Earl of Lauderdale’s Regiment of Foot

Covenanter Regiment of Foot raised for the Second Bishops' War, later forming part of Leven's army in the First Civil War, then returning to Scotland and fighting at Kilsyth

• Raised in East Lothian and Midlothian
• March to join Leslie’s army at Duns
• August to January 1641: Occupy Newcastle

• January to August: Occupy Sunderland?
• August: Return to Scotland and disbanded after the Treaty of London

• Raised anew in Midlothian

• April to July: Siege of York
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
• July: Siege of York
• July to October: Siege of Newcastle

• Return to Scotland
• August: Battle of Kilsyth

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

The regiment was likely dressed in ubiquitous Scots hodden grey with blue bonnets.

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 1. The Army of the Covenant 1639-1651 Partizan Press 1998 ISBN 094652550

John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, known as Viscount Maitland until he inherited his father's Earldom in January 1645.

Lieutenant Colonel, previously Lt Col of the Earl of Eglinton’s Regiment of Foot in Ireland