[Footnote 1:  MS. letters in my possession.  Bruodin, 696.  A proclamation was also issued ordering all nuns to marry or leave Ireland.  They were successively transported to Belgium, France, and Spain, where they were hospitably received in the convents of their respective orders.]

[Footnote 2:  “Haec nobis invicta tulerunt centum sex proavi, 1617,” was the boasting inscription which King James had engraved on the wall.—­Clarke’s official account to the Speaker, in Cary, ii. 327.  Echard, 697.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1651.  Aug. 14.] [Sidenote b:  A.D. 1651.  Aug. 28.]

the estates and the kirk, several peers, and all the gentry of the neighbourhood; and these, with such other individuals as the general deemed hostile and dangerous to the commonwealth, followed the regalia and records of their country to the English capital.  At Dundee a breach was soon made in the wall:  the defenders shrunk from the charge of the assailants; and the governor and garrison were massacred.[a] I must leave it to the imagination of the reader to supply the sufferings of the inhabitants from the violence, the lust, and the rapacity of their victorious enemy.  In Dundee, on account of its superior strength, many had deposited their most valuable effects; and all these, with sixty ships and their cargoes in the harbour, became the reward of the conquerors.[1]

Warned by this awful example, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Montrose opened their gates; the earl of Huntley and Lord Balcarras submitted; the few remaining fortresses capitulated in succession; and if Argyle, in the midst of his clan, maintained a precarious and temporary independence, it was not that he cherished the expectation of evading the yoke, but that he sought to draw from the parliament the acknowledgment of a debt which he claimed of the English

[Footnote 1:  Heath, 301, 302.  Whitelock, 508.  Journals, Aug. 27.  Milton’s S. Pap. 79.  Balfour, iv. 314, 315.  “Mounche commaundit all, of quhatsummeuer sex, to be putt to the edge of the sword.  Ther wer 800 inhabitants and souldiers killed, and about 200 women and children.  The plounder and buttie they gatte in the toune, exceided 2 millions and a halffe” (about L200,000).  That, however, the whole garrison was not put to the sword appears from the mention in the Journals (Sept. 12) of a list of officers made prisoners, and from Monk’s letter to Cromwell.  “There was killed of the enemy about 500, and 200 or thereabouts taken prisoners.  The stubbornness of the people enforced the soldiers to plunder the town.”—­Cary’s Memorials, ii. 351.]

[Sidenote a:  A.D. 1651 Sept. 1.]