Chapter XXVI: Part 26

Dumblane, four priests of, condemned to death for saying mass, i.
59.

Dumfries, complaint against minister and reader of, i. 95;
James VI. executes justice at, 294;
anecdote of a mission to Wigtown to purchase cattle, 304.
A papist priest taken at, ii. 11;
papist marriage at, 72;
case of poisoning at, 92;
insecurity of its jail, 442.

DUNBAR, Earl of, hangs above 140 Border thieves, i. 400;
his ecclesiastical mission to Scotland from James VI., 413;
further proceedings against Border thieves, 422, 423.

Dunbar, 300 fishermen perish at, i. 125.
Battle of, ii. 176;
the witch of, 493.

Dundee, its quarrel with Perth, i. 48;
coining at, 157;
anecdote connected with the pest, 399;
suffers under pest, 414.
Sack of, by General Monk, ii. 207;
witch case at, 330;
a jail delivery by Graham of Claverhouse, 461.

Dunfermline, great fire at, i. 542.

Dunglass Castle, dismal accident at, ii. 136.

DUNLOP, Bessie, her trial for witchcraft, i. 107-110.

DUNLOP, Thomas, a poor Quaker, persecution of, ii. 443.

Dunnottar Castle, dream regarding, i. 210.
Siege of; anecdote of regalia of Scotland, ii. 213;
Whigs confined in, 480.

Dunse, possessed woman at, ii. 43.

Dunse Law, magazine of pebbles at, ii. 126.

DUNTREATH, deaf and dumb Laird of, his divinations, ii. 384, 385.

DURIE, Gibson of, story of his kidnapping, i. 355, 356.

DURIE, John, a minister of Edinburgh; his return from banishment,
i. 148.

Dutch invasion; fleet appears at mouth of Firth of Forth, ii. 318.

Eagles, remarkable anecdotes of, ii. _n._ 268.

‘_Earth-dogs_,’ or terriers, James VI. writes to Earl of Mar for,
i. 547.

Earthquakes, i. 140, 292, 420, 454, 522; ii. 241.

Easter Sunday, communion on, disinclination of the people to
kneeling, i. 509.

Ecclesiastical discipline, i. 336-338.
Its bearing on the habits of the people, ii. 156-161.

Echt, Barmkyn of, strange sounds heard at, ii. 115.

Eclipses of the sun, i. 296; ii. 215.

Economy, traits of the public, i. 345-347.

Eddy-pool of Water of Brechin, drying up of, ii. 75.

Edinburgh, effects of the civil war on, i. 79-81, 87, 88;
spirited resistance to Earl of Bothwell, 189;
filthiness of, in 1617, 486.
Charles I.’s visit to; his reception, ii. 63-69;
taxes, poverty, vanity, and debt of, 235, 236, 247;
three fires at, on one Sunday, 487.
_See whole work passim._

Edston-haugh, near Peebles, duel at, i. 265.

EDZELL, Laird of, his attack on Master of Crawford, i. 405, 406.

Eels, thousands of dead, cast on banks of North Loch, ii. 234.

Eggs, act against exporting, i. 467.

EGLINTOUN and GLENCAIRN, Earls of, feud between, i. 394, 395.

EGLINTOUN, Earl of, murdered by Cunningham of Robertland, i.
161-163.

Egyptians, Privy Council’s order against, ii. 54.

ELDER, James, a baker, tried for usury, ii. 298.

Elephant, the first seen in Scotland, ii. 410.

Elgin Cathedral, choir of, destroyed by a high wind, ii. 114;
casting down of timber-screen of, 138.

ELIZABETH, Queen, sends a hostile army against Queen Mary’s friends
in Scotland, i. 61;
another, 85;
intelligence of her death brought to King James, 381.

ELPHINSTONE, George, a Glasgow bailie, violent attacks against, i.
90.

ELPHINSTONE, Sir George, his dispute with Sir M. Stewart at
Glasgow, i. 396-398.

English judicature at Leith, impartiality of, ii. 215.

English soldiers, their description of the Highlands, ii. 218;
their contempt for stool of repentance, _ibid._

English, their jealousy of the Scotch in reign of James VI., i.
432-434.

Entry-money at taking service, Privy Council’s proclamation
against, i. 489.

Episcopacy introduced by James VI., i. 379, 394, 415, 426, 428,
480, 523; ii. 1, 2;
abrogated, 106;
re-established, 256;
finally abolished, 474.

Equinoctial gale of 1606, devastating effects of, i. 392.

Ericht, subscription for building a bridge over river, ii. 54.

ERROL, Earl of, makes his peace with Kirk of Aberdeen, i. 288;
trait of his domestic circumstances, 466.
His death, ii. 55.

ERSKINE, Robert, with his three sisters, condemned to death for
poisoning his two nephews, i. 452.

Eskdale Muir denuded of sheep, ii. 367.

Estates and Clergy, perfect accord between, ii. 179-181.

Evelick, singular boy-murder near, ii. 439.

_Ewe and Lamb_, a kidnapping ship so called, ii. 359.

Excommunicated persons, Privy Council’s measures against, ii. 18,
20-28, 36-41.

Excommunication, i. 336;
pronounced against Marquis of Huntly, 417.
Dealt out liberally, ii. 173;
of a gardener revoked by James VII., 482.

FAAS, gipsies, a number of, executed, i. 476.

Falkirk and Stirling, sixteen farms between, buried in moss, ii. 35.

Falkland and Holyrood, improvement on the palaces of, for king’s
visit, i. 476.

Famine in 1563, i. 25;
severity of, in 1623, 538, 539.
See _Dearths_.

FARQUHAR, Robert, a rich Aberdeen merchant, his loans to the state,
ii. 181;
story of, 182.

FARQUHARSON of Inverey, his fine of £4000 [Scots?], ii. 184.

Fast-day in Old Aberdeen, in 1644, a reality, ii. 154.

FAW, Moses, a gipsy, his petition granted, i. 426.

FAWS and the SHAWS, battle between, ii. 388.

Female Remonstrants in Parliament Close, strange scene with, ii.
369.

FENELON, Sieur de la Motte, a French ambassador, i. 151.

_Fiacre_, origin of application of the term to hackney-coaches, i.
324.

FIAN, John, schoolmaster at Prestonpans, burnt as a wizard, i. 211,
212.

FIELDING, Beau, and two Scotch gentlemen, drink three horrid
toasts, ii. 381.

_Fiery-cross_, the Macleans raise 300 men by the, ii. _n._ 371.

Fife and Kinross, enormous sacrifices made by counties of, to
resist Cromwell’s invasion, ii. 206.

Fines, Scottish Estates impose severe, ii. 183, 184;
for attending conventicles, 334.

FINNIE, Agnes, burnt for witchcraft, ii. 149-153.

Fire-engine for Glasgow, first, ii. 244.

Fires on Midsummer and St Peter’s Eves, i. 326.

Fish, white, destroyed by dog-fish; Spalding’s idea of, ii. 144.

Fishermen, Earl of Errol’s petition against, ii. 458.

Fishing Society, formation of a, ii. 330, 331.

FLECK, George, reveals where the Earl of Morton’s treasure lay, i.
142.

FLEMING, Lord, his marriage celebrated, i. 29;
sufferings in the civil war, 1570, 62.

Flesh, use of, forbidden by Privy Council, i. 50.

FLETCHER, Christian, saves the regalia of Scotland, ii. 214.

Flood in the Tay, remarkable, i. 525-527.

_Florida_, one of the Spanish Armada vessels, blown up, ii. 386-388.

Foot-race, curious, of twelve brewsterwives, and sixteen fishwives,
ii. 273.

Foot-soldiers, five companies raised by Charles II., ii. 296.

FORBES, Dr, bishop of Edinburgh, i. 544.

----, of Corse, banishment of, ii. 146;
his corpse refused burial in his own ground, 451.

FORBES, Master of, and GEORGE LESLIE, fight between, ii. 134.

FORBES of Leslie, his prosecution of Farquharson of Inverey, ii.
184.

FORBES of Tolquhoun and OGILVIE of Forglen, dispute between, ii.
477.

FORESTER, a bailie of Stirling, rare form of his funeral, i. 260.

