Lord Conway’s Regiment of Foot

Ulster protestant regiment of foot serving in the Confederate War, fighting at Benburb

Later Lord Blayney's Regiment of Foot

• Raised
• January: One months pay for the Officers ordered to be sent from London.¹⁾
• May: Taking of Newry
• July: Assigned to a force assembled to take Limerick²⁾

• Ulster Colonels request that Mr Edward Conway replace his father, Lord Conway, as Colonel, the regiment being quartered in a very wasted part of the country³⁾

• January: Lord Blayney commanding in place of Lord Conway
• June: Battle of Benburb

Newly raised in Ulster in 1641-2⁴⁾. Conway even conscripted captured rebels from Newry⁵⁾.

In January 1642 1000 muskets and 1500 swords were ordered to be sent to Conway's and Clotworthy's regiments, but these didn't arrive until March ⁶⁾

A list of the unit's officers is shown in Army List of the Ulster British Forces, 1642-1646. by Kevin Forkan. Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 59 (2005), pp. 51-65 available via JSTOR. A list of the regiment's officers is also shown in An English Army for Ireland by Ian Ryder, Partizan Press.

Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway and Viscount Killultagh previously served as commander of the King's horse at the Battle of Newburn Ford in the Second Bishops' War of 1640.

Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney (d. 1646) was Lt Col. of Conway's foot from 1642 and took over the regiment in 1645. He was killed at the Battle of Benburb.

• 1641-2: 1000 men
• June 1642: 1000 men