He promised that they should depart unharmed; but he found it no easy matter to keep his word.

The people of the town and neighbourhood were generally Protestants of Scottish extraction.

They had suffered much during the short ascendency of the native race; and what they had suffered they were now eager to retaliate.

They assembled in great multitudes, exclaiming that the capitulation was nothing to them, and that they would be revenged.

They soon proceeded from words to blows.