I am interested in the Royalist foot from Cornwall. Very good infantry by all accounts. I grabbed a few images from this blog in past articles.
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| Sir Bevil Grenville's regiment 1643 Maksim Borisov |
I presume i neede not runne over the particular passages of this weekes businesse at Bodmin, how Sir Bevill G. after the first warrants under the hands of thirteene Comissioners for a muster (hearing of the peoples backwardnesse) about monday gave out a second, where he injoynes them to appeare upon paine of death; nor how at last he came to the race Posts upon Bodmin-downe, with 140 or 160 men, some of which he got out of Devonshire, and 80 were armed with his own proper Armes, very discernable for that the Pikes and Rests are all painted with white and blew; |
| Alan Turton from Bristol and the Civil War The below book is useful. |
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