To save the expense of Christian1 blood,
And try if we, by mediation2
Of treaty, and accommodation,
Can end the quarrel, and compose
This bloody3 duel4 without blows.
Butler.
The increased pace of the party of horsemen soon took away from their zealous6 captives the breath, if not the inclination7, necessary for holding forth8. They had now for more than a mile got free of the woodlands, whose broken glades9 had, for some time, accompanied them after they had left the woods of Tillietudlem. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf-clusters the hollow plains of the moor11. But these were gradually disappearing; and a wide and waste country lay before them, swelling13 into bare hills of dark heath, intersected by deep gullies; being the passages by which torrents14 forced their course in winter, and during summer the disproportioned channels for diminutive15 rivulets16 that winded their puny17 way among heaps of stones and gravel18, the effects and tokens of their winter fury; — like so many spendthrifts dwindled19 down by the consequences of former excesses and extravagance. This desolate20 region seemed to extend farther than the eye could reach, without grandeur21, without even the dignity of mountain wildness, yet striking, from the huge proportion which it seemed to bear to such more favoured spots of the country as were adapted to cultivation22, and fitted for the support of man; and thereby23 impressing irresistibly24 the mind of the spectator with a sense of the omnipotence25 of nature, and the comparative inefficacy of the boasted means of amelioration which man is capable of opposing to the disadvantages of climate and soil.
It is a remarkable26 effect of such extensive wastes, that they impose an idea of solitude27 even upon those who travel through them in considerable numbers; so much is the imagination affected28 by the disproportion between the desert around and the party who are traversing it. Thus the members of a caravan29 of a thousand souls may feel, in the deserts of Africa or Arabia, a sense of loneliness unknown to the individual traveller, whose solitary30 course is through a thriving and cultivated country.
It was not, therefore, without a peculiar31 feeling of emotion, that Morton beheld32, at the distance of about half a mile, the body of the cavalry33 to which his escort belonged, creeping up a steep and winding34 path which ascended35 from the more level moor into the hills. Their numbers, which appeared formidable when they crowded through narrow roads, and seemed multiplied by appearing partially37, and at different points, among the trees, were now apparently38 diminished by being exposed at once to view, and in a landscape whose extent bore such immense proportion to the columns of horses and men, which, showing more like a drove of black cattle than a body of soldiers, crawled slowly along the face of the hill, their force and their numbers seeming trifling39 and contemptible40.
“Surely,” said Morton to himself, “a handful of resolute41 men may defend any defile42 in these mountains against such a small force as this is, providing that their bravery is equal to their enthusiasm.”
While he made these reflections, the rapid movement of the horsemen who guarded him, soon traversed the space which divided them from their companions; and ere the front of Claverhouse’s column had gained the brow of the hill which they had been seen ascending43, Bothwell, with his rearguard and prisoners, had united himself, or nearly so, with the main body led by his commander. The extreme difficulty of the road, which was in some places steep, and in others boggy45, retarded46 the progress of the column, especially in the rear; for the passage of the main body, in many instances, poached up the swamps through which they passed, and rendered them so deep, that the last of their followers47 were forced to leave the beaten path, and find safer passage where they could.
On these occasions, the distresses48 of the Reverend Gabriel Kettledrummle and of Mause Headrigg, were considerably49 augmented50, as the brutal51 troopers, by whom they were guarded, compelled them, at all risks which such inexperienced riders were likely to incur52, to leap their horses over drains and gullies, or to push them through morasses54 and swamps.
“Through the help of the Lord I have luppen ower a wall,” cried poor Mause, as her horse was, by her rude attendants, brought up to leap the turf enclosure of a deserted55 fold, in which feat10 her curch flew off, leaving her grey hairs uncovered.
“I am sunk in deep mire56 where there is no standing57 — I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow58 me,” exclaimed Kettledrummle, as the charger on which he was mounted plunged59 up to the saddle-girths in a well-head, as the springs are called which supply the marshes60, the sable62 streams beneath spouting63 over the face and person of the captive preacher.
These exclamations64 excited shouts of laughter among their military attendants; but events soon occurred which rendered them all sufficiently65 serious.
