JAMES.JOHN LOCKHART of Barr.
JAMES HAMILTON.GEORGE CORRIE of Kelwood.
ARCHIBALD ARGYLE.JOHN SHAW of Haly.
JAMES STEWART.ANDREW HAMILTON of
ROTHES.Letham.
JAMES HALIBURTON.GLENCAIRN.
R. BOYD.OCHILTREE.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,SANQUHAR.
DEAN OF MORAY.SAINTJOHNS.
WILLIAM OF CULROSS.WILLIAM LORD HAY.
MASTER ALEXANDERDRUMLANRIG.
GORDON.CUNNINGHAMHEAD.
BARGANY YOUNGER.JOHN MAXWELL.
ANDREW KER of Faldonside.GEORGE FENTON of that Ilk.
T. SCOTT of Hayning.LOCHINVAR.

GLOSSARY

OF OBSOLETE AND SCOTS WORDS AND PHRASES.

Affray, terror; fright: (v.) to frighten.
Aggravate, to emphasise an enormity.
Aggreage, to aggravate.
Appointment, terms; agreement; truce or treaty.
Arguesyn, lieutenant (naut.).
Assedations, leases.
Assurance, truce; agreement for truce.
Bauk, beam.
Bear, barley.
Bide, to abide; biaden, abode.
Bill, letter; petition.
Birse, bristle; beard.
Block-house, tower; fort.
Boss, a worthless character.
Bourding, jesting.
Brook, to soil.
Bruik, to enjoy; to possess.
Bruit, common talk; rumours; repute.
Buds, gifts; bribes.
Buist (for browst), brewing.
Buist, box; chest.
Burgess, inhabitant of a burgh who has full municipal rights.
Burn, brook.
Burn his bill, make recantation.
Camp-volant, expeditionary force.
Cass, to annul.
Censement, judgment.
Chalder, a grain measure of about 90 bushels.
Chamber-child, valet-de-chambre.
Chanters, laics endowed with ecclesiastical benefices.
Chap, to strike; to knock.
Cheek-mate, familiar.
Chimley, chimney; fire-basket.
Clawback, sycophant.
Clerk-play, a dramatic entertainment founded on a passage of Scripture; a "mystery."
Cognition, evidence.
Comfort, strength; godly confidence.
Commend, an ecclesiastical benefice committed to a temporary holder.
Commendator, the holder of a commend.
Commodity, advantage.
Compear, to present oneself in response to a summons.
Compone, to agree.
Consequently, in sequence.
Consistory, Church Court.
Cordelier friar, Franciscan.
Cowp, to tilt.
Craig, neck.
Credit, mandate; written instructions.
Crown of the sun, a French crown having as mint mark an emblem of the sun: gold coin worth 18s.
Cuid, chrisom.
Culverin, the largest cannon used in the 16th century.
Cummer, entanglement; broil; brawl.
Cunyie, mint, coinage; to mint, to coin.
Dad, to knock; to thump.
Dag, to shoot.
Deambulator, promenade.
Delate, to accuse.
Delation, accusation.
Delatour, procrastination.
Dictament, phraseology.
Ding, to knock violently; to dash (p. dang, p.p. dung).
Ditement, what is written.
Divagation, wandering from the straight course.
Divers, sundry.
Doctrine, act of teaching.
Document, warning; evidence.
Dolour, grief; distress.
Dontibour, courtesan.
Dortour, hangings; decorative draperies.
Dot, dowry.
Doted, endowed.
Down-thring, overthrow.
Dule-weed, apparel of mourning.
Dyke, wall.
Dyttament, dictation; guidance.
Effray, to frighten.
Eke, to increase.
Eke, eik, an addition.
Eme, uncle; kinsman.
Ensenyes, companies (milit.).
Exercition, bodily exercise; military exercise.—Jamieson.
Factors, stewards.
Factory, Scots equivalent of a power of attorney.
Fard, ardour; violence.
Fash, to trouble.
Fashery, trouble.
Fashious, troublesome.
Fertour, coffer.
