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The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… Captain-lieutenant of the Colonel’s own troop in Sir John Gell’s regiment of horse, killed in 1643 in the operation to …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… 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 … that are unclear, and he was taken prisoner back there (Gell allegedly got hold of some of Mathews’s property which …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… appointed to replace Robert Cotchett as Captain Sir John Gell’s regiment of Derbyshire horse. Rodes ‘appears to have been the only supporter of Gell among the officers of horse’ (Brighton, ‘Governor’, 8), and was the only one to continue to serve with Gell after Naseby. Gell conspicuously praised Rodes’s part in …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… a company of 200 men and became a captain in Sir John Gell’s regiment of foot in Derbyshire, and was soon promoted … with the neutralist gentry of South Derbyshire Sanders and Gell rapidly fell out, and Sanders, stationed at … refused to return to Derby when recalled by Gell and instead took his company into service in a regiment …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… Samuel Samuel Taylor A lead merchant. Captain in Sir John Gell’s regiment of foot. In late 1643 Taylor and Captain Ralph Clarke defected from Gell’s force, going first to Nottinghamshire and then to join … Sir Thomas Fairfax. Taylor later claimed he had deserted Gell after the latter had threatened to shoot and arrest any …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… Vermuyden A captain in Derbyshire in Sir John Gell’s regiment of foot in 1642. He was a kinsman of the fen … the letters of complaint against their colonel, Sir John Gell, that other captains made to Brereton, and obeyed Gell’s orders to return to Derby in Apr. 1645. Dore suggestes …
The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers
… Staffordshire men, to the Derbyshire horse under Sir John Gell. As captain of dragoons, he was sent to Sir William … in late 1644, and, like the other ‘godly men’ amongst Gell’s cavalry officers, would have preferred to continue to … in Apr. 1645 to return to Derby by their own men because Gell was starving the horse of funds. Either he or the other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… taken by assault, and the works demolished, by Sir John Gell, and some time afterwards, it was plundered by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Sir John Harpur here, which he fortified; but Sir John Gell, marching hither with Sir George Gresley's troops, after …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… iv. 592-3. Glos. R.O., D 587, Tetbury brewery deeds. Gell and Bradshaw, Glos. Dir. (1820), 219, 222. Kelly's Dir. …