Chapter XXIX: Part 29

---- 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_.