FORRESTER, Lord, murdered by his mistress, ii. 401.

Forth, Firth of, alarm of invasion from vessels appearing in, ii.
15.

FOULIS, Lady, extraordinary trial of, for witchcraft, i. 202-205.

FOULIS, Thomas, an Edinburgh goldsmith;
his gold, silver, and lead mines, i. 252-254, 290;
a creditor of James VI., 295, 296.

FOUNTAINS, two brothers, their patent as _Masters of the Revels_,
ii. 400, 459.

France, differences between Great Britain and, ii. 12.

FRASER, Helen, burnt for witchcraft, i. 280.

----, Janet, strange phenomenon on her Bible, ii. 488.

FRASER, Lord, and Laird of Philorth, dispute between, ii. 99, 100.

FRASER of Kirkhill, extracts from his diary, ii. 241.

FRASER’S view of the customs of the Highlanders, ii. 383.

FRENCH, Adam, of Thornydykes, his abduction, i. 469.

French language, town-council of Edinburgh patronise the teaching
of, i. 94.

French Protestants, contributions for, i. 102;
warmly entertained in England and Scotland, 163.

FRENDRAUGHT and ROTHIEMAY, dispute between, ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84,
98.

FRENDRAUGHT, Lady, falls under discipline of presbytery of
Strathbogie, ii. 158-160;
persecution of, 335.

Frolics and masqueradings, i. 327-329.

Frosts, great, in 1570-1-2-3, i. 72, 84, 457;
freezing of several rivers in Scotland; a fair held upon the ice
on the Thames, 409.
Frost of 1683, ii. 454.

Gallow-lee, five _phanatiques_ hanged at the, ii. 428.

GEDDES, Jenny, supposed heroine who cast the first stool at the
bishop, ii. 103.

GEDDIE, John, his novel bee-house, ii. 323.

General Assembly, fasts for _steerage_ from papists, i. 196;
held in 1608, 416.
Covenanting assembly at Glasgow, ii. 106;
suppression of, by order of Cromwell, 221, 222.

GER, John Dhu, an outlaw, outrages of, ii. 121, 128, 135, 263.

German legions, unscrupulous recruiting of, in Scotland, ii. 13.

GIBB, Muckle John, chief of the Sweet Singers of Borrowstounness,
ii. 415.

GIBSON, Alexander, kidnapped, i. 355.

----, Anna, abduction of, ii. 319.

GILDEROY, with nine caterans, executed, ii. 96-98.

GILLON, James, condemned for a riot, i. 9.

Gipsies, their first appearance in Scotland; act against, i. 84;
severities against, six hanged, 476;
their harbourage at Roslin, 539.
Edict against, ii. 54;
some in Haddington jail, ordered to be hanged and drowned, 99.

_Girdle_ for baking invented in Culross, ii. 493.

GIRVANMAINS, Laird of, kills M‘Alexander of Drumachryne, i. 310,
311.

GLADSTANES, Archbishop, his cook killed, i. 431.

GLADSTANES, Marion, nearly poisons Nicolas Johnston, ii. 92.

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

GLAMMIS, Lords, and LINDSAYS of Forfarshire, feud between, i. 312,
313.

GLANVIL’S _Saducismus Triumphatus_, ii. 476.

Glasgow, an earthquake in, i. 64;
Smith’s excerpts from burgh records, 88-92;
attempt to demolish its cathedral, 122, 123;
tumult in 1606, 395-399.
Great fire at, ii. 216;
interesting incidents connected with, 244, 245, 247;
another fire at, 389;
a cloth manufactory set up in, 445;
subscription for a fire at Kelso, 458.

Glass-manufacture, patent granted for, i. 432.

----work in Wemyss, Fife, the first known in Scotland, i. 510, 511.

GLEN, James, fined for publishing the _Root of Romish Ceremonies_,
ii. 490.

GLENCAIRN and EGLINTOUN, Earls of, feud between, i. 394, 395.

Glengoner, gold-digging in, i. 18, 152, 253.

_Glenluce, Devil of_, incidents in history of the, ii. 228-232.

_Gloucester_ frigate, shipwreck of the, ii. 405, 439.

_God and the King_, a book so called, i. 474.

_God’s Blessing_, a shaft of Hilderstone silver-mine so called, i.
412.

GOGAR, MILLER, and SANGSTER, hanged, ii. 422.

Gold and silver, licence to search for, i. 50.

----, exportation of, forbidden, i. 107.

---- mines in Lanarkshire, i. 17, 50, 152, 253.

_Golden Assembly_, why so called, i. 428.

Goldsmiths, the Edinburgh, historic importance of, i. 253.

_Goodman’s Croft_, the, act against, i. 324, 325.

GORDON, Adam, sets fire to Alex. Forbes’s house, and burns his
lady, children, and servants--twenty-seven in all, i. 75.

GORDON, Adam, and FRANCIS HAY, combat between, i. 468.

GORDON and MACKAY, strife between, and Earl of Caithness, i.
440-443.

GORDON, Jean, _divorcée_ of Bothwell; her coal and salt works at
Brora, i. 302.
Pleasing character of, ii. 30.

GORDON, Lord, commander of French Scots Guards, i. 535, 536.
His commission against excommunicated papists, ii. 36-41.

GORDON, Mr James, a Jesuit, James VI. reasons with, i. 182.

GORDON of Craig, banished for papistry, i. 545, 546.
His petition to the Council, ii. 38;
petitions Charles I., 59.

GORDON of Dunkintie and his eldest son slain, ii. 69.

GORDON of Enbo, his quarrel with Sutherland of Duffus, ii. 5, 6.

GORDON of Gight, revenges his brother’s death, i. 468.

GORDONS OF GIGHT, persecuted for papistry,
i. 352, 353, 403, 404;
outrage by, at Turriff, 354;
strange act at Aberdeen, 468.

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

GORDON, Sir Robert, sent against Earl of Caithness, i. 536-538.

GORDON, William, his contempt of presbytery, ii. 160.

Go-summer and go-har’st, definition of, ii. _n._ 79.

GOULD, Mr William, his representations to Council against papists,
ii. 59, 60.

GOURLAY, Agnes, punished for charming the milk of kine, ii. 188.

GOURLAY, John, customer, i. 195.

----, Robert, punished for exporting grain, i. 93;
Regent Morton confined in his house, 143;
king lives in same house, 255;
illustration, 554.

GOWDIE, Isobel, the witch, her confession, ii. 286-291.

GOWRIE, Earl of, arrives with his brother in Edinburgh from Padua,
i. 313;
their attempt on life of James VI., 319.

Gowrie treason, anniversary of, a holiday, i. 408.

_Grace, Act of_, its effects, ii. 225.

GRAHAM, Bessie, executed for witchcraft, ii. 187, 188.

GRAHAM, Helen, an heiress, abduction of, i. 470.

GRAHAM, Mr John, of Hallyards, and Sir JAMES SANDILANDS, litigation
between, i. 245.

GRAHAM of Claverhouse, imports cloth for his soldiers, ii. 419;
entreats mild punishment for ordinary crimes, 461;
his conduct at the Revolution, 473.

GRAHAM of Duchrae, his encounter with Earl of Airth, ii. 309.

GRAHAM of Inchbrakie, postmaster-general for Scotland, ii. 316, 317.

GRAHAM, Patrick, Captain of Town Guard of Edinburgh, ii. 420, 438.

GRAHAM, Richard, a wizard, worried and burnt at Cross of Edinburgh,
i. 235.

Grain and fruit, abundance of, ii. 293.

GRAINGER, Mrs, saves the Scottish regalia, ii. 214.

GRANT, memoir of the family of; traditionary anecdote, i. _n._ 234.

GRANT of Carron and GRANT of Ballindalloch, feud between, ii. 50-54.

GRANT, younger of Ballindalloch, presents M‘Grimmen’s head to the
Council, ii. 85.

GRAY, James, his forcible abduction of the daughter of John
Carnegie, i. 222.

GRAY, James, a lieutenant in the Midlothian Militia, beheaded, ii.
395.

GREG, John, singular persecution of, ii. 99.

GREGOR, Clan, proclamation against, i. 524.

_Greybeard_, a Dutchman, works valleys of Wanlock-head for gold, i.
51.

