Heaths Historical Annual Or the Great Civil War of Charles I And the Parliam
Heaths Historical Annual Or the Great Civil War of Charles I And the Parliam
Richard Cattermole
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" The king's famous regiment likewise adopted red ; the Earl of Newcastle's regiment of Northumbrians were termed, from the white colour of their coats (or, as some say, with reference to their fierce cour- age), " Newcastle's lambs. " It was only by degrees, 110 THE FIRST BATTLE — EDGE-HILL. however, that any thing like uniformity was attained : the choice of clothing and arms was, in the first mstance, often decided by the taste or circumstances of the individual wearer. Each regiment or each... troojD had its standard, or cornet, bearing, on one side, the watchword of the parliament, " God with us, " and on the other the device of its commander, with his motto. The inscription on the Earl of Essex's was " Cave, adsum ;" the better-chosen and more characteristic words which waved, in battle, over the head of Hampden, were " Vestigia nulla retrorsum ; " later in the war, Algernon Sidney, one of the steadiest adherents to the cause, thus expressed, in the motto of the regiment Avhich he commanded, the source of his devotedness to the service : " Sanctus amor patriae dat animum.
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