Chapter XXX: Part 30

Exchequer, Scottish, extreme poverty of, 45.

Excise and Customs, small amount of before Union, 339;
curious anecdote of the transmission of excise revenue to London,
341.

Excise law victims revenge themselves, 594.

FAE, Sergeant, undertakes to catch robbers, 83.

FAIRFOUL, David, a Catholic priest, confined, 25.

‘Fair Intellectual Club,’ 574.

Fallowing first introduced into Scotland, 419.

Famines in Scotland, 136, 195, 348, 606.

Fast on account of sickness and scarcity, 160;
in apprehension of renewed scarcity, 233.

FEA of Clestran takes Gow, a pirate, 505.

Fearn church roof falls in, 608.

Ferintosh, whisky distilled at, free of duty, 133.

Fife, sickness in, 363.

Fire in Edinburgh, of 1700, 225.

—— Insurance Company first started, 446.

—— raising in Lanarkshire, 578.

FLAIKFIELD, Mary, a poor woman, prosecuted by Merchant Company, 76.

FLETCHER of Salton’s statements and proposals regarding vagrant poor,
218.

Flogging in schools (1700), boy whipped to death, 222.

Flood in west of Scotland (1712), 381.

FORBES, Duncan, Lord Advocate, suppresses a riot at Glasgow, 509.

FORBES, John, of Culloden, his convivial practices, 184.

FORBES of Culloden obtains permission to distil usquebaugh duty-free,
133.

Foreigners prohibited from transporting labourers, 211;
distinguished foreigners visiting Edinburgh, 581.

Forfeited estates, commissioners of, meet in Edinburgh, 408;
further proceedings of commissioners, 443.

Forfeited estates in inaccessible situations, difficulty of dealing
with, 458.

Forgery on Bank of Scotland by Thomas M‘Gie, 229;
by Robert Fleming, 356.

FORGLEN, Lord, his eccentric bequest, 533.

FORSYTH, Matthew, cook, his miserable imprisonment, 90.

Fortrose, election at, and riot, 465.

FOULIS, Messrs, of Glasgow, their elegant printing, 516.

France, gentlemen returned from, objects of suspicion, 216.

FRASER, Captain Simon (afterwards Lord Lovat), his wild proceedings in
Inverness-shire, 186, 254.
See LOVAT.

FRASER, John, imprisoned for ridiculing the divine authority of the
Scriptures, 147.

FREEBAIRN, the bookseller, 379.

Freemasonry, 600.

Free-trade hinted at, 243.

French fleet appears in Firth of Forth, 332.

—— Protestants, succour for in Scotland, 9.

French taught by a native, in Edinburgh, 449.

Friendly Society, the, for fire-insurance, 446.

Frost of 1740, 605.

Funeral at Glasgow, described by Walter Scott (‘Beardie’), 387;
of Campbell of Lochnell (1713), 387;
of Robertson of Struan, 526;
convivialities at one, 309,
give rise to a murder, 545.

Funerals conducted on a superb scale, 307;
Lord Whitelaw’s, 308;
Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder’s, 309;
Sir R. Monro’s, 560.

Galloway, _Levellers_ of, 492;
state of tenantry of, 494.

Gambling in Scotland, act regarding, and notable instances of, 296.

Gambling Society, 543.

GARDINER, Colonel James, his pious character, 487.

GARDNER, John, minister of Elgin, falls into a trance, 422.

_Gazette, Edinburgh_, newspaper commenced by Captain Donaldson, 212;
recommenced, 324.

GED, William, invents stereotyping, 555;
his son James joins the rebellion, 557.

Gentleman, John Purdie pleads that he is not a, 352.

GIBSON of Durie and his colliers, 249.

—— of Linkwood, imprisoned in Elgin tolbooth, and burns it, 239.

Gilmerton, subterranean house at, 502.

Gipsies of the province of Moray, 233.

_Girded Tails_, 448.

Glasgow, cruelty at to Quakers, 57;
rise of commercial wealth in, 125;
trades with colonies, 431;
deterioration of morals at, 486;
mercantile losses at, 337, 487, 565;
bankrupt pilloried, 487;
malt-tax riot at, 508;
making great advances, 515;
a mad merry-making at, 543;
afflicted with bugs, 542.

Glass for mirrors, art of polishing, by Leblanc, a French refugee, 154.

Glass-work at Leith, 23;
at Glasgow, 128;
at Aitchison’s Haven, 154;
of Lord Elcho, 155;
complaint about English bottles imported, 229.

GLENBUCKET, Gordon of, attempt to assassinate him, 488.

GLENBUCKET, Lady, dispute between her and her eldest son, 159.

Glencoe, massacre at, 2, 62;
French version of, 64.

Glenorchy, Episcopal minister of kept in at the Revolution, 7.

GORDON, Duchess of (Elizabeth Howard), meeting of Catholic worshippers
at her house in the Canongate, 466.

GORDON, Duchess of (Elizabeth Mordaunt), introduces agricultural
improvements, 419;
pensioned for Protestantising her husband’s family, 554.

GORDON, Duke of, holds out Edinburgh Castle for King James, 1;
has a meeting of Catholic worshippers in his house in Edinburgh, 204.

GORDON, second Duke of, his death, and its political importance, 554.

GORDON, Mr, his powers of _clairvoyance_, 490.

GORDON of Ellon’s two sons murdered, 422.

GORDON of Glenbucket, his attempted assassination, 488.

GORDONS of Cardiness and M‘CULLOCHS of Myreton, 174.

GORDONS of Gicht, 304.

GOW, the pirate, affair of at Orkney, 505.

GRAHAM of Gartmore, his account of state of the Highlands, 615.

Grain, export and import acts, 137;
Kerr of Chatto’s appeal for custom on grain brought to Kelso, 138;
importation permitted (1697), 182;
forbidden to be exported (1699), 221.

GRANGE, Lord, visits a religious visionary, 430;
his troublesome wife, 578;
opposes abolition of the witchcraft laws in parliament, 579.

GRANT of Monymusk’s improvements of land, 418.

GREEN, Captain, and his companions, unjustly tried and executed, 316.

GREENSHIELDS, Rev. James, Episcopal minister, persecutions of, 350.

GREGORY, Professor, his machine for raising water, 237.

GRIERSON, Sir Robert, of Lagg, imprisoned as a ‘suspect person,’ 11,
68;
accused of ‘clipping and coining,’ 145.

Gunpowder, explosion at Leith, 264.

HADDINGTON, Thomas, Earl of, his improvements and plantations, 417.

HALDEN and LESLIE, Covenanters, 378.

HALL, Lady Anne, her funeral, 212.

—— of Dunglass, desecration of a church by, 369.

HALL, Robert, of Inchinnan, his ‘pretty peculiar accident,’ 353.

HAMILTON, keeper of Canongate tolbooth, asks Privy Council to renew
certain perquisites lately withdrawn, 80;
another petition by, 182.

HAMILTON, Lord Basil, his death, 246.

——, William, of Bangour, in connection with the Dancing Assembly, 483.

HAMILTON’S lottery, 88.

HART, Rev. James, a noted clergyman of Edinburgh, 397, 429.

Harvest of 1699, thanksgiving for, 221.

Haunted houses, 169, 435.

Healing virtues ascribed to crystal, ivory, stones, glass, &c., 262;
Dow Loch, 263.

Healths, treasonable, 182.

Hell-fire clubs, 521.

HEPBURN, John, persecuted for preaching without authority, 149.

Heraldry, Alexander Nisbet’s System of, published by aid from Scottish
parliament, 276.

Heriot’s Hospital boys taught useful arts at the suggestion of ‘Society
of Improvers,’ 530.

Hership of cattle on lands of Lord Rollo, 117.

Highlanders, predatory habits of the, 30, 31, 498, 612.

Highlands, resistance in, to taxation, 91;
ignorance in, 252.

