They immediately ordered Lesley and Holborne to march against him with an army of four thousand men.

Strahan was sent before with a body of cavalry to check his progress.

He fell unexpectedly on Montrose, who had no horse to bring him intelligence.
The royalists were put to flight; all of them either killed or taken prisoners; and Montrose himself, having put on the disguise of a peasant, was perfidiously delivered into the hands of his enemies by a friend to whom he had intrusted his person.
All the insolence which success can produce in ungenerous minds, was exercised by the Covenanters against Montrose, whom they so much hated and so much dreaded.

Theological antipathy further increased their indignities towards a person, whom they regarded as impious on account of the excommunication which had been pronounced against him.

Lesley led him about for several days in the same low habit under which he had disguised himself.