Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1 (of 2) - Robert Chambers

[415] Letters of Reign of James VI., p. 368.

[416] See the undated letter of Gordon, Analecta Scot. ii. 386. Patrick Gordon was the person who had acted for the king in prosecuting poor Stercovius to the gallows for a satire on the Scottish nation. See pp. 448, 449.

[417] Mait. Club Misc., iii. 344.

[418] ‘Wha had brought money with the infection from Danskein.’—Chron. Perth.

[419] Extract from Privy Council Record, Edin. Mag., Oct. 1817.

[420] Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, p. 268.

[421] Archæologia Scotica, ii. 111.

GENERAL INDEX.

Abduction, cases of, i. [222], [419], [469]; ii. 251, 319, 390.
Abercorn, Lady, her persecution of Boyd of Trochrig, ii. 7, 8;
imprisonment in the Tolbooth, 25, 26.
Aberdeen, its relation to the Highlands of the Dee, i. [251];
remarkable trials for witchcraft in, [278-285];
election prayer of, [341];
frequent clan-combats and riots at, [384];
banqueting at baptisms forbidden, [541].
Threatened bar at mouth of harbour of, ii. 115;
its doctors, 119-121, 123-126.
Accidents, Presbyterian historian’s notes of rare, i. [444].
Acheson and Aslowan, adventurers in gold-seeking, i. [18].
Actors, companies of, in Perth and Edinburgh, i. [306];
at Aberdeen, [357].
A company at Edinburgh, ii. 404.
Acus marinus, or sea-needle, ii. 463.
Adair, John, his maps of the counties of Scotland, &c., ii. 483-485.
Adulteration by Edinburgh traders, ii. 240.
Aiken, Margaret, ‘the great witch of Balwery,’ i. [291].
Aikenhead, James, charged with selling amorous drugs, ii. 227.
Aird, Robert, a distinguished Episcopalian clergyman, petition of, ii. 281.
Airth, Earl of, remark of, on a Presbyterian prophetess, ii. 122;
his encounter with Graham of Duchrae, 309.
Ale, impost-duty on, ii. 253.
Algiers and Africa, collection for Scottish prisoners in, i. [124], [125], [471].
Petitions for Scottish mariners taken by pirates, ii. 93.
Anabaptists, dipping of the, ii. 213.
Anderson, Andrew, a trafficking papist, dies in the Tolbooth, ii. 60.
Anderson, Dr Patrick, his tract on Cold Spring of Kinghorn, i. [506].
Anderson, Father, banished from Scotland, i. [514].
Anderson, Walter, kills Archbishop Gladstanes’s cook, i. [431].
Anderson, Widow, the king’s printer, her petition, ii. 450.
Angus, Earl of, a papist, commissioned to pacify the north, i. [234];
craves permission to go into exile, [402], [403].
Angus, the Good Earl of; anecdote of his last illness, i. [235].
Apology for the Quakers, Barclay of Urie’s, ii. 344.
Apostates, punished as adulterers, i. [140].
Apparitions, frequent, ii. 435.
Apprentices, restriction of, ii. 41.
Ardkinlas, Laird of, his narrow escape, i. [246], [247].
Ardvoirlich, his dispute with Lord Kilpont, ii. 154-156.
Ardvoirlich, Lady of, Macgregors’ barbarous conduct to, i. [195].
Argyle, sixth Earl of, Lord Boyd, and other nobles, forsake Queen Mary, i. [76].
Argyle, seventh Earl of, becomes a papist, i. [504].
Argyle, ninth Earl of, tried for qualifying the test, ii. 354;
his letter of fire and sword against the Macleans, 370-372;
his expedition and death, 469.
Argyle, Marquis of, beheaded, ii. 274, 275.
Arminianism, alarm for it in Scotland, ii. 1;
spread of, in England, 60.
Army, old mode of raising an, i. [36].
Arthur, Sir John, a priest, prosecuted, i. [23].
Atheism, Antidote against, Dr More’s, ii. 475.
Athole, John Stewart, Earl of, entertains Queen Mary at a hunt, i. [29];
his suspicious death, [123], [124].
Athole, Marquis of, his dispute with Laird of Struan, ii. 423.
Athole, witches of, warm friends of Queen Mary, i. [70];
sad account of country of, [405].
Atkinson, Stephen, a speculator in gold-mines, i. [50], [474].
Auchinleck, George, of Balmanno, stabs Captain Nisbet, i. [141].
Auchmuty, a barber, beheaded for killing James Wauchope, i. [314].
Awin, M., a French surgeon, complaint against, by his Edinburgh brethren, i. [260].
Baillie, Memoirs of Lady Grizzel, quoted, ii. 465-467.
Balbegno’s ghost appears to General Middleton, ii. 364.
Balcanquel, of that Ilk, fined for his wife’s non-attendance at parish church, ii. 463.
Balcarres, Earl of, his death, ii. 296.
Balfour, John, a discoverer of witches, ii. [61].
——, William, a papist, his violence in St Giles’ Kirk, i. [14], [15].
Ballindalloch and Carron, Grants of, feud between, ii. 50-54.
Band of Friendship entered into by Earl of Eglintoun, Earl of Glencairn, and others, i. [118], [119].
Bankrupt or dyvour, curious proceeding regarding, i. [236].
Bankrupts, severities against, i. [392].
Bannatyne, George, transcribes Scottish poetry, i. [57];
his arms and initials, [58].
Banner of Revenge, followed by a thousand mounted gentlemen, i. [363].
Baptisms, order against extravagance at, i. [541].
Bar, backing of parties to the, proclamation against, i. [403].
An example of it, ii. 30.
Barbadoes, white population of, ii. 305;
religionists transported as slaves to, 397.
Barclay, Margaret, tried for witchcraft, i. [488], [489].
Barclay of Collerine, his uncle’s petition, ii. 436.
Bards and minstrels, act against; two poets hanged, i. [131].
Bargeny, Laird of, his death and character, i. [293];
another Laird of, collision with the Earl of Cassillis, [311];
killed in a fight near Brig of Doon, [360].
Barnacles, their development into sea-birds, Sir Robert Murray’s account of, ii. 356.
Bartas, Sieur du, a French poet, visits Scotland, i. [173]-175.
Bass, Lauder of the, and his mother, hold out against their creditors, ii. 20.
Battle-visions, and ominous sights and sounds, superstitious feelings regarding, ii. 146-148.
Beacons for shipping, introduction of; Isle of May light-house, i. [522], [523].
Beardie, great-grandfather of Sir Walter Scott, ii. 312.
Beaver hats, Captain Hamilton’s petition for liberty to manufacture, ii. 453.
Bedesmen, the King’s, ancient custom regarding, i. [405].
Bedford, Earl of, ambassador to Scotland at baptism of King James VI., i. [39].
Bee-house, John Geddie’s novel, ii. 323.
Beggars, strong and idle, act against, i. [131], [478].
Belhaven, Lord, anecdote of the blind, ii. 7.
——, Lord, curious incident in life of, ii. 249.
Bellman, formula used by the Edinburgh, ii. n. 202.
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, tale of, ii. 166, [167].
Bible, first edition of the, printed in Scotland, by Arbuthnot and Bassendyne, Edinburgh burgesses, i. [100];
difficulties of its progress through the press, [106], [107];
gratification of clergy at its completion, [131].
Birnie, Walter, preacher, the Privy Council’s kindness to, ii. 338.
Birthday, anniversary of Charles II.’s, held as a holiday all over Scotland, ii. 291.
Bisset, Abacuck, maimed; anecdote of Queen Mary concerning, i. [180], [181].
Black Band, a conspiracy formed against Home of Wedderburn, i. [96], [97].
Black Saturday, why so called, i. [523].
Blackadder of Tulliallan, his case with Balfour of Burleigh, i. [386], [387].
Blackburn, Peter, Bishop of Aberdeen, his death, i. [475].
Blackhall, Father, narrative of his career as a priest in Scotland, ii. 129-134.
Blair, Alexander, of Freirton, gives surety for improved conduct to his wife, i. [48].
Bleeding heart prophecy, i. [145].
Blood-showers, their probable origin, ii. 199, 488, 489.
Bog an Gicht Castle, illustration, ii. 48.
Bohemian army, from 3000 to 4400 men raised in Scotland for the, ii. 9-11.
Bond of Association between Sir Walter Scott of Branxholm and fifty of his clan, i. [190].
Books imported from Germany duty-free, i. [194], [195].
Borbrieffs, or birth-letters, petitions for, ii. 325.
Border Thieves, Regent Moray’s raid against, i. [60];
Regent Morton’s raid, [88];
their immunity from the pest, [158];
James VI.’s punishment of, [293], [294];
above 140 hanged by Earl of Dunbar, [400], [422], [423];
strong effort for suppression of, [443];
120 sent to Bohemian wars, [488];
Earl of Traquair’s rigorous measures with at Jedburgh, ii. 100.
Borrowing Days, storm of, i. [552], [553].
Borrowstounness, curious witch-trial at, ii. 405, 406;
Sweet Singers of, 414-416.
Bothwell, Adam, Bishop of Orkney, letter of, on plague, i. [55];
his character, [145].
Bothwell, Countess of, her humble supplication to James VI., i. [243];
inconstancy of James’s favour to, [264].
Bothwell, Hepburn, Earl of, his abduction of Queen Mary, i. [41].
Bothwell, Stuart, Earl of, demands 5000 merks from city of Edinburgh, i. [189];
his attempt to seize James VI. at Holyroodhouse, [229];
second attempt at Falkland Palace, [237];
third attempt at Dalkeith Castle, [238];
scene in James VI.’s chamber at Holyrood, [250];
his encounter with Laird of Cessford, [251];
his encounter with Lord Home, [255];
joins the papist lords, [255].
Bothwell Moor, harrying of, i. [71].
Bowmen, Charles I. raises a small troop of Highland, ii. 14.
Boyd, Janet, tried for witchcraft, ii. 31.
——, Robert, Lord, deserts the Queen’s party, i. [76];
bond of manred with William Fairly, [77].
Boyd of Trochrig, suffers great persecution in Paisley, ii. 8.
Boys, Society of the, i. [403], [404].
Brackla, Laird of, murdered, i. [233].
Braidhead, Janet, the witch, extracts from her confession, ii. 285-291.
Brand, John, beheaded for murder, i. [467].
Brandy, its importation restricted, ii. 332.
Branks, an instrument of punishment, i. [47].
Brazen Wall, a party of this regiment surprised by Captain Wogan, ii. 224.
Brechin, a keeper of a hotel in, apprehended for murdering his guests in bed, i. [78].
Bride of Baldoon, original of the Bride of Lammermuir, story of, ii. 326-328.
Bridges and roads, ruinous state of, ii. 409.
Brimstone, vitriol, and alum, privilege of making, granted, i. [443].
Bronkhorst, a Fleming, tries to get a patent for the gold-mines of Lanarkshire, i. [138];
acts as portrait-painter to the king, [139].
Brown, Gilbert, ex-abbot of New Abbey, imprisoned, i. [389];
his books, &c., burnt, [422].
Brown of Hartree, his duel with Hay of Smithfield, i. [264], [265].
Brown, Robert, a Cambridge student; his peculiar religious doctrines, i. [153].
Brownism, a tendency towards, rebuked, ii. 127, 145.
Browster-wife, origin of the term, i. [328].
Comic race by twelve brewster-wives, ii. 273.
Bruce and Forester, of Stirlingshire, their dispute, i. [260].
Bruce, Edward Lord, of Kinloss, his duel with Sir Edward Sackville, i. [447]-[451].
Bruce of Clackmannan, patents a coal-mine water-engine, ii. 408.
Bruce, Peter, his patents for various machines, ii. 408;
his patent for playing-cards, 432.
Bruce, Robert, of Clackmannan; an incident in his life, i. [240], [241].
Bruce, Sir George, anecdote of James VI.’s visit to, at Culross, i. [485].
Bruits, rumours so called: their effects, ii. 4, 5.
Bruntfield, Adam, slays James Carmichael in single combat, i. [286].
Buccleuch, Countess of, her early marriage and death, ii. 250.
Buccleuch, first Earl of, his burial-procession, ii. 73, 74.
Buchanan, George, tutor to James VI., i. [83];
his death and character, [149], [150].
Bulmer, on Englishman, works the gold-mines in Scotland, i. [254], [255], [290].
Burgess, Dr, his specific for the plague, ii. 164.
Burnet, Rev. John, death of, ii. 363.
Burntisland, extraordinary riot in, i. [466].
Shipping at, in time of Commonwealth, ii. 249;
Dutch ships attack, 318.
Burton, John, his brother’s complaint against him, ii. 424.
Butchers and Vintners, outcry against extortion of, ii. 489, 490.
Cabinet-making, James Turner’s petition, ii. 396.
Caithness, Earl of, beheads Alister Mac William Mor, i. [387], [388];
strife between, and Gordon and Mackay, [440-443];
his unruly conduct checked, [536-538].
Calder, Laird of, three gentlemen receive and die of poison meant for, ii. 146.
Caligraphy, Esther Inglis, a Frenchwoman, her MS. volumes, i. [550]-552.
Camel, exhibition of a, ii. 69.
Camerons’ raid against Struan of Kinloch, ii. 308.
Campbell and Smith, a combat between, in Edinburgh, i. [72], [73].
Campbell, Colin, of Glenurchy, a patron of the fine arts, ii. 62.
Campbell, John, of Calder, shot by Mac Ellar, i. [246].
Campbell of Moy, M‘Ranald of Glengarach’s attack on house of, i. [364].
Campbell, Sir Duncan, Laird of Glenurchy, his style of living, i. [207].
Campbell, Sir James, of Lawers, his thief-taking commission, ii. 381, 382.
Canongate, inhabitants of, infected by the pest, i. [56];
tavern arrangements in, [59].
Cant, Andrew, his moderatorship, ii, 181;
anecdote of, 182, 183.
Cape of Good Hope, the devil appears on board of a ship so called, ii. 347.
Cappers, Scotch privateer vessels so called, ii. 317.
Caravan betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 393.
Cardiness, Lady, Sir Alexander M‘Culloch’s assaults on, ii. 321.
Cargill, Donald, his predictions, ii. 372.
