A HISTORY OF SURREY 



attempted to assemble a company for the king, and his seventy-two h^lf- 

 armed men had laid down what arms they had by i August. 1 he 

 Surrey militia was called out to garrison Farnham and Kmgston, and to 

 join the army of the Earl of Essex covering London, quarters bemg pro- 

 vided for them at Tottenham Court/ They took no part in the only serious 

 fighting, the storming of Brentford by the king, but were no doubt 

 under arms at Turnham Green. On 14 February 1643, by a Parliamen- 

 tary Ordinance, 500 dragoons were raised in Surrey under Nicholas 

 Stoughton for the defence of the county.' In connexion probably with 

 the raising of this regiment a warrant was issued on 23 May 1643 for 

 taking horses or an equivalent in money from the county. Eleven horses 

 were to be requisitioned from Sir John Dingley and Sir Mat. Brand ; two 

 dragoons or ^^3 los. from the parish of Stoke next Guildford ; two 

 dragoons or £2 10s. from Esher, and so on.* Sir Richard Onslow was 

 in command of the county militia generally, which served under the 

 orders of Sir William Waller in the campaigns of 1 643 and 1 644, but 

 its particular service was to defend the county, and it could not be 

 conveniently or safely marched far from it. By an ordinance of 18 July 

 1643 ^^ ^^^ decided to form an association of Hampshire, Sussex, Kent 

 and Surrey to raise a ' moving body ' of horse and foot. The organization 

 of the association was not completed till the autumn, and on 30 November 

 the Commons ordered the county to raise 850 foot by voluntary enlist- 

 ment, and if that failed by impressment." A warrant was issued for the 

 impressment of soldiers in Brixton and Wallington hundreds on 16 

 December 1643.° When the ranks of the New Model Army had to be 

 filled up in 1645, ^^^^^ ^^^ enrolling of men from previously existing 

 regiments there was no question of voluntary enlistment, but the 8,000 

 men still wanting were pressed in the counties where the Parliament was 

 supreme, Surrey among others. Three hundred and fifty men formed 

 the number first demanded from Surrey,'' and in 1646 200 more were 

 ordered to be pressed.* Whatever might be its contribution of men, 

 Surrey had to provide money in plenty for the military service of the 

 Parliament. By an ordinance of 13 January 1645 >C2,ooo a month was 

 laid on the county for the English army, and on i February 1645 

 X^2,ioo a month for the Scottish army in England. This was in addition 

 to the charge for the local forces in garrison about Farnham, Guildford 

 and elsewhere.* 



After the failure of the insurrection of the Earl of Holland in 1648 

 a Parhamentary ordinance sequestrated the real and personal estates of 

 delinquents m Surrey to raise a troop of horse in the county," and on 

 28 August a company of foot also had to be provided by the same means. 

 Ihemihtia remained permanently embodied, and comprised both horse 

 and foot. In 1650 Major Audley's Surrey troop of horse was ordered 



; ^^''^y ^^- ^'- '74- . 3 Ibid. vi. .66, .68, .69. 



Commas Joun,. date ated . Cal. ofS. P. Dom. (.64,-3), 46.-2. 



» Commons Journ. 30 Nov. i6x% s r^l „fv on /\: ^ ^ 



' Ibid. (.6^4-5), 359. ''- « Sd.-(.'6^5^;r3^.t '"'^' '°'- 



» Commons Journ. dates cited. .0 ibid. 24 Aug .'648 



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