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[274] Alexander Gibson of Durie, commonly called Lord Durie, and author of a well-known work called _Durie’s Practicks_, died June 10, 1614. The story of his kidnapping was related a century after, as follows: ‘Some party in a considerable action before the Session, finding that the Lord Durie could not be persuaded to find his plea good, fell upon a stratagem to prevent the influence and weight which his lordship might have to his prejudice, by causing some strong masked men kidnap him, in the links of Leith, at his diversion on a Saturday afternoon, and transport him to some blind and obscure room in the country, where he was detained captive, without the benefit of daylight, a matter of three months (though otherwise civilly and well entertained); during which time his lady and children went in mourning for him as dead. But after the cause aforesaid was decided, the Lord Durie was carried back by incognitos, and dropt in the same place where he had been taken up.’--Forbes’s _Journal of the Session_, Edin. 1714.

[275] _Book of Bon Accord_ (Aberdeen, 1839), p. 246. Knight’s _William Shakspere, a Biography_, p. 443.

[276] John, fifth Earl of Cassillis, son of the lord who roasted Allan Stewart in Dunure Castle; see pp. 65-67.

[277] See under January 1, 1596-7.

[278] Such is the account of a partial contemporary. In the Privy Council Record, it is stated that the conflict was provoked by Bargeny, and that his party were fully armed for the purpose with muskets, hagbuts, and pistolets, while Cassillis’s attendants wore only their swords. Cassillis’s defence, on the ground of his having commissions giving him authority over his district, was sustained.

[279] Birrel, by an evident mistake, places this in 1601.

[280] The names of the party, as given in the Privy Council Record, are curious as a sample of Highland nomenclature of the day. These were Donald Glas M‘Rannald, and Ronald M’Rannald, brothers of the aforesaid Alexander; Allaster M‘Ean Vich Innes, John, Angus, Donald, and Ronald, his sons; Gorie M‘Allaster Vich Gorie, and Allaster his brother; John Dow M‘Connell Vich Rannald, Allan and Angus his brothers; Gillespich M‘Ean Vich Connell, William and Angus his brothers; William M‘Connell Vich Gorie, and Angus his brother; John M‘Ean Vich Finlay Roy, and Ewen M‘Finlay Roy his brother; John Dow Vich Connell Vich Finlay; John M‘Innes Vich Connachie, and Paul M‘Connachie Vich Innes his son; Farquhar Dow M‘Connell Vich Farquhar, Allaster Dow his brother; Gilliecallum M’Farquhar Vich Connell Vich Farquhar, son to the said Farquhar; Donald M‘Innes Vich Ean Dowie; Gillespich M‘Innes his brother, &c.

[281] Poniard swords.

[282] Nicolson and Burn’s _Hist. Westmoreland_, i. 595.

[283] See this singular document in Pitcairn’s _Crim. Trials_, iii. 622; also in _Maitland Club Misc._, i. p. 141, where a fac-simile of it is presented.

[284] Hist. Clan Mackenzie, MS. in possession of John W. Mackenzie, Esq.

[285] This Scottish _Philotus_ is to be distinguished from the _Philotas_ of Daniel, for which see Collier’s _Annals of the Stage_, iii. 350.

[286] _Riche his Farewell to Militaire Profession, &c._ Another of the tales in the same volume is dramatised by Shakspeare in _Twelfth Night_.

[287] See Mr J. W. Mackenzie’s edition of _Philotus_, presented to the Bannatyne Club in 1835.

[288] Calm, gratify.

[289] Apparel.

[290] Condition.

[291] Ere.

[292] Slippers.

[293] A quantity.

[294] Mouthfuls.

[295] Serve.

[296] Cauls.

[297] A warm at the fire.

[298] Custom.

[299] Jests.

[300] Mask.

[301] Above the rest.

[302] Necklace.

[303] Decorated with lace.

[304] Stockings.

[305] Throat.

[306] Heaps.

[307] _Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI._, p. 47.

[308] Spottiswoode.

[309] Grease.

[310] MS. Hist. of Scotland, quoted by Pitcairn.

[311] The tercel is the male hawk (_Falco peregrinus_), so called because one-third the size of the female.

[312] _Letters and Papers of the Reign of King James VI._, p. 76.

[313] Bankrupts.

[314] Maitland’s _History of Edinburgh_.

[315] _Acts of Sederunt_, p. 161.

[316] The Privy Council in the previous April had passed an act, ‘that the haill marquisses and earls of this kingdom sall leave off their former resolution anent the wearing of velvet robes in time of parliament,’ and ‘that they sall provide themselves with robes of red scarlet cloth again the next session, &c.’--_Maitland Club Misc._, i. 147.

[317] Letter of the three privy-councillors, in _Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI._, p. 84.

