Earl of Crawford-Lindsay’s Troop of Horse

Obscure troop of Scots horse of the First Civil War, also raised in the Second Civil War

• November: Assigned recruits

• February: Quartered in Scotland, the troop is disbanded with some troopers joining Sir William Keith of Ludquharn’s Regiment of Horse

• May: Crawford supports the Engagers and raises a troop, eight Perthshire horse allocated to Leslie are instead sent to Crawford
• September: Battle of Stirling
• September: Disbanded following the Treaty of Stirling

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

John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Lindsay.

• A single troop