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I shall be with the horsemen , and as soon as we have scattered the mob , we will harness the horses to the guns and bring them up here , so that I shall strengthen the castle as well as weaken the peasants . '' The tenants were all informed of what was going to be done . `` It will be to your benefit as well as ours , '' he said , `` for you may be sure that in the morning , if they give up the idea of again attacking us , they will scatter all over the estates and sack and burn every house , whereas if we succeed in dispersing them , no small portion of them will at once scatter to their homes , and the rest will take care not to come near this neighbourhood again . '' At twelve o'clock MacIntosh sent a man to say that the road down was clear , and that three hundred and twenty dead bodies had been thrown over . At three o'clock in the morning the horses , round whose hoofs pieces of sacking had been tied , were led across the fosse . One of MacIntosh 's sergeants was put in charge of the ten men who were to remain at the intrenchment , the castle being left entirely in the hands of the women and boys . The mounted tenants were eighty in number , all carrying long spears and swords .