File, thread; sequence.
Fillocks, giddy young women.
Fley, to scare; to frighten.
Flyrt and flyre, to mock and deride.
Forethink, to repent.
Fornent, over against.
Frack, active; ready; make frack, make bustling preparation.
Fray, fright.
Fremmed, strange; unfriendly.
Gaird, guard; civil establishment.
Gait, way; route; upon the gait, on the move.
Gar, to cause; gart, caused.
Gear, goods; stuff.
Girn, to grind or gnash the teeth.
Girnell, granary.
Glaise, a scorching.
Glister, lustre.
Glondours, a state of ill-humour.
Good-daughter, daughter-in-law.
Goodsire, maternal grandfather.
Greet, to weep; grat, wept.
Griping, extortionate.
Gukstoun Glaikstour, apparently a nickname. "A contemptuous designation, expressive of the combination of folly and vainglory."—Jamieson.
Hackbut, harquebus: species of hand firearm used in 15th and 16th centuries.
Hamesucken, the crime of beating or assaulting a person within his own house.
Harberous, hospitable.
Hardess, harshness.
Herschip, plundering.
Horn, public intimation of outlawry.
Horning, outlawry; process of outlawry.
How, hollow; underground.
Hurl, to wheel.
Improve, to disprove.
Inable, to disqualify.
Incontinently, forthwith.
Indifference, impartiality.
Indifferent, impartial.
Induration, hardening of heart.
Indure, to remain of firm purpose.
Ingyne, ingenuity; genius.
Institute, to place in authority.
Irons, coining dies.
Ish, to come out; to sally forth.
Jack, a coat of mail.
Jackman, armed follower.
Jefwellis, jailbirds.
Jow, to toll.
Kep, to intercept; to catch.
Kindness, fealty of retainers.
Knap, to strike.
Knapscall, head-piece.
Kythe, to show; to practise.
Lair, to stick in the mire.
Lavachre, washing.
Lesing, lying.
Let, hindrance.
Letters, writs under the royal signet; summonses.
Lippen, to trust.
Manrent, vassalage.
Mansworn, perjured.
Marrow, match; equal.
Mell, to meddle.
Menyie, crowd of followers.
Mint, threat.
Modify, adjust.
Mows, jest.
Myster, skill; mastery.
Napkin, pocket-handkerchief.
Navy, fleet.
Neifeling, fisticuffs.
Neifs, fists.
Noisome, annoying; troublesome.
Pare, to diminish.
Partaker, ally.
Patron, skipper.
Penult, second last (day).
Peregrine, foreign; irrelevant.
Placebo, the opening antiphon of vespers for the dead, in the Romish service; from opening words of Psalm xvi.
Placeboes, parasites; flatterers.
Plack, a small copper coin.
Platt, to place close.
Platt on his knees, threw himself on his knees.
Pock, bag; case.
Poise, secret hoard of money.
Pottinger, apothecary.
Power, forces.
Practise, to intrigue.
Prevent, anticipate.
Propine, to present gifts.
Purchase, to sue out; to procure.
Purpose, conversation.
Rays, yards (naut.).
Reduce, to bring back.
Reek, smoke.
Regiment, rule; control.
Reif, robbery.
Retreat, to repudiate; to withdraw.
Rowping, crying hoarsely.
Ruse, boast.
Sark, shirt.
Scaill, scaling-ladder.
Schybald, mean fellow.
Scrimple, to shrivel.
Scrip, to mock.
Seinyiè, synod; consistory.
Skaill, to disperse; to spill.
Slanting, range of fire.
Slogan, battle-cry.
Sloken, to quench.
Snappers, stumbles.
Sned, to clip, as with shears.
Sparse, to spread abroad.
Speir, to inquire.
Splent, armour for the legs.
Spunk, spark.
Spurtle, porridge stick.
Stammer, to stagger.
Stark, strong.
Stay, impediment.
Stock, crop from which teind was drawn.
Stog, to stab.
Stog-sword, long small-sword.
Stool, pulpit.
Stoop, support.
Stout, staunch.
