I shall be with the horsemen, and as soon as we have scattered the mob, we will harness the horses to the guns and bring them up here, so that I shall strengthen the castle as well as weaken the peasants." The tenants were all informed of what was going to be done.
"It will be to your benefit as well as ours," he said, "for you may be sure that in the morning, if they give up the idea of again attacking us, they will scatter all over the estates and sack and burn every house, whereas if we succeed in dispersing them, no small portion of them will at once scatter to their homes, and the rest will take care not to come near this neighbourhood again." At twelve o'clock MacIntosh sent a man to say that the road down was clear, and that three hundred and twenty dead bodies had been thrown over.

At three o'clock in the morning the horses, round whose hoofs pieces of sacking had been tied, were led across the fosse.

One of MacIntosh's sergeants was put in charge of the ten men who were to remain at the intrenchment, the castle being left entirely in the hands of the women and boys.

The mounted tenants were eighty in number, all carrying long spears and swords.

The torches had long since burnt out, and each man leading his horse went noiselessly down the road, MacIntosh with the footmen leading the way.