Mary, or to recount how, during the week which succeeded her flight from Lochleven, her partisans mustered around her dt2x8n4v6 with their followers,
forming a gallant army, amounting to six thousand men. So much light has 8n4bv6 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 4bv6 interesting time. It is sufficient t2x8n4b6 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 x8n4bv6 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 8n4bv6
there to await the course of events, the t2x8n4b6 arrival of succours from France, and the levies which 8n4bv6 were 8n4bv6 made by her adherents in every province of Scotland. Accordingly,
orders were given, that all men should be on horseback or on foot, x8n4bv6 t2x8n4b6 apparelled in x8n4bv6 fdt2x8nbv6 their armour, and ready to follow the Queen's standard in array x8n4bv6 of battle, the avowed
determination being to escort n4bv6 her to 8n4bv6 n4bv6 n4bv6 the Castle of Dunbarton n4bv6 in defiance of her enemies. The muster was made upon Hamilton-Moor, and the march
commenced in dt2x8n4v6 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 8n4bv6 8n4bv6 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 4bv6 grace at once and confidence to the army, which spread its
ample files before, around, and behind her. Many churchmen also joined the cavalcade, x8n4bv6 most of whom did not scruple to hiume arms, and declare their intention of t2x8n4b6 wielding them
in defence of Mary and x8n4bv6 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 8n4bv6 person. Roland hastened to pull off his basnet, n4bv6 and beseech n4bv6 the Abbot's blessing.
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