Chapter XXV: Part 25

‘In the woodlands, the more formidable black nude slug, the _Arion_ or _Limax ater_, will also be often encountered. It is a huge voracious creature, herbivorous, feeding, to Barbara’s astonishment, on tender plants; fruits, as strawberries, apples; and even turnips and mushrooms; appearing morning and evening, or after rain; suffering severely in its concealment in long droughts, and remaining torpid in winter. The gray field slug (_Limax agrestis_) is actually recommended to be swallowed by consumptive patients! In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity, of the _Arion ater_, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail. Two young and blooming maidens lived together at that dread time, like Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, in a remote cottage on the steep (indeed almost perpendicular) ascent of the Bonnetmaker’s Hill. Deprived of friends or support by the pestilence that walked at noonday, they still retained their good looks and healthful aspect, even when the famine had succeeded to the plague. The jaundiced eyes of the famine-wasted wretches around them were instantly turned towards the poor girls, who appeared to thrive so well whilst others were famishing. They were unhesitatingly accused of witchcraft, and had nearly fallen prey to that terrible charge; for betwixt themselves they had sworn never to tell in words by what means they were supported, ashamed as they felt of the resource to which they had been driven; and resolved, if possible, to escape the anticipated derision of their neighbours on its disclosure. It was only when about to be dragged before their stern inquisitors, that one of the girls, drawing aside the covering of a great barrel which stood in a corner of their domicile, discovered, without violating her oath, that the youthful pair had been driven to the desperate necessity of collecting and preserving for food large quantities of these _Limacinæ_, which they ultimately acknowledged to have proved to them generous and even agreeable sustenance. To the credit of the times of George Wishart--a glimpse of pre-reforming enlightenment--the explanation sufficed; the young women escaped with their lives, and were even applauded for their prudence.’

[117] _Summer Life on Land and Water._ By William W. Fyfe. 1851.

[118] _Remarkable Passages of the Lord’s Providence towards Mr John Spreull, Town-clerk of Glasgow, 1635-54._ T. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1832.

[119] _Arbroath Guide_, Oct. 2, 1847.

[120] Executed in the Palace-yard, Westminster, 9th March 1649.

[121] 6th October 1648--‘appoints the four bailies, the old provost [Archibald Tod], the deacon of the chirurgeons, and their clerk, to go down to the Canongate in the afternoon, and in the Council’s name salute the Lord Cromwell, lieutenant-general of the English forces, and thir presents sall be their warrand.’--_Ed. Council Register._

[122] Defoe’s _Review of the Brit. Nation_, 1709.

[123] _Life of Cameron of Lochiel._

[124] Balfour’s _Annals_. _Britain’s Distemper_, by Patrick Gordon.

[125] Excerpts from Fraser of Wardlaw’s Memoirs. _Inverness Courier._

[126] Rescinded Acts. _Records of Kirk of Scotland._

[127] Balfour’s _Annals_, iii. 427.

[128] Son to umquhile John Stewart, usher to his majesty.

[129] _Acts of Estates, MS._ Gen. Reg. House.

[130] This narration is taken from Fergusson’s _Diary_, as quoted in _Satan’s Invisible World_. We are obliged, however, for the name of the minister to Wodrow, _Analecta_, i. 65.

[131] _Maitland Miscel._, i. 439.

[132] From tradition.

[133] On the 18th of March 1647, finding that ‘the pride and insolency of excommunicate persons doeth exceedingly increase, and that the dreadful censure of excommunication is much slighted and vilipended, whereby God is much dishonoured,’ the Estates passed an act renewing the force of all previous acts against such persons, and ordaining that, after forty days, letters of horning and caption should be issued against them, to be of full force unless they can shew that they have given ‘full obedience and satisfaction to the kirk.’ The acts against papists were at the same time renewed; none such to be capable of public employment, husbands to be ‘countable for their wives’ if the ladies should reset priests, and no person to take a servant unprovided with ‘a testimonial of the soundness of their religion from the minister where they dwelt.’

[134] _Register of the Presbytery of Lanark._ _Acts of the Scottish Parliament, MS._

[135] _Records of Kirk of Scotland_, p. 473.

[136] Nicoll’s _Diary_.

[137] Kirkton’s _Hist. Church Scot._, p. 64.

[138] Nicoll’s _Diary_, p. 8.

[139] Dr Wilde, in Census of Ireland for 1851; part V., vol. i., p. 110.

[140] Baillie’s _Letters_, iii. pp. 97, 550.

[141] See an interesting narration on this subject in Mr Mark Napier’s _Montrose and the Covenanters_, 1838.

[142] The formula used on the occasion is given in the following terms by a writer of the seventeenth century: ‘When any one dies, the bellman goes about ringing the passing bell, and acquaints the people therewith in the following form: “Beloved brethren and sisters, I let you to wit, that there is ane faithful brother lately departed out of this present warld, at the pleasure of Almichty God (and then he veils his bonnet); his name is Wully Woodcock, third son to Jemmy Woodcock, a cordinger; he ligs at the sixt door within the Norgate, close on the Nether Wynd, and I would you gang to his burying on Thursday before twa o’clock, &c.” The time appointed for his burying being come, the bellman calls the company together, and he is carried to the burying-place, and thrown into the grave as dog Lion was, and there is an end of Wully.’--_A Modern Account of Scotland_, 1670. _Harleian Miscellany_, vi. 121.

[143] The mansion of the Earl of Moray in the Canongate, the same house that Cromwell occupied on his brief visit in 1648. It is now the Normal School of the Education Committee of the Free Church of Scotland.

[144] These anecdotes appear in _A Short Abridgment of Britain’s Distemper from 1639 to 1649_. By Patrick Gordon of Ruthven. Spalding Club. 1844. They are placed by the author in connection with Cromwell’s comparatively peaceful visit to Edinburgh in 1648, but must, beyond a doubt, refer to the crisis of 1650.

[145] See under date December 18, 1649.

[146] The small county of Kinross was included.

[147] The annual valued rent of Fife and Kinross in 1674 amounted to £383,379 Scots.

[148] It appears from factory accounts in the Caldwell papers as if oats fluctuated in the period 1645-54 between 6s. 1d. and 17s. 8d. sterling per boll. But probably the highest prices do not chance to occur in these accounts.

[149] Shew themselves.

[150] Nicoll, p. 67.

[151] _Spalding Miscellany_, iii. 205.

[152] From a copy of the petition in possession of the present Irvine of Drum.

[153] See under July 18, 1649.

[154] _Illust. Shires of Aber. and Banff._ Spal. Club. Vol. i. p. 285.

[155] Apparently a tax imposed on houses--equivalent to hearth-money.

[156] A small sect who held that families were the only proper congregations.

[157] _Register of the Committee of Estates_ (Gen. Reg. House), Sept. 28, 1660.

[158] _Account of the Regalia_, by Sir Walter Scott.

[159] Burgh Record of Peebles.

[160] Strang’s _Glasgow and its Clubs_, p. 7.

[161] Whitelocke’s _Memorials_, 514, 515.

[162] Quoted in _Spottiswoode Miscellany_, ii. 91.

[163] Whitelock, 520.

[164] See the _Court of Session Garland_ (Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1839), p. 4.

[165] Heath’s _Chronicle_, p. 356.

[166] _Mil. Memoirs of the Great Civil War_, 4to, p. 220.

[167] _Memoirs of Locheil_, p. 129.

