Anonymous British

Leslie's March To Longmaston, Or Marston Moor

March! march! Why the devil do ye na march? Stand to your arms, my lads, Fight in good order; Front about, ye musketeers all, Till ye come to the English border: Stand til't, and fight like men, True gospel to maintain. The parliament's blythe to see us a' coming: When to the kirk we come, We'll purge it ilka room, Frae popish reliques, and a' sic innovation, That a' the warld may see There's nane in the right but we, Of the auld Scottish nation. Jenny shall wear the hood, Jacky the sark of God; And the kist-fou of whistles, That mak sic a cleiro, Our pipers braw Shall hae them a', Whate'er come on it: Busk up your plaids, my lads! Cock up your bonnets!--Da Capo. [David Leslie, a celebrated military commander during the civil wars, was the fifth son of Patrick Leslie, of Pitcairly, commendator of Lindores, by his wife, Lady Jean Stuart, second daughter of Robert, first Earl of Orkney. Of his early life little more is known than that, like many others of his countrymen, he went into the service of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, where he distinguished himself by his military talents, and attained the rank of colonel of horse. Returning from the continent at, or shortly after, the commencement of the civil wars, he was appointed major-general to the army that was sent into England under the command of the Earl of Leven, to the assistance of the parliament. On the resignation of that able general, David Leslie was appointed to the chief command of the army raised on behalf of Charles II. , after he had accepted the Covenant, and been admitted to the government. After the restoration, he was created, in consideration of his services and sufferings in the royal cause, Lord Newark, by patent dated 31st August, 1661, to him and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with a pension of 500 pounds per annum. His lordship died in the year 1682. He married Jean, daughter of Sir John York, by whom he had a son, David, who succeeded him as Lord Newark, and three daughters; the eldest of whom, Elizabeth, was married to Archibald Kennedy, of Cullean, and was mother to Susanna, the celebrated Countess of Eglintoune. ] ~Chambers's Scottish Biographical Dictionary, vol. iii. , pp. 394-8. (And the kist-fou of whistles,. . . ): The hatred of the old presbyterians to the organ was, apparently, invincible. It is here vilified with the name of a "chest-full of whistles," as the episcopal chapel at Glasgow was, by the vulgar, opprobiously termed the "whistling kirk. " ~ Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. iii. , p. 159. In May, 1644, a new ordinance passed for abolishing all Popish reliques fixed to tombs, or other places, and all organs, images, &c. ~ Whitelocke's Memorials (1683), p. 83.