The life of Sir William Wallace, the governor general of Scotland, and hero of the Scottish chiefs. By Peter Donaldson.

SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. 107
attacked them, defeated and killed all but a few fugitives on the field of battle. Wallace himself cut
Stewart down with his great claymore. Then Ruthven marches to Perth and takes it; Sir John Ramsay
took Cooper of Fife; Wallace and Crawford, Gutherie, Loungeville, and Richard took Lindores without
any opposition, all the English having fled before
them.
One company of English still remained in Lochleven, and Wallace could not rest, until he reduced
it also; so he marched off in the middle of the night
with eighteen chosen men, whom he ordered to remain on the Loch, while he, himself, would swim
with his sword to the castle and bring away their boat
to carry them over.
They having obtained the boat, soon reached the
Castle and boldly attacked it with sword in hand, and
spared none, excepting women and children. They
remained eight days there and receive Ramsay with
all his men, when they repaired to Perth where good
Bishop Sinclair met him and counselled him to proceed with all alacrity: and Jop was sent to the north
for supplies, and John Blair to the west in Priest's
garments to warn their fiiends in the wesl; and the
people flocked to the standard of Wallace frc a every
quarter of the land. Wallace then proceeded with
fifty men and took Ayrth by surprise, killed Thomas
Weir, the captain, and one hundred men, even all
that were in the garrison, and delivered his uncle
from chains. Before morning they had all the spoils
conveyed away to Torwood, in the neighborhood,
and marched off to Dumbarton.