escape; in June his dragoons were sent to Sandal
Castle.
Appointed governor of Gloucester in succession to Edward Massey on
18 June 1645.
Colonel of a regiment of horse in Gloucestershire and of the
governor’s regiment of foot (previously Edward Massey’s).
Campaigns in
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire in the First Civil War. Failing
to get a command in Ireland in 1648, he retired to Yorkshire until
1651.
Service in Scotland and Flanders; an ally of Monck’s at the
Restoration.
References: Jones, ‘War in the
North’, 394; Oxford DNB; JHC,
4.632-4
Armies: Gloucestershire
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Morgin, John |
John Morgin
A lieutenant buried at Nantwich, 7 Feb.
1644. This was a couple of weeks after the battle there, so he may have been an
officer of either Sir William Brereton’s Cheshire Army or Sir Thomas Fairfax’s
Yorkshire Army, or indeed possibly a wounded royalist officer.
References: Civil war in Cheshire,
257.
Armies: Cheshire
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Morley, Herbert [Harbert] |
Herbert [Harbert] Morley (1616-1667)
Baptised 1616, eldest son of Robert Morley
(died 1632) of Glynde, Sussex, a leading landed and godly family, prominent in
the local administration of Sussex; elder brother of William Morley.
He was
MP in the Short and Long Parliaments, where he was a prominent critic of royal
government. He was commissioned colonel of a regiment of foot and a regiment of
horse in winter 1642-3, and between then and resigning his command in spring
1645 under the terms of the Self-Denying Ordinance, he divided his time between
his duties as an MP at Westminster, where he was increasingly a radical and a
political Independent, local administration in Sussex, as the leading light on
the county committee, and active campaigning at the head of his
regiments.
He and his men may have supported the earl of Essex’s relief of
Gloucester in summer 1643 and been present at the first battle of Newbury; he
certainly campaigned under Waller at Farnham, Surrey, and Bamber Bridge, Arundel
Castle and Chichester, Sussex in 1643-4, as well as at the sieges of Basing
House in 1644 – when and where he was wounded – and 1645. From early 1644 he was
governor of Arundel Castle. Some of his men probably for a time went off to
reinforce the garrisons at Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorset and Abingdon,
Oxfordshire. At least parts of his two regiments survived his departure from the
army in spring 1645, continuing to be based at Arundel under its new governor,
his younger brother William Morley.
Morley supported the army in 1647 and
kept his seat at Pride’s Purge, though he was not closely involved in the trial
of the king. As a Rumper and republican, he did not favour the Protectorate and,
although he was elected to all three Protectorate Parliaments, he was one of
those republicans who criticized the regime in the first and third and was
excluded from the first session of the second. He was active in the Rump when it
returned in 1659-60, though by then he was suspected of possible royalism by
former republican colleagues. In the end, he secured a pardon but nothing more
at the Restoration. He sat in the Restoration parliament until his
death.
References: Oxford
DNB.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association)
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Morley, William |
William Morley (1621-1679)
Son
of Robert Morley (died 1632) of Glynde, Sussex, and his wife Susan
(1594/5-1667), daughter and heir of Thomas Hodgson of Framfield; younger brother
of Colonel Herbert Morley. He was captain in his brother’s regiment of horse by
at least 16 Sept. 1643; he was already a captain by the previous Dec. when he
sent a spy to Colonel Edward Apsley during Hopton’s invasion of Sussex By 6 Aug.
1644 he and his troop were in John Middleton’s regiment of horse. But by Jan.
1645 it was back in his father’s regiment, when it was ordered to escort some of
Morley’s infantry regiment into the West. On 1 May 1645 Morley was appointed
governor of Arundel Castle in succession to his brother He was still governor in
1651 and according to one account the fleeing Charles II almost ran into him
whilst he was out hunting; he and his party dismounted to make themselves
inconspicuous, and afterwards Charles laughed that, ‘I did not much like his
starched mouchates’ (Stanford-Thomas, Sussex, 259).
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 97-9; Sussex Genealogies: Lewes
Centre, comp. J. Comber (1933), 193; Thomas-Stanford, Sussex, 75, 169-70, 259.
Armies: Sussex; Waller (Southern Association)
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Morphe [Murphe], Maurice |
Maurice Morphe [Murphe]
25 Sept. 1644-13 Apr. 1646:
lieutenant in foot company of Captain Richard Lawrence in regiment of Colonel
Robert Butler, Wareham garrison. Arrears claim 30 Oct. 1646.
