Several members of the majority boasted that they too had brought with them trusty retainers who would turn out at a moment's notice against Claverhouse and his dragoons.

All that Hamilton proposed was instantly done.

The Jacobites, silent and unresisting, became prisoners.

Leven went forth and ordered the drums to beat.

The Covenanters of Lanarkshire and Ayrshire promptly obeyed the signal.