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 536 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 56. Those who were left to guard the prisoners made after Buccleuch to the gate. The prisoners themselves, most of them seeing their friends at hand, shook themselves easily free ; and Buccleuch, who was taking care of Morton's life, was obliged in turn to surrender, Len- nox was less fortunate. He had been tied on a horse's back, and a handful of men were scrambling off with him down one of the side streets. They were hotly pursued, and Claud Hamilton, remembering the Archbishop, and fearing that he would be rescued, ran after them, calling out, ' Shoot him, shoot the Regent ! ' A trooper, named Cawdor, drew a pistol and fired, and Lennox fell mortally wounded, and was left upon the ground. Then all was confusion. The Borderers had done their peculiar portion of the business well. They got off with 300 horses, f besides a great butin of merchants' goods ; ' but from twenty to thirty of the party were taken or killed, Scott of Buccleuch among them, and to the plunder had been sacrificed the whole serious fruit of an enterprise, which, in the opinion of the Castilians, ' if it had been wisely followed out, had put an end to the troubles of Scotland without blood or difficulty.' Lennox survived only a few hours, and ' then de- parted to God very peacefully,' ' exhorting all men to follow still the action for the maintenance of the King.' Stepchild of fortune through a hard life, his father killed, his son murdered, he himself, a second Regent, now went down in blood, and was hardly paid by the poor honour of being father of the line of English kings.