Domestic annals of Scotland

by Robert Chambers

INDEX.

• Aa-na-Mullich, skirmish at, between the government troops and the Mackenzies, [463].
• Aberdeen, King’s College, grants a diploma to a quack doctor, [262].
• Aberdeen, pope burned in effigy at, [4];
  • disturbances at Church of, on account of doxology, [103];
  • woollen manufactures at, [156];
  • popish meeting dispersed at, [203].
• Abernethy forest, cutting of, superintended by Aaron Hill, [547].
• Adair, John, mathematician, engaged in making maps of Scotland, [42].
• Advertisements, curious, in Edinburgh Gazette in 1707, [325].
• Advocates’ Library, established under Parliament House, [245].
• African Company, established, [121];
  • expedition to Darien, [206];
  • restitution of its losses, [259].
• Agricultural improvements, introduced into Scotland by Elizabeth Mordaunt, an English lady, [419];
  • promoted by a society, [484].
• Agricultural Improvers, Society of, [484];
  • implements invented, [503].
• Aikenhead, Thomas, tried and executed for blasphemy, [160].
• Allardice, Catharine, a misspelled letter by, [595].
• Anatomy first proposed to be taught in Edinburgh, [105].
• Ancrum Bridge rebuilt by kirk collection, [134].
• Anderson, James, editor of Diplomata Scotiæ, encouraged in his work, [318];
  • appointed postmaster for Scotland, [400];
  • lets a house to Sir R. Steele, [418].
• Anderson, Mrs, printer of the Bible, [364].
• Angus, an Episcopal clergyman, deposed, [78].
• Apostasy from Protestant faith punished, [214].
• Apparel, act of parliament for restraining expenses of, [149];
  • old fashions of dress enumerated, [148];
  • extravagances of, denounced, [448], [482];
  • cost of various articles, [571].
• Arbuthnot, Lady, her jointure, [57].
• Archbishop of Glasgow imprisoned, [12];
  • permitted to live at certain places, [167].
• Archers, Royal Company of, [495].
• Argyle, John, Duke of, takes command of government troops (1715), [389].
• Argyle, seventh Earl, and first Duke of, [1];
  • his debauched life, [191];
  • befriends the Master of Lovat, [187].
• Arithmetic, a mechanical invention for, [210].
• Arms being got from abroad, James Donaldson proposes to manufacture them at home, [311];
  • edict against carrying arms, [497].
• Arnot, Sir David, assault by, [157].
• Assembly, General, clergy of, at first plainly dressed, [148].
• Assembly in Edinburgh for dancing purposes, [480].
• Aston’s company of players, [518], [544], [550].
• Astrology practised by John Stobo, [85].
• Atheistical books imported into Edinburgh, [160].
• Atmospherical phenomena, [366], [442], [480].
• Auchensaugh, covenant renewed at, in 1712, [376].
• Auchterarder, riot at, on reading of funeral-service, [366].
• Baillie, Captain William, imprisoned debtor, liberated by Privy Council, [28].
• Baird, Archibald, imprisoned for housebreaking, [64].
• Balcarres, Earl of, imprisoned at Revolution, [11];
  • replaced in confinement, [19];
  • story of Dundee’s ghost having appeared to, [19].
• Baldoon park for rearing cattle, [152].
• Balfour of Denmill, mysterious disappearance of, [346].
• Bane, Donald, a prize-fighter, [522].
• ‘Bangstrie’ at Earlshall, Croshlachie, Ellieston, &c., [157]–159.
• Banishment petitioned for by various culprits, [116].
• Bank-notes for twenty shillings commenced, [212].
• Bank of Scotland established, [128];
  • temporarily suspends payment in 1704, [306];
  • run upon in 1715, [402];
  • last stoppage in 1728, [544];
  • sets up four branches, [577].
• Bank, Royal, of Scotland, established, [537];
  • causes a stoppage in the Bank of Scotland, [544].
• Banking, primitive style of, by a shopkeeper in Glasgow, [577].
• Baptism, inconsistencies regarding, [370].
• Barbreck’s Bone, for cure of madness, [262].
• Bargarran’s daughter (Christian Shaw), her case, [167];
  • thread spun by her, [510].
• Barrisdale, Macdonell of, [615].
• Bass, siege of, [95].
• Bath of hot air (a hummum) established at Perth, [260].
• Bayne, James, wright, ruined by his concern in rebuilding Holyrood Palace, [29].
• Beardie [Walter Scott]‘s marriage, [37];
  • attends a funeral at Glasgow, [387].
• Bell, Sir John, of Glasgow, episcopal worship at his house disturbed, [273].
• Bible in Irish language, first printed, [39].
• ——, printing of, in Scotland (1712), [364].
• Bills of Exchange, treatise upon, printed, [278].
• Births, ceremonies at, [572].
• Bishops expelled from the Convention in 1689, [5].
• Black-foot, a, litigation by one for remuneration, [191].
• Black Mail in the Highlands, [498], [612], [614].
• —— Watch, the, [498], [581], [610].
• Blackwell, a preceptor, libels Lady Inglis of Cramond, [89].
• Blair of Balthayock and Carnegie of Finhaven, [190].
• ‘Bloody Baillie,’ a witness on Porteous Mob, [601].
• Blythswood, Campbell of, cousinred with Sir Walter Scott, [37].
• Boig, Adam, starts the Edinburgh Courant, [314].
• Books burnt at Cross, [276].
• ——, licenses for printing, [52], [220].
• Boswell of Balmouto, a rash Jacobite, [84].
• Botanic Garden established in Edinburgh, [81];
  • extension of, [142].
• Brand, Alexander, in trouble for making ‘donatives’ to Privy Council, [176];
  • proposes scavengering of Edinburgh, [592].
• Brewers of Edinburgh in rebellion, [509].
• Bride’s clothes, their cost, [240].
• Bridge, William, an English coppersmith, [33].
• Bridgman, or Evory, a pirate, seizes a man-of-war, [150].
• Broich, James, sad tale of his ship taken by a privateer, [22].
• Brown, Dr Andrew (Dolphington), is licensed to print a treatise of his own on fevers, [52].
• Brown, Jean, of Potterrow, a religious visionary, [430].
• Brown, Rev. George, his Rotula Arithmetica, [210].
• Browny, a spirit, [284].
• Bruce, Captain Henry, imprisoned for defending Holyroodhouse, [13].
• Bruce, David, and other boys, carried out to sea in an open boat, [355].
• Bruce, Peter, confined at the Revolution, [12];
  • transfers right of making playing-cards, [34].
• Buchanan, David, servant of Lord Dundee, [15].
• Bugs in Glasgow, [542].
• Bullock, fat, at Dalkeith, [479].
• Burghs, royal, convention of, curious details, [51].
• Burleigh, Master of, murders Stenhouse, a schoolmaster, [326].
• Burnet, Captain, of Barns, his unscrupulous recruiting, [43].
• Bute, Earl of, his law-case against his stepmother, [375].
• Cairns, a boy, murdered, [547].
• Caldron, a copper, law-case about, [77].
• Callender, John, master-smith, his account against exchequer, [47] note.
• Cambuslang, religious demonstrations at, [607].
• Cameron, Sir Evan, of Locheil, [288].
• Cameronian regiment raised in 1689, [8].
• Cameronians, the, proceedings of, [376], [532].
• Campbell of Cessnock’s parks for rearing cattle, [153];
  • his plan for shot-casting, [155].
• Campbell of Lawers, murdered at Greenock, [473].
• Campbell of Lochnell’s funeral, [387].
• Canongate, duels in, [466].
• —— Tolbooth, mutiny of prisoners in, [71];
  • petition from keeper of, [80];
  • mutinies of recruits in, [182], [601].
• Card-playing, law against, [296].
• Cards, playing, manufacture of, a monopoly, [34].
• Cardross, Lord, and Sir John Cochrane, case between, [191].
• Carmichael of Bonnyton, his quarrel with opposite neighbours, [73].
• Carstares, William, the king’s adviser, [107];
  • his death, [403].
• Catarrh, infection of, at St Kilda, [181].
• Catholics, troubles of, after the Revolution, [25];
  • severe treatment of priests, [82];
  • act against in 1700, [205];
  • worship interrupted in Edinburgh, [108];
  • at Aberdeen, [203];
  • again in Edinburgh, [204], [466];
  • Catholic priest banished, [362];
  • gentlemen troubled, [295];
  • priests numerous and bold, [383];
  • seminary for priests at Scalan, [205];
  • Catholic books seized and burned, [146].
• Cattle, breeds of, efforts to improve, at Baldoon and elsewhere, [152].
• Cattle fair of Crieff, [338].
• —— ‘lifting’ in the Highlands, [30], [420], [486], [498], [610], [614].
• Cayley, Captain John, shot by Mrs M‘Farlane, [412].
• Cess, evasion of, in the Highlands, [91].
• Chancellor of Shieldhill fined for a riot, [73].
• Charteris, Colonel Francis, gambling anecdote of, [296];
  • his death, [579].
• Child-murder, imputed, cases of, [19], [27], [625].
• Children of the upper classes, provision for, in various instances, [55].
• Choille Van, skirmish at, [468].
• Christian Knowledge, Society for Propagation of, [252].
• Claim of Right, some articles violated, [10].
• Claret, &c., price of in Scotland, at beginning of 18th century, [183], [270].
• Cleland, William, appointed lieutenant-colonel of Cameronian regiment, [9].
• Clerical uniform recommended, [147].
• Cloth-manufacture, woollen, [155].
• Clubs of a censurable character, [521], [543].
• Cluny Macpherson establishes a guard in lieu of ‘Black Watch,’ [611].
• Coal-pits at Tranent, mode of draining, [472].
• —— -works, railway at Prestonpans, [472].
• Cockburn, Andrew, post-boy, robbed, [32].
• —— ——, an Episcopalian minister at Glasgow, his chapel destroyed by a mob, [367].
• Cockburn, Justice-clerk, quarrels with Earl of Ilay and Sir David Dalrymple, [402].
• Cockburn, Mr, of Ormiston, an improver of agriculture, [485].
• Cock-fighting introduced, [266].
• Coin of Scotland at the Union, [330].
• Coldingham, kirk discipline of, [92];
  • episcopal meeting-house, [93];
  • witches of Coldingham, [94].
• Collegium Butterense at Aberdeen, [230].
• Colliers in Fife and Lothian, as slaves, [248].
• Combats with swords in public, [522].
• Commerce as affected by the Union, [336], [338].
• —— and Manufactures in Scotland, subsequent to Revolution, [336], [416].
• Common Prayer, Book of, two clergymen maltreated for using, at Dumfries, [65];
  • Rev. James Greenshields prosecuted for using, [350].
• Companies formed for manufactures, [88].
• Concert of music in Edinburgh in 1695, [89];
  • by Edinburgh amateurs, [432].
• Condition and habits of Scottish people, change for the better, [568];
  • hospitality, [570];
  • dress, &c., [571].
• Copyrights of books, granted by Privy Council to printers and booksellers, [220].
• Cornwell, Christopher, servitor, imprisoned, [15].
• Coronation of George I., rejoicings at, [414].
• Corporation privileges, troubles arising from, [75].
• Correction-houses for mendicants built, [219].
• Courant, Edinburgh, commenced, [314].
• Courant, Edinburgh Evening, newspaper started (1718), [438].
• Covenant sworn at Auchensaugh, [376].
• Covenanters’ heads, re-interment of, [532].
• Cowbin, estate of, ruined by drifted sand, [119];
  • Kinnaird of Culbin petitions for exemption from cess, [119];
  • inscription on family tombstone, [120].
• Craig, Margaret, a poor girl, drowns her infant, [19].
• Craigcrook, romantic story of a murder connected with, [333].
• Crawford, Earl of, president of parliament, [1];
  • superintends torture of a prisoner, [40].
• Crawford, John, Morer’s account of, [271].
• Crieff, cattle-fair of, described, [338].
• Crighton, Captain John, his restraint relaxed and renewed, [67];
  • liberated, [68].
• Criminalities connected with the sexual affections, [59].
• Criminals condemned to become soldiers, [64].
• —— banished without trial, [115], [211].
• Cromdale, dispersion of Highlanders at, [2].
• Culloden, Lady, the body forgotten at her funeral, [309].
• Culreach, system of in Scotland, [236].
• Curiosities, House of, at Grange Park, [99].
• Customs, attacks on officers of, [215], [589], [594].
• Dalnaspidal, fête at, by General Wade, [561].
• Dalrymple, Sir John, his enmity against Highland Jacobites, [61];
  • his concern in massacre of Glencoe, [62].
• Dalyell, Sir Thomas, of Binns, treated for lunacy, [297].
• Dancing Assembly established, [479];
  • meetings for in provincial towns, [590].
• Darien Expedition, [107], [206].
• Davidson, Robert, of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, petitions Council in consequence of having had his house destroyed, [108].
• Davidson, William, ‘writer,’ incarcerated for false news, [72].
• Dearth in Scotland, [136], [195], [348], [606].
• Debauchery in Edinburgh, [312].
• Dee, bridge over at Black Ford, erected, [277].
• Defoe visits Scotland (1706), [322];
  • conducts the Courant newspaper, [324], [325];
  • his account of the Equivalent, [328];
  • quoted regarding trade of Scotland, [336];
  • his illiberal remark on Greenshields’s case, [351].
• Deportment, Rules of Good, by Petrie, [455].
• Dickson, Margaret, her trial, execution, and subsequent recovery, [500].
• Dickson, Sir R., of Sorn-beg, refuses to pay for wines to gratify the officers of state, [188].
• Dies and punches for coining, [141].
• Dingwall, poverty-stricken in 1704, [52];
  • deputation from Inverness visits the town to report on its trade, [52];
  • effect of cheap whisky at, [133].
• Dirty Luggies in Edinburgh, [593].
• Disarming of the Highlanders, [497];
  • General Wade’s letter to Lord Townsend, [528].
• Dogs, mad, [624].
• Don river dried up in several places, [442].
• Don, Sir James, of Newton, receives permission to travel into England with horses and arms, [50].
• Donaldson, James, commences Edinburgh Gazette (1699), [313];
  • which stops (1707), but is recommenced, [324];
  • his invention for manufacture of arms, [311].
• Donatives to Privy Council, custom of giving, [177].
• Douglas, Cameronian regiment formed at, [8].
• Douglas, Captain, convicted of assault, [60].
• Douglas, Duchess of, her style of speech, [507].
• Douglas, Duke of, murders Mr Ker, [506].
• Dow Loch, story of the, [263].
• Doxology attempted to be introduced in church, [103].
• Dress, old, articles of, enumerated, [148];
  • a constant fashion of, proposed in parliament, [149];
  • description of, [269];
  • changes of, [571].
• Drove-road for cattle at New Galloway, [153].
• Drum, Lady of, petitions to be left unmolested by Irvine of Murtle, [144].
• Drum, Laird of, taken in care for weakness of mind, [22].
• Drummond, George, founds the Royal Infirmary, [557].
• Drummond, Lord, popish baptism of his child, [383].
• Drummond, May, a preaching Quaker lady, affecting case of, [559].
• Dudds, Dr, a quack mediciner, [261].
• Duel between Matthew M‘Kail and William Trent in King’s Park, Edinburgh, [149];
  • other duels, [543], [566].
• Duels, military, their prevalence, [405].
• Duff, Laird of Braco, checks lawless proceedings of the gipsies of Moray, [234].
• Dumfries, riot at, from reading Book of Common Prayer, [65].
• Dun, Lord, a judge, anecdote of, [293].
• Dunbar, Sir David, of Baldoon, his breeds of cattle, [152].
• Dundee, Jacobitism in, [415];
  • grain riots at, [452];
  • dancing assembly at, [590].
• Dundee, Lady, [97].
• ——, Viscount of, [1], [16], [19].
• Dundonald, Countess of, her death, [356].
• Dunkeld, Bishop of, speaks pathetically of James VII., [5].
• Dupin, Nicolas, engaged in the linen-manufacture and paper-making, [86];
  • his inventions, [102].
• Dutch Guards’ officer, wounded in duel, [543].
• Dysart, Rev. John, of Coldingham, his rigorous discipline, [92].
• Earlshall, violences at, [157].
• Earthenware manufacture, [156].
• Earthquake at Selkirk, [543];
  • at Glasgow, [581].
• East Indiaman, loss of, near island of Lewis, [551].
• Echo, a literary paper proposed, [621].
• Eclipse of the sun, April 22, 1715, [399].
• Edie, David, apostate from Protestant faith, [214].
• Edinburgh, dirty state of, [593].
• ——, great fire in (1700), [225].
• ——, Lord Provost of, inflicts capital punishment, [568].
• Edinburgh; see the entire volume passim.
• Edmondstone of Newton, banished for concern in murder of the Master of Rollo, [119].
• Edmondstone, William, comes into collision with Row of Inverallan, [49].
• Education in practical arts recommended (1726), [530].
• Eglintoun, Earl of, beggars at his funeral, [555].
• Egyptians, or gipsies, [233].
• Election for Ross-shire, on a Saturday, [341];
  • one at Fortrose, strange proceedings at, [465].
• Election of Peers at Holyrood, incident at one, [403].
• Elphinstone, Alexander, fights a duel with Lieutenant Swift, [566].
• Episcopal clergy, rabbled out at the Revolution, [6];
  • persecuted, [78], [229], [273], [350], [366], [405];
  • two relieved by Principal Carstares, [404].
• Episcopal meeting-houses at Eyemouth, &c., suppressed, [229];
  • one at Glasgow destroyed by a mob, [368];
  • remarkable number of, in Edinburgh, in 1715, [405];
  • increase of, in the North, [480].
• Episcopalians, their troubles regarding Book of Common Prayer, [65], [366].
• ‘Equivalent Money,’ at the Union, [259], [328];
  • its disposal, [444].
• Equivocating prayers, [78].
• Erskine, disgraceful scenes at parish-church of, [69].
• Erskine, Mrs, widow of minister of Chirnside, petitions for relief, [181].
• Erskine, Thomas, a Quaker brewer, [467].
• Exchange Coffee-house (Edinburgh) circulates ‘seditious news,’ and is shut up in consequence, [72].
• Exchequer, Scottish, extreme poverty of, [45].
• Excise and Customs, small amount of before Union, [339];
  • curious anecdote of the transmission of excise revenue to London, [341].
• Excise law victims revenge themselves, [594].
• Fae, Sergeant, undertakes to catch robbers, [83].
• Fairfoul, David, a Catholic priest, confined, [25].
• ‘Fair Intellectual Club,’ [574].
• Fallowing first introduced into Scotland, [419].
• Famines in Scotland, [136], [195], [348], [606].
• Fast on account of sickness and scarcity, [160];
  • in apprehension of renewed scarcity, [233].
• Fea of Clestran takes Gow, a pirate, [505].
• Fearn church roof falls in, [608].
• Ferintosh, whisky distilled at, free of duty, [133].
• Fife, sickness in, [363].
• Fire in Edinburgh, of 1700, [225].
• —— Insurance Company first started, [446].
• —— raising in Lanarkshire, [578].
• Flaikfield, Mary, a poor woman, prosecuted by Merchant Company, [76].
• Fletcher of Salton’s statements and proposals regarding vagrant poor, [218].
• Flogging in schools (1700), boy whipped to death, [222].
• Flood in west of Scotland (1712), [381].
• Forbes, Duncan, Lord Advocate, suppresses a riot at Glasgow, [509].
• Forbes, John, of Culloden, his convivial practices, [184].