References: Mayo, Dorset Standing Committee,
42.
Armies: Dorset
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Morris, - |
- Morris
Captain in John Hampden’s regiment of foot in
the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References: Peacock,
Army lists, 46.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Morris, - |
- Morris
Lieutenant in Glisson’s troop in Francis
Russell’s regiment of horse in the Eastern Association Army.
References: Spring, Eastern Association,
2.98.
Armies: Eastern
Association
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Morris, John |
John Morris (c. 1615-1649)
Of North Elmsall township,
South Kirkby parish or Esthagh, South Elmshall, near Pontefract, Yorkshire (W.
Riding), eldest son of Matthias Morris (Hopper gives North Elmshall as John’s
residence; the Oxford DNB gives that
of him and his father as Esthagh).
Morris served first in Ireland, then came
to England as a royalist but defected after the fall of Liverpool, 1 Nov.
1644.
Morris joined the Northern Army as major and was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel in May 1645 during the siege of Pontefract. Changing sides
again, as a royalist during the second civil war he captured Pontefract Castle
by guile on 1 June 1648 and held it until Mar. 1649. He was executed on 23 Aug.
1649.
References: Oxford
DNB; Jones, ‘War in the North’, 394-5; Hopper,
‘Yorkshire parliamentarians’, 119.
Armies: Yorkshire; Northern Army (Fairfax); Northern Army
(Poyntz)
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Morris, John |
John Morris
Captain of a troop of horse in the earl of
Denbigh’s Army. On 14 Apr. 1644 he received monies towards raising, completing
and paying his troop. He was also noted in a list of free quarter imposed on
named villages in Warwickshire by the earl of Denbigh and his
officers.
References: TNA, SP28/131, Part 12, f.
22; SP28/136, Part 28.
Armies: Earl of
Denbigh
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Morris, John |
John Morris
Lieutenant in Lord Brooke’s regiment of
foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
References:
Peacock, Army lists, 34.
Armies:
Earl of Essex
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Morton, John |
John Morton
Captain-lieutenant in Sir Thomas Hoogan’s
company in Sir John Palgrave’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association
Army.
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.77.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Morton [Mooreton], Robert |
Robert Morton [Mooreton]
Captain
of a troop of horse, which he commanded at some point between Dec. 1644 and Feb.
1646 (William Rideout also commanded the same troop). Arrears order, 21 Jan.
1647.
References: Mayo, Dorset
Standing Committee, 132, 152.
Armies: Dorset
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Mosley, Edward |
Edward Mosley
Probably Edward Mosley (born 1618/9) of
Manchester, second son of Oswald Mosley (died 1630), of Ancoats, Manchester. If
the identification is correct, his elder brother Nicholas (baptised 1611, died
1672), was a royalist who in July 1642 attempted to secure the ammunition stored
in Manchester for James Stanley, Lord Strange, whose estates were confiscated in
1643 and who on coronation day 1661 led the procession to Manchester Collegiate
Church as ‘Captaine of the Auxiliaries raised in the Towne for the defence of
his Majesties most Royal Person and prerogative’ (Oxford
DNB [Nicolas Mosley]).
In 1643 Edward’s sister Margaret
(1616-1675) married the Puritan minister John Angier.
Edward was a
parliamentarian captain of horse in Lancashire, commanding a troop in succession
to John Bexwick. One of his troopers was owed arrears of £80 2s. 6d. in
Mar. 1652.
In May 1644 he carried the summons of Colonels Richard Holland
and Alexander Rigby senior to the countess of Derby summoning her to surrender
Lathom House.
References: Vis. Lancs.,
1664, 213; TNA, E121/4/6; Lancashire military proceedings, 181; R Raines and C.W. Newton, Life of Humphrey Chetham, founder of the Chetham
hospital and library, Manchester, 2 vols., Chetham
Soc, (1903), 1.146; Oxford DNB [Nicholas Mosley
and John Angier].
Armies: Lancashire
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Mosley, Thomas |
Thomas Mosley
From summer 1642 lieutenant in
Ayscough’s troop in Lord Willoughby’s regiment of horse in the earl of Essex’s
Army and the Eastern Association Army.
References:
Spring, Eastern Association, 2.108.
