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

82 TIHE LIFE OF
light timber were thrown across, the warriors quietly
passed,raised battericsand advanced to batter tihewa lls.
Sir John Graham,: Ruthven, and Sir John Ramnsay
beseiged the bridge, and Wallace surrounded the
town. The Saxons made a desperate resistance.They fought with new engines, casting large stones
over the walls, upon the heads of the Scots. But
Wallace forced his way, and passed over the walls
with a thousand men. At the same moment, Sir
John Graham and Ramham opened a breach and
entered at the turret gate, and cut to pieces all
who opposed them. Then a dreadful cry was raised in the town, and two thousand of the Southerons
were put to the sword in the street. Sir John
Stewart saw that the town was lost, and fled like a
coward with sixty men in a barge towards Dundee,
and left his host to die by the Scottish claymores.
Wallace remained four days in Saint Johnston,
peopled it with Scots, and left Ruthven captain of the
garrison, to keep the place. Then he marched off to
reduce the Abbey of'Cooper of Angus. The Abbot fled on his approach. So did the English in Glamis, Forfar, Breechin, Montrose, Mearns, &c. and
collected themselves to the number of four thousand in
Dunnoter Castle.
When Wallace arrived at Dunnoter, he offered
them their lives, on condition they would leave the
kingdom, but unfortunately they would not believe
the sincerity of the Scots, and did not accept the over-.ures of merey; so he set fire to the church and burned them in it; the rest of them rushed out over the
rocks, and fell headlong into the sea below. Not
one remained alive! Wallace then marched on to