[168] Clarendon.

[169] Wogan lay at Weem during his illness, and might therefore have been expected to lie interred in the churchyard of that parish; but Heath gives Kenmore as his last resting-place.

[170] _Abbreviate of Justiciary Register_, by Lord Fountainhall, quoted in notes to Law’s _Memorials_, p. 91.

[171] _Caldwell Papers_, i. 92.

[172] _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered._

[173] Nicoll’s _Diary_.

[174] Baillie’s _Letters_, iii. 323.

[175] About July 1655, a woman in Suffolk was taken possession of by a devil at a Quaker meeting, and carried home, where she soon after died. A circumstance which figures in the diagnosis of many cases of alleged possession, is related regarding her. ‘Something ran up and down in her body under the skin, that bellowed in her like a calf.’--_Nic._

[176] In an act of the Estates, March 22, 1647, it is acknowledged that, at Martinmas of the preceding year, the debt owing to Sir William Dick by the public was £533,971, 6s. 9d. Scots. In a supplication, he set forth ‘his hard and distrest condition for want thereof.’

[177] The English parliament, March 3, 1660, granted a protection to Sir Andrew Dick, and _continued_ to him a pension of £5 a week which had been for some time in arrears, recommending him at the same time to the Council of State for such preferment in Scotland as he is capable of.--_Mercurius Politicus_: March 15, 1660.

[178] _Mercurius Politicus_, May 20, 1658.

[179] Baillie’s _Letters_, iii. 387.

[180] _Lives of the Lyndsays_, i. 296.

[181] _Parliamentary Diary_, iv. 168. Desborough, along with one Downing, represented Edinburgh in the parliament which Cromwell assembled at Westminster in 1654.

[182] Baillie. _Letters_, iii. 438. The countess is said by Baillie to have been the medium through which the Scottish nobility acted on General Monk, in prompting him to go to London, just before the Restoration.

[183] _A Journey through Scotland, in Familiar Letters_, &c. 8vo. London, 1723.

[184] In August 1657, his son, Lord Linton, was cited before the presbytery of Peebles for certain scandalous miscarriages--as, frequent absence from church, drinking, and swearing. He submitted, and was rebuked. On the 3d of December of the same year, ‘the presbytery, taking into their consideration a letter of complaint formerly sent unto them by the Lord Linton, complaining of his father as slandering him of unnatural dealing towards his parents,’ appointed a committee to speak with them both, and report. Lord Linton was afterwards asked to give in particulars of his complaint, but he does not appear to have complied with the request.

[185] _Inverness Courier_, January 1851.

[186] _Stirk_, a young ox. _Hawkit_, white-faced.

[187] John Mean had assisted Montrose and the Engagement, and incurred losses on these accounts. _Acts of S. Parl._, vii., _App._ 93.

[188] We only know of this act from its being alluded to in the Privy Council Record.

[189] Cosmo Innes’s Preface to the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1844.

[190] Thomson’s _Scottish Acts_, xi., _App._ p. 139.

[191] See under March 1652.

[192] In the parish of Aberdour, on the north coast of Aberdeenshire, is the house of Auchmedden, once belonging to a family named Baird. A local writer in 1724 reports that, among some high rocks near the Auchmedden millstone quarry, ‘there is an eagle’s nest; and the pair which breed there have continued in that place time out of mind, sending away their young ones every year, so that there is never more stays but the old pair.’[193] ‘At one period,’ says a writer of our own day, ‘there was a pair of eagles that regularly nestled and brought forth their young in the rocks of Pennan; but, according to the tradition of the country, when the late Earl of Aberdeen purchased the estate from the Bairds, the former proprietors, the eagles disappeared, in fulfilment of a prophecy of Thomas the Rhymer, “that there should be an eagle in the crags while there was a Baird in Auchmedden.” But the most remarkable circumstance, and what certainly appears incredible, is, that when Lord Haddo, eldest son of the Earl of Aberdeen, married Miss Christian Baird of New Byth, the eagles returned to the rocks, and remained until the estate passed into the hands of the Hon. William Gordon, when they again fled, and have never since been seen in the country. These facts, marvellous as they may appear, are attested by a cloud of famous witnesses.’[194]

[193] _View of Dio. of Aberdeen_, Spal. Club, p. 447.

[194] _New Stat. Acc. of Scot._

[195] See under May 21, 1650.

[196] See _Spottiswoode Miscellany_, vol. ii., for a series of extracts.

[197] _Life of Thomas Ruddiman_, 117.

[198] Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 301.

[199] _Analecta_, i. 106.

[200] Law’s _Memorials_. By C. K. Sharpe, p. lxviii.

[201] Contemporary with Kincaid flourished, in the north country, a pricker named John Dick. One named John Hay, a messenger in Tain, who had reached sixty without any discredit attaching to his name, was denounced by a distracted woman as a wizard, and immediately seems to have fallen into the hands of Dick, who, without any authority, pricked him all over his body, having first shaved his head to ascertain that there were no insensible parts in that region. He was then transferred to Edinburgh, a journey of nearly two hundred miles, and locked up in the Tolbooth. On a petition from Hay, and the exhibition of certificates of character, he was ordered by the Lords of Council to be liberated.

[202] Kincaid lay nine weeks in jail, and then petitioned for his liberty, representing that, being an old man, he had suffered much in health by his confinement, and, if longer confined, might be brought to mortal sickness; whereupon the Lords liberated him, on condition of his giving security that he would prick no more without warrant.

[203] The full confessions of Isobel Gowdie and Janet Braidhead, being perhaps the two most remarkable witch-cases on record in Scotland, are given in Mr Pitcairn’s _Criminal Trials_, iii. 600. From these confessions, the following narration is made up.

[204] The hiatus here supplied are a consequence of mutilation of the manuscript.

[205] Stubble.

[206] _A Dismal Account of the Burning of our Solemn League and National Covenant ... at Linlithgow, May 29, 1662._ Reprinted by Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1832.

[207] Wood’s _Peerage_, quoting Morison’s _Decisions_, 5626.

[208] In those days, there being as yet no _habeas corpus_ act, it was quite common for persons suspected of crimes to lie several years untried in prison. On the 15th of February 1666, William Drew petitioned for trial or liberation, after having been _five years_ confined in Glasgow jail, on a charge of murder exhibited against him by the Laird of Keir.

[209] In Richard Baxter’s treatise on the _Divine Life_ are some consolatory remarks which he addressed on this occasion to the bereaved mother of the young earl.

[210] _View of Diocese of Aberdeen_, Spal. Club.

[211] Pepys’s _Diary_, 3d ed., ii. 408, 437.

[212] In compliance with his petition, Leslie was relieved from the duty of the collection.

[213] Men near akin to the chief.

[214] Introduction to the _Heart of Midlothian_.

[215] M‘Ure’s _Hist. of Glasgow_ (reprint), p. 166.

[216] _London Gazette_, Feb. 18, 1667.

[217] _London Gazette_, May 6, 1667.

[218] _Abbotsford Miscellany._ Mungo Murray seems to have been a lieutenant of the king’s guard, and to have enjoyed a pension of £200. See _Maitland Misc._, iii. 154.

[219] See a letter from Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone to Sir James Stewart Denham, inserted in the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels.

[220] About the time of his marriage, there are several entries regarding him in the Privy Council Record, as having contravened the law in the introduction and keeping of Irish cattle and horses.