Greyfriars, influence of, i. 3.

GRIEVE, a maltman, murdered by his son, ii. 293.

GRIEVE, Thomas, accused of curing disease by witchcraft, i. 540,
541.

GUELDRES, Mary de, re-interment of her supposed remains, i. _n._
222.

GUILD, William, convicted of stealing, i. 14.

_Guinea_, a gold coin so called, ii. 114.

Gunpowder, manufacture of, ii. 11.

---- Plot, general joy in Scotland at detection of, i. 391.

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, 6000 Scots go to assistance of, ii. 55-57.

GUTHRIE, Bishop, preaches before Charles I., ii. 67.

GUTHRIE, James,beheaded; anecdotes of, ii. 275-277.

GUTHRIE, John, minister of Perth, marries a couple of thirteen, i.
505.

GUTHRY, Helen, admonishes James VI. of his duty, i. 236, 237.

Hackney-coach licensed between Leith and Edinburgh, ii. 264.

HAITLY of Mellerstanes, slain by his father-in-law, i. 372.

_Halkit Stirk_, a Highland robber so called, apprehended by Laird
of Grant, ii. 263;
committed to the Tolbooth, 343.

_Halley’s Comet_ in 1682, ii. 414.

Hallucinations, curious religious, ii. 313-315.

HAMILTON, a soldier, resolves to challenge Captain Bruce, i. 549.

HAMILTON, Alexander, a warlock, worried and burnt, ii. 32, 33.

HAMILTON, Archibald, a spy for Cromwell, hanged in chains, ii. 205.

HAMILTON, David, younger of Bothwell-haugh, complaint against, i.
347.

HAMILTON, James,of Bothwell-haugh, shoots the Regent Moray, i. 60.

HAMILTON, John, archbishop, keeps up the rites of the Catholic
church, i. 23;
hanged at Stirling, 73.

HAMILTON, Lords John and Claud; their conduct to old Carmichael and
Laird of Westerhall, i. 99.

HAMILTON, Lord John, his narrow escape from town-guards’ volley of
honour, i. 238.

HAMILTON, Marquis (subsequently Duke) of, raises 6000 Scots for
Gustavus Adolphus, ii. 55-57;
his expedition in 1648, 113, 170.

HAMILTON, Mr Robert, minister of St Andrews, writes down Knox’s
prediction about Kirkaldy of Grange, i. 85.

HAMILTON, Patrick, his attack on Abacuck Bisset, i. 180.

HAMILTONS of Livingstone, lawless acts of, i. 258.

Hammerman, an Edinburgh, 1555, illustration, i. 10.

_Hand-fasting_, a custom so called, i. 335.

_Hardheads_, base coin so called in Scotland, act against, i. 101.

Hares, singular visit of, to city of Edinburgh, ii. 228.

HART and NORTON, booksellers, petition for liberty to import German
books duty-free, i. 194.

HART, Andro, printer of Napier’s Logarithms, i. 455.

HART, John, printer, his edition of the Bible, ii. 41.

Harvests, plentiful, ii. 222, 226.

Hawking, James VI.’s love of this sport, i. 391.

HAY, Francis, and ADAM GORDON, combat between, i. 468.

HAY, Lord, of Yester, his conduct to Brown of Frosthill, i. 256.

HAY, Lord, of Yester, brother of the preceding, his widow founds a
church in Edinburgh, i. _n._ 264.

HAY, Margaret, forcible abduction of, i. 223.

Heiresses under twelve years, fines for marrying, ii. 251.

HENDERSON, Robert, a baxter’s boy, burnt for fire-raising, i. 155.

HENDERSON, Robert, his wonderful cures, i. 24.

HEPBURN, George, his duel with Brown of Hartree, i. 264, 265.

HEPBURN, Robert, a partisan of Queen Mary, i. 68.

HEPBURN, James, of Moreham, his duel with Birnie, a skinner in
Edinburgh, i. 285.

HEPBURN, Thomas, murder of, ii. 284.

Heraldry, Scottish touchiness regarding, i. 393.

HERES, Peter Groot, a German, receives a licence for paper-making,
i. 194.

HERIOT, George, founder of Heriot’s Hospital, i. 253.

HERIOT, William, becomes cautioner for repentance of George Heriot,
i. 59.

Heriot’s Hospital, solemn dedication of, ii. 253;
barber-chirurgeon dispute, 342.

Hermaphrodite, a, hanged at Edinburgh, ii. 220.

HERTSYDE, Margaret, her prosperity and adversity, i. 412.

Hesse’s eldest son, Landgrave of, visits Edinburgh, i. 530.

HIGGINS, an Englishman, reprints the _Mercurius Politicus_ at
Leith, ii. 272.

High Commission Court established, i. 428.

---- School boys of Edinburgh, mutiny of, i. 261-264.
Illiberality of master of, to private teachers, ii. 426.

Highland and Border incursions, i. 310.

---- bowmen, Charles I. raises a small troop of, ii. 14.

Highland _spraichs_, ii. 262.

Highlanders, pure loyalty of the, ii. 178, 179.

Highlands, rude condition of, i. 164, 378; ii. 306-311.
Scarcity of schools in, 179.

Hilderstone silver-mines, i. 411, 412.

Hill, a musician, his abduction of Marion Foulis, ii. 227.

Hirsel, tragical incident at the, ii. 455.

HOGG, James, account of ‘Thirteen Drifty Days,’ ii. 366.

Holidays and popular plays, i. 326, 327.

Holland, war with, causes stagnation of trade, ii. 302.

HOLSTEIN, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. 298.

Holyrood and Falkland, improvements on the palaces of, for king’s
visit, i. 476.

Holyrood Palace, as before the Fire of 1650, illustration, ii. 205;
a popish chapel, college, and printing-office in, 483.

HOME, David, of Wedderburn; his son’s portraiture of, i. 95-99.

HOME, Jean, of Ayton, her abduction and marriage to George Home,
ii. 390.

HOME, Lady, of Manderston, tried for witchcraft, ii. 33.

HOME, Lord; slaughter of Bailie Lauder, i. 300.

HOME, Sir George, of Wedderburn; sketch of his character by David
of Godscroft, i. 119-122.

HOME, William, stabs Johnston of Hilton, ii. 455.

HOPE, Sir Thomas, extracts from his Diary, ii. 148.

HOPPRINGLES and ELLIOTS in Edinburgh, day of law between, i. 71.

Horse, exhibition of a dancing, ii. 247.

Horse-racing in Scotland, early practice of, i. 103, 410, 514.
Every Saturday at Leith, ii. 273.

Horses, act preventing exportation of, i. 47.

House-painter craves permission to set up in Glasgow, ii. 247.

HUME, Sir Patrick, of Polwarth, his remarkable hiding-place and
escape, ii. 464-467.

Huntingtower Well, supposed sanative qualities of, i. 322.

HUNTLY, fifth Earl of, his mysterious death, i. 103-106.

HUNTLY, sixth Earl (subsequently first Marquis) of, marriage to
Lady Henrietta Stuart, i. 184;
slaughter of Bonny Earl of Moray, 230-236;
makes his peace with the kirk at Aberdeen, 288;
his rental sheet, 315-317;
excommunicated as an apostate papist, 417;
relieved from excommunication, 429;
Orders of Privy Council against, ii. 20-28, 36-41;
his death and character, 89-92.

HUNTLY, Marchioness of, her mourning procession to Charles I., ii.
69;
persecuted and exiled as a Catholic, 139.

HUNTLY, second Marquis of, marriages of his daughters, ii. 134;
beheaded, 178.

HUNTLY, fourth Marquis of, decree ordering him to be separated from
his mother, ii. 311.

Idolatry, act against, i. 147.

Illusions of sight and sound, curious, ii. 313-315.

Importation of goods, decree against, i. 458.

‘Incest,’ trials, and severe punishment of cases so called, ii. 28,
29.

Independents in civil war, ii. 111.

_Indian Emperor_, Dryden’s prologue to the, ii. 404.

INGLIS, Esther, her beautiful handwriting, i. 550.

INNES, Alexander, slays Innes of Peithock; beheaded, i. 110-112.

INNES, tragedy, the, i. 134-137.

Insane, treatment of the, in past times, ii. 424.

