avaliers were committed prisoners to his care, and
remained there till the pacification of Berwick.
On the 19th of November, King Charles?s birthday,
a great portion of the curtain-wall, which was
very old, fell with a crash over the rocks ; and the
insurgents rejoiced at this event as boding evil to
the royal cause. After the pacification, the Castle,
with thirty others, was restored to the king, who
placed therein a gamson, under Sir Patrick Ruth-
? made from the gate. Batteries were thrown up
at nearly the same places where they had been
formed in Kirkaldy?s time, Ruthven refused to
give the Estates the use of the regalia. Under
Colonel Hamilton, master of the ordnance, the
batteries opened with vigour, while select musketeers
were ?told ofT,? to aim at individuals on the
ramparts. Most bitter was the defence of Ruthven,
whose cannonade imperilled the whole city
THE REGENT MORTON. (Fmm an &ag?awing 6v Hoabmken.)
ven (previously Governor of Ulm under the great
Gustavus), who marched in, on the 25th February,
2640, with drums beating and matches lighted. As
the magistrates refused to supply him with provisions,
and raised 5bo men to keep a watch upon his
garrison, this testy veteran of the Swedish wars
fired a few heavy shot at random on the city,
and on the renewal of hostilities between Charles
and the Scots, Leslie was ordered by the Parliament,
on the 12th June, to reduce the fortress.
Xuthven?s reply to a summons, was to open fire
with guns and matchlocks in every direction, and
a sortie, under Scrimgeour, the constable, was
and the beautiful spire of St Giles?s ; while poor
people reaping in the fields at a distance were
sometimes killed by it.
The Covenanters sprung a mine, and blew up
the south-east angle of the Spur; but the rugged
aspect of the breach was such that few of their
officers seemed covetous of reading a forlorn hope,
especially as old Ruthven, in his rich armour and
plumed hat, appeared at the summit heading a
band of pikes. At last the Laird of Drum and a
Captain Weddal, at the head of 185 men, under a
murderous matchlock fire, made a headlong rush,
but ere they gained the gap, a cannon loaded