The leading files of the regiment66 had nearly attained67 the brow of the steep hill we have mentioned, when two or three horsemen, speedily discovered to be a part of their own advanced guard, who had acted as a patrol, appeared returning at full gallop68, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight. They were followed upon the spur by five or six riders, well armed with sword and pistol, who halted upon the top of the hill, on observing the approach of the Life-Guards. One or two who had carabines dismounted, and, taking a leisurely69 and deliberate aim at the foremost rank of the regiment, discharged their pieces, by which two troopers were wounded, one severely70. They then mounted their horses, and disappeared over the ridge71 of the hill, retreating with so much coolness as evidently showed, that, on the one hand, they were undismayed by the approach of so considerable a force as was moving against them, and conscious, on the other, that they were supported by numbers sufficient for their protection. This incident occasioned a halt through the whole body of cavalry; and while Claverhouse himself received the report of his advanced guard, which had been thus driven back upon the main body, Lord Evandale advanced to the top of the ridge over which the enemy’s horsemen had retired72, and Major Allan, Cornet Grahame, and the other officers, employed themselves in extricating73 the regiment from the broken ground, and drawing them up on the side of the hill in two lines, the one to support the other.
The word was then given to advance; and in a few minutes the first lines stood on the brow and commanded the prospect74 on the other side. The second line closed upon them, and also the rear-guard with the prisoners; so that Morton and his companions in captivity75 could, in like manner, see the form of opposition76 which was now offered to the farther progress of their captors.
The brow of the hill, on which the royal Life-Guards were now drawn77 up, sloped downwards78 (on the side opposite to that which they had ascended) with a gentle declivity79, for more than a quarter of a mile, and presented ground, which, though unequal in some places, was not altogether unfavourable for the manoeuvres of cavalry, until near the bottom, when the slope terminated in a marshy80 level, traversed through its whole length by what seemed either a natural gully, or a deep artificial drain, the sides of which were broken by springs, trenches81 filled with water, out of which peats and turf had been dug, and here and there by some straggling thickets82 of alders83 which loved the moistness so well, that they continued to live as bushes, although too much dwarfed84 by the sour soil and the stagnant85 bog44-water to ascend36 into trees. Beyond this ditch, or gully, the ground arose into a second heathy swell12, or rather hill, near to the foot of which, and’ as if with the object of defending the broken ground and ditch that covered their front, the body of insurgents86 appeared to be drawn up with the purpose of abiding88 battle.
Their infantry89 was divided into three lines. The first, tolerably provided with fire-arms, were advanced almost close to the verge90 of the bog, so that their fire must necessarily annoy the royal cavalry as they descended91 the opposite hill, the whole front of which was exposed, and would probably be yet more fatal if they attempted to cross the morass53. Behind this first line was a body of pikemen, designed for their support in case the dragoons should force the passage of the marsh61. In their rear was their third line, consisting of countrymen armed with scythes92 set straight on poles, hay-forks, spits, clubs, goads93, fish-spears, and such other rustic94 implements95 as hasty resentment96 had converted into instruments of war. On each flank of the infantry, but a little backward from the bog, as if to allow themselves dry and sound ground whereon to act in case their enemies should force the pass, there was drawn up a small body of cavalry, who were, in general, but indifferently armed, and worse mounted, but full of zeal5 for the cause, being chiefly either landholders of small property, or farmers of the better class, whose means enabled them to serve on horseback. A few of those who had been engaed in driving back the advanced guard of the royalists, might now be seen returning slowly towards their own squadrons. These were the only individuals of the insurgent87 army which seemed to be in motion. All the others stood firm and motionless, as the grey stones that lay scattered97 on the heath around them.
The total number of the insurgents might amount to about a thousand men; but of these there were scarce a hundred cavalry, nor were the half of them even tolerably armed. The strength of their position, however, the sense of their having taken a desperate step, the superiority of their numbers, but, above all, the ardour of their enthusiasm, were the means on which their leaders reckoned, for supplying the want of arms, equipage, and military discipline.