• Forbes of Culloden obtains permission to distil usquebaugh duty-free, [133].
• Foreigners prohibited from transporting labourers, [211];
  • distinguished foreigners visiting Edinburgh, [581].
• Forfeited estates, commissioners of, meet in Edinburgh, [408];
  • further proceedings of commissioners, [443].
• Forfeited estates in inaccessible situations, difficulty of dealing with, [458].
• Forgery on Bank of Scotland by Thomas M‘Gie, [229];
  • by Robert Fleming, [356].
• Forglen, Lord, his eccentric bequest, [533].
• Forsyth, Matthew, cook, his miserable imprisonment, [90].
• Fortrose, election at, and riot, [465].
• Foulis, Messrs, of Glasgow, their elegant printing, [516].
• France, gentlemen returned from, objects of suspicion, [216].
• Fraser, Captain Simon (afterwards Lord Lovat), his wild proceedings in Inverness-shire, [186], [254].
  • See Lovat.
• Fraser, John, imprisoned for ridiculing the divine authority of the Scriptures, [147].
• Freebairn, the bookseller, [379].
• Freemasonry, [600].
• Free-trade hinted at, [243].
• French fleet appears in Firth of Forth, [332].
• —— Protestants, succour for in Scotland, [9].
• French taught by a native, in Edinburgh, [449].
• Friendly Society, the, for fire-insurance, [446].
• Frost of 1740, [605].
• Funeral at Glasgow, described by Walter Scott (‘Beardie’), [387];
  • of Campbell of Lochnell (1713), [387];
  • of Robertson of Struan, [526];
  • convivialities at one, [309],
  • give rise to a murder, [545].
• Funerals conducted on a superb scale, [307];
  • Lord Whitelaw’s, [308];
  • Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder’s, [309];
  • Sir R. Monro’s, [560].
• Galloway, Levellers of, [492];
  • state of tenantry of, [494].
• Gambling in Scotland, act regarding, and notable instances of, [296].
• Gambling Society, [543].
• Gardiner, Colonel James, his pious character, [487].
• Gardner, John, minister of Elgin, falls into a trance, [422].
• Gazette, Edinburgh, newspaper commenced by Captain Donaldson, [212];
  • recommenced, [324].
• Ged, William, invents stereotyping, [555];
  • his son James joins the rebellion, [557].
• Gentleman, John Purdie pleads that he is not a, [352].
• Gibson of Durie and his colliers, [249].
• —— of Linkwood, imprisoned in Elgin tolbooth, and burns it, [239].
• Gilmerton, subterranean house at, [502].
• Gipsies of the province of Moray, [233].
• Girded Tails, [448].
• Glasgow, cruelty at to Quakers, [57];
  • rise of commercial wealth in, [125];
  • trades with colonies, [431];
  • deterioration of morals at, [486];
  • mercantile losses at, [337], [487], [565];
  • bankrupt pilloried, [487];
  • malt-tax riot at, [508];
  • making great advances, [515];
  • a mad merry-making at, [543];
  • afflicted with bugs, [542].
• Glass for mirrors, art of polishing, by Leblanc, a French refugee, [154].
• Glass-work at Leith, [23];
  • at Glasgow, [128];
  • at Aitchison’s Haven, [154];
  • of Lord Elcho, [155];
  • complaint about English bottles imported, [229].
• Glenbucket, Gordon of, attempt to assassinate him, [488].
• Glenbucket, Lady, dispute between her and her eldest son, [159].
• Glencoe, massacre at, [2], [62];
  • French version of, [64].
• Glenorchy, Episcopal minister of kept in at the Revolution, [7].
• Gordon, Duchess of (Elizabeth Howard), meeting of Catholic worshippers at her house in the Canongate, [466].
• Gordon, Duchess of (Elizabeth Mordaunt), introduces agricultural improvements, [419];
  • pensioned for Protestantising her husband’s family, [554].
• Gordon, Duke of, holds out Edinburgh Castle for King James, [1];
  • has a meeting of Catholic worshippers in his house in Edinburgh, [204].
• Gordon, second Duke of, his death, and its political importance, [554].
• Gordon, Mr, his powers of clairvoyance, [490].
• Gordon of Ellon’s two sons murdered, [422].
• Gordon of Glenbucket, his attempted assassination, [488].
• Gordons of Cardiness and M‘Cullochs of Myreton, [174].
• Gordons of Gicht, [304].
• Gow, the pirate, affair of at Orkney, [505].
• Graham of Gartmore, his account of state of the Highlands, [615].
• Grain, export and import acts, [137];
  • Kerr of Chatto’s appeal for custom on grain brought to Kelso, [138];
  • importation permitted (1697), [182];
  • forbidden to be exported (1699), [221].
• Grange, Lord, visits a religious visionary, [430];
  • his troublesome wife, [578];
  • opposes abolition of the witchcraft laws in parliament, [579].
• Grant of Monymusk’s improvements of land, [418].
• Green, Captain, and his companions, unjustly tried and executed, [316].
• Greenshields, Rev. James, Episcopal minister, persecutions of, [350].
• Gregory, Professor, his machine for raising water, [237].
• Grierson, Sir Robert, of Lagg, imprisoned as a ‘suspect person,’ [11], [68];
  • accused of ‘clipping and coining,’ [145].
• Gunpowder, explosion at Leith, [264].
• Haddington, Thomas, Earl of, his improvements and plantations, [417].
• Halden and Leslie, Covenanters, [378].
• Hall, Lady Anne, her funeral, [212].
• —— of Dunglass, desecration of a church by, [369].
• Hall, Robert, of Inchinnan, his ‘pretty peculiar accident,’ [353].
• Hamilton, keeper of Canongate tolbooth, asks Privy Council to renew certain perquisites lately withdrawn, [80];
  • another petition by, [182].
• Hamilton, Lord Basil, his death, [246].
• ——, William, of Bangour, in connection with the Dancing Assembly, [483].
• Hamilton’s lottery, [88].
• Hart, Rev. James, a noted clergyman of Edinburgh, [397], [429].
• Harvest of 1699, thanksgiving for, [221].
• Haunted houses, [169], [435].
• Healing virtues ascribed to crystal, ivory, stones, glass, &c., [262];
  • Dow Loch, [263].
• Healths, treasonable, [182].
• Hell-fire clubs, [521].
• Hepburn, John, persecuted for preaching without authority, [149].
• Heraldry, Alexander Nisbet’s System of, published by aid from Scottish parliament, [276].
• Heriot’s Hospital boys taught useful arts at the suggestion of ‘Society of Improvers,’ [530].
• Hership of cattle on lands of Lord Rollo, [117].
• Highlanders, predatory habits of the, [30], [31], [498], [612].
• Highlands, resistance in, to taxation, [91];
  • ignorance in, [252].
• Highway robberies, [83].
• Historia Anglo-Scotica, a book, burned at the Cross of Edinburgh, [276].
• Historical Society at Edinburgh, [487].
• Holyrood Sanctuary, anecdotes of the, [349].
• Home, Earl of, ordered into Edinburgh Castle as a dangerous person, but allowed, on medical certificate, to remain at home, [117].
• Home, Lady, of Renton, conduct at her husband’s funeral, [200].
• Home of Renton writes about increase of witchcraft, [94];
  • affray with tenants of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, [345].
• Hoops for ladies, fashionable in 1719, [448].
• Hope of Rankeillor, an agricultural improver, [485].
• Hopetoun, Charles Hope of, his arrangement for supplying victual to his miners, [210];
  • his windmill at Leith, [290].
• ‘Horn Order,’ meeting called the, [482].
• Hospital for sick first established in Edinburgh, [557].
• Hospitality, great, in Scotland, [570].
• Housebreaking, capitally punished by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1730; W. Muir’s execution, [568].
• Houston, James, and Sir John Shaw of Greenock, assault between, [402].
• Hume, David, circumstances connected with his birth, [56].
• Hume, John of Ninewells, married to Lady Falconer, [55].
• Hume of Marchmont, [1].
• Hummum, a, or Turkish bath, set up at Perth in 1702, [260].
• Hunter and Strahan hanged for forgery, [335].
• Hunters’ ball at Holyrood, [590].
• Hurricane in January 1739, [603].
• Husbands ill-using wives, their punishment by the Stang, [589].
• Ilay, Earl of, admitted as an extraordinary Lord of Session, [341];
  • curious anecdotes of in connection with the Post-office, [266].
• Immorality and impiety ascribed to Scotland by General Assembly in 1691, [41];
  • efforts to restrain, [342].
• Improvers [Agricultural] Society of, [484], [580].
• Incestuous connections severely treated, [59], [354].
• Inchbrakie, George Graham of, makes a riot, [24];
  • Patrick, the young laird, kills the Master of Rollo, [117].
• Infanticide and concealed pregnancy, [26].
• Infirmary at Edinburgh, its origin, [557].
• Influenza in Scotland, [554].
• Inoculation introduced into Scotland, [530].
• Insurance against fire, [446].
• Intelligence-office projected, [244].
• Inventions and manufactures, various, [154].
• Inverary petitions for ‘ease’ from the tax-roll, pleading ‘poverty and want of trade,’ [51].
• Invergarry House garrison, [304].
• Inverlochy, fort planted at, [2].
• Irish cattle imported, [153].
• —— ——, laws against importation of, [242];
  • contraband Irish victual staved in Clyde, [137], [241].
• Irvine of Drum, of weak intellect, arrangements regarding, [22];
  • anecdote of his widow, [144].
• Irvine of Murtle’s conduct towards Lady of Drum, [144].
• Irvine, Robert, murders his two pupils, [423].
• ——, Robert, of Corinhaugh—slow travelling, [222].
• Jacobite party formed, [2];
  • Jacobites in Perthshire make a riot, [24];
  • persecuted under apprehension of a French invasion, [66];
  • the Jacobite clans unsubmissive, [60];
  • Jacobite lairds of Fife, [84];
  • Jacobite gentlemen troubled for drinking treasonable toasts, [182];
  • their plot in 1704, [295];
  • proceedings of the party in 1715, [389];
  • their estates forfeited, [408];
  • subscription for prisoners (1716), [411];
  • gentlemen in exile, [524].
• Jamati, Joseph, Baculator of Damascus, in Edinburgh, [581].
• James VII., death of, [107].
• Jedburgh, incident at proclamation of King William at, [7].
• Johnstone, James, a very wretched prisoner, [14].
• Johnstone, Margaret, widow of Johnstone younger of Lockerby, forcibly asserts her rights, [35].
• Jubilation in Edinburgh on reconciliation between king and Prince of Wales, [453].
• Judges, severity of, in cases of Rutherford and Gray, [371];
  • salaries of, [303].
• Justiciary, commissioners of, their salaries, [302].
• Kellie, John, a corporal, fights a duel, [404].
• Kennedy, James and David, under prosecution as paramours of one woman, [59].
• Kennedy of Auchtyfardel kills Houston, W.S., on streets of Edinburgh, [321].
• Keppoch, Macdonalds of, a wild race, [15];
  • fight with Laird of Mackintosh at Inverroy, [16];
  • Coll Macdonald of, [192].
• Ker, Robert, his censure of Girded Tails, [448].
• Kilravock, Laird of, amounts paid for his daughter’s education, [57].
• Kilsyth church, body of Lady Kilsyth preserved in, [98].
• Kincaid, Mrs, of Gogar Mains, murder of, [473].
• Kincardine, Earl of, his death, [319].
• Kinnaries, Fraser of, a Catholic, placed in restraint, [25].
• Kintore, Earl of, his concern in preservation of the Regalia disputed, [264].
• Kircher’s Disfigured Pictures, an optical curiosity, [101].
• Kirkcaldy, &c., nearly ruined by the debts of a regiment quartered there, [45].
• Kirkcudbright, stewartry of, riot in, on account of the Sheriff’s Mart, [362].
• Kirk-treasurer’s Man, a bugbear to men of gaiety, [343].
• Konigsberg, church at, built by a Scottish collection, [134].
• Ladies, Scottish, in 1718, described by a traveller, [433].
• Lagg, Sir Robert Grierson of, confined at the Revolution, [11];
  • suffers from confinement, [68];
  • charged with coining, [145].
• Lanark, assisted on account of poverty, in building a bridge, [134].
• Land Mint, essay published on, [320].
• ——, price of, [103].
• Langton, Laird of, his wards and their allowances, [56].
• Lantern, Magical, in 1694, [100].
• Lauder, Bailie, of Haddington, imprisoned, [33].
• Leas, John, of Croshlachie’s maltreatment, [157].
• Leblanc, French refugee, mirrors made by, [154].
• Leith, glass-work at, [23], [229];
  • gunpowder explosion at, [264];
  • duel at, [566].
• Levellers of Galloway, [492].
• Leven, Earl of, assaulted by Boswell of Balmouto, [84];
  • by revellers, [312];
  • carries Excise money to London, [340].
• Libraries, presbyterial, in the Highlands projected, [250];
  • partly realised, [253].
• Licentiousness, [41], [320];
  • proclamations regarding, [342].
• Lindsay, Patrick, upholsterer, connected with nobility, [547].
• Linen manufacture, [85], [541].
• Linlithgow, remarkable disappearance of a gentleman at, [239].
• Livingstone, William, of Kilsyth, a Jacobite, temporary leniency shewn to, [66];
  • liberated on condition of exile, [97];
  • romantic story of his marriage to Dundee’s widow, ibid.
• Lockerby, Johnstone of, troubles in family of, [34].
• Locks, ingenious, invented, [99].
• Logan, Robert, makes wooden kettles to ‘abide the strongest fire,’ [214].
• Lothian, John, imprisoned after the Revolution, [14].
• Lothian, Marquis of, letter from, regarding slave colliers, [249].
• Lottery proposed by Alexander Hamilton, [88];
  • one by Roderick Mackenzie, [310].
• Lovat, Hugh Lord, confined at the Revolution, [11].
• Lovat, Simon Lord, his violences in Inverness-shire, [186], [254];
  • has a command in the Black Watch, [498];
  • his account of the Highlands (1725), [498];
  • puffing letters of, [552];
  • alludes to depredations in the Highlands, [614].
• Love, John, charged with brewing on Sunday, [582].
• Loyalty a paradoxical feeling, [415].
• Mabie, Catherine Herries of, forcibly dispossesses a tenant, [36].
• M‘Culloch, Sir Godfrey, murder by, [174].
• Macdonald of Glengarry exhibits a strange trait of Highland feeling, [18];
  • a garrison at his house, [304].
• MacDonell of Barrisdale, [616].
• M‘Ewen, Elspeth, accused of witchcraft, [193].
• M‘Ewen, James, starts a newspaper, [439].
• M‘Fadyen, a drover, robbed, [83].
• M‘Farlane, Mrs, murders Captain Cayley, [412].
• M‘Gill, Mr, minister of Kinross, his house haunted, [435].
• Macgregor, Robert (Rob Roy), see Rob Roy.
• Macgregor of Glengyle levies black-mail, [612].
• Machrie, William, a fencing-master, [267].
• Mackay, General, his cheap dinner, [46].
• Mackenzie, Roderick, of Prestonhall, his petition for transporting victual from Forfarshire to Midlothian, [211].
• Mackenzie, Sir George, warrant granted to print his works, [220].
• Mackie, Andrew, his house haunted, [109].
• Mackintosh, Laird of, kept out of his property in Glenroy, [15];
  • made prisoner, [16];
  • obtains letters of fire and sword against Keppoch, [192];
  • his expensive funeral, [307].
• M‘Lachlan, John, sentenced to be whipped and banished for tampering with recruits, [79].
• Maclaurin, Professor Colin, election of, [512].
• Macpherson, James, the robber, [234];
  • his execution, [236].
• Macpherson of Invernahaven charged with stealing cattle from Grant of Conygass, [142].
• Macqueen of Pall-a’-chrocain kills the last wolf in Scotland, [609].
• Macrae, James, a Quaker, pressed as a soldier, [59].
• Macrae’s, Governor, return to Scotland, [585].
• Magazine, Scots, established, [603].
• Malicious Society of Undertakers, [578].
• Malt, Patrick Smith’s plan for drying, [303].
• —— tax riots at Glasgow, [508].
• Manners, general change of (1730), [568];
  • levity of, censured, [520].
• Man-stealing, a case of, [44];
  • edict against, [211].
• Manufactures set up, [85], [126], [154].
• Mar, Earl of, hoists standard of rebellion in Aberdeenshire, [389];
  • letter to Robertson of Struan, [526].
• Marriages, forbidden, [353].
• Marriages in high life, ceremonies at, [240].
• Marrow Controversy, [441].
• Martin’s description of Western Isles, [278].
• Martyrs’ tomb in Greyfriars’ Churchyard, [533].
• Maxwell, John, of Munshes, his account of agriculture in his early days, [494].
• Maxwell, Robert, a noted early writer on agriculture, [485].
• Maxwell of Dargavel and Hamilton of Orbieston, dispute between, [69].
• Maxwell of Orchardton, a Catholic, his case, [295].
• Mechanical inventions, curious, [99].
• Medical practice, popular, as exhibited in Tippermalloch’s Receipts, [53];
  • fees, [22], [117].
• Mein family connected with Post-office in Edinburgh, [514], [593].
• Menzies, Major, kills town-clerk of Glasgow, [103].
• Menzies, Professor John, characteristic letter by, [524].
• Mercantile enterprise in Scotland takes its rise, [121];
  • increased after the Union, [336].
• Merchandising Spiritualised, a book printed in Glasgow in 1699, [220].
• Merchant Company of Edinburgh, their treatment of Mary Flaikfield, [76].
• Metrical elegies, [140].
• Miller, George, a boy, trepanned as a soldier, [43].
• Miller, Hugh, quoted regarding sand-hills of Culbin, [110].
• Miln, Sir Robert, his reduced circumstances, [208].
• Miners’ provisions, mode of obtaining from distant towns, [210], [211].
• Mint in Scotland, [330].
• Mitchell, the ‘Tinklarian Doctor,’ [358];
  • his visit to Calder, [450].
• Mitchell, William, his ear nailed to the Tron for insolency, [23].
• Mock Senator, a satire by Pennecuik, [473].
• Money in Scotland at the Union, [330].
• Monteath, Robert, advertises for epitaphs, &c., for his Theater of Mortality, [382].
• Montgomery of Skelmorley, plot of, [3].
• Moray, Earl of, small debt-case, [77].
• Morer’s Account of Scotland, [269].
• Mortality in Edinburgh (1743), [610].
• Moss Nook, a Scottish serf living in 1820, [250].
• Mowat, Ensign, concerned in a murder at Leith, [48].
• Muir, David, surgeon at Stirling, charge for drugs used by him to wounded of Killiecrankie, [47].
• Munro of Foulis, his funeral, [560].
• Murchison, Donald, defends the Seaforth estates against government troops, [459], [468];
  • his death, [471].
• Mure, Elizabeth, her account of Scottish manners in eighteenth century, [571].
• Mure of Caldwell’s journey from Edinburgh to Ross-shire, [406].
• Murray, a tavern-keeper, in trouble on account of a false news-letter, [71], [144].
• Murray, Clara, her violent letter to Lord Alexander Hay, [275].
• Murray, Lady, of Stanhope, assault on, [478].
• Murray, Sir Alexander, of Stanhope, his projects, [474];
  • Strontian mines, [476];
  • Ardnamurchan scheme, [474].
• Mushet, Nichol, murders his wife, [454];
  • he is executed, [455].
• Music, concerts of, in Edinburgh, [89], [139];
  • rising taste for in Scotland, [432];
