Identifier: marquisofmontros00buchuoft (find matches)
Title: The Marquis of Montrose
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Subjects: Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650 Scotland -- History Charles I, 1625-1649 Scotland -- History 1649-1660
Publisher: London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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ren were butchered on thefield. Those who wish to sup deep on horrors canfind the details in Patrick Gordon. The cooks andhorse-boys also perished to the number of some twohundred. The Irish under Stewart had surrendered onterms, but Argyll and the ministers who accompaniedLeslie remonstrated against the Lords work beinghindered by any foolish clemency. They argued thatquarter had been granted to Stewart alone and not tohis men. Leslie professed himself convinced by thismiserable quibble, and the unarmed Irish were cutdown as they stood, or shot next morning in thecourtyard of Newark Castle.^^^ OKean and anotherofficer, Lachlan, were spared for the moment, only tobe hanged later in Edinburgh without a trial. Stewartwas also destined to death, but was fortunate enoughto escape to Montrose. The zeal of the Covenant against the daughters ofHeth was not satiated by the butchery at Philiphaugh.Many had escaped, and were slaughtered singly asthey wandered among the moors of Tweed and Clyde.
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^/Jar^ct^y .^Z^^^^ey t^M^t^^L^yta t^ t^^t^a^^iM< AFTER PHILIPHAUGH. 195 In most county histories the slaying is ascribed to theinfuriated country people, but for this there is noevidence. The peasantry of the Lowlands have neverhad a taste for such brutality, and the murders wereundoubtedly the work of the soldiers of the Covenant,who beat the hills for Royalists, as Lags dragoonsforty years later were to beat them for Covenanters.One large party of the poor creatures was brought toLeslies camp at Linlithgow. They were flung overthe bridge of Avon, and were either drowned in theriver or stabbed with the pikes of the soldiers wholined the banks. The records of the Irish rebellionhold no m.ore horrid cruelties. The inspiration wasnot Leslies ; it came from the fierce bigots whoaccompanied him. Sometimes the soldiers sickenedof the work, and asked their clerical advisers, as Lesliedid at Dunavertie, Mass John, Mass John, have younot gotten your fill of blood ? ^^^^ The roll of captive

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