Stowth, theft.
Sturr, to make disturbance or trouble.
Suppostis, supporters.
Sweir, unwilling.
Tabernacle, a shrine for host consecrated at mass.
Targetting of tails, bordering of gowns with tassels.
Teind, tenth-part; tithe.
Tine, to lose; tint, lost.
Tinsel, loss.
To-look, prospect.
Tor, arm (of a chair).
Umquhile, late; deceased.
Upaland, at a distance from the sea; in the country.
Upfall, matter cast up; incident.
Vassalage, feats of valour.
Vilipended, slighted; undervalued.
Warsel, wrestle.
Whinger, hanger (kind of sword).
Wiss, to imagine.
Wodness, fury; madness.
Wolter, overturn.
Wyte, blame.
Yett, gate.

INDEX.

Ancrum Moor, [50].
Angus, Earl of, [23], [43], [49], [80], [101], [104].
Annan, Dean John, [86].
Argyll, Fourth Earl of, [33], [42], [102], [104], [122], [131], [132].
Argyll, Fifth Earl of, [120], [131], [154], [157], [158], [159], [160], [165], [167], [203], [208], [245], [276], [277].
Arran, Lord James Hamilton, Second Earl of (afterwards created Duke of Châtelherault, and frequently referred to by Knox as "The Duke" or "The Duke's Grace").
His name on the roll of heretics, [27].
Claims the regency on death of James V., [33].
Proclaimed Regent, [34].
Breaks faith with England, [42].
The Cardinal's tool, [46].
Consents to Wishart's arrest, [62].
Treacherous dealing with assassins of Beaton, [83], [97].
Prepares to resist Somerset's invasion, [100].
At Pinkie Cleuch, [102].
Receives Duchy of Châtelherault, and other favours, for consent to marriage of the young Queen, [104].
At the trial of Adam Wallace, [113].
He is deposed, [116].
Persecutes the Protestants, [151].
In league with Queen Regent, [156], [163], [167].
Attends sermon in St. Giles, [171].
Is found on the side of the Congregation, [180].
Is admonished by Knox, [183].
Stationed at Glasgow, [186].
His slackness reproved by Knox, [198].
Concurs in treaty of Berwick, [200].
At Kinneil, [252], [254].
Exhorted by Knox to remain firm, [267].
At the trial of Knox, [293].
Banqueted by the Queen, [303].
Arran, Third Earl of (Son of Second Earl, and succeeded to the Title on his Father's attaining his Dukedom), [83], [84], [178], [180], [185], [186], [199], [217], [218], [229], [241], [250].
Arth, Friar William, [8].
Ayr, [43], [120], [267].
Balfour, Sir James, of Pittendreich (sometime Official of Lothian), [96], [99], [109], [111], [177], [199].
Balnaves, Henry, [21], [37], [38], [40], [46], [83], [85], [108], [197]-200.
Beaton, David, Cardinal.
Makes inquisition, [17].
Opposes meeting of James V. and Henry VIII., [22].
Presents a "scroll" of heretics, [25].
Partly responsible for Solway Moss, [27].
At the King's deathbed, [32].
Claims the Regency unsuccessfully, [33].
The Regent favours the Protestants and Beaton is imprisoned, [35].
But he escapes, [36].
With the Queen Dowager and the faction of France, [39].
Raises a party against Arran, [42].
Suggests marriage of Lennox with Queen Dowager, [43].
Stirs strife amongst the Protestants, [44].
His treachery, [46].
Fortifies St. Andrews, and hoists his flag, [51].
Attempts assassination of Wishart, [55].
Secures arrest of Wishart, [62].
His quarrel with Archbishop Dunbar, [63].
Sits in judgment on Wishart, [65]-77.
Fancies himself secure, [80].
Seized and assassinated, [81]-82.
Beaton, James, Archbishop of Glasgow (Nephew of Cardinal Beaton), [121], [169].
Beaton, James, Archbishop of St. Andrews (Uncle of Cardinal Beaton), [4], [6], [11], [12], [14], [15].