[318] Melville’s _Diary_, p. 648.

[319] These particulars are derived from a fragment of the deed entered into by the gentlemen for payment of the money.

[320] _Letters, &c., of the Reign of James VI._

[321] _Ibid._, p. 89.

[322] _Geneal. Deduction of Fam. of Rose of Kilravock_, Spald. Club, p. 249.

[323] Letter in James Melville’s _Diary_, Wodrow Club ed., p. 671.

[324] Melville’s _Diary_, p. 688.

[325] Pitcairn. _Lives of the Lyndsays._ _Lands of the Lyndsays._

[326] See depositions of witnesses, &c., in Pitcairn, iii. 47.

[327] 28th April 1608. ‘Forsameikle as the Lords of Secret Council are informit that there is ane horse-race appointit to be at Peblis the ... day of May nextocome, whereunto grit numbers of people of all qualities and ranks, intends to repair, betwixt whom there being quarrels, private grudges, and miscontentment, it is to be feirit that at their meeting upon fields, some troubles and inconvenients sall fall out amangs them, to the break of his Majesty’s peace and disquieting of the country without remeed be providit; Therefore the Lords of Secret Council has dischargit, and be the tenor hereof discharges, the said horse-race, and ordains that the same sall be nawise halden nor keepit this year; for whilk purpose ordains letters to be direct, to command, charge, and inhibit all and sundry his Majesty’s lieges and subjects by open proclamation at the mercat-cross of Peblis and other places needful, that nane of them presume nor tak upon them to convene and assemble themselves to the said race this present year, but to suffer that meeting and action to depart and cease, as they and ilk ane of them will answer upon the contrary at their heichest peril,’ &c.

[328] This was probably at the place called Silver Mills, on the Water of Leith; now involved in the suburbs of Edinburgh.

[329] Atkinson’s _Discoverie of Gold Mynes in Scotland_ (Bann. Club), 1825. _Chron. Kings of Scotland._

[330] Napier’s _Life of John Napier_.

[331] Literally, the separation; in larger sense, the restoration of order.

[332] The fishing of salmon in the river Dee on Sunday was a custom of some antiquity, as it had been expressly warranted by a bull of Pope Nicolas V. in 1451. The privilege was limited to the Sundays of those five months of the year in which salmon most abound; and the first salmon taken each Sunday was to belong to the parish church. The bull recites that both by the canon and the common law, the right of prosecuting the herring-fishing on Sunday was conceded to all the faithful.--_Reg. Epis. Aber._ (Spalding Club).

[333] _Earl of Haddington’s Notes, quoted by Pitcairn_, iii. 597. It may be worthy of remark, that no notice of such shocking transactions occurs in the Privy Council Record at this time.

[334] _Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI._

[335] _Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI._, p. 56.

[336] _Mait. Club Misc._, i. 158.

[337] See under June 1590.

[338] Osborne’s _Traditional Memoirs_--_Secret Hist. Court James I._ Vol. i., p. 219.

[339] Printed in full in Ritson’s _Country Chorister_.

[340] A large collection of documents illustrative of this case will be found in Pitcairn’s _Criminal Trials_, iii. 124-199. The story has been made the subject of a play, under the name of the _Ayrshire Tragedy_, by Sir Walter Scott.

[341] The superior men of a Highland clan were called the duniwassals.

[342] Hive.

[343] Notes to _Border Minstrelsy_, i. clxxvi.

[344] Melrose State Papers.

[345] _Spal. Club Misc._, ii. 396. For something more regarding Robin Abroch, see under October 26, 1624.

[346] Privy Council Record.

[347] Von Buch’s _Travels through Norway_.

[348] Denmylne MSS., apud Pitcairn, iii. 52.

[349] This narrative, as well as the letters of challenge, is printed entire in the _Guardian_, Nos. 129 and 133.

[350] In March 1615, James Stewart is once more, and very solemnly, condemned by the Privy Council to exile, in consequence of fresh offences of the same kind.

[351] From a paper in Balfour’s MSS., printed in _Bannatyne Miscellany_, vol. iii.

[352] Some Observations of Mr John Livingstone, MS. Adv. Lib. ‘It appears from the council registers of Aberdeen, that the corporation voluntarily gave a thousand merks for the support of M‘Birnie’s widow and children.’--_Notes to Coll. Hist. Aber. and Banff_, Spal. Club.

[353] _Sting_ is a Scotch word for a pole, and the phrase _sting and ling_ is believed to express simply the method of carrying practised by draymen.

[354] This unheard-of snow-fall was equally notable in the south. When the thaw came, it caused an unexampled flood in the Ouse of Yorkshire, which lasted ten days, carrying away a great number of bridges. ‘