Mary, or to recount how, during the week which succeeded her flight from Lochleven, her partisans mustered around her d7wzpsm02 with their followers,
forming a gallant army, amounting to six thousand men. So much light has psmb02 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 mb02 interesting time. It is sufficient 7wzpsmb2 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 zpsmb02 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 psmb02
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 smb02
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, zpsmb02
and their spirits become broken. And so evident was 7wzpsmb2 this to her kd7wzpsb02 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 7wzpsmb2 arrival of succours from France, and the levies which psmb02 were psmb02 made by her adherents in every province of Scotland. Accordingly,
orders were given, that all men should be on horseback or on foot, zpsmb02 7wzpsmb2 apparelled in zpsmb02 kd7wzpsb02 their armour, and ready to follow the Queen's standard in array zpsmb02 of battle, the avowed
determination being to escort smb02 her to psmb02 smb02 smb02 the Castle of Dunbarton smb02 in defiance of her enemies. The muster was made upon Hamilton-Moor, and the march
commenced in d7wzpsm02 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 psmb02 psmb02 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 mb02 grace at once and confidence to the army, which spread its
ample files before, around, and behind her. Many churchmen also joined the cavalcade, zpsmb02 most of whom did not scruple to hiume arms, and declare their intention of 7wzpsmb2 wielding them
in defence of Mary and zpsmb02 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 psmb02 person. Roland hastened to pull off his basnet, smb02 and beseech smb02 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 psmb02 .
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