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Appendix B: A Perfect list of all the forces under the Command of his Excellency Generall Venables, taken at a Muster, March 21st, 16541
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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page 116 note 2 Lieut. Col. Edward Doyley, made Colonel of another regiment about this date.
page 116 note 3 Francis Mercer, who became subsequently Lieut.-Col. of Doyley's regiment.
page 116 note 4 Henry Disney, died April 3, 1655. Thurloe, iii. 505.
page 116 note 5 Thos. Hancock, killed April 26, 1655. Thurloe, iii. 506.
page 116 note 6 George Butler, killed on the same occasion as the last named officer, as was also Captain Obadiah Hinde.
page 116 note 7 Was this Captain Pawlet of the firelocks, mentioned on pp. 31, 131, 133 ?
page 116 note 8 This regiment apparently contained eleven companies, and the total of officers should be 132, not 120. The regiment of the General in the armies of the time frequently contained one or more extra companies.
page 117 note 1 Clarke died at sea on May 9, 1655, of wounds received on April 26. Memorials of Sir William Penn, ii. 99, 100. The petition of his widow, Amory, is in Cal. S. P. Dom. 1655, p. 306.
page 117 note 2 Samuel Barry, subsequently Colonel of this regiment, who survived all the hardships of the first colonists, and became after the Restoration a member of the Council of Jamaica and Governor of Surinam.
page 117 note 3 Possibly this was Adjutant-General Walters, killed on April 18. Thurloe, iii. 506.
page 117 note 4 Gregory Tom, a member of the Jamaica Assembly in 1665.
page 117 note 5 Richard Young, who became later Adjutant-General of the army in Jamaica and died there. Cal. Colonial State Papers. 1574–1660, p. 454.
page 117 note 6 Richard Bamford, subsequently Major, died in Jamaica. Ib. pp. 454, 462.
page 117 note 7 Henry Archbold, became finally Lieut.-Col. of the regiment of Colonel Carter and was a member of the Council of Jamaica after the Restoration. See also Thurloe, v. 102, 128, 139; vi. 235.
page 117 note 8 1053 soldiers?
page 118 note 1 Richard Holdip was originally Lieut.-Col. of this regiment, but at the end of March he became Colonel of the regiment raised at St. Christophers and in other islands.
page 118 note 2 William Hill, previously Major of Fortescue's, apparently succeeded Holdip as Lieut.-Col. See Clarke Papers, iii. 56. Hill died, seemingly, before arriving at Jamaica. See Cal. State Papers, Col. 1574–1660, p. 454.
page 118 note 3 Henry Bartlett, became Lieut.-Col. of the regiment and died in Jamaica. Ib. p. 455.
page 118 note 4 Samuel Leverington, died of his wounds in April 1055. See p. 32.
page 118 note 5 Thomas White, subsequently Major. He was probably the author of the narrative printed in Clarke Papers, iii. 54. See Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1655–6, p. 61.
page 118 note 6 Bartholomew Davis, died in Jamaica. Cal. State Papers, Col. p. 454.
page 118 note 7 Richard Wells, became Major and commanded this regiment from Sept. 1656. He died about January 1657.
page 118 note 8 1064 soldiers ?
page 119 note 1 Francis Barrington, once of Henry Cromwell's regiment of horse in the Irish Army; author of an excellent account of the Jamaica expedition printed in 7th Report Hist. M88. Comm. pp. 571–5. Letters of his are also printed in the Thurloe State Papers, iii. 646; vi. 376, 390, 512. He was accidentally shot about January 1660. Cat. State Papers, Col. Addenda, 1574–1674, p. 132.
page 119 note 2 Michael Bland, Captain in Col. Phayre's regiment in Ireland in 1649, became Lieut.-Col. of Col. Holdip's regiment, and seems to have died in Jamaica.
page 119 note 3 Edward or Adam Baynard? He died in Jamaica. Cal. State Papers, Col. 1574–1660, p. 454.
page 119 note 4 Subsequently Major; executed for mutiny about 1656. See Thurloe, v. 152; Cal. State Papers, Col. Addenda, p. 124.
page 119 note 5 Christopher Cooper, died in Jamaica. Cal. State Papers, Col. 1574–1660, p. 436.
page 119 note 6 Vincent Corbet, became Major of the regiment and died in Jamaica. Ib. p. 454.
page 120 note 1 Died in 1655. Cal. State Papers, Col. p. 454.
page 120 note 2 John Ferguson, killed April 26, 1655. Thurloe, iii. 506, 510. He appears to have been transferred to the regiment of General Venables after this muster took place.
page 120 note 3 Nicholas Halford, one of the few officers who survived. Cal. State Papers, Col. 1661–8, p. 117.
page 120 note 4 Nathaniel Bowers, died before 1657. Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1656–7, p. 134.
page 120 note 5 See pp. 40–46, ante.
page 120 note 6 Died in Jamaica. See Cal. State Papers, Col. p. 454.
page 120 note 7 Abraham Fincher, died in Jamaica about August 1656.
page 120 note 8 Filkins. Possibly the Lieut. John Filkins of Sir Hardress Waller's regiment in 1647. Clarke Papers, i. 32. He became Major of this regiment about October 1655. Mercurius Politicus, p. 5947.
page 121 note 1 This was the Barbadoes regiment, and Col. Lewis Morris, a planter there who had helped to raise it, finally declined to go on the expedition unless hia debts were paid. Thurloe, iii. 250. Venables consequently gave its command to Edward Doyley, his own Lieutenant-Colonel.
page 121 note 2 Major Francis Mercer, from the General's regiment, seems to have been appointed Lieut.-Colonel.
page 121 note 3 John Eeade, died about April 1656.
page 121 note 4 Richard Stevens, subsequently Major. See Mercurius Politicus, December 1657, p. 152, and April 1658, p. 448.
page 121 note 5 On January 20, 1656, George Smithsby was appointed Captain of the company late Capt. Augustine Thornhill's.
page 122 note 1 There is some mistake in the figures. The total of the private soldiers in the different regiments, taking the numbers given, only amounts to 5602.
page 122 note 2 Isaac Berkenhead was Scoutmaster-general. See Thurloe, iii. 157, 523.
page 122 note 3 Captain Hughes commanded the artillery. See p. 82, and Thurloe, iii. 507.
page 122 note 4 This is evidently a foot company, possibly firelocks attached to the train.
page 122 note 5 Philip Carpenter. See p. 31 and Thurloe, vi. 691. This was a troop of horse raised in Barbadoes. See Thurloe, iii. 325.
page 122 note 6 Capt. Jennings of the Reformados was killed on April 18, and on the 26th the Reformados were cut to pieces, only seventeen escaping. Thurloe, iii. 506.
page 122 note 7 Captain Haines, or rather Captain Heane, son of the Major-General, commanded a troop of horse raised at Barbadoes. Captain Jones commanded the troop raised in England, but he himself and most of them had been driven back by a storm.