Chapter XXVII: Part 27

ROSS, Sinclair, Bishop of, afflicted with stone, i. 24.
Young, Bishop of, afflicted with same disease, ii. 453.

ROSS, Thomas, his libel on the Scottish nation; beheaded and
quartered, i. 504.

ROSSES, clergymen, crave compensation for losses incurred through
persecution, ii. 451-453.

ROTHES, Earl (subsequently Duke) of, Lord High Commissioner, his
progress through the west country, ii. 304;
his funeral-procession, 426.

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

ROY, Bessie, tried for witchcraft, i. 206.

RUTHERFORD, Colonel, killed by the Moors, ii. 298.

RUTHERFORD, Lord, his engagement with
the _Bride of Baldoon_, ii. 326-328;
his prosecution of Captain Rutherford, 333.

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

_Ruthven, Raid of_, i. 128.

RUTHVEN, Sophia, Duchess of Lennox, buried, i. 222.

RUTHVENS, their complaint against Baillie of Torwoodhead, ii. 403.

SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, his duel with Edward Lord Bruce of Kinloss,
i. 447-451.

St Andrew’s Day, kept as a holiday, ii. 297.

St Fittich’s and St Wollok’s Wells, sickly children bathed at, i.
323, 324.

Salt, Charles II.’s restrictions on making, ii. 332.

Saltmarket of Glasgow, great fire in, ii. 389.

SAMPSON, Agnes, burnt for witchcraft, i. 212-216.

SANDEMAN, Charles, his obligations as a cook, i. 47.

SANDILANDS, Sir James, and Mr John Graham of Hallyards, litigation
between, i. 246.

SANDILANDS, Sir James, and Earl of Montrose, street-combat between,
i. 258.

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

_Saw-mills_, Robertson of Struan’s, ii. 447.

SCHAW, John, fined for burying his wife in parish-church of
Galston, i. 425.

School-discipline at Kirk of Dundonald, in Ayrshire, ii. 138.

Schools, Privy Council order plantation of parish, i. 479.

Scolding and slander, rigorous punishment of, i. 344, 345.

Scotch, order against their going to England, i. 432.
Nobles and entire community nearly ruined by the civil wars, ii.
225.

Scotland, general sketch of, i. 1-6;
factious state of, in 1571, 72.
Indifference of England to, ii. 113;
state of, after Cromwell’s invasion, 209, 212;
concluding remarks on, 496.

_Scotland, Perfect Description of the People and Country of_, a
satire, i. 481.

Scots, their supposed origin, i. 1.

---- Guard of the French king, its re-establishment craved, i. 535,
536.

SCOTT, Alexander, poet, his New-year Gift to Queen Mary, i. 15.

SCOTT, Captain, beats Mr Gregory, ii. 478.

----, George, Walter, & Ingram, condemned to death for an atrocious
crime, i. 472.

SCOTT, George and William, their achievements, ii. 169.

SCOTT, John, a Quaker, fined for brewing on Sunday, ii. 376.

SCOTT of Pitlochie, story of his unfortunate voyage to East Jersey,
ii. 479-481.

SCOTT of Raeburn, a Quaker, his children ordered to be separated
from him, ii. 311.

SCOTT, Sir Walter, of Branxholm, Laird of Buccleuch, celebrated
exploit of, i. 269-271.

SCOTT, Thomas, hanged for murder of Robert Donaldson, ii. 329.

SCOTT, Walter, of Harden, married to the Flower of Yarrow, i. 46.

Sea-monsters, various appearances of;
superstitions regarding, i. 64-66.

SEATON, Thomas, his religions dissimulation, ii. 301.

SEMPLE, Lord, and his son, ii. 336.

----, Robert, his writings, i. 49.

Service-book or Liturgy introduced into Scottish church; its
reception, ii. 101-104.

_Seventeenth of December_, tumult of the, i. 276-278.

SHAKSPEARE, surmised to have been in Aberdeen while the remarkable
witch-trials were proceeding; quotations from _Macbeth_ and
_Othello_ strengthening this supposition, i. 283-285, 357.

SHARPE, Archbishop, ii. 256;
his _cortège_ to St Andrews, 291;
his land purchases, 300;
attempt on his life, 322;
assassination of, 350.

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

Sheep and cattle, abundance of, ii. 371.