Carmichael, James, kills Stephen Bruntfield in a duel, i. [286].
Carnegie and Lithgow, Lords, duel of, ii. 305.
Carruthers, Marion, an heiress, i. [25].
Carstairs, Cardinal, anecdote of the thumbikens, ii. 460.
Cart, Hamilton’s patent for a new, i. [550].
Carvet, a Romish priest, pilloried, i. [33].
Cashielaws, an instrument of torture, i. [273].
Cashogle and Drumlanrig, private war between, i. [520], [521].
Cassillis and Wigton, Earls of, dispute between, ii. 30.
Cassillis, Earl of, and Kennedy of Bargeny, dispute between, i. [310], [363-366].
Cassillis, Earl of, marries widow of Lord Thirlstane; unmeetness of the match, i. [293].
Cassillis, Gilbert, Earl of, sometimes called King of Carrick, his extraordinary torture of Master Allan Stewart, i. [65]-68.
Castle-Kennedy, anecdote of a thunder-clap at, ii. 28.
Catastrophe Mundi, a treatise on comets, ii. 456.
Cathcart, James, a pretended astrologer, ii. 467.
Cathkin and Lawson, oppose Episcopalian principles, i. [512].
Catholic missionaries, success in Switzerland, i. [515].
Catholics, [see] Papists.
Catholic nobles, driven to extremities, i. [219];
their treasonable correspondence with Spain, [244];
their sons placed under care of reformed ministers, [351];
progress of persecution against, [415-417], [421], [422], [429].
Further persecutions of, ii. 57-60, 335-338.
Chalmers, James, his list of papists and seminary priests, ii. 283, 284.
Chancellor, Susanna, accused of consulting charmers, ii. 44.
Change-houses, Kirke’s description of Scotch, ii. 407.
Chapel of Grace, pilgrimages to, i. [325].
Charles I., his baptism, i. [321].
His marriage, ii. 4;
proclamation against popery, 4;
raises troop of Highland bowmen, 14;
letter to the Scottish Council, 25;
grants commission to Lord Gordon against papists, 36-41;
his interference on behalf of papists, 57-60;
his visit to Edinburgh, 63-69;
proclamation against communion stragglers, 81;
his expeditions against Scottish Covenanters, 106;
commences the civil war, 109;
rendered up by Scottish army, 112;
his remark on death of Earl of Haddington, 137;
anecdote of Irish rebellion, 141;
his execution creates enmity between ruling powers of England and Scotland, 174.
Charles II., demonstrations on birth of, ii. 41;
invited to Scotland and proceedings there, 174;
his restoration, 255;
remark on inhumane laws, 260;
joy at restoration of, 261, 266;
anecdote of his visit to James Guthrie, 276;
extraordinary demonstration at Linlithgow on his birthday, 291, 292;
his fondness for bees, 323, 324;
evils of his reign, 330, 332;
his equestrian statue in Parliament Close, 477.
Charms for healing sores, &c., i. [324].
Specimen of, ii. 153.
Chattan or Macintosh, Clan, Earl of Moray’s expedition against, i. [542], [543].
Cheviot, order against hunting in, i. [453].
Chiesley of Dalry shoots Sir George Lockhart, ii. 495.
Chiesley, William, writer in Edinburgh, punished for a cheat, ii. 445.
Child-murder, hanging of women for, &c., ii. 414.
Chisholms prosecute M‘Leans for witchcraft, ii. 293, 294.
Christie’s Well, pilgrimages to, i. [323].
Christmas-day, James VI. orders keeping of, i. [426];
general disregard of, [506].
Its observance in Edinburgh, ii. 297.
Church-discipline, severity of, i. [336]; ii. 196-199.
Church-lands, convention for revocation of, ii. 6.
Church matters, meeting for deliberation on, ii. 12.
Citadels, order for destroying those raised during the Commonwealth, ii. 279.
Clairvoyance, quasi case of, ii. 394.
Clark, Alexander, provost of Edinburgh, his reception of Charles I., ii. 63-65.
Clark and Ramsay, hanged for poisoning their master, ii. 373.
Clergy, their zeal and self-denying poverty, i. [132];
collisions with Edinburgh merchants, [241], [242];
their intolerance, [244];
their admonitions of James VI., and general denunciations against common corruption of all estates of the realm, [267].
Perfect accord with the Estates, ii. 179-181.
Clothing and cloth-works in Scotland, anecdotes connected with, ii. 416-422.
Cloth-manufacture, seven Flemings engaged to set agoing; result, i. [362];
encouraged by James VI., [425].
At Newmills, near Haddington, ii. 418.
Coaches, early examples of, i. [19];
first hint at public coaches and wagons in Scotland, [431].
Street coaches, ii. 358;
stage-coaches, 218, 247, 391, 476.
Coal, early digging of, i. [24];
Countess of Sutherland first works coal of Brora, [302];
coal-works at Culross, [485];
price of coal fixed, [519];
Johnston’s licence to export, [520].
Cochrane of Ochiltree, saved by his heroic daughter Grizzel, ii. 479.
Cockburn, the executioner, hanged, ii. 433.
Cockie, Isobel, burned for witchcraft, i. [280].
Cockpool, inundation of house of Old, anecdote of, ii. 17.
Coffee-houses, first known in Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 359-361.
Coin, attempt to raise the value of, i. [122].
Coke, William, burned for sorcery;
bill of expenses, ii. 70, 71.
Collace, Mr William, first regent in St Leonard’s College, i. [73].
College of Physicians, proposed in Edinburgh, i. [521].
Colquhouns and Macgregors, battle between, i. [377], [378].
Colville, Lady, imprisoned for educating her son in disloyal principles, ii. 467.
Colville, Lord, mission to France concerning the Scots Guard, i. [535].
Combat, a remarkable, i. [285];
among the last attempts to settle a dispute by, [414].
Comets, early ideas about, i. [112], [113];
appearance of a remarkable, in 1618, [505].
Appearance of one during the day, ii. 185;
in 1664 and 1665, 300-302;
in 1676, 376;
in 1680, curious notions regarding, 410-412;
Halley’s, in 1682, 444.
Communion Tuesday meetings; their object, i. [508].
Communion administered in Edinburgh after an interval of six years, ii. 235.
Con of Achry, a papist, excommunicated by presbytery of Aberdeen, ii. 59.
Confession of Faith, commonly called the King’s Confession, i. [142].
Conventicles, various persons fined for attending, ii. 334.
Copper-mine in parish of Currie, ii. 453.
Corn, great dearth of in 1567, i. [52].
Cornwall, Archibald, hanged for poinding the king and queen’s portraits, i. [349].
Corstorphine, frightful tragedy at village of, ii. 401-403.
Costume, court order of, i. [426].
Court of Session, suspension of, ii. 128.
Couts, Janet, accuses eleven women of witchcraft, ii. 194, 195.
Covenant, National, signed, ii. 105, 116;
forced on people at Aberdeen, 120, 123.
Covenant, Solemn League and, made, ii. 109;
character and consequences of, 111;
forced on Lady Frendraught, 159;
opinion of royalists regarding rule of, 160, 161;
taken by Charles II., 175;
forced on Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, 191, 193;
burned at Linlithgow, 291.
Covenanters, proceedings of the, ii. 106-113, 119-121, 123-126.
Covenanter’s Ribbon, ii. 124.
Cowdothe, an epidemic so called, i. [117].
Cowper, William, bishop of Galloway, a libel against, i. [372];
his sudden death, [507], [508].
Craig, Marjory, hanged as a witch, ii. 377-379.
Crawford and Glammis, feud between, i. [117], [118].
Crawford, Earl of, confined in the Tower, ii. 218;
appointed Lord Treasurer, 255.
Crawford, Master of, young Edzell’s attack on, i. [405], [406].
Crawford gold-field, i. [17], [51], [253], [290], [474].
Creditors, supposed power of, over interment of the dead, ii. 328, 329.
Crichton of Frendraught and Gordon of Rothiemay, dispute between ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84.
Crichton, Sir Robert, of Cluny, a caption used against him in church, i. [474].
Crombie, Thomas, summoned for slaughter of William Blair, ii. 4.
Cromwell, Oliver, his first visit to Edinburgh, ii. 170, 171;
crosses the Tweed with an English army, 201-207;
anecdotes of, 203, 204;
his law-commissioners for Scotland, 219;
breaks up the General Assembly, 221;
proclaimed protector, 242-244.
Crossford visions, Walker’s account of the, ii. 485-487.
Cultmalindy and Monyvaird, feud between, i. [490].
Cumming, Isobel, a teacher of young ladies, her petition, ii. 482.
Cunningham and Crawford, Captains, harry Bothwell Moor, i. [71].
Cunningham of Robertland, murders Earl of Eglintoun, i. [161].
Poinding of his goods, ii. 340.
Cunyie-house, master of, visits England, i. [386].
Cupar (Fife), great fire at, in 1668, ii. 321.
Custom-officers and Edinburgh merchants, dispute between, ii. 299.
Customs, i. [339]-342;
Spalding bewails suppression of old Christian, ii. 142.
Daes, Alexander, introduces paper-making, ii. 398;
favours the shewing of an elephant, 410;
complaint from, 432.
Dalkeith, James VI. residing at, i. [146].
Dalry paper-mills, Daes’s petition for, ii. 398.
Dalrymple, Janet, the unfortunate Bride of Baldoon, ii. 326-328.
Dalrymple, William, murdered by Mures of Auchindrain, i. [435]-437.
Dancing, laws against, i. [338].
Danish nobles and gentlemen entertained by Edinburgh magistrates, i. [199].
Darnley, Lord, i. [35]-37;
his murder, [40].
Davidson, William, an Edinburgh flesher, a monster-pig farrowed in his house, i. [76].
Day of Law in the reign of James VI., i. [247].
Dearths in Scotland, i. [59], [94], [99], [116], [117], [179], [180], [265], [271], [303], [304], [318], [444], [476], [530], [531], [538], [539]; ii. 74, 75, 85, 134, 144, 149, 156, 185, 207, 235.
Deer slain with guns near the Border, i. [103].
Deer-hunting, the Water-poet’s description of Highland, i. [497].
Deil stick the Minister, anecdote of, ii. 453.
Denmark, King of, 2000 men raised in Scotland for, i. [53].
Devil of Glenluce, a house-infesting spirit, ii. 228-232.
Devoe, Andrew, a dancing-master in Edinburgh, Bayne’s petition against, ii. 384;
his complaint against the Fountains, 401.
De Vois, Cornelius, a gold-seeking adventurer, i. [50].
Dick, Alison, burnt for witchcraft; curious bill of expenses, ii. 70, 71.
Dick, Sir William, wealth of, ii. 183;
his history and death, 236-240.
Dick’s house of Priestfield burnt, ii. 413.
Dickison, Provost, murdered in Peebles, i. [81].
Allusion to, ii. 480.
Dickson, David, minister of Irvine, Stewarton Sickness takes its rise under, ii. 43;
moderator of the General Assembly, 221.
Dickson, John, an Englishman, hanged for slanderous speeches against James VI., i. [273].
Dickson, John, of Belchester, broken on the rack for murder of his father, i. [224].
Dissection, malefactors given for, ii. 96.
Dissent, progress of Presbyterian, i. [543]-545.
Divines, Assembly of, at Westminster, ii. 111.
Diving-bell, Maule of Melgum’s invention of the, ii. 387.
Dog dispute, tragical issue of a, ii. 478.
Dogs, acts against bringing to church, i. [342].
Donaldson, Robert, murdered, ii. 329.
Douglas, Andrew, minister of Dunkeld, tortured and hanged for rebuking Morton, i. [80].
Douglas, Colonel, diligent training of his regiment, ii. 462.
Douglas, Hon. George, his quarrel with John Corsehill, ii. 478.
Douglas, Janet, a deaf and dumb girl, her deceptions as a witch-finder, ii. 376-381.
Douglas, Marquis of, his difficulties with the presbytery of Lanark, ii. 190-194.
Douglas, second Marquis of, his separation from Lady Barbara Erskine, ii. 340.
Douglas, Mr Archibald, his mock-trial for concern in murder of Darnley, i. [163].
Douglas of Lochleven, his hatred of the Hamiltons, i. [100].
Douglas, Sir James, of Parkhead, slays James Stewart of Newton, i. [274].
Douglas, William, beheaded for concern in duel with Home of Eccles, ii. 318.
Douglas, William, stabs Thomas Lindsay, ii. 439-442.
Downie, John, the pest breaks out in his ship, i. [139].
Dowries or Tochers, examples of, ii. 35.
Dragon-hole, near Perth, yearly procession to, i. [327].
Dream regarding Dunnottar Castle, i. [210].
Dress of clergymen and their wives, General Assembly’s regulations regarding, i. [102].
Dresses of the sexes, prank of interchanging, i. [327].
Drinking, Aberdeen town-council’s order against compulsory, ii. 4.
Drinking-debauch, unfortunate issue of a, ii. 345, 346.
Dromedary, exhibition of a travelling, ii. 249.
Drumlanrig and Cashogle, private war between, i. [520], [521].
Drummond, Lady Jean, her portion of 5000 merks, ii. 34, 35.
Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson’s visit to, i. [500]-503.
Drummond, Robert, his exposure in the ‘stocks’ for adultery, i. [92].
Drummond, Sir George, becomes bankrupt, ii. 479.
Drummonds and Oliver Young, dispute between servants of the, i. [293].
Drury, Sir William, threatens to destroy the town of Linlithgow, i. [63].
Dryfe’s Sands, clan-battle of, i. [252].
Duddingston Loch, legal case about swans on, ii. 492.
Duff, David, outrages committed by, in a dispute about land, i. [348].
Dumbarton, Castle of, taken by surprise by the king’s party, i. [73].
Its ruinous state for national defence, ii. 18.
Dumbarton, encroachments of the sea on, i. [400].
Dumblane, four priests of, condemned to death for saying mass, i. [59].
Dumfries, complaint against minister and reader of, i. [95];
James VI. executes justice at, [294];
anecdote of a mission to Wigtown to purchase cattle, [304].
A papist priest taken at, ii. 11;
papist marriage at, 72;
case of poisoning at, 92;
insecurity of its jail, 442.
