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those who had retired to it for safety, that every
soldier in Monk's army had nearly sixty pounds
sterling to his share. Sixty vessels were taken in
the harbour (probably being the time of low water),
and sent off loaded with the spoil. This fleet was
lost on the Bar of Tay. The pillage lasted several
days, and was at last stayed by the horrid circum-
stance formerly mentioned.
The gallant Governor Lumsden, after having
made every exertion for the defence of the town,
and taking refuge with part of his force in the old
tower, was, from want of provisions, obliged to sur-
render at discretion. He and his valorous band
were — with a ferocity which must be attributed to
fanaticism, for it is by no means English- — mas-
sacred in the church-yard. Their dead bodies were
promiscuously thrown into pits dug on the spot, —
where, lately, on making the improvements in that
part of the town, their bones were seen lying crowd-
ed together. The head of Lumsden was placed on
one of the abutments of the tower. The stone on
which it was fixed fell down some years ago. In
the same church-yard, part of Lord Duffus' regi-
ment shared the same fate ; and the large square of
the Fishmarket exhibited a scene of equally feroci-
ous slaughter and desolation.
Dundee having thus suffered by barbarism, in-
testine commotions, foreign invasion, superstition,
bigotry, and fanaticism, it is not surprising that the
records of its history and constitution have been
greatly impaired and in part entirely lost. The first
charter is said to have been given by William 1. 1
in 1210, previous to his conferring the town on his