  • Orpheus Caledonius, [434].
• Musical instruments, curious advertisement of, [325].
• Musselburgh, riding of marches at, [622].
• Nasmyth, a builder, at Inversnaid fort, [374].
• Navigation of rivers, Henry Neville Payne’s petition, [217].
• Negro slave, runaway, advertisement in Courant regarding, [453].
• News, false, punishment for, [71].
• —— -letters, [71];
  • Murray, a tavern-keeper, sued for a false news-letter, ibid.
• Newspapers, notices of early, [212], [313], [324], [414], [438].
• Nicholson, Daniel, his case of adultery with Mrs Pringle, [60].
• Nicol, William, of High School of Edinburgh, anecdote of, [223].
• Nisbet, Alexander, his System of Heraldry patronised, [276].
• Nithsdale, Earl of, troubled on return from France, [216].
• Noblemen, imprisonments of, [68].
• Norvill, Dame Mary, petitions Privy Council in behalf of her children, [55].
• Officers of the army, their accounts at hotels, [45].
• Ogilvie, Patrick, of Cairns, employed to guard the coasts against Irish importations, [243].
• Ogilvy of Forglen, his death and last injunctions, [533].
• Orkney, a pirate taken in, [505].
• Ormiston, Alexander, imprisoned, [14].
• Painting in oil, early notices of in Scotland, [563].
• Paper-manufacturing, [87].
• Paragraphs from old newspapers, Appendix.
• Paraphernalia of women, decided by Court of Session, [166].
• Parochial schools, establishment of, in Scotland, [151].
• Parsons, Anthony, a quack medicine-vender, [261].
• Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, imprisoned, [12];
  • permitted to live at certain places, [167].
• Paterson, William, promotes commerce and founds African Company, [121];
  • his liberal ideas, [124];
  • opposition to Bank of Scotland, [131].
• Pates of Court of Session, [291].
• Payne, Henry Neville, tortured and imprisoned for ten years, [39];
  • proposes an improvement in river navigation, [218].
• Pease-meal, nutritiousness of, [472].
• Peebles, infanticide at, [19];
  • prison not strong enough to secure a female culprit, [20];
  • vested with a peculiar privilege, [51].
• Perpetual motion, scheme of, by David Ross, [102].
• Perth, ‘Duke’ of, his baptism, [383].
• ——, Earl of, taken prisoner at the Revolution, [11], [12];
  • liberated, [66];
  • again imprisoned, [67].
• Perth, tumult at, on account of a picture, [565].
• Peterhead as a harbour of refuge for vessels pursued by French privateers, [120].
• Petrie’s Rules of Good Deportment, &c., [455].
• Piper of Musselburgh, trepanned as a recruit, [44].
• Pirates hanged at Leith, [458].
• —— under Henry Evory seize a man-of-war, [150];
  • a pirate in Orkney, [505].
• Pitcairn, Dr Archibald, introduces dissection in Edinburgh, [105];
  • anecdotes concerning, [223];
  • brought before the Council for leasing-making, [224];
  • raises an action for defamation against Rev. James Webster, [378];
  • his death, [383];
  • his writings, [384].
• Pittenweem, treatment of witches there in 1704, [299].
• Plantations, criminals and degraded persons transported to, without trial, [115], [211].
• Planting first attempted in Scotland, [417].
• Poiret, Elias, murdered at Leith, [48].
• Poor, vagrant, multitude of, [218];
  • regulations for, proposed, [219].
• Pope, the, tried and burned in effigy in Edinburgh, [3].
• Porpoises thrown ashore at Cramond, [23].
• Porteous, Captain John, plays a match at golf with Hon. Alexander Elphinstone, [566];
  • his unpopularity, [594];
  • condemned for murder, [595];
  • executed by the mob, [596].
• Porteous riot, unpopular witnesses regarding, [600].
• Post-office, general arrangements in 1689, [20];
  • the post sometimes robbed and tampered with, [21], [74];
  • post-boy robbed by Jacobite gentlemen, [32];
  • act for establishing General Post-office, [125];
  • violation of letters at Post-office, [265];
  • affairs of, in 1710, [327], [357];
  • improvements of, by Mr James Anderson, [400];
  • accidents to postbags, [513];
  • improvements of, [514].
• Potato culture, [604].
• Poverty of Scotland, traits of the extreme character of, [45].
• Prayers, equivocating, [78];
  • meetings for, [228].
• Preaching in open air, [606].
• Pregnancy, concealment of, act against, [26].
• Presbyterian form of worship, innovation on, punished, [350].
• Press, restrictions on the, [181].
• Priests in trouble. See Catholics.
• Pringle of Clifton, fights a duel with Scott of Raeburn, [330].
• Printing, art of, in Scotland (1712), [363].
• Prisoners’ aliment, [208].
• Prisoners detained, from inability to pay prison dues, [34].
• Prisoners of Canongate Tolbooth, take possession of it, [71].
• Prisons crammed with disaffected persons in 1689, [11].
• Privy Council deals with Episcopal clergymen, [78].
• Profaneness, proclamations against, [342].
• Prussian grenadiers, recruiting for, in Edinburgh, [490].
• Purdie, John, pleads he is not a gentleman, [352].
• Quack medicines vended, [260].
• Quakers, persecuted at Glasgow, [57];
  • persecuted at Edinburgh, [178];
  • appear at Cross of Edinburgh, [467];
  • build a meeting-house there, [621];
  • one sets up a manufactory, [620].
• Racing in Scotland, [454].
• Raffle of Indian screens by Roderick Mackenzie, [310].
• Railway, an early, at Prestonpans, [472].
• Ramsay, Allan, Scottish poet, satirises metrical elegies, [140];
  • his reference to Sir Richard Steele, [427], [429];
  • reference to musical entertainments in Edinburgh, [432];
  • to the dancing assembly, [483];
  • concern in theatrical entertainments, [518];
  • lends plays, [544];
  • erects a theatre, [598];
  • his Gentle Shepherd acted, [624].
• Rattray, John, a poor man, imprisoned at the Revolution, [14].
• Rebel prisoners removed from Edinburgh to Carlisle for trial, by virtue of ‘treason-law,’ [411].
• Rebellion of 1715, [389];
  • of 1745, [535].
• Recruiting, unscrupulous system of, [43].
• Recruits kept in jails, [79], [182], [601].
• Regalia, controversy about its preservation, [264].
• Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch, [498].
• Repentance Tower, subject of a rustic bon mot, [429].
• ‘Rerrick Spirit,’ strange story of the, [169].
• Restoration of Charles II., celebrated by one Jackson, [371].
• Restrictions regarding victual, troubles from, [210].
• Revenue laws disrelished and resisted, [508], [589], [594].
• Review of Highland Companies at Ruthven, [581].
• Revolver, the, anticipated, [101].
• Ritchie, Charles, a minister, in trouble about an irregular marriage, [190].
• Roads made in the Highlands, [526], [561].
• Rob Roy, first public reference to, [373];
  • seizes Graham of Killearn, [420];
  • is taken prisoner by the Duke of Montrose, but escapes, [421];
  • forfeiture of his estate, [422];
  • taken by Duke of Athole at Logierait, and escapes, [425];
  • Rob’s bad excuse to General Wade, [500];
  • his death, [624].
• Robberies, great number of in 1693, [83];
  • increase in Highlands from withdrawal of ‘Black Watch,’ [610].
• Robertson, Alexander, of Struan, [523].
• —— ——, Duncan, dispossesses his mother, Lady Struan, of her property, [233].
• Roderick, the St Kilda Impostor, [179].
• Rollo, Lady, her charge against her husband, [143].
• Rollo, Lord, tries to repress cattle lifting, [31];
  • prosecuted by his lady, [143].
• Rollo, Master of, killed, [117].
• Rope-performers, Italian, [582].
• —— -work established, [87].
• Rose, Bishop of Edinburgh, his death, [452].
• Roseberry, Earl of, pranks of, [604].
• Ross-shire, election for, on a Saturday, [341].
• Row, Captain, raises sunk treasure, [551].
• Royal Bank of Scotland, started, [537];
  • rivalry of banks, [537].
• Royal burghs, convention of, curious details concerning, [51].
• Ruddiman, Thomas, his connection with Dr Pitcairn, [385];
  • improves the classical learning of Edinburgh, [438].
• Rum, sale of forbidden, and subsequently permitted, [277].
• Rutherglen, Earl of, ‘bangstrie’ upon his property, [158].
• Saddle, Elastic Pacing, invented, [101].
• St Cecilia, feast of, celebrated in 1695, [139].
• St Cecilia’s Day, celebrated in Edinburgh with a concert, [139].
• St Kilda, account of, [168].
• —— —— islanders acquire a minister, [178];
  • curious peculiarity attending the inhabitants, [181].
• St Luke, School of, institution of at Edinburgh, [564].
• Salaries of judges of Justiciary and Court of Session, [303].
• Salmon-fishery in Scotland (1709), [353].
• Salt proposed to be made in a new manner, [154].
• Salters and miners considered as slaves or necessary servants, [248].
• Salton and Murray, Lords, seized by Master of Lovat, [185].
• Sanctuary (Holyrood Abbey), taken advantage of by Patrick Haliburton, &c., [349].
• Sandilands, Hon. Patrick, a boy, bewitched, [449].
• Savery’s engine for raising water, [237].
• Scavengering of Edinburgh, [593].
• Schools, parochial, establishment of, in Scotland, [151];
  • plays acted at, [584].
• Scots Magazine established, [603].
• Scott of Raeburn killed in a duel, [330].
• ——, Walter, of Kelso, his marriage, and letter describing it, [39];
  • funeral of his father-in-law at Glasgow, [387].
• Scriptures, a multitude of copies of, distributed in the Highlands in 1690, [39].
• Seaforth, Earl of, in rebellion of 1715, [391], [393];
  • again in rebellion in 1719;
  • his forfeited estates kept for his use by Donald Murchison, [459], [468];
  • his ingratitude to Murchison, [471].
• Secession, The, a schism in the kirk, [588], [625].
• Second-sight, described by Martin, with instances, [278].
• Servants, register-office for, proposed in 1700, [244].
• Session, Court of, new judges appointed for, [10];
  • its purity under suspicion, [291];
  • tyranny of, [293];
  • severity of judges of, [371];
  • salaries of judges, [303].
• Seton, Hon. James, accused of robbing a post-boy, [32].
• Settlement, an inharmonious, [580].
• Sharps, a trial at designed, [209].
• Shaw, Christian, of Bargarran, her case, [167];
  • thread spun by her, [510].
• Shaw, Sir John, of Greenock, his marriage, [240];
  • kills Mr Houston, [402].
• Short’s telescopes, [567].
• Sibbald, Sir R., claims a share in Adair’s maps of Scotland, [42];
  • his concern in originating a botanic garden, [81];
  • his death, [619].
• ‘Siller,’ origin of term in Scotland, [212].
• Silver-mine at Alva, [247].
• Simson, Professor John, teaches Arminianism, [441].
• Skye, Isle of, Second-sight in, [280].
• Slaughters—town-clerk of Glasgow by Major Menzies, [103];
  • Master of Rollo by Graham of Inchbrakie, [117];
  • Houston, Writer to the Signet, by Kennedy of Auchtyfardel, [321];
  • Cowpar of Lochblair by Ogilvie of Cluny, [322];
  • Robert Oswald by Baird of Sauchtonhall, [322];
  • by Master of Burleigh, [326];
  • of Mrs Kincaid by her husband, [473];
  • of Campbell of Lawers, [473];
  • a boy Cairns killed, [547].
• Slave (or ‘perpetual servant’), man adjudged to be for theft, and handed over to Sir John Areskine of Alva, [246].
• Slave, negro, advertisement of a stolen one found, [453].
• Slavery of salters and miners till 1775, [249].
• Slezer, John, in prison after the Revolution, [13];
  • a creditor punished for imprisoning him, [27].
• Small-pox (1713), [387];
  • inoculation for introduced, [530].
• Smith of Whitehill’s plans for introducing water into towns, [238].
• Soldiers, recruiting of, by nefarious means, [43];
  • from criminals, [64];
  • recruits kept in jails, [79];
  • mutinies of recruits in Canongate Tolbooth, [182], [601].
• Spirits, young man troubled with, at Glencorse, [555].
• Spott church communion-cups, [335];
  • witch of Spott, [275].
• Stage-coach from Edinburgh to Glasgow (1758), [612];
  • from London to Glasgow, [613];
  • from Edinburgh to London, [407].
• Stair church burnt, [355].
• Stair, Viscountess of, death of; her coffin placed in an upright position; bon mot of, [74].
• Stang, riding of the, a punishment for cruel husbands, [589].
• Staving of Irish victual, proclamation regarding, [241].
• Steele, Sir R., visits Scotland, as a commissioner on forfeited estates, [409], [426];
  • anecdotes concerning, [429].
• Stereotyping invented by Ged, [555].
• Steuart, Sir James, Lord Advocate for Scotland, favourable to witch-prosecutions, [135];
  • his death, [382];
  • Lt.-Gen. Sir James Steuart, his recollections of Duchess of Douglas at Paris, [507].
• Stewart, General, killed by Elliot of Stobbs, [523].
• Stirling of Kier, his trial for high-treason, [345].
• Stobo, John, ‘student in astrologico-physick,’ [85].
• Storm, an extraordinary, in 1739, [603].
• Strahan, W.S., of Edinburgh, is robbed of a large sum, [333].
• Strathmore, Earl of, killed in a drunken fray, [545].
• Streets and Wynds of Edinburgh, in 18th century, [591].
• Suddy, Mackenzie of, killed at Inverroy, [16].
• Summer of 1723, its sultriness, [480].
• Sunday observance, [271], [342], [344], [397], [569].
• Sutherland, James, in charge of the Physic Garden, [81];
  • introduces culture of melons, [142].
• Tain Tolbooth steeple falls, [277].
• Tarbet, Master of, charged with a murder at Leith, [48].
• Tascal-money, murder of Cameron for, [486].
• Tavern-bill, example of one in Edinburgh, [183].
• Taverns much frequented, [575].
• Taverns open on Sunday, disturbance regarding, [271].
• Taxes of Scotland and England equitably adjusted by Union, [328].
• Tea, its disuse recommended in favour of beer, [613].
• Tennis Court, theatricals in, [398].
• Thanksgiving hypocritically ordered, [221].
• Theatricals in Edinburgh (1715), [397], [518], [544], [550], [583], [598];
  • at Glasgow, [550].
• Thrashing-machine invented, [503].
• Thunderstorm at Edinburgh (June 10, 1717), [424].
• Tinklarian Doctor, a strange enthusiast, [358];
  • visits the witch-boy of Calder, [449].
• Tippermalloch’s Receipts, [53];
  • medical practice and literature of the time, [53];
  • Tippermalloch’s pharmacopœia, [54];
  • his dream about battles and ambassadors, [55].
• Toasts, treasonable, drunk at Dumfries, [182].
• Tobacco trade of Glasgow, [431], [516].
• Tolbooth, Canongate, mutiny of recruits in, [601].
• Tolbooth of Edinburgh stuffed with political prisoners, [11].
• Toleration Act for Scottish Episcopalians, [367].
• Torture employed after the Revolution, [39].
• Travelling, formal permission required from government for persons of eminence, [51];
  • slowness of, [222];
  • means of, [406];
  • coaches set up, [612];
  • a difficult journey of Lord Lovat, [625].
• Treasure lost at sea, dived for, [551].
• Trotter’s Compendium of Latin Grammar, [582].
• Trustees, Board of, established, [541].
• Tyninghame Woods planted by Earl of Haddington, [417].
• Union, changes in commerce produced by, [336];
  • customs and excise of Scotland, [339].
• Union, treaty of, [258].
• University of Edinburgh, cleared of Episcopalian professors, [7];
  • medical education introduced, [105].
• Vice and immorality severely punished, [342].
• Violante, Signora, an Italian rope-dancer, [625].
• Wade, General, sent as commander-in-chief to disarm the Highlanders, [497];
  • pleads for exiled rebels, [523];
  • his Highland roads, [526], [561];
  • fête at Dalnaspidal, [561].
• Walker, Helen, intercedes for her sister’s pardon, [602].
• Walker, Patrick, his account of the expulsion of the bishops in 1689, [5];
  • his account of the Seven Dear Years, [196];
  • denounces the dancing assemblies, [482].
• Walking-swords and other weapons worn by gentlemen, [49].
• Wallace, Captain John, long kept a prisoner for defending Holyroodhouse, [13];
  • petition for release, [68].
• Watson, Andrew, Glasgow shoemaker, [386].
• ——, a skipper, subscription in behalf of, [134].
• Weapons worn by gentlemen, a fatal practice, [49].
• Weights and measures, statutory, confided to various towns, [51].
• Western Isles, Description of, by Martin, [278].
• Whales in Firth of Forth, [77], [327];
  • at Culross and Kilrenny, [458].
• Whiston’s Primitive Christianity seized, [363].
• Whitfield’s open-air preaching, [606].
• William III., crown settled on, [1];
  • concern in massacre of Glencoe, [60];
  • his sentiments on Catholic worship, [204];
  • death of, [256].
• Williamson, Rev. J., of Musselburgh, his letter on ‘recent domestic events,’ [403].
• Wilson, Robert, a servant lad, stolen as a recruit, [44].
• Windmill at Leith, building of, [290].
• Winds, destructive, in Lothian, [471].
• Wines, use of, and prices, [183], [270].
• Witch-boy at Calder, [449].
• ——, Marion Lillie, at Spott, [275].
• ——, the last burnt in Scotland, [540].
• Witchcraft jurisprudence, [135];
  • laws against, repealed, [597].
• Witches at Coldingham, [94];
  • at Torryburn and Pittenweem, Fife, [298];
  • at Inverness, [302].
• Witches, five, burnt at Paisley, [172].
• —— of Ross-shire treated leniently for the first time, [216];
  • see also, [540].
• Witches, various, proceedings against, [66], [94], [135], [193], [216], [275], [298], [302], [540].
• Wodrow, Rev. Mr, his remarks on mercantile losses at Glasgow, [337], [487], [565];
  • on plague of bugs at, [542];
  • excursion into Galloway, [380];
  • deplores religious changes at Glasgow, [432], [486], [515];
  • sad account of general condition of the country, [491];
  • condemns theatricals, [519], [544], [550];
  • describes profligacy of manners, [521].
• Wolf, last in Scotland, killed, [609].
• Women of evil repute banished, [115].
• Women’s ‘Girded Tails’ satirised, [448].
• Wool forbidden to be exported, [238].
• Woollen manufactures at Aberdeen, [156].
• Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, satirises Lady Murray of Stanhope, [479];
  • introduces inoculation, [530].
• Writers, malignant feelings displayed on opposing interests, case of; Leslie and Comrie, [278].
• Writing, engine for, invented, [99].
• York Buildings Company purchases forfeited estates, [443];
  • leases Strontian mines, [475];
  • its failure alluded to, [492];
  • leases woods of Abernethy, [547].
• Young, George, troubles from enforcing Sunday observance, [271].
• Young, James, an ingenious mechanist and curiosity-monger, [99];
  • House of Curiosities at Edinburgh, [100].