Dunbar, Earl of, hangs above 140 Border thieves, i. [400];
his ecclesiastical mission to Scotland from James VI., [413];
further proceedings against Border thieves, [422], [423].
Dunbar, 300 fishermen perish at, i. [125].
Battle of, ii. 176;
the witch of, 493.
Dundee, its quarrel with Perth, i. [48];
coining at, [157];
anecdote connected with the pest, [399];
suffers under pest, [414].
Sack of, by General Monk, ii. 207;
witch case at, 330;
a jail delivery by Graham of Claverhouse, 461.
Dunfermline, great fire at, i. [542].
Dunglass Castle, dismal accident at, ii. 136.
Dunlop, Bessie, her trial for witchcraft, i. [107]-110.
Dunlop, Thomas, a poor Quaker, persecution of, ii. 443.
Dunnottar Castle, dream regarding, i. [210].
Siege of; anecdote of regalia of Scotland, ii. 213;
Whigs confined in, 480.
Dunse, possessed woman at, ii. 43.
Dunse Law, magazine of pebbles at, ii. 126.
Duntreath, deaf and dumb Laird of, his divinations, ii. 384, 385.
Durie, Gibson of, story of his kidnapping, i. [355], [356].
Durie, John, a minister of Edinburgh; his return from banishment, i. [148].
Dutch invasion; fleet appears at mouth of Firth of Forth, ii. 318.
Eagles, remarkable anecdotes of, ii. n. 268.
‘Earth-dogs,’ or terriers, James VI. writes to Earl of Mar for, i. [547].
Earthquakes, i. [140], [292], [420], [454], [522]; ii. 241.
Easter Sunday, communion on, disinclination of the people to kneeling, i. [509].
Ecclesiastical discipline, i. [336]-338.
Its bearing on the habits of the people, ii. 156-161.
Echt, Barmkyn of, strange sounds heard at, ii. 115.
Eclipses of the sun, i. [296]; ii. 215.
Economy, traits of the public, i. [345]-347.
Eddy-pool of Water of Brechin, drying up of, ii. 75.
Edinburgh, effects of the civil war on, i. [79]-81, [87], [88];
spirited resistance to Earl of Bothwell, [189];
filthiness of, in 1617, [486].
Charles I.’s visit to; his reception, ii. 63-69;
taxes, poverty, vanity, and debt of, 235, 236, 247;
three fires at, on one Sunday, 487.
See whole work passim.
Edston-haugh, near Peebles, duel at, i. [265].
Edzell, Laird of, his attack on Master of Crawford, i. [405], [406].
Eels, thousands of dead, cast on banks of North Loch, ii. 234.
Eggs, act against exporting, i. [467].
Eglintoun and Glencairn, Earls of, feud between, i. [394], [395].
Eglintoun, Earl of, murdered by Cunningham of Robertland, i. [161]-163.
Egyptians, Privy Council’s order against, ii. 54.
Elder, James, a baker, tried for usury, ii. 298.
Elephant, the first seen in Scotland, ii. 410.
Elgin Cathedral, choir of, destroyed by a high wind, ii. 114;
casting down of timber-screen of, 138.
Elizabeth, Queen, sends a hostile army against Queen Mary’s friends in Scotland, i. [61];
another, [85];
intelligence of her death brought to King James, [381].
Elphinstone, George, a Glasgow bailie, violent attacks against, i. [90].
Elphinstone, Sir George, his dispute with Sir M. Stewart at Glasgow, i. [396]-398.
English judicature at Leith, impartiality of, ii. 215.
English soldiers, their description of the Highlands, ii. 218;
their contempt for stool of repentance, ibid.
English, their jealousy of the Scotch in reign of James VI., i. [432]-434.
Entry-money at taking service, Privy Council’s proclamation against, i. [489].
Episcopacy introduced by James VI., i. [379], [394], [415], [426], [428], [480], [523]; ii. 1, 2;
abrogated, 106;
re-established, 256;
finally abolished, 474.
Equinoctial gale of 1606, devastating effects of, i. [392].
Ericht, subscription for building a bridge over river, ii. 54.
Errol, Earl of, makes his peace with Kirk of Aberdeen, i. [288];
trait of his domestic circumstances, [466].
His death, ii. 55.
Erskine, Robert, with his three sisters, condemned to death for poisoning his two nephews, i. [452].
Eskdale Muir denuded of sheep, ii. 367.
Estates and Clergy, perfect accord between, ii. 179-181.
Evelick, singular boy-murder near, ii. 439.
Ewe and Lamb, a kidnapping ship so called, ii. 359.
Excommunicated persons, Privy Council’s measures against, ii. 18, 20-28, 36-41.
Excommunication, i. [336];
pronounced against Marquis of Huntly, [417].
Dealt out liberally, ii. 173;
of a gardener revoked by James VII., 482.
Faas, gipsies, a number of, executed, i. [476].
Falkirk and Stirling, sixteen farms between, buried in moss, ii. 35.
Falkland and Holyrood, improvement on the palaces of, for king’s visit, i. [476].
Famine in 1563, i. [25];
severity of, in 1623, [538], [539].
[See] Dearths.
Farquhar, Robert, a rich Aberdeen merchant, his loans to the state, ii. 181;
story of, 182.
Farquharson of Inverey, his fine of £4000 [Scots?], ii. 184.
Fast-day in Old Aberdeen, in 1644, a reality, ii. 154.
Faw, Moses, a gipsy, his petition granted, i. [426].
Faws and the Shaws, battle between, ii. 388.
Female Remonstrants in Parliament Close, strange scene with, ii. 369.
Fenelon, Sieur de la Motte, a French ambassador, i. [151].
Fiacre, origin of application of the term to hackney-coaches, i. [324].
Fian, John, schoolmaster at Prestonpans, burnt as a wizard, i. [211], [212].
Fielding, Beau, and two Scotch gentlemen, drink three horrid toasts, ii. 381.
Fiery-cross, the Macleans raise 300 men by the, ii. n. 371.
Fife and Kinross, enormous sacrifices made by counties of, to resist Cromwell’s invasion, ii. 206.
Fines, Scottish Estates impose severe, ii. 183, 184;
for attending conventicles, 334.
Finnie, Agnes, burnt for witchcraft, ii. 149-153.
Fire-engine for Glasgow, first, ii. 244.
Fires on Midsummer and St Peter’s Eves, i. [326].
Fish, white, destroyed by dog-fish; Spalding’s idea of, ii. 144.
Fishermen, Earl of Errol’s petition against, ii. 458.
Fishing Society, formation of a, ii. 330, 331.
Fleck, George, reveals where the Earl of Morton’s treasure lay, i. [142].
Fleming, Lord, his marriage celebrated, i. [29];
sufferings in the civil war, 1570, [62].
Flesh, use of, forbidden by Privy Council, i. [50].
Fletcher, Christian, saves the regalia of Scotland, ii. 214.
Flood in the Tay, remarkable, i. [525]-527.
Florida, one of the Spanish Armada vessels, blown up, ii. 386-388.
Foot-race, curious, of twelve brewsterwives, and sixteen fishwives, ii. 273.
Foot-soldiers, five companies raised by Charles II., ii. 296.
Forbes, Dr, bishop of Edinburgh, i. [544].
——, of Corse, banishment of, ii. 146;
his corpse refused burial in his own ground, 451.
Forbes, Master of, and George Leslie, fight between, ii. 134.
Forbes of Leslie, his prosecution of Farquharson of Inverey, ii. 184.
Forbes of Tolquhoun and Ogilvie of Forglen, dispute between, ii. 477.
Forester, a bailie of Stirling, rare form of his funeral, i. [260].
Forrester, Lord, murdered by his mistress, ii. 401.
Forth, Firth of, alarm of invasion from vessels appearing in, ii. 15.
Foulis, Lady, extraordinary trial of, for witchcraft, i. [202]-205.
Foulis, Thomas, an Edinburgh goldsmith;
his gold, silver, and lead mines, i. [252]-254, [290];
a creditor of James VI., [295], [296].
Fountains, two brothers, their patent as Masters of the Revels, ii. 400, 459.
France, differences between Great Britain and, ii. 12.
Fraser, Helen, burnt for witchcraft, i. [280].
——, Janet, strange phenomenon on her Bible, ii. 488.
Fraser, Lord, and Laird of Philorth, dispute between, ii. 99, 100.
Fraser of Kirkhill, extracts from his diary, ii. 241.
Fraser’s view of the customs of the Highlanders, ii. 383.
French, Adam, of Thornydykes, his abduction, i. [469].
French language, town-council of Edinburgh patronise the teaching of, i. [94].
French Protestants, contributions for, i. [102];
warmly entertained in England and Scotland, [163].
Frendraught and Rothiemay, dispute between, ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84, 98.
Frendraught, Lady, falls under discipline of presbytery of Strathbogie, ii. 158-160;
persecution of, 335.
Frolics and masqueradings, i. [327]-329.
Frosts, great, in 1570-1-2-3, i. [72], [84], [457];
freezing of several rivers in Scotland; a fair held upon the ice on the Thames, [409].
Frost of 1683, ii. 454.
Gallow-lee, five phanatiques hanged at the, ii. 428.
Geddes, Jenny, supposed heroine who cast the first stool at the bishop, ii. 103.
Geddie, John, his novel bee-house, ii. 323.
General Assembly, fasts for steerage from papists, i. [196];
held in 1608, [416].
Covenanting assembly at Glasgow, ii. 106;
suppression of, by order of Cromwell, 221, 222.
Ger, John Dhu, an outlaw, outrages of, ii. 121, 128, 135, 263.
German legions, unscrupulous recruiting of, in Scotland, ii. 13.
Gibb, Muckle John, chief of the Sweet Singers of Borrowstounness, ii. 415.
Gibson, Alexander, kidnapped, i. [355].
——, Anna, abduction of, ii. 319.
Gilderoy, with nine caterans, executed, ii. 96-98.
Gillon, James, condemned for a riot, i. [9].
Gipsies, their first appearance in Scotland; act against, i. [84];
severities against, six hanged, [476];
their harbourage at Roslin, [539].
Edict against, ii. 54;
some in Haddington jail, ordered to be hanged and drowned, 99.
Girdle for baking invented in Culross, ii. 493.
Girvanmains, Laird of, kills M‘Alexander of Drumachryne, i. [310], [311].
Gladstanes, Archbishop, his cook killed, i. [431].
Gladstanes, Marion, nearly poisons Nicolas Johnston, ii. 92.
Glammis and Crawford, feud between, i. [117], [118].
Glammis, Lords, and Lindsays of Forfarshire, feud between, i. [312], [313].
Glanvil’s Saducismus Triumphatus, ii. 476.
Glasgow, an earthquake in, i. [64];
Smith’s excerpts from burgh records, [88-92];
attempt to demolish its cathedral, [122], [123];
tumult in 1606, [395-399].
Great fire at, ii. 216;
interesting incidents connected with, 244, 245, 247;
another fire at, 389;
a cloth manufactory set up in, 445;
subscription for a fire at Kelso, 458.
Glass-manufacture, patent granted for, i. [432].
——work in Wemyss, Fife, the first known in Scotland, i. [510], [511].
Glen, James, fined for publishing the Root of Romish Ceremonies, ii. 490.
Glencairn and Eglintoun, Earls of, feud between, i. [394], [395].
Glengoner, gold-digging in, i. [18], [152], [253].
Glenluce, Devil of, incidents in history of the, ii. 228-232.
Gloucester frigate, shipwreck of the, ii. 405, 439.
God and the King, a book so called, i. [474].
God’s Blessing, a shaft of Hilderstone silver-mine so called, i. [412].
Gogar, Miller, and Sangster, hanged, ii. 422.
Gold and silver, licence to search for, i. [50].
——, exportation of, forbidden, i. [107].
—— mines in Lanarkshire, i. [17], [50], [152], [253].
Golden Assembly, why so called, i. [428].
Goldsmiths, the Edinburgh, historic importance of, i. [253].
Goodman’s Croft, the, act against, i. [324], [325].
Gordon, Adam, sets fire to Alex. Forbes’s house, and burns his lady, children, and servants—twenty-seven in all, i. [75].
Gordon, Adam, and Francis Hay, combat between, i. [468].
Gordon and Mackay, strife between, and Earl of Caithness, i. [440]-443.
Gordon, Jean, divorcée of Bothwell; her coal and salt works at Brora, i. [302].
Pleasing character of, ii. 30.
Gordon, Lord, commander of French Scots Guards, i. [535], [536].
His commission against excommunicated papists, ii. 36-41.
Gordon, Mr James, a Jesuit, James VI. reasons with, i. [182].
Gordon of Craig, banished for papistry, i. [545], [546].
His petition to the Council, ii. 38;
petitions Charles I., 59.
Gordon of Dunkintie and his eldest son slain, ii. 69.
Gordon of Enbo, his quarrel with Sutherland of Duffus, ii. 5, 6.
Gordon of Gight, revenges his brother’s death, i. [468].
Gordons of Gight, persecuted for papistry,
i. [352], [353], [403], [404];
outrage by, at Turriff, [354];
strange act at Aberdeen, [468].
Gordon of Rothiemay and Crichton of Frendraught, dispute between, ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84.
Gordon, Sir Robert, sent against Earl of Caithness, i. [536]-538.
Gordon, William, his contempt of presbytery, ii. 160.
Go-summer and go-har’st, definition of, ii. n. 79.
Gould, Mr William, his representations to Council against papists, ii. 59, 60.
Gourlay, Agnes, punished for charming the milk of kine, ii. 188.
Gourlay, John, customer, i. [195].
——, Robert, punished for exporting grain, i. [93];
Regent Morton confined in his house, [143];
king lives in same house, [255];
illustration, [554].
Gowdie, Isobel, the witch, her confession, ii. 286-291.
Gowrie, Earl of, arrives with his brother in Edinburgh from Padua, i. [313];
their attempt on life of James VI., [319].
Gowrie treason, anniversary of, a holiday, i. [408].
Grace, Act of, its effects, ii. 225.
Graham, Bessie, executed for witchcraft, ii. 187, 188.
Graham, Helen, an heiress, abduction of, i. [470].
Graham, Mr John, of Hallyards, and Sir James Sandilands, litigation between, i. [245].
Graham of Claverhouse, imports cloth for his soldiers, ii. 419;
entreats mild punishment for ordinary crimes, 461;
his conduct at the Revolution, 473.
