Early Military Career
Sindercombe was born in Kent and was apprenticed to a surgeon. During the English Civil War he became a Roundhead and a Leveller. In 1649 he took part in the mutiny of his regiment and when it failed he fled. In 1655 he re-appeared as a member of a cavalry regiment in Scotland and took part in a plot to take control of the local army. This failed as well and Sindercombe fled to the Netherlands.
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