Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 16 ga Janairu, 1643, Thomas, Lord Grey na Groby an nada shi babban kwamandan kungiyar Midland counties kuma an umurce shi da ya kula da Nottingham a lokacin yakin basasa na biyu. Ya dauki hedkwatar a can a watan Yunin 1643, tare da rundunar kimanin mutane 6,000. A cikin wasika zuwa ga ɗansa Thomas, wanda aka rubuta a ranar 5 ga Maris, 1643, Henry Grey (mahaifin Thomas) ya bayyana yaƙin don share ƙasar, yana wucewa ta garuruwa kamar Lutterworth, Hinckley, Barwell, Lichfield, da Newark. A ranar 29 ga Agusta, 1643, a Aylesbury, ya shiga Earl na Essex a kan tafiya don sauƙaƙe Gloucester. Bayan da aka ɗaga kewaye, ya yi yaƙi a yakin farko na Newbury
Kuma ya yi gõdiya a kan wannan. A shekara ta 1644, ya sami ƙarin godiya don rage wuraren a Derbyshire. Daga nan sai ya bar Leicester saboda rashin fahimta amma, a cikin 1645, ya nemi a dawo don fuskantar harin masarauta. A shekara ta 1648, Lord Grey ya tara sojoji a Leicestershire. Bayan shan kashi na Scots a Preston, ya bi Duke na Hamilton da dokinsa zuwa Uttoxeter kuma ya dauki bashi don kama shi, ko da yake Duke Hamilton ya yi iƙirarin ya mika wuya. Har zuwa watan Agusta, Grey ya gudanar da umarni daban-daban a cikin 'yan bindiga. A shekara ta 1651, an tura shi don tara masu sa kai tare da kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan kwamandan A watan Satumba, Sir Edward Massie ya mika wuya ga Lord Grey bayan yakin Worcester.