Graham of Duchrae, his encounter with Earl of Airth, ii. 309.
Graham of Inchbrakie, postmaster-general for Scotland, ii. 316, 317.
Graham, Patrick, Captain of Town Guard of Edinburgh, ii. 420, 438.
Graham, Richard, a wizard, worried and burnt at Cross of Edinburgh, i. [235].
Grain and fruit, abundance of, ii. 293.
Grainger, Mrs, saves the Scottish regalia, ii. 214.
Grant, memoir of the family of; traditionary anecdote, i. n. [234].
Grant of Carron and Grant of Ballindalloch, feud between, ii. 50-54.
Grant, younger of Ballindalloch, presents M‘Grimmen’s head to the Council, ii. 85.
Gray, James, his forcible abduction of the daughter of John Carnegie, i. [222].
Gray, James, a lieutenant in the Midlothian Militia, beheaded, ii. 395.
Greg, John, singular persecution of, ii. 99.
Gregor, Clan, proclamation against, i. [524].
Greybeard, a Dutchman, works valleys of Wanlock-head for gold, i. [51].
Greyfriars, influence of, i. [3].
Grieve, a maltman, murdered by his son, ii. 293.
Grieve, Thomas, accused of curing disease by witchcraft, i. [540], [541].
Gueldres, Mary de, re-interment of her supposed remains, i. n. [222].
Guild, William, convicted of stealing, i. [14].
Guinea, a gold coin so called, ii. 114.
Gunpowder, manufacture of, ii. 11.
—— Plot, general joy in Scotland at detection of, i. [391].
Gustavus Adolphus, 6000 Scots go to assistance of, ii. 55-57.
Guthrie, Bishop, preaches before Charles I., ii. 67.
Guthrie, James,beheaded; anecdotes of, ii. 275-277.
Guthrie, John, minister of Perth, marries a couple of thirteen, i. [505].
Guthry, Helen, admonishes James VI. of his duty, i. [236], [237].
Hackney-coach licensed between Leith and Edinburgh, ii. 264.
Haitly of Mellerstanes, slain by his father-in-law, i. [372].
Halkit Stirk, a Highland robber so called, apprehended by Laird of Grant, ii. 263;
committed to the Tolbooth, 343.
Halley’s Comet in 1682, ii. 414.
Hallucinations, curious religious, ii. 313-315.
Hamilton, a soldier, resolves to challenge Captain Bruce, i. [549].
Hamilton, Alexander, a warlock, worried and burnt, ii. 32, 33.
Hamilton, Archibald, a spy for Cromwell, hanged in chains, ii. 205.
Hamilton, David, younger of Bothwell-haugh, complaint against, i. [347].
Hamilton, James,of Bothwell-haugh, shoots the Regent Moray, i. [60].
Hamilton, John, archbishop, keeps up the rites of the Catholic church, i. [23];
hanged at Stirling, [73].
Hamilton, Lords John and Claud; their conduct to old Carmichael and Laird of Westerhall, i. [99].
Hamilton, Lord John, his narrow escape from town-guards’ volley of honour, i. [238].
Hamilton, Marquis (subsequently Duke) of, raises 6000 Scots for Gustavus Adolphus, ii. 55-57;
his expedition in 1648, 113, 170.
Hamilton, Mr Robert, minister of St Andrews, writes down Knox’s prediction about Kirkaldy of Grange, i. [85].
Hamilton, Patrick, his attack on Abacuck Bisset, i. [180].
Hamiltons of Livingstone, lawless acts of, i. [258].
Hammerman, an Edinburgh, 1555, illustration, i. [10].
Hand-fasting, a custom so called, i. [335].
Hardheads, base coin so called in Scotland, act against, i. [101].
Hares, singular visit of, to city of Edinburgh, ii. 228.
Hart and Norton, booksellers, petition for liberty to import German books duty-free, i. [194].
Hart, Andro, printer of Napier’s Logarithms, i. [455].
Hart, John, printer, his edition of the Bible, ii. 41.
Harvests, plentiful, ii. 222, 226.
Hawking, James VI.’s love of this sport, i. [391].
Hay, Francis, and Adam Gordon, combat between, i. [468].
Hay, Lord, of Yester, his conduct to Brown of Frosthill, i. [256].
Hay, Lord, of Yester, brother of the preceding, his widow founds a church in Edinburgh, i. n. [264].
Hay, Margaret, forcible abduction of, i. [223].
Heiresses under twelve years, fines for marrying, ii. 251.
Henderson, Robert, a baxter’s boy, burnt for fire-raising, i. [155].
Henderson, Robert, his wonderful cures, i. [24].
Hepburn, George, his duel with Brown of Hartree, i. [264], [265].
Hepburn, Robert, a partisan of Queen Mary, i. [68].
Hepburn, James, of Moreham, his duel with Birnie, a skinner in Edinburgh, i. [285].
Hepburn, Thomas, murder of, ii. 284.
Heraldry, Scottish touchiness regarding, i. [393].
Heres, Peter Groot, a German, receives a licence for paper-making, i. [194].
Heriot, George, founder of Heriot’s Hospital, i. [253].
Heriot, William, becomes cautioner for repentance of George Heriot, i. [59].
Heriot’s Hospital, solemn dedication of, ii. 253;
barber-chirurgeon dispute, 342.
Hermaphrodite, a, hanged at Edinburgh, ii. 220.
Hertsyde, Margaret, her prosperity and adversity, i. [412].
Hesse’s eldest son, Landgrave of, visits Edinburgh, i. [530].
Higgins, an Englishman, reprints the Mercurius Politicus at Leith, ii. 272.
High Commission Court established, i. [428].
—— School boys of Edinburgh, mutiny of, i. [261]-264.
Illiberality of master of, to private teachers, ii. 426.
Highland and Border incursions, i. [310].
—— bowmen, Charles I. raises a small troop of, ii. 14.
Highland spraichs, ii. 262.
Highlanders, pure loyalty of the, ii. 178, [179].
Highlands, rude condition of, i. [164], [378]; ii. 306-311.
Scarcity of schools in, 179.
Hilderstone silver-mines, i. [411], [412].
Hill, a musician, his abduction of Marion Foulis, ii. 227.
Hirsel, tragical incident at the, ii. 455.
Hogg, James, account of ‘Thirteen Drifty Days,’ ii. 366.
Holidays and popular plays, i. [326], [327].
Holland, war with, causes stagnation of trade, ii. 302.
Holstein, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. [298].
Holyrood and Falkland, improvements on the palaces of, for king’s visit, i. [476].
Holyrood Palace, as before the Fire of 1650, illustration, ii. 205;
a popish chapel, college, and printing-office in, 483.
Home, David, of Wedderburn; his son’s portraiture of, i. [95]-99.
Home, Jean, of Ayton, her abduction and marriage to George Home, ii. 390.
Home, Lady, of Manderston, tried for witchcraft, ii. 33.
Home, Lord; slaughter of Bailie Lauder, i. [300].
Home, Sir George, of Wedderburn; sketch of his character by David of Godscroft, i. [119]-122.
Home, William, stabs Johnston of Hilton, ii. 455.
Hope, Sir Thomas, extracts from his Diary, ii. 148.
Hoppringles and Elliots in Edinburgh, day of law between, i. [71].
Horse, exhibition of a dancing, ii. 247.
Horse-racing in Scotland, early practice of, i. [103], [410], [514].
Every Saturday at Leith, ii. 273.
Horses, act preventing exportation of, i. [47].
House-painter craves permission to set up in Glasgow, ii. 247.
Hume, Sir Patrick, of Polwarth, his remarkable hiding-place and escape, ii. 464-467.
Huntingtower Well, supposed sanative qualities of, i. [322].
Huntly, fifth Earl of, his mysterious death, i. [103]-106.
Huntly, sixth Earl (subsequently first Marquis) of, marriage to Lady Henrietta Stuart, i. [184];
slaughter of Bonny Earl of Moray, [230-236];
makes his peace with the kirk at Aberdeen, [288];
his rental sheet, [315-317];
excommunicated as an apostate papist, [417];
relieved from excommunication, [429];
Orders of Privy Council against, ii. 20-28, 36-41;
his death and character, 89-92.
Huntly, Marchioness of, her mourning procession to Charles I., ii. 69;
persecuted and exiled as a Catholic, 139.
Huntly, second Marquis of, marriages of his daughters, ii. 134;
beheaded, 178.
Huntly, fourth Marquis of, decree ordering him to be separated from his mother, ii. 311.
Idolatry, act against, i. [147].
Illusions of sight and sound, curious, ii. 313-315.
Importation of goods, decree against, i. [458].
‘Incest,’ trials, and severe punishment of cases so called, ii. 28, 29.
Independents in civil war, ii. 111.
Indian Emperor, Dryden’s prologue to the, ii. 404.
Inglis, Esther, her beautiful handwriting, i. [550].
Innes, Alexander, slays Innes of Peithock; beheaded, i. [110]-112.
Innes, tragedy, the, i. [134]-137.
Insane, treatment of the, in past times, ii. 424.
Interregnum, 1649-1660, ii. 174-254.
Inundation and violent tempest, memorable, ii. 17.
Invasion, alarm of, from vessels in Firth of Forth, ii. 15;
fear of, 18;
by the Dutch fleet, 318.
Inverness-shire, sad account of, in 1666, ii. 308.
Ireland, Alexander, minister of Kincleven, his complaint against Sir John Crichton, of Innernytie, i. [390].
Irish Ague, an epidemic so called, ii. 199.
Irish beggars, order against, ii. 34.
—— rebellion, anecdote of Charles I., ii. 141.
‘Iron yetts’ of the Border thieves, i. [401].
Irvine of Drum, his dispute with presbytery of Aberdeen, ii. 210-212.
Irving, Francis, imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for a papist riot, ii. 338-340.
Islay and Kintyre, Lords of, tale of commotion between, i. [164]-168.
Jack, Robert, merchant, hanged for coining, i. [48].
Jaffray, Alexander, an Aberdeen magistrate, ii. 96.
Jaffray, Grizzel, executed for witchcraft; affecting anecdote of her son, ii. 330.
James VI., his birthplace, i. [38];
writes to lords of secret council, [122];
his formal visit to Edinburgh, [126], [129-131];
sets up the doctrine of the divine right of kings, [127];
a guise or fence played before him at St Andrews, [138];
his gay mood after Morton’s death, [146];
policy with French ambassadors, [151];
his Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie, [154];
his opinion of the pest, [154];
anecdote of Bothwell-haugh, [163];
orders prayers for his mother, [170];
his grief at her death, [171];
his visit to St Andrews with Du Bartas the French poet, and disputation with Andrew Melville, [173-175];
his attempt to reconcile his nobles, [177], [178];
writes to Denmark about grain, [179];
reasons with Mr James Gordon, a Jesuit, [182];
anecdote of Spanish Armada, [185];
in expectation of his Danish bride, writes pressing letters for contributions, [192-200];
sets sail for Denmark to bring her home, [193];
his arrival with the queen at Leith, [196];
her reception in Edinburgh, [196-199];
supposed groundwork of his Demonology, [212],
quoted, [306];
his imbecility amidst his rude courtiers, [221];
remonstrates with two Edinburgh ministers, [224];
admonished by James Davidson, minister, for failures in king-craft, [227];
his grudge against the ministers, [236];
admonished by Helen Guthry, [236];
Earl of Bothwell’s first, second, and third attempts to seize his person, [229], [237], [238];
commissions Lord Ochiltree to seize the house of Row as a manufactory of false coin, [239];
anecdote of courtship of Earl of Mar, [243];
again in bad odour with clergy, [243-245];
scene with Bothwell in his chamber at Holyrood, [250], [251];
Thomas Foulis his Bank of England, [253];
his queen delivered of a prince, [255];
his fear of Bothwell, [255];
inconstancy of his favour to Countess of Bothwell, [264];
his proclamation against forestallers, [266];
attempts to reconcile his hostile nobles, [266], [267];
admonitions from clergy, [267], [268];
his edict against, [275];
its consequences, [276], [277];
revokes commissions against witchcraft, [291];
Melville’s Dix-huitaine, [291];
hangs a number of Border thieves, [293];
his debts to Edinburgh goldsmiths, [294], [95];
nearly drowned on returning to Falkland from a General Assembly, [314];
Gowrie conspiracy, [319];
his restriction on number of persons entering Stirling Castle, [320];
letter to laird of Dundas, [322];
made a burgess of Perth, [348];
poinding of his and the queen’s portraits, [349];
his proclamation at Dumfries, [368];
death of Queen Elizabeth, [381];
his fondness of hawking, [391], [392];
his unfortunate silver-mine adventure, [411], [412];
his episcopal innovations, [415-417];
persecution of Catholics, [421], [422];
encourages cloth-making, [425];
orders keeping of Christmas-day, [426];
acknowledged head of the Kirk, [428];
his reply about ‘beggarly Scots,’ [433];
unrelenting towards satirists, [453];
his ideas of free-trade, [459];
Lord Melville’s letter to, [473];
his visit to Scotland, [479-486];
his disputations with Edinburgh professors, [483-485];
anecdote of visit to Culross coal-mines, [485];
his declaration regarding Sunday sports, [491];
his interest in the pearl-fishery, [518];
his Counterblast to Tobacco, [532];
his letter to his Scottish councillors about liberty of conscience, [533];
his picture falls from hall of Linlithgow Palace, [536];
his death, [552].
James VII., his residence at Holyroodhouse, ii. 403;
gives balls, plays, and masquerades, 404;
plays golf on Leith Links, 405;
Mons Meg fired in honour of, 409;
his act for encouragement of trade and manufactures, 417;
Earl of Roscommon’s prologue to, 429;
nearly drowned, 439;
flies to France, 494.
Jameson, George, the Scottish portrait-painter, ii. 62, 63.
Jedburgh, attempt made to proclaim Queen Mary at, i. [75].
Jesuits in Scotland, i. [182];
fast held for discovery of, [465], [466].
Johnston, Agnes, executed for murder of her grand-niece, ii. 367.
Johnston, Janet, excommunicated; anecdote of her accouchement, ii. 19.
Johnston, Laird of, and Lord John Maxwell, feud between, i. [155], [251], [301].