THE END.

Edinburgh:

Printed by W. and R. Chambers.

Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh.

The state of the Leg-of-Mutton-School of verse[^[242]] in Scotland at the end of the seventeenth century, may be pretty fairly inferred from this specimen.]

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[1]. A very animated review of these affairs will be found in Mr Burton’s excellent History.

[2]. Collection of Papers, &c. London, Richard Janeway, 1689.

[3]. Account of the Pope’s Procession at Aberdene, &c., reprinted in Laing’s Fugitive Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.

[4]. Biographia. Presbyteriana, i. 221.

[5]. Under this title, a pamphlet, detailing the outing and rabbling of the clergy, was published in London in 1690.

[6]. Stewart’s Sketches of the Highlanders, i. p. 99, note.

[7]. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 338.

[8]. Life and Diary of Lieutenant-colonel Blackader of the Cameronian Regiment. By Andrew Crichton. Edin. 1824.

[9]. Privy Council Record, MS., Gen. Register House, Edinburgh.

[10]. Home of Crossrig’s Diary. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1843.

[11]. Domestic Annals of Scotland, ii. 408, 432.

[12]. Acts of Scottish Parliament, ix. 12.

[13]. On the 12th February 1690, the Privy Council had under their notice the case of a man named Samuel Smith, who had been imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for three years on a charge of theft, without trial, and ordained him to be set at large, there being ‘no probation’ against him.

[14]. Privy Council Record.

[15]. Privy Council Record, under February 22, 1698.

[16]. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil [by Drummond of Balhadics], p. 243.

[17]. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil, p. 254.

[18]. C. K. Sharpe in note to Law’s Memorials.

[19]. Privy Council Record.

[20]. Justiciary Record.

[21]. Mrs Gibb seems to have been the person who managed the transmission or carrying between Edinburgh and Haddington.

[22]. Privy Council Record.

[23]. Privy Council Record.

[24]. Privy Council Record.

[25]. Privy Council Record.

[26]. Privy Council Record.

[27]. Privy Council Record.

[28]. Scots Acts, iii. 310.

[29]. Privy Council Record.

[30]. Contemporary broadsides.

[31]. Domestic Annals, ii. 384.

[32]. Privy Council Record.

[33]. Privy Council Record.

[34]. A picturesque glimpse of the Highland marauding of this period was obtained some years ago at second-hand from the memory of William Bane Macpherson, who died in 1777 at the age of a hundred. ‘He was wont to relate that, when a boy of twelve years of age, being engaged as buachaille [herd-boy] at the summering [i. e., summer grazing] of Biallid, near Dalwhinnie, he had an opportunity of being an eye-witness to a creagh and pursuit on a very large scale, which passed through Badenoch. At noon on a fine autumnal day in 1689, his attention was drawn to a herd of black-cattle, amounting to about six score, driven along by a dozen of wild Lochaber men, by the banks of Loch Erroch, in the direction of Dalunchart in the forest of Alder, now Ardverikie. Upon inquiry, he ascertained that these had been “lifted” in Aberdeenshire, distant more than a hundred miles, and that the reivers had proceeded thus far with their booty free from molestation and pursuit. Thus they held on their way among the wild hills of this mountainous district, far from the haunts of the semi-civilised inhabitants, and within a day’s journey of their home. Only a few hours had elapsed after the departure of these marauders, when a body of nearly fifty horsemen appeared, toiling amidst the rocks and marshes of this barbarous region, where not even a footpath helped to mark the intercourse of society, and following on the trail of the men and cattle which had preceded them. The troop was well mounted and armed, and led by a person of gentlemanlike appearance and courteous manners; while, attached to the party, was a number of horses carrying bags of meal and other provisions, intended not solely for their own support, but, as would seem from the sequel, as a ransom for the creagh. Signalling William Bane to approach, the leader minutely questioned him about the movements of the Lochaber men, their number, equipments, and the line of their route. Along the precipitous banks of Loch Erroch this large body of horsemen wended their way, accompanied by William Bane, who was anxious to see the result of the meeting. It bespoke spirit and resolution in those strangers to seek an encounter with the robbers in their native wilds, and on the borders of that country, where a signal of alarm would have raised a numerous body of hardy Lochaber men, ready to defend the creagh, and punish the pursuers. Towards nightfall, they drew near the encampment of the thieves at Dalunchart, and observed them busily engaged in roasting, before a large fire, one of the beeves, newly slaughtered.

‘A council of war was immediately held, and, on the suggestion of the leader, a flag of truce was forwarded to the Lochaber men, with an offer to each of a bag of meal and a pair of shoes, in ransom for the herd of cattle. This offer, being viewed as a proof of cowardice and fear, was contemptuously rejected, and a reply sent, to the effect that the cattle, driven so far and with so much trouble, would not be surrendered. Having gathered in the herd, both parties prepared for action. The overwhelming number of the pursuers soon mastered their opponents. Successive discharges of firearms brought the greater number of the Lochaber men to the ground, and in a brief period only three remained unhurt, and escaped to tell the sad tale to their countrymen.’—Inverness Courier, August 17, 1847.

[35]. This post-boy appears to have been forty-four years old.

[36]. Lord Viscount Kingston was a cadet of the Winton family, and had delivered a Latin oration to Charles I., at his father’s house of Seton, in 1633.

[37]. In the parliament which sat down in September, robbing the post-packet was declared to be ‘robbery,’ to be punished with death and confiscation of movables.—Scots Acts.

[38]. Privy Council Record.

[39]. Privy Council Record.

[40]. Privy Council Record. The privileges of Mr Hamilton were confirmed by the Estates in June 1693.

[41]. Privy Council Record.

[42]. Privy Council Record.

[43]. A portrait of the house, and some particulars of the family, are to be found in Robert Stuart’s Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former Times, 4to, 1847.

[44]. This must have been Lady Raeburn (Anne Scott of Ancrum).

[45]. Probably his sister Isobel’s husband, described in Burke as Captain Anderson.

[46]. Acts of General Assembly, 1690, p. 18.

[47]. See page [10].

[48]. Melville Correspondence, p. 150. The parliament, on the 18th July 1690, gave a warrant for subjecting one Muir or Ker to the torture, in order to expiscate the truth regarding the murder of an infant, of which he was vehemently suspected.

[49]. Mr Burton, in his History of Scotland from 1689 to 1748, gives the following account of this nobleman: ‘The Earl of Crawford, made chairman of the Estates and a privy councillor, was the only statesman of the day who adopted the peculiar demeanour and scriptural language of the Covenanters. It is to him that Burnet and others attribute the severities against the Episcopal clergymen, and the guidance of the force brought to bear in the parliament and Privy Council in favour of a Presbyterian establishment.’

[50]. Melville Correspondence. Privy Council Record.

[51]. Privy Council Record.

[52]. Privy Council Record.

[53]. Privy Council Record.

[54]. Privy Council Record.

[55]. Burt’s Letters, i. 128.

[56]. A phrase of the time, found in the Privy Council Record.

[57]. John Callander, master-smith, petitioned the Privy Council in June 1689, regarding smith-work which he had executed for Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, to the amount of eleven hundred pounds sterling, whereof, though long due, he had ‘never yet received payment of a sixpence.’ On his earnest entreaty, three hundred pounds were ordered to be paid to account. On the ensuing 23d of August, he was ordained to be paid £6567, 17s. 2d., after a rigid taxing of his accounts, Scots money being of course meant. Connected with this little matter is an anecdote which has been told in various forms, regarding the estate of Craigforth, near Stirling. It is alleged that the master-smith, failing to obtain a solution of the debt from the Scottish Exchequer, applied to the English treasury, and was there so fortunate as to get payment of the apparent sum in English money. Having out of this unexpected wealth made a wadset on the estate of Craigforth, he ultimately fell into the possession of that property, which he handed down to his descendants.[^[58]] John Callander was grandfather of a gentleman of the same name, who cultivated literature with assiduity, and was the editor of two ancient Scottish poems—The Guberlunzie Man, and Christ’s Kirk on the Green. This gentleman, again, was grandfather to Mrs Thomas Sheridan and Lady Graham of Netherby.

[58]. Sir James Campbell’s Memoirs. A Week at the Bridge of Allan, by Charles Rogers, 1853, p. 334.

[59]. Justiciary Records.

[60]. Privy Council Record.

[61]. Privy Council Record.

[62]. Record of Convention of Burghs, MS. in Council Chamber, Edinburgh.

[63]. Anderson’s Prize Essay on the State of the Highlands in 1745, p. 95.

[64]. New Stat. Acc. of Scotland: Ross, p. 220.

[65]. Privy Council Record.

[66]. Dr John Brown: Locke and Sydenham, &c., 1858, p. 457.

[67]. The second edition of Tippermalloch was published in 1716, containing Dr Pitcairn’s method of curing the small-pox. It professes to be superior to the first edition, being ‘taken from an original copy which the author himself delivered to the truly noble and excellent lady, the late Marchioness of Athole, and which her Grace the present duchess, a lady no less eminent for her singular goodness and virtue than her high quality, was pleased to communicate to us and the public.’

[68]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 176.

[69]. Privy Council Record.

[70]. Crossrig’s Diary.

[71]. Kilravock Papers, Spald. Club, p. 388.

[72]. Privy Council Record.

[73]. Privy Council Record.

[74]. Life of Peden, Biogr. Presbyteriana, i. 112.

[75]. Privy Council Record.

[76]. Domestic Annals of Scotland, ii. 29.

[77]. Criminal Proceedings, a Collection of Justiciary Papers in Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

[78]. Macdonald of Glencoe bore the subordinate surname of M‘Ian, as descended from a noted person named Ian or John.

[79]. Addressed to Sir Thomas Livingstone, commander-in-chief of the forces in Scotland.

[80]. See Papers Illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands from 1689 to 1696. Maitland Club. 1845.

[81]. Privy Council Record.

[82]. Privy Council Record.

[83]. This was the father of Mr Andrew Drummond, the founder of the celebrated banking-house in the Strand.

[84]. Privy Council Record.

[85]. From papers in possession of John Hall Maxwell, of Dargavel, Esq.

[86]. Privy Council Record. (See onward, under December 31, 1692, and July 13, 1697.)

[87]. Privy Council Record.

[88]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 693.

[89]. Privy Council Record.

[90]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 693.

[91]. Domestic Annals of Scotland, ii. 326.

[92]. Mem. of John Earl of Stair by an Impartial Hand, p. 7.

[93]. Murray’s Literary Hist. of Galloway, p. 155.

[94]. Privy Council Record.

[95]. Minutes of Merchant Company, MS. in possession of the Company.

[96]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 518, 564.

[97]. Ibid., i. 525.

[98]. Ibid.

[99]. Privy Council Record.

[100]. Privy Council Record.

[101]. Privy Council Record.

[102]. Privy Council Record.

[103]. Privy Council Record.

[104]. Privy Council Record.

[105]. In July 1695, there was a further act ‘anent burying in Scots linen,’ ordaining that none should be used for sepulchral purposes above twenty shillings Scots per ell, and also commanding that the nearest elder or deacon of the parish, with one or two neighbours, should be called by the friends of deceased persons to see that the shroud was in all respects conform to the acts thereanent.

[106]. Wodrow Pamphlets, Adv. Lib., vol. 115.

[107]. Privy Council Record.

[108]. Acts of Scottish Parliament, ix. 429.

[109]. Privy Council Record.

[110]. Acts of Scottish Parliament, ix. 420.

[111]. See Domestic Annals of Scotland, ii. 398.

[112]. Privy Council Record.

[113]. Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend at Edinburgh, &c. Edin. 1696.

[114]. Privy Council Record.

[115]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 590.

[116]. Privy Council Record.

[117]. Privy Council Record.

[118]. Privy Council Record.

[119]. Scottish Journal, ii. 200.

[120]. The troubles from the meeting-houses at Coldingham and two neighbouring parishes, led to their being entirely suppressed by the arm of the government in March 1700 [q. v.]

[121]. The above, and some other curious extracts from the parish register of Coldingham, are given in an interesting volume, entitled History of the Priory of Coldingham. By William King Hunter. Edinburgh, 1858.

[122]. Analecta, ii. 250. Wodrow tells us that Lady Dundee had been very violent against the Presbyterians, and ‘used to say she wished that, that day she heard a Presbyterian minister, the house might fall down and smother her, which it did.’

[123]. Analecta Scotica, i. 187. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 250.

[124]. William Livingstone survived his wife nearly forty years. In the Caledonian Mercury for February 6, 1733, is this paragraph: ‘We are assured private letters are in town, giving account, that on the 12th of last month, the Right Hon. the late Viscount Kilsyth died at Rome, in an advanced age, in perfect judgment, and a Christian and exemplary resignation.’

[125]. Privy Council Record.

[126]. A Summer’s Divertisement of Mathematical and Mechanical Curiosities, being an Account of the Things seen at the House of Curiosities, near Grange Park. Edinburgh: James Watson. 1695.

[127]. Nicolas’s spelling is here given literatim.

[128]. Privy Council Record.

[129]. From ‘a double of the oath’ in the Kilravock Papers, Spald. Club publication, p. 387.

[130]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 629.

[131]. Privy Council Record.

[132]. ‘James Peedie of Roughill and John Anderson of Dowhill were the first merchants who brought a loading of cherry-sack into this city.’—M‘Ure’s Hist. Glasg., p. 250.

[133]. Arnot’s Criminal Trials, p. 163.

[134]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 30. Bower’s Hist. Univ. of Edinburgh, ii. 153.

