30 Capture of Covenanting Town of Dumfries. 



Grettinham [Gretna] parish ; but their Lordships with their 

 troops marched to tlie towne of Annan. On Monday my Lord 

 •Herries Maxwell gave intelligence, that the remnant in Scotland 

 were gathering them together to man Dumfries, therefore desired 

 the Lord Montrose to send some forces to stop the rebels from 

 going into the town ; and accordingly the Lord Montrose did send 

 three troops of horse and two of dragoons under the command 

 of the Lord Aboyne, the Lord Ogilvie, and Col. Ennis, being met 

 by the Lord Herries with his troops. Thev faced the town about 

 two of the clock, and presently the rebels desired a parley, and 

 in the end they concluded to yield up the town, vet the treaty was 

 not concluded until the L. Montrose came. Thev left some of 

 their horse and foot, and their baggage at Annan, making all the^ 

 haste they could, and in the afternoon joined with other forces 

 (the enemy not having accepted the conditions offered) began to 

 move towards them; but when thev saw them advance, the town 

 sent out Sir John Charteris, and the Laird of Lag, with the 

 Mayor of Dumfries, to declare the acceptance of the Lord 

 Aboyne's propositions. No sooner had their dragoons possessed 

 themselves of the town, but news came presently that a regiment 

 of foot was coming to aid the townsmen from Galloway, but next 

 morning that regiment ran home again." 



" They took in Dumfries 4 pieces of cannon, 7 barrels of 

 powder, 60 muskets, 80 pikes, 25 case of pistols, and three times 

 as many being afterwards found out, and delivered upon these 

 articles : — 



1. That they should deliver up the town of Dumfries to the Lord 



Montrose, etc. 



2. That they should give in all their arms and ammunition. 



3. That they should demean themselves as loyal subjects, and in 



particular, that they should not bear arms against him, nor 

 assist the rebels of England against His Majesty." 

 "Thus," it is added, "the town of Dumfries (as full of 



loyalty with them as Banbury or Colchester with us) is at last 



reduced." 



"The Lord Montrose," it is said, "deals very courteously 



with the people, which gains him both love and friends (to the 



shame of that slander whereby the people were made to believe 



that he spared neither women nor children)." 