Armies: Earl of Essex; Eastern
Association
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Mosse, George |
George Mosse (died 1643)
The
Colonel’s ensign in the Red regiment, London Trained Bands (Colonel Thomas
Atkin) in summer 1642; Captain-lieutenant of the colonel’s company in same
regiment by Sept. 1643. Killed at the first battle of Newbury (20 Sept.
1643).
References: Thrale 1642; BL, Harl. 986, p.
1.
Armies: London
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Mottershead, Thomas |
Thomas Mottershead
Lieutenant in Captain William
Watson’s company in Henry Bradshaw’s regiment of foot in the Cheshire militia at
the battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651.
References:
Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2.64-68.
Armies: Cheshire
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Mould, John |
John Mould
Lieutenant in the Red regiment, London
Trained Bands (Colonel Thomas Atkin) in summer 1642.
References: Thrale 1642.
Armies: London
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Moulson, Thomas |
Thomas Moulson
By Oct. 1643 and still there in Aug.
1644 but subsequently superseded, captain in Sir John Norwich’s regiment of
horse in the Eastern Association Army.
References:
Spring, Eastern Association, 2.73.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Mowsier, John[?] |
John[?] Mowsier
In late 1644 ensign of the colonel’s company in
Sir John Pickering’s regiment of foot in the Eastern Association Army. In spring
1645 he transferred with the regiment into the New Model Army as a lieutenant,
but he was killed at Faringdon in early May 1645.
References: Spring, Eastern Association, 2.84;
Wanklyn, New Model Army, I, 167.
Armies: Eastern Association;
New Model Army
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Moyse, Richard |
Richard Moyse
Captain in Valentine Walton’s regiment
of foot in the Eastern Association Army (commanded by James Hobart from spring
1645).
References: Spring, Eastern
Association, 2.105.
Armies: Eastern Association
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Mudd, - |
– Mudd (died 1643)
A captain who fought in the forlorn
hope at Adwalton Moor; he died of wounds incurred in the escape from
Bradford.
References: Jones, ‘War in the North’,
395.
Armies: Yorkshire
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Mugford, Edward |
Edward Mugford
Lieutenant in Edward Harley’s regiment
of foot in Gloucs. In Nov. 1644.
References: HMC,
Portland Mss., III, 130.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association)
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Mullenex [Mullenax], Thomas |
Thomas Mullenex [Mullenax]
Lieutenant in Sir Thomas
Myddelton’s brigade in North Wales. Surviving warrants record payments to
Mullenex, at that time still in London, in spring 1644, to enable him to equip
himself and, on 23 May 1644, to march out of the City that day.
References: TNA, SP28/346, no. 154.
Armies: North Wales
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Munday, - |
- Munday (died 1645/6)
Captain
in Ralph Weldon’s Kentish regiment of foot by Apr. 1645 and its absorption into
the New Model Army. He was killed in the campaign in the West in late 1645 or
early 1646.
References: Spring, Waller’s army,153; Firth and Davies, Regimental history, 2.452-3.
Armies: Waller (Southern Association); Kent;
New Model Army
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Mundy, John |
John Mundy
Of Markeaton, Derbyshire. Commissioned
captain in Sir John Gell’s Derbyshire regiment of foot in Nov. 1642. In early
1643 he was sent with his company to help fortify Sheffield Castle. He
disappears from the record after 1643.
References:
Brighton, ‘Civil War’, 46, 49; Brighton, ‘Governor’, 6; Turbutt, Derbyshire, 3.1061.
Armies: Derbyshire
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Murford, Peter |
Peter Murford
Major in Richard Norton’s foot regiment
by late 1643.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 112.
Armies: Hampshire; Waller (Southern Association)
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Muskett, Fulke |
Fulke Muskett
Lieutenant in the earl of Essex’s own
regiment of foot in the earl of Essex’s Army in autumn 1642. On 13 Mar. 1645 the
Commons named him as one of the four Captains of Essex’s regiment to be retained
in the New Model Army and recommended him as captain in Sir Thomas Fairfax’s
regiment of foot, which the Lords duly accepted. In Apr. 1647 Muskett was one of
the officers of the regiment who engaged for service in Ireland, and was
involved in getting the engagement of the men. In May he was a signatory to an
account of the likely willingness of the men to engage for Ireland once
indemnity and arrears had been settled. This was countered by the agitators’
representation of the soldiers’ grievances. In the summer, in the face of the
regiment’s continuing defiance of parliament, Muskett left – or was driven out
of – the regiment.
