Monk appeared before it; and having made a breach, gave a general assault.

He carried the town; and following the example and instructions of Cromwell, put all the inhabitants to the sword, in order to strike a general terror into the kingdom.

Warned by this example, Aberdeen, St.Andrew's, Inverness, and other towns and forts, yielded of their own accord to the enemy.

Argyle made his submissions to the English commonwealth; and excepting a few royalists, who remained some time in the mountains, under the earl of Glencairn, Lord Balcarras, and General Middleton, that kingdom, which had hitherto, through all ages, by means of its situation, poverty, and valor, maintained its independence, was reduced to total subjection.
The English parliament sent Sir Harry Vane, St.John, and other commissioners to settle Scotland.

These men, who possessed little of the true spirit of liberty, knew how to maintain the appearance of it; and they required the voluntary consent of all the counties and towns of this conquered kingdom, before they would unite them into the same commonwealth with England.