Johnston, Laird of, shot by Lord Maxwell, i. [410].
Johnston, Nicolas, Marion Gladstanes nearly poisons, ii. 92.
Johnston of Hilton, stabbed by William Home, ii. 455.
Johnston, Sir Archibald, his prayers, ii. 148;
executed, 256.
Jonson, Ben, his visit to Scotland, i. [499]-503.
Jop, Peter, a sailor, his petition to Privy Council on behalf of his papist wife, ii. 140.
Jougs, James Middleton threatened with the, ii. 160;
illustration, 501.
Jugglers and the steeple-trick, i. [303].
Kate the Witch assails Sir F. Walsingham, i. [152].
Keith, Robert, attempts to take forcible possession of the Abbey of Deir, i. [209].
Kello, John, minister of Spott, executed for the murder of his wife, i. [68].
Kelso burnt down in 1645, ii. 163;
again in 1684, 457.
Kenmure, Lord, a partisan of Charles II., ii. 222.
Kennedy, a notary in Galloway, mysterious circumstance regarding, i. [492].
Kennedy of Bargeny and Earl of Cassillis, dispute between, i. [311], [360]-363.
Kennedy, Quentin, disputation with John Knox at Maybole, i. [21].
Kennedy, Sir Thomas, of Colzean, his feud with Mure of Auchindrain, i. [277], [360]-363, [366]-368, [435]-437.
Ker, James, a barber, his petition, ii. 399.
—— of Kersland, leader of an Edinburgh mob for burning popish relics, ii. 500.
Kerr, a blacksmith, hanged, i. [385].
—— of Cessford, act of penitence for murder of Scott of Buccleuch, i. [27].
Kerr, Robert, younger of Cessford, his encounter with Earl of Bothwell, i. [251].
Kerr, Thomas, killed by Turnbull at Jedburgh, i. [320].
Kilbirnie, Lady, and her husband, die of a pestilential fever, ii. 409.
Kilmarnock completely destroyed by fire in 1668, ii. 321.
Kilpont, Lord, his dispute with Ardvoirlich, ii. 154-156.
Kincaid, John, of Craig House, fined 2500 merks for abduction of Isobel Hutcheon, i. [223].
Kincaid, John, a pricker of witches, ii. 278, 285.
Kincaid of Warriston, murdered at instigation of his wife, i. [317].
Kindness, a sickness so called, i. [137].
King, clergy cease praying for the, ii. 235.
Kingdom’s Intelligencer, remarkable advertisement in the, ii. 272.
King’s evil, Charles I. touches 100 persons for, ii. 67.
Kinmont Willie, Buccleuch’s gallant relief of, i. [269]-271.
Kinnoul, first Earl of, his funeral-procession, ii. 88.
Kintail, Mackenzie (subsequently Lord) of, a royal commission given to him and retracted, i. [256];
bond of friendship with Earl of Huntly, [316];
his quarrel with Macdonald of Glengarry, [369-372];
his dispute with Macleod of Raasay, [437-439];
obtains possession of island of Lewis, [424].
Kintyre and Islay, Lords, tale of commotion between, i. [164]-170.
Kirk, Robert, minister of Aberfoyle, his translations and Essay on Fairies, &c., ii. 361-363.
Kirkaldy of Grange, his defence of Edinburgh Castle, i. [82];
hanged by Regent Morton, [85-87].
Kirke, Thomas, account of Scotland by, ii. 407.
Kirkpatrick, younger, of Closeburn, Lady Amisfìeld contrives his escape from prison, i. [427].
Kirkton, Rev. James, his praise of the morals of Scotland in 1650, ii. 197.
Knox, John—disputation at Maybole, i. [21];
his second marriage, [28];
ridiculous rumours about, [69];
Melville’s recollections of, [74];
his prediction of Kirkaldy of Grange’s death, [85-87].
Lamb, its use forbidden by Privy Council, i. [458].
Lamentation of Lady Scotland, i. [79].
Lammie, Captain, his ensign of white taffety, i. n. [155].
Lanark, presbytery of, its severity with the Douglas family, ii. 191;
deals with eleven witches, 194, 195.
Largo, expense of building a hospital at kirk-town of, ii. 302, 303.
Lascary, a Grecian priest, visits Scotland, ii. 395.
Latin, a licence required to teach, ii. 426.
Lauder, William, murder of, i. [300].
Lauderdale, Earl (subsequently Duke) of, his account of the possessed woman of Dunse, ii. 43, 44;
great influence of, 348;
a beggar stabbed at his funeral, 447.
Lawson and Cathkin oppose Episcopalian principles, i. [512].
Lawson, Sir James, of Humbie, drowned, i. [439].
Lawsuits, curious custom regarding, i. [434].
Lawtie, David, writer, attacked by Thomas Douglas, i. [72].
Lead-mines of Lanarkshire, i. [254], [290].
Learmont of Balcomie, anecdote of, i. n. [309].
Leather, tanning of, its introduction, i. [516].
Ornamental, ii. 427.
Lee Penny or curing-stone, of Lockhart of Lee, ii. 31.
Lees, Thomas, burnt as a wizard, i. [280].
Legend of Montrose, original story of, ii. 154-156.
Leitch, Andrew, minister of Ellon, strange visions of, ii. 147.
Leith, English judicature at, ii. 215;
a whale at, 218;
revenue of port in 1656, 248.
Leith Roads, sea-fight between a Spanish ship and two Dutch waughters in, i. [529].
Lennox and Mar, Regents; Lennox’s oration to the nobility at the parliament of Stirling, i. [76];
death of Mar, [81].
Lennox, Duke of, forced to leave the kingdom, i. [148].
Lennox, young Duke of, his abduction of Lady Sophia Ruthven, i. [222].
Leprosy, its early prevalence in Scotland, i. [226].
Leslie and M‘Kay raise men for Bohemian army, ii. 9-11.
Leslie, Capuchin, called the ‘Archangel,’ his character, ii. 40, 41.
Leslie, George, and Master of Forbes, fight between, ii. 134.
Leslie, George, sheriff-clerk of Inverness-shire, his petition, ii. 307, 308.
Letter-post, establishment in Scotland of a regular, ii. 85-87.
Leven, Earl of, a funeral-sermon preached for, ii. 299.
Lewis, attempts to plant Lowlanders in, i. [308], [309], [388], [389], [424].
Leys, Tutor of, a Quaker, his nephew restored to him, ii. 313.
Libel, repentance made in church for, i. [372].
Licentious conduct, church-discipline with, i. [334]-336.
Liddell, Katharine, persecuted as a witch, ii. 396.
Liddesdale, thieves of, i. [43]-45.
Life-guard, a royal, embodied under the command of Earl of Newburgh, ii. 274.
Light-house on Isle of May established, i. [522].
Lime used for manure in East-Lothian, ii. 398.
Lincluden Church, popish service in, in 1587, i. [172].
Lindsay, Mr David, minister of Leith; his mission from Knox to Kirkaldy of Grange, i. [86], [87].
Lindsay, Skipper, warns Morton of his doom, i. [138].
Lindsay, Thomas, stabbed by William Douglas, ii. 439-442.
Lindsays of Forfarshire and Lords Glammis, feud between, i. [312], [313].
Linen manufacture of Scotland, ii. 421, 427.
Linlithgow, extraordinary demonstration at, on Charles II.’s birthday, ii. 291, 292.
Linton, Lord, fined £5000 Scots for marrying an excommunicated papist, ii. 189.
Lioness and lamb, exhibited in Edinburgh, ii. 298.
Lithgow and Carnegie, Lords, duel of, ii. 305.
Livingston and Carse, Lairds of, strange appearance seen on their lands, i. [431].
Livingston, Jean, beheaded by the Maiden for murder of her husband, i. [317].
Livingstone, John, of Belstane, a barbarous assault upon, i. [156].
Livingstone, John; remarkable administration of the communion, ii. 41, 42;
his courtship, 79, 80;
banishment of, 281.
Lochnell, Laird of, shot by Duncan Macgregor, ii. 310.
Lockhart, John, of Bar, outlawed for breaking images in kirk of Ayr, &c., i. [49].
Lockhart, Sir George, murdered by Chiesley of Dalry, ii. 495.
Logan, Robert, of Restalrig, his contract with Napier of Merchiston, i. [257].
Logie, Laird of, assaulted in presence of James VI., i. [221].
Lord’s Supper, repugnance of the people to kneeling at the, ii. 19.
Lorn, Thomas, accused of wandering from his family, i. [305].
Lottery-adventure authorised in 1671, ii. 341.
Lovat, Lord, liberal hospitality of, i. [208].
Love-philters, supposed effects of, ii. 227.
Low, Elizabeth, an excrescence eleven inches long cut from her forehead, ii. 342.
Lumsden, Margaret, the possessed woman of Dunse, ii. 43, 44.
Lundie, Laird of, his funeral-procession, ii. 300.
M‘Alexander of Drumachryne, killed by Laird of Girvanmains, i. [310], [311].
Mac-Allister, a cateran, anecdote of his attack on church of Thurso, ii. 190.
M‘Birnie, John, his character, i. [457].
M‘Call, Marion, tried for drinking the devil’s health, ii. 345.
M‘Calyean, Eupham, charge against her, i. [39];
burned for witchcraft, [217].
Mac Connel, Sir James, a great man in Ireland, visits Scotland, i. [286].
M‘Culloch, Sir Alexander, his assaults on Lady Cardiness, ii. 321.
Macdonald, Lord, his thief-taking commission, ii. 382.
Macdonald of Glengarry and Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail, quarrel between, i. [369]-372.
M‘Gie, a mirror-maker, his petition, ii. 396.
M‘Gill of Rankeillour, exiled for murder, petition of, ii. 424-426.
Macgregor of Glenstrae, with twelve of his clan, hanged on one gallows, i. [383].
Macgregor, Patrick Roy, and his band, executed, ii. 306, 307.
Macgregor, Robin Abroch, anecdote of, i. [444], [445].
Macgregors, their barbarous slaughter of Drummond-ernoch, i. [195];
battle with Colquhouns, [377];
proclamation against, [524].
Mackay and Gordon, strife between, and Earl of Caithness, i. [440]-443.
M‘Kay and Leslie raise men for Bohemian army, ii. 9-11.
Mackenzie, John, of Kintail, i. [20].
——, Kenneth. [See] Kintail, Mackenzie of.
Macker, Alexander, and six others, drowned for piracy, i. [52].
Mackintosh, chief of the Clan; his zeal in behalf of clergy, i. [289].
M‘Leans and others, tortured for witchcraft, ii. 293, 294.
Macleans, Argyle’s letter of fire and sword against the, ii. 370, 372.
M‘Leod of Assynt, petition of, ii. 271.
Macleod of the Lewis, banished to Holland, i. [389].
Macleod of Raasay, his dispute with Mackenzie of Kintail, i. [437]-439.
Macmoran, Bailie John, shot by Sinclair, son of the Chancellor of Caithness, i. [262];
illustration of his house, [263].
M‘Queen, John, an Edinburgh minister, scandal against, ii. 454.
M‘Ronald of Gargarach, outrages of, i. [503].
Machar Kirk, removal of memorials of ancient worship from, ii. 136.
Machines, Peter Bruce receives patents for various, ii. 408.
Maiden, the, illustration of, i. [144], [145].
Maitland, Sir Richard, of Lethington, his description of thieves of Liddesdale, i. [44].
Malignants, persecution of, ii. 108, 173.
Man, Andrew, convicted of warlockry, i. [281].
Man, Lawrence, a boy of sixteen, beheaded, i. [386].
Manatus, supposed appearance of one in Water of Don, ii. 87.
Manners, traits of, i. [342]-345.
Manred, definition of the term, i. [77];
many connected with Huntly family, [315].
Maps and charts of Scotland, Adair’s, ii. 483-485.
Mar and Lennox, Regencies of, 1570-2.
[See] Lennox and Mar.
Mar, Dowager-countess of, extracts from her household book, ii. 117-119.
Mar, seventh Earl of, his marriage to Mary, daughter of Duke of Lennox, i. [243].
His death, ii. 83.
Marentini, a travelling quack-doctor, his petition, ii. 383.
Marischal, George, fourth Earl of, extent of his lands, i. [209];
death of his lady, [301].
Market-cross, marriage-parties dance round, i. [337].
Market-cross of Edinburgh, foundation of new, i. [479].
Markets, interference with, i. [94], [241], [265], [303], [345], [458]; ii. 489.
Marroco, the wonderful horse, i. [271].
Mary de Guise, i. [7].
——, Queen, her early reign, i. [7];
arrival of at Leith, [11];
a conspiracy against her, [19];
hunting visit to Athole, [29];
her harp, [31];
progress in Fife, [32];
her marriage to Darnley, [35];
her abduction, [36], [41];
her death, [170];
a pleasant anecdote of, [180].
Masqueradings and frolics, i. [327]-329.
Mass, General Assembly exhort the suppression of, i. [172];
William Barclay and others, banished for attending, [349];
denounced as rebels, [359], [360];
mass performed in Edinburgh, [451].
Fourteen wives of Dumfries tradesmen imprisoned for hearing, ii. 72, 73.
Mathie, Janet, burned as a witch, ii. 377-379.
Mauld, Patrick, gets a patent for making soap, ii. 80.
Maxwell, John, minister of Edinburgh, ii. 66, 67.
Maxwell, Lord John, and Laird of Johnston, feud between, i. [155], [252], [296].
Maxwell of Garrarie and his son, beheaded for treason, i. [510].
Maxwell of Pollock, witch-conspiracy against, ii. 376-379.
Maxwell, young Lord, his escape from Edinburgh Castle, i. [409];
kills Laird of Johnston, [410];
beheaded, [446], [447].
Maxwell’s, Lord, Handfasting, i. [78], [79].
May-pole dancing in Scotland, i. [491], [492].
Mean, John, a zealous Presbyterian, i. [506], [544], [545], [549].
His wife supposed to cast the first stool at the bishop, ii. 103;
becomes master of the Edinburgh Post-office, 189;
his son condemned as a spy for Cromwell, 206.
Mean, Robert, appointed post-master at Edinburgh on Restoration, ii. 263, 264;
his weekly diurnal, 284;
complaint against, 316, 317;
sent to the Tolbooth, 399;
his false report, 476.
