“ When the Civil War broke out Feilding, unlike the other members of his family, ranged himself among the Parliamentarians, led a regiment of horse at Edgehill, and, having become earl of Denbigh in April 1643, was made commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary army in Warwickshire and the neighbouring counties, and lord-lieutenant of Warwickshire. ”

“ His courage, unselfishness and devotion to duty are much praised by Clarendon.
See E. Lodge, Portraits (1850) , iv. 113; J. Nichols, Hist. of Leicestershire (1807) , iv. pt. 1, 273; Hist. MSS. Comm Ser. 4th Rep. app. 254; Cal. of State Papers, Dom.; Studies in Peerage and Family History, by J. H. Round (1901) , 216. ”