HAMMOND, FRANCIS [SSNE 90]
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Francis Hammond served as a captain in Sir Charles Rich's regiment as part of the Mansfeld levy of 1624-1625. He thereafter transferred with Mansfeld's survivors into the army of Christian IV. He served as a captain arriving in 1626. He appears to have served in the Bergenhus Regiment rather than with the main English contingent under Sir Charles Morgan. After the treaty of Lubeck in 1629, Hammond may have transferred into one of the four English regiments serving in the Dutch Republic. However, he first returned to Denmark to seek his back pay. Some officers who had served with him in Denmark asked the English Council that they might prevail upon him to ask for their pay as well.
A Captain Hammon served as a captain for a company in the army of the James Marquis of Hamilton destined for Swedish service in June 1630. He was permitted to recruit for his company in Surrey, Berkshire, Kent, Norfolk and Oxford.
Sometime after 1635, a Captain Hammon can be found in Colonel Culpepper's regiment in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. Certainly Colonel Francis Hammond went on to lead a regiment under the Earl of Northumberland during the Bishops Wars. For his service during the 2nd Bishops War (April to September 1640) he was awarded payment of £1246. He later fought for the Royalists at Edgehill in 1642, reputedly as a colonel of the Forlorn Hope. Hammond was a participant in the East Kent Royalist rebellion of 1647-1648. He survived the English Civil War and retired to country life.
Sources for the Palatinate: Laurence Spring, The First British Army (Heilon, 2016), p.222.
Sources for Danish-Norwegian service: J. Wahl, Det Gamle Bergenhusiske Regiments Historie 1628-1720 (Christiania, 1901), pp.8-20; G. Lind, Danish Data Archive 1573; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.113; Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1629-1631, p.431. Item 5.
Sources for Hamilton's Army: Acts of the Privy Council of England, June 1630-June 1631, p.376, 8 June 1630.
Sources for Dutch service: British Library, Kings MS 265, f.28r.
For Royalist service see Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1640, p.659. We thank Simon Marsh for updating this biography and bringing the following source for his service in the British Civil Wars to our attention. Hammond in Royalist service see:http://www.nonington.org.uk/colonels-francis-and-robert-hammond-updated-biographies/
Bishops Wars; English Civil War; British Civil Wars
Service record
- STUART KINGDOMS, MANSFELD EXPEDITION
- Arrived 1625-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- DENMARK-NORWAY, BERGENHUS REGIMENT
- Arrived 1626-04-08, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1629-08-08, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- STUART KINGDOMS, SWEDEN, HAMILTON ARMY
- Arrived 1631-06-01, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- STUART KINGDOMS, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE
- Arrived 1635-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- STUART KINGDOMS, ENGLAND, ROYALIST ARMY, BISHOPS WARS, EDGEHILL
- Arrived 1639-01-01, as COLONEL
- Departed 1648-12-31
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY