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| |**Active**|1639 | | |**Active**|1639 | | ||
| + | | |1640 to 1641| | ||
| |**Country**|Scotland| | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| |**Conflicts**|First Bishops’ War| | |**Conflicts**|First Bishops’ War| | ||
| + | | |Second Bishops' War| | ||
| |**Type**|Foot| | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| |**Colonel**|Alexander Leslie| | |**Colonel**|Alexander Leslie| | ||
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| |**Area Raised**|Edinburgh| | |**Area Raised**|Edinburgh| | ||
| |**Coat Colour**| | | |**Coat Colour**| | | ||
| - | |**Flag Colour**| | | + | |**Flag Colour**| | |
| - | |**Flag Design**| | | + | |**Flag Design**|See below| |
| |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1639| | |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1639| | ||
| + | | |Leslie 1640| | ||
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| *March: Raised by the College of Justice in Edinburgh | *March: Raised by the College of Justice in Edinburgh | ||
| *May: Accompany Leslie to Aberdeen? | *May: Accompany Leslie to Aberdeen? | ||
| + | *June: Holding of Kelso? | ||
| *June: Standoff at Duns Law | *June: Standoff at Duns Law | ||
| *June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks | *June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks | ||
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| + | ====1640==== | ||
| + | *June: Raised from volunteers by the College of Justice in Edinburgh | ||
| + | *Part of Leslie's army at Duns | ||
| + | *August to August 1641: Occupy Newcastle | ||
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| + | ====1641==== | ||
| + | *August: Return to Scotland and disbanded after the Treaty of London | ||
| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| 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 | 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 | ||
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| + | In October 1640 at Newcastle the Ministers accused the regiment of visiting bawdy houses where they //spoyled their bodies//. | ||
| =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | ||
| + | Armed with 270 muskets and 160 pikes in 1639. | ||
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| + | An English cavalryman, John Aston, described Leslie's ensign at Duns Law in 1639, this probably represents the Colonel's colour of the regiment, which usually had a white field((//Six North Country Diaries// by John Crawford Hodgson. The Publications of the Surtees Society Vol. CXVII, Durham, 1910. available online via [[https://archive.org/details/sixnorthcountryd00hodgrich|Archive.org]])). Other companies of the regiment likely carried the white saltire on blue with the motto //Covenant for Religion, Crowne and Country//: | ||
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| + | "The Generall Lessley's ensigne had for his device a bible, crossed through with two scepters, and a crowne set upon it, with this word, //Tuemur legibus et armis jure divino et civili//". | ||
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| + | Aston also described the arms of the Scots foot in general: | ||
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| + | "for of their 12,000 souldiours theire was not one that had any defensive armes, not soe much as a head peice, and as for their offensive weapons, their musquetts were many of them burding peeces, and their pykes but halfe ones, and very many young boyes amongst | ||
| + | them to mannage them." and "the generall caused every musquetier, instead of a rest, to carry a short staffe shod with iron at both ends to stick sloaping into the ground for pallisadoes against our horse". | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
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| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| *March 1639: 270 musketeers and 160 pikemen | *March 1639: 270 musketeers and 160 pikemen | ||
| + | *August 1641: 3 officers, 10 NCOs, 5 others, 194 privates | ||
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| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
