Viscount Dudhope’s Regiment of Foot

Later Colonel William Baillie’s Regiment of Foot

Covenanter Regiment of Foot raised for service in England, forming part of Leven’s army

• August: Dudhope commissioned Colonel of the regiment raised from Angus
• December: Dundee recruits ordered

• January: Enter England under Leven
• April to July: Siege of York
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor; Dudhope mortally wounded, dying 23rd July
• July: Baillie succeeds Dudhope as Colonel
• July: Siege of York
• August to October: Siege of Newcastle (withdrawn to Scotland for some time in September)

• July to September: Siege of Hereford

• Return to Scotland
• March to April: Probably quartered around Glasgow
• Campaign in North-East??
• December: Quartered in Glasgow

• January: Quarters altered due to plague
• February: Disbanded, apart from 1 company sent to reinforce The General of Artillery’s Regiment of Foot

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

Remained with the army in England while Baillie himself returned to Scotland in 1645.

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

James Scrymgour, 2nd Viscount Dudhope, was mortally wounded at Marston Moor

William Baillie succeeded Dudhope as Colonel after Marston Moor.

• 1644: 10 companies