Highway robberies, 83.

_Historia Anglo-Scotica_, a book, burned at the Cross of Edinburgh,
276.

Historical Society at Edinburgh, 487.

Holyrood Sanctuary, anecdotes of the, 349.

HOME, Earl of, ordered into Edinburgh Castle as a dangerous person, but
allowed, on medical certificate, to remain at home, 117.

HOME, Lady, of Renton, conduct at her husband’s funeral, 200.

HOME of Renton writes about increase of witchcraft, 94;
affray with tenants of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 345.

Hoops for ladies, fashionable in 1719, 448.

HOPE of Rankeillor, an agricultural improver, 485.

HOPETOUN, Charles Hope of, his arrangement for supplying victual to his
miners, 210;
his windmill at Leith, 290.

‘_Horn Order_,’ meeting called the, 482.

Hospital for sick first established in Edinburgh, 557.

Hospitality, great, in Scotland, 570.

Housebreaking, capitally punished by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in
1730; W. Muir’s execution, 568.

HOUSTON, James, and Sir JOHN SHAW of Greenock, assault between, 402.

HUME, David, circumstances connected with his birth, 56.

HUME, John of Ninewells, married to Lady Falconer, 55.

HUME of Marchmont, 1.

Hummum, a, or Turkish bath, set up at Perth in 1702, 260.

HUNTER and STRAHAN hanged for forgery, 335.

Hunters’ ball at Holyrood, 590.

Hurricane in January 1739, 603.

Husbands ill-using wives, their punishment by the _Stang_, 589.

ILAY, Earl of, admitted as an extraordinary Lord of Session, 341;
curious anecdotes of in connection with the Post-office, 266.

Immorality and impiety ascribed to Scotland by General Assembly in
1691, 41;
efforts to restrain, 342.

Improvers [Agricultural] Society of, 484, 580.

Incestuous connections severely treated, 59, 354.

INCHBRAKIE, George Graham of, makes a riot, 24;
Patrick, the young laird, kills the Master of Rollo, 117.

Infanticide and concealed pregnancy, 26.

Infirmary at Edinburgh, its origin, 557.

Influenza in Scotland, 554.

Inoculation introduced into Scotland, 530.

Insurance against fire, 446.

Intelligence-office projected, 244.

Inventions and manufactures, various, 154.

Inverary petitions for ‘ease’ from the tax-roll, pleading ‘poverty and
want of trade,’ 51.

Invergarry House garrison, 304.

Inverlochy, fort planted at, 2.

Irish cattle imported, 153.

—— ——, laws against importation of, 242;
contraband Irish victual staved in Clyde, 137, 241.

IRVINE of Drum, of weak intellect, arrangements regarding, 22;
anecdote of his widow, 144.

IRVINE of Murtle’s conduct towards Lady of Drum, 144.

IRVINE, Robert, murders his two pupils, 423.

——, Robert, of Corinhaugh—slow travelling, 222.

Jacobite party formed, 2;
Jacobites in Perthshire make a riot, 24;
persecuted under apprehension of a French invasion, 66;
the Jacobite clans unsubmissive, 60;
Jacobite lairds of Fife, 84;
Jacobite gentlemen troubled for drinking treasonable toasts, 182;
their plot in 1704, 295;
proceedings of the party in 1715, 389;
their estates forfeited, 408;
subscription for prisoners (1716), 411;
gentlemen in exile, 524.

JAMATI, Joseph, Baculator of Damascus, in Edinburgh, 581.

JAMES VII., death of, 107.

Jedburgh, incident at proclamation of King William at, 7.

JOHNSTONE, James, a very wretched prisoner, 14.

JOHNSTONE, Margaret, widow of Johnstone younger of Lockerby, forcibly
asserts her rights, 35.

Jubilation in Edinburgh on reconciliation between king and Prince of
Wales, 453.

Judges, severity of, in cases of Rutherford and Gray, 371;
salaries of, 303.

Justiciary, commissioners of, their salaries, 302.

KELLIE, John, a corporal, fights a duel, 404.

KENNEDY, James and David, under prosecution as paramours of one woman,
59.

KENNEDY of Auchtyfardel kills Houston, W.S., on streets of Edinburgh,
321.

KEPPOCH, Macdonalds of, a wild race, 15;
fight with Laird of Mackintosh at Inverroy, 16;
Coll Macdonald of, 192.

KER, Robert, his censure of _Girded Tails_, 448.

KILRAVOCK, Laird of, amounts paid for his daughter’s education, 57.

Kilsyth church, body of Lady Kilsyth preserved in, 98.

KINCAID, Mrs, of Gogar Mains, murder of, 473.

KINCARDINE, Earl of, his death, 319.

KINNARIES, Fraser of, a Catholic, placed in restraint, 25.

KINTORE, Earl of, his concern in preservation of the Regalia disputed,
264.

KIRCHER’S _Disfigured Pictures_, an optical curiosity, 101.

Kirkcaldy, &c., nearly ruined by the debts of a regiment quartered
there, 45.

Kirkcudbright, stewartry of, riot in, on account of the Sheriff’s
_Mart_, 362.

Kirk-treasurer’s Man, a bugbear to men of gaiety, 343.

Konigsberg, church at, built by a Scottish collection, 134.

Ladies, Scottish, in 1718, described by a traveller, 433.

LAGG, Sir Robert Grierson of, confined at the Revolution, 11;
suffers from confinement, 68;
charged with coining, 145.

Lanark, assisted on account of poverty, in building a bridge, 134.

_Land Mint_, essay published on, 320.

——, price of, 103.

LANGTON, Laird of, his wards and their allowances, 56.

Lantern, Magical, in 1694, 100.

LAUDER, Bailie, of Haddington, imprisoned, 33.

LEAS, John, of Croshlachie’s maltreatment, 157.

LEBLANC, French refugee, mirrors made by, 154.

Leith, glass-work at, 23, 229;
gunpowder explosion at, 264;
duel at, 566.

_Levellers_ of Galloway, 492.

LEVEN, Earl of, assaulted by Boswell of Balmouto, 84;
by revellers, 312;
carries Excise money to London, 340.

Libraries, presbyterial, in the Highlands projected, 250;
partly realised, 253.

Licentiousness, 41, 320;
proclamations regarding, 342.

LINDSAY, Patrick, upholsterer, connected with nobility, 547.

Linen manufacture, 85, 541.

Linlithgow, remarkable disappearance of a gentleman at, 239.

LIVINGSTONE, William, of Kilsyth, a Jacobite, temporary leniency shewn
to, 66;
liberated on condition of exile, 97;
romantic story of his marriage to Dundee’s widow, _ibid._

LOCKERBY, Johnstone of, troubles in family of, 34.

Locks, ingenious, invented, 99.

LOGAN, Robert, makes wooden kettles to ‘abide the strongest fire,’ 214.

LOTHIAN, John, imprisoned after the Revolution, 14.

LOTHIAN, Marquis of, letter from, regarding slave colliers, 249.

Lottery proposed by Alexander Hamilton, 88;
one by Roderick Mackenzie, 310.

LOVAT, Hugh Lord, confined at the Revolution, 11.

LOVAT, Simon Lord, his violences in Inverness-shire, 186, 254;
has a command in the Black Watch, 498;
his account of the Highlands (1725), 498;
puffing letters of, 552;
alludes to depredations in the Highlands, 614.

LOVE, John, charged with _brewing_ on Sunday, 582.

Loyalty a paradoxical feeling, 415.

MABIE, Catherine Herries of, forcibly dispossesses a tenant, 36.

M‘CULLOCH, Sir Godfrey, murder by, 174.

MACDONALD of Glengarry exhibits a strange trait of Highland feeling,
18;
a garrison at his house, 304.

MACDONELL of Barrisdale, 616.

M‘EWEN, Elspeth, accused of witchcraft, 193.