Interregnum, 1649-1660, ii. 174-254.

Inundation and violent tempest, memorable, ii. 17.

Invasion, alarm of, from vessels in Firth of Forth, ii. 15;
fear of, 18;
by the Dutch fleet, 318.

Inverness-shire, sad account of, in 1666, ii. 308.

IRELAND, Alexander, minister of Kincleven, his complaint against
Sir John Crichton, of Innernytie, i. 390.

_Irish Ague_, an epidemic so called, ii. 199.

Irish beggars, order against, ii. 34.

---- rebellion, anecdote of Charles I., ii. 141.

‘Iron yetts’ of the Border thieves, i. 401.

IRVINE of Drum, his dispute with presbytery of Aberdeen, ii.
210-212.

IRVING, Francis, imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for a papist
riot, ii. 338-340.

ISLAY and KINTYRE, Lords of, tale of commotion between, i. 164-168.

JACK, Robert, merchant, hanged for coining, i. 48.

JAFFRAY, Alexander, an Aberdeen magistrate, ii. 96.

JAFFRAY, Grizzel, executed for witchcraft; affecting anecdote of
her son, ii. 330.

JAMES VI., his birthplace, i. 38;
writes to lords of secret council, 122;
his formal visit to Edinburgh, 126, 129-131;
sets up the doctrine of the divine right of kings, 127;
a _guise_ or _fence_ played before him at St Andrews, 138;
his gay mood after Morton’s death, 146;
policy with French ambassadors, 151;
his _Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie_, 154;
his opinion of the pest, 154;
anecdote of Bothwell-haugh, 163;
orders prayers for his mother, 170;
his grief at her death, 171;
his visit to St Andrews with Du Bartas the French poet, and
disputation with Andrew Melville, 173-175;
his attempt to reconcile his nobles, 177, 178;
writes to Denmark about grain, 179;
reasons with Mr James Gordon, a Jesuit, 182;
anecdote of Spanish Armada, 185;
in expectation of his Danish bride, writes pressing letters for
contributions, 192-200;
sets sail for Denmark to bring her home, 193;
his arrival with the queen at Leith, 196;
her reception in Edinburgh, 196-199;
supposed groundwork of his _Demonology_, 212,
quoted, 306;
his imbecility amidst his rude courtiers, 221;
remonstrates with two Edinburgh ministers, 224;
admonished by James Davidson, minister, for failures in
king-craft, 227;
his grudge against the ministers, 236;
admonished by Helen Guthry, 236;
Earl of Bothwell’s first, second, and third attempts to seize his
person, 229, 237, 238;
commissions Lord Ochiltree to seize the house of Row as a
manufactory of false coin, 239;
anecdote of courtship of Earl of Mar, 243;
again in bad odour with clergy, 243-245;
scene with Bothwell in his chamber at Holyrood, 250, 251;
Thomas Foulis his Bank of England, 253;
his queen delivered of a prince, 255;
his fear of Bothwell, 255;
inconstancy of his favour to Countess of Bothwell, 264;
his proclamation against forestallers, 266;
attempts to reconcile his hostile nobles, 266, 267;
admonitions from clergy, 267, 268;
his edict against, 275;
its consequences, 276, 277;
revokes commissions against witchcraft, 291;
Melville’s _Dix-huitaine_, 291;
hangs a number of Border thieves, 293;
his debts to Edinburgh goldsmiths, 294, 95;
nearly drowned on returning to Falkland from a General Assembly,
314;
Gowrie conspiracy, 319;
his restriction on number of persons entering Stirling Castle,
320;
letter to laird of Dundas, 322;
made a burgess of Perth, 348;
poinding of his and the queen’s portraits, 349;
his proclamation at Dumfries, 368;
death of Queen Elizabeth, 381;
his fondness of hawking, 391, 392;
his unfortunate silver-mine adventure, 411, 412;
his episcopal innovations, 415-417;
persecution of Catholics, 421, 422;
encourages cloth-making, 425;
orders keeping of Christmas-day, 426;
acknowledged head of the Kirk, 428;
his reply about ‘beggarly Scots,’ 433;
unrelenting towards satirists, 453;
his ideas of free-trade, 459;
Lord Melville’s letter to, 473;
his visit to Scotland, 479-486;
his disputations with Edinburgh professors, 483-485;
anecdote of visit to Culross coal-mines, 485;
his declaration regarding Sunday sports, 491;
his interest in the pearl-fishery, 518;
his _Counterblast to Tobacco_, 532;
his letter to his Scottish councillors about _liberty of
conscience_, 533;
his picture falls from hall of Linlithgow Palace, 536;
his death, 552.

JAMES VII., his residence at Holyroodhouse, ii. 403;
gives balls, plays, and masquerades, 404;
plays golf on Leith Links, 405;
Mons Meg fired in honour of, 409;
his act for encouragement of trade and manufactures, 417;
Earl of Roscommon’s prologue to, 429;
nearly drowned, 439;
flies to France, 494.

JAMESON, George, the Scottish portrait-painter, ii. 62, 63.

Jedburgh, attempt made to proclaim Queen Mary at, i. 75.

Jesuits in Scotland, i. 182;
fast held for discovery of, 465, 466.

JOHNSTON, Agnes, executed for murder of her grand-niece, ii. 367.

JOHNSTON, Janet, excommunicated; anecdote of her _accouchement_,
ii. 19.

JOHNSTON, Laird of, and Lord John Maxwell, feud between, i. 155,
251, 301.

JOHNSTON, Laird of, shot by Lord Maxwell, i. 410.

JOHNSTON, Nicolas, Marion Gladstanes nearly poisons, ii. 92.

JOHNSTON of Hilton, stabbed by William Home, ii. 455.

JOHNSTON, Sir Archibald, his prayers, ii. 148;
executed, 256.

JONSON, Ben, his visit to Scotland, i. 499-503.

JOP, Peter, a sailor, his petition to Privy Council on behalf of
his papist wife, ii. 140.

_Jougs_, James Middleton threatened with the, ii. 160;
illustration, 501.

Jugglers and the steeple-trick, i. 303.

_Kate the Witch_ assails Sir F. Walsingham, i. 152.

KEITH, Robert, attempts to take forcible possession of the Abbey of
Deir, i. 209.

KELLO, John, minister of Spott, executed for the murder of his
wife, i. 68.

Kelso burnt down in 1645, ii. 163;
again in 1684, 457.

KENMURE, Lord, a partisan of Charles II., ii. 222.

KENNEDY, a notary in Galloway, mysterious circumstance regarding,
i. 492.

KENNEDY of Bargeny and Earl of Cassillis, dispute between, i. 311,
360-363.

KENNEDY, Quentin, disputation with John Knox at Maybole, i. 21.

KENNEDY, Sir Thomas, of Colzean, his feud with Mure of Auchindrain,
i. 277, 360-363, 366-368, 435-437.

KER, James, a barber, his petition, ii. 399.

---- of Kersland, leader of an Edinburgh mob for burning popish
relics, ii. 500.

KERR, a blacksmith, hanged, i. 385.

---- of Cessford, act of penitence for murder of Scott of
Buccleuch, i. 27.

KERR, Robert, younger of Cessford, his encounter with Earl of
Bothwell, i. 251.

KERR, Thomas, killed by Turnbull at Jedburgh, i. 320.

KILBIRNIE, Lady, and her husband, die of a pestilential fever, ii.
409.

Kilmarnock completely destroyed by fire in 1668, ii. 321.

KILPONT, Lord, his dispute with Ardvoirlich, ii. 154-156.

KINCAID, John, of Craig House, fined 2500 merks for abduction of
Isobel Hutcheon, i. 223.

KINCAID, John, a _pricker_ of witches, ii. 278, 285.

KINCAID of Warriston, murdered at instigation of his wife, i. 317.

_Kindness_, a sickness so called, i. 137.

King, clergy cease praying for the, ii. 235.

_Kingdom’s Intelligencer_, remarkable advertisement in the, ii. 272.

King’s evil, Charles I. touches 100 persons for, ii. 67.

_Kinmont Willie_, Buccleuch’s gallant relief of, i. 269-271.

KINNOUL, first Earl of, his funeral-procession, ii. 88.

KINTAIL, Mackenzie (subsequently Lord) of, a royal commission given
to him and retracted, i. 256;
bond of friendship with Earl of Huntly, 316;
his quarrel with Macdonald of Glengarry, 369-372;
his dispute with Macleod of Raasay, 437-439;
obtains possession of island of Lewis, 424.

KINTYRE and ISLAY, Lords, tale of commotion between, i. 164-170.

KIRK, Robert, minister of Aberfoyle, his translations and Essay on
Fairies, &c., ii. 361-363.

KIRKALDY of Grange, his defence of Edinburgh Castle, i. 82;
hanged by Regent Morton, 85-87.

KIRKE, Thomas, account of Scotland by, ii. 407.

KIRKPATRICK, younger, of Closeburn, Lady Amisfìeld contrives his
escape from prison, i. 427.

KIRKTON, Rev. James, his praise of the morals of Scotland in 1650,
ii. 197.

KNOX, John--disputation at Maybole, i. 21;
his second marriage, 28;
ridiculous rumours about, 69;
Melville’s recollections of, 74;
his prediction of Kirkaldy of Grange’s death, 85-87.

Lamb, its use forbidden by Privy Council, i. 458.

_Lamentation of Lady Scotland_, i. 79.

LAMMIE, Captain, his ensign of white taffety, i. _n._ 155.

Lanark, presbytery of, its severity with the Douglas family, ii.
191;
deals with eleven witches, 194, 195.

Largo, expense of building a hospital at kirk-town of, ii. 302, 303.

LASCARY, a Grecian priest, visits Scotland, ii. 395.

Latin, a licence required to teach, ii. 426.

LAUDER, William, murder of, i. 300.

LAUDERDALE, Earl (subsequently Duke) of, his account of the
possessed woman of Dunse, ii. 43, 44;
great influence of, 348;
a beggar stabbed at his funeral, 447.

LAWSON and CATHKIN oppose Episcopalian principles, i. 512.

LAWSON, Sir James, of Humbie, drowned, i. 439.

Lawsuits, curious custom regarding, i. 434.

LAWTIE, David, writer, attacked by Thomas Douglas, i. 72.

Lead-mines of Lanarkshire, i. 254, 290.

LEARMONT of Balcomie, anecdote of, i. _n._ 309.

Leather, tanning of, its introduction, i. 516.
Ornamental, ii. 427.

_Lee Penny_ or _curing-stone_, of Lockhart of Lee, ii. 31.

LEES, Thomas, burnt as a wizard, i. 280.

_Legend of Montrose_, original story of, ii. 154-156.

LEITCH, Andrew, minister of Ellon, strange visions of, ii. 147.

Leith, English judicature at, ii. 215;
a whale at, 218;
revenue of port in 1656, 248.

Leith Roads, sea-fight between a Spanish ship and two Dutch
waughters in, i. 529.

LENNOX and MAR, Regents; Lennox’s oration to the nobility at the
parliament of Stirling, i. 76;
death of Mar, 81.

LENNOX, Duke of, forced to leave the kingdom, i. 148.

LENNOX, young Duke of, his abduction of Lady Sophia Ruthven, i. 222.

Leprosy, its early prevalence in Scotland, i. 226.

LESLIE and M‘KAY raise men for Bohemian army, ii. 9-11.

LESLIE, Capuchin, called the ‘Archangel,’ his character, ii. 40, 41.

LESLIE, George, and Master of Forbes, fight between, ii. 134.

LESLIE, George, sheriff-clerk of Inverness-shire, his petition, ii.
307, 308.

Letter-post, establishment in Scotland of a regular, ii. 85-87.

LEVEN, Earl of, a funeral-sermon preached for, ii. 299.

Lewis, attempts to plant Lowlanders in, i. 308, 309, 388, 389, 424.

LEYS, Tutor of, a Quaker, his nephew restored to him, ii. 313.

Libel, repentance made in church for, i. 372.

Licentious conduct, church-discipline with, i. 334-336.

LIDDELL, Katharine, persecuted as a witch, ii. 396.

Liddesdale, thieves of, i. 43-45.

Life-guard, a royal, embodied under the command of Earl of
Newburgh, ii. 274.

Light-house on Isle of May established, i. 522.

Lime used for manure in East-Lothian, ii. 398.

Lincluden Church, popish service in, in 1587, i. 172.

LINDSAY, Mr David, minister of Leith; his mission from Knox to
Kirkaldy of Grange, i. 86, 87.

LINDSAY, Skipper, warns Morton of his doom, i. 138.

LINDSAY, Thomas, stabbed by William Douglas, ii. 439-442.

LINDSAYS of Forfarshire and Lords Glammis, feud between, i. 312,
313.

Linen manufacture of Scotland, ii. 421, 427.

Linlithgow, extraordinary demonstration at, on Charles II.’s
birthday, ii. 291, 292.

LINTON, Lord, fined £5000 Scots for marrying an excommunicated
papist, ii. 189.

Lioness and lamb, exhibited in Edinburgh, ii. 298.

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

LIVINGSTON and CARSE, Lairds of, strange appearance seen on their
lands, i. 431.

LIVINGSTON, Jean, beheaded by the Maiden for murder of her husband,
i. 317.

LIVINGSTONE, John, of Belstane, a barbarous assault upon, i. 156.

LIVINGSTONE, John; remarkable administration of the communion, ii.
41, 42;
his courtship, 79, 80;
banishment of, 281.

LOCHNELL, Laird of, shot by Duncan Macgregor, ii. 310.

LOCKHART, John, of Bar, outlawed for breaking images in kirk of
Ayr, &c., i. 49.

LOCKHART, Sir George, murdered by Chiesley of Dalry, ii. 495.

LOGAN, Robert, of Restalrig, his contract with Napier of
Merchiston, i. 257.

LOGIE, Laird of, assaulted in presence of James VI., i. 221.

Lord’s Supper, repugnance of the people to kneeling at the, ii. 19.

LORN, Thomas, accused of wandering from his family, i. 305.

Lottery-adventure authorised in 1671, ii. 341.

LOVAT, Lord, liberal hospitality of, i. 208.

_Love-philters_, supposed effects of, ii. 227.

LOW, Elizabeth, an excrescence eleven inches long cut from her
forehead, ii. 342.

LUMSDEN, Margaret, the possessed woman of Dunse, ii. 43, 44.

LUNDIE, Laird of, his funeral-procession, ii. 300.

M‘ALEXANDER of Drumachryne, killed by Laird of Girvanmains, i.
310, 311.

MAC-ALLISTER, a cateran, anecdote of his attack on church of
Thurso, ii. 190.

M‘BIRNIE, John, his character, i. 457.

M‘CALL, Marion, tried for drinking the devil’s health, ii. 345.

M‘CALYEAN, Eupham, charge against her, i. 39;
burned for witchcraft, 217.

MAC CONNEL, Sir James, a great man in Ireland, visits Scotland, i.
286.

M‘CULLOCH, Sir Alexander, his assaults on Lady Cardiness, ii. 321.

MACDONALD, Lord, his thief-taking commission, ii. 382.

MACDONALD of Glengarry and Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail, quarrel
between, i. 369-372.

M‘GIE, a mirror-maker, his petition, ii. 396.

M‘GILL of Rankeillour, exiled for murder, petition of, ii. 424-426.

MACGREGOR of Glenstrae, with twelve of his clan, hanged on one
gallows, i. 383.

MACGREGOR, Patrick Roy, and his band, executed, ii. 306, 307.

MACGREGOR, Robin Abroch, anecdote of, i. 444, 445.

MACGREGORS, their barbarous slaughter of Drummond-ernoch, i. 195;
battle with Colquhouns, 377;
proclamation against, 524.

MACKAY and GORDON, strife between, and Earl of Caithness, i.
440-443.

M‘KAY and LESLIE raise men for Bohemian army, ii. 9-11.

MACKENZIE, John, of Kintail, i. 20.

----, Kenneth. See _Kintail, Mackenzie of_.

MACKER, Alexander, and six others, drowned for piracy, i. 52.

MACKINTOSH, chief of the Clan; his zeal in behalf of clergy, i. 289.

M‘LEANS and others, tortured for witchcraft, ii. 293, 294.