Ship-of-war burnt in Leith Roads through the mad humour of an
Englishman, i. 453.

_Shorter Catechism_, General Assembly sanction, ii. 170.

Shotts, Kirk of, communion at, ii. 41.

Shrovetide customs, revival of, ii. 273, 274.

Sieve, divination by the, strange story of, ii. 434.

Sigget Well, dedicated to Virgin Mary, i. 324.

Siller Gun at Dumfries, i. 294.

Silver Heart in Culross Abbey Church, wood-cut of, i. 450.

Silver lace and silk stuffs, law against wearing, ii. 357, 358.

SINCLAIR, Colonel, with 900 Scotsmen, slain in Norway, i. 446.

SINCLAIR, George, author of _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered_,
ii. 387;
his copyright of, 475.

SINCLAIR, Henry, Bishop of Ross, dies of stone, i. 24.

SINCLAIR, Sir William, of Mey, shoots Bailie Macmoran, i. 262, 263.

Single-combats, edict against, i. 310.

SKEYNE, Dr, his treatise on the pest, i. 54.

SLEZER’S _Theatrum Scotiæ_, ii. 485.

Small-pox, severe visitation of, in Aberdeen, i. 431.
Great severity of, ii. 85;
about 240 children die of, 140;
upwards of 800 deaths in Glasgow from, 347.

SMIBERT, William, his unbaptised child, i. 32.

SMITH, James, barters wheat for Norway timber, ii. 71.

SMOLLETT, George, an ancestor of the novelist, denounced as a
rebel, i. 248.
Spanish ship blown up by, ii. 387.

_Sneesh-box_, fondness of the Scotch for the, ii. 494.

Snow-storm, an enormous, i. 458, 459.
Great, in 1633, ii. 61;
in 1664-5, 302;
in 1674, 365.

Soap, first manufactured in Leith, by Nathaniel Uddart, i. 511, 512.
Patent granted to Patrick Mauld for making, ii. 80, 81.

Soldiers, Colonel Monro endeavours to erect hospital for Scottish,
ii. 75.

SOMERVILLE, James, younger of Drum and Cambusnethan, his marriage,
ii. 207-209;
his son’s death, 443.

SOMERVILLE, Lord; his lawsuit with his cousin, and its success, i.
113-116.

SOMERVILLE, Lord, sad accident in the family of, i. 190-192.

SOMERVILLE of Drum, anecdote of, i. 491.

Spanish and Dutch sea-fight on coast of Zetland, ii. 15.

Spanish Armada, excitement in Scotland caused by, i. 185-189;
vessels destroyed, 186; ii. 386.

‘Speat’ on the Water of Carron, ii. 98.

Sports, James VI.’s declaration regarding, on Sundays and holidays,
i. 491.

SPYNIE, Lord, dies of wounds received in a street-fight, i. 406.

Stage-coach, Countess of Crawford travels to England in a, ii. 218;
advertised for various towns, 247;
betwixt Edinburgh and Haddington, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 391.

STAIR, Lord, ii. 370.

STALKER, Andrew, a goldsmith, kills a servant of Earl of Angus, i.
294.

Standing army in Scotland, commencement of a, ii. 313.

STANFIELD, Sir James, his son hanged for his murder, ii. 491, 492.

Star, Melville’s notice of a brilliant, i. 386;
appearance of a great fiery, 472; ii. 84.

_Star of Tycho_, Holinshed’s notice of, i. 84.

STERCOVIUS, a Pole, beheaded for publishing his _Legend of
Reproaches_ against the Scottish nation, i. 452.

STEWART, Alexander, an itinerant doctor, ii. 184.

STEWART, Hercules, brother of the Earl of Bothwell, hanged at the
Cross of Edinburgh, i. 259.

STEWART, James, banished for performing mass, i. 451.

STEWART, Janet, petition of, ii. 437.

----, John, a vagabond, hangs himself in prison, i. 488, 489.

STEWART, John, hanged for witchcraft, ii. 377-379.

STEWART, Margaret, abduction of her daughter, i. 419.

STEWART, Master Allan, receives the revenues of the Abbey of
Crossraguel; his torture by Earl of Cassillis, i. 65-68.

STEWART of Minto, his dispute with Sir George Elphinstone, i.
396-398.

