I've got my paper copy of Spring's new book (excellent as is pretty much everything he writes) and in Appendix III, are listed coat colours for Parliamentarian regiments.
There's 3 new ones on me listed:
* Colonel Thomas Essex,
* Colonel Goodwin,
* Lord Halifax.
The appendix states "see text for sources".
I've read the relevant chapters twice and can't find any mention.
So if anyone has the book in pdf form please could you search for those regiments and give me the page numbers? I'd really appreciate it.
I knew that Tom Essex's regiment had had coats issued as far as i was aware no colour was known.
I have found one mention (p134) of a 'Mr Benjamin Goodwin from the Irish Committee' being given 87 suits to be issued to Captain Jasper Hartwell's company (who were garrisoned in Plymouth). But if Benjamin Goodwin had a regiment surely he'd be referred to as Colonel rather than Mister? I have come across a Colonel Arthur Goodwin's regiment of horse (Essex's Army) before but not a Goodwin's foot.
Lord Halifax is problematical, as there was no Lord Halifax until 1667. George Saville (future Lord Halifax) would have been 12 in 1645, so pretty unlikely to have been a Colonel in any of the 3 Civil Wars, if he had had a regiment raised in his name then i would have expected it to fight for the King rather than Parliament as he was well rewarded during the Restoration. His father, Sir William, was Colonel of one of the Yorkshire trained bands, but as he fought as a Royalist it can't be him either. Anyway he was Baron Thornhill, never having Halifax in his title while he was alive.
