Marquis of Ormond’s Regiment of Horse

Regiment of horse serving in Ireland at the outbreak of the Irish rebellion

• Mustered

• November to March 1642: Besieged in Drogheda (det)
• November: Battle of Julianstown

• February: Skirmish at Smith’s Town (det)?
• August: Garrisoned at Dublin

• October to November: Besieged at Duncannon

Equipped as cuirassiers in 1641-2¹⁾.

James Butler, Marquis of Ormond

Troop of horse of the Earl of Ormonde²⁾

• Captain: James, Earl of Ormonde and Ossory
• Lieutenant Patricke Wemys, esquire
• Cornet: Edmond Mathewes, Corronett
• Quartermaster: Richard Merveyn,
• Corporals: Sanderlens, Kynkidd, Nellson.
• Trumpeters: Thomas Hill
• Troopers: Ralph Turner, Eneas Lyan, Thomas FitzPatricke, Peirce Power fitz Peirce, Edmond Butler fitz Theobald, Edmond Butler fitz Gilbert, Edward Butler, James Hammelton (entered Easter last), Edward Eustas, Merveyn Moslye (entered this last muster), Edmond Butler, John fitz Oliver Grace, John Roo Butler (entered this last muster), Edmond O'Dwyer, Paule Clearke, Henry Carre, John Armstronge, Richard Shea, Peirce Butler, of Ballymachensie ; John Jones, James Commerford, Richard Milbourne, smyth ; Gerrall Farrell, William Graham, Nicholas Harrison, Lewis Wailsb, Walter Walish, George Ledwitch, Richard Larra, Mathew Kinge (entred this muster), James Sturgeon, Thomas Roth, William Sharpo, Thomas Kelly, sadler, Sammmell Edknnes, John Wanlesse, George Brookes, Richard Mouldesworth, Edmond Caphoe (entred this muster), Arthur Gore, Roger Shehye, Derby Dwygin, James O'Golloham, Luke Grace, Thomas Connor, Roger Lewis, George Clearke, William Grace, William Purdon, Anthonie Collyer, Peirce Hovenden, Matthew Bates, John Purssel, James Prendergast, senior : Richard Graham, Edmond Tobin, James Butler, of Knocknannymy ; Peirce Power, James Power, John Walish fitz Adam ; Peirce Bryan, Patrick Bryan, James Purssell, Richard Browneridge, Walter Gryffin, Richard Roth, William Parker (entred this muster), John Butler, Edmond Hill, Nicholas Phelan, William Shea, Patricke Tempan, Gerratt Kavanagh, James Bunten, Adam Tobin, Morris Kent, Peirce Dalton, Peirce Butler, of Tulloghea ; Teige Daniell, Richard Butler, of Grange ; Captaine Perse Butler, George Walteres (entred this muster), Patricke Purssell, Richard Derby, John Hilton (entred this muster), Charles Byrne, James Preston, Teige O'Sullivan, James Butler, of Knoekynattyne ; John Butler, Fitz James ; Edmond Sharpe, Francis Trevers, John Butler, of Grannagh ; Arthur Graham, William Graham, James Prendergast, of Killragh ; Edmond Corkoran, William Butler, William Butler, the taylor; John Smyth, Lawrence Smyth, William Smyth.

[Total, 111.]

The Earle of Ormond's troupe :— Present : officers, 8 ; horsemen, 77= 85. Absent: leuitenant and one man in England by lycence, 2; at Turvy, by commande, 6 ; sicke, trumpeter, 1 ; horsemen sicke, 6 ; in prison, 1 = 16. In all, 101.

• 1640: 111 horse
• 1641-2: 100 strong
• May 1642: 101
• 50 in one troop at Drogheda