STEWART of Tarlair, mining by, i. 28.

----, William, stabs Lord Torthorald, i. 415.

STEWARTS of Coltness; anecdote of the plague, ii. 165;
Thomas of, his country-house, 245;
his flight to Holland, 448-451.

STEWARTS of Traquair, and Hay of Yester, feud between, i. 168-170.

_Stewarton Sickness_, a religious fervour so called, ii. 42, 43.

Stirling, a parliament held by Regent Lennox at, i. 76;
taking of, quick transmission of news to London, 159;
strange sounds heard by four gentlemen of, 541.
Sixteen farms between Falkirk and, buried in moss, ii. 35;
the session sit at, 116.

Stones, large, transported by a river, ii. 98.

Stool of repentance, i. 334, 335.

STORIE, Richard, charged with murder, ii. 442.

STRACHAN of Thornton, his alleged theft, i. 534, 535.

Strathbogie, Presbytery Record of, extracts from, ii. 156-161.

Street-carriages of Edinburgh, regular system of, ii. 358.

Street-conflicts in Aberdeen, i. 343.

---- fights, Edinburgh, the first of, i. 48.

STRUAN, Laird of, his dispute with Marquis of Athole, ii. 423;
his saw-mills, 447.

STRUTHERS, William, his sermon, i. 513.

STUART, Esme, usually called Monsieur D’Aubigné; his mission to
Scotland, i. 126-128.

STUART, James (Earl of Arran), his rise, i. 126;
influence over James VI., 128;
his fall, 129;
his marriage to the Countess of March, 146;
his death, 275;
his death avenged, 414.

STUART, Robert, natural son of the Earl of Orkney, beheaded, i. 461.

STUART, Sir William of Monkton, slain by Stuart Earl of Bothwell,
i. 184, 185.

SUFFOLK, Earl of, his journey of pleasure through Scotland, i. 454,
455.

Sugar-works at Glasgow, ii. 455.

_Summaries_:
Reign of Mary, 1561-1565, i. 7;
Regency of Moray, 1567-1570, 43;
Regencies of Lennox and Mar, 1570-1572, 61, 62;
Regency of Morton, 1572-1578, 82, 83;
Reign of James VI. 1578-1585, 126-129;
1585-1590, 160, 161;
1591-1603, 219-221; 1603-1625, 379-381.
Reign of Charles I., 1625-1637, ii. 1-3;
1637-1649, 105-113;
Interregnum, 1649-1660, 174-177;
Reign of Charles II., 1660-1673, 255-261;
1673-1685, 349-355;
Reign of James VII., 469-475;
concluding remarks, 496-499.

Sun, total eclipse of the, i. 296.
Celebrated eclipse of, ii. 215.

Suns, curious appearance of three, ii. 9.

Sunday, observance of, i. 329-333.

Superstitions and superstitious practices, i. 322-326.

_Suppers_, laudable custom of, revived, ii. 267.

Surgeons exempted from serving as jury-men, i. 42.

SUTHERLAND, Earl of, overtaken by a snow-storm, i. 363;
contributions of tenantry to, 517.

SUTHERLAND of Duffus, his quarrel with Gordon of Enbo, ii. 5, 6.

Swans on Linlithgow Loch, anecdotes of, ii. 267, 268.

Swearing, fines for, i. 342.

Sweden, king of, troops levied in Scotland for, i. 445;
unfortunate issue, 446.

Sword-dance, description of the, ii. 67, 68.

SYDSERF, Thomas, editor of the _Mercurius Caledonius_, ii. 271;
his theatre, 324.

TAILIEFEIR, Bessie, sentenced to be _brankit_, i. 46.

Tailors, petition against outlandish, ii. 253, 254.

Tallow, laws against exporting, ii. 5.

_Tarugo’s Wiles_, Sydserf’s play called, ii. 324.

Taxes, allocation of, to various towns, ii. 7.

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

TAYLOR, John the Water-poet, his visit to Scotland, i. 493-500.

Tea, in Scotland, its first introduction, ii. 405.

TENNANT, Francis, hanged for his pasquils against the king and
progenitors, i. 320.

Tercel called for by James VI., i. 391.

Test, magistrates of Peebles in a puzzle about the, ii. 429;
burlesque of, 433.