MACLEANS, Argyle’s letter of fire and sword against the, ii. 370,
372.

M‘LEOD of Assynt, petition of, ii. 271.

MACLEOD of the Lewis, banished to Holland, i. 389.

MACLEOD of Raasay, his dispute with Mackenzie of Kintail, i.
437-439.

MACMORAN, Bailie John, shot by Sinclair, son of the Chancellor of
Caithness, i. 262;
illustration of his house, 263.

M‘QUEEN, John, an Edinburgh minister, scandal against, ii. 454.

M‘RONALD of Gargarach, outrages of, i. 503.

Machar Kirk, removal of memorials of ancient worship from, ii. 136.

Machines, Peter Bruce receives patents for various, ii. 408.

_Maiden_, the, illustration of, i. 144, 145.

MAITLAND, Sir Richard, of Lethington, his description of thieves of
Liddesdale, i. 44.

_Malignants_, persecution of, ii. 108, 173.

MAN, Andrew, convicted of warlockry, i. 281.

MAN, Lawrence, a boy of sixteen, beheaded, i. 386.

_Manatus_, supposed appearance of one in Water of Don, ii. 87.

Manners, traits of, i. 342-345.

_Manred_, definition of the term, i. 77;
many connected with Huntly family, 315.

Maps and charts of Scotland, Adair’s, ii. 483-485.

MAR and LENNOX, Regencies of, 1570-2.
See _Lennox_ and _Mar_.

MAR, Dowager-countess of, extracts from her household book, ii.
117-119.

MAR, seventh Earl of, his marriage to Mary, daughter of Duke of
Lennox, i. 243.
His death, ii. 83.

MARENTINI, a travelling quack-doctor, his petition, ii. 383.

MARISCHAL, George, fourth Earl of, extent of his lands, i. 209;
death of his lady, 301.

Market-cross, marriage-parties dance round, i. 337.

Market-cross of Edinburgh, foundation of new, i. 479.

Markets, interference with, i. 94, 241, 265, 303, 345, 458; ii. 489.

Marroco, the wonderful horse, i. 271.

MARY DE GUISE, i. 7.

----, Queen, her early reign, i. 7;
arrival of at Leith, 11;
a conspiracy against her, 19;
hunting visit to Athole, 29;
her harp, 31;
progress in Fife, 32;
her marriage to Darnley, 35;
her abduction, 36, 41;
her death, 170;
a pleasant anecdote of, 180.

Masqueradings and frolics, i. 327-329.

Mass, General Assembly exhort the suppression of, i. 172;
William Barclay and others, banished for attending, 349;
denounced as rebels, 359, 360;
mass performed in Edinburgh, 451.
Fourteen wives of Dumfries tradesmen imprisoned for hearing, ii.
72, 73.

MATHIE, Janet, burned as a witch, ii. 377-379.

MAULD, Patrick, gets a patent for making soap, ii. 80.

MAXWELL, John, minister of Edinburgh, ii. 66, 67.

MAXWELL, Lord John, and Laird of Johnston, feud between, i. 155,
252, 296.

MAXWELL of Garrarie and his son, beheaded for treason, i. 510.

MAXWELL of Pollock, witch-conspiracy against, ii. 376-379.

MAXWELL, young Lord, his escape from Edinburgh Castle, i. 409;
kills Laird of Johnston, 410;
beheaded, 446, 447.

_Maxwell’s, Lord, Handfasting_, i. 78, 79.

May-pole dancing in Scotland, i. 491, 492.

MEAN, John, a zealous Presbyterian, i. 506, 544, 545, 549.
His wife supposed to cast the first stool at the bishop, ii. 103;
becomes master of the Edinburgh Post-office, 189;
his son condemned as a spy for Cromwell, 206.

MEAN, Robert, appointed post-master at Edinburgh on Restoration,
ii. 263, 264;
his weekly diurnal, 284;
complaint against, 316, 317;
sent to the Tolbooth, 399;
his false report, 476.

MELDRUM, John, executed on suspicion of setting fire to tower of
Frendraught Castle, ii. 46-50.

MELDRUM of Haltoun, his conduct under ban of the horn, i. 527.

MELDRUM, younger, of Dumbreck; his capture of Gibson of Durie, i.
355-357.

MELGUM, Viscount, burnt in tower of Frendraught Castle, ii. 47-50.

MELGUM, Viscountess, attack of the Clan Cameron on her Castle of
Aboyne, ii. 128-134.

MELVILLE, Andrew, his courageous conduct in protesting against
Episcopacy, i. 128;
his nephew’s picture of, 133;
his disputes with James VI. at St Andrews, 175-177, 290;
disputation on witch-transportation, 305;
his tirade against Balcomie, _n._ 309.

MELVILLE, James; his recollections of Knox, Collace, &c., i. 73-75,
87;
his picture of four Edinburgh ministers, 132;
picture of his uncle, 133;
description of Regent Morton’s last days, 143, 144;
reception by, of mariners of Spanish Armada, 186-189;
his _Dix-huitaine_ on James VI., 292;
his notice of a fiery globe, 386.

MELVILLE, Lady, of Garvock, drowned, i. 193.

----, Sir Robert, congratulates James VI. on improvement in the
social state of Scotland, i. 473.

MENAINVILLE, De, a French ambassador, i. 150, 151.

MENZIES of Culdares, his dispute with Earl of Argyle, ii. 310.

MENZIES, Thomas, a papist, his petition, ii. 72.

_Mercurius Caledonius_, first original newspaper attempted in
Scotland, notices from, ii. 267, 271.

Mermaids seen at Pitsligo, ii. 88.

Meteors--Battles in the air, i. 26.

METHVEN, Paul, his strange act of penitence, i. 38.

MIDDLETON, Earl of, his administration, ii. 255;
his death and character, 364.

Militia in Scotland, list of, raised by counties and burghs, ii.
162, 163.

MILLER, GOGAR, & SANGSTER, hanged, ii. 422.

Mills, great destruction of water-, ii. 253.

MILNE, Thomas, maker of virginals, i. 507.

Mining by Stewart of Tarlair, i. 28.

Ministers, deposition of, remarks on, ii. 280-282.

Ministers’ stipend, discontent about, i. 552.

Minstrels in Glasgow, i. 90.

_Mirk Mononday_, why so called, ii. 215.

MITCHELL, David, Bishop of Aberdeen, his vicissitudes of fortune,
ii. 297.

MITCHELL, James, shoots Bishop of Orkney, ii. 322;
hanged, 374.

MITCHELSON, a prophetess of the Covenant, ii. 122.

_Mithridates, King of Pontus_,a comedy, acted at Holyroodhouse, ii.
429.

_Monas Prodigiosa_, an animalcule so called, ii. 489.

Money, a restriction to 10 per cent. on, i. 287.

MONK, General, his reception at Edinburgh, ii. 225.

MONMOUTH, Duke of, re-stocks his Scotch estates, ii. 367.

MONRO, Hector, of Foulis, extraordinary trial of, i. 205, 206.

_Monro, his Expeditions_, ii. 10.

MONRO, the Edinburgh hangman, deposed; George Ormiston succeeds,
ii. 461.

MONRO’S list of Scottish officers under command of Gustavus
Adolphus, ii. 56, 57.

Mons Meg, the Water-poet’s notice of, i. 493.
Bursting of, ii. 409;
illustration of, 468.

Monster, an Italian, travels in Scotland, ii. 143.

MONTEATH, Robert, minister of Duddingston, indicted for adultery,
ii. 70;
note on, 501.

MONTGOMERY, Isobel, kept in durance by her sister, i. 471.

MONTGOMERY, Mr Robert, excommunicated, i. 148.

MONTROSE, Earl of, and Sir James Sandilands, street-combat between,
i. 258.

MONTROSE, Marquis of, ii. 109;
heads a Covenanting deputation to Aberdeen, 119;
enforces the signing of the Covenant, 123;
lamentable incident after battle of Tippermuir, 154-156;
demands liberation of Earl of Crawford and Lord Ogilvie, 163, 164;
his death, 200;
his ceremonial funeral at Restoration, 269-271.

Montrose, strange events occur there on the death of the Earl of
Mar, i. 81.

MONYVAIRD and CULTMALINDY, feud between, i. 490.