Meldrum, John, executed on suspicion of setting fire to tower of Frendraught Castle, ii. 46-50.
Meldrum of Haltoun, his conduct under ban of the horn, i. [527].
Meldrum, younger, of Dumbreck; his capture of Gibson of Durie, i. [355]-357.
Melgum, Viscount, burnt in tower of Frendraught Castle, ii. 47-50.
Melgum, Viscountess, attack of the Clan Cameron on her Castle of Aboyne, ii. 128-134.
Melville, Andrew, his courageous conduct in protesting against Episcopacy, i. [128];
his nephew’s picture of, [133];
his disputes with James VI. at St Andrews, [175]-177, [290];
disputation on witch-transportation, [305];
his tirade against Balcomie, n. [309].
Melville, James; his recollections of Knox, Collace, &c., i. [73]-75, [87];
his picture of four Edinburgh ministers, [132];
picture of his uncle, [133];
description of Regent Morton’s last days, [143], [144];
reception by, of mariners of Spanish Armada, [186]-189;
his Dix-huitaine on James VI., [292];
his notice of a fiery globe, [386].
Melville, Lady, of Garvock, drowned, i. [193].
——, Sir Robert, congratulates James VI. on improvement in the social state of Scotland, i. [473].
Menainville, De, a French ambassador, i. [150], [151].
Menzies of Culdares, his dispute with Earl of Argyle, ii. 310.
Menzies, Thomas, a papist, his petition, ii. 72.
Mercurius Caledonius, first original newspaper attempted in Scotland, notices from, ii. 267, 271.
Mermaids seen at Pitsligo, ii. 88.
Meteors—Battles in the air, i. [26].
Methven, Paul, his strange act of penitence, i. [38].
Middleton, Earl of, his administration, ii. 255;
his death and character, 364.
Militia in Scotland, list of, raised by counties and burghs, ii. 162, 163.
Miller, Gogar, & Sangster, hanged, ii. 422.
Mills, great destruction of water-, ii. 253.
Milne, Thomas, maker of virginals, i. [507].
Mining by Stewart of Tarlair, i. [28].
Ministers, deposition of, remarks on, ii. 280-282.
Ministers’ stipend, discontent about, i. [552].
Minstrels in Glasgow, i. [90].
Mirk Mononday, why so called, ii. 215.
Mitchell, David, Bishop of Aberdeen, his vicissitudes of fortune, ii. 297.
Mitchell, James, shoots Bishop of Orkney, ii. 322;
hanged, 374.
Mitchelson, a prophetess of the Covenant, ii. 122.
Mithridates, King of Pontus,a comedy, acted at Holyroodhouse, ii. 429.
Monas Prodigiosa, an animalcule so called, ii. 489.
Money, a restriction to 10 per cent. on, i. [287].
Monk, General, his reception at Edinburgh, ii. 225.
Monmouth, Duke of, re-stocks his Scotch estates, ii. 367.
Monro, Hector, of Foulis, extraordinary trial of, i. [205], [206].
Monro, his Expeditions, ii. 10.
Monro, the Edinburgh hangman, deposed; George Ormiston succeeds, ii. 461.
Monro’s list of Scottish officers under command of Gustavus Adolphus, ii. 56, 57.
Mons Meg, the Water-poet’s notice of, i. [493].
Bursting of, ii. 409;
illustration of, 468.
Monster, an Italian, travels in Scotland, ii. 143.
Monteath, Robert, minister of Duddingston, indicted for adultery, ii. 70;
note on, 501.
Montgomery, Isobel, kept in durance by her sister, i. [471].
Montgomery, Mr Robert, excommunicated, i. [148].
Montrose, Earl of, and Sir James Sandilands, street-combat between, i. [258].
Montrose, Marquis of, ii. 109;
heads a Covenanting deputation to Aberdeen, 119;
enforces the signing of the Covenant, 123;
lamentable incident after battle of Tippermuir, 154-156;
demands liberation of Earl of Crawford and Lord Ogilvie, 163, 164;
his death, 200;
his ceremonial funeral at Restoration, 269-271.
Montrose, strange events occur there on the death of the Earl of Mar, i. [81].
Monyvaird and Cultmalindy, feud between, i. [490].
Moodie’s legacy, attempted perversion of, ii. 397.
Moon, strange irregularity imputed to the, ii. 61.
Moray, Bonny Earl of, slaughter of the, i. [230]-235;
order for burial of, [296].
Moray, James, Earl of, his marriage, i. [18];
his difficulty in quieting towns of Perth and Dundee, [48];
diminishes value of hardheads, [48];
his gold and silver licence to De Vois, [50];
his ‘justiceaire,’ [52];
his raid to Jedburgh, [52];
expedition against Border thieves, [60];
his death, [60].
Morphie, James, tailor, his letter to Earl of Airly, ii. 168.
Mortimer, George, a trafficking Jesuit, imprisoned, i. [533].
Morton, Regent, effects of his rule, i. [82];
takes Edinburgh Castle, [85];
his money-grasping spirit, [87], [88], [99];
his raid against the Border-men, [88];
his act against exporting grain, [93];
no friend to the press, [94];
proclamation against base coin, erects a new mint, and magnificent palace at Dalkeith, [101];
pungent jest by his fool, Patrick Bonny, [102];
holds justice-courts at Dumfries, [103];
beheads Alexander Innes of that Ilk, [111];
suspends the act against exporting corn, [112];
bribed by Lord Somerville, [114-116];
his fall, [125], [128];
his last days, [143-145];
his head taken down from the Tolbooth, [150].
Moryson, Fynes, an Englishman, visits Scotland, his observations, i. [298], [299].
Moscrop, Patrick, and Eupham M‘Calyean, marry without permission of the Kirk, i. [72];
Eupham M‘Calyean burned for witchcraft, [217].
Mosman, James, an Edinburgh goldsmith, and others, hanged, i. [85].
Moss, between Falkirk and Stirling, slides over sixteen farms, ii. 35.
Mountebank, German, receives a licence to erect a stage in Edinburgh, ii. 458.
Mowbray, Francis, killed in his endeavour to escape over wall of Edinburgh Castle, i. [372].
Mudie, Lizzy, burned for witchcraft, ii. 385.
Mungo, Murray, his attack on Thomas Sydserf, ii. 324.
Munro, General, his attack on Strathbogie, ii. 135.
Murchison, Sir Roderick, quoted, i. [51].
Mure, John, of Auchindrain, his feud with Sir Thomas Kennedy of Colzean, i. [277], [360]-363, [366]-368;
trial for murder, [435]-437.
Mure of Gledstanes, personated by Thomas Bell, ii. 445.
Murrain amongst cattle, severe, ii. 437.
Murray of Philiphaugh, his complaint against James Murray, ii. 101.
Murray, Sir Robert, of Craigie, founder of the Royal Society, ii. 355-357.
Murray, Touran, and six others, shot by Wood [Mad] Andrew Murray and his confederates, i. [53].
Musgrave of Bewcastle’s combat with Lancelot Carleton, i. [365].
Naismith, James, his sermon, preached before Duke of Hamilton, ii. 170.
Napier, Archibald; his manure patent, i. [301].
Napier, Barbara, an Edinburgh citizen’s wife, tried for witchcraft, i. [216].
Napier, John, of Merchiston, his contract with Logan of Restalrig, i. [257];
his war inventions, [272];
his complaint to Privy Council, [359];
his dispute with Napiers of Edinbellie, [417];
publication of his work on the logarithms, [455];
visit of Henry Briggs to, [456].
Napier, Sir Archibald, of Merchiston, Bishop of Orkney’s letter to, regarding the plague, i. [55].
Napier, William, a Quaker, imprisoned, ii. 344.
National Covenant, the, ii. 105-113;
signing of, 116.
National defences, proposal to fortify Leith, &c., ii. 18.
Naval victory over the Dutch, rejoicings at the great, ii. 303.
Neill, John, tried for sorcery, ii. 34.
Nest Egg, Mr Robert Lowrie so called, ii. 296.
Neville, Nic, a sorcerer, burnt, i. [60].
New Acquaintance, a disease so called, i. [22].
Newcastle, pitiful state of, after siege, ii. n. 156.
Newcomb’s Mercurius Politicus, started, ii. 272.
Newmills, cloth-works at, ii. 416-421.
Newspapers overlook Scotland till 1637, ii. 113;
one ordered from London for Glasgow, 245;
an early one (Mercurius Caledonius) quoted, 267, 273;
history of, 271;
diurnal of John Mean, 284.
New-year’s Day, act appointing first of January as, i. [309].
Nicol, George, punished for leasing-making, ii. 61, 62.
Night-walkers, Privy Council acts against, i. [440].
Nimmo, Mrs, beheaded for murder of Lord Forrester, ii. 402.
Nisbet, Alie, worried and burnt as a witch, ii. 33.
Nisbet of Craigentinny, his duel with Macdougall of Makerston, ii. 446.
Nithsdale, Earl of, commissioner for revocation of church-lands, ii. 6, 7;
his domestic arrangements interfered with, 59.
Niven, a musician, punished with the pillory, ii. 493.
Noises heard in the air before the civil war, ii. 115.
North Loch, three men drowned in, ii. 434.
Nova Scotia, first colonised by men of Sutherland, i. [525].
Order of baronets, ii. 3.
Ochiltree, Lord, grudge of Lord Torthorald against, i. [425].
Ochiltree, Lord, warden of west Border, i. [294].
Offences in the King’s House, i. [268].
Ogilvie, John, a Jesuit, hanged, i. [462]-465.
——, Lord, of Airly, his complaint against Earl of Argyle, i. [225].
Ogilvie of Barras, defends the Castle of Dunnottar against the English, ii. 213.
Ogilvie of Forglen and Forbes of Tolquhoun, dispute between, ii. 477.
Ogilvy of Craig, his persecution as a papist, ii. 58.
Ogle and Pitarrow, younger, Lairds of, combat between, i. [387], [406].
Oliphant and Ruthven, Lords, feud between, i. [140].
Ominous sounds heard in a seaman’s house in Peterhead, ii. 145.
Orkney, Bishop of, shot, ii. 322.
——, Earl of, visits Earl of Sutherland, i. [385].
Orkney, John, Master of, tried for alleged attempt on life of Earl of Orkney, by witchcraft, &c., i. [273].
Orkney, Patrick Earl of, beheaded, i. [459]-462;
sketch of his style of living, [460].
Oswald, Katherine, burnt as a witch, ii. 32.
Paisley, horse-races at, i. [513].
Opposition to a clergyman at, ii. 8.
Paper, first manufacture of, designed in Scotland, i. [194].
First established at Dalry, ii. 398.
Papes, family of the, in Sutherland, prosperity and adversity of, i. [406]-408.
Papistry, Presbyterian measures against, i. [336], [337], [343].
Papists, thought to be regaining confidence, i. [172];
papist nobles driven to extremities, [218];
papists perform mass in Edinburgh, [349];
persecutions of, [353], [359], [389], [403], [415], [421]; ii. 20-28, 36-41, 57-60, 145, 211, 335, 499.
Paris butchers of 1856 and Edinburgh poultrymen of 1599, parallel between, i. [304].
Parliament, riding of, i. [48], [394]; ii. 65;
rejoicings at first Scottish, after Restoration, 266-269.
Parturition pains, superstitious belief regarding, i. [39].
Pasch-day, sale of flesh forbidden in Aberdeen on, ii. 144.
Pearl, a large one found in the Ythan, i. [517];
proclamation for preservation of the fishery, [518].
Peebles, assassination at, i. [81];
host assembled at, against Border thieves, [88];
provostry of, usurped by Master of Yester, [168];
James VI. visits, [170];
holds justice-court at, [368];
horse-races at, [410];
street-fight at, [418].
Council books of, quoted, as to solar eclipse, ii. 215;
as to snow-storm, 366;
petition on account of test-act, 429;
mob of women at, 430;
popish furniture and trinkets burned at, 501.
Peebles, Thomas, a goldsmith, hanged for coining, i. [26].
Peirson, Alison, in Byrehill, burnt for witchcraft, i. [183].
Penny Bridals, i. [337];
General Assembly’s act against, ii. 161, 162;
increase of, 305.
Periwigs in vogue in 1688, ii. 491.
Perth Kirk-session Records, quoted, i. [306], [322-347].
Perth, quarrel with Dundee, i. [48];
pest at, [154];
Gowrie treason at, [222], [319];
troubles with Bruce of Clackmannan, [240];
strange frolic at, [328];
holiday amusements at, [326];
Sunday observance at, [331];
king made a burgess of, [348];
1400 armed men raised in, [385];
parliament at, [394];
flood at, [525].
Pest, said to be brought into Edinburgh by James Dalgliesh, a merchant, i. 53;
regulations regarding, [54];
Dr Skeyne’s treatise on, [54];
2500 persons die of, [56];
remarks regarding cause of, [57];
kirk-session of Edinburgh appoint a fast for, [94];
John Downie’s plague-ship, [139];
James VI.’s inconsistency regarding, [154], [157];
town-council of Edinburgh’s sanitary measure, [155];
breaks out in Edinburgh and Perth, &c.; one-sixth of the entire population perish by, [157-159];
Melville’s remarkable anecdote of, [159];
days of humiliation for, [182];
plague among the bestial, [218];
17,890 persons die of, in London, [292];
breaks out in Aberdeen and Findhorn, [319];
precautions of Aberdeen council against, [346];
its reappearance in various quarters, [358], [359];
in south of Scotland, [382];
alleged case of, [385];
Chancellor of Dunfermline’s eldest son and niece die of, [388];
general spread and curious treatment of, [399], [400];
in Dundee, Perth, &c., [404], [414], [417];
a vessel from London ordered to discharge cargo at Inchkeith for fear of, [426];
it again breaks out in Edinburgh, [548].
40,000 persons die of, in London, ii. 4;
breaks out in Cramond, 89;
its appearance after siege of Newcastle, 156;
anecdotes and regulations regarding, 165-168;
great London plague, 303.
Petards, proclamation against, i. [372].
Phanatiques, five of them hanged, ii. 427.
Philip, Robert, banished for performing mass, i. [451].
Philo, Joannes Michael, a quack-doctor, miraculous cures of, ii. 347.