M‘EWEN, James, starts a newspaper, 439.

M‘FADYEN, a drover, robbed, 83.

M‘FARLANE, Mrs, murders Captain Cayley, 412.

M‘GILL, Mr, minister of Kinross, his house haunted, 435.

MACGREGOR, Robert (_Rob Roy_), see ROB ROY.

MACGREGOR of Glengyle levies _black-mail_, 612.

MACHRIE, William, a fencing-master, 267.

MACKAY, General, his cheap dinner, 46.

MACKENZIE, Roderick, of Prestonhall, his petition for transporting
victual from Forfarshire to Midlothian, 211.

MACKENZIE, Sir George, warrant granted to print his works, 220.

MACKIE, Andrew, his house haunted, 109.

MACKINTOSH, Laird of, kept out of his property in Glenroy, 15;
made prisoner, 16;
obtains letters of fire and sword against Keppoch, 192;
his expensive funeral, 307.

M‘LACHLAN, John, sentenced to be whipped and banished for tampering
with recruits, 79.

MACLAURIN, Professor Colin, election of, 512.

MACPHERSON, James, the robber, 234;
his execution, 236.

MACPHERSON of Invernahaven charged with stealing cattle from Grant of
Conygass, 142.

MACQUEEN of Pall-a’-chrocain kills the last wolf in Scotland, 609.

MACRAE, James, a Quaker, pressed as a soldier, 59.

MACRAE’S, Governor, return to Scotland, 585.

_Magazine, Scots_, established, 603.

_Malicious Society of Undertakers_, 578.

Malt, Patrick Smith’s plan for drying, 303.

—— tax riots at Glasgow, 508.

Manners, general change of (1730), 568;
levity of, censured, 520.

Man-stealing, a case of, 44;
edict against, 211.

Manufactures set up, 85, 126, 154.

MAR, Earl of, hoists standard of rebellion in Aberdeenshire, 389;
letter to Robertson of Struan, 526.

Marriages, forbidden, 353.

Marriages in high life, ceremonies at, 240.

Marrow Controversy, 441.

MARTIN’S description of Western Isles, 278.

Martyrs’ tomb in Greyfriars’ Churchyard, 533.

MAXWELL, John, of Munshes, his account of agriculture in his early
days, 494.

MAXWELL, Robert, a noted early writer on agriculture, 485.

MAXWELL of Dargavel and HAMILTON of Orbieston, dispute between, 69.

MAXWELL of Orchardton, a Catholic, his case, 295.

Mechanical inventions, curious, 99.

Medical practice, popular, as exhibited in _Tippermalloch’s Receipts_,
53;
fees, 22, 117.

MEIN family connected with Post-office in Edinburgh, 514, 593.

MENZIES, Major, kills town-clerk of Glasgow, 103.

MENZIES, Professor John, characteristic letter by, 524.

Mercantile enterprise in Scotland takes its rise, 121;
increased after the Union, 336.

_Merchandising Spiritualised_, a book printed in Glasgow in 1699, 220.

Merchant Company of Edinburgh, their treatment of Mary Flaikfield, 76.

Metrical elegies, 140.

MILLER, George, a boy, trepanned as a soldier, 43.

MILLER, Hugh, quoted regarding sand-hills of Culbin, 110.

MILN, Sir Robert, his reduced circumstances, 208.

Miners’ provisions, mode of obtaining from distant towns, 210, 211.

Mint in Scotland, 330.

MITCHELL, the ‘Tinklarian Doctor,’ 358;
his visit to Calder, 450.

MITCHELL, William, his ear nailed to the Tron for insolency, 23.

_Mock Senator_, a satire by Pennecuik, 473.

Money in Scotland at the Union, 330.

MONTEATH, Robert, advertises for epitaphs, &c., for his _Theater of
Mortality_, 382.

MONTGOMERY of Skelmorley, plot of, 3.

MORAY, Earl of, small debt-case, 77.

MORER’S _Account of Scotland_, 269.

Mortality in Edinburgh (1743), 610.

MOSS NOOK, a Scottish serf living in 1820, 250.

MOWAT, Ensign, concerned in a murder at Leith, 48.

MUIR, David, surgeon at Stirling, charge for drugs used by him to
wounded of Killiecrankie, 47.

MUNRO of Foulis, his funeral, 560.

MURCHISON, Donald, defends the Seaforth estates against government
troops, 459, 468;
his death, 471.

MURE, Elizabeth, her account of Scottish manners in eighteenth century,
571.

MURE of Caldwell’s journey from Edinburgh to Ross-shire, 406.

MURRAY, a tavern-keeper, in trouble on account of a false news-letter,
71, 144.

MURRAY, Clara, her violent letter to Lord Alexander Hay, 275.

MURRAY, Lady, of Stanhope, assault on, 478.

MURRAY, Sir Alexander, of Stanhope, his projects, 474;
Strontian mines, 476;
Ardnamurchan scheme, 474.

MUSHET, Nichol, murders his wife, 454;
he is executed, 455.

Music, concerts of, in Edinburgh, 89, 139;
rising taste for in Scotland, 432;
_Orpheus Caledonius_, 434.

Musical instruments, curious advertisement of, 325.

Musselburgh, riding of marches at, 622.

NASMYTH, a builder, at Inversnaid fort, 374.

Navigation of rivers, Henry Neville Payne’s petition, 217.

Negro slave, runaway, advertisement in _Courant_ regarding, 453.

News, false, punishment for, 71.

—— -letters, 71;
Murray, a tavern-keeper, sued for a false news-letter, _ibid._

Newspapers, notices of early, 212, 313, 324, 414, 438.

NICHOLSON, Daniel, his case of adultery with Mrs Pringle, 60.

NICOL, William, of High School of Edinburgh, anecdote of, 223.

NISBET, Alexander, his _System of Heraldry_ patronised, 276.

NITHSDALE, Earl of, troubled on return from France, 216.

Noblemen, imprisonments of, 68.

NORVILL, Dame Mary, petitions Privy Council in behalf of her children,
55.

Officers of the army, their accounts at hotels, 45.

OGILVIE, Patrick, of Cairns, employed to guard the coasts against Irish
importations, 243.

OGILVY of Forglen, his death and last injunctions, 533.

Orkney, a pirate taken in, 505.

ORMISTON, Alexander, imprisoned, 14.

Painting in oil, early notices of in Scotland, 563.

Paper-manufacturing, 87.

Paragraphs from old newspapers, _Appendix_.

Paraphernalia of women, decided by Court of Session, 166.

Parochial schools, establishment of, in Scotland, 151.

PARSONS, Anthony, a quack medicine-vender, 261.

PATERSON, Archbishop of Glasgow, imprisoned, 12;
permitted to live at certain places, 167.

PATERSON, William, promotes commerce and founds African Company, 121;
his liberal ideas, 124;
opposition to Bank of Scotland, 131.

_Pates_ of Court of Session, 291.

PAYNE, Henry Neville, tortured and imprisoned for ten years, 39;
proposes an improvement in river navigation, 218.

Pease-meal, nutritiousness of, 472.

Peebles, infanticide at, 19;
prison not strong enough to secure a female culprit, 20;
vested with a peculiar privilege, 51.

Perpetual motion, scheme of, by David Ross, 102.

PERTH, ‘Duke’ of, his baptism, 383.

——, Earl of, taken prisoner at the Revolution, 11, 12;
liberated, 66;
again imprisoned, 67.

Perth, tumult at, on account of a picture, 565.

Peterhead as a harbour of refuge for vessels pursued by French
privateers, 120.

Petrie’s _Rules of Good Deportment_, &c., 455.

Piper of Musselburgh, trepanned as a recruit, 44.

Pirates hanged at Leith, 458.

—— under Henry Evory seize a man-of-war, 150;
a pirate in Orkney, 505.