[135]. Privy Council Record.

[136]. Privy Council Record.

[137]. These legends appear to have been intended to read as follows: ‘Three years thou shalt have to repent, and note it well. Wo be to thee, Scotland! Repent and take warning, for the doors of heaven are already barred against thee. I am sent for a warning to thee, to flee to God. Yet troubled shall this man be for twenty days and three. Repent, repent, Scotland, or else thou shalt’——.

[138]. On the 7th of January 1696, the Privy Council gave licence to George Mossman, stationer in Edinburgh, to ‘print and sell a book entitled A True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions, and Actings of a Spirit which infested the House of Andrew Mackie, in Ring-croft of Stocking, in the Parish of Rerrick, &c.,’ with exclusive right of doing so for a year.

[139]. Privy Council Record.

[140]. Caledonian Mercury, Nov. 20, 1732.

[141]. Privy Council Record.

[142]. From Information for his Majesty’s Advocate, &c., against James Edmonstoun of Newton.

[143]. Maclaurin’s Criminal Cases, p. 10.

[144]. Introductions, &c., to Waverley Novels, i. 255.

[145]. Acts of Scot. Par., ix. 452.

[146]. Hugh Miller’s Sketch-book of Popular Geology, pp. 13, 14.

[147]. Privy Council Record.

[148]. A few of the subscriptions are here subjoined: For £1000 each, the Faculty of Advocates, John Anderson of Dowhill, Provost of Glasgow, the Earl of Annandale; Alexander Brand, merchant in Edinburgh; James Balfour, merchant in Edinburgh; George Clerk, merchant in Edinburgh; Daniel Campbell, merchant in Glasgow; Sir Robert Dickson of Sorn-beg, Andrew Fletcher of Salton, the town of Glasgow, John Graham younger of Dougalston, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Yester, Sir David Home of Crossrig, Sir John Home of Blackader, Sir Alexander Hope of Kerse, William Hay of Drumelzier, Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Lockhart of Carnwath, William Livingstone of Kilsyth; George Lockhart, merchant in Glasgow; the Merchant House of Glasgow, the Marquis of Montrose, Sir John Maxwell of Pollock, Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre, Francis Montgomery of Giffen, William Morison of Prestongrange, William Nisbet of Dirleton, Sir James Primrose of Carrington, the Countess of Rothes, the Countess of Roxburgh, Lord Ross, Lord Ruthven, William Robertson of Gladney, the Earl of Sutherland, the Earl of Southesk, Viscount Strathallan, Viscount Stair, Sir John Swinton, Sir Francis Scott of Thirlstain, Sir John Shaw of Greenock; Thomas Spence, writer in Edinburgh; John Spreul, alias Bass John, merchant in Glasgow; the Marquis of Tweeddale, Viscount Tarbat; Robert Watson, merchant in Edinburgh; George Warrender, merchant there; and William Wardrop, merchant in Glasgow: for £1200, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh: for £1300, James Pringle of Torwoodlee: for £1500, the Earl of Argyle, William Lord Jedburgh, and Patrick Thomson, treasurer of Glasgow: for £2000, Mr Robert Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh; Sir Robert Chiesley, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, John Lord Glenorchy, Lord Basil Hamilton, the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl of Leven; William Menzies, merchant in Edinburgh; the town of Perth, Sir William Scott of Harden: for £3000, Lord Belhaven, the Good Town of Edinburgh, the Duchess of Hamilton, the Duke of Queensberry, the Easter Sugarie of Glasgow, and Sir John Stuart of Grandtully.

[149]. Scots Acts, sub anno 1695.

[150]. [Sinclair’s] Statistical Account of Scotland, vi. 586.

[151]. In April 1703, John Dunbabbine, an Englishman, who in his own country had for several years followed the trade of pin-making ‘to the satisfaction of all those with whom he had any dealing,’ was now inclined to set up a work at Aberdeen, which he thought would be ‘very much for the advantage of the kingdom [of Scotland] and all the inhabitants thereof.’ All he required previously was his work being endowed with the privileges and immunities of a manufactory; which the Privy Council readily granted.

[152]. Privy Council Record.

[153]. Mr James Foulis and Mr John Holland are probably identical with the persons of the same names who received some encouragement from the parliament in April 1693, for the setting up of a manufacture of Colchester Baises in Scotland. See Domestic Annals, under that date.

[154]. See a pamphlet by Mr Holland, published in 1715, under the title of The Ruine of the Bank of England and all Publick Credit inevitable.

[155]. Exchange was not dealt in by the Bank of England, any more than the Bank of Scotland, during many of its earlier years.

[156]. Account of the Bank of Scotland, published in 1728.

[157]. Acts of Scottish Parliament, ix. 465.

[158]. Culloden Papers, Introduction, p. xliv.

[159]. Privy Council Record.

[160]. Patrick Walker’s Life of Donald Cargill, Biog. Pres., ii. 24.

[161]. Patrick Walker.

[162]. Ibid.

[163]. Privy Council Record.

[164]. Privy Council Record.

[165]. We have no means of knowing if this concert was connected with the enterprise of Beck and his associates, noticed under January 10, 1694. The name of Beck does not occur in the list of performers on this occasion.

[166]. W. Tytler, Trans. Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland, i. 506.

[167]. Ramsay’s Scribblers Lashed.

[168]. Through her, as daughter of William first Duke of Queensberry, her descendant, the Earl of Wemyss, succeeded in 1810 to large estates in Peeblesshire and the earldom of March.

[169]. Privy Council Record.

[170]. Privy Council Record.

[171]. See under Feb. 2, 1693.

[172]. Privy Council Record.

[173]. Ibid.

[174]. Privy Council Record.

[175]. Privy Council Record.

[176]. Printed informations in the case. Justiciary Records.

[177]. Acts of Scot. Parliament.

[178]. Privy Council Record.

[179]. The authority for this is a very bad one—the scurrilous book called Scots Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed; but on such a point, with support from other quarters, it may be admitted.

[180]. Calamy’s Account of his Own Life.

[181]. Watson’s Collection of Scots Poems, 1709.

[182]. Privy Council Record.

[183]. A tolerably full detail of Mr Hepburn’s persecutions is given in Struthers’s Hist. Scot. from the Union to 1748. 2 vols.

[184]. Privy Council Record.

[185]. Scots Acts, vol. iii.

[186]. See Domestic Annals, under date August 24, 1669.

[187]. Privy Council Record.

[188]. Privy Council Record.

[189]. Records of Parliament and Privy Council.

[190]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 82.

[191]. Ibid.

[192]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 111.

[193]. Privy Council Record.

[194]. Privy Council Record.

[195]. The above account of the prosecution of Aikenhead is derived from Howell’s State Trials, in which there has been printed a collection of documents on the case, collected by John Locke.

[196]. Preface to Two Sermons, &c., by Mr Lorimer.

[197]. Foun., Decisions.

[198]. Privy Council Record, under various dates.

[199]. Signed at Glasgow, December 31, 1696.

[200]. Domestic Annals, sub July 9, 1668, vol ii. p. 321.

[201]. Privy Council Record.

[202]. Justiciary Record.

[203]. New Stat. Acc. of Scotland, iv. Wigton, 226.

[204]. Criminal Proceedings, &c., MS., in possession of Ant. Soc. Scot.

[205]. New Stat. Acc. Scotland, ut supra.

[206]. Decisions, i. 522.

[207]. Privy Council Record.

[208]. A Voyage to St Kilda, &c., by M. Martin, Gent. 4th ed., 1753.

[209]. Macaulay’s History of St Kilda, 1766, p. 241.

[210]. Privy Council Record.

[211]. Ibid.

[212]. Privy Council Record.

[213]. Privy Council Record.

[214]. Letters from North of Scotland, ii. 134 (2d ed.).

[215]. Edin. Courant, May 1720.

[216]. Letters, &c., i. 135.

[217]. Arnot’s Crim. Trials, Anderson’s Hist. Fam. Fraser, Carstares’s State Papers.

[218]. Privy Council Record.

[219]. Privy Council Record.

[220]. Privy Council Record.

[221]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 5.

[222]. Privy Council Record.

[223]. Privy Council Record.

[224]. Acts of General Assembly.

[225]. Wodrow Pamphlets, Adv. Lib.

[226]. Under extremity of suffering during the dearth, in September 1699, one David Chapman, belonging to Crieff, broke into a lockfast place, and stole some cheese, a sugar-loaf, and about four shillings sterling of money. His sole motive for the crime, as he afterwards pleaded, was the desire of relieving his family from the pains of want. Apprehended that day, he confessed the crime, and restored the spoil; yet, being tried by the commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands, he was condemned to death.

On a petition, the Privy Council commuted the sentence to scourging through the town of Perth, and banishment to the plantations.[^[228]]

[227]. Published in 1702.

[228]. Privy Council Record.

[229]. Coltness Collections.

[230]. Polit. Works of A. Fletcher, edit. 1749, p. 85.

[231]. Privy Council Record. Fountainhall’s Decisions.

[232]. Scots Acts, iii. 628.

[233]. [Leslie’s] Survey of the Province of Moray, p. 280.

[234]. The father of the present Earl of Stair, Sir John Dalrymple, was born in 1726, and might have heard these particulars from his grand-uncle, the second President Dalrymple, who died in 1737. Sir John’s Memoirs of Great Britain are here followed, therefore, as the best authority available.

[235]. Dalrymple’s Memoirs.

[236]. Memoirs of John Macky, Esq., 1733, p. 205.

[237]. Acts of S. Parl., x. 136. Wodrow’s History, i. 320.

[238]. Privy Council Record.

[239]. Ibid.

[240]. This gentleman, who became Earl of Hopetoun, first of the title, was married, on the 31st August 1699, to ‘the very vertuous Lady Henrietta Johnston,’ daughter of the Earl of Annandale. A congratulatory poem on the occasion contains the following passage:

May Hopetoun flourish still with Lady Hen-

Rietta, and have a stock of good childrén.[^[241]]

[241]. Wodrow Pamphlets, Adv. Lib.

[242]. See Blackwood’s Magazine, ix. 345.

[243]. Privy Council Record.

[244]. Ibid.

[245]. Of this fact, the use of the word siller for money generally in Scotland is a notable memorial.

[246]. Account of Bank of Scotland, p. 6.

[247]. Letter of Earl of Argyle, Carstares Papers, 458.

[248]. James Donaldson seems to have been engaged in the poetic elegy trade; that is, the writing of deplorations in verse on great personages for sale in the streets: see an example of his verse of this description under November 1695. He seems also to have been the author of Husbandry Anatomised, or an Enquiry into the Present Manner of Tilling and Manuring the Ground in Scotland, 12mo, 1697; and of A Picktooth for Swearers, or a Looking-glass for Atheists and Profane Persons, &c., small 4to, 1698. See Scottish Elegiac Verses, with Notes, 1847.

[249]. Privy Council Record.

[250]. Ibid.

[251]. Privy Council Record.

[252]. Privy Council Record.

[253]. Privy Council Record.

[254]. The Lord Rankeillor who assisted in giving things this favourable turn was paternal grandfather of Dr John Hope, well known towards the close of the last century as Professor of Botany in the Edinburgh University.

[255]. Quoted in Scots Magazine, Jan. 1810, ‘from a collection of pamphlets in the possession of Mr Blackwood.’

[256]. Privy Council Record.

[257]. The irascible temper of Fletcher is well known, and his slaughter of an associate in the Monmouth expedition is a historical fact. A strange story is told of him in Mrs Calderwood of Polton’s account of her journey in Holland (Coltness Collections). ‘Salton,’ she says, ‘could not endure the smoke of toback, and as he was in a night-scoot [in Holland] the skipper and he fell out about his forbidding him to smoke. Salton, finding he could not hinder him, went up and sat on the ridge of the boat, which bows like an arch. The skipper was so contentious that he followed him, and on whatever side Salton sat, he put his pipe in the check next him, and whiffed in his face. Salton went down several times and brought up stones in his pocket from the ballast, and slipped them into the skipper’s pocket that was next the water, and when he found he had loadened him as much as would sink him, he gives him a shove, so that over he hirsled. The boat went on, and Salton came down among the rest of the passengers, who probably were asleep, and fell asleep among the rest. In a little time, bump came the scoot against the side, on which they all damned the skipper; but, behold, when they called, there was no skipper; which would breed no great amazement in a Dutch company.’

[258]. Privy Council Record.

[259]. Privy Council Record.

[260]. Privy Council Record.

[261]. Ibid.

[262]. Criminal Proceedings, MS. Ant. Soc.

[263]. Privy Council Record.

[264]. Act. Parl. x. 284.

[265]. Letter of Mr Duncan Forbes of Culloden (father of the President). Culloden Papers.

[266]. Memoirs of Elizabeth West. Edinburgh, 1733.

[267]. D. Forbes’s Letter, ut supra.

[268]. Treatise on the Sanctification of the Lord’s Day.

[269]. Maitland’s History of Edinburgh, p. 202.

[270]. Elizabeth West.

[271]. Coltness Collections.

[272]. Historical Account of the Bank of Scotland, 4to, p. 6.

[273]. Diary of David Hume of Crossrig, p. 69.

[274]. Account of Bank of Scotland, p. 7.

[275]. Privy Council Record.

[276]. As to the troubles from the Coldingham meeting-house, see under March 24, 1694.

[277]. Privy Council Record.

[278]. A quaigh or drinking-cup.

[279]. Alluding to a controversy between two of the Aberdeen professors on a question which we have seen revived in great fervour in our own day.

[280]. Privy Council Record.

[281]. Alexander Duff was descended from a race of gentry in Morayshire—the Duffs of Muldavit—and it stems to have been by saving, prudence, and good management that he was enabled to increase his share of the family possessions, and so far advance the prospects of his house, that it was ennobled in the next generation, and now ranks among the eight or ten families of highest wealth in Scotland. There is a characteristic story about Braco surveying one day an extensive tract of country containing several tolerable lairdships, when, seeing the houses in various directions all giving out signs of being inhabited by their respective families, he said: ‘A’ that reek sall come out o’ ae lum yet!’ and he made good his word by ultimately buying up the whole of that district.

[282]. The above narration appeared in the Dumfries Journal (newspaper).

[283]. The system of culreach or repledgiation was one of great antiquity in Scotland, but last heard of in the Highlands. So lately as 1698, George Earl of Cromarty obtained a charter, giving him this among other powers: If any of the indwellers and tenants of his lands should happen ‘to be arrested or attached before any judge or judges, spiritual or temporal, in any time coming, to repledge and call them back to the privilege and liberty of the said court of bailiery and regality of Tarbat.’

[284]. Documents of the process in Spalding Club Miscellany, iii. 175.

[285]. Burns’s fine ode on Macpherson will be remembered:

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,

Sae dantonly gaed he,

He played a spring and danced it round,

Beneath the gallows tree.

There was, however, an earlier celebration of the robber’s hardihood on a broadside, a copy of which will be found in Herd’s Collection of Scottish Songs (1776). See also a curious volume, entitled Scottish Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, T. G. Stevenson, 1859).

A long two-handed sword is shewn in Duff House, the seat of the Earl of Fife, as that of Macpherson. It is a formidable weapon, 4 feet 3 inches long, and having a wavy-edged blade. It is obviously a mediæval weapon, yet, of course, may have been used in a later age.

March 4, 1701.—There was a petition to the Privy Council from Peter and Donald Brown, prisoners in the Tolbooth of Banff, representing that they had been condemned solely as ‘repute vagabond Egyptians,’ to be hanged on the 2d April. They claimed a longer day, ‘either for their relief or due preparation;’ and the Lords granted reprieve till the second Wednesday of June.

[286]. Edinburgh Encyclopædia, article ‘Steam-engine.’

[287]. Acts of S. Parl., x. 267.

[288]. Privy Council Record.

[289]. See a more remarkable case of the disappearance of a gentleman under March 1709.

[290]. See account for ‘Mrs Margaret’s wadding-cloaths,’ given in full in the Edinburgh Magazine for October 1817.

[291]. Memoir by Elizabeth Mure of Caldwell Caldwell Papers, i. 264.

[292]. Privy Council Record.

[293]. Privy Council Record.

[294]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii.

[295]. It was an old mode of advertisement in country towns, down to the author’s early years, to send an old woman through the streets with a wooden dish and a stick, to clap or beat upon it so as to gather a crowd, before whom she then gave her recital.

[296]. Analecta, i. 10.

[297]. Sir John had entered at the bar in the preceding year, and it is not improbable that he came into acquaintance with Steuart in a professional capacity.

[298]. Copy of the sentence printed in Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, from one in the possession of the late Alexander Macdonald, Esq.

[299]. That is, the eighteenth century.

[300]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. of Scot., xviii. 578.

[301]. Collection of papers in Oxenford Castle.

[302]. Ed. Ev. Courant, Nov. 21, 1743.

[303]. Alluding, probably, to the affair of the Impostor Roderick. See under June 1, 1697.

[304]. Copy of a Letter anent a Project for Erecting a Library in every Presbytery, or at least County, in the Highlands, from a Reverend Minister of the Scots Nation, now in England, to a Minister in Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1702. Small 4to, 6 leaves.

[305]. Wodrow Pamphlets, vol. xciii.

[306]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 366; iv. 235.

[307]. Anderson’s Prize Essay on the State of Knowledge in the Highlands.

[308]. See under October 6, 1697.

[309]. A district on the south side of Loch Ness, in Inverness-shire.

[310]. Privy Council Record.

[311]. The daughter of the late peer.

[312]. Privy Council Record.

[313]. Mr Campbell had, in 1709, an action at law against Mungo Campbell of Netherplace, for recovery of fifty pounds which he charged for attendance upon him, and performance of the operation of lithotomy. It was represented on the other side that he had done his work with an unskilfulness which resulted in some most distressing injuries to his patient, and the Lords held that the seventeen guineas already paid was guerdon sufficient.—Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 510.

[314]. Dalyell’s Musical Memoirs of Scotland, p. 132.

[315]. Edinburgh Evening Courant.

[316]. Edinburgh Evening Courant, December 30, 1725.

[317]. Edinburgh Evening Courant.

[318]. From a description of the presbytery of Penpont, App. to Symson’s History of Galloway. Edin. 1823.

[319]. A fairy legend connected with the Dow Loch, and illustrating the superstitious feeling with which it was regarded, has been communicated by a friend:

‘The farmer of Auchen Naight, near the Dow Loch, was not in opulent circumstances. One day, during the pressure of some unusual calamity, he noticed, to his surprise, a cow browsing tranquilly by the side of the lake, and, on nearer inspection, found it to be a beautiful animal of large size, and perfectly white. She allowed herself to be driven home by him without resistance, and soon commended herself greatly to his wife by her tameness and exceeding opulence in milk. The result of her good qualities, and also her fruitfulness, was that a blessing seemed to have come with her to his house. He became rich in the possession of a herd of twenty fine cattle, all descended from the original White Cow.

‘After some years had elapsed, and all his other cattle had been used up, the goodman had to consider how he was to provide a winter’s “mart” for his family—that is, a bullock to be killed and salted according to the then universal practice of the country. Should it be the mother or one of her comely daughters? The former was still in fine condition, highly suitable for the purpose; but then the feeling connected with her—should they sacrifice in this manner the source of all their good-fortune? A consideration that she might fail in health, and be lost to them, determined them to make her the mart of the year. It is said that, on the morning which was to be her last, she shewed the usual affection to her mistress, who came to bid her a mournful farewell; but when the butcher approached with his rope and axe, she suddenly tore up the stake, and broke away from the byre, followed by the whole of her progeny. The astonished goodman and his wife were only in time to see the herd, in which their wealth consisted, plunge into the waters of the Dow Loch, from which they never re-emerged.’

[320]. Privy Council Record.

[321]. His lordship died in 1714.

[322]. Privy Council Record.

[323]. Caledonia, i. 881, note.

[324]. Arnot’s Hist. Edinburgh, 4to, p. 195. It would appear that the combativeness of the cock furnished in those days no insignificant part of the amusements of the English people. We find in the London newspapers of March 1720, the following paragraph, speaking strongly of the prevalence of the sport: ‘On the last Monday of the month, there will be kept a famous cocking betwixt the gentlemen of Shropshire and Cheshire, at Mr George Smith’s, at the Red Lion, at Whitchurch.’

[325]. Reliquiæ Scoticæ (Edin. 1828).

[326]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot. iii. 378.

[327]. This tourist’s manuscript, after lying for many years in the possession of Mr Johnes of Hafod, was printed by Mr Blackwood of Edinburgh in 1818.

[328]. Dom. Ann. of Scotland, ii. 494.

[329]. Ibid. ii. 282.

[330]. Privy Council Record.

[331]. A term expressive of a tough, lean person.

[332]. Domestic Annals of Scotland, i. 68.

[333]. Ibid. ii. 318.

[334]. Ibid. ii. 401.

[335]. Letters of Lady Margaret Burnett, Edinburgh, 4to, 1828, p. 63.

[336]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 66, 221.

[337]. Edinburgh, December 6, 1725.—‘Died Alexander Nisbet of that Ilk, so well known by being author of several elaborate Treatises of Heraldry, one of which treatises is now at the press, and will be shortly published, the author having finished the manuscript long before his death.’—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

[338]. Acts of Scot. Parl., xi. 85.

[339]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 203.

[340]. By Andrew Bell in Cornhill, London.

[341]. Boswell. Tour to the Hebrides, p. 401.

[342]. Anderson’s Hist. Fam. of Fraser, p. 110.

[343]. Miscellanies, p. 189.

[344]. John Brand, in his Description of Orkney and Zetland, 1703, says, with reference to the population of the latter group of islands: ‘Not above forty or fifty years ago, almost every family had a Browny, or evil spirit so called, which served them, to whom they gave a sacrifice for his service; as, when they churned their milk, they took a part thereof, and sprinkled every corner of the house with it for Browny’s use; likewise, when they brewed, they had a stone, which they called Browny’s Stone, wherein there was a little hole, into which they poured some wort for a sacrifice to Browny. My informer, a minister in the country, told me that he had conversed with an old man, who, when young, used to brew, and sometimes read upon his Bible, to whom an old woman in the house said, that Browny was displeased with that book he read upon, which if he continued to do, they would get no more service of Browny. But he being better instructed from that book, which was Browny’s eyesore, and the object of his wrath, when he brewed he would not suffer any sacrifice to be given to Browny, whereupon the first and second brewings were spilt, and for no use; though the wort worked well, yet in a little time it left off working, and grew cold; but of the third browst or brewing he had ale very good, though he would not give any sacrifice to Browny, with whom they were no more troubled. I had also from the same informer, that a lady in Unst, now deceased, told him that when she first took up house, she refused to give a sacrifice to Browny; upon which the first and second brewings misgave, but the third was good, and Browny not being regarded nor rewarded, as formerly he had been, abandoned his wonted service. They also had stacks of corn called Browny’s Stacks, which, though they were not bound with straw-ropes, or any way fenced, as other stacks use to be, yet the greatest storm of wind was not able to blow any straw off them.

‘Now, I do not hear of any such appearances the devil makes in these isles, so great and many are the blessings which attend a Gospel dispensation.’

[345]. Harrington’s Nugæ Antiquæ, by Park, 2 vols. 1804, i. 369.

[346]. Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil, 4to (Abbotsford Club), 1842, p. 24.

[347]. This investigation occurred in the year 1665.

[348]. Identical with Charles Hope of Hopetoun introduced under December 22, 1698.

[349]. Original document quoted and abridged in a volume called The Court of Session Garland. Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson. 1839.

[350]. Analecta, iii. 364.

[351]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 125.

[352]. See Court of Session Garland, p. 20.

[353]. Published in 1754.

[354]. Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopædia, art. ‘Burnett, James.’

[355]. Privy Council Record.

[356]. Petition against Mr Greenshields, 1709, Defoe’s History of the Union, p. 21.

[357]. Privy Council Record.

[358]. Minutes of the Session of Torryburn, printed in a Collection of Tracts on Witchcraft, by David Webster. Edinburgh: 1820.

[359]. Lord Anstruther was the same judge and privy-councillor whom we have seen concerned in the case of Aikenhead. He published a volume of Essays, in which he speaks not very handsomely of the fair sex. ‘It is true,’ says he, ‘woman is subject to man; he is her head; but I may question if it was not rather inflicted as the punishment of her sin, than sprung from the prerogative of our nature. But it may be thought we retain some resentment at the first cause of our misery, and by our innate love to the sex, they continue to be the bane of human life.’—Scottish Elegiac Verses, note. p. 175.

[360]. Acts of S. Parl., xi. 180.

[361]. Hume of Crossrig’s Diary. Stevenson, Edin. 1843.

[362]. Memorial by his Lordship, Culloden Papers, p. 35.

[363]. Chamberlayne’s Pres. State of Great Britain, 1718.

[364]. Privy Council Record.

[365]. Account of the Bank of Scotland, p. 7.

[366]. Privy Council Record.

[367]. Account of the Bank, &c., p. 8.

[368]. Anderson’s Essay on the Highlands, 1827, p. 142.

[369]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 527.

[370]. Book of the Thanes of Cawdor (Spald. Club), p. 417.

[371]. This anecdote is related in a memoir of President Forbes (Scots Magazine, 1802), as having been derived from his lordship’s own conversation.

[372]. Broadside of the time.

[373]. Privy Council Record.

[374]. Analecta Scotica, i. 238.

[375]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 59.

[376]. The town of Kirkcaldy was at the same time favoured with a like imposition on its beer, with certain little drawbacks or burdens, as ten pounds a year to the professor of mathematics in King’s College, Aberdeen, and twenty-five to the seven macers of parliament.

[377]. Colonel Erskine had purchased the earl’s estates in 1700.

[378]. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 273.

[379]. Essays on a Land Mint, Edinburgh, 1706. It would appear, from the records of parliament, that Dr Hugh Chamberlain was the author of this scheme.

[380]. Crim. Proc., MS. Ant. Soc.

[381]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iv. 115.

[382]. Wilson’s Life of Defoe (3 vols., 1830), passim.

[383]. Maclaurin’s Criminal Cases, p. 21. Wood’s Peerage.

[384]. Contemporary broadside.

[385]. Defoe’s Hist. of Union, p. 591.

[386]. Statutes at large, v. 149.

[387]. Domestic Annals, ii., 311.

[388]. Scots Acts, iii. 810.

[389]. Hist. Acc. of the Bank of Scotland, p. 9.

[390]. Introduction to Anderson’s Diplomata, reprint 1773, p. 174.

[391]. Hist. Union, p. 598.

[392]. Historical Account of the Bank of Scotland, p. 10.

[393]. Ruddiman, Introduction to Diplomata.

[394]. Wood’s History of Cramond, p. 39, note.

[395]. Edinburgh Gazette, Nov. 4, 1707.

[396]. Wodrow reports a wild tale about the discovery of the guilty man. It is to the effect that Lady Craigcrook, a twelvemonth after the fact, dreamed she saw the murderer, whom she recognised as an old servant, kill the woman, and then hide the money in two old barrels filled with trash. Her husband made inquiry, and finding the man possessed of a suspicious amount of money, got him apprehended, and had his house searched, when he found his bags, which he readily identified, and a portion of the missing coin.—Analecta, iv. 171.

[397]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 409.

[398]. Parish Register of Spott.

[399]. Defoe’s Hist. Union, pp. 602, 604.

[400]. Analecta, i. 218.

[401]. Mr Strang, who quotes this passage in his amusing book on the Clubs of Glasgow, states that these four gentlemen were Mr Cunninghame of Lainshaw, Mr Spiers of Elderslie, Mr Glassford of Dougalston, and Mr Ritchie of Busby—the estates here named being all purchased out of their acquired wealth.

[402]. This anecdote was related to me by Sir Walter Scott, as derived from his mother, who had received part of her education under the care of the Hon. Patrick’s widow.

[403]. [Mackie’s] Journey through Scotland, 1723, p. 194.

[404]. The Customs and Excise in England brought in respectively £1,341,559 and £947,602.

[405]. ‘Mum, a species of fat ale, brewed from wheat and bitter herbs, of which the present generation only knew the name by its occurrence in revenue acts of parliament, coupled with cider, perry, and other excisable commodities.’—The Antiquary, chap. xi.

[406]. This is partly shewn by the small sum (£431) set down in the year 1748 for ‘spirit imported.’

[407]. For the statistics of this article, the author is indebted to a manuscript volume containing an abstract of the Scottish Excise revenues, which has been kindly shewn to him by the gentleman above adverted to.

[408]. Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock, Spald. Club publication, p. 397.

[409]. The entire poem was published in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1813.

[410]. Burt’s Letters, i. 194.

[411]. Letters, i. 193.

[412]. See a small volume containing all these acts, printed by the heirs of Andrew Anderson, Edinburgh, 1709.

[413]. State Trials, fol. v. 630.

[414]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 556.

[415]. Dom. Annals of Scot., ii. 424.

[416]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 554.

[417]. Act, Town Council of Edinburgh.

[418]. Wodrow Coll. of Pamphlets. Adv. Lib.

[419]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 518.

[420]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, April 7, 1724.

[421]. Decisions, ii. 524.

[422]. Forbes’s Journal of the Session, 1714, p. 352.

[423]. Broadside printed by Reid, Bell’s Wynd, Edinburgh, 1709.

[424]. Wodrow’s Analecta, i. 237.

[425]. Ibid., iv. 288.

[426]. Caledonian Mercury, passim.

[427]. Analecta, i. 283.

[428]. Scots Magazine, 1771.

[429]. Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland, p. 10.

[430]. Letter of Campbell of Burnbank. Argyle Papers, p. 187.

[431]. Analecta, i. 309, 313.

[432]. 9 Anne, c. 10.

[433]. ‘The Tinklarian Doctor, in one of his singular pamphlets addressed to the French king, and commencing: “Old Lewis, may it please your majesty,” asks, “I would fain ken, Lewis, if ever you heard of me, for many times I have heard of you, and more in the pulpits than anywhere else; and if you were as oft at your own kirks in France as you are in our pulpits in Scotland, you’d be very sib [akin] to the kirk—so nearest the kirk, nearest the devil.”‘—Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils, p. 74.

[434]. In the catalogue of a sale by Messrs Puttock and Simpson, Leicester Square, London, June 1860, the following group of articles occurs:

‘157 Mitchell (Will.), the “Tinklarian Doctor” of Edinburgh, Tracts by, viz.:

‘Inward and Outward Light to be Sold. A wonderful Sermon preached by the Tinklarian Doctor William Mitchell, in the sixty-first year of his age, concerning Predestination. 1731.

‘Second Day’s Journey of the Tinklarian Doctor. 1733.

‘Short History, to the Commendation of the Royal Archers, with a Description of six of the Dukes in Scotland, especially Argile, written by the Tinklarian Doctor, with a remarkable Colloquy in Verse at the end, entitled One Man’s Meat is another Man’s Poison. 1734.

‘Voice (The) of the Tinklarian Doctor’s last Trumpet, sounding for the Downfall of Babylon, and his last Arrow shot at her, &c. 1737.

‘Prophecy of an Old Prophet, concerning Kings, and Judges, and Rulers, and of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, and also of the Downfall of Babylon, which is Locusts, who is King of the Bottomless Pit. Dedicated to all the Members of Parliament (1737).

‘Revelation of the Voice of the Fifth Angel’s Trumpet, &c. Edinburgh, 1737.

‘Tinklarian Doctor’s Dream, concerning those Locusts who hath come out of the Smoke of the Pit, and hath Power to hurt all Nations, &c. The author refers to the Earl of Hyndford, and wishes he had the knowledge of the hangman of Perth! Edinb. 1739.

‘Tinklarian (The) Doctor’s Four Catechisms, all published separately. [Edinburgh] 1736, 1737, 1738.’

The auctioneers add: ‘A singular and remarkably rare collection of eleven tracts. [The author] appears to have been a bookseller or petty chapman in a small way. The most illiterate (and sometimes obscene) language, applied to the aristocracy, is used in these works, and the most severe animosity is displayed towards the Catholics (in the advertisements at the end), because they would not accept, or purchase for a penny, the Light, &c. The works of this author are unmentioned by all Bibliographers, and we can trace only a single piece in the British Museum under the heading of the Tinklarian Doctor, but none of the above, neither do any occur in several other public libraries where reference has been made.’

[435]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 667.

[436]. Crim. Proc. MS. Ant. Soc.

[437]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[438]. Ibid.

[439]. History of the Art of Printing, Edinburgh, 1713.

[440]. Lee’s Memorial for the Bible Societies, 1824, p. 168.

[441]. Watson was a man of some merit, and deserves to be remembered as the first publisher of a collection of Scottish poetry. His death, with the style of ‘his majesty’s printer,’ on the 24th September 1722, is noticed by the Edinburgh Courant. He appears to have thriven by his patent, as the paragraph stating his widow’s death, a few years later, adverts to the considerable means which had been left to her, and which she then left to a second husband.

[442]. Brochure of two pages, Miscellany Papers, Adv. Lib.

[443]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[444]. Wodrow Correspondence, index.

[445]. Wodrow MSS., Adv. Lib., and printed entire in A New Book of Ballads, Edinburgh, 1844. Lockhart admits that Cockburn was not one of the most respectable of the Episcopal clergy.

[446]. Strange News from Scotland, or Scotch Presbyterian Piety evidently proved by the Regard they shew to Consecrated Churches; a late Instance whereof may be seen at this Day at Dunglass, belonging to Sir James Hall, Bart., near Cockburnspath. Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers’ Hall. 1712.

[447]. Courant newspaper, quoted in Reliquiæ Scoticæ.

[448]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 735, 738.

[449]. Sir Hugh Dalrymple’s report of the case, quoted in Burton’s Criminal Trials, i. 55.

[450]. ‘The building of Inversnaid Fort was contracted for by —— Nasmyth, builder in Edinburgh, grandfather of Alexander Nasmyth, the well-known landscape-painter. One winter-night, Mr Nasmyth and his party of workmen were roused from sleep in their lodging at the rising fort by some travellers, who piteously beseeched shelter from the snow-storm. On the door being opened, Rob Roy’s men rushed in, and began to abuse the poor masons in a shocking manner; could scarcely be restrained from taking their lives; and finally drove or dragged them half-naked through the snow to a place where they dismissed them, after taking them solemnly bound by oath never to come back to that country. Mr Nasmyth, being held by government to a contract which he could not fulfil, was seriously injured in his means by this affair; but its worst consequence was the effect of the exposure of that dreadful night on his health. He sunk under his complaints about eighteen months after.’—Information communicated by Mr James Nasmyth, late of Patrickcroft, near Manchester.

[451]. Alamode, ‘a kind of thin silken manufacture.’—Johnson.

[452]. Fountainhall’s Decisions.

[453]. Analecta, ii. 76.

[454]. These expressions are from the Engagement to Duties, printed in Struthers’s Hist. Scot. from Union to 1748.

[455]. Analecta, i. 322.

[456]. Fountainhall’s Decisions, ii. 756.

[457]. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 85, 86.

[458]. Analecta Scotica, i. 877.

[459]. Courant newspaper, Reliquiæ Scot.

[460]. Analecta, ii. 206.

[461]. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 254.

[462]. P. Rae’s History of Rebellion of 1715–16, p. 40.

[463]. A congenial spirit, Matthew Prior, produced a sort of paraphrase of this piece:

‘In total death suppose the mortal lie,

No new hereafter, nor a future sky,

Yet bear thy lot content, yet cease to grieve,

Why, ere Death comes, shouldst thou forbear to live?

The little time thou hast ’twixt instant now

And death’s approach, is all the gods allow:

And of this little hast thou aught to spare

To sad reflection and corroding care?

