Lord Mandeville’s Regiment of Foot..

Edward Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, the
2nd Earl of Manchester by Sir Peter Lely,
circa 1661-1665

'though his Lordship beseeched them, yea cudgelled them'.. 

Lord Wharton's speech to Parliament 
following the  battle

These represent the third regiment from the ill fated Charles Essex's brigade.. 

The regiment was raised by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, but distinguished itself (according to  Young in "Edgehill 1642") only by the speed with which it quit the field in the face of the advancing Royalist infantry at Edgehill despite the efforts of the aforesaid, as quoted by Wharton above..!

Mandeville went on to form another regiment of foot in the Eastern Association (Cromwell's boys) in 1643.

He was also, by the way, one of the five members of Parliament that the King attempted to arrest in the preceding January ("the birds have flown")

Returns show that in October 1642 (after Edgehill) they numbered 705 rank and file, but in "Edgehill 1642: The Battle Reinterpreted" (Eric Gruber von Arni, Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton) they have the regiment numbering 600. I suspect the latter rather than the former...

The regiment was then, present (for a while ) at Edgehill, and  was also present at Turnham Green in the November, but it was disbanded after Turnham Green - Young reasons that it could have been because of their poor showing at Edgehill but as we have already seen there were plenty of other Parliamentary foot regiments that performed as badly, or worse, and weren't disbanded..

The figures are mostly Minifigs (all the pike, the firing muskets, and the officers) with a leavening of Peter Pig (second rank of muskets - they were left over dismounted dragoons but with a paint conversion job they do) - painted late December '19/January '20..  the Minifigs were nice, they scale well (as you can see) but the pikes are stupidly long and bendy so I trimmed them down to scale with the Pigs...  I think going forward I will focus on building further units with the Peter Pigs - they are unbeatable for character, sculpt, and they also benefit from being one of the newer/later ranges so uniform detail is more accurate (amazing how many ranges have musketeers in helm for example)

Cavalry next..

Sources:

• Edgehill 1642 - Peter Young
• Edgehill 1642: The Battle Reinterpreted - Eric Gruber von Arni, Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton
• http://wiki.bcw-project.org/parliamentarian/foot-regiments/lord-mandeville
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Montagu,_2nd_Earl_of_Manchester