• The Devon Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Devonshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
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  • Devon Militia was a part-time military force in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands...
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  • aircraft operating under a designated division leader. In 1577, the Devon Trained Bands of England were divided into three divisions, each with two colonels...
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    Ferdinando Gorges (category Devon Militia officers)
    Facts". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Retrieved 17 January 2014. Devon Trained Bands 1633 at the British Civil War Project (archived at the Wayback Machine)...
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    Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet (category Devon Militia officers)
    for Totnes in 1625. In 1577 he was Colonel of a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands. Seymour became an Admiralty official and privateer and was a Royalist...
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    the starting date for the organised county militia in England. The Devon Trained Bands were divided into three 'Divisions' (East, North and South), which...
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    Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet (category Devon Militia officers)
    (died 1620). In 1633 he was Colonel of a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands. He was Sheriff of Devon in 1641. On 19 July 1642, before the start of the Civil...
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    Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (category Devon Militia officers)
    County of Devon by King Charles I on 14 July 1641. He later sided with the Parliamentarian side, commanding a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands. He sat...
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    the Devon Trained Bands. Courtenay married twice. He married firstly, 7 November 1606, Mary (born 1586), widow of Nicholas Hurst of Oxton, Devon and eldest...
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    Samuel Rolle (died 1647) (category Devon Militia officers)
    Satchville in the parish of Petrockstowe, Devon, served as Member of Parliament for Callington, Cornwall in 1640 and for Devon 1641–1647. He supported the parliamentary...
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  • the starting date for the organised county militia in England. The Devon Trained Bands were divided into three 'Divisions' (East, North and South), which...
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  • the starting date for the organised county militia in England. The Devon Trained Bands were divided into three 'Divisions' (East, North and South), which...
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    small bands of settlers along the coasts of Lyme Bay and southern estuaries and later as more organised bands pushing in from the east. Devon became...
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  • This is a list of notable punk rock bands beginning with the numbers 0–9 and letters A through K. The bands listed have played some type of punk music...
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    as one of two Colonels of the East Division of the Devon Trained Bands. He served as Sheriff of Devon for 1579–80 and was also involved in the Munster Plantation...
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    Devon and Cornwall Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles...
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    death in 2021. Originally trained as a graphic artist, Watts developed an interest in jazz at a young age and joined the band Blues Incorporated. He also...
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    lives with his family in Wolborough, which is a parish of Newton Abbott in Devon. Knopfler was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2023 Teignbridge District...
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    Tavistock (redirect from Tavistock, devon)
    ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy, from which its...
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    town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its population was 24,029 in 2011, and was estimated at 26,655...
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    Robert Dennis (MP) (category High sheriffs of Devon)
    commissioned as one of two Colonels of the East Division of the Devon Trained Bands. His mother (his father's second wife) was Elizabeth Donne, a daughter...
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    BID-ə-fərd) is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, South West England. It is the main town of the Torridge local government...
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    Plymouth (redirect from Plymouth Devon)
    PLIM-əth) is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers Plym and Tamar, about...
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  • the English county of Bedfordshire. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands, in 1572 and their service during the Armada Crisis and in the English...
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  • Henry Rosewell (category High sheriffs of Devon)
    a private chapel at Forde Abbey. He commanded a regiment of the Devon Trained Bands for Parliament in the First English Civil War. It has been suggested...
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    Teignmouth (redirect from Teignmouth, Devon)
    a seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign, about...
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  • impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man, so after 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands, who were mustered...
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    Powderham Castle (category Castles in Devon)
    Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in Exminster, Devon, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Exeter and 1⁄4 mile (0.4 km) north-east of the village of Kenton...
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  • impractical to train and equip every able-bodied man, so after 1572 the practice was to select a proportion of men for the Trained Bands, who were mustered...
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    release of their second album Levelling the Land. The band were among the most popular indie bands in Britain in the early 1990s, and performed at the Glastonbury...
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