Philorth, Laird of, and Lord Fraser, dispute between, ii. 99, 100.
Philotus, a comedy, first known effort of Scottish muse in this department of literature, quoted, i. [374]-377.
Phin, Marion, her petition refused, ii. 386.
Pig, monster, farrowed in Edinburgh, i. [76].
Pilniewinks, a screw for the fingers, i. [210].
Pirates, Melville’s account of an affair at Anstruther with English, i. [175], [176];
execution of twenty-seven, [429], [430].
Pitarrow and Ogle, younger, Lairds of, combat between, i. [387].
Pittathrow, Lady, accused of witchcraft, ii. 186.
Plague of London in 1665, Wodrow’s notice of, ii. 303.
[See] Pest.
Plaiden stuffs and fingrams, manufacture of, ii. 416.
Plaids, town-council of Edinburgh’s order against ladies wearing, ii. 54.
Players, an Irish company of, ii. 405.
Playhouse in Edinburgh, the first, ii. 400.
Plays, popular, and holidays, i. [326], [327].
Pledge chalmer at Dumfries, i. [294].
Plumbers, curious trait regarding, ii. 408.
Poland, Lord Cranstoun raises a regiment for king of, ii. 240, 241.
Poland, Scotch merchants threatened with expulsion from, i. [547].
Police of Edinburgh, proclamation against two abuses in, i. [486];
order for cleaning the city, [487].
Improvement of regulations, ii. 212.
Poltergeist, a German spirit, ii. 232.
Pontius, Doctor, a quack, his visit to Aberdeen, ii. 149;
his exhibitions, 295.
Poor, weekly collections for, i. [346].
Falling off of collections in Glasgow churches, ii. 305.
Pope, Edinburgh apprentices burn him in effigy, ii. 412, 433.
Popery, Privy Council’s orders against persons professing, ii. 20-28.
Popish relics and furniture burnt by an Edinburgh mob, ii. 499-501.
Porpoises, or pellochs, thrown ashore on coast of Fife, ii. 220.
Post, the Aberdeen common, i. [346].
From Edinburgh to London, established, ii. 85-87;
between Port-Patrick, Edinburgh, and Carlisle, 142;
arrangements in 1649, 189;
improvement of, at Restoration, 263, 264;
between Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Inverness, rates of, &c., 315-317.
Powder of Sympathy, receipt for, ii. 228.
Prap, Sir Robert’s, a cairn so called, ii. 425.
Presbyterian ministers, the banishment of six, i. [401], [402].
Presbyterian party in civil war, ii. 110.
Presbyterians, their severe discipline in time of the civil war, ii. 156;
their inconsiderate rigours, 174, 181-185, 190-194;
conduct when paramount in 1650, 196;
extreme rigours with opponents, 209-212, 257, 258, 281, 451, 452, 460, 463-467;
humbled by Cromwell, 221;
severities against them, 280, 349, 353, 427, 448;
act of grace in favour of, its effects, 368.
Presbytery, claim of independence by, its serious consequences, i. [127].
How disposed of at the Restoration, ii. 256.
Press, the Regent Morton’s edict against, i. [93].
Primrose, Patrick, a popish priest, his death, ii. 335-337.
Pringle, David, barber-chirurgeon to Heriot’s Hospital, ii. 342.
Pringle, Jonet, her marriage with her boy-cousin of thirteen, ii. 481.
Pringle, Thomas, his assault on Gavin Thomson, i. [418].
Printing-offices in Edinburgh in 1763, 1790, and 1858, ii. 447.
Printing, rule against unlicensed, enforced, ii. 490.
Privateering against the Dutch, ii. 317, 318.
Privy Council, book of, a review of the nobility and gentry of Scotland, i. [229];
acts of, against murder, &c., [248];
furious edict of, [274].
Its occasional humanity, ii. 338.
Privy Seal record, strange adventure of, ii. 266.
Proclamation against penny-weddings, &c., ii. 459.
Prophecies regarding Queen Mary, i. [16];
regarding Scots king’s succession to England, [381].
Protections against creditors, Council grants, ii. 341.
Protestant and Papist, supersession of the names, ii. 205.
Protestants expelled from the Palatinate, subscription for 700, ii. 55.
Protesters or Remonstrators of the kirk, ii. 216, 217.
Provost’s ox, the, i. [37].
Psalms, translation of the, introduced into Church of Scotland, ii 199;
Kirk’s Irish and Gaelic, 361.
Pulices arborescentes of Swammerdam, ii. 488.
Purdie, Marion, imprisoned as a witch, ii. 462.
Purple Fever, mortality of the, ii. 299.
Purves, his death from extreme cold, ii. 368.
Putters, or short pieces of ordnance, ii. 135.
Quakers, their increase and strange doings, ii. 232-234;
persecution of, 311;
increase of, 343;
the bishop’s complaint against, at Aberdeen, 447.
Queen’s Chocolate House, in Edinburgh, Dryden’s play acted at the, ii. 404.
Rain, great fall of, in Moray-land, ii. 113, 114.
Ramsay and Clark, hanged for poisoning their master, ii. 373.
Ramsay, Thomas, minister of Dumfries, his zeal against popery, ii. 11, 72, 73.
Rats and mice, act favouring machines for catching, i. [429].
Ray, John, the naturalist, his journey into Scotland, ii. 282, 283.
Records of Scotland, interesting notices regarding, ii. 264-266.
Red herrings, privilege of making, granted, i. [443].
Red Parliament, Melville’s definition of, i. [394].
Red-hand, a butcher taken, and instantly hanged, ii. 381.
Redpath, George, author of Answer to the Scots Presbyterian Eloquence, ii. 413.
Redshanks, Highlanders so called, i. [2].
Reek Pennies, or hearth-money, ii. 212.
Reformation, i. [2], [4].
Regalia of Scotland, interesting anecdote of the, ii. 213, 214.
Regals, or rigols, an ancient musical instrument, i. n., [198].
Regiam Majestatem, dispute between author and printer of, i. [421].
Reid, a mountebank, and his Tumbling Lassie, ii. 487.
Reid, a sorcerer, strangled and burnt, i. [382].
Reid and Moscow, two charlatans, pretend to cure the blind, ii. 483.
Religious persecutions, remarks on, ii. 451.
Remonstrance, presentation of the famous, ii. 108.
Remonstrators or Protesters of the kirk, ii. 216, 217.
Restoration, rejoicings in Edinburgh at the, ii. 261, 266.
Revels, Masters of the, the Fountains’ patent as, ii. 400.
Revenue of Scotland, let on lease, ii. 427.
Revolutionary symptoms in Edinburgh, ii. 483.
Riccio, David, murdered, i. [35], [38].
Riddell, John, a broken merchant, petition of, ii. 431.
Riding of the Parliament, i. [48].
Increased splendour of, ii. 65, 66.
Rig of Atherny, threatens the clergy, i. [544], [545], [549].
Rig, Robert, imprisoned for marrying an excommunicated papist, ii. 72.
Riot of 1682 in Edinburgh, ii. 437.
Roads and bridges, ruinous state of, ii. 409.
Robberies, their frequency in 1664, ii. 298.
Robertson, Bailie John, erects a leper-house in Greenside, Edinburgh, i. [226].
Robertson of Struan, quarrel with Marquis of Athole, ii. 423;
his wood and saw mills in Rannoch, 447.
Robin Hood games, i. [8].
Robison, Alexander, a Jesuit, petitions of, ii. 16.
Roche, Eustachius, contracts with James VI. for gold-mines, i. [151], [152];
proposes to make a superior kind of salt, [189].
Roman antiquities found at Inveresk, i. [33].
Romanno, Murrays of, letters raised at the instance of the, i. [227]-229.
Gipsy-fight at, ii. 388.
Ronaldson, Walter, his ‘familiarity with a spirit,’ i. [358].
Rose, Hugh, of Kilravock; character of, i. [287], [288].
Roslin, monster-calf at, i. [102];
a grand resort for gipsies, [539], [540].
Ross, Sinclair, Bishop of, afflicted with stone, i. [24].
Young, Bishop of, afflicted with same disease, ii. 453.
Ross, Thomas, his libel on the Scottish nation; beheaded and quartered, i. [504].
Rosses, clergymen, crave compensation for losses incurred through persecution, ii. 451-453.
Rothes, Earl (subsequently Duke) of, Lord High Commissioner, his progress through the west country, ii. 304;
his funeral-procession, 426.
Rothiemay and Frendraught, dispute between, ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84, 98.
Roy, Bessie, tried for witchcraft, i. [206].
Rutherford, Colonel, killed by the Moors, ii. 298.
Rutherford, Lord, his engagement with
the Bride of Baldoon, ii. 326-328;
his prosecution of Captain Rutherford, 333.
Ruthven and Oliphant, Lords, feud between, i. [140].
Ruthven, Raid of, i. [128].
Ruthven, Sophia, Duchess of Lennox, buried, i. [222].
Ruthvens, their complaint against Baillie of Torwoodhead, ii. 403.
Sackville, Sir Edward, his duel with Edward Lord Bruce of Kinloss, i. [447]-451.
St Andrew’s Day, kept as a holiday, ii. 297.
St Fittich’s and St Wollok’s Wells, sickly children bathed at, i. [323], [324].
Salt, Charles II.’s restrictions on making, ii. 332.
Saltmarket of Glasgow, great fire in, ii. 389.
Sampson, Agnes, burnt for witchcraft, i. [212]-216.
Sandeman, Charles, his obligations as a cook, i. [47].
Sandilands, Sir James, and Mr John Graham of Hallyards, litigation between, i. [246].
Sandilands, Sir James, and Earl of Montrose, street-combat between, i. [258].
Sangster, Gogar, & Miller, hanged, ii. 422.
Saw-mills, Robertson of Struan’s, ii. 447.
Schaw, John, fined for burying his wife in parish-church of Galston, i. [425].
School-discipline at Kirk of Dundonald, in Ayrshire, ii. 138.
Schools, Privy Council order plantation of parish, i. [479].
Scolding and slander, rigorous punishment of, i. [344], [345].
Scotch, order against their going to England, i. [432].
Nobles and entire community nearly ruined by the civil wars, ii. 225.
Scotland, general sketch of, i. [1]-6;
factious state of, in 1571, [72].
Indifference of England to, ii. 113;
state of, after Cromwell’s invasion, 209, 212;
concluding remarks on, 496.
Scotland, Perfect Description of the People and Country of, a satire, i. [481].
Scots, their supposed origin, i. [1].
—— Guard of the French king, its re-establishment craved, i. [535], [536].
Scott, Alexander, poet, his New-year Gift to Queen Mary, i. [15].
Scott, Captain, beats Mr Gregory, ii. 478.
——, George, Walter, & Ingram, condemned to death for an atrocious crime, i. [472].
Scott, George and William, their achievements, ii. 169.
Scott, John, a Quaker, fined for brewing on Sunday, ii. 376.
Scott of Pitlochie, story of his unfortunate voyage to East Jersey, ii. 479-481.
Scott of Raeburn, a Quaker, his children ordered to be separated from him, ii. 311.
Scott, Sir Walter, of Branxholm, Laird of Buccleuch, celebrated exploit of, i. [269]-271.
Scott, Thomas, hanged for murder of Robert Donaldson, ii. 329.
Scott, Walter, of Harden, married to the Flower of Yarrow, i. [46].
Sea-monsters, various appearances of;
superstitions regarding, i. [64]-66.
Seaton, Thomas, his religions dissimulation, ii. 301.
Semple, Lord, and his son, ii. 336.
——, Robert, his writings, i. [49].
Service-book or Liturgy introduced into Scottish church; its reception, ii. 101-104.
Seventeenth of December, tumult of the, i. [276]-278.
Shakspeare, surmised to have been in Aberdeen while the remarkable witch-trials were proceeding; quotations from Macbeth and Othello strengthening this supposition, i. [283]-285, [357].
Sharpe, Archbishop, ii. 256;
his cortège to St Andrews, 291;
his land purchases, 300;
attempt on his life, 322;
assassination of, 350.
Shaws and the Faws, battle between, ii. 388.
Sheep and cattle, abundance of, ii. 371.
Ship-of-war burnt in Leith Roads through the mad humour of an Englishman, i. [453].
Shorter Catechism, General Assembly sanction, ii. 170.
Shotts, Kirk of, communion at, ii. 41.
Shrovetide customs, revival of, ii. 273, 274.
Sieve, divination by the, strange story of, ii. 434.
Sigget Well, dedicated to Virgin Mary, i. [324].
Siller Gun at Dumfries, i. [294].
Silver Heart in Culross Abbey Church, wood-cut of, i. [450].
Silver lace and silk stuffs, law against wearing, ii. 357, 358.
Sinclair, Colonel, with 900 Scotsmen, slain in Norway, i. [446].
Sinclair, George, author of Satan’s Invisible World Discovered, ii. 387;
his copyright of, 475.
Sinclair, Henry, Bishop of Ross, dies of stone, i. [24].
Sinclair, Sir William, of Mey, shoots Bailie Macmoran, i. [262], [263].
Single-combats, edict against, i. [310].
Skeyne, Dr, his treatise on the pest, i. [54].
Slezer’s Theatrum Scotiæ, ii. 485.
Small-pox, severe visitation of, in Aberdeen, i. [431].
Great severity of, ii. 85;
about 240 children die of, 140;
upwards of 800 deaths in Glasgow from, 347.
Smibert, William, his unbaptised child, i. [32].
Smith, James, barters wheat for Norway timber, ii. 71.
Smollett, George, an ancestor of the novelist, denounced as a rebel, i. [248].
Spanish ship blown up by, ii. 387.
Sneesh-box, fondness of the Scotch for the, ii. 494.
Snow-storm, an enormous, i. [458], [459].
Great, in 1633, ii. 61;
in 1664-5, 302;
in 1674, 365.
Soap, first manufactured in Leith, by Nathaniel Uddart, i. [511], [512].
Patent granted to Patrick Mauld for making, ii. 80, 81.
Soldiers, Colonel Monro endeavours to erect hospital for Scottish, ii. 75.
Somerville, James, younger of Drum and Cambusnethan, his marriage, ii. 207-209;
his son’s death, 443.
Somerville, Lord; his lawsuit with his cousin, and its success, i. [113]-116.