The moments past, if thou art wise, retrieve

With pleasant memory of the bliss they give;

The present hour in present mirth employ,

And bribe the future with the hope of joy.’

[464]. Analecta, ii. 261.

[465]. From a private letter, dated Edinburgh, Feb. 20, 1714, Analecta Scotica, i. 14.

[466]. His son Robert, father of Walter Scott, W.S. The youth was designed for the sea, but became disgusted with it in consequence of a shipwreck on the first voyage, and settled as a farmer at Sandyknowe, near Kelso.

[467]. Journal of Mr James Hart (Edinburgh, 1832), preface.

[468]. This play was entitled Marciano, or the Discovery, and was described on the title as having been ‘acted with great applause before his Majesty’s High Commissioner and others of the Nobility at the Abbey of Holyroodhouse on St John’s Night.’

[469]. George Chalmers, Life of Ramsay, quoting the Scots Courant for August and December, 1715. The Tennis Court still exists, but reduced to the condition of a smith’s workshop.

[470]. Alex. Maxwell to R. Wodrow, Edin., Feb. 15, 1715, in Private Letters, now first printed from Orig. MSS. Edin. 1829.

[471]. Preface to the Journal of Mr James Hart. Edinburgh, 1832.

[472]. Meaning the total solar eclipse which happened on the 29th of March 1652, of which see an account in Domestic Annals, vol. ii. p. 215.

[473]. Historical Summary of the Post-office in Scotland. By T. B. Lang. (For private circulation.) Edinburgh, 1856.

[474]. Justiciary Record. Sir John, soon after his collision with Mr Houston, was actively engaged in raising volunteers at Greenock for the suppression of the Rebellion.

[475]. Hist. Acc. Bank of Scotland, p. 10.

[476]. Orig. letter in Paper Office, quoted by George Chalmers, Caledonia, i. 870, note.

[477]. Private Letters, &c., Edin., 1829, p. 17.

[478]. Life of Carstares, prefixed to his State Papers. Edinburgh, 1774.

[479]. Notes on Old Tolbooth, Scottish Journal, p. 299.

[480]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 37.

[481]. Justiciary Record.

[482]. Caldwell Papers, i. 235.

[483]. St James’s Evening Post.

[484]. Newspaper advertisements.

[485]. See Domestic Annals under those dates.

[486]. Reports of the Commissioners, fol.

[487]. The original subscription list is in possession of N. Fergusson Blair, of Balthayock, Esq.

[488]. Burton’s History of Scotland, ii. 218.

[489]. Colonel Patrick Vans of Barnbarroch.

[490]. Scottish Elegiac Verses, 1842.

[491]. See Lockhart’s Life of Scott, index.

[492]. Justiciary Record.

[493]. Notes to Peveril of the Peak.

[494]. Pope’s Works, Roscoe’s ed., ix. 34, 35.

[495]. The Scots Courant.

[496]. Scots Courant, Oct 24, 1716.

[497]. A Treatise on Forest Trees, in a Letter, &c., published at Edinburgh in 1761.

[498]. Perhaps Sir Archibald was wrong here. See the account of Baldoon Park in this volume, under the date October 1696.

[499]. Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 97.

[500]. The above facts are gathered from an anonymous volume, published in 1729, entitled An Essay on the Means of Enclosing and Fallowing Scotland.

[501]. MS. of Graham of Gartmore, App. to Burt’s Letters, 2d ed., ii. 349.

[502]. Gordon of Ellon, son to a farmer in Bourtie—a merchant in Edinburgh, and once a bailie there, and a rich man. By him the house of Ellon was built anew in a handsome style.—View of Diocese of Aberdeen, Spal. Club, p. 301 (written about beginning of the 18th century).

[503]. In February 1721, John Webster, a gardener, having committed murder upon a young woman named Campbell, ‘on Heriot’s Hospital ground, behind our town-wall,’ was tried in the barony of Broughton, and condemned to die.

[504]. Celebrated Trials, iii. 272 (name and date of incident there given erroneously). Scottish Journal, Oct. 23, 1847. Contemporary confession. Notes and Queries, Dec. 1859, quoting three numbers of the contemporary newspaper, the Scots Courant.

[505]. Broadside reprinted in Analecta Scotica, i. 246.

[506]. Letter of Rev. Mr Murray, dated Comrie Manse, 2d July, 1717; Ant. Scot. Transactions, iii. 296.

In a letter of Mr James Anderson, editor of the Diplomata Scotiæ, to his son, Edinburgh, June 20, 1717, it is noted, as a recent event, that ‘Rob Roi surrendered to D. Atholl, but not meeting with such things as he expected, has made his escape.’—MSS., Adv. Library.

[507]. Steele’s Correspondence, edited by John Nicholls. 2 vols. 1787.

[508]. Streams from Helicon, 1720, p. 48.

[509]. He wrote to his daughter on the 17th September and 7th October, 1720, from Edinburgh.—Steele’s Letters.

[510]. Analecta Scotica, i. 16.

[511]. Cibber’s [Shiels’s] Lives of the Poets, iv. 118.

[512]. Gibson’s History of Glasgow, 1777, p. 208. It was asserted that the duties paid to government for tobacco brought to Glasgow between August 1716 and March 1722, amounted to no more than £2702. A representation for the Glasgow merchants shewed that the real sum was £38,047, 17s. 0¾d.—Edin. Ev. Courant, Jan. 21, 1723.

[513]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 129.

[514]. The City of Edinburgh’s Address to the Country, Ramsay’s Poems, i. 19.

[515]. Journey through Scotland [by Macky?], 1723, p. 274.

[516]. Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 14, 1722. ‘On Tuesday last [19th January 1725], being the birthday of Prince Frederick, there was an extraordinary appearance of ladies and persons of distinction, at a musick opera in this city.’—Ibid.

[517]. M‘Gibbon died on the 3d October 1756, bequeathing the whole of his means to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

[518]. ‘My Lord Colville died in March last, and about Culross it is very currently believed that he has appeared more than once, and has been seen by severals. Some say that he appeared to Mr Logan, his brother-in-law [minister of Torry]; but he does not own it. Two of his servants were coming to the house, and saw him walking near them; and, if I remember, he called to them just in the same voice and garb he used to be in; but they fled from him, and came in, in a great fright. They are persons of credibility and gravity, as I am told.”[^[521]]

[519]. Arnot’s Hist. Edinburgh, p. 379.

[520]. Adam Craig died in October 1741. For this and several facts involved in the above article, I have to express my obligation to Mr David Laing’s Introduction to Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum.

[521]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 519.

[522]. Analecta Scotica, i. 195.

[523]. Ibid. ii. 830.

[524]. From documents printed in Law’s Memorials.

[525]. George Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 83.

[526]. Edin. Ev. Courant, Feb. 18, 1850.

[527]. Those who are desirous of further light upon the Marrow Controversy, may be referred to Struthers’s History of Scotland from the Union, &c., 2 vols. 8vo, which, by the way, is a book entitled to more notice than it has received. The worthy author, a self-educated working-man, has been led by his own taste to give details, not elsewhere to be easily met with, of the ecclesiastical proceedings of the earlier half of the eighteenth century, all of which he treats in the spirit of a strenuous old-fashioned west-country Presbyterian. He is copious and severe about the Jacobite and Episcopalian movements, but slights the troubles of the Catholics as ‘beneath the dignity of history.’

[528]. Letter of Alexander Jaffray of Kingsmills, to Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk.—Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 98.

[529]. Jaffray’s letter, as above.

[530]. ‘London, September 3, 1720.—Last Wednesday, the York Buildings Company sent down to Scotland about sixty thousand pounds in guineas, guarded by a party of horse, being part of the purchase-money for forfeited estates. The same is to be lodged in the Exchequer at Edinburgh.’—Newspapers of the day.

[531]. The Commissioners, who were engaged in their task for nearly nine years, seem to have had £1000 per annum each.

[532]. 5 George I. cap. 20. Statutes at large, v. 152.

[533]. Mr James Drummond, on the 26th May 1720, writes from Blair-Drummond to ‘Mr David Drummond, Treasurer of the Bank, Edinburgh:’ ‘I’m heartily glad the Bank holds out so well. Ther’s great pains taken in the countrey to raise evill reports upon it. I had occasion to find so in a pretty numerous company the other day; yet I did not find any willing to part with your notes at the least discount.’—MSS. in possession of N. Fergusson Blair of Balthayock.

[534]. The arrangement of the Friendly Society consisted simply in a combination of house-proprietors, each paying in 100 merks per £1000 Scots, or a fifteenth of the value of the property, as a stock out of which to compensate for all damage by fire.

[535]. The Scribblers Lashed. Ramsay’s Poems, i. 316.

[536]. From a contemporary account appended to Satan’s Invisible World Discovered.

[537]. Private Letters, &c.

[538]. See under September 1711.

[539]. Dr Mitchell’s Strange and Wonderful Discourse concerning the Witches and Warlocks in Calder, quoted in Sharpe’s edition of Law’s Memorials.

[540]. Edin. Evening Courant.

[541]. Ibid.

[542]. Bishop Keith’s Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops.

[543]. Edin. Evening Courant.

[544]. From the documents printed in Criminal Trials illustrative of the Heart of Mid-Lothian. Edinburgh, 1818.

[545]. Edinburgh, 1835.

[546]. Private Letters, &c., p. 29.

[547]. Sir Walter Scott mentions this little fact in the Border Minstrelsy.

[548]. For a short time before the insurrection, he had acted as factor to Sir John Preston of Preston Hall, in Mid-Lothian, now also a forfeited estate, but of minor value.

[549]. Memorial of William and Robert Ross to the Commissioners on Forfeited Estates. Report of Commissioners, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1724.—Traditional and topographical notes from a relative of Donald Murchison.

[550]. It may be curious to contrast with the above account of the fight of Aa-na-Mullich, framed mainly from authentic documents, the following traditionary account, which has been communicated by Mr F. Macdonald, residing at Druidag Lodge, Lochalsh.

‘The first encounter that this famous man [Donald Murchison] had with the royal commissioner and troops was at the pass of Aa-na-Mullich, about a hundred yards from the end of Loch Affaric. He stationed himself and his Kintail men at the pass, on the north side of the river which empties itself into Loch Affaric, on a place called Tor-an-beithe, or Birch Hillock, where they had a good view of the enemy some miles off. On advancing towards this pass, Captain Monro of Fearn [mistake for Ross of Easterfearn], the royal commissioner, sent his son forward to reconnoitre on horseback, and when he appeared on the opposite side of the river, the poor fellow was shot at once, receiving a mortal wound. Upon hearing the report, and that Monro’s son was shot, the bulk of the royal troops wheeled round, and took to their heels, leaving Captain Monro with very few of his men to help in the painful duty of conveying his wounded son back. In this emergency, he implored Murchison to lend him some of his men to assist in carrying the wounded young man till he should be able to join his own fugitive troops; which, with his wonted generosity, he immediately complied with. They constructed a litter the best way they could, and retraced their steps to Beauly, which, however, they did not reach before the young man died. Murchison and his men followed, lest those troops who formerly fled should turn round and assault the men he had given to assist them. He followed as far as Knockfin on the heights of Strathglass.’ [Mr Macdonald ends by quoting two or three stanzas of a Gaelic poem composed by an old woman at Beauly, as they were passing with the dead body.]

[551]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant.

[552]. Caledonian Mercury, May 7, 1722.

[553]. Wodrow Correspondence, ii. 640.

[554]. Arnot’s Crim. Trials, p. 335.

[555]. Wodrow Correspondence, ii. 646.

[556]. Cal. Mercury, Aug. 7, 1722.

[557]. Caledonian Mercury.

[558]. English contemporary journals. Broadside account of the skirmish. Information from Lochcarron, MS.

[559]. Wade’s Report in App. to 2d ed. of Burt’s Letters, 1822, vol. ii. p. 280.

[560]. Lockhart Papers.

[561]. MS. poem on Wade’s Roads in Scotland, dated 1737, in possession of the Junior United Service Club.

[562]. The traditional account of Donald Murchison, communicated by Mr F. Macdonald, states that the heroic commissioner had been promised a handsome reward for his services; but Seaforth proved ungrateful. ‘He was offered only a small farm called Bundalloch, which pays at this day to Mr Matheson, the proprietor, no more than £60 a year; or another place opposite to Inverinate House, of about the same value. It is no wonder he refused these paltry offers. He shortly afterwards left this country, and died in the prime of life near Conon. On his death-bed, Seaforth went to see him, and asked how he was. He said: “Just as you will be in a short time,” and then turned his back. They never met again.’

[563]. Wodrow’s Analecta, ii. 368.

[564]. New Statistical Account of Scotland, art. Tranent.

[565].

‘The brave Locheil, as I heard tell,

Led Camerons on in clouds, man.’

Contemporary Ballad.

[566]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, Jan. 29, 1723.

[567]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, April 1, 1723. Scot. Elegiac Verses, p. 247.

[568]. MS., Advocates’ Library.

[569]. Letter by Andrew M‘Dowall (subsequently Lord Bankton) and J. M‘Gowan. Nugæ Scoticæ, Edinburgh, 1829.

[570]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, May 1723.

[571]. From pamphlets published by Sir Alexander Murray.

[572]. Probably some attempt had been made to turn to account the foliated gypsum beds which exist near Kelso.

[573]. Poem on the Highland Roads, Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior United Service Club.

[574]. Edin. Ev. Courant, August 22, 1743.

[575]. Memoirs of George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grizel Baillie, &c. 1822.

[576]. Chalmers’s Brit. Poets, xiv. 576.

[577]. Celebrated Trials, 6 vols. 1825. Vol. iii. p. 395.

[578]. Memoirs of Lady Grizel Baillie.

[579]. Edin. Ev. Courant, May 9, 1723.

[580]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[581]. This was the place of worship which Dr Johnson attended when in Edinburgh in 1773. It is now demolished.

[582]. Analecta.

[583]. It may be satisfactory to local antiquaries to know that this hall was situated in what was consequently called the Assembly (latterly, Old Assembly) Close, on the south side of the High Street. The assembly to be held on the 25th May 1736 was advertised as to take place ‘in their new hall, behind the City Guard.’ This last site was that afterwards occupied by a building used as an office by the Commercial Bank, now the Free Church of the Tron parish. A rent of £55 was paid for this new hall, which continued to be used for fifty years, although confessedly too small, and very inconvenient.

[584]. Burt’s Letters, i. 193.

[585]. The Horn Order and Crispin Knights are satirised in several pasquils of the time of Queen Anne as fraternities practising debauchery to an unusual degree. A satire on the Union says:

The Canongate know no cabals,

Nor knights of the Horn order;

And lights were not put out at balls,

When I was a dame of honour.

The Crispins, and the Crispin pins,

Wore things unknown unto us;

We ladies then thought shame to sin,

It cost pains to undo us, &c.

Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils, il. 75.

[586]. Burt’s Letters, i. 193.

[587]. Caledonian Mercury, November 14, 1723.

[588]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant.

[589]. Letters from the North of Scotland, ii. 143.

[590]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 75.

[591]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 142.

[592]. Mortgage.

[593]. Burt’s Letters, ii. 73.

[594]. Alexander Pennecuik, of Edinburgh, has a poem entitled A Curse on the Clan Macphersons, occasioned by the News of Glenbucket being murdered by them:

‘May that cursed clan up by the roots be pluckèd,

Whose impious hands have killed the good Glenbucket!

Villains far worse than Infidel or Turk,

To slash his body with your bloody durk—

A fatal way to make his physic work!

Rob Roy and you fight ’gainst the noblest names,

The generous Gordons and the gallant Grahams.

Perpetual clouds through your black clan shall reign,

Traitors ’gainst God, and rebels ’gainst your king,

Until you feel the law’s severest rigour,

And be extinguished like the base Macgregor!’

Pennecuik’s Poems, MS., Adv. Lib.

[595]. Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior United Service Club.

[596]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, April 9, 1724.

[597]. Private Letters, &c., p. 37.

[598]. Analecta.

[599]. Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes, writing, in 1811, from personal recollection of the incidents.—Murray’s Lit. Hist. Galloway, p. 337.

[600]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 152, 157, 170.

[601]. ‘A ewe which has given over bearing.’—Jamieson.

[602]. That is, a native of Ireland.

[603]. Letter of John Maxwell of Munshes to W. M. Herries of Spottes, dated February 1811.—Murray’s Lit. Hist. of Galloway, Appendix, p. 337.

[604]. See Domestic Annals of Scotland, under September 1583.

[605]. Caledonian Mercury of the day.

[606]. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[607]. Lovat’s Memorial to the King, Burt’s Letters, 2d ed., ii. 264, App.

[608]. Letter of General Guest, Spalding Club Miscellany, iii. 229.

[609]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant, September 6, 1725. This paper remarks that the extent of country which belonged to the late Earl of Seaforth, and disarmed on this occasion, was no less than sixty miles in length and forty in breadth.

[610]. Lockhart Papers.

[611]. Miscellany Papers, Adv. Lib.

[612]. Ed. Ev. Courant.

[613]. D. Webster’s Account of Roslin Chapel, &c., Edinburgh, 1819.

[614]. Transactions of the Society of Improvers.

[615]. Caledonian Mercury, July 1735.

[616]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot., xx. 74.

[617]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot., viii. 525. A drawing and description of a winnowing-machine used in Silesia appears in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1747, as a thing unknown in England.

[618]. Old Mortality, chap. vii.

[619]. Newspapers of the day.

[620]. Introduction to the Pirate—a novel, it need scarcely be remarked, founded on the story of Gow.

[621]. ‘London, March 29, 1720.—Sunday evening the Duke of Douglas and the Earl of Dalkeith fought a duel behind Montague House, and both were wounded.’—Newspapers of the day.

[622]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 208.

[623]. Lockhart Papers. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 210, et seq. Contemporary narration.

[624]. See antea, under February 1697.

[625]. Sinclair’s Statistical Acc. of Scotland, article ‘Erskine.

[626]. Notice from the Edinburgh Post-office, Nov. 23, 1725.

[627]. Caledonian Mercury, Oct. 1733, and Jan. 1734.

[628]. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[629]. Chamberlayne’s Present State of Great Britain for the years cited.

[630]. Scottish Journal, p. 208.

[631]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[632]. New Stat. Acc. of Scot., vi. 157.

[633]. Scrap-book of Dugald Bannatyne, quoted in New Stat. Acc. of Scot., vi. 231.

[634]. Smollett’s Humphry Clinker.

[635]. Ramsay’s Works, i. 285.

[636]. Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 366.

[637]. Mr Jackson had heard that Aston’s theatre was ‘in a close on the north side of the High Street, near Smith’s Land. A Mrs Millar at that time was esteemed a capital actress, and was also a very handsome woman. Mr Westcombe was the principal comedian. The scheme was supported by annual tickets, subscribed for by the favourers of the drama.’—Hist. Scot. Stage, p. 417.

[638]. Arnot’s Hist. Edinburgh, p. 366.

[639]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 211.

[640]. ‘Edinburgh, April 9, 1728.—Yesterday, Tony Astons, elder and younger, stage-players, were committed prisoners to the Tolbooth. ’Tis said they are charged with the crime of carrying off a young lady designed for a wife to the latter.’—Ed. Ev. Courant.

[641]. Private Letters, &c.

[642]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 309.

[643]. Printed by James Duncan, Glasgow, 1728, pp. 168.

[644]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iii. 318.

[645]. MS. in possession of the Junior United Service Club.

[646]. Struan Papers, MS. The Earl of Mar, writing to Struan from Paris, January 6, 1724, says: ‘Our poor friend John Menzies has been very near walking off the stage of life; but I now hope he may still be able to act out the play of the Restoration with us, though he must not pretend to a young part.’ Among Struan’s published poems is ‘an Epitaph on his Dear Friend John Menzies;’ from which it would appear that Menzies had died abroad, and been buried in unconsecrated ground.

[647]. History of the Robertsons of Struan.... Poems of Robertson of Struan, Edinburgh, no date, p. 167.

[648]. Feb. 4, 1755. ‘At London, Edmund Burt, Esq., late agent to General Wade, chief surveyor during the making of roads through the Highlands, and author of the Letters concerning Scotland.’—Scots Mag. Obituary.

[649]. Burt’s Letters, ii. 189.

[650]. This poem exists in MS. in the library of the Junior United Service Club, London.

[651]. Usquebaugh, whisky.

[652]. Library of the Junior United Service Club, London, to which body I have to express my obligations for the permission to inspect and make extracts.

[653]. Letters, &c. i. 77.

[654]. This road was completed in October 1729. See onward.

[655]. Select Transactions of the Society of Improvers.

[656]. Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Dalloway’s ed., iii. 127.

[657]. Gentleman’s Magazine, iii. 515.

[658]. Cyc. of Pract. Medicine, iii. 749.

[659]. Analecta Scotica, ii. 322.

[660]. Boswelliana, privately printed by R. Monckton Milnes, Esq.

[661]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant.

[662]. Hist Acc. of the Bank of Scotland, 1728.

[663]. Analecta, iii. 476.

[664]. A Letter containing Remarks on the Historical Account of the Old Bank, by a Gentleman concerned in neither Bank. Edin., James Davidson & Co., 1728.

[665]. This is a statement of the pamphlet last quoted, p. 30.

[666]. In British Museum, 8223 C
2 (b
2).

[667]. Analecta, iii. 302.

[668]. Burt’s Letters from the North of Scotland, 2d ed., i. 230.

[669]. Sharpe’s Introduction to Law’s Memorials, cvi.

[670]. Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, p. 328.

[671]. Representation by the linen-drapers at the bar of the House of Commons, Jan. 1720.

[672]. Letter in the Paper-office, quoted by Chalmers, Caledonia, i. 873, note.

[673]. Analecta, iii. 452.

[674]. Private Letters, &c., p. 59.

[675]. Edinburgh Ev. Courant.

[676]. Mr Wodrow relates that, about the same time, a number of ministers in England met occasionally together under the name of the Orthodox Club, and ‘frequently their conversation is gay and jocose’—‘gay and’ being here a Scotch adverb meaning considerably.

[677]. Private Letters, &c., p. 61.

[678]. State Trials, ix. 26. Arnot’s Crim. Trials, p. 190.

[679]. Private Letters, &c., p. 64. Mr Lindsay was soon after lord provost and member for the city, in which latter capacity he made a remarkably good speech in the House of Commons on the bill for taking away the privileges of the corporation in consequence of the Porteous Riot. See Gentleman’s Magazine, vii. 457.

[680]. What seems sufficient to set this matter in a clear light is the fact that, up to this time, such a thing as a sawn deal was unknown in the Spey Highlands; they could only split a tree, and chip the pieces into something like a deal; and some of the upper rooms of Castle-Grant are actually floored of wood prepared in this manner.

[681]. At the end of the voyage, he took the curragh upon his back, and trudged back to the point of departure. An example of this primitive kind of canoe was exhibited at the archæological museum connected with the British Association at Aberdeen, September 1859.

[682]. [Leslie’s] Survey of the Province of Moray, 1798, p. 267. Anderson’s British Poets, viii. 655.

[683]. Analecta, passim.

[684]. Private Letters, &c., p. 66; also newspapers of the day.

[685]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iv. 97.

[686]. See under the year 1716 for some notice of her Grace’s services to the country as a promoter of agricultural improvements.

[687]. Faculty Records, quoted in Analecta Scotica, ii. 170. The plate of Sallust is now shewn under a glass-case in the Advocates’ Library.

[688]. Biog. Memoirs of William Ged. Nichols, London, 1781. To a daughter of Ged, it was proposed that the profits of this publication, if any, should be devoted; hence it may be inferred that the family continued poor.

[689]. Mores’s Narrative of Block-printing, with Notes, apud Topham and Willett’s Memoir on the Origin of Printing. Newcastle, 1820.

[690]. Maitland’s History of Edinburgh, p. 460.

[691]. Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 546.

[692]. Gentleman’s Magazine, v. 555.

[693]. The remaining verses of the poem are thus given in the Scots Magazine for June 1773:

‘Ah! where is now th’ innumerous crowd,

That once with fond attention hung

On every truth divine that flowed,

Improved from thy persuasive tongue!

’Tis gone!—it seeks a different road;

Life’s social joys to thee are o’er;

Untrod the path to that abode

Where hapless Penury keeps the door.

Drummond! thine audience yet recall,

Recall the young, the gay, the vain;

And ere thy tottering fabric fall,

Sound forth the deeply moral strain.

For never, sure, could bard or sage,

Howe’er inspired, more clearly shew,

That all upon this transient stage

Is folly, vanity, or woe.

Bid them at once be warned and taught—

Ah, no!—suppress th’ ungrateful tale—

O’er every frailty, every fault,

Oblivion, draw thy friendly veil.

Tell rather what transcendent joy

Awaits them on th’ immortal shore,

If well they Summer’s strength employ,

And well distribute Autumn’s store.

Tell them, if Virtue crown their bloom,

Time shall the happy period bring,

When the dark Winter of the tomb

Shall yield to everlasting Spring.’

[694]. Letter by a clansman of the deceased. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[695]. Culloden Papers, p. 111. Edin. Ev. Courant, Oct. 9, 1729. This chronicle adds: ‘They named the bridge where the parties met Oxbridge.’ A statement which appears somewhat inconsistent with one already made in our general account of the Highland roads.

General Stewart of Garth, in his interesting book on the Highland Regiments, makes an amusing mistake in supposing that General Wade here condescended to be entertained by a set of cearnochs, or cattle-lifters.

[696]. Notes to 2d ed. of Burt’s Letters. There being a distinction between natural tracks, such as formerly existed in the Highlands, and made roads, and ‘made’ being used here in a secondary and technical sense, it is not absolutely necessary to suppose, as has been supposed, that the author of this couplet was an Irish subaltern quartered at Fort William.

[697]. In May 1711, the ‘relict’ of Sir John Medina, limner, advertised her having for sale ‘a great many pictures of several of the nobility, gentry, and eminent lawyers of this nation,’ at her lodging, ‘the first stone land above the Tron Church, second story.’—Ed. Ev. Courant.

[698]. Daniel Wilson states, in his work, Edinburgh in the Olden Time, that Scougal possessed Sir James Steuart’s house in the Advocates’ Close, and there fitted up an additional floor as a picture-gallery.

[699]. The document is fully printed in the Edin. Annual Register for 1816.

[700]. Caledonian Mercury.

[701]. Analecta, iv. 86, 162.

[702]. Minutely narrated in Burnet.

[703]. Caledonian Mercury, April 6, 1724.

[704]. Sir D. Brewster’s Life of Sir Isaac Newton, 1855, i. 57

[705]. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[706]. Stewart’s Highland Regiments, i. 49.

[707]. Dom. Annals, under March 1, 1701.

[708]. French, commère, a godmother.

[709]. An Essay on the Means of Inclosing Scotland, 1729, p. 229.

[710]. Records of the Bank, quoted in Chalmers’s Caledonia, i. 873, note.

[711]. Edin. Ev. Courant.

[712]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[713]. Domestic Ann. Scot., ii. 495.

[714]. See under June 24, 1736.

[715]. It is rather curious that, in a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by a fire in the Lawnmarket of Edinburgh, in 1725, ‘Colonel Francis Charteris, £4, 4s.’ is the only contribution from a private individual. Uncharitable onlookers would probably consider this as intended for an insurance against another fire on the part of the subscriber.

[716]. Private Letters, &c., p. 80.

[717]. Gentleman’s Magazine, ii. 674.

[718]. Caledonian Mercury.

[719]. Cal. Mercury, August 8, 1732.

[720]. Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 136.

[721]. Caledonian Mercury, May and July 1733.

[722]. Caledonian Mercury, February 14, 1734.

[723]. Historical Register for 1721, p. 253.

[724]. July 21, 1744, died at his seat of Orangefield, in the shire of Ayr, James Macrae, Esq., late governor of Fort George.

[725]. The son, Captain James Macrae, was a person of most unhappy history, having shot an innocent gentleman in a duel, and obliged, in consequence, to leave his native country.

[726]. Caledonian Mercury, July and August 1733.

[727]. See under 1718, pp. [440], [441] of this volume.

[728]. A riding of the stang, attended with tragical results, happened in March 1736. George Porteous, smith at Edmondstone, having severely beaten and abused his wife, was subjected to the ignominy by his neighbours; which so highly ‘affronted’ him, that he went and hanged himself.—Caledonian Mercury.

[729]. Caledonian Mercury, passim.

[730]. Edinburgh newspapers, passim.

[731]. James VII.’s First Parliament, chap. 12.

[732]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot., xviii. 362.

[733]. Wodrow Pamphlets, vol. 275.

[734]. From Mein’s original paper, apparently prepared for publication, 1735. MS. in possession of Society of Antiquaries.

[735]. Act of Town Council, August 29, 1740. Robert Mein died in 1776, at the age of ninety-three.

[736]. Amongst the papers of General Wade, in the possession of the Junior United Service Club, is a letter addressed to him by a lady who felt interested in behalf of Porteous. It is here transcribed, with all its peculiarities of spelling, &c., as an illustration of the exceptive feeling above adverted to, and also as a curious memorial of the literary gifts then belonging to ladies of the upper classes. The writer appears to have been one of the daughters of George Allardice of Allardice, by his wife, Lady Anne Ogilvy, daughter of the fourth Earl of Findlater:

‘I dute not Dear general waid but by this time yon may have heard the fattel sentence of the poor unhappy cap^t porteous how in six weeks time most dye if he riceve not speedy help from above, by the asistance of men of generosity and mercy such as you realy are it is the opinion of all thos of the better sort he has been hardly deelt by, being cond’mned but by a very slender proof, and tho he was much provokted by the mob and had the provest and magestrets order to fire which th’y now sheamfuly deney nor had he the leeberty to prove it tho even in his own defence, but the generous major powl will assure you of the trouth, and yet tho the cap^t had thos crule orders it is proven my [by] commiserer wesly mr Drumond doctor horton and severel other gentel men of undouted crided he realy did not make use of them, that there eyes were fixed on him all the while and have declar’d upon oth he deed not fire, true it is he presented his firelock in hopes to frighten the mob when ane unlucky felow at the same time and just by the cap^t fired which lead the two witness into the fatel mistake that has condmn’d him the unfortenat pannal both befor and after the dismal sentence protested befor god and the judges he was entierly inesent puting all thes circomstances to gether the miserable state he now is in most draw your generous pity on his side ther’for dr general waid continwa your uswal mercy and plead for him and as our sex are neturly compassinot and being now in the power of the quin, so generous a pleader as you may easely persuad, considring it is a thing of great concquenc to the whol army which yourself better knou then I can inform the duke of buccleugh, marques of Lowding [Lothian] Lord morton geneal myls all the commissioners and chiff baron are to join ther intrest with yours in this affair, by your own generous soul I beg again Dear sir you will do whats in your power to save him, thos that think right go not through this poor short life just for themselves which your good actions shou you oft consider, and as many just now put a sincer trust in your generous mercy I am sure they will not be disapointed throgh aney neglect of yours let this letter be taken notes of amongst the nomber you will reseve from your frinds in Scotland in behalf of the unfortunat capt which will intierly oblidg

Dear general waid

your most affectionate and most

obident humble servant

Catharine Allardice.

‘you would be sory for the unexresable los I have had of the kindest mother, and two sisters I am now at Mrs Lind’s where it would be no smal satesfaction to hear by a Line or two I am not forgot by you drect for me at Mr Linds hous in Edenburg your letter will come safe if you are so good as to writ Mr Lind his Lady and I send our best complements to you, he along with Lord aberdour and mr wyevel how has also wrot to his sister mrs pursal go hand in hand togither makeing all the intrest they can for the poor cap^t and meet with great sucess they join in wishing you the same not fearing your intrest the generals Lady how is his great friend were this day to speak to the Justes clarck but I have not since seen her, so that every on of compassion and mercy are equely bussey forgive this trouble and send ous hop’

[737]. Caledonian Mercury.

[738]. Statutes at large, vi. 51.

[739]. In November 1737, the poet is found advertising an assembly (dancing-party) ‘in the New Hall in Carrubber’s Close;’ subscription-tickets, two for a guinea, to serve throughout the winter season.—Cal. Merc.

[740]. Caledonian Mercury.

[741]. Newspapers of the time.

[742]. Caledonian Mercury.

[743]. Daily Post, Aug. 17, 1738, quoted in Household Words, 1850.

[744]. His name was William Smellie. The fact is stated in his Memoirs by Robert Kerr, Edinburgh, 1811.

[745]. Scots Magazine, January 1739.

[746]. Scottish Journal, p. 313.

[747]. Houghton’s Collections on Husbandry and Trade, 1694.

[748]. Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, 4to, p. 201.

[749]. Robertson’s Rural Recollections, 1829.

[750]. ‘The man has not been dead many years who first introduced from Ireland the culture of the potato into the peninsula of Cantyre; he lived near Campbelton. From him the city of Glasgow obtained a regular supply for many years; and from him also the natives of the Western Highlands and Isles obtained the first plants, from which have been derived those abundant supplies on which the people there now principally subsist.’—Anderson’s Recreations, vol. ii. (1800) p. 382.

[751]. ‘This singular individual died at Edinburgh [January 24, 1788]. In 1784, he sunk £140 with the managers of the Canongate Poor’s House, for a weekly subsistence of 7s., and afterwards made several small donations to that institution. His coffin, for which he paid two guineas, with “1703,” the year of his birth, inscribed on it, hung in his house for nine years previous to his death; and it also had affixed to it the undertaker’s written obligation to screw him down with his own hands gratis. The managers of the Poor’s House were likewise taken bound to carry his body with a hearse and four coaches to Restalrig Churchyard, which was accordingly done. Besides all this, he caused his grave-stone to be temporarily erected in a conspicuous spot of the Canongate Churchyard, having the following quaint inscription:

“HENRY PRENTICE,

Died.

Be not curious to know how I lived;

But rather how yourself should die.“‘

—Contemporary Obituaries.

[752]. Scots Magazine, Oct. 1740. Act of Town Council, Dec. 19, 1740.

[753]. Scots Magazine, July 1741.

[754]. Moncrieff’s Life of John Erskine, D.D., p. 110.

[755]. Scots Magazine, July 1742.

[756]. Scots Magazine, Oct. 1712. New Statistical Acc. Scot., art. ‘Lochbroom,’ where many curious anecdotes of Robertson, called Ministeir laidir, ‘the Strong Minister,’ are detailed.

[757]. Lays of the Deer Forest, by the Messrs Stuart.

[758]. Edin. Ev. Courant, Nov. 15, 1743.

[759]. Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 87.

[760]. Old Statist. Acc. of Scot., xv. 379.

[761]. Domestic Ann. of Scot., ii. 392.

[762]. Memorabilia of Glasgow, p. 502.

[763]. Newspaper advertisement.

[764]. Jones’s Glasgow Directory, quoted in Stuart’s Notices of Glasgow in Former Times.

[765]. Culloden Papers, p. 233.

[766]. Appendix to Burt’s Letters, 5th ed., ii. 359.

[767]. Tour in Scotland, i. 225; ii. 425.

[768]. Gentleman’s Magazine, xvi. 429.

[769]. Scots Magazine, 1750, 1753, 1754.

[770]. Tour through the Highlands, &c. By John Knox. 1787, p. 101.

[771]. [Sinclair’s] Stat. Acc. Scot., xx. 424. The minister’s version is here corrected from one in the Gentleman’s Magazine for January 1733; but both are incorrect in the historical particulars, there having been during 1728 and the hundred preceding years no more than six kings of Scotland.

[772]. Printed in Spalding Club Miscellany, ii. 7.

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