"It is high time," he cried, "that we [should find] the enemies of our religion and of our civil freedom are mustering all around us; and we may well suspect that they have accomplices even here.

Lock the doors.

Lay the keys on the table.

Let nobody go out but those lords and gentlemen whom we shall appoint to call the citizens to arms.

There are some good men from the West in Edinburgh, men for whom I can answer." The assembly raised a general cry of assent.