PITCAIRN, Dr Archibald, introduces dissection in Edinburgh, 105;
anecdotes concerning, 223;
brought before the Council for _leasing-making_, 224;
raises an action for defamation against Rev. James Webster, 378;
his death, 383;
his writings, 384.

Pittenweem, treatment of witches there in 1704, 299.

Plantations, criminals and degraded persons transported to, without
trial, 115, 211.

Planting first attempted in Scotland, 417.

POIRET, Elias, murdered at Leith, 48.

Poor, vagrant, multitude of, 218;
regulations for, proposed, 219.

Pope, the, tried and burned in effigy in Edinburgh, 3.

Porpoises thrown ashore at Cramond, 23.

PORTEOUS, Captain John, plays a match at golf with Hon. Alexander
Elphinstone, 566;
his unpopularity, 594;
condemned for murder, 595;
executed by the mob, 596.

Porteous riot, unpopular witnesses regarding, 600.

Post-office, general arrangements in 1689, 20;
the post sometimes robbed and tampered with, 21, 74;
post-boy robbed by Jacobite gentlemen, 32;
act for establishing General Post-office, 125;
violation of letters at Post-office, 265;
affairs of, in 1710, 327, 357;
improvements of, by Mr James Anderson, 400;
accidents to postbags, 513;
improvements of, 514.

Potato culture, 604.

Poverty of Scotland, traits of the extreme character of, 45.

Prayers, equivocating, 78;
meetings for, 228.

Preaching in open air, 606.

Pregnancy, concealment of, act against, 26.

Presbyterian form of worship, innovation on, punished, 350.

Press, restrictions on the, 181.

Priests in trouble. See _Catholics_.

PRINGLE of Clifton, fights a duel with Scott of Raeburn, 330.

Printing, art of, in Scotland (1712), 363.

Prisoners’ aliment, 208.

Prisoners detained, from inability to pay prison dues, 34.

Prisoners of Canongate Tolbooth, take possession of it, 71.

Prisons crammed with disaffected persons in 1689, 11.

Privy Council deals with Episcopal clergymen, 78.

Profaneness, proclamations against, 342.

Prussian grenadiers, recruiting for, in Edinburgh, 490.

PURDIE, John, pleads he is not a gentleman, 352.

Quack medicines vended, 260.

Quakers, persecuted at Glasgow, 57;
persecuted at Edinburgh, 178;
appear at Cross of Edinburgh, 467;
build a meeting-house there, 621;
one sets up a manufactory, 620.

Racing in Scotland, 454.

Raffle of Indian screens by Roderick Mackenzie, 310.

Railway, an early, at Prestonpans, 472.

RAMSAY, Allan, Scottish poet, satirises metrical elegies, 140;
his reference to Sir Richard Steele, 427, 429;
reference to musical entertainments in Edinburgh, 432;
to the dancing assembly, 483;
concern in theatrical entertainments, 518;
lends plays, 544;
erects a theatre, 598;
his _Gentle Shepherd_ acted, 624.

RATTRAY, John, a poor man, imprisoned at the Revolution, 14.

Rebel prisoners removed from Edinburgh to Carlisle for trial, by virtue
of ‘treason-law,’ 411.

Rebellion of 1715, 389;
of 1745, 535.

Recruiting, unscrupulous system of, 43.

Recruits kept in jails, 79, 182, 601.

Regalia, controversy about its preservation, 264.

_Reicudan Dhu_, or Black Watch, 498.

Repentance Tower, subject of a rustic _bon mot_, 429.

‘Rerrick Spirit,’ strange story of the, 169.

Restoration of Charles II., celebrated by one Jackson, 371.

Restrictions regarding victual, troubles from, 210.

Revenue laws disrelished and resisted, 508, 589, 594.

Review of Highland Companies at Ruthven, 581.

Revolver, the, anticipated, 101.

RITCHIE, Charles, a minister, in trouble about an irregular marriage,
190.

Roads made in the Highlands, 526, 561.

ROB ROY, first public reference to, 373;
seizes Graham of Killearn, 420;
is taken prisoner by the Duke of Montrose, but escapes, 421;
forfeiture of his estate, 422;
taken by Duke of Athole at Logierait, and escapes, 425;
Rob’s bad excuse to General Wade, 500;
his death, 624.

Robberies, great number of in 1693, 83;
increase in Highlands from withdrawal of ‘Black Watch,’ 610.

ROBERTSON, Alexander, of Struan, 523.

—— ——, Duncan, dispossesses his mother, Lady Struan, of her property,
233.

RODERICK, the St Kilda Impostor, 179.

ROLLO, Lady, her charge against her husband, 143.

ROLLO, Lord, tries to repress cattle _lifting_, 31;
prosecuted by his lady, 143.

ROLLO, Master of, killed, 117.

Rope-performers, Italian, 582.

—— -work established, 87.

ROSE, Bishop of Edinburgh, his death, 452.

ROSEBERRY, Earl of, pranks of, 604.

Ross-shire, election for, on a Saturday, 341.

ROW, Captain, raises sunk treasure, 551.

Royal Bank of Scotland, started, 537;
rivalry of banks, 537.

Royal burghs, convention of, curious details concerning, 51.

RUDDIMAN, Thomas, his connection with Dr Pitcairn, 385;
improves the classical learning of Edinburgh, 438.

Rum, sale of forbidden, and subsequently permitted, 277.

RUTHERGLEN, Earl of, ‘bangstrie’ upon his property, 158.

_Saddle, Elastic Pacing_, invented, 101.

St Cecilia, feast of, celebrated in 1695, 139.

St Cecilia’s Day, celebrated in Edinburgh with a concert, 139.

St Kilda, account of, 168.

—— —— islanders acquire a minister, 178;
curious peculiarity attending the inhabitants, 181.

St Luke, School of, institution of at Edinburgh, 564.

Salaries of judges of Justiciary and Court of Session, 303.

Salmon-fishery in Scotland (1709), 353.

Salt proposed to be made in a new manner, 154.

Salters and miners considered as slaves or necessary servants, 248.

SALTON and MURRAY, Lords, seized by Master of Lovat, 185.

Sanctuary (Holyrood Abbey), taken advantage of by Patrick Haliburton,
&c., 349.

SANDILANDS, Hon. Patrick, a boy, bewitched, 449.

SAVERY’S engine for raising water, 237.

Scavengering of Edinburgh, 593.

Schools, parochial, establishment of, in Scotland, 151;
plays acted at, 584.

_Scots Magazine_ established, 603.

SCOTT of Raeburn killed in a duel, 330.

——, Walter, of Kelso, his marriage, and letter describing it, 39;
funeral of his father-in-law at Glasgow, 387.

Scriptures, a multitude of copies of, distributed in the Highlands in
1690, 39.

SEAFORTH, Earl of, in rebellion of 1715, 391, 393;
again in rebellion in 1719;
his forfeited estates kept for his use by Donald Murchison, 459, 468;
his ingratitude to Murchison, 471.

_Secession, The_, a schism in the kirk, 588, 625.

_Second-sight_, described by Martin, with instances, 278.

Servants, register-office for, proposed in 1700, 244.

Session, Court of, new judges appointed for, 10;
its purity under suspicion, 291;
tyranny of, 293;
severity of judges of, 371;
salaries of judges, 303.

SETON, Hon. James, accused of robbing a post-boy, 32.

Settlement, an inharmonious, 580.

_Sharps_, a trial at designed, 209.

SHAW, Christian, of Bargarran, her case, 167;
thread spun by her, 510.

SHAW, Sir John, of Greenock, his marriage, 240;
kills Mr Houston, 402.

SHORT’S telescopes, 567.

SIBBALD, Sir R., claims a share in Adair’s maps of Scotland, 42;
his concern in originating a botanic garden, 81;
his death, 619.

‘Siller,’ origin of term in Scotland, 212.