Bellenden, Sir John. See Justice Clerk.
Bellenden, Thomas (Justice Clerk in succession to Thomas Scott), [21], [40].
Berwick, Treaty of, [200].
Bible, An Open, [36].
Blackader, Robert, Archbishop of Glasgow, [2], [4].
Book of Discipline, The, [363] (cf. [217], [243]).
Borthwick, Captain John, [17].
Bothwell, Third Earl of, [42], [60], [61].
Bothwell, Fourth Earl of (afterwards third Husband of Mary Queen of Scots), [178], [185], [248], [250], [254], [266], [267], [270], [284].
Buccleuch, Family of, [14], [23], [46], [104].
Buchanan, George, [21].
Campbell, Friar Alexander, [6], [7].
Campbell, Hugh, of Kinyeancleuch, [54].
Campbell, Robert, of Kinyeancleuch, [120], [229].
Cassillis, Earl of, [7], [29], [43], [58], [115], [127].
Castle Campbell, [122].
Châtelherault, Duke of. See Arran, Second Earl of.
Clerk of Register (James Macgill of Nether Rankeillor), [239], [245], [335].
Coldingham, Lord John Stewart, Prior of, [228], [248], [249], [283], [285].
Confession of Faith, Knox's, [214], [341].
Congregation, The (Name given to the Reformation Party in Scotland).
Letter from Knox to the Lords of the Congregation, [128].
First Covenant: December 1557, [130].
First Rules of Reformed Church, [131].
Questioning regarding the Mass, [136].
Steps towards Public Reformation, [137].
First Petition to Regent, [138].
Appeal to Parliament, [143].
Letter to the Regent, [151].
Letters to the Nobility, [153].
West-land marches to aid of Perth, [156].
Peace patched: May 1559, [157].
Covenant renewed, [158].
Occupation of Stirling and Edinburgh, [165].
Overtures to Regent, [167].
Regent in Arms, [169].
Convention at Stirling, [174].
Depose the Regent, [175].
Soldiers demand Pay, [177].
English Supplies captured, [178].
Retreat to Stirling, [181].
At Stirling, [186].
Campaign in Fife, [188].
English Fleet arrives, [190].
French retreat to Edinburgh, [190].
Negotiation with England, [191] ff.
Treaty of Berwick, [200].
English Army arrives: 1560, [203].
Peace with France, [209].
Preachers and Superintendents appointed, [212].
Knox preaches, Reformation agreed upon, [213].
Petition to Parliament, [213].
Confession of Faith, [214].
Mass prohibited, [216].
The Book of Discipline, [217].
French Demands, [221].
Convention at Edinburgh, [222].
The Queen's Mass, [239].
Court and Kirk, [241].
Defaulting Lords, [242].
Patrimony of Kirk, [246].
General Assembly: June 1562, [259].
Petition to Queen, [259].
Bond subscribed at Ayr, [267].
Influence at Court, [270].
General Assembly: December 1562, [271].
Massmongers tried, [276].
Arrest of Cranstoun and Armstrong, [287].
Knox summons the Brethren, [287].
He is tried for Treason, [289].
General Assembly: December 1563, [301].
The Assembly and Knox, [301].
General Assembly: June 1564, [306].
Schismatic Courtiers, [307].
Debate between Knox and Lethington, [309].
Craig, Mr. John, [304], [308], [334].
Craigmillar Castle, [50].
Craw, Paul, [1].
Crossraguel, Abbot of, [267], [268], [272].
Crown Matrimonial, [133].
Cupar, [162], [186].
Cupar Moor, [162], [192].
Darnley, Henry, Lord, [51], [270].
D'Elbœuf, René de Lorraine, Marquis, [185], [226], [248], [249].
Discipline, The Book of, [217], [243], [363].
Douglas, Family of, [14].
Douglas, John, [123], [132], [142].
Douglas, Sir George (Brother of the Earl of Angus), [23], [38], [44], [49], [59], [115].
D'Oysel, Monsieur, [96], [103], [106], [111], [123], [151], [152], [154], [159], [163], [188], [190].