MOODIE’S legacy, attempted perversion of, ii. 397.

Moon, strange irregularity imputed to the, ii. 61.

MORAY, Bonny Earl of, slaughter of the, i. 230-235;
order for burial of, 296.

MORAY, James, Earl of, his marriage, i. 18;
his difficulty in quieting towns of Perth and Dundee, 48;
diminishes value of hardheads, 48;
his gold and silver licence to De Vois, 50;
his ‘justiceaire,’ 52;
his raid to Jedburgh, 52;
expedition against Border thieves, 60;
his death, 60.

MORPHIE, James, tailor, his letter to Earl of Airly, ii. 168.

MORTIMER, George, a trafficking Jesuit, imprisoned, i. 533.

MORTON, Regent, effects of his rule, i. 82;
takes Edinburgh Castle, 85;
his money-grasping spirit, 87, 88, 99;
his raid against the Border-men, 88;
his act against exporting grain, 93;
no friend to the press, 94;
proclamation against base coin, erects a new mint, and
magnificent palace at Dalkeith, 101;
pungent jest by his fool, Patrick Bonny, 102;
holds justice-courts at Dumfries, 103;
beheads Alexander Innes of that Ilk, 111;
suspends the act against exporting corn, 112;
bribed by Lord Somerville, 114-116;
his fall, 125, 128;
his last days, 143-145;
his head taken down from the Tolbooth, 150.

MORYSON, Fynes, an Englishman, visits Scotland, his observations,
i. 298, 299.

MOSCROP, Patrick, and EUPHAM M‘CALYEAN, marry without permission of
the Kirk, i. 72;
Eupham M‘Calyean burned for witchcraft, 217.

MOSMAN, James, an Edinburgh goldsmith, and others, hanged, i. 85.

Moss, between Falkirk and Stirling, slides over sixteen farms, ii.
35.

Mountebank, German, receives a licence to erect a stage in
Edinburgh, ii. 458.

MOWBRAY, Francis, killed in his endeavour to escape over wall of
Edinburgh Castle, i. 372.

MUDIE, Lizzy, burned for witchcraft, ii. 385.

MUNGO, Murray, his attack on Thomas Sydserf, ii. 324.

MUNRO, General, his attack on Strathbogie, ii. 135.

MURCHISON, Sir Roderick, quoted, i. 51.

MURE, John, of Auchindrain, his feud with Sir Thomas Kennedy of
Colzean, i. 277, 360-363, 366-368;
trial for murder, 435-437.

MURE of Gledstanes, personated by Thomas Bell, ii. 445.

Murrain amongst cattle, severe, ii. 437.

MURRAY of Philiphaugh, his complaint against James Murray, ii. 101.

MURRAY, Sir Robert, of Craigie, founder of the Royal Society, ii.
355-357.

MURRAY, Touran, and six others, shot by Wood [Mad] Andrew Murray
and his confederates, i. 53.

MUSGRAVE of Bewcastle’s combat with Lancelot Carleton, i. 365.

NAISMITH, James, his sermon, preached before Duke of Hamilton, ii.
170.

NAPIER, Archibald; his manure patent, i. 301.

NAPIER, Barbara, an Edinburgh citizen’s wife, tried for witchcraft,
i. 216.

NAPIER, John, of Merchiston, his contract with Logan of Restalrig,
i. 257;
his war inventions, 272;
his complaint to Privy Council, 359;
his dispute with Napiers of Edinbellie, 417;
publication of his work on the logarithms, 455;
visit of Henry Briggs to, 456.

NAPIER, Sir Archibald, of Merchiston, Bishop of Orkney’s letter to,
regarding the plague, i. 55.

NAPIER, William, a Quaker, imprisoned, ii. 344.

NATIONAL COVENANT, the, ii. 105-113;
signing of, 116.

National defences, proposal to fortify Leith, &c., ii. 18.

Naval victory over the Dutch, rejoicings at the great, ii. 303.

NEILL, John, tried for sorcery, ii. 34.

_Nest Egg_, Mr Robert Lowrie so called, ii. 296.

NEVILLE, Nic, a sorcerer, burnt, i. 60.

_New Acquaintance_, a disease so called, i. 22.

Newcastle, pitiful state of, after siege, ii. _n._ 156.

NEWCOMB’S _Mercurius Politicus_, started, ii. 272.

Newmills, cloth-works at, ii. 416-421.

Newspapers overlook Scotland till 1637, ii. 113;
one ordered from London for Glasgow, 245;
an early one (_Mercurius Caledonius_) quoted, 267, 273;
history of, 271;
diurnal of John Mean, 284.

New-year’s Day, act appointing first of January as, i. 309.

NICOL, George, punished for _leasing-making_, ii. 61, 62.

_Night-walkers_, Privy Council acts against, i. 440.

NIMMO, Mrs, beheaded for murder of Lord Forrester, ii. 402.

NISBET, Alie, worried and burnt as a witch, ii. 33.

NISBET of Craigentinny, his duel with Macdougall of Makerston, ii.
446.

NITHSDALE, Earl of, commissioner for revocation of church-lands,
ii. 6, 7;
his domestic arrangements interfered with, 59.

NIVEN, a musician, punished with the pillory, ii. 493.

Noises heard in the air before the civil war, ii. 115.

North Loch, three men drowned in, ii. 434.

Nova Scotia, first colonised by men of Sutherland, i. 525.
Order of baronets, ii. 3.

OCHILTREE, Lord, grudge of Lord Torthorald against, i. 425.

OCHILTREE, Lord, warden of west Border, i. 294.

_Offences in the King’s House_, i. 268.

OGILVIE, John, a Jesuit, hanged, i. 462-465.

----, Lord, of Airly, his complaint against Earl of Argyle, i. 225.

OGILVIE of Barras, defends the Castle of Dunnottar against the
English, ii. 213.

OGILVIE of Forglen and Forbes of Tolquhoun, dispute between, ii.
477.

OGILVY of Craig, his persecution as a papist, ii. 58.

OGLE and PITARROW, younger, Lairds of, combat between, i. 387, 406.

OLIPHANT and RUTHVEN, Lords, feud between, i. 140.

Ominous sounds heard in a seaman’s house in Peterhead, ii. 145.

ORKNEY, Bishop of, shot, ii. 322.

----, Earl of, visits Earl of Sutherland, i. 385.

ORKNEY, John, Master of, tried for alleged attempt on life of Earl
of Orkney, by witchcraft, &c., i. 273.

ORKNEY, Patrick Earl of, beheaded, i. 459-462;
sketch of his style of living, 460.

OSWALD, Katherine, burnt as a witch, ii. 32.

Paisley, horse-races at, i. 513.
Opposition to a clergyman at, ii. 8.

Paper, first manufacture of, designed in Scotland, i. 194.
First established at Dalry, ii. 398.

PAPES, family of the, in Sutherland, prosperity and adversity of,
i. 406-408.

Papistry, Presbyterian measures against, i. 336, 337, 343.

Papists, thought to be regaining confidence, i. 172;
papist nobles driven to extremities, 218;
papists perform mass in Edinburgh, 349;
persecutions of, 353, 359, 389, 403, 415, 421; ii. 20-28, 36-41,
57-60, 145, 211, 335, 499.

Paris butchers of 1856 and Edinburgh poultrymen of 1599, parallel
between, i. 304.

Parliament, riding of, i. 48, 394; ii. 65;
rejoicings at first Scottish, after Restoration, 266-269.

Parturition pains, superstitious belief regarding, i. 39.

Pasch-day, sale of flesh forbidden in Aberdeen on, ii. 144.

Pearl, a large one found in the Ythan, i. 517;
proclamation for preservation of the fishery, 518.

Peebles, assassination at, i. 81;
host assembled at, against Border thieves, 88;
provostry of, usurped by Master of Yester, 168;
James VI. visits, 170;
holds justice-court at, 368;
horse-races at, 410;
street-fight at, 418.
Council books of, quoted, as to solar eclipse, ii. 215;
as to snow-storm, 366;
petition on account of test-act, 429;
mob of women at, 430;
popish furniture and trinkets burned at, 501.

PEEBLES, Thomas, a goldsmith, hanged for coining, i. 26.

