amounted to 500 men.? This enumeration probably
includes wounded.
On the 13th of June the duke pulled down the
king?s flag, and hoisted a white one, surrendering,
on terms, by which it was stipulated that the
soldiers should have their full liberty, and Colonel
Winram have security for his life and estates;
while Major Somerville, at the head of zoo
bayonets, took all the posts, except the citadel.
The duke drew up his forlorn band, now reduced to
fifty oficers and men, in the ruined Grand Parade,
and thanking them for their loyal services, gave each
a small sum to convey him home; and as hands were
shaken all round, many men wept, and so ended
For nearly four-and-twenty hours on both sides
the fire was maintained with fury, but slackened
about daybreak. ?In the Castle only one man
was killed-a gunner, whom a cannon ball had
cut in two, through a gun-port, but many were
weltering in their blood behind the woolpacks
and in the trenches, where the number of slain
not to serve against William of Orange. HC died
in the year 1716, at his residence in the citadel of
Leith.
The Castle was once more fully repaired, and
presented nearly the same aspect in all its details
as we find it today. The alterations were conducted
under John Drury (chief of the Scottish
Engineers), who gave his name to one of the bastions
on the south; and Mylne?s Mount, another
on the north, is so named from liis assistant, Robert
Mylne, king?s master-mason and hereditary mastergunner
of the fartress ; and it was after this last
siege that the round turrets, or echauguettes, were
added to the bastions.
the siege. Though emaciated by long toil, starvation,
and gangrened wounds, the luckless soldiers
were cruelly treated by the rabble of the city.
The capitulation was violated j Colonel Winram
was seized as a prisoner of war, and the duke was
placed under close arrest in his own house,
~ Blair?s Close, but was released on giving his parole
INNEK GATEWAY OF THE CASTLE.