[221] The editor of Lamont’s Diary gives the following note on George Wood’s funeral: ‘The revolting practice of attaching the corpse of a debtor seems from this entry to have been known in Scotland, even at this late period; while there does not appear to have been any legal authority for its adoption. The notion of its legality, however, still prevails among the vulgar in England; and although the late Lord Ellenborough held it to be contrary to the law of England, it was observed by the unfeeling creditors of Weivitzer the actor, and of the celebrated Richard Brinsley Sheridan. How absurd soever this notion may seem, a still more glaring error is known in the north of Scotland. It is there believed by the common people, that a widow is relieved of her husband’s debts, if she follow his corpse to the door, and, in the presence of the assembled mourners, openly call upon him to return and pay his debts, as she is unable! Strange and unfeeling as this ceremony may be, the editor recollects an instance in which it was practised by the widow of a man in good society.’[325]

[222] Sir George Mackenzie’s _Mem. Affairs Scot._, 4to, p. 183.

[223] Mackenzie’s _Mem. Affairs Scot._, p. 244.

[224] Weir had been an officer on the popular side in the Civil War. In the registers of Estates, under March 3, 1647, reference is made to a supplication of Major Thomas Weir, in which he craved payment of 600 merks due to him by an act of the Committee of Estates of date the 17th of December 1644, and also payment of what might be due to him ‘for his service as major in the Earl of Lanark’s regiment by the space of twell months, and his service in Ireland as ane captain-lieutenant in Colonel Robert Home his regiment by the space of nineteen months;’ further asking ‘that the parliament wald ordain John Acheson, keeper of the magazine, to re-deliver to the supplicant the band given by him to the said John upon the receipt of ane thousand pound weight of poulder, twa thousand weight of match, and ane thousand pound weight of ball, sent with the supplicant to Dumfries for furnishing that part of the country.’ The matter was given over to a committee.

[225] _Ravaillac Redivivus_, p. 64.

[226] _Mem. Affairs Scotland_, p. 62.

[227] See under August 1660.

[228] _Memorials_, p. 43.

[229] _Analecta Scotica_, ii. 167.

[230] Sir George Mackenzie, _Memoirs of Affairs of Scot._, p. 217.

[231] Mackenzie’s _Mem. Scot. Affairs_, p. 226.

[232] A tight body-coat, from Fr. _just-au corps_.

[233] See vol. i., p. 427.

[234] See vol. ii., p. 318.

[235] Edin. Council Record.

[236] Arnot’s _Hist. Edinburgh_, 1779, p. 598.

[237] It is usually stated that the first coffee-house in England was set up in 1654 in a shed in the church-yard of St Michael, Cornhill, by one Pasqua, a Greek, servant of Mr Daniel Edwards, a Smyrna merchant.

[238] A tall house of several stories so called in Edinburgh.

[239] Crookshanks’s _Hist. Ch. of Scot._, ii. 127.

[240] _Sketches of Perthshire_ (1812), quoted in _Letters on Demonology_.

[241] Sir George Mackenzie’s _Hist. Affairs of Scot._, p. 7.

[242] See Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 84.

[243] Balbegno is the name of a small estate in that county, near Middleton’s patrimonial property. It was bought in 1690 by Middleton’s brother.--_Wood’s Peerage._

[244] Law cites the following couplet, apparently as the last words of the apparition:

‘Plumashes above, and gramashes below, It’s no wonder to see how the world doth go.’

Plumashes are plumages; gramashes, coarse hose used as gaiters. The words seem to be used allegorically to express the two opposite conditions of life--that of the gay cavalier and the plain hard-working man.

[245] ‘Lord Middleton used to assert that a certain palmister, whom he met in his youth, had predicted his elevation to the supreme command of his country; but the end of this prediction he always concealed, which made his companions suspect it was tragical, as afterwards it did indeed prove.’--_Kirkton’s Church History._

[246] _Blackwood’s Magazine_, v. 75. Mr Hogg mis-states the year as 1620.

[247] Rec. of Justiciary, Arnot’s _Crim. Trials_, p. 138.

[248] _Answer to Scots Presbyterian Eloquence._

[249] A copy of this document, extracted from the Record of the Privy Council, is printed in full in the appendix to Pennant’s Tour. It recites that Lachlan Maclean of Broloies, Hector Og Maclean his brother, and others, had been denounced rebels for refusing to answer to the Earl of Argyle, justiciar of Argyle, for having in the preceding April assembled three or four hundred men by the fire-process (_the fiery cross_) in Mull, Moveran, and other places, and taken warlike possession of the lands of Knockersmartin, &c. It grants commission to Lord Niel Campbell, and nine other gentlemen, to raise forces and proceed in warlike manner against the rebels, assuring them that no slaughter or fire-raising they may commit will be imputed to them as a crime, provided only they give an account of their proceedings before next New-year’s Day.

[250] A daughter of Hamilton of Bardowie, in Baldernoch parish, designed to pay a visit to her sister-in-law at Hamilton, when a deaf and dumb woman, who had a year before given a remarkable warning, came to the house, and, with many signs, endeavoured to dissuade the young lady from her journey. ‘She takes her down to the yard, and cuts at the root of a tree, making signs that it would fall and kill her. That not being understood by her nor any of them, she takes her journey, the dumb lass holding her to stay. When the young gentle-woman is at Hamilton, her sister-in-law and she go forth to walk in the park; and in their walking they both come under a tree that is cut through at the root, and leaning by the top upon another tree. In that very instant, they hear it shaking and coming down; her sister-in-law turns to the right hand, and she herself flees to the left, that way that the tree fell, and so it crushed her and wounded her sore, so that she dies in two or three days’ sickness.’--_Law._

[251] _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered_, p. 4-10.

[252] The idea of familiar spirits was entertained in this age by persons of the most dignified character. In October 1675, the bishop and synod of Aberdeen were engaged in considering ‘divers complaints that some, under pretence of trances and familiarity with spirits, by going with these spirits commonly called the fairies, hath spoken reproachfully of some persons, whereof some are dead, and some living.’ The synod threatened both the _seducers_ and the _consulters_ with censure, ‘if, after admonition publicly given, they forbear not such practices, or to vent and spread such reproachful speeches, whereof the seducers are the authors.’--_A. S. R._

[253] _Analecta Scotica_, i. 117.

[254] See under July 25, 1661, and April 1, 1662.

[255] Several of the inhabitants of Mull told me, that they had conversed with their relatives that were living at the harbour when the ship was blown up, and they gave an account of a remarkable providence that appeared, in the preservation of one Dr Beaton (the famous physician of Mull), who was on board the ship when she blew up, and was then sitting on the upper deck, which was blown up entire, and thrown a good way off; yet the doctor was saved, and lived several years after.--_Martin’s Descrip. West. Isles_, 1703. See of the present work, vol. i. p. 189.

[256] _Ars Nova et Magna Gravitatis et Levitatis._ In a subsequent work, entitled _Hydrostatical Experiments_, Sinclair described a kind of diving-bell of his own invention, which he called an _Ark_.

[257] _Archæologia Scot._, iv. 437.

[258] Works of Dr Alexander Pennecuik, p. 178.

[259] The grandfather of the celebrated David Hume.

[260] The distance is seventeen miles.

[261] _A Short Account of Scotland._ Published in London in 1702.