PEIRSON, Alison, in Byrehill, burnt for witchcraft, i. 183.

Penny Bridals, i. 337;
General Assembly’s act against, ii. 161, 162;
increase of, 305.

Periwigs in vogue in 1688, ii. 491.

_Perth Kirk-session Records_, quoted, i. 306, 322-347.

Perth, quarrel with Dundee, i. 48;
pest at, 154;
Gowrie treason at, 222, 319;
troubles with Bruce of Clackmannan, 240;
strange frolic at, 328;
holiday amusements at, 326;
Sunday observance at, 331;
king made a burgess of, 348;
1400 armed men raised in, 385;
parliament at, 394;
flood at, 525.

Pest, said to be brought into Edinburgh by James Dalgliesh, a
merchant, i. 53;
regulations regarding, 54;
Dr Skeyne’s treatise on, 54;
2500 persons die of, 56;
remarks regarding cause of, 57;
kirk-session of Edinburgh appoint a fast for, 94;
John Downie’s plague-ship, 139;
James VI.’s inconsistency regarding, 154, 157;
town-council of Edinburgh’s sanitary measure, 155;
breaks out in Edinburgh and Perth, &c.; one-sixth of the entire
population perish by, 157-159;
Melville’s remarkable anecdote of, 159;
days of humiliation for, 182;
plague among the bestial, 218;
17,890 persons die of, in London, 292;
breaks out in Aberdeen and Findhorn, 319;
precautions of Aberdeen council against, 346;
its reappearance in various quarters, 358, 359;
in south of Scotland, 382;
alleged case of, 385;
Chancellor of Dunfermline’s eldest son and niece die of, 388;
general spread and curious treatment of, 399, 400;
in Dundee, Perth, &c., 404, 414, 417;
a vessel from London ordered to discharge cargo at Inchkeith for
fear of, 426;
it again breaks out in Edinburgh, 548.
40,000 persons die of, in London, ii. 4;
breaks out in Cramond, 89;
its appearance after siege of Newcastle, 156;
anecdotes and regulations regarding, 165-168;
great London plague, 303.

Petards, proclamation against, i. 372.

_Phanatiques_, five of them hanged, ii. 427.

PHILIP, Robert, banished for performing mass, i. 451.

PHILO, Joannes Michael, a quack-doctor, miraculous cures of, ii.
347.

PHILORTH, Laird of, and Lord Fraser, dispute between, ii. 99, 100.

_Philotus_, a comedy, first known effort of Scottish muse in this
department of literature, quoted, i. 374-377.

PHIN, Marion, her petition refused, ii. 386.

Pig, monster, farrowed in Edinburgh, i. 76.

_Pilniewinks_, a screw for the fingers, i. 210.

Pirates, Melville’s account of an affair at Anstruther with
English, i. 175, 176;
execution of twenty-seven, 429, 430.

PITARROW and OGLE, younger, Lairds of, combat between, i. 387.

PITTATHROW, Lady, accused of witchcraft, ii. 186.

Plague of London in 1665, Wodrow’s notice of, ii. 303.
See _Pest_.

_Plaiden_ stuffs and _fingrams_, manufacture of, ii. 416.

Plaids, town-council of Edinburgh’s order against ladies wearing,
ii. 54.

Players, an Irish company of, ii. 405.

_Playhouse_ in Edinburgh, the first, ii. 400.

Plays, popular, and holidays, i. 326, 327.

_Pledge chalmer_ at Dumfries, i. 294.

Plumbers, curious trait regarding, ii. 408.

Poland, Lord Cranstoun raises a regiment for king of, ii. 240, 241.

Poland, Scotch merchants threatened with expulsion from, i. 547.

Police of Edinburgh, proclamation against two abuses in, i. 486;
order for cleaning the city, 487.
Improvement of regulations, ii. 212.

_Poltergeist_, a German spirit, ii. 232.

PONTIUS, Doctor, a quack, his visit to Aberdeen, ii. 149;
his exhibitions, 295.

Poor, weekly collections for, i. 346.
Falling off of collections in Glasgow churches, ii. 305.

Pope, Edinburgh apprentices burn him in effigy, ii. 412, 433.

Popery, Privy Council’s orders against persons professing, ii.
20-28.

Popish relics and furniture burnt by an Edinburgh mob, ii. 499-501.

Porpoises, or _pellochs_, thrown ashore on coast of Fife, ii. 220.

Post, the Aberdeen common, i. 346.
From Edinburgh to London, established, ii. 85-87;
between Port-Patrick, Edinburgh, and Carlisle, 142;
arrangements in 1649, 189;
improvement of, at Restoration, 263, 264;
between Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Inverness, rates of, &c.,
315-317.

_Powder of Sympathy_, receipt for, ii. 228.

_Prap, Sir Robert’s_, a cairn so called, ii. 425.

Presbyterian ministers, the banishment of six, i. 401, 402.

Presbyterian party in civil war, ii. 110.

Presbyterians, their severe discipline in time of the civil war,
ii. 156;
their inconsiderate rigours, 174, 181-185, 190-194;
conduct when paramount in 1650, 196;
extreme rigours with opponents, 209-212, 257, 258, 281, 451, 452,
460, 463-467;
humbled by Cromwell, 221;
severities against them, 280, 349, 353, 427, 448;
act of grace in favour of, its effects, 368.

Presbytery, claim of independence by, its serious consequences, i.
127.
How disposed of at the Restoration, ii. 256.

Press, the Regent Morton’s edict against, i. 93.

PRIMROSE, Patrick, a popish priest, his death, ii. 335-337.

PRINGLE, David, barber-chirurgeon to Heriot’s Hospital, ii. 342.

PRINGLE, Jonet, her marriage with her boy-cousin of thirteen, ii.
481.

PRINGLE, Thomas, his assault on Gavin Thomson, i. 418.

Printing-offices in Edinburgh in 1763, 1790, and 1858, ii. 447.

Printing, rule against unlicensed, enforced, ii. 490.

Privateering against the Dutch, ii. 317, 318.

Privy Council, book of, a review of the nobility and gentry of
Scotland, i. 229;
acts of, against murder, &c., 248;
furious edict of, 274.
Its occasional humanity, ii. 338.

Privy Seal record, strange adventure of, ii. 266.

Proclamation against penny-weddings, &c., ii. 459.

Prophecies regarding Queen Mary, i. 16;
regarding Scots king’s succession to England, 381.

Protections against creditors, Council grants, ii. 341.

Protestant and Papist, supersession of the names, ii. 205.

Protestants expelled from the Palatinate, subscription for 700, ii.
55.

_Protesters_ or _Remonstrators_ of the kirk, ii. 216, 217.

Provost’s ox, the, i. 37.

Psalms, translation of the, introduced into Church of Scotland, ii
199;
Kirk’s Irish and Gaelic, 361.

_Pulices arborescentes_ of Swammerdam, ii. 488.

PURDIE, Marion, imprisoned as a witch, ii. 462.

_Purple Fever_, mortality of the, ii. 299.

PURVES, his death from _extreme cold_, ii. 368.

_Putters_, or short pieces of ordnance, ii. 135.

Quakers, their increase and strange doings, ii. 232-234;
persecution of, 311;
increase of, 343;
the bishop’s complaint against, at Aberdeen, 447.

_Queen’s Chocolate House_, in Edinburgh, Dryden’s play acted at
the, ii. 404.

Rain, great fall of, in Moray-land, ii. 113, 114.

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

RAMSAY, Thomas, minister of Dumfries, his zeal against popery, ii.
11, 72, 73.

Rats and mice, act favouring machines for catching, i. 429.

RAY, John, the naturalist, his journey into Scotland, ii. 282, 283.

Records of Scotland, interesting notices regarding, ii. 264-266.

Red herrings, privilege of making, granted, i. 443.

_Red Parliament_, Melville’s definition of, i. 394.

_Red-hand_, a butcher taken, and instantly hanged, ii. 381.

REDPATH, George, author of _Answer to the Scots Presbyterian
Eloquence_, ii. 413.

Redshanks, Highlanders so called, i. 2.

_Reek Pennies_, or hearth-money, ii. 212.

Reformation, i. 2, 4.

Regalia of Scotland, interesting anecdote ofthe, 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.