Earl of Loudon’s Regiment of Horse
Active | 1639 |
1649 to 1650 | |
Country | Scotland |
Allegiance | Covenanter |
Conflicts | First Bishops' War |
Third Civil War | |
Type | Horse |
Colonel | Earl of Loudon |
Area Raised | Ayrshire |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Leslie 1639 |
Leslie 1650 |
Covenanter Regiment of Horse of the Bishops' Wars, forming part of Leslie’s army, later a troop active in the Third Civil War
Service History
1639
- Raised in Ayrshire
- Join Leslie’s army at Duns Law
- June: Standoff at Duns Law
- June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks
1649
- 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
1650
- 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
Notes
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?
Coats, Flags & Equipment
Notable Officers
Earl of Loudon
Strength
- 1639: Loudon led 1200 horse and foot at Duns Law
- 1649:100 men and a trumpeter in a single troop