Silver-mine at Alva, 247.

SIMSON, Professor John, teaches Arminianism, 441.

Skye, Isle of, _Second-sight_ in, 280.

Slaughters—town-clerk of Glasgow by Major Menzies, 103;
Master of Rollo by Graham of Inchbrakie, 117;
Houston, Writer to the Signet, by Kennedy of Auchtyfardel, 321;
Cowpar of Lochblair by Ogilvie of Cluny, 322;
Robert Oswald by Baird of Sauchtonhall, 322;
by Master of Burleigh, 326;
of Mrs Kincaid by her husband, 473;
of Campbell of Lawers, 473;
a boy Cairns killed, 547.

Slave (or ‘perpetual servant’), man adjudged to be for theft, and
handed over to Sir John Areskine of Alva, 246.

Slave, negro, advertisement of a stolen one found, 453.

Slavery of salters and miners till 1775, 249.

SLEZER, John, in prison after the Revolution, 13;
a creditor punished for imprisoning him, 27.

Small-pox (1713), 387;
inoculation for introduced, 530.

SMITH of Whitehill’s plans for introducing water into towns, 238.

Soldiers, recruiting of, by nefarious means, 43;
from criminals, 64;
recruits kept in jails, 79;
mutinies of recruits in Canongate Tolbooth, 182, 601.

Spirits, young man troubled with, at Glencorse, 555.

Spott church communion-cups, 335;
witch of Spott, 275.

Stage-coach from Edinburgh to Glasgow (1758), 612;
from London to Glasgow, 613;
from Edinburgh to London, 407.

Stair church burnt, 355.

STAIR, Viscountess of, death of; her coffin placed in an upright
position; _bon mot_ of, 74.

_Stang_, riding of the, a punishment for cruel husbands, 589.

_Staving_ of Irish victual, proclamation regarding, 241.

STEELE, Sir R., visits Scotland, as a commissioner on forfeited
estates, 409, 426;
anecdotes concerning, 429.

Stereotyping invented by Ged, 555.

STEUART, Sir James, Lord Advocate for Scotland, favourable to
witch-prosecutions, 135;
his death, 382;
Lt.-Gen. Sir James Steuart, his recollections of Duchess of Douglas
at Paris, 507.

STEWART, General, killed by Elliot of Stobbs, 523.

STIRLING of Kier, his trial for high-treason, 345.

STOBO, John, ‘student in astrologico-physick,’ 85.

Storm, an extraordinary, in 1739, 603.

STRAHAN, W.S., of Edinburgh, is robbed of a large sum, 333.

STRATHMORE, Earl of, killed in a drunken fray, 545.

Streets and Wynds of Edinburgh, in 18th century, 591.

SUDDY, Mackenzie of, killed at Inverroy, 16.

Summer of 1723, its sultriness, 480.

Sunday observance, 271, 342, 344, 397, 569.

SUTHERLAND, James, in charge of the Physic Garden, 81;
introduces culture of melons, 142.

Tain Tolbooth steeple falls, 277.

TARBET, Master of, charged with a murder at Leith, 48.

_Tascal-money_, murder of Cameron for, 486.

Tavern-bill, example of one in Edinburgh, 183.

Taverns much frequented, 575.

Taverns open on Sunday, disturbance regarding, 271.

Taxes of Scotland and England equitably adjusted by Union, 328.

Tea, its disuse recommended in favour of beer, 613.

Tennis Court, theatricals in, 398.

Thanksgiving hypocritically ordered, 221.

Theatricals in Edinburgh (1715), 397, 518, 544, 550, 583, 598;
at Glasgow, 550.

Thrashing-machine invented, 503.

Thunderstorm at Edinburgh (June 10, 1717), 424.

_Tinklarian Doctor_, a strange enthusiast, 358;
visits the witch-boy of Calder, 449.

_Tippermalloch’s Receipts_, 53;
medical practice and literature of the time, 53;
Tippermalloch’s pharmacopœia, 54;
his dream about battles and ambassadors, 55.

Toasts, treasonable, drunk at Dumfries, 182.

Tobacco trade of Glasgow, 431, 516.

Tolbooth, Canongate, mutiny of recruits in, 601.

Tolbooth of Edinburgh stuffed with political prisoners, 11.

Toleration Act for Scottish Episcopalians, 367.

Torture employed after the Revolution, 39.

Travelling, formal permission required from government for persons of
eminence, 51;
slowness of, 222;
means of, 406;
coaches set up, 612;
a difficult journey of Lord Lovat, 625.

Treasure lost at sea, dived for, 551.

TROTTER’S _Compendium of Latin Grammar_, 582.

Trustees, Board of, established, 541.

Tyninghame Woods planted by Earl of Haddington, 417.

Union, changes in commerce produced by, 336;
customs and excise of Scotland, 339.

Union, treaty of, 258.

University of Edinburgh, cleared of Episcopalian professors, 7;
medical education introduced, 105.

Vice and immorality severely punished, 342.

VIOLANTE, Signora, an Italian rope-dancer, 625.

WADE, General, sent as commander-in-chief to disarm the Highlanders,
497;
pleads for exiled rebels, 523;
his Highland roads, 526, 561;
_fête_ at Dalnaspidal, 561.

WALKER, Helen, intercedes for her sister’s pardon, 602.

WALKER, Patrick, his account of the expulsion of the bishops in 1689,
5;
his account of the Seven Dear Years, 196;
denounces the dancing assemblies, 482.

Walking-swords and other weapons worn by gentlemen, 49.

WALLACE, Captain John, long kept a prisoner for defending
Holyroodhouse, 13;
petition for release, 68.

WATSON, Andrew, Glasgow shoemaker, 386.

——, a skipper, subscription in behalf of, 134.

Weapons worn by gentlemen, a fatal practice, 49.

Weights and measures, statutory, confided to various towns, 51.

_Western Isles, Description of_, by Martin, 278.

Whales in Firth of Forth, 77, 327;
at Culross and Kilrenny, 458.

WHISTON’S _Primitive Christianity_ seized, 363.

WHITFIELD’S open-air preaching, 606.

WILLIAM III., crown settled on, 1;
concern in massacre of Glencoe, 60;
his sentiments on Catholic worship, 204;
death of, 256.

WILLIAMSON, Rev. J., of Musselburgh, his letter on ‘recent domestic
events,’ 403.

WILSON, Robert, a servant lad, stolen as a recruit, 44.

Windmill at Leith, building of, 290.

Winds, destructive, in Lothian, 471.

Wines, use of, and prices, 183, 270.

Witch-boy at Calder, 449.

——, Marion Lillie, at Spott, 275.

——, the last burnt in Scotland, 540.

Witchcraft jurisprudence, 135;
laws against, repealed, 597.

Witches at Coldingham, 94;
at Torryburn and Pittenweem, Fife, 298;
at Inverness, 302.

Witches, five, burnt at Paisley, 172.

—— of Ross-shire treated leniently for the first time, 216;
see also, 540.

Witches, various, proceedings against, 66, 94, 135, 193, 216, 275, 298,
302, 540.

WODROW, Rev. Mr, his remarks on mercantile losses at Glasgow, 337, 487,
565;
on plague of bugs at, 542;
excursion into Galloway, 380;
deplores religious changes at Glasgow, 432, 486, 515;
sad account of general condition of the country, 491;
condemns theatricals, 519, 544, 550;
describes profligacy of manners, 521.

Wolf, last in Scotland, killed, 609.

Women of evil repute banished, 115.

Women’s ‘Girded Tails’ satirised, 448.

Wool forbidden to be exported, 238.

Woollen manufactures at Aberdeen, 156.

WORTLEY MONTAGU, Lady Mary, satirises Lady Murray of Stanhope, 479;
introduces inoculation, 530.

_Writers_, malignant feelings displayed on opposing interests, case of;
Leslie and Comrie, 278.