Somerville, Lord, sad accident in the family of, i. [190]-192.
Somerville of Drum, anecdote of, i. [491].
Spanish and Dutch sea-fight on coast of Zetland, ii. 15.
Spanish Armada, excitement in Scotland caused by, i. [185]-189;
vessels destroyed, [186]; ii. 386.
‘Speat’ on the Water of Carron, ii. 98.
Sports, James VI.’s declaration regarding, on Sundays and holidays, i. [491].
Spynie, Lord, dies of wounds received in a street-fight, i. [406].
Stage-coach, Countess of Crawford travels to England in a, ii. 218;
advertised for various towns, 247;
betwixt Edinburgh and Haddington, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 391.
Stair, Lord, ii. 370.
Stalker, Andrew, a goldsmith, kills a servant of Earl of Angus, i. [294].
Standing army in Scotland, commencement of a, ii. 313.
Stanfield, Sir James, his son hanged for his murder, ii. 491, 492.
Star, Melville’s notice of a brilliant, i. [386];
appearance of a great fiery, [472]; ii. 84.
Star of Tycho, Holinshed’s notice of, i. [84].
Stercovius, a Pole, beheaded for publishing his Legend of Reproaches against the Scottish nation, i. [452].
Stewart, Alexander, an itinerant doctor, ii. 184.
Stewart, Hercules, brother of the Earl of Bothwell, hanged at the Cross of Edinburgh, i. [259].
Stewart, James, banished for performing mass, i. [451].
Stewart, Janet, petition of, ii. 437.
——, John, a vagabond, hangs himself in prison, i. [488], [489].
Stewart, John, hanged for witchcraft, ii. 377-379.
Stewart, Margaret, abduction of her daughter, i. [419].
Stewart, Master Allan, receives the revenues of the Abbey of Crossraguel; his torture by Earl of Cassillis, i. [65]-68.
Stewart of Minto, his dispute with Sir George Elphinstone, i. [396]-398.
Stewart of Tarlair, mining by, i. [28].
——, William, stabs Lord Torthorald, i. [415].
Stewarts of Coltness; anecdote of the plague, ii. 165;
Thomas of, his country-house, 245;
his flight to Holland, 448-451.
Stewarts of Traquair, and Hay of Yester, feud between, i. [168]-170.
Stewarton Sickness, a religious fervour so called, ii. 42, 43.
Stirling, a parliament held by Regent Lennox at, i. [76];
taking of, quick transmission of news to London, [159];
strange sounds heard by four gentlemen of, [541].
Sixteen farms between Falkirk and, buried in moss, ii. 35;
the session sitat, 116.
Stones, large, transported by a river, ii. 98.
Stool of repentance, i. [334], [335].
Storie, Richard, charged with murder, ii. 442.
Strachan of Thornton, his alleged theft, i. [534], [535].
Strathbogie, Presbytery Record of, extracts from, ii. 156-161.
Street-carriages of Edinburgh, regular system of, ii. 358.
Street-conflicts in Aberdeen, i. [343].
—— fights, Edinburgh, the first of, i. [48].
Struan, Laird of, his dispute with Marquis of Athole, ii. 423;
his saw-mills, 447.
Struthers, William, his sermon, i. [513].
Stuart, Esme, usually called Monsieur D’Aubigné; his mission to Scotland, i. [126]-128.
Stuart, James (Earl of Arran), his rise, i. [126];
influence over James VI., [128];
his fall, [129];
his marriage to the Countess of March, [146];
his death, [275];
his death avenged, [414].
Stuart, Robert, natural son of the Earl of Orkney, beheaded, i. [461].
Stuart, Sir William of Monkton, slain by Stuart Earl of Bothwell, i. [184], [185].
Suffolk, Earl of, his journey of pleasure through Scotland, i. [454], [455].
Sugar-works at Glasgow, ii. 455.
Summaries:
Reign of Mary, 1561-1565, i. [7];
Regency of Moray, 1567-1570, [43];
Regencies of Lennox and Mar, 1570-1572, [61], [62];
Regency of Morton, 1572-1578, [82], [83];
Reign of James VI. 1578-1585, [126]-129;
1585-1590, [160], [161];
1591-1603, [219]-221; 1603-1625, [379]-381.
Reign of Charles I., 1625-1637, ii. 1-3;
1637-1649, 105-113;
Interregnum, 1649-1660, 174-177;
Reign of Charles II., 1660-1673, 255-261;
1673-1685, 349-355;
Reign of James VII., 469-475;
concluding remarks, 496-499.
Sun, total eclipse of the, i. [296].
Celebrated eclipse of, ii. 215.
Suns, curious appearance of three, ii. 9.
Sunday, observance of, i. [329]-333.
Superstitions and superstitious practices, i. [322]-326.
Suppers, laudable custom of, revived, ii. 267.
Surgeons exempted from serving as jury-men, i. [42].
Sutherland, Earl of, overtaken by a snow-storm, i. [363] ;
contributions of tenantry to, [517].
Sutherland of Duffus, his quarrel with Gordon of Enbo, ii. 5, 6.
Swans on Linlithgow Loch, anecdotes of, ii. 267, 268.
Swearing, fines for, i. [342].
Sweden, king of, troops levied in Scotland for, i. [445];
unfortunate issue, [446].
Sword-dance, description of the, ii. 67, 68.
Sydserf, Thomas, editor of the Mercurius Caledonius, ii. 271;
his theatre, 324.
Tailiefeir, Bessie, sentenced to be brankit, i. [46].
Tailors, petition against outlandish, ii. 253, 254.
Tallow, laws against exporting, ii. 5.
Tarugo’s Wiles, Sydserf’s play called, ii. 324.
Taxes, allocation of, to various towns, ii. 7.
Tay, remarkable flood in the, i. [525]-527.
Taylor, John the Water-poet, his visit to Scotland, i. [493]-500.
Tea, in Scotland, its first introduction, ii. 405.
Tennant, Francis, hanged for his pasquils against the king and progenitors, i. [320].
Tercel called for by James VI., i. [391].
Test, magistrates of Peebles in a puzzle about the, ii. 429;
burlesque of, 433.
Thanksgiving-day, on settlement between King and Estates, ii. 140.
Theatre, first, in Edinburgh established about 1679, ii. 400.
Theatricals in Scotland, toleration of, i. [306], [307].
Thirteen Drifty Days, Hogg’s account of the, ii. 365-367.
Thomson, Annaple, and others, worried and burnt as witches, ii. 405, 406.
Thomson, Gavin, assaulted by Thomas Pringle, i. [418].
Thomson, Margaret, her complaint against Tutor of Calder, ii. 154.
Thumbikens, an instrument of torture so called, ii. 460.
Tide, remarkable swelling of the, at Leith, &c., i. [476].
Tobacco, Murray’s patent for importing, i. [531], [532].
Licence for sale of, ii. 74;
tax on, 332;
first practitioner of tobacco-spinning in Leith, 346.
Toe-writing, singular instance of, ii. 253.
Toleration, want of, in Scotland, i. [244];
imputation of toleration indignantly repudiated by King James, [533].
Declared against by the Presbyterian kirk, ii. 180;
granted by James VII., 470;
want of, at the Revolution, 498.
Tories, first introduction of the word into Scotland, ii. 227.
Torthorald, Lord, stabbed by William Stewart, i. [415].
Town-guard of Edinburgh, origin of the, ii. 438.
Trade, decree against freedom of, i. [458].
Interesting particulars regarding, in Scotland, ii. 248, 249.
Transmigration of witches to distant places, &c., disputation on, i. [305].
Traquair, burning at Peebles of popish relics found at, ii. 499-501.
Traquair, Countess of, and her son, ii. 336.
——, first Earl of, anecdote of, ii. n. 88;
his death and character, 251, 252.
Travelling, anecdotes of, i. [299], [381], [493]; ii. 218, 247, 391, 476.
Trembling Exies, a disease so called, ii. 222.
Trough, Children of the (a singular anecdote), i. n. [234].
Tulyies or combats in Edinburgh, i. [47], [185], [258], [318].
Tumbling Lassie and Reid the mountebank, ii. 487.
Turnbull and Scott, hanged for publishing a libel against Morton, i. [125].
Turnbull, Andrew, beheaded, i. [320].
—— of Airdrie, abduction of his daughter, i. [419].
Turners, a base coin so called, ii. 128.
Tweedies and Veitches, feud between, i. [200]-202;
James VI. endeavours to suppress, [432].
Universities, order against receiving fugitive students at, i. [439].
Urquhart of Craigston, singular fortunes of his grandson, ii. 81-83.
Usher, Adie, a Border-thief, hanged; his son Willie, i. [546].
Usury severely punished, ii. 298.
Vallam, James and George, hanged for robbery, i. [364].
Vautrollier, a French Protestant, prints a volume of poems for James VI., i. [154].
Veitches and Tweedies, feud between, i. [200]-202, [432].
Victory, naval, over the Dutch, rejoicings at, ii. 303.
Vintners and Butchers, outcry against extortion of, ii. 489, 490.
Visions in the air, ii. 313-315.
Vois, Cornelius de, his gold and silver licence, i. [50].
Wages of skilled artisans in Scotland, ii. 235.
Walden, Lord, his journey of pleasure in Scotland, i. [454], [455].
Walker, Patrick, his account of illusive psalm-singing, ii. 314;
of visions of bonnets and weapons at Crossford, [485].
Wallace, Margaret, worried and burnt for witchcraft, i. [527]-529.
Walsingham, Sir Francis, a councillor of Queen Elizabeth, his mission to James VI., i. [152].
Waly, waly! a popular ballad, composed on the Marchioness of Douglas, ii. 340.
Wame-ill or land-ill, also called the Pestilence but Mercy, i. [57].
Wappinshaw, why so called, i. [542].
Watch, a body of men appointed to keep peace in the Highlands, ii. 306.
Watson, William, minister of Burntisland, i. [467].
Watt, John, shot dead on the Burgh-moor, i. [349].
Waugh, Robert, hanged for rebuking the Regent Morton, i. [80].
Weather, the, i. [107], [112], [259], [286], [421], [431], [457], [458], [523], [541]; ii. 4, 12, 17, 28, 61, 79, 83, 113, 115, 122, 134, 149, 199, 217, 222, 224, 234-236, 240, 253, 298, 299, 305, 313, 319, 324, 358, 365-367, 371-373, 426, 454, 462.
Weir, Bessie, hanged as a witch, ii. 377-379.
——, John, tried for ‘incest,’ for marrying the relict of his grand-uncle, ii. 28.
Weir, Major, strangled and burnt, ii. 332.
——, of Cloburn, a boy of fourteen, taken to Ireland, and married to a daughter of Laird of Corehouse, i. [454].
Wells of Edinburgh run dry, ii. 226.
Wemyss, Countess of, death and extravagance of the, ii. 215.
Wemyss of Logie, Mrs Margaret Twinstoun contrives his escape from confinement, i. [238].
West Indies, deportation of poor people to the, ii. 304, 305.
Westerhall, Laird of, slain by the Hamiltons, i. [99].
Whale captured by the English at Leith, ii. 218.
Whales, fourteen killed at Dornoch, i. [319].
Wheat, Council grants licence for exporting 4000 bolls, ii. 54.
Whig, origin of the term, ii. 171, 172.
Whilliwha’s, swindlers so called, i. [468].
Wigton and Cassillis, Earls of, dispute between, ii. 30.
Wind, tremendous storm of, i. [421].
Wine, its importation into Western Isles restricted, i. [531].
Wirtemberg, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. [418].
Wishart, Janet, burnt for witchcraft, i. [278], [279].
Witchcraft, act against, i. [24];
William Stewart, Lyon King-of-arms hanged for, [60];
witches of Athole, [70];
Bessie Dunlop, burnt for, [107-110];
Alison Peirson, burnt for, [183];
trials of Lady Foulis and Hector Monro, [202-206];
Bessie Roy tried for, [206];
extraordinary trials for, [210-218];
devil preaching to witches, illustration, [215];
numerous cases of, [257];
barbarous legal procedure in cases of, [273];
remarkable trials in Aberdeen, [278-285];
‘the great witch of Balwery,’ [291];
wood-cut of a witch seated on the moon, [378];
the Broughton witches, [420];
Margaret Barclay, executed for, [488];
John Stewart, tried for, [488];
Margaret Wallace, worried and burnt for, [527-529];
Bessie Smith, of Lesmahago, [539];
Thomas Grieve, strangled and burnt, [540];
Privy Council’s doubts regarding, [548].
Various cases of, ii. 31-34;
John Balfour, a discoverer of, 61;
William Coke and Alison Dick, burnt for witchcraft, their bill of expenses, 70, 71;
case of Agnes Finnie and others, 149-154;
conference of ministers on, 180;
several trials and burnings for, 186-189;
presbytery of Lanark and the eleven witches, 194, 195;
proceedings of Cromwell’s law-commissioners for Scotland, 219, 220;
burnings for, 243, 244;
numerous trials for, at the Restoration, 277-279;
confessions of Isobel Gowdie and Janet Braidhead, 285-291;
M‘Leans and others tortured for, 293-295;
more cases of, 330;
Jean Weir hanged, 333;
curious cases of, 376-381;
another witch-storm, 385, 386;
anecdotes of, 393-395;
Katherine Liddel persecuted for, 396;
curious witch-trial at Borrowstounness, 405, 406;
Marion Purdie imprisoned for, 462;
books on, 475.
Wogan, Captain, his daring march to the north, ii. 223;
verses quoted from Waverley on his death, 224.
Wood, George, threatened arrestment of his corpse, ii. 328, 329.
Wood, James, heir of Bonnington, beheaded, i. [350].
Wool, prohibition against exporting, &c., i. [475];
Petition for dressing and refining of, ii. 346.
Wreckers of Dunbar and Western Islands, Council’s proceedings against, ii. 94, 95.
Writs, several persons hanged for making false, i. [260], [296].
Yester, Master of, and Stewarts of Traquair, feud between, i. [168]-170.
York, James, Duke of. [See] James VII.
Young, Isobel, burnt for witchcraft, ii. 31.
——, John, his attack on Richard Bannatyne, ii. 16.
Young, Margaret, petitions Privy Council against false imprisonment, ii. 153.

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