The Marquis of Montrose . se was once morethe old one of how to raise an army. Cavalry hemust lind, for Aboynes defection had left him withscarcely a hundred troopers, most of them probablyLord Airlies Ogilvys. He could count on some leviesas the result of Douglass recruiting, and for the rest hemust depend upon Home and Roxburgh. After that hewould go north and test the quality of David , on the Saturday afternoon, the Royaliststurned to their right and marched down Gala water toTweedside. Next day at Torwoodlee, Douglas andOgilvy joined them with some 1,200 horse fromNithsd
The Marquis of Montrose . se was once morethe old one of how to raise an army. Cavalry hemust lind, for Aboynes defection had left him withscarcely a hundred troopers, most of them probablyLord Airlies Ogilvys. He could count on some leviesas the result of Douglass recruiting, and for the rest hemust depend upon Home and Roxburgh. After that hewould go north and test the quality of David , on the Saturday afternoon, the Royaliststurned to their right and marched down Gala water toTweedside. Next day at Torwoodlee, Douglas andOgilvy joined them with some 1,200 horse fromNithsdale and Upper Clydesdale and the recruits were all lairds or lairds sons and theirimmediate retainers, a half-hearted and unstable crewwho had none of the old moss-trooping fire. Some-where, too, on Gala water, Linton joined with his troopof Peeblesshire horse, and his father, Traquair, rodeover to visit the viceroy. He came in all likelihood tospy out the nakedness of the land, with results whichwe shall THE WAR ON THE BORDER. 187 Marching slowly down Tweed, Montrose reachedKelso on the 8th or 9th. It was the appointed ren-dezvous, but he found no sign of Home or waited for a day, and then he heard ominous Border earls were with Leslie, prisoners, soran their own story, captured by Middleton and hisadvance guard. It was a tale which common opinionscouted, and indeed it is intrinsically unlikely that twopowerful nobles in their own countryside, twenty milesat least from Leslies line of march, and with ampleknowledge of his coming, should not have been able toescape if they had wished it. It is far more probablethat, knowing Leslies strength and Montrosespredicament, they sought security by putting them-selves in the enemys power. To tarry at Kelso was mere folly, so Montroseturned wearily up Tweed. Douglas held out hopes ofraising the westlands—vain hopes, for in no quarter ofScotland was the power of the ministers so great. Herated the
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