Writing, engine for, invented, 99.

York Buildings Company purchases forfeited estates, 443;
leases Strontian mines, 475;
its failure alluded to, 492;
leases woods of Abernethy, 547.

YOUNG, George, troubles from enforcing Sunday observance, 271.

YOUNG, James, an ingenious mechanist and curiosity-monger, 99;
House of Curiosities at Edinburgh, 100.

THE END.

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. and R. Chambers.

The state of the Leg-of-Mutton-School of verse[242] in Scotland at the end of the seventeenth century, may be pretty fairly inferred from this specimen.]

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Footnote 1:

A very animated review of these affairs will be found in Mr Burton’s
excellent _History_.

Footnote 2:

_Collection of Papers_, &c. London, Richard Janeway, 1689.

Footnote 3:

_Account of the Pope’s Procession at Aberdene_, &c., reprinted in
Laing’s _Fugitive Poetry of the Seventeenth Century_.

Footnote 4:

_Biographia. Presbyteriana_, i. 221.

Footnote 5:

Under this title, a pamphlet, detailing the _outing_ and _rabbling_ of
the clergy, was published in London in 1690.

Footnote 6:

Stewart’s _Sketches of the Highlanders_, i. p. 99, note.

Footnote 7:

Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 338.

Footnote 8:

_Life and Diary of Lieutenant-colonel Blackader of the Cameronian
Regiment._ By Andrew Crichton. Edin. 1824.

Footnote 9:

Privy Council Record, MS., Gen. Register House, Edinburgh.

Footnote 10:

Home of Crossrig’s _Diary_. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1843.

Footnote 11:

_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 408, 432.

Footnote 12:

_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 12.

Footnote 13:

On the 12th February 1690, the Privy Council had under their notice
the case of a man named Samuel Smith, who had been imprisoned in the
Edinburgh Tolbooth for three years on a charge of theft, without
trial, and ordained him to be set at large, there being ‘no probation’
against him.

Footnote 14:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 15:

Privy Council Record, under February 22, 1698.

Footnote 16:

_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_ [by Drummond of Balhadics],
p. 243.

Footnote 17:

_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_, p. 254.

Footnote 18:

C. K. Sharpe in note to Law’s _Memorials_.

Footnote 19:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 20:

Justiciary Record.

Footnote 21:

Mrs Gibb seems to have been the person who managed the transmission or
carrying between Edinburgh and Haddington.

Footnote 22:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 23:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 24:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 25:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 26:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 27:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 28:

Scots Acts, iii. 310.

Footnote 29:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 30:

Contemporary broadsides.

Footnote 31:

_Domestic Annals_, ii. 384.

Footnote 32:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 33:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 34:

A picturesque glimpse of the Highland marauding of this period was
obtained some years ago at second-hand from the memory of William Bane
Macpherson, who died in 1777 at the age of a hundred. ‘He was wont to
relate that, when a boy of twelve years of age, being engaged as
_buachaille_ [herd-boy] at the _summering_ [i. e., summer grazing] of
Biallid, near Dalwhinnie, he had an opportunity of being an
eye-witness to a _creagh_ and pursuit on a very large scale, which
passed through Badenoch. At noon on a fine autumnal day in 1689, his
attention was drawn to a herd of black-cattle, amounting to about six
score, driven along by a dozen of wild Lochaber men, by the banks of
Loch Erroch, in the direction of Dalunchart in the forest of Alder,
now Ardverikie. Upon inquiry, he ascertained that these had been
“lifted” in Aberdeenshire, distant more than a hundred miles, and that
the reivers had proceeded thus far with their booty free from
molestation and pursuit. Thus they held on their way among the wild
hills of this mountainous district, far from the haunts of the
semi-civilised inhabitants, and within a day’s journey of their home.
Only a few hours had elapsed after the departure of these marauders,
when a body of nearly fifty horsemen appeared, toiling amidst the
rocks and marshes of this barbarous region, where not even a footpath
helped to mark the intercourse of society, and following on the trail
of the men and cattle which had preceded them. The troop was well
mounted and armed, and led by a person of gentlemanlike appearance and
courteous manners; while, attached to the party, was a number of
horses carrying bags of meal and other provisions, intended not solely
for their own support, but, as would seem from the sequel, as a ransom
for the _creagh_. Signalling William Bane to approach, the leader
minutely questioned him about the movements of the Lochaber men, their
number, equipments, and the line of their route. Along the precipitous
banks of Loch Erroch this large body of horsemen wended their way,
accompanied by William Bane, who was anxious to see the result of the
meeting. It bespoke spirit and resolution in those strangers to seek
an encounter with the robbers in their native wilds, and on the
borders of that country, where a signal of alarm would have raised a
numerous body of hardy Lochaber men, ready to defend the _creagh_, and
punish the pursuers. Towards nightfall, they drew near the encampment
of the thieves at Dalunchart, and observed them busily engaged in
roasting, before a large fire, one of the beeves, newly slaughtered.

‘A council of war was immediately held, and, on the suggestion of the
leader, a flag of truce was forwarded to the Lochaber men, with an
offer to each of a bag of meal and a pair of shoes, in ransom for the
herd of cattle. This offer, being viewed as a proof of cowardice and
fear, was contemptuously rejected, and a reply sent, to the effect
that the cattle, driven so far and with so much trouble, would not be
surrendered. Having gathered in the herd, both parties prepared for
action. The overwhelming number of the pursuers soon mastered their
opponents. Successive discharges of firearms brought the greater
number of the Lochaber men to the ground, and in a brief period only
three remained unhurt, and escaped to tell the sad tale to their
countrymen.’—_Inverness Courier_, August 17, 1847.

Footnote 35:

This post-boy appears to have been forty-four years old.

Footnote 36:

Lord Viscount Kingston was a cadet of the Winton family, and had
delivered a Latin oration to Charles I., at his father’s house of
Seton, in 1633.

Footnote 37:

In the parliament which sat down in September, robbing the post-packet
was declared to be ‘robbery,’ to be punished with death and
confiscation of movables.—_Scots Acts._

Footnote 38:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 39:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 40:

Privy Council Record. The privileges of Mr Hamilton were confirmed by
the Estates in June 1693.

Footnote 41:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 42:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 43:

A portrait of the house, and some particulars of the family, are to be
found in Robert Stuart’s _Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former
Times_, 4to, 1847.

Footnote 44:

This must have been Lady Raeburn (Anne Scott of Ancrum).

Footnote 45:

Probably his sister Isobel’s husband, described in Burke as Captain
Anderson.

Footnote 46:

_Acts of General Assembly_, 1690, p. 18.

Footnote 47:

See page 10.

Footnote 48:

_Melville Correspondence_, p. 150. The parliament, on the 18th July
1690, gave a warrant for subjecting one Muir or Ker to the torture, in
order to expiscate the truth regarding the murder of an infant, of
which he was vehemently suspected.

Footnote 49:

Mr Burton, in his _History of Scotland from 1689 to 1748_, gives the
following account of this nobleman: ‘The Earl of Crawford, made
chairman of the Estates and a privy councillor, was the only statesman
of the day who adopted the peculiar demeanour and scriptural language
of the Covenanters. It is to him that Burnet and others attribute the
severities against the Episcopal clergymen, and the guidance of the
force brought to bear in the parliament and Privy Council in favour of
a Presbyterian establishment.’

Footnote 50:

_Melville Correspondence._ Privy Council Record.

Footnote 51:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 52:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 53:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 54:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 55:

Burt’s _Letters_, i. 128.

Footnote 56:

A phrase of the time, found in the Privy Council Record.

