- Source: Bury Conference (1645)
The Bury Conference was held on 30 January, 1645 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk by committeemen of the Eastern Association to discuss their concerns about the proposed New Model Army. The Eastern Association had provided a major portion of the Parliamentarian Army which had proved victorious at the Battle of Marston Moor in July 1644. However the new proposals for a professional national standing army distinct from the functions of civilian administration was at odds with use of trained bands with which the Eastern Association had played such a major role in meeting the military challenges of the Royalist Army.: 191
Participants
The conference was a meeting of 35 Deputy Lieutenants and Committeemen from the Associated Counties of Norffolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hartford, Cambridge, Huntington, and Lincolnshire.: 84
= Norfolk
=Seven were from Norfolk:
Sir John Palgrave, 1st Baronet
Edward Ashby
Thomas Sotherton
Robert Jermy
John Spelman
Tobias Frere
John Greenwood of Norwich
= Suffolk
=Twelve were from Suffolk:
Maurice Barrow, High Sheriff
Sir William Spring
Sir John Wentworth
Henry North the elder
Francis Bacon
Thomas Tirrell
Thomas Bacon
Gibson Lucas
Thomas Chaplin
Thomas Gipps
Brampton Gurdon Junior
Nathaniel Bacon
= Essex
=Four were from Essex:
Henry Mildmay
Raymond
Eldred
Sorrell
= Hertfordshire
=Two were from Hertfordshire
Alban Coxe
Daughs
= Cambridgeshire
=Three were from Cambridgeshire
Edward Clench
Thomson
Parker
= Huntingdonshire
=One was from Huntingdonshire
William Drewry
= Lincolnshire
=Three were from Lincolnshire
Sir William Brownlow
Sir Thomas Trollop
Montagu Cholmeley