28 Capture of Covenanting Town of Dumfries. 



affair. He, Lord Ogilvie, " was to make his Majcstv acquainted 

 from us of the wliole track and passages of liis service touching 

 Scotland, and our endeavours in it ; to inform his Majesty of all 

 the particulars that stumbled his service, as of the carriage of 

 Hartfell, Annandale, Morton, Roxburgh, and Traquair, who 

 refused his Majesty's commission and debauched our officers, 

 doing all that in them lay to discountenance the service and all 

 who were engaged in it." Hartfell, he averred, was a traitor 

 who had endeavoured to entice him into his house.* This 

 abortive attempt to coerce Scotland by force of arms failed in 

 doing the King service or his General honour ; his Majesty, how- 

 ever, on 16th May considerately conferred on Montrose the dis- 

 tinction of a Marquisate, by way of solatium to his wounded 

 pride. t In present circumstances levies could not be found on 

 either side of the Border to further prosecute the campaign in 

 the south, and it was not until the Marquis of Antrim landed 

 some Irish forces in the Western Highlands, led by the notorious 

 Colkitto, that Montrose was able to make any further movement 

 towards the accomplishment of his purpose. On 18th August, 

 fearing to traverse the guarded Lowlands openly, the Marquis, 

 assuming the name of Anderson, and disguised as a groom, 

 attended by two companions, made all the haste he could to 

 reach the north, took command of the Irish, and collecting a 

 considerable body of clansmen, raised the royal standard in 

 Athol. To the great achievements accomplished here, under 

 difficulties and discouragements of no common order, the fame 

 which Montrose acquired is due. He had gained the title of 

 " The Great Marquis." 



Complete and final defeat, however, overtook him at Philip- 

 haugh on 13th September, 1645, when General David Leslie, in 

 command of seasoned squadrons, the victors of Marston Moor, 

 made an attack upon him. 



But it was not all glory that the great Marquis acquired. 

 Turning aside to seek revenge on his rival, the Marquis of Argyle, 

 he invaded his country, and not content with overcoming armed 

 forces, he laid waste the lands and despoiled the poor. " The- 



* Napier's Memorie.s of Montrose, 

 t Burke's Peerage. 



