ing assemblie; and, staying afterwards to see him hewen in pieces, triumphed at every stroak which was bestowed upon his mangled body. Thus ended the life of the renowned mar quesse, though not his punishment, (if that can properly be called a punishment which mens bodies suffer after death.) For being cut down, without so much as any to receive his falling corps, his head was smitten off, his arms by the shoulders, and his leggs by the knees, and so put into severall boxes, made for the purpose. The rest of his body was by three or four porters carried out to the publique place of execution, called the Borrow moore, answerable to that of Tyburn by London, but walled about, and there was it thrown into a hole, where afterwards it was digged up by night, and the linnen in which it was folded stoln away. His head was fixed upon the Toll-booth, over against the Earl of Gowrie's, with an iron cross over it, lest by any of his friends it should have been taken down. The rest of his parts were dispatched to the most eminent places of the kingdome, to Sterling, Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdene, which were all taken down afterwards by the English, or their permission."

CHAP. VIII.

Character of the Marquis of Montrose.-Colonel Urry, Spotiswood of Dairsie, Sir Francis Hay, and Colonel Sibbald, all executed. Captain Charteris, notwithstanding his complying with the ministry to save his life, is also put to death.

THE death of the noble marquis was not bewailed as a private loss, but rather as a public calamity; the greatest princes in Europe expressed no small sorrow for his unhappy end, and, indeed, we have not had in this latter age a man of more eminent parts either of body or mind. He was not very tall, nor much exceeding a middle stature, but of an exceeding strong composition of body, and an incredible force, joined with an excellent proportion and fine features. His hair was of a dark brown colour, his complexion sanguine, of a quick and piercing grey eye, with a high nose, somewhat like the ancient sign of the magnanimity of the Persian kings. He was a man of a very princely carriage and excellent address, which made him be used by all princes for the most part with the greatest familiarity; he was a complete horseman, and had a singular grace in

riding. He was of a most resolute and undaunted spirit, which began to appear in him, to the wonder and expectation of all men, even in his childhood. Whom would it not have startled to attempt as he did, at his first entry into Scotland, a journey wherein he could hardly escape being discovered, all the passes being so laid for him? And even when he was known, and almost made public, yet proceeded in his intention. Nor is it less wonderful, how, in so great a scarcity of all things, when war in that country is but tedious, even with the greatest plenty it can afford, he could patiently endure so much distress. A surprising instance of his address and management, was his winning so much upon the affections of those Irish, who had no tie to him, either of country, language, or religion; more especially when they wanted not all manner of temptation that either their own miseries and intolerable duty could suggest, or the wit and sagacity of the enemy could invent, to make them leave him and abandon the service; besides the many examples of discipline shown upon them, and their continual want of pay, either of which accidents in an army is ground sufficient, and

The house in which the marquis was born is still shown at Montrose; it is remembered that the old Chevalier slept in it the night before he escaped to France, 13th February 1716.

has been often the occasion of mutiny or desertion.

Nor had he only an excellent and mature judgement for providing and concerting of business, but a quick and ready apprehension in matters of present danger, and administering speedy assistance; for these things, which would have disconcerted another man's understanding, as sudden emergencies of that kind often do, were no more than a whet or spur to his wit and ingenuity. There are many stratagems recorded in history, which have been put in practice in the heat of action, for regaining the day when lost, or thought in danger of being so; as that of Jugurtha, a valiant and politic prince, who, in the heat of a battle betwixt him and Marius the Roman consul, rode up and down through his army, showing his bloody sword, and affirming he had slain Marius with his own hand; whereby the Numidians were so much encouraged, and the Romans amazed, that had not Marius quickly appeared, he had certainly lost the day. It is likewise reported of one of the Roman captains, that he threw his standard into the midst of the enemy, that his own soldiers, by pressing forward to rescue it, might break and disorder the enemy. Another is said to have taken the bridles from off the horses' heads, that every man might be alike valiant, and charge, as we say, without fear or wit. But that device practised by the marquis at the battle of Aulderne was not, in my opinion,

inferior to any of these; for, observing one wing of his army routed, and the other in a staggering condition, he so inflamed that wing which was yet whole with the feigned success of the other, that they valiantly charged the enemy, and recovered the inequality of the day; which was not unlike to that stratagem used by Tullus Hostilius, who, when he was deserted by Metius King of the Albans, told his soldiers, that he had done it on purpose to try them, and thereby turned their fear into indignation.

He was exceeding constant and loving to those who did adhere to him, and very affable to such as he knew; though his carriage, which indeed was not ordinary, made him seem proud: nor can his enemies lay any greater fault to his charge than his insatiable desire of honour, which he pursued with a train of the most splendid and heroic actions, and such as had no mixture either of avarice or self-interest, though he was branded for these vices very unworthily by his enemies. For these and the other eminent virtues whereof he was possessed, he was lamented over all Christendom, by all sorts of men; and since his death, even by those very men who had the greatest hand in it, though their success at that time animated their cruelty.

But the tragedy was not yet full; for Urry was the next in that bloody roll, who, pleading the benefit of quarter and compassion, for having a great