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