Earl of Atholl’s Regiment of Foot

Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the Bishops' Wars, on the Preston campaign in the Second Civil War, at Worcester in the Third and raised again during Glencairn's rising

• June: Battle of Megray Hill
• June: Skirmish at the Brig o' Dee
• June: Occupy Aberdeen
• June: Likely disbanded

• July: Raised in Perthshire as a condition of Atholl's release by Argyll
• Join Leslie's army at the Border
• August: Invade England
• August: Taking of Newcastle
• August to August 1641: Occupy Newcastle

• August: Return to Scotland and disband after the Treaty of London

• Raised in Perthshire
• July: Preston campaign
• August: Battle of Winwick Pass
• August: Surrender to the New Model Army at Winwick and Warrington

• December: Ordered to be levied

• Re-raised in Perthshire
• Based at Stirling
• September: Battle of Worcester

• New regiment raised

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

Identified as having blue flags at Preston with a red-edged saltire and an inscription in gold Couenant for Religion King and Kingdoms¹⁾. Atholl's regiment of 1653 also carried blue colours.

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1

A Royalist in sympathy, he nevertheless raised forces for Montrose's Covenanters in the Bishops' Wars. In 1642 he died and was succeeded by his son, the Second Earl.

John Murray

• 1639: 300 men at Aberdeen
• 1640: Between 500 and 800 strong