Lord Montgomerie’s Regiment of Horse
Active | 1639 |
1644 to 1648 | |
Country | Scotland |
Allegiance | Covenanter |
Conflicts | First Bishops' War |
First Civil War | |
Second Civil War | |
Type | Horse |
Dragoons | |
Colonel | Lord Montgomerie |
David Barclay | |
Area Raised | Ayr |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Leslie 1639 |
Callendar 1644 | |
Leslie 1645 | |
Middleton 1646 | |
Charles 1651? |
Later Colonel David Barclay’s Regiment of Horse
Covenanter regiment of horse serving in the Bishops' Wars then with Callendar and returning to Scotland serving under Leslie
Service History
1639
- April: Commissioned to raise horse for Lord Johnstone's command
- Join Leslie’s army at Duns Law
- June: Standoff at Duns Law
- June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks
1644
- Raised anew in Ayr for service in England
- May: Quartered at Carnesellock
- June: Enter England with Callendar
- June: Taking of Morpeth
- July: Repulsed from Gateshead
- July to September: Siege of Newcastle
- September: Return to Scotland
1645
- September: Battle of Philiphaugh
- October: Serving under Middleton
- November: Quartered in Fife, Perth and Clackmannanshire
- December: Two companies of Lord Coupar’s Dragoons added to the regiment
- December: Detachment of 37 men sent to the Siege of Newark
1646
- March: Siege of Kincardine Castle
- March: Relief of Inverness
1647
- February: The regiment mostly disbands, Major David Barclay's troop continues in service as part of the Scots New Model Army and a detachment joins Colonel Harie Barclay’s Troop of Horse
1648
- January: Barclay married at Duffus, Moray
- March: In garrison at Bog of Gight, Strathbogie and Lochkendar
- May: Barclay promoted to colonel and ordered to raise another troop of 80 horse from Easter Ross, Sutherland and Caithness
- May: Sharp's company of Dragoons added to Barclay's regiment
- September: Barclay sides with the Engagers
- September: Take Stirling?
- September: Disbanded
1651
- June: Montgomerie commissioned colonel of Ayrshire horse, though uncertain if any arrived in time
- September: Battle of Worcester? Montgomerie captured
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
In 1651 the regiment was commissioned but it is not known if recruits arrived in time to accompany Montgomerie to Worcester.
Flags
Notable Officers
A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 1. The Army of the Covenant 1639-1651 Partizan Press 1998 ISBN 094652550
Lord Montgomerie
David Barclay
Major in 1646, commanded the independent troop derived from the regiment in 1647
Strength
- Autumn 1645: 600 strong
- February 1647: 80 in 1 troop
- Summer 1648: 2 troops of horse, 1 of dragoons
- June 1651: 200 levies planned