Thanksgiving-day, on settlement between King and Estates, ii. 140.

Theatre, first, in Edinburgh established about 1679, ii. 400.

Theatricals in Scotland, toleration of, i. 306, 307.

_Thirteen Drifty Days_, Hogg’s account of the, ii. 365-367.

THOMSON, Annaple, and others, worried and burnt as witches, ii.
405, 406.

THOMSON, Gavin, assaulted by Thomas Pringle, i. 418.

THOMSON, Margaret, her complaint against Tutor of Calder, ii. 154.

_Thumbikens_, an instrument of torture so called, ii. 460.

Tide, remarkable swelling of the, at Leith, &c., i. 476.

Tobacco, Murray’s patent for importing, i. 531, 532.
Licence for sale of, ii. 74;
tax on, 332;
first practitioner of tobacco-spinning in Leith, 346.

Toe-writing, singular instance of, ii. 253.

Toleration, want of, in Scotland, i. 244;
imputation of toleration indignantly repudiated by King James,
533.
Declared against by the Presbyterian kirk, ii. 180;
granted by James VII., 470;
want of, at the Revolution, 498.

_Tories_, first introduction of the word into Scotland, ii. 227.

TORTHORALD, Lord, stabbed by William Stewart, i. 415.

Town-guard of Edinburgh, origin of the, ii. 438.

Trade, decree against freedom of, i. 458.
Interesting particulars regarding, in Scotland, ii. 248, 249.

Transmigration of witches to distant places, &c., disputation on,
i. 305.

Traquair, burning at Peebles of popish relics found at, ii. 499-501.

TRAQUAIR, Countess of, and her son, ii. 336.

----, first Earl of, anecdote of, ii. _n._ 88;
his death and character, 251, 252.

Travelling, anecdotes of, i. 299, 381, 493; ii. 218, 247, 391, 476.

_Trembling Exies_, a disease so called, ii. 222.

Trough, Children of the (a singular anecdote), i. _n._ 234.

_Tulyies_ or combats in Edinburgh, i. 47, 185, 258, 318.

_Tumbling Lassie_ and Reid the mountebank, ii. 487.

TURNBULL and SCOTT, hanged for publishing a libel against Morton,
i. 125.

TURNBULL, Andrew, beheaded, i. 320.

---- of Airdrie, abduction of his daughter, i. 419.

_Turners_, a base coin so called, ii. 128.

TWEEDIES and VEITCHES, feud between, i. 200-202;
James VI. endeavours to suppress, 432.

Universities, order against receiving fugitive students at, i. 439.

URQUHART of Craigston, singular fortunes of his grandson, ii. 81-83.

USHER, Adie, a Border-thief, hanged; his son Willie, i. 546.

Usury severely punished, ii. 298.

VALLAM, James and George, hanged for robbery, i. 364.

VAUTROLLIER, a French Protestant, prints a volume of poems for
James VI., i. 154.

VEITCHES and TWEEDIES, feud between, i. 200-202, 432.

Victory, naval, over the Dutch, rejoicings at, ii. 303.

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

Visions in the air, ii. 313-315.

VOIS, Cornelius de, his gold and silver licence, i. 50.

Wages of skilled artisans in Scotland, ii. 235.

WALDEN, Lord, his journey of pleasure in Scotland, i. 454, 455.

WALKER, Patrick, his account of illusive psalm-singing, ii. 314;
of visions of bonnets and weapons at Crossford, 485.

WALLACE, Margaret, worried and burnt for witchcraft, i. 527-529.

WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, a councillor of Queen Elizabeth, his
mission to James VI., i. 152.

_Waly, waly!_ a popular ballad, composed on the Marchioness of
Douglas, ii. 340.

_Wame-ill_ or _land-ill_, also called the _Pestilence but Mercy_,
i. 57.

_Wappinshaw_, why so called, i. 542.

_Watch_, a body of men appointed to keep peace in the Highlands,
ii. 306.

WATSON, William, minister of Burntisland, i. 467.

WATT, John, shot dead on the Burgh-moor, i. 349.

WAUGH, Robert, hanged for rebuking the Regent Morton, i. 80.

