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for the Royalist cause. Disunion at this juncture was 

 'fatal. Glencairn, perhaps, acted a wise part in withdrawing 

 'himself with 100 horse from the army Middleton had 

 placed him under temporary arrest for fighting Monro, and 

 .Lindsay had been shot for killing Livingston until these 

 divisions should be healed. Passing successively through 

 Assynt, Kintail, and Lochaber, he reached Killin, where he 

 was joined by Sir George Maxwell, the Earl of Selkirk, 

 f and Lord Forrester. His forces being now increased to 

 1400 men, he sent them to Middleton, while he himself 

 proceeded to the castle of Colquhoun of Luss, from which 

 centre he endeavoured to foment a Royalist rising in the 

 (Lowlands. Ultimately, he made terms with the English 

 ion 4th September, 1654. Thus ended Glencairn's con- 

 nexion with the insurrection, in the conduct of which he 

 ishowed himself to be a brave soldier, if not an energetic 

 (leader, and a staunch Royalist, if not a military genius. 

 If he failed to win decisive victories over the enemy, he 

 [succeeded in winning the affection of his men ; and his 

 supersession by Middleton, while it weakened his rival's 

 authority with the army, elevated Glencairn into the posi- 

 tion of a popular hero who had received shabby treatment. 

 Middleton's campaign against the English proved to be 

 short-lived. He, too, was a gallant soldier, and a com- 

 pander of greater renown than Glencairn ; but it required 

 a. Montrose to surmount the difficulties which surrounded 

 |iim. And Middleton, good general though he was, had 

 no pretensions to be the lineal descendant of Montrose. 

 The worst blow that befell the Royalists was the final 

 arranging of peace between England and Holland, in 

 April, 1654, after protracted negotiations. The English 

 lavy was now free to co-operate with the land forces, and 

 nterrupt the communications of the Royalists. " That 

 ::>cace," as Middleton expressed it at a later date to Hyde, 

 ' did strike all dead."* But in spite of this severe dis- 

 ippointment, much might yet be done to harass the 



* Scott. Hist. Soc.> Vol. XXXI., p. 196. 



