42 SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED. 



renowned Agnes, with Cospatrick, earl of Dunbar. It was the head quarters 

 of General Leslie while the Scottish army lay encamped on the neighbouring 

 hill in 1639. The apartment where he dined, with his staff, is with good 

 taste suffered to remain in the same state in which it was left. 



The summit of Dunse Law stiU shows evident traces of the encampment to 

 which we allude ; but a forest of broom-wood has long thrown its bright green 

 mantle over the surface, and restored to nature and pastoral tranquilUty what 

 had been usurped for less hallowed purposes. But never, perhaps, did an 

 army of twenty-six thousand men meet in the same camp, who exhibited such a 

 picture of religious harmony and orderly deportment. The best spirit of the first 

 Crusaders seemed to have infused itself into every order and condition among 

 them. The sounds of worship had replaced the shouts of war and wassail ; and 

 the tents of the officers, and the turf-cabins of the soldiers, were hourly hallowed 

 by devotional exercises. Every company had their colours flying at the tent 

 door, emblazoned with the arms of Scotland, and this motto, " For Christ's 

 crown and covenant." The sanctity of the cause in which they had armed, 

 and the confidence with which they reposed on Divine aid, had awakened a 

 rehgious enthusiasm vvliich pervaded all ranks, and made each ambitious to 

 prove liimself a champion worthy of the cause he had espoused, and the religious 

 toleration to which he so ardently aspired. It was one of those scenes which 

 no combination of circumstances can ever again produce. The Covenanters, 

 like the Crusaders, are now extinct ; but they have left a due proportion of 

 traits which must ever command the gratitude and admiration of their successors, 

 and exalt the men for the sake of the motives which called for their exertions. 



While the army of the Covenant were posted on the hill, the royal standard 

 was waving within sight on the opposite side of the Tweed ; and after three 

 weeks of mutual threats and defiance, both camps were broken up on ratification 

 of the short-lived treaty entered into between the king and his subjects.* 



• The mclanclioly fate of Tillibatie,* though familiar to most readers, may he here introduced as 

 illustrative of a ferocioui period of Border history. As vice-regent of Scotland, during the duke of 

 Albany's absence in France, although but a short time in power, he appears to have given promise of a 

 vigorous administration ; but in the exercise of the trust and authority reposed in him for the maintenance 

 of public order, he had the misfortune to draw upon himself the vengeance of those whose violence he had 

 checked by the strong arm of the law ; so that, what did him honour as a magistrate, became fatal to him 

 as a man. Having occasion to hold a justice court at Dunse, he set out from Holyrood under the safe 

 conduct of the lairds of Sessford and Pbcrnihirst, who had pledged their word to re-conduct him in safely 



• Not De la Beaute, as it has been written; the French title and name being that of a small town in the 

 department of the higher Alps — La Lilie, Sir Anthony D'Arcy, sieur de la Batie — commonly TillibalU. 