On the side of the hill that rose above the array of battle which they had adopted, were seen the women and even the children, whom zeal, opposed to persecution98, had driven into the wilderness99. They seemed stationed there to be spectators of the engagement, by which their own fate, as well as that of their parents, husbands, and sons, was to be decided100. Like the females of the ancient German tribes, the shrill101 cries which they raised, when they beheld the glittering ranks of their enemy appear on the brow of the opposing eminence102, acted as an incentive103 to their relatives to fight to the last in defence of that which was dearest to them. Such exhortations104 seemed to have their full and emphatic105 effect; for a wild halloo, which went from rank to rank on the appearance of the soldiers, intimated the resolution of the insurgents to fight to the uttermost.
As the horsemen halted their lines on the ridge of the hill, their trumpets106 and kettle-drums sounded a bold and warlike flourish of menace and defiance108, that rang along the waste like the shrill summons of a destroying angel. The wanderers, in answer, united their voices, and sent forth, in solemn modulation109, the two first verses of the seventy-sixth Psalm110, according to the metrical version of the Scottish Kirk:
“In Judah’s land God is well known,
His name’s in Israel great:
In Salem is his tabernacle,
In Zion is his seat.
There arrows of the bow he brake,
The shield, the sword, the war.
More glorious thou than hills of prey111,
More excellent art far.”
A shout, or rather a solemn acclamation, attended the close of the stanza112; and after a dead pause, the second verse was resumed by the insurgents, who applied113 the destruction of the Assyrians as prophetical of the issue of their own impending114 contest:—
“Those that were stout115 of heart are spoil’d,
They slept their sleep outright116;
And none of those their hands did find,
That were the men of might.
When thy rebuke117, O Jacob’s God,
Had forth against them past,
Their horses and their chariots both
Were in a deep sleep cast.”
There was another acclamation, which was followed by the most profound silence.
While these solemn sounds, accented by a thousand voices, were prolonged amongst the waste hills, Claverhouse looked with great attention on the ground, and on the order of battle which the wanderers had adopted, and in which they determined118 to await the assault.
“The churls,” he said, “must have some old soldiers with them; it was no rustic that made choice of that ground.”
“Burley is said to be with them for certain,” answered Lord Evandale, “and also Hackston of Rathillet, Paton of Meadowhead, Cleland, and some other men of military skill.”
“I judged as much,” said Claverhouse, “from the style in which these detached horsemen leapt their horses over the ditch, as they returned to their position. It was easy to see that there were a few roundheaded troopers amongst them, the true spawn119 of the old Covenant120. We must manage this matter warily121 as well as boldly. Evandale, let the officers come to this knoll122.”
He moved to a small moss-grown cairn, probably the resting-place of some Celtic chief of other times, and the call of “Officers to the front,” soon brought them around their commander.
“I do not call you around me, gentlemen,” said Claverhouse, “in the formal capacity of a council of war, for I will never turn over on others the responsibility which my rank imposes on myself. I only want the benefit of your opinions, reserving to myself, as most men do when they ask advice, the liberty of following my own. — What say you, Cornet Grahame? Shall we attack these fellows who are bellowing123 younder? You are youngest and hottest, and therefore will speak first whether I will or no.”
“Then,” said Cornet Grahame, “while I have the honour to carry the standard of the Life-Guards, it shall never, with my will, retreat before rebels. I say, charge, in God’s name and the King’s!”
“And what say you, Allan?” continued Claverhouse, “for Evandale is so modest, we shall never get him to speak till you have said what you have to say.”
“These fellows,” said Major Allan, an old cavalier officer of experience, “are three or four to one — I should not mind that much upon a fair field, but they are posted in a very formidable strength, and show no inclination to quit it. I therefore think, with deference124 to Cornet Grahame’s opinion, that we should draw back to Tillietudlem, occupy the pass between the hills and the open country, and send for reinforcements to my Lord Ross, who is lying at Glasgow with a regiment of infantry. In this way we should cut them off from the Strath of Clyde, and either compel them to come out of their stronghold, and give us battle on fair terms, or, if they remain here, we will attack them so soon as our infantry has joined us, and enabled us to act with effect among these ditches, bogs125, and quagmires126.”
“Pshaw!” said the young Cornet, “what signifies strong ground, when it is only held by a crew of canting, psalm-singing old women?”
“A man may fight never the worse,” retorted Major Allan, “for honouring both his Bible and Psalter. These fellows will prove as stubborn as steel; I know them of old.”
“Their nasal psalmody,” said the Cornet, “reminds our Major of the race of Dunbar.”
“Had you been at that race, young man,” retorted Allan, “you would have wanted nothing to remind you of it for the longest day you have to live.”
“Hush127, hush, gentlemen,” said Claverhouse, “these are untimely repartees. — I should like your advice well, Major Allan, had our rascally128 patrols (whom I will see duly punished) brought us timely notice of the enemy’s numbers and position. But having once presented ourselves before them in line, the retreat of the Life-Guards would argue gross timidity, and be the general signal for insurrection throughout the west. In which case, so far from obtaining any assistance from my Lord Ross, I promise you I should have great apprehensions129 of his being cut off before we can join him, or he us. A retreat would have quite the same fatal effect upon the king’s cause as the loss of a battle — and as to the difference of risk or of safety it might make with respect to ourselves, that, I am sure, no gentleman thinks a moment about. There must be some gorges130 or passes in the morass through which we can force our way; and, were we once on firm ground, I trust there is no man in the Life-Guards who supposes our squadrons, though so weak in numbers, are unable to trample131 into dust twice the number of these unpractised clowns. — What say you, my Lord Evandale?”
“I humbly132 think,” said Lord Evandale, “that, go the day how it will, it must be a bloody one; and that we shall lose many brave fellows, and probably be obliged to slaughter133 a great number of these misguided men, who, after all, are Scotchmen and subjects of King Charles as well as we are.”
“Rebels! rebels! and undeserving the name either of Scotchmen or of subjects,” said Claverhouse; “but come, my lord, what does your opinion point at?”
“To enter into a treaty with these ignorant and misled men,” said the young nobleman.
“A treaty! and with rebels having arms in their hands? Never while I live,” answered his commander.
“At least send a trumpet107 and flag of truce134, summoning them to lay down their weapons and disperse135,” said Lord Evandale, “upon promise of a free pardon — I have always heard, that had that been done before the battle of Pentland hills, much blood might have been saved.”
“Well,” said Claverhouse, “and who the devil do you think would carry a summons to these headstrong and desperate fanatics136? They acknowledge no laws of war. Their leaders, who have been all most active in the murder of the Archbishop of St Andrews, fight with a rope round their necks, and are likely to kill the messenger, were it but to dip their followers in loyal blood, and to make them as desperate of pardon as themselves.”
“I will go myself,” said Evandale, “if you will permit me. I have often risked my blood to spill that of others, let me do so now in order to save human lives.”
“You shall not go on such an errand, my lord,” said Claverhouse; “your rank and situation render your safety of too much consequence to the country in an age when good principles are so rare. — Here’s my brother’s son Dick Grahame, who fears shot or steel as little as if the devil had given him armour137 of proof against it, as the fanatics say he has given to his uncle. 21
He shall take a flag of truce and a trumpet, and ride down to the edge of the morass to summon them to lay down their arms and disperse.”
“With all my soul, Colonel,” answered the Cornet; “and I’ll tie my cravat138 on a pike to serve for a white flag — the rascals139 never saw such a pennon of Flanders lace in their lives before.”
“Colonel Grahame,” said Evandale, while the young officer prepared for his expedition, “this young gentleman is your nephew and your apparent heir; for God’s sake, permit me to go. It was my counsel, and I ought to stand the risk.”
“Were he my only son,” said Claverhouse, “this is no cause and no time to spare him. I hope my private affections will never interfere140 with my public duty. If Dick Grahame falls, the loss is chiefly mine; were your lordship to die, the King and country would be the sufferers. — Come, gentlemen, each to his post. If our summons is unfavourably received, we will instantly attack; and, as the old Scottish blazon141 has it, God shaw the right!”
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