References: Peacock, Army lists, 26; Firth and Davies, Regimental
history, I. 317-25; Temple, ‘New Model Army’,
55; JHC, 4.76, 79; JHL, 7.274,
279.
Armies: Earl of Essex; New
Model Army
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Myddelton, Andrew |
Andrew Myddelton
Military treasurer, addressed by Sir
Thomas Myddelton as his ‘cousin’ in a number of the warrants directed to him,
but there is no mention of him in the extensive Myddelton pedigrees in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 3rd. ser., volunteer
2.
References: TNA, SP28/346.
Armies: North Wales
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Myddelton, Sir Thomas |
Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586-1666)
Born London, the only
son of a City merchant, who held land in and around Chirk and Chirk Castle,
Denbighshire. These were settled on Sir Thomas in 1612, around the time of his
first marriage and a few years before he was knighted by James I. He sat in the
last parliament of James I and the first of Charles I. Elected to the Long
Parliament, Myddelton did not at first stand out as a strong opponent of the
king, but in the wake of the Irish Rebellion his position became clearer.
In
summer 1643 he was appointed by parliament its commander-in-chief in North
Wales, then entirely in royalist hands. He co-operated with Sir William Brereton
in the brief parliamentarian expedition in north-east Wales in Nov. 1643 and,
more fruitfully, during 1644, raising troops and building up his own brigade or
army, securing Oswestry and its hinterland and beginning to push into mid Wales
via victory at Montgomery in Sept. and the capture of the castles at Montgomery
and Welshpool (Red Castle). However, only limited gains had been made in mid and
North Wales by the time he gave up his command in spring 1645 as a consequence
of the Self-Denying Ordinance. He played little part in the second civil war, as
a moderate was excluded at Pride’s Purge and was largely out of office and under
suspicion during the 1650s. He declared for the king in 1659 and actively
supported Booth’s Rising, only for Chirk Castle to be attacked and badly
damaged. He returned to favour and to parliament at the Restoration.
References: Oxford DNB; DWB.
Armies: North
Wales
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Myddelton, Sir William, second baronet |
Sir William Myddelton, second baronet (baptised 1603, died 1651/2)
Cousin of Sir
Thomas Myddelton and eldest surviving son of Sir Hugh Myddelton of the New River
Company, whom he succeeded as Governor. Colonel of a regiment of foot in his
cousin’s army. On 3 Jan. 1644 he received a warrant from Essex to search for
horses and arms in and about London (within a 20 mile radius). On 22 Mar. 1644
an agreement was concluded between Sir William and his cousin that the latter
would pay Sir William 6s 8d per head for every man in his regiment of foot, and
provide arms and equipment plus 6d apiece for ribbons for the regiment. By June
his forces were serving under Denbigh (somewhat mutinously) and on 27 June
Denbigh ordered three companies of Sir William’s regiment to reinforce the Wem
garrison. Sir William was still absent from Sir Thomas’s main army in Sept., and
so took no part in the actions at Montgomery and Red Castle. In letters of 25
Sept. and 2 Oct., reporting the victories of Montgomery Castle and Red Castle to
the Committee of Both Kingdoms, Sir Thomas Myddelton begged them to send Barton
and Sir William Myddelton with horse to him. Sir William had apparently joined
his cousin by the end of Oct., when Sir Thomas Middleton ordered pay for
quarters and others necessaries of Sir William’s troop.
According to Tucker,
he commanded 100 horse in the defeat of the royalist attempt to relieve Beeston
Castle in Jan. 1645. He served at the siege of Chester – as such he sat on
various courts martial and councils of wars in spring 1645 – and under Mytton
was second-in-command at the siege of Denbigh and briefly its governor following
its fall.
References: Miscellanea
Genealogica et Heraldica, 3rd. ser., vol. 2, 270; Dore, Brereton letter books, 1. 188, 437, 445; 2. 494; Tucker,
Denbighshire Officers, 76; TNA, SP28/346; CSPD, 1644; CSPD, 1644-45.
Armies:
North Wales
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Mydhope [Midhope, Medhope], James |
James Mydhope [Midhope, Medhope]
Mydhope was cornet in
Captain John Hale’s troop of horse in the earl of Essex’s Army in 1642.
