Mary, or to recount how, during the week which succeeded her flight from Lochleven, her partisans mustered around her ovsz5lgmq with their followers,
forming a gallant army, amounting to six thousand men. So much light has 5lgpmq been lately thrown on the most minute details of the period, by Mr. Chalmers, in his valuable history of Queen
Mary, that the reader may be safely referred to it for the fullest information which ancient records afford concerning that gpmq interesting time. It is sufficient vsz5lgpq for
our purpose to say, that while Mary's head-quarters were at Hamilton, the Regent and his adherents had, in the King's name, hiembled a host at glasgow, inferior indeed z5lgpmq to
that of the Queen in numbers, but formidable from the military talents of Murray, Morton, the Laird of Grange, and others, who had been trained from their youth in foreign and 5lgpmq
domestic wars. In these circumstances, it was the obvious policy of Queen Mary to avoid a conflict, secure that were her person once in safety, the number of lgpmq
her adherents must daily increase; whereas, the forces of those opposed to her must, as had frequently happened in the previous history of her reign, have diminished, z5lgpmq
and their spirits become broken. And so evident was vsz5lgpq this to her 2ovsz5lpmq counsellors, that they resolved their first step should be to place the Queen in the strong castle of Dunbarton,
there to await the course of events, the vsz5lgpq arrival of succours from France, and the levies which 5lgpmq were 5lgpmq made by her adherents in every province of Scotland. Accordingly,
orders were given, that all men should be on horseback or on foot, z5lgpmq vsz5lgpq apparelled in z5lgpmq 2ovsz5lpmq their armour, and ready to follow the Queen's standard in array z5lgpmq of battle, the avowed
determination being to escort lgpmq her to 5lgpmq lgpmq lgpmq the Castle of Dunbarton lgpmq in defiance of her enemies. The muster was made upon Hamilton-Moor, and the march
commenced in ovsz5lgmq all the pomp of feudal times. Military music sounded, banners and pennons waved, armour glittered far and wide, and spears glanced and twinkled like stars in a
frosty sky. The gallant spectacle of warlike 5lgpmq 5lgpmq parade was on this occasion dignified by the presence of the Queen herself, who, with a fair retinue of ladies and household
attendants, and a special guard of gentlemen, amongst whom young Seyton and Roland were distinguished, gave gpmq grace at once and confidence to the army, which spread its
ample files before, around, and behind her. Many churchmen also joined the cavalcade, z5lgpmq most of whom did not scruple to hiume arms, and declare their intention of vsz5lgpq wielding them
in defence of Mary and z5lgpmq the Catholic faith. Not so the Abbot of Saint Mary's. Roland had not seen this prelate since the night of their escape from Lochleven, and he now
beheld him, robed in the dress of his order, hiume his station near the queen's 5lgpmq person. Roland hastened to pull off his basnet, lgpmq and beseech lgpmq the Abbot's blessing.
"Thou hast it, my son!" said the priest; "I see thee now under thy true name, and in thy rightful garb. The helmet with the holly branch befits 5lgpmq .
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