[262] Sir Walter Scott, _Letters on Demonology_, p. 323. Sir Walter attributes the anecdote to a generation too late.

[263] See under November 1665.

[264] See under February 1589-90.

[265] Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 113.

[266] Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 157.

[267] Fountainhall.

[268] This is the traditionary account, from Sharpe’s _Notes to Kirkton’s History_, p. 182.

[269] Fountainhall.

[270] _Archæologia Scotica_, i. 499.

[271] _Historical Observes_, p. 49.

[272] See Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, _passim._

[273] Fountainhall’s _Historical Observes_, p. 62.

[274] The documents connected with this curious witch-trial are printed in the _Scots Magazine_ for 1772, and again in the same work in 1814.

[275] _Vide_ Fynes Moryson on Scottish travelling, _sub anno_ 1598.

[276] _Pace_, the weight of a clock, from Fr. _le poids_.

[277] _Swey_, a kind of crane moving on a hinge against a wall.

[278] It might have been supposed that this was a descendant of Sir Robert Bruce; but the account of the Clackmannan family in Douglas’s _Baronage_ takes no notice of such a person; and it was beyond doubt Peter de Bruis, ‘a Flandrian,’ who is mentioned several times in Fountainhall’s _Decisions_ as building a harbour at Cockenzie, and obtaining a privilege for making playing-cards.

[279] It was at its perihelion on the 17th of December, when it was only 128,000 geographical miles from the sun.

[280] _Abbotsford Miscellany_, i. 356.

[281] See vol. i. p. 421.

[282] Pamphlet on Woollen Manufactories, printed at Edinburgh in 1683.

[283] _Memorials for the Gov. of Royal Burghs in Scotland._ By Philopoliteios [Bailie Skene of Aberdeen]. Aberdeen, 1685.

[284] _Husbandry Anatomised, or an Inquiry into the Present Manner of Tilling the Ground in Scotland_, &c. By Ja. Donaldson. Edinburgh, 1697.

[285] Provost Dickison was assassinated in 1572. See vol. i. p. 81.

[286] Fount. _Decisions_, i. 189, 193.

[287] This epizootic raged also in England and other countries. It was a disease styled _Angina Maligna_ (probably _pneumonia_); a blue mist was seen on the pastures.--_Short’s Chron. Hist. of Air Meteors_, &c., 1748.

[288] This curious case is stated more briefly in the present volume, p. 227.

[289] The common men were paid at the rate of 6d. a day; drummers, 1s.; sergeants, 1s. 6d.

[290] Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 187.

[291] From original documents.

[292] Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i, 188. In January 1686, the widow of Patrick Cunningham, apothecary, successfully pursued Lady Evelick for two hundred merks, being a sum the lady had promised in writing ‘for the skaith the said Patrick suffered when her son James Douglas put fire in Harry Graham’s chamber.’--_Foun. Dec._

[293] The jail of Dumfries seems to have then been either insecure or ill-conducted. In May 1683 there was a complaint before the Privy Council from Sir Patrick Maxwell of Springkell, regarding a notorious robber named Ludovick Irving, whom he had caused to be followed to Ireland, there apprehended, and then brought to Dumfries at an expense to himself of two hundred pounds sterling. The man was first put into ‘a sure vault,’ but was removed by the magistrates into ‘ane utter room, which had no sure posts nor doors;’ so he had no difficulty in escaping. Sir Patrick claimed his expenses from the magistrates, and demanded their punishment.--_P. C. R._

[294] Strictly Wester Gledstanes, situated in the barony of Carnwath and county of Lanark.

[295] From a petition of the workmen employed in the king’s printing-office in 1678, craving exemption from watching and warding, it appears they were _fifteen_ in number.--_P. C. R._

[296] Creech’s _Fugitive Pieces_, p. 82.

[297] Letters to Earl Aberdeen (Spal. Club), p. 36.

[298] The same with Mr Thomas Stewart noticed at p. 245 of this volume.

[299] _Coltness Collections._

[300] Sir Thomas’s father, Sir James Stewart of Coltness, presided as provost of Edinburgh at the execution of Montrose. Ho suffered imprisonment after the Restoration, and is said to have been only rescued from something worse by the intercession of a cavalier gentleman whose son’s life he had saved by his humane intercession some years before.

[301] Adverted to in this volume, p. 211.

[302] The Council (April 23) ordered three hundred pounds to the Rosses out of vacant stipends; but it is most unlikely that the money or any part of it was ever realised.

[303] In April 1684, Mrs Jean Barron, relict of the minister of Birse, craved charity of the Privy Council as the daughter of Mr Robert Barron, professor of divinity at Aberdeen, who ‘having had the honour to be the first who opposed the Covenant,’ was pursued for his life and banished on that account, finally dying in exile, in such poverty that any means he might have had for the maintenance of his family was lost; nor had any benefit ever been derived from his nomination to the bishopric of Orkney, by which King Charles I. had endeavoured to recompense his sufferings. Mrs Jean was now with three fatherless children reduced to great misery, in which she humbly hoped that the Council would not allow the daughter of so great a sufferer to remain. The Council recommended her case to the Lord Treasurer.

Anna Morton represented herself to the Council (July 20, 1685) as the daughter of Mr William Morton, formerly minister of South Leith, who, in 1640, for his refusal of the Covenant, was ‘not only thrust out of his church, and plundered of all his goods and gear, but, from the violent malice of these bloody persecutors, the Covenanters, was necessitat for shelter of his life to leave his native country and fly to England, where, thereafter, through their cruel malice, he was most pitifully used, being apprehended and incarcerat within the prison of York, and continued there in a most miserable and penurious condition, to the utter ruin of himself, his family, his fortune, and estate;’ all of which was fully testified by competent witnesses. The petitioner was now a widow with a charge of children, in helpless poverty and wretchedness, all traceable to the impoverishment of her father. The Council ordered her two thousand merks out of the vacant stipends of the diocese of Argyle.

[304] The death of the old Laird of Dumbiedykes in Scott’s tale of the _Heart of Mid-Lothian_, involves an allusion to this piece of national music: ‘He drank three bumpers of brandy continuously, and “soughed awa’,” as Jenny expressed it, in an attempt to sing _Deil stick the Minister_.’

[305] See vol. i. p. 24.

[306] MS. quoted in Wilde’s Table, Census of Ireland, 1851.

[307] _Notes to Fountainhall’s Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs_, p. 5.

[308] A sugar-house was first set up in Glasgow in 1667.--_Gibson’s Hist. Glasgow._

[309] Sir Walter Scott relates this anecdote on the authority of Mrs Murray Keith.--_Notes to Fountainhall’s Chron. Notes, &c._, p. 33.

[310] ‘These’ is always used for ‘those’ in Scottish documents of this age.

[311] Fountainhall’s _Decisions_. Burnet’s History.

[312] _Statistical Account of Scotland_, vol. v.

[313] Letters to George Earl of Aberdeen (Spal. Club), p. 122.

[314] _Analecta_, i. 114.

[315] _Memoirs of Lady Grizzel Baillie._

[316] MS. in possession of Sir Hugh Purves Hume Campbell, Bart., Marchmont House.

[317] _Papers Relating to the Geographical Description, Maps, and Charts of Scotland, by John Adair. Bann. Club Misc._, ii. 345.

[318] _Papers Relating to Slezer’s Theatrum Scotiæ, in Bann. Club Misc._, ii. 307.

[319] _Scots Magazine_, Obituary, 1791.