Footnote 57:

John Callander, master-smith, petitioned the Privy Council in June
1689, regarding smith-work which he had executed for Edinburgh and
Stirling Castles, to the amount of eleven hundred pounds sterling,
whereof, though long due, he had ‘never yet received payment of a
sixpence.’ On his earnest entreaty, three hundred pounds were ordered
to be paid to account. On the ensuing 23d of August, he was ordained
to be paid £6567, 17_s._ 2_d._, after a rigid taxing of his accounts,
Scots money being of course meant. Connected with this little matter
is an anecdote which has been told in various forms, regarding the
estate of Craigforth, near Stirling. It is alleged that the
master-smith, failing to obtain a solution of the debt from the
Scottish Exchequer, applied to the English treasury, and was there so
fortunate as to get payment of the apparent sum in English money.
Having out of this unexpected wealth made a wadset on the estate of
Craigforth, he ultimately fell into the possession of that property,
which he handed down to his descendants.[58] John Callander was
grandfather of a gentleman of the same name, who cultivated literature
with assiduity, and was the editor of two ancient Scottish poems—_The
Guberlunzie Man_, and _Christ’s Kirk on the Green_. This gentleman,
again, was grandfather to Mrs Thomas Sheridan and Lady Graham of
Netherby.

Footnote 58:

_Sir James Campbell’s Memoirs._ _A Week at the Bridge of Allan_, by
Charles Rogers, 1853, p. 334.

Footnote 59:

Justiciary Records.

Footnote 60:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 61:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 62:

Record of Convention of Burghs, MS. in Council Chamber, Edinburgh.

Footnote 63:

Anderson’s Prize Essay on the State of the Highlands in 1745, p. 95.

Footnote 64:

_New Stat. Acc. of Scotland_: Ross, p. 220.

Footnote 65:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 66:

Dr John Brown: _Locke and Sydenham_, &c., 1858, p. 457.

Footnote 67:

The second edition of Tippermalloch was published in 1716, containing
Dr Pitcairn’s method of curing the small-pox. It professes to be
superior to the first edition, being ‘taken from an original copy
which the author himself delivered to the truly noble and excellent
lady, the late Marchioness of Athole, and which her Grace the present
duchess, a lady no less eminent for her singular goodness and virtue
than her high quality, was pleased to communicate to us and the
public.’

Footnote 68:

_Analecta Scotica_, ii. 176.

Footnote 69:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 70:

Crossrig’s _Diary_.

Footnote 71:

Kilravock Papers, Spald. Club, p. 388.

Footnote 72:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 73:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 74:

_Life of Peden_, _Biogr. Presbyteriana_, i. 112.

Footnote 75:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 76:

_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 29.

Footnote 77:

Criminal Proceedings, a Collection of Justiciary Papers in Library of
the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Footnote 78:

Macdonald of Glencoe bore the subordinate surname of M‘Ian, as
descended from a noted person named Ian or John.

Footnote 79:

Addressed to Sir Thomas Livingstone, commander-in-chief of the forces
in Scotland.

Footnote 80:

See _Papers Illustrative of the Political Condition of the Highlands
from 1689 to 1696_. Maitland Club. 1845.

Footnote 81:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 82:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 83:

This was the father of Mr Andrew Drummond, the founder of the
celebrated banking-house in the Strand.

Footnote 84:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 85:

From papers in possession of John Hall Maxwell, of Dargavel, Esq.

Footnote 86:

Privy Council Record. (See onward, under December 31, 1692, and July
13, 1697.)

Footnote 87:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 88:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 693.

Footnote 89:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 90:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 693.

Footnote 91:

_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 326.

Footnote 92:

_Mem. of John Earl of Stair by an Impartial Hand_, p. 7.

Footnote 93:

Murray’s _Literary Hist. of Galloway_, p. 155.

Footnote 94:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 95:

Minutes of Merchant Company, MS. in possession of the Company.

Footnote 96:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 518, 564.

Footnote 97:

_Ibid._, i. 525.

Footnote 98:

_Ibid._

Footnote 99:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 100:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 101:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 102:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 103:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 104:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 105:

In July 1695, there was a further act ‘anent burying in Scots linen,’
ordaining that none should be used for sepulchral purposes above
twenty shillings Scots per ell, and also commanding that the nearest
elder or deacon of the parish, with one or two neighbours, should be
called by the friends of deceased persons to see that the shroud was
in all respects conform to the acts thereanent.

Footnote 106:

_Wodrow Pamphlets_, Adv. Lib., vol. 115.

Footnote 107:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 108:

_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 429.

Footnote 109:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 110:

_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 420.

Footnote 111:

See _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 398.

Footnote 112:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 113:

_Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend at Edinburgh_,
&c. Edin. 1696.

Footnote 114:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 115:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 590.

Footnote 116:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 117:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 118:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 119:

_Scottish Journal_, ii. 200.

Footnote 120:

The troubles from the meeting-houses at Coldingham and two
neighbouring parishes, led to their being entirely suppressed by the
arm of the government in March 1700 [q. v.]

Footnote 121:

The above, and some other curious extracts from the parish register of
Coldingham, are given in an interesting volume, entitled _History of
the Priory of Coldingham_. By William King Hunter. Edinburgh, 1858.

Footnote 122:

_Analecta_, ii. 250. Wodrow tells us that Lady Dundee had been very
violent against the Presbyterians, and ‘used to say she wished that,
that day she heard a Presbyterian minister, the house might fall down
and smother her, which it did.’

Footnote 123:

_Analecta Scotica_, i. 187. Wodrow’s _Analecta_, ii. 250.

Footnote 124:

William Livingstone survived his wife nearly forty years. In the
_Caledonian Mercury_ for February 6, 1733, is this paragraph: ‘We are
assured private letters are in town, giving account, that on the 12th
of last month, the Right Hon. the late Viscount Kilsyth died at Rome,
in an advanced age, in perfect judgment, and a Christian and exemplary
resignation.’

Footnote 125:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 126:

_A Summer’s Divertisement of Mathematical and Mechanical Curiosities,
being an Account of the Things seen at the House of Curiosities, near
Grange Park._ Edinburgh: James Watson. 1695.

Footnote 127:

Nicolas’s spelling is here given _literatim_.

Footnote 128:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 129:

From ‘a double of the oath’ in the _Kilravock Papers_, Spald. Club
publication, p. 387.

Footnote 130:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, i. 629.

Footnote 131:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 132:

‘James Peedie of Roughill and John Anderson of Dowhill were the first
merchants who brought a loading of cherry-sack into this
city.’—_M‘Ure’s Hist. Glasg._, p. 250.

Footnote 133:

Arnot’s _Criminal Trials_, p. 163.

Footnote 134:

Chalmers’s _Life of Ruddiman_, p. 30. Bower’s _Hist. Univ. of
Edinburgh_, ii. 153.

Footnote 135:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 136:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 137:

These legends appear to have been intended to read as follows: ‘Three
years thou shalt have to repent, and note it well. Wo be to thee,
Scotland! Repent and take warning, for the doors of heaven are already
barred against thee. I am sent for a warning to thee, to flee to God.
Yet troubled shall this man be for twenty days and three. Repent,
repent, Scotland, or else thou shalt’——.

Footnote 138:

On the 7th of January 1696, the Privy Council gave licence to George
Mossman, stationer in Edinburgh, to ‘print and sell a book entitled _A
True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions, and Actings of a Spirit
which infested the House of Andrew Mackie, in Ring-croft of Stocking,
in the Parish of Rerrick, &c._,’ with exclusive right of doing so for
a year.

Footnote 139:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 140:

_Caledonian Mercury_, Nov. 20, 1732.

Footnote 141:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 142:

From _Information for his Majesty’s Advocate, &c., against James
Edmonstoun of Newton_.

Footnote 143:

Maclaurin’s _Criminal Cases_, p. 10.

Footnote 144:

_Introductions, &c., to Waverley Novels_, i. 255.

Footnote 145:

_Acts of Scot. Par._, ix. 452.

