Sir Conyers Darcy’s Regiment of Foot

Later Colonel Marmaduke Darcy’s Regiment of Foot

Royalist regiment of foot serving in the North and with the Oxford Army

• March to April: Siege of Thornton?
• April: Skirmish at Skipton?
• May: Stormed at Wakefield
• 4th June 1643: Queens Magazine Escort
• June: Storm of Burton on Trent
• 3rd August to 5th September: Siege of Gloucester
• September: First Battle of Newbury. Byron's Brigade.

• December to March 1645: Besieged at Pontefract?

• November to May 1646: Besieged in Newark

• May: Surrender of Newark

Conyers Lord Darcy and Conyers was Colonel of a Yorkshire Trained Band Regiment of Foot. His eldest son Sir Conyers Darcy, led a blue-coated regiment of foot to join the Oxford Army in 1643 and was severely wounded at First Newbury though he survived. Command passed to his brother, Marmaduke Darcy. It’s possible that the earlier engagements noted refer to Lord Darcy’s Trained Band regiment.

Blue coats and blue flags with cinquefoils in 1643, colour of cinquefoils unknown but likely white.