Lord Lovat’s Regiment

Scots Highland contingent of clan Fraser serving in the Bishops’ Wars

Service History

Raised in Inverness-shire
February: Seize Inverness
May: March on Aberdeen, but negotiate with the Royalists at Elgin and return home

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

Probably not formally regimented, Furgol labels them a ‘retinue’.

Hugh, 7th Lord Lovat, chief of Clan Fraser.