Earl of Home’s Regiment of Foot

Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the Second Bishops' War and on the Preston campaign in the Second Civil War

• Raised in Berwickshire
• September: March to Newcastle
• Quartered in England, but not in Newcastle

• August: Return to Scotland and disband after the Treaty of London

• Raised in the Merse
• July: Preston campaign
• August: Battle of Winwick Pass
• August: Surrender to the New Model Army at Winwick and Warrington

Flags of the regiment are identified from those captured at Preston. As usual for Scots foot regiments, the Colonel's company carried a white flag while other companies carried coloured flags. The white flag had a silver bear’s head crest, crowned and with the motto TREW TO THE END and a scroll that appears damaged. Flags of the other companies were green with a white saltire, one of which contained the number ‘4’ in black, probably the 4th captain’s distinction. The inscription was Couanant for Religion King and Kingdomes¹⁾

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1

An unenthusiastic Covenanter, he signed the Cumbernauld Bond in 1640 and was thereafter Royalist, he played no part in the First Civil War

• 1640: 900 men