A History of the Scots, Part I

After the fall of bristol, montrose was encamped with somewhate around two thousand men philippo. When they were surprised by a covenanter army of four thousand men, although both those numbers are pretty soft. Montrose himself got away, but when elements of his army surrendered after being offered quarter, the covenanters just walked up and started massacring them. The royalist cause in scotland, if it could really be called that, was dead. Meanwhile, down in the deep southwest, sir ralph hopton held out long enough to get the king's eldest son, charles prince of wales, the future king charles the second,