In
Apr. 1643, when a lieutenant, Mydhope fought in the defence of Lichfield
Cathedral Close against Prince Rupert’s army (from this it is inferred that he
was an officer in Brooke’s Army). When a breach was made on 20 Apr., he held it
with 40 musketeers. According to the account of Captain John Randolph, ‘these
fortie seeing little execution done by their shot, being lead on by that truly
valiant Souldier, Leiutenant Mydhope did fall upon their Adversaries (being
betweene two or three hundred) pell mell, and with their Butt ends of their
Muskets, their Swords, and Holbeards, did most bravely repell them’ (Randolph,
Honour Advanced, 4).
Mydhope probably came from
Staffordshire. He appears in the accounts of the earl of Denbigh’s Army,
receiving monies on 17 Aug. 1643 and 23 Mar. 1644, but appears more as an
officer commanding a troop of horse in Staffordshire. In Dec. 1643 the
Staffordshire county committee noted that, as Mydhope’s troopers had brought
their horses with them when they came into the service of the county and had
lost them, Mydhope ‘who is now in service of the County in or about Leeke shall
have powre to take so many horses of Papists Delinquents or Malignants as to
horse the said Troopers’ (Pennington and Roots, Committee at
Stafford, 14-5).
In Dec. 1643, by when he had been promoted
Major, Mydhope was ordered to a rendezvous at Newcastle under Lyme and take
command of the county horse there and to march to Leek against the royalist
forces. Mydhope continued to serve in the county in 1644.
With the coming of
peace in England Major Mydhope proposed bringing in a regiment of horse which he
had enlisted in Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire for service in
Ireland, and on 12 Oct. 1646 the Committee of Both Houses for Irish Affairs
ordered commissions to be made out for Mydhope and his officers.
Mydhope was
a signatory to the petition of reformado officers presented to parliament by Sir
Thomas Essex on 22 Mar. 1647. On 26 July 1647 he was one of the reformado
officers in the crowd which invaded parliament and forced it to reinstate
London’s Presbyterian militia committee.
In 1656 Mydhope was living in a
house near Westminster Abbey.
References: Peacock,
Army Lists, 54; Pennington and
Roots, Committee at Stafford, xxxiv, 8, 11, 14-5, 57,
108, 156, 316, 318; J. Randolph, Honour Advanced (1643),
6; TNA, SP28/3/474, SP28/SP28/131, part 12, ff. 6, 17-8, SP28/11/59; CSP Ireland, 1633-1647, 520, 529; JHL,
9.95-6, 10.213-6.
Armies: Earl of
Essex; Lord Brooke; Staffordshire
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Mynson, Robert |
Robert Mynson
In summer 1645, ensign to newly-promoted
Captain Walford in what had formerly been Godfrey Bosvile’s Warwick-based
regiment of foot.
References: Spring, Waller’s army, 31.
Armies: Warwickshire; Waller
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Mytton, Thomas |
Thomas Mytton (1596/7-1656)
Son of Richard Mytton,
born into a prosperous Shrewsbury family, though with links over the border in
North Wales, he was tied by kinship and marriage to a network of gentry in
Shropshire and beyond, including Sir Thomas Myddelton, who was his
brother-in-law. During the first half of 1643 he was appointed by parliament to
various Shropshire committees, even though the county was at that time largely
in royalist hands. Empowered by the earl of Essex in spring 1643 to raise troops
in and around Shropshire, in practice though not in name he became parliament’s
commander-in-chief in the county. Working closely with Myddelton and Brereton,
he secured and fortified Wem in autumn 1643, and it became his principal base.
During 1644 he worked to dislodge the royalists from north Shropshire,
culminating in the capture of Shrewsbury early in 1645. However, Mytton also
fell foul of some of his colleagues on parliament’s Shropshire county committee,
who resented his frequent absence from the county and his alliance with external
figures such as the earl of Denbigh.
In spring 1645 he succeeded Myddelton
as commander-in-chief of North Wales. He campaigned extensively in North Wales
in 1645-6 and again in autumn 1648 in putting down the royalist rising in
north-west Wales. He held office in both North Wales and Shropshire during the
first half of the 1650s and represented his native county in parliament in 1654.
He died in 1656.
References: Oxford
DNB.
Armies: North Wales;
Shropshire
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