Viscount Kenmure’s Regiment of Foot

Covenanter Regiment of Foot serving at the sieges of Newcastle and Hereford, later serving in Scotland

• May: Raised in Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire and a company from Annandale
• Assigned to Callendar's force
• July to October: Siege of Newcastle, guarding the bridge of boats

• May to June: Quartered at Linlithgow, then return to England
• July to September: Siege of Hereford
• Autumn: Return to Scotland
• November: Allocated recruits from Dumfriesshire
• December: Quartered in Perth

• January to April: Quartered at Aberdeen, perhaps detachment at Fyvie Castle
• March: Siege of Kincardine Castle
• Summer: Serving under Middleton
• August: Half the regiment quartered at Selkirk

• February: Disbanded apart from 53 men sent to The General of Artillery’s Regiment of Foot of the Scots New Model Army

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

On return to Scotland was brigaded with Colonel William Stewart’s Regiment of Foot serving under Middleton.

Presumably clad in the usual Scots hodden grey.

In April 1644 300 pikes and 600 muskets were ordered to be delivered to Kenmure.

Robert Gordon, 4th Viscount Kenmure later supported the Royalists.

• December 1645: 400 men