Weather, the, i. 107, 112, 259, 286, 421, 431, 457, 458, 523, 541;
ii. 4, 12, 17, 28, 61, 79, 83, 113, 115, 122, 134, 149, 199,
217, 222, 224, 234-236, 240, 253, 298, 299, 305, 313, 319, 324,
358, 365-367, 371-373, 426, 454, 462.

WEIR, Bessie, hanged as a witch, ii. 377-379.

----, John, tried for ‘incest,’ for marrying the relict of his
grand-uncle, ii. 28.

WEIR, Major, strangled and burnt, ii. 332.

----, of Cloburn, a boy of fourteen, taken to Ireland, and married
to a daughter of Laird of Corehouse, i. 454.

Wells of Edinburgh run dry, ii. 226.

WEMYSS, Countess of, death and extravagance of the, ii. 215.

WEMYSS of Logie, Mrs Margaret Twinstoun contrives his escape from
confinement, i. 238.

West Indies, deportation of poor people to the, ii. 304, 305.

WESTERHALL, Laird of, slain by the Hamiltons, i. 99.

Whale captured by the English at Leith, ii. 218.

Whales, fourteen killed at Dornoch, i. 319.

Wheat, Council grants licence for exporting 4000 bolls, ii. 54.

_Whig_, origin of the term, ii. 171, 172.

_Whilliwha’s_, swindlers so called, i. 468.

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

Wind, tremendous storm of, i. 421.

Wine, its importation into Western Isles restricted, i. 531.

WIRTEMBERG, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. 418.

WISHART, Janet, burnt for witchcraft, i. 278, 279.

Witchcraft, act against, i. 24;
William Stewart, Lyon King-of-arms hanged for, 60;
witches of Athole, 70;
Bessie Dunlop, burnt for, 107-110;
Alison Peirson, burnt for, 183;
trials of Lady Foulis and Hector Monro, 202-206;
Bessie Roy tried for, 206;
extraordinary trials for, 210-218;
devil preaching to witches, illustration, 215;
numerous cases of, 257;
barbarous legal procedure in cases of, 273;
remarkable trials in Aberdeen, 278-285;
‘the great witch of Balwery,’ 291;
wood-cut of a witch seated on the moon, 378;
the Broughton witches, 420;
Margaret Barclay, executed for, 488;
John Stewart, tried for, 488;
Margaret Wallace, worried and burnt for, 527-529;
Bessie Smith, of Lesmahago, 539;
Thomas Grieve, strangled and burnt, 540;
Privy Council’s doubts regarding, 548.
Various cases of, ii. 31-34;
John Balfour, a discoverer of, 61;
William Coke and Alison Dick, burnt for witchcraft, their bill of
expenses, 70, 71;
case of Agnes Finnie and others, 149-154;
conference of ministers on, 180;
several trials and burnings for, 186-189;
presbytery of Lanark and the eleven witches, 194, 195;
proceedings of Cromwell’s law-commissioners for Scotland, 219,
220;
burnings for, 243, 244;
numerous trials for, at the Restoration, 277-279;
confessions of Isobel Gowdie and Janet Braidhead, 285-291;
M‘Leans and others tortured for, 293-295;
more cases of, 330;
Jean Weir hanged, 333;
curious cases of, 376-381;
another witch-storm, 385, 386;
anecdotes of, 393-395;
Katherine Liddel persecuted for, 396;
curious witch-trial at Borrowstounness, 405, 406;
Marion Purdie imprisoned for, 462;
books on, 475.

WOGAN, Captain, his daring march to the north, ii. 223;
verses quoted from _Waverley_ on his death, 224.

WOOD, George, threatened arrestment of his corpse, ii. 328, 329.

WOOD, James, heir of Bonnington, beheaded, i. 350.

Wool, prohibition against exporting, &c., i. 475;
Petition for dressing and refining of, ii. 346.

Wreckers of Dunbar and Western Islands, Council’s proceedings
against, ii. 94, 95.

Writs, several persons hanged for making false, i. 260, 296.

YESTER, Master of, and Stewarts of Traquair, feud between, i.
168-170.

YORK, James, Duke of. See _James VII_.

YOUNG, Isobel, burnt for witchcraft, ii. 31.

----, John, his attack on Richard Bannatyne, ii. 16.

YOUNG, Margaret, petitions Privy Council against false
imprisonment, ii. 153.

END OF VOL. II.

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