At the Goukhead our camp we set, Our leaguer down there for to lay; And, in the bonny summer light, We rode our white horse and our gray. Our false commander sold our king, Unto his deadly enemie, Who was the traitor, Cromwell, then; So I care not what they do with me. They have betray’d our noble prince, And banished him from his royal crown;’ But the gallant Grahams have ta’en in hand For to command those traitors down. In Glen-Prosen[#] we rendezvous’d, March’d to Glenshie by night and day. And took the town of Aberdeen, And met the Campbells in their array. [#] Glen-Prosen is in Angusshire, usually called Forfarshire. The Glenshee road, over the Grampians, is the highest road in Great Britain. Five thousand men, in armour strong, Did meet the gallant Grahams that day At Inverlochie, where war began, And scarce two thousand men were they. Gallant Montrose, that chieftan bold, Courageous in the best degree, Did for the king fight well that day;— The Lord preserve his majestie! Then woe to Strachan, and Ilacket baith! And, Lesly, ill death may thou die! For ye have betray’d the gallant Grahams, Who aye were true to majestie. And the Laird of Assaint has seized Montrose, And had him into Edinburgh town; And frae his body taken the head, And quarter’d him upon a trone, And Huntly’s[#] gone the self-same way, And our noble king is also gone; He suffer’d death for our nation, Our mourning tears can ne’er be done. [#] The Marquis of Huntly, one of the few Scottish nobles who never wavered in his devotion to King Charles I., was beheaded by the sentence of the Parliament of Scotland. But our brave young king is now come home, King Charles the Second in degree; The Lord send peace into his time, And God preserve his majestie! The ballad-writer’s reference to the "coming home" of Charles II. probably means his signing of the Covenant and placing himself entirely at the mercy of the violent bigots who had killed his most faithful servant, Montrose. To this was Charles reduced by the desperate nature of his fortunes. But this course of action entirely severed the Scottish Covenanters from the English Puritans, and admirers of the gallant Montrose can take a grim pleasure in the fact that his arch-enemy, General Lesly, was most disastrously defeated by Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar. *Chapter XLVII* *The Borderers and the Jacobites* During the Jacobite Rising, many of the Border chiefs took up arms in the Stuart cause. Two of these, Lord Derwentwater and Viscount Kenmure, were beheaded on Tower Hill for their part in the unsuccessful rising of 1715, and another, Lord Nithsdale, was only saved from the same fate by the courage of his wife.