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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
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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.

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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