Earl of Loudon’s Regiment of Horse

Covenanter Regiment of Horse of the Bishops' Wars, forming part of Leslie’s army, later a troop active in the Third Civil War

• Raised in Ayrshire
• Join Leslie’s army at Duns Law
• June: Standoff at Duns Law
• June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks

• Loudon presumably raises a troop of horse, perhaps from Whiggamores he'd led in 1648, it is sometimes known as the Lord Chancellor's Troop
• June: Loudon's troop is quartered in East Lothian
• July: A trooper prosecuted for fornication at Haddington

• June: Ordered to East Lothian
• Join Leslie's army
• September: Battle of Dunbar
• The troop may have disbanded due to losses or perhaps remnants persisted to serve under Loudon, who fought at Worcester and joined Glencairn's rising in 1653

A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651 Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0

The Third Civil War troop might have been part of Lord Mauchline’s Regiment of Horse?

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudon

• 1639: Loudon led 1200 horse and foot at Duns Law
• 1649:100 men and a trumpeter in a single troop