[320] _A Short Account of Scotland_, &c. London, 1702.

[321] Called the Old Bank Close, in the Lawnmarket, where Melbourne Place now is.

[322] The earl’s first marriage to a daughter of the Marquis of Huntly--who, however, was not the mother of his children--is noticed in this volume under 1649.

[323] [Mackie’s] _Journey through Scotland_, 1723, p. 18.

[324] From an original inventory of the articles, read before the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland by Sir David Laing, in 1857.

[325] Lamont’s _Diary_ (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 212, _foot-note_.

GENERAL INDEX.

Abduction, cases of, i. 222, 419, 469; ii. 251, 319, 390.

ABERCORN, Lady, her persecution of Boyd of Trochrig, ii. 7, 8;
imprisonment in the Tolbooth, 25, 26.

Aberdeen, its relation to the Highlands of the Dee, i. 251;
remarkable trials for witchcraft in, 278-285;
election prayer of, 341;
frequent clan-combats and riots at, 384;
banqueting at baptisms forbidden, 541.
Threatened bar at mouth of harbour of, ii. 115;
its doctors, 119-121, 123-126.

Accidents, Presbyterian historian’s notes of rare, i. 444.

ACHESON and ASLOWAN, adventurers in gold-seeking, i. 18.

Actors, companies of, in Perth and Edinburgh, i. 306;
at Aberdeen, 357.
A company at Edinburgh, ii. 404.

_Acus marinus_, or sea-needle, ii. 463.

ADAIR, John, his maps of the counties of Scotland, &c., ii. 483-485.

Adulteration by Edinburgh traders, ii. 240.

AIKEN, Margaret, ‘the great witch of Balwery,’ i. 291.

AIKENHEAD, James, charged with selling amorous drugs, ii. 227.

AIRD, Robert, a distinguished Episcopalian clergyman, petition of,
ii. 281.

AIRTH, Earl of, remark of, on a Presbyterian prophetess, ii. 122;
his encounter with Graham of Duchrae, 309.

Ale, impost-duty on, ii. 253.

Algiers and Africa, collection for Scottish prisoners in, i. 124,
125, 471.
Petitions for Scottish mariners taken by pirates, ii. 93.

Anabaptists, dipping of the, ii. 213.

ANDERSON, Andrew, a trafficking papist, dies in the Tolbooth, ii.
60.

ANDERSON, Dr Patrick, his tract on _Cold Spring of Kinghorn_, i.
506.

ANDERSON, Father, banished from Scotland, i. 514.

ANDERSON, Walter, kills Archbishop Gladstanes’s cook, i. 431.

ANDERSON, Widow, the king’s printer, her petition, ii. 450.

ANGUS, Earl of, a papist, commissioned to
pacify the north, i. 234;
craves permission to go into exile, 402, 403.

ANGUS, the Good Earl of; anecdote of his last illness, i. 235.

_Apology for the Quakers_, Barclay of Urie’s, ii. 344.

Apostates, punished as adulterers, i. 140.

Apparitions, frequent, ii. 435.

Apprentices, restriction of, ii. 41.

ARDKINLAS, Laird of, his narrow escape, i. 246, 247.

ARDVOIRLICH, his dispute with Lord Kilpont, ii. 154-156.

ARDVOIRLICH, Lady of, Macgregors’ barbarous conduct to, i. 195.

ARGYLE, sixth Earl of, Lord Boyd, and other nobles, forsake Queen
Mary, i. 76.

ARGYLE, seventh Earl of, becomes a papist, i. 504.

ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, tried for qualifying the test, ii. 354;
his letter of fire and sword against the Macleans, 370-372;
his expedition and death, 469.

ARGYLE, Marquis of, beheaded, ii. 274, 275.

Arminianism, alarm for it in Scotland, ii. 1;
spread of, in England, 60.

Army, old mode of raising an, i. 36.

ARTHUR, Sir John, a priest, prosecuted, i. 23.

_Atheism, Antidote against_, Dr More’s, ii. 475.

ATHOLE, John Stewart, Earl of, entertains Queen Mary at a hunt, i.
29;
his suspicious death, 123, 124.

ATHOLE, Marquis of, his dispute with Laird of Struan, ii. 423.

Athole, witches of, warm friends of Queen Mary, i. 70;
sad account of country of, 405.

ATKINSON, Stephen, a speculator in gold-mines, i. 50, 474.

AUCHINLECK, George, of Balmanno, stabs Captain Nisbet, i. 141.

AUCHMUTY, a barber, beheaded for killing James Wauchope, i. 314.

AWIN, M., a French surgeon, complaint against, by his Edinburgh
brethren, i. 260.

BAILLIE, Memoirs of Lady Grizzel, quoted, ii. 465-467.

BALBEGNO’S ghost appears to General Middleton, ii. 364.

BALCANQUEL, of that Ilk, fined for his wife’s non-attendance at
parish church, ii. 463.

BALCARRES, Earl of, his death, ii. 296.

BALFOUR, John, a discoverer of witches, ii. 61.

----, William, a papist, his violence in St Giles’ Kirk, i. 14, 15.

BALLINDALLOCH and CARRON, Grants of, feud between, ii. 50-54.

_Band of Friendship_ entered into by Earl of Eglintoun, Earl of
Glencairn, and others, i. 118, 119.

Bankrupt or dyvour, curious proceeding regarding, i. 236.

Bankrupts, severities against, i. 392.

BANNATYNE, George, transcribes Scottish poetry, i. 57;
his arms and initials, 58.

_Banner of Revenge_, followed by a thousand mounted gentlemen, i.
363.

Baptisms, order against extravagance at, i. 541.

_Bar, backing of parties to the_, proclamation against, i. 403.
An example of it, ii. 30.

Barbadoes, white population of, ii. 305;
religionists transported as slaves to, 397.

BARCLAY, Margaret, tried for witchcraft, i. 488, 489.

BARCLAY of Collerine, his uncle’s petition, ii. 436.

Bards and minstrels, act against; two poets hanged, i. 131.

BARGENY, Laird of, his death and character,i. 293;
another Laird of, collision with the Earl of Cassillis, 311;
killed in a fight near Brig of Doon, 360.

_Barnacles_, their development into sea-birds, Sir Robert Murray’s
account of, ii. 356.

BARTAS, Sieur du, a French poet, visits Scotland, i. 173-175.

Bass, Lauder of the, and his mother, hold out against their
creditors, ii. 20.

Battle-visions, and ominous sights and sounds, superstitious
feelings regarding, ii. 146-148.

Beacons for shipping, introduction of; Isle of May light-house, i.
522, 523.

_Beardie_, great-grandfather of Sir Walter Scott, ii. 312.

_Beaver hats_, Captain Hamilton’s petition for liberty to
manufacture, ii. 453.

Bedesmen, the King’s, ancient custom regarding, i. 405.

BEDFORD, Earl of, ambassador to Scotland at baptism of King James
VI., i. 39.

Bee-house, John Geddie’s novel, ii. 323.

Beggars, strong and idle, act against, i. 131, 478.

BELHAVEN, Lord, anecdote of the blind, ii. 7.

----, Lord, curious incident in life of, ii. 249.

Bellman, formula used by the Edinburgh, ii. n. 202.

_Bessie Bell and Mary Gray_, tale of, ii. 166, 167.

