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| + | |**Flag Illustration 1**|{{:covenanter:foot-regiments:yester1.jpg?200|}}((Original artwork by Tony Barton, shown by kind permission of Tony Barton and Charles Kightly. Previously published in Military Modelling magazine))| | ||
| + | |**Flag Illustration 2**|{{:covenanter:foot-regiments:yester2.jpg?200|}}((Original artwork by Tony Barton, shown by kind permission of Tony Barton and Charles Kightly. Previously published in Military Modelling magazine))| | ||
| |**Active**|1639| | |**Active**|1639| | ||
| | |1643 to 1647| | | |1643 to 1647| | ||
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| ====1646==== | ====1646==== | ||
| + | *Quartered in England | ||
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| + | ====1647==== | ||
| + | *January: Return to Scotland | ||
| *February: Disbanded | *February: Disbanded | ||
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| 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 | 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===== | =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | ||
| - | The regiment was likely dressed in ubiquitous Scots hodden grey with blue bonnets. Flags from the regiment were captured at Preston. The Colonel's company carried a white flag while other companies carried blue flags. The white flag had a silver goat’s head crest, with the motto //SPARE NOCHT// and an ornate scroll reading //COVENANT for Religion KING and Kingdomes//. Flags of the other companies were blue with a white saltire and a central silver goat's head surrounded by a wreath. The inscription was //Couenant for Religion King and Kingdomes//((Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) | + | The regiment was likely dressed in ubiquitous Scots hodden grey with blue bonnets. Flags from the regiment were captured at Preston. The Colonel's company carried a white flag while other companies carried blue flags. The white flag had a silver goat’s head crest, with the motto //SPARE NOCHT// and an ornate scroll reading //COVENANT for Religion KING and Kingdomes// (Illustration 1). Flags of the other companies were blue with a white saltire and a central silver goat's head surrounded by a wreath. The inscription was //Couenant for Religion King and Kingdomes// (Illustration 2)((Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) |
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====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 | 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 | ||
| ====John Hay, Master of Yester==== | ====John Hay, Master of Yester==== | ||
| - | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay,_1st_Marquess_of_Tweeddale|John Hay]], 1st Lord of Yester then succeeded to the title 1st Earl of Tweedale in 1654. | + | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay,_1st_Marquess_of_Tweeddale|John Hay]], 1st Lord of Yester then succeeded to the title 1st Earl of Tweeddale in 1654. |
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| *November 1645: 299 officers & men | *November 1645: 299 officers & men | ||