Footnote 146:

Hugh Miller’s _Sketch-book of Popular Geology_, pp. 13, 14.

Footnote 147:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 148:

A few of the subscriptions are here subjoined: For £1000 each, the
Faculty of Advocates, John Anderson of Dowhill, Provost of Glasgow,
the Earl of Annandale; Alexander Brand, merchant in Edinburgh; James
Balfour, merchant in Edinburgh; George Clerk, merchant in Edinburgh;
Daniel Campbell, merchant in Glasgow; Sir Robert Dickson of Sorn-beg,
Andrew Fletcher of Salton, the town of Glasgow, John Graham younger of
Dougalston, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Yester, Sir David Home of
Crossrig, Sir John Home of Blackader, Sir Alexander Hope of Kerse,
William Hay of Drumelzier, Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Lockhart of
Carnwath, William Livingstone of Kilsyth; George Lockhart, merchant in
Glasgow; the Merchant House of Glasgow, the Marquis of Montrose, Sir
John Maxwell of Pollock, Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre, Francis
Montgomery of Giffen, William Morison of Prestongrange, William Nisbet
of Dirleton, Sir James Primrose of Carrington, the Countess of Rothes,
the Countess of Roxburgh, Lord Ross, Lord Ruthven, William Robertson
of Gladney, the Earl of Sutherland, the Earl of Southesk, Viscount
Strathallan, Viscount Stair, Sir John Swinton, Sir Francis Scott of
Thirlstain, Sir John Shaw of Greenock; Thomas Spence, writer in
Edinburgh; John Spreul, _alias_ Bass John, merchant in Glasgow; the
Marquis of Tweeddale, Viscount Tarbat; Robert Watson, merchant in
Edinburgh; George Warrender, merchant there; and William Wardrop,
merchant in Glasgow: for £1200, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh: for
£1300, James Pringle of Torwoodlee: for £1500, the Earl of Argyle,
William Lord Jedburgh, and Patrick Thomson, treasurer of Glasgow: for
£2000, Mr Robert Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh; Sir Robert
Chiesley, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, John Lord Glenorchy, Lord Basil
Hamilton, the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl of Leven; William Menzies,
merchant in Edinburgh; the town of Perth, Sir William Scott of Harden:
for £3000, Lord Belhaven, the Good Town of Edinburgh, the Duchess of
Hamilton, the Duke of Queensberry, the Easter Sugarie of Glasgow, and
Sir John Stuart of Grandtully.

Footnote 149:

Scots Acts, _sub anno_ 1695.

Footnote 150:

[Sinclair’s] _Statistical Account of Scotland_, vi. 586.

Footnote 151:

In April 1703, John Dunbabbine, an Englishman, who in his own country
had for several years followed the trade of pin-making ‘to the
satisfaction of all those with whom he had any dealing,’ was now
inclined to set up a work at Aberdeen, which he thought would be ‘very
much for the advantage of the kingdom [of Scotland] and all the
inhabitants thereof.’ All he required previously was his work being
endowed with the privileges and immunities of a manufactory; which the
Privy Council readily granted.

Footnote 152:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 153:

Mr James Foulis and Mr John Holland are probably identical with the
persons of the same names who received some encouragement from the
parliament in April 1693, for the setting up of a manufacture of
_Colchester Baises_ in Scotland. See _Domestic Annals_, under that
date.

Footnote 154:

See a pamphlet by Mr Holland, published in 1715, under the title of
_The Ruine of the Bank of England and all Publick Credit inevitable_.

Footnote 155:

Exchange was not dealt in by the Bank of England, any more than the
Bank of Scotland, during many of its earlier years.

Footnote 156:

_Account of the Bank of Scotland_, published in 1728.

Footnote 157:

_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 465.

Footnote 158:

_Culloden Papers_, Introduction, p. xliv.

Footnote 159:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 160:

Patrick Walker’s _Life of Donald Cargill_, _Biog. Pres._, ii. 24.

Footnote 161:

Patrick Walker.

Footnote 162:

Ibid.

Footnote 163:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 164:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 165:

We have no means of knowing if this concert was connected with the
enterprise of Beck and his associates, noticed under January 10, 1694.
The name of Beck does not occur in the list of performers on this
occasion.

Footnote 166:

W. Tytler, _Trans. Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland_, i. 506.

Footnote 167:

Ramsay’s _Scribblers Lashed_.

Footnote 168:

Through her, as daughter of William first Duke of Queensberry, her
descendant, the Earl of Wemyss, succeeded in 1810 to large estates in
Peeblesshire and the earldom of March.

Footnote 169:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 170:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 171:

See under Feb. 2, 1693.

Footnote 172:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 173:

Ibid.

Footnote 174:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 175:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 176:

Printed informations in the case. Justiciary Records.

Footnote 177:

_Acts of Scot. Parliament._

Footnote 178:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 179:

The authority for this is a very bad one—the scurrilous book called
_Scots Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed_; but on such a point, with
support from other quarters, it may be admitted.

Footnote 180:

Calamy’s Account of his Own Life.

Footnote 181:

Watson’s _Collection of Scots Poems_, 1709.

Footnote 182:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 183:

A tolerably full detail of Mr Hepburn’s persecutions is given in
Struthers’s _Hist. Scot. from the Union to 1748_. 2 vols.

Footnote 184:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 185:

Scots Acts, vol. iii.

Footnote 186:

See _Domestic Annals_, under date August 24, 1669.

Footnote 187:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 188:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 189:

Records of Parliament and Privy Council.

Footnote 190:

_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 82.

Footnote 191:

Ibid.

Footnote 192:

_Acts of Scot. Parl._, xi. 111.

Footnote 193:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 194:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 195:

The above account of the prosecution of Aikenhead is derived from
Howell’s _State Trials_, in which there has been printed a collection
of documents on the case, collected by John Locke.

Footnote 196:

Preface to _Two Sermons_, &c., by Mr Lorimer.

Footnote 197:

Foun., _Decisions_.

Footnote 198:

Privy Council Record, under various dates.

Footnote 199:

Signed at Glasgow, December 31, 1696.

Footnote 200:

_Domestic Annals_, _sub_ July 9, 1668, vol ii. p. 321.

Footnote 201:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 202:

Justiciary Record.

Footnote 203:

_New Stat. Acc. of Scotland_, iv. Wigton, 226.

Footnote 204:

Criminal Proceedings, &c., MS., in possession of Ant. Soc. Scot.

Footnote 205:

_New Stat. Acc. Scotland_, _ut supra_.

Footnote 206:

_Decisions_, i. 522.

Footnote 207:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 208:

_A Voyage to St Kilda_, &c., by M. Martin, Gent. 4th ed., 1753.

Footnote 209:

Macaulay’s _History of St Kilda_, 1766, p. 241.

Footnote 210:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 211:

Ibid.

Footnote 212:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 213:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 214:

_Letters from North of Scotland_, ii. 134 (2d ed.).

Footnote 215:

_Edin. Courant_, May 1720.

Footnote 216:

_Letters_, &c., i. 135.

Footnote 217:

Arnot’s _Crim. Trials_, Anderson’s _Hist. Fam. Fraser_, Carstares’s
_State Papers_.

Footnote 218:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 219:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 220:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 221:

Fountainhall’s _Decisions_, ii. 5.

Footnote 222:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 223:

Privy Council Record.

Footnote 224:

_Acts of General Assembly._

Footnote 225:

_Wodrow Pamphlets_, Adv. Lib.

Footnote 226:

Under extremity of suffering during the dearth, in September 1699, one
David Chapman, belonging to Crieff, broke into a lockfast place, and
stole some cheese, a sugar-loaf, and about four shillings sterling of
money. His sole motive for the crime, as he afterwards pleaded, was
the desire of relieving his family from the pains of want. Apprehended
that day, he confessed the crime, and restored the spoil; yet, being
tried by the commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands, he was
condemned to death.