Bible, first edition of the, printed in Scotland, by Arbuthnot and
Bassendyne, Edinburgh burgesses, i. 100;
difficulties of its progress through the press, 106, 107;
gratification of clergy at its completion, 131.

BIRNIE, Walter, preacher, the Privy Council’s kindness to, ii. 338.

Birthday, anniversary of Charles II.’s, held as a holiday all over
Scotland, ii. 291.

BISSET, Abacuck, maimed; anecdote of Queen Mary concerning, i. 180,
181.

_Black Band_, a conspiracy formed against Home of Wedderburn, i.
96, 97.

_Black Saturday_, why so called, i. 523.

BLACKADDER of Tulliallan, his case with Balfour of Burleigh, i.
386, 387.

BLACKBURN, Peter, Bishop of Aberdeen, his death, i. 475.

BLACKHALL, Father, narrative of his career as a priest in Scotland,
ii. 129-134.

BLAIR, Alexander, of Freirton, gives surety for improved conduct to
his wife, i. 48.

Bleeding heart prophecy, i. 145.

Blood-showers, their probable origin, ii. 199, 488, 489.

Bog an Gicht Castle, illustration, ii. 48.

Bohemian army, from 3000 to 4400 men raised in Scotland for the,
ii. 9-11.

Bond of Association between Sir Walter Scott of Branxholm and fifty
of his clan, i. 190.

Books imported from Germany duty-free, i. 194, 195.

_Borbrieffs_, or birth-letters, petitions for, ii. 325.

Border Thieves, Regent Moray’s raid against, i. 60;
Regent Morton’s raid, 88;
their immunity from the pest, 158;
James VI.’s punishment of, 293, 294;
above 140 hanged by Earl of Dunbar, 400, 422, 423;
strong effort for suppression of, 443;
120 sent to Bohemian wars, 488;
Earl of Traquair’s rigorous measures with at Jedburgh, ii. 100.

_Borrowing Days_, storm of, i. 552, 553.

Borrowstounness, curious witch-trial at, ii. 405, 406;
Sweet Singers of, 414-416.

BOTHWELL, Adam, Bishop of Orkney, letter of, on plague, i. 55;
his character, 145.

BOTHWELL, Countess of, her humble supplication to James VI., i. 243;
inconstancy of James’s favour to, 264.

BOTHWELL, Hepburn, Earl of, his abduction of Queen Mary, i. 41.

BOTHWELL, Stuart, Earl of, demands 5000 merks from city of
Edinburgh, i. 189;
his attempt to seize James VI. at Holyroodhouse, 229;
second attempt at Falkland Palace, 237;
third attempt at Dalkeith Castle, 238;
scene in James VI.’s chamber at Holyrood, 250;
his encounter with Laird of Cessford, 251;
his encounter with Lord Home, 255;
joins the papist lords, 255.

Bothwell Moor, harrying of, i. 71.

Bowmen, Charles I. raises a small troop of Highland, ii. 14.

BOYD, Janet, tried for witchcraft, ii. 31.

----, Robert, Lord, deserts the Queen’s party, i. 76;
bond of _manred_ with William Fairly, 77.

BOYD of Trochrig, suffers great persecution in Paisley, ii. 8.

_Boys, Society of the_, i. 403, 404.

BRACKLA, Laird of, murdered, i. 233.

BRAIDHEAD, Janet, the witch, extracts from her confession, ii.
285-291.

BRAND, John, beheaded for murder, i. 467.

Brandy, its importation restricted, ii. 332.

Branks, an instrument of punishment, i. 47.

_Brazen Wall_, a party of this regiment surprised by Captain Wogan,
ii. 224.

Brechin, a keeper of a hotel in, apprehended for murdering his
guests in bed, i. 78.

_Bride of Baldoon_, original of the _Bride of Lammermuir_, story
of, ii. 326-328.

Bridges and roads, ruinous state of, ii. 409.

Brimstone, vitriol, and alum, privilege of making, granted, i. 443.

BRONKHORST, a Fleming, tries to get a patent for the gold-mines of
Lanarkshire, i. 138;
acts as portrait-painter to the king, 139.

BROWN, Gilbert, ex-abbot of New Abbey, imprisoned, i. 389;
his books, &c., burnt, 422.

BROWN of Hartree, his duel with Hay of Smithfield, i. 264, 265.

BROWN, Robert, a Cambridge student; his peculiar religious
doctrines, i. 153.

_Brownism_, a tendency towards, rebuked, ii. 127, 145.

_Browster-wife_, origin of the term, i. 328.
Comic race by twelve brewster-wives, ii. 273.

BRUCE and FORESTER, of Stirlingshire, their dispute, i. 260.

BRUCE, Edward Lord, of Kinloss, his duel with Sir Edward Sackville,
i. 447-451.

BRUCE of Clackmannan, patents a coal-mine water-engine, ii. 408.

BRUCE, Peter, his patents for various machines, ii. 408;
his patent for playing-cards, 432.

BRUCE, Robert, of Clackmannan; an incident in his life, i. 240, 241.

BRUCE, Sir George, anecdote of James VI.’s visit to, at Culross, i.
485.

_Bruits_, rumours so called: their effects, ii. 4, 5.

BRUNTFIELD, Adam, slays James Carmichael in single combat, i. 286.

BUCCLEUCH, Countess of, her early marriage and death, ii. 250.

BUCCLEUCH, first Earl of, his burial-procession, ii. 73, 74.

BUCHANAN, George, tutor to James VI., i. 83;
his death and character, 149, 150.

BULMER, on Englishman, works the gold-mines in Scotland, i. 254,
255, 290.

BURGESS, Dr, his specific for the plague, ii. 164.

BURNET, Rev. John, death of, ii. 363.

Burntisland, extraordinary riot in, i. 466.
Shipping at, in time of Commonwealth, ii. 249;
Dutch ships attack, 318.

BURTON, John, his brother’s complaint against him, ii. 424.

Butchers and Vintners, outcry against extortion of, ii. 489, 490.

Cabinet-making, James Turner’s petition, ii. 396.

CAITHNESS, Earl of, beheads Alister Mac William Mor, i. 387, 388;
strife between, and Gordon and Mackay, 440-443;
his unruly conduct checked, 536-538.

CALDER, Laird of, three gentlemen receive and die of poison meant
for, ii. 146.

Caligraphy, Esther Inglis, a Frenchwoman, her MS. volumes, i.
550-552.

Camel, exhibition of a, ii. 69.

Camerons’ raid against Struan of Kinloch, ii. 308.

CAMPBELL and SMITH, a combat between, in Edinburgh, i. 72, 73.

CAMPBELL, Colin, of Glenurchy, a patron of the fine arts, ii. 62.

CAMPBELL, John, of Calder, shot by Mac Ellar, i. 246.

CAMPBELL of Moy, M‘Ranald of Glengarach’s attack on house of, i.
364.

CAMPBELL, Sir Duncan, Laird of Glenurchy, his style of living, i.
207.

CAMPBELL, Sir James, of Lawers, his thief-taking commission, ii.
381, 382.

Canongate, inhabitants of, infected by the pest, i. 56;
tavern arrangements in, 59.

CANT, Andrew, his moderatorship, ii, 181;
anecdote of, 182, 183.

_Cape of Good Hope_, the devil appears on board of a ship so
called, ii. 347.

_Cappers_, Scotch privateer vessels so called, ii. 317.

Caravan betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 393.

