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| Armed with 270 muskets and 160 pikes in 1639. | Armed with 270 muskets and 160 pikes in 1639. | ||
| - | 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]])): 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//. Other companies of the regiment likely carried the white saltire on blue with the motto //Covenant for Religion, Crowne and Country//. | + | 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===== | ||
