nine
o'clock in the morning
The next morning Ronald started at daybreak with several other mounted gentlemen and an escort of a hundred of Clanranald 's men , under the command of the eldest son of that chief , for Glasgow , and late the same evening entered that city . They were received with acclamation by a part of the population ; but the larger portion of the citizens gazed at them from their doorways as they passed in sullen hostility . They marched direct to the barracks lately occupied by the English troops , the gentlemen taking the quarters occupied by the officers . A notification was at once sent to the provost to assemble the city council at nine o'clock in the morning , to hear a communication from the royal council . As soon as Malcolm had put up Ronald 's horse and his own in the stables , and seen to their comfort , he and Ronald sallied out . It was now dark , but they wrapped themselves up in their cloaks so as not to be noticed , as in the hostile state of the town they might have been insulted and a quarrel forced upon them , had they been recognized as two of the new arrivals . The night , however , was dark , and they passed without recognition through the ill lighted streets to the house of Andrew Anderson .