The assailants came pouring on every side into the streets.

The church, however, held out obstinately.

But the greater part of the regiment made its stand behind a wall which surrounded a house belonging to the Marquess of Athol.

This wall, which had two or three days before been hastily repaired with timber and loose stones, the soldiers defended desperately with musket, pike, and halbert.

Their bullets were soon spent; but some of the men were employed in cutting lead from the roof of the Marquess's house and shaping it into slugs.