CARDINESS, Lady, Sir Alexander M‘Culloch’s assaults on, ii. 321.

CARGILL, Donald, his predictions, ii. 372.

CARMICHAEL, James, kills Stephen Bruntfield in a duel, i. 286.

CARNEGIE and LITHGOW, Lords, duel of, ii. 305.

CARRUTHERS, Marion, an heiress, i. 25.

CARSTAIRS, Cardinal, anecdote of the thumbikens, ii. 460.

Cart, Hamilton’s patent for a new, i. 550.

CARVET, a Romish priest, pilloried, i. 33.

_Cashielaws_, an instrument of torture, i. 273.

CASHOGLE and DRUMLANRIG, private war between, i. 520, 521.

CASSILLIS and WIGTON, Earls of, dispute between, ii. 30.

CASSILLIS, Earl of, and Kennedy of Bargeny, dispute between, i.
310, 363-366.

CASSILLIS, Earl of, marries widow of Lord Thirlstane; unmeetness of
the match, i. 293.

CASSILLIS, Gilbert, Earl of, sometimes called King of Carrick, his
extraordinary torture of Master Allan Stewart, i. 65-68.

Castle-Kennedy, anecdote of a thunder-clap at, ii. 28.

_Catastrophe Mundi_, a treatise on comets, ii. 456.

CATHCART, James, a pretended astrologer, ii. 467.

CATHKIN and LAWSON, oppose Episcopalian principles, i. 512.

Catholic missionaries, success in Switzerland, i. 515.
Catholics, see _Papists_.

Catholic nobles, driven to extremities, i. 219;
their treasonable correspondence with Spain, 244;
their sons placed under care of reformed ministers, 351;
progress of persecution against, 415-417, 421, 422, 429.
Further persecutions of, ii. 57-60, 335-338.

CHALMERS, James, his list of papists and seminary priests, ii. 283,
284.

CHANCELLOR, Susanna, accused of consulting charmers, ii. 44.

_Change-houses_, Kirke’s description of Scotch, ii. 407.

Chapel of Grace, pilgrimages to, i. 325.

CHARLES I., his baptism, i. 321.
His marriage, ii. 4;
proclamation against popery, 4;
raises troop of Highland bowmen, 14;
letter to the Scottish Council, 25;
grants commission to Lord Gordon against papists, 36-41;
his interference on behalf of papists, 57-60;
his visit to Edinburgh, 63-69;
proclamation against communion stragglers, 81;
his expeditions against Scottish Covenanters, 106;
commences the civil war, 109;
rendered up by Scottish army, 112;
his remark on death of Earl of Haddington, 137;
anecdote of Irish rebellion, 141;
his execution creates enmity between ruling powers of England and
Scotland, 174.

CHARLES II., demonstrations on birth of, ii. 41;
invited to Scotland and proceedings there, 174;
his restoration, 255;
remark on inhumane laws, 260;
joy at restoration of, 261, 266;
anecdote of his visit to James Guthrie, 276;
extraordinary demonstration at Linlithgow on his birthday, 291,
292;
his fondness for bees, 323, 324;
evils of his reign, 330, 332;
his equestrian statue in Parliament Close, 477.

Charms for healing sores, &c., i. 324.
Specimen of, ii. 153.

CHATTAN or MACINTOSH, Clan, Earl of Moray’s expedition against, i.
542, 543.

Cheviot, order against hunting in, i. 453.

CHIESLEY of Dalry shoots Sir George Lockhart, ii. 495.

CHIESLEY, William, writer in Edinburgh, punished for a cheat, ii.
445.

Child-murder, hanging of women for, &c., ii. 414.

CHISHOLMS prosecute M‘Leans for witchcraft, ii. 293, 294.

Christie’s Well, pilgrimages to, i. 323.

Christmas-day, James VI. orders keeping of, i. 426;
general disregard of, 506.
Its observance in Edinburgh, ii. 297.

Church-discipline, severity of, i. 336; ii. 196-199.

Church-lands, convention for revocation of, ii. 6.

Church matters, meeting for deliberation on, ii. 12.

Citadels, order for destroying those raised during the
Commonwealth, ii. 279.

_Clairvoyance, quasi_ case of, ii. 394.

CLARK, Alexander, provost of Edinburgh, his reception of Charles
I., ii. 63-65.

CLARK and RAMSAY, hanged for poisoning their master, ii. 373.

Clergy, their zeal and self-denying poverty, i. 132;
collisions with Edinburgh merchants, 241, 242;
their intolerance, 244;
their admonitions of James VI., and general denunciations against
common corruption of all estates of the realm, 267.
Perfect accord with the Estates, ii. 179-181.

Clothing and cloth-works in Scotland, anecdotes connected with, ii.
416-422.

Cloth-manufacture, seven Flemings engaged to set agoing; result, i.
362;
encouraged by James VI., 425.
At Newmills, near Haddington, ii. 418.

Coaches, early examples of, i. 19;
first hint at public coaches and wagons in Scotland, 431.
Street coaches, ii. 358;
stage-coaches, 218, 247, 391, 476.

Coal, early digging of, i. 24;
Countess of Sutherland first works coal of Brora, 302;
coal-works at Culross, 485;
price of coal fixed, 519;
Johnston’s licence to export, 520.

COCHRANE of Ochiltree, saved by his heroic daughter Grizzel, ii.
479.

COCKBURN, the executioner, hanged, ii. 433.

COCKIE, Isobel, burned for witchcraft, i. 280.

Cockpool, inundation of house of Old, anecdote of, ii. 17.

_Coffee-houses_, first known in Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 359-361.

Coin, attempt to raise the value of, i. 122.

COKE, William, burned for sorcery;
bill of expenses, ii. 70, 71.

COLLACE, Mr William, first regent in St Leonard’s College, i. 73.

College of Physicians, proposed in Edinburgh, i. 521.

COLQUHOUNS and MACGREGORS, battle between, i. 377, 378.

COLVILLE, Lady, imprisoned for educating her son in disloyal
principles, ii. 467.

COLVILLE, Lord, mission to France concerning the Scots Guard, i.
535.

Combat, a remarkable, i. 285;
among the last attempts to settle a dispute by, 414.

Comets, early ideas about, i. 112, 113;
appearance of a remarkable, in 1618, 505.
Appearance of one during the day, ii. 185;
in 1664 and 1665, 300-302;
in 1676, 376;
in 1680, curious notions regarding, 410-412;
Halley’s, in 1682, 444.

Communion Tuesday meetings; their object, i. 508.
Communion administered in Edinburgh after an interval of six
years, ii. 235.

CON of Achry, a papist, excommunicated by presbytery of Aberdeen,
ii. 59.

Confession of Faith, commonly called the _King’s Confession_, i.
142.

Conventicles, various persons fined for attending, ii. 334.

Copper-mine in parish of Currie, ii. 453.

Corn, great dearth of in 1567, i. 52.

CORNWALL, Archibald, hanged for poinding the king and queen’s
portraits, i. 349.

Corstorphine, frightful tragedy at village of, ii. 401-403.

Costume, court order of, i. 426.

Court of Session, suspension of, ii. 128.

COUTS, Janet, accuses eleven women of witchcraft, ii. 194, 195.

Covenant, National, signed, ii. 105, 116;
forced on people at Aberdeen, 120, 123.

