Sir Charles Coote’s Regiment of Foot

Later the Earl of Kildare's Regiment of Foot

Regiment of foot raised for Strafford's army, then serving in Ireland at the outbreak of the Irish rebellion

• Raised in Connaught

• May: Disbanded
• November to March 1642: Besieged in Drogheda

• May: Maj Peisley's company in garrison at Dublin²⁾.
• May: Coote killed
• December?: Kildare takes over regiment.³⁾

Carried flags of orange tawney and green when raised in 1640

A list of the regiment's officers is also shown in An English Army for Ireland by Ian Ryder, Partizan Press.

Sir Charles Coote (senior) was one of the Protestant leaders at the start of the Irish revolt. He was killed in a skirmish at Trim on the 7th of May 1642. His son, Sir Charles Coote, 2nd Baronet, also fought in the Confederate Wars and led Protestant and Parliamentarian forces in Ulster.

George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare

Michael Jones served as Major to the regiment under Kildare but defected to the Parliamentarians after the Cessation of 1643.

Sir Charles Coote's regiment :—Captains : Roger Moyines, Ralph Gee, Charles Townsly, John Welldone, Prime[iron] Rochford, Christopher Roapar, Robert Caufield, William Piggott, Edward Aldridge, Adam Loftus⁴⁾.

Sir Charles Coote's regiment :— Captain Peisley, not armed. Captain Erasmus Burroughs, armed ; Captains : Wingfield, armed ; Barry, unarmed ; Harman (blank) ; Edward Trevor, unarmed ; Erasmus Burroughs, armed for defence of the Castle [of Dublin] ; — Cave(blank); Hassall, armed for defence of the College [ Dublin] ; William Welldon, unarmed.

The Earle of Kildare's regiment⁵⁾.

• Colonel The Earle of Kildare
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Loftus
• Serjeant-Major Christopher Roper
• Lord Caulfeild
• Captain Michaell Jones
• Captain Richard Wingfield
• Captain John Pigot
• Captain William Pigot
• Captain Prime[iron] Rochfort
• Captain Richard Cave.

• Earle of Kildare :—Sir Arthur Loftus ; Sergeant-Major Piesley. Captains: Jones, Wingeild, Lord Cauleild, Rochfort, Pigott, (sic) Pigott, Cave.⁶⁾.

• 1642: Establishment of 1000 men⁷⁾

• Serjeant-Major Peisley :—Present : officers, 7 ; pikes, 35 ; musketts, 28 = 60. Absent : lieutenant at Naas, I ; soldiars there, 7 ; at Uroghedagh, 10; sick, 10; at Balgriffin, 1 = 29. Killed in service, 5 ; dead, 1 ;others entred in their places. In all, 89.