"[1]
Of the noblemen and gentlemen who fled with Montrose, many were also taken;
and of these few escaped the hands of the executioner: Montrose himself
threaded back his way to the Highlands, where he once more raised the royal
standard, and, with a small force and diminished reputation, continued to
bid defiance to his enemies. At length, in obedience to repeated messages
from the king, he dismissed his followers, and reluctantly withdrew to the
continent.[2] With the defeat of Montrose at Philiphaugh vanished those
brilliant hopes with which the king had consoled himself for his former
losses; but the activity of his enemies allowed him no leisure to indulge
his grief; they had already formed a lodgment within the
[Footnote 1: Balfour, iii. 341. Thurloe, i. 72. The next year the garrison
of Dunavertie, three hundred men, surrendered to David Leslie "at the
kingdom's mercie." "They put to the sword," says Turner, "everie mother's
sonne except one young man, Machoul, whose life I begged."--Turner's
Memoirs, 46, also 48.]
[Footnote 2: Rush. vi. 237. Guthrie, 301. Journals, vi. 584. Wishart, 203.
Baillie, ii. 164.]
[Sidenote a: A.D. 1645. Dec. 23.]
[Sidenote b: A.D. 1645. Sept. 3.]
suburbs of Chester, and threatened to deprive him of that, the only port by
which he could maintain a communication with Ireland.
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