Somerset Trained Bands
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The Somerset Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the county of Somerset in South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodical
Thomas Lunsford
The Battle of Newburn
A sergeant and private of the Somerset Militia in 1685
John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, of Hinton St George, Somerset, was an English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1621 and was later raised to the peerage.
Somerset Trained Bands
…out of town and shortly afterwards the whole county. The Somerset TBs divided as follows: Royalist: Lord Paulet's Somerset Trained Band: commanded by John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (or Paulet). Paulet had commanded 800 men in June 1642, but he was a committed Royalist and the men followed Lt-Col John Pyne, MP, into the Parliamentarian…
John, First Lord Poulett, painting by anonymous artist (British School), c.1640.
Elizabeth Poulet, 1616, by Robert Peake the Elder, Denver Art Museum