while our enemies, the rebels, have estates to be forfeited?  We will begin with the great and end with the small ones.”  To Balcarres he wrote in the same strain.  “The estates of the rebels will recompense us.  You know there were several lords whom we marked out, when you and I were together, who deserved no better fate.  When we get the power, we will make these men hewers of wood and drawers of water.”  No man was mentioned by name, so that each man was at liberty to take these threats for himself.  “You hear,” cried Hamilton, “you hear, my lords and gentlemen, our sentence pronounced.  We must take our choice, to die, or to defend ourselves.”  There was a terrible uproar, the new Whig recruits being among the loudest in their exposition of the dangers to which their love for their religion and their country was likely to expose them.  Leven was ordered with two hundred of his new regiment to arrest both Dundee and Balcarres.[77] The latter was taken easily enough, and clapped into the Tolbooth.  But Dundee got wind of his danger, and was off before the soldiers could reach Dudhope.  He went northward still, to Glen Ogilvy, his wife’s jointure-house, in the parish of Glamis, not far from the old historic castle of Macbeth; and thither Leven did not think it prudent to pursue him.

FOOTNOTES: 

[77] During the first alarm raised by Dundee’s departure the Convention had passed an order to raise and arm a regiment of eight hundred men, and had given the command to Leven.  It is said that the men were found within two hours.  See “An Account of the Proceedings of the Estates in Scotland,” London, 1689.

CHAPTER X.

Dundee had ridden out of Edinburgh with no clear plan of action before him.  Balcarres afterwards declared that his friend had no intention of making for the Highlands till he learned that warrants were out for his apprehension.  Yet it is probable that the idea of a Highland campaign had already begun to take shape in Dundee’s mind before Mackay’s advance forced him over the Grampians.  His orders were, in the event of the Estates declaring for William, to keep quiet till the arrival of a regular force from Ireland should enable him to take the field with some chance of success.  And, indeed, he had at that time no alternative.  It was clear to him that the game was lost in the Lowlands, but it was not yet clear to him that anything was to be gained in the Highlands.  The example of his famous kinsman might indeed serve to fire both his imagination and his ambition; but it could hardly serve to make him hopeful of succeeding with the weapons which had failed Montrose.  A few thousand claymores would no doubt prove a useful supplement to the small body of troops James might be able to spare from Ireland; but even a mind so ardent and sanguine as Dundee’s might well have shrank from facing the chances of war with