eleven o'clock
Leave fifty of your oldest men with half a dozen veteran soldiers to defend the gateway against a sudden attack ; with the rest we can issue out , and marching round , enter by the gate and breaches , sweeping the streets as we go , and then uniting , burst through any guard they may have placed to prevent a sortie , and so regain the castle . '' The count at once assented . In a short time shouts , songs , the sound of rioting and quarrels , arose from the town , showing that revelry was general . At eleven o'clock the men in the castle were mustered , fifty were told off to the defence with five experienced soldiers , an officer of the count being left in command . The rest sallied through a little door at the back of the castle and noiselessly descended the steep path . On arriving at the bottom they were divided into three bodies . Malcolm with his Scots and fifty of the townspeople formed one .