Lord Lovat’s Fraser Highlanders

Scots Highland contingent of clan Fraser serving in the Bishops’ Wars and First Civil War

• Raised in Inverness-shire
• February: Seize Inverness
• May: March on Aberdeen, but negotiate with the Royalists at Elgin and return home

• Lovat musters clan Fraser
• Garrison a sconce on the Carse of Kingillie, Lovat Castle and Beauly Castle
• August: Rendezvous with Sutherland and the Northern Covenanters and march to Stratharrick
• September: Meet Argyll at Forres

• January to February: With Seaforth
• May: Join Urry at Inverness
• May: Battle of Auldearn

• Garrison Beauly, Wardlaw Sconce, Ulbokie's Sconce, Isle of Aigas and Little Struy

• Spring: Garrison Chanonry Castle
• Lose Chanonry Castle to the Mackenzies

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

Probably not formally regimented, Furgol labels them a ‘retinue’.

Joined by 80 musketeers from Inverness in August 1644

Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat, chief of Clan Fraser died in 1646.

• Lose 87 married men at Auldearn