Covenant, Solemn League and, made, ii. 109;
character and consequences of, 111;
forced on Lady Frendraught, 159;
opinion of royalists regarding rule of, 160, 161;
taken by Charles II., 175;
forced on Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, 191, 193;
burned at Linlithgow, 291.

Covenanters, proceedings of the, ii. 106-113, 119-121, 123-126.

_Covenanter’s Ribbon_, ii. 124.

_Cowdothe_, an epidemic so called, i. 117.

COWPER, William, bishop of Galloway, a libel against, i. 372;
his sudden death, 507, 508.

CRAIG, Marjory, hanged as a witch, ii. 377-379.

CRAWFORD and GLAMMIS, feud between, i. 117, 118.

CRAWFORD, Earl of, confined in the Tower, ii. 218;
appointed Lord Treasurer, 255.

CRAWFORD, Master of, young Edzell’s attack on, i. 405, 406.

Crawford gold-field, i. 17, 51, 253, 290, 474.

Creditors, supposed power of, over interment of the dead, ii. 328,
329.

CRICHTON of Frendraught and GORDON of Rothiemay, dispute between
ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84.

CRICHTON, Sir Robert, of Cluny, a caption used against him in
church, i. 474.

CROMBIE, Thomas, summoned for slaughter of William Blair, ii. 4.

CROMWELL, Oliver, his first visit to Edinburgh, ii. 170, 171;
crosses the Tweed with an English army, 201-207;
anecdotes of, 203, 204;
his law-commissioners for Scotland, 219;
breaks up the General Assembly, 221;
proclaimed protector, 242-244.

_Crossford visions_, Walker’s account of the, ii. 485-487.

CULTMALINDY and MONYVAIRD, feud between, i. 490.

CUMMING, Isobel, a teacher of young ladies, her petition, ii. 482.

CUNNINGHAM and CRAWFORD, Captains, harry Bothwell Moor, i. 71.

CUNNINGHAM of Robertland, murders Earl of Eglintoun, i. 161.
Poinding of his goods, ii. 340.

Cunyie-house, master of, visits England, i. 386.

Cupar (Fife), great fire at, in 1668, ii. 321.

Custom-officers and Edinburgh merchants, dispute between, ii. 299.

Customs, i. 339-342;
Spalding bewails suppression of old Christian, ii. 142.

DAES, Alexander, introduces paper-making, ii. 398;
favours the shewing of an elephant, 410;
complaint from, 432.

Dalkeith, James VI. residing at, i. 146.

Dalry paper-mills, Daes’s petition for, ii. 398.

DALRYMPLE, Janet, the unfortunate _Bride of Baldoon_, ii. 326-328.

DALRYMPLE, William, murdered by Mures of Auchindrain, i. 435-437.

Dancing, laws against, i. 338.

Danish nobles and gentlemen entertained by Edinburgh magistrates,
i. 199.

DARNLEY, Lord, i. 35-37;
his murder, 40.

DAVIDSON, William, an Edinburgh flesher, a monster-pig farrowed in
his house, i. 76.

_Day of Law_ in the reign of James VI., i. 247.

Dearths in Scotland, i. 59, 94, 99, 116, 117, 179, 180, 265, 271,
303, 304, 318, 444, 476, 530, 531, 538, 539; ii. 74, 75, 85,
134, 144, 149, 156, 185, 207, 235.

Deer slain with guns near the Border, i. 103.

Deer-hunting, the Water-poet’s description of Highland, i. 497.

_Deil stick the Minister_, anecdote of, ii. 453.

Denmark, King of, 2000 men raised in Scotland for, i. 53.

_Devil of Glenluce_, a house-infesting spirit, ii. 228-232.

DEVOE, Andrew, a dancing-master in Edinburgh, Bayne’s petition
against, ii. 384;
his complaint against the Fountains, 401.

DE VOIS, Cornelius, a gold-seeking adventurer, i. 50.

DICK, Alison, burnt for witchcraft; curious bill of expenses, ii.
70, 71.

DICK, Sir William, wealth of, ii. 183;
his history and death, 236-240.

DICK’S house of Priestfield burnt, ii. 413.

DICKISON, Provost, murdered in Peebles, i. 81.
Allusion to, ii. 480.

DICKSON, David, minister of Irvine, Stewarton Sickness takes its
rise under, ii. 43;
moderator of the General Assembly, 221.

DICKSON, John, an Englishman, hanged for slanderous speeches
against James VI., i. 273.

DICKSON, John, of Belchester, broken on the rack for murder of his
father, i. 224.

Dissection, malefactors given for, ii. 96.

Dissent, progress of Presbyterian, i. 543-545.

Divines, Assembly of, at Westminster, ii. 111.

_Diving-bell_, Maule of Melgum’s invention of the, ii. 387.

Dog dispute, tragical issue of a, ii. 478.

Dogs, acts against bringing to church, i. 342.

DONALDSON, Robert, murdered, ii. 329.

DOUGLAS, Andrew, minister of Dunkeld, tortured and hanged for
rebuking Morton, i. 80.

DOUGLAS, Colonel, diligent training of his regiment, ii. 462.

DOUGLAS, Hon. George, his quarrel with John Corsehill, ii. 478.

DOUGLAS, Janet, a deaf and dumb girl, her deceptions as a
witch-finder, ii. 376-381.

DOUGLAS, Marquis of, his difficulties with the presbytery of
Lanark, ii. 190-194.

DOUGLAS, second Marquis of, his separation from Lady Barbara
Erskine, ii. 340.

DOUGLAS, Mr Archibald, his mock-trial for concern in murder of
Darnley, i. 163.

DOUGLAS of Lochleven, his hatred of the Hamiltons, i. 100.

DOUGLAS, Sir James, of Parkhead, slays James Stewart of Newton, i.
274.

DOUGLAS, William, beheaded for concern in duel with Home of Eccles,
ii. 318.

DOUGLAS, William, stabs Thomas Lindsay, ii. 439-442.

DOWNIE, John, the pest breaks out in his ship, i. 139.

Dowries or Tochers, examples of, ii. 35.

Dragon-hole, near Perth, yearly procession to, i. 327.

Dream regarding Dunnottar Castle, i. 210.

Dress of clergymen and their wives, General Assembly’s regulations
regarding, i. 102.

Dresses of the sexes, prank of interchanging, i. 327.

Drinking, Aberdeen town-council’s order against compulsory, ii. 4.

Drinking-debauch, unfortunate issue of a, ii. 345, 346.

Dromedary, exhibition of a travelling, ii. 249.

DRUMLANRIG and CASHOGLE, private war between, i. 520, 521.

DRUMMOND, Lady Jean, her portion of 5000 merks, ii. 34, 35.

DRUMMOND of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson’s visit to, i. 500-503.

DRUMMOND, Robert, his exposure in the ‘stocks’ for adultery, i. 92.

DRUMMOND, Sir George, becomes bankrupt, ii. 479.

DRUMMONDS and OLIVER YOUNG, dispute between servants of the, i. 293.

DRURY, Sir William, threatens to destroy the town of Linlithgow, i.
63.

_Dryfe’s Sands_, clan-battle of, i. 252.

Duddingston Loch, legal case about swans on, ii. 492.

DUFF, David, outrages committed by, in a dispute about land, i. 348.

Dumbarton, Castle of, taken by surprise by the king’s party, i. 73.
Its ruinous state for national defence, ii. 18.

Dumbarton, encroachments of the sea on, i. 400.