Duke, The. See Arran, Second Earl of.
Dun, John Erskine, Laird of (Superintendent of Angus and Mearns), [16], [119], [120], [131], [137], [148], [149], [156], [160], [212], [281], [283], [308].
Dunbar, [166], [168], [169].
Dunbar, Gavin, Archbishop of Glasgow, [18], [53], [63], [64].
Dunblane, Bishop of, [18].
Dundee, [8], [11], [17], [46], [52], [54], [56], [68], [97], [103], [123], [137], [147], [154], [165], [178], [238].
Dysart, [188].
Edinburgh, [17], [18], [35], [39], [43], [47]-48, [50], [123], [134], [137], [142], [166], [171], [173], [238], [305].
Edinburgh Castle, [50], [51], [62], [170], [185], [305].
Edward VI., [38], [104], [116].
England, Reformation in, [15].
War with Scotland (1542), [43].
Invasion of Scotland (1543), [48].
Invasion of Scotland (1547), [100].
Congregation seeks Aid, [170].
Aid sent, [178].
A Fleet sent, [190].
Communings with the Congregation, [191]-199.
Army withdrawn from Scotland, [210].
Queen Elizabeth declines Marriage with Arran, [218].
Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, [223], [258], [265].
Erskine, John, of Dun. See Dun, Laird of.
Erskine, Lord (afterwards Earl of Mar and Regent of Scotland), [24], [120], [170], [185], [247] n.
Faith, The Confession of, [214], [341].
Fala Raid, [24].
Fife, Campaign in, [188].
Foxe, John, [5], [65] n.
France, Peace with, [209].
Francis II. of France, [133], [153], [218], [281].
French in Scotland, [51], [97], [104], [105], [133], [173].
Glasgow, [1], [44], [64], [154].
Glencairn, William, Fourth Earl of, [29], [30], [38], [43], [53].
Glencairn, Alexander, Fifth Earl of, [115], [120], [121], [131], [147], [153], [156], [186], [203], [208], [217], [293].
Gourlay, Norman, [16].
Gray, Lord, [44], [45], [46].
Guise, Duke of, [116], [185].
Guise. See Lorraine; D'Elbœuf; Mary.
Haddington, [31], [60], [61], [103], [104], [105], [106], [112].
Hailes, House of, [62].
Halden Rig, [23].
Hamilton, Gavin, Abbot of Kilwinning, [157], [249], [252], [254].
Hamilton, Family of, [14], [34], [41], [103], [249], [250].
Hamilton, Sir James, [20].
Hamilton, John (Abbot of Paisley, and Archbishop of St. Andrews after Beaton), [40], [41], [43], [51], [83], [90], [97], [100], [113], [124], [134], [142], [151], [160], [162], [169], [267], [272], [276], [284].
Hamilton, Patrick, [5] ff., [11], [116].
Harlaw, William, [117], [123], [137].
Henry II. of France, [43], [98], [99], [169].
Henry VIII., [10], [14], [22], [38], [42], [51], [83], [100].
Holyroodhouse, Lord Robert Stewart, Abbot of, [228], [285].
Home, Lord, [24], [101].
Huntly, Earl of, [24], [33], [42], [102], [103], [104], [113], [114], [115], [167], [171], [249], [250], [265], [267].
Inveresk, [59], [100], [105].
James IV., [2], [4], [5].
James V., [6], [13], [17], [18], [20], [22], [24]-33.
Justice Clerk, Sir John Bellenden, [239], [245], [293], [302].
Kennedy, Friar, [19].
Kinghorn, [186], [187].
Kirkaldy, James, Laird of Grange, [33], [40], [46], [99], [107], [110], [192].
Kirkaldy, William, of Grange, Younger, [31], [81], [83], [98], [108], [109], [110], [180], [188].
Kirkcaldy, Affair at, [189].
Kirk-breaking at Perth, [149].
Kirk, The Privy, [137].
Knox's Confession, [341] (cf. [241]).
Knox, John, Waits upon Wishart,