r armies; but can you ask such a question 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
e