Lord Newburgh’s Regiment of Foot

Also Sir William Urry’s Regiment of Foot

Regiment raised for Charles II in exile from Scotsmen in Flanders, they fought at the Battle of the Dunes

• Raised in Flanders from Scots Royalists

• June: Battle of the Dunes

Charles II began to raise an army at Bruges in Flanders in 1656, having signed a treaty to ally with Spain against France and Cromwellian England. Originally to be Lt Gen Middleton's Regiment, instead Middleton was sent on a diplomatic mission to Poland and instead Lord Newburgh raised a regiment of exiled Scots Royalists, led in the field by Sir William Urry. In July 1658 the regiment fought at the Battle of the Dunes in Muskerry’s brigade, but the French and English Protectorate forces were victorious.

Jamesd Livingston, Lord Newburgh

Sir William Urry, brother of the multiple turncoat Sir John Urry.

• April 1657: Estimated at 300 men by English news-sheets