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Earl of Buccleugh’s Regiment of Foot
| Active | 1643 to 1648 |
| Country | Scotland |
| Allegiance | Covenanter |
| Conflicts | First Civil War |
| Second Civil War | |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Earl of Buccleugh |
| Walter Scott | |
| William Baillie | |
| Area Raised | Tweeddale |
| Coat Colour | Grey |
| Flag Colour | Blue |
| Flag Design | yellow/white saltire |
| Field Armies | Leven 1643-5 |
| Hamilton 1648 |
Later Colonel Walter Scott’s, then Colonel William Baillie’s Regiment of Foot
Covenanter Regiment of Foot raised for service in England, forming part of Leven’s army, subsequently continuing as part of the Scots New Model Army and fighting at Preston
Service History
1643
- August Buccleugh commissioned colonel, raised in Tweeddale
1644
- January: Join Leven
- March: Battle of Hylton
- April to July: Siege of York
- 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
- July: Siege of York
- July: Quartered in Yorkshire
- August to October: Siege of Newcastle
1645
- Taken over by Scott
- July to September: Siege of Hereford
- Quartered in Yorkshire
- November to May 1646: Siege of Newark
1646
- May: Taking of Newark
- September: Quartered in Northumberland
1647
- Form part of the Scots New Model Army
- Taken over by Baillie
1648
- July: Preston campaign (det)
- August: Winwick Pass
- August: Surrender to the New Model Army at Winwick and Warrington
Notes
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
Coats, Flags & Equipment
The regiment was likely dressed in ubiquitous Scots hodden grey with blue bonnets. Reid has identified the regiment's flags under Baillie at Preston as having a blue field with a half yellow (sinister) and half white (dexter) saltire with in the centre a green wreath enclosing a red star. Companies seem to have been distinguished by the number of stars as flags with 3 and 5 were also captured. The inscription reads Couenant for Religion King and Kingdoms1)
Notable Officers
Lists of the regiment's officers are shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 1. The Army of the Covenant 1639-1651 Partizan Press 1998 ISBN 094652550 and in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1
Earl of Buccleugh
Col Walter Scott
Took over the regiment in 1645
Col William Baillie
William Baillie took over the regiment in 1648 when Lieutenant General.
Strength
- January 1644: 1200 men
- December 1645: 358 men
- February 1646: 301 men
- April 1646: 358 men
