Lord Conway’s Regiment of Foot

Ulster protestant regiment of foot serving in the Confederate War, fighting at Benburb

Later Lord Blayney's Regiment of Foot

• Raised from the Lisnegarvey area
• November: Besieged at Lisnegarvey

• January: Arms and one months pay for the Officers ordered to be sent from London.¹⁾
• Garrison of Carrickfergus
• April: Briefly garrison Belfast
• April: Skirmish at Kilwarlin Woods
• May: Taking of Newry
• July: Assigned to a force assembled to take Limerick²⁾
• Garrison Dungannon (det under Jones)

• Garrison Lisnegarvey (det under Jones)?

• Lord Conway removed for opposition to the Covenant
• Ulster Colonels request that Mr Edward Conway replace his father, Lord Conway, as Colonel, the regiment being quartered in a very wasted part of the country³⁾
• Quartered at Clare, Portadown, Knockbridge, Lisnegarvey, Glanavie and Kilultagh

• January: Lord Blayney commanding in place of Lord Conway
• June: Battle of Benburb Blayney mortally wounded
• Lord Conway regains control of the remains of the regiment after Benburb and requests 500 recruits to bring it up to strength

• September: Mustered at Ballycoine for the Royalists

Newly raised in Ulster in 1641-2⁴⁾. Conway's men participated in the massacre of rebels from Newry, then proceeded to recruit the surviving prisoners⁵⁾.

The regiment was routed at Benburb, with Lord Blayney mortally wounded and Lt Col Theophilus Jones captured.

In January 1642 1000 muskets and 1500 swords were ordered to be sent to Conway's and Clotworthy's regiments, but these didn't arrive until March ⁶⁾

A list of the unit's officers is shown in Army List of the Ulster British Forces, 1642-1646. by Kevin Forkan. Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 59 (2005), pp. 51-65 available via JSTOR. A list of the regiment's officers is also shown in An English Army for Ireland by Ian Ryder, Partizan Press.

Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway and Viscount Killultagh previously served as commander of the King's horse at the Battle of Newburn Ford in the Second Bishops' War of 1640. Conway was replaced by order of Parliamentary committee in 1645 since he refused to sign the Covenant.

Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney (d. 1646) was Lt Col. of Conway's foot from 1642 and took over the regiment in 1645. He was killed at the Battle of Benburb.

Theophilus Jones was Captain in 1642, Major in may 1645 and Lt Col by September 1645. He was the brother of Michael Jones, later taking over Colonel Michael Jones’ Regiment of Horse.

• 1641-2: 1000 men
• June 1642: 1000 men
• September 1649: Collonell Conwaie's:— the sargeant-major, 1 ; captaines, 2 ; ensignes, 2; sergeants, 4; corporalls, 8; drums, 3; pipers, 2; souldiers, 139; a clerke, and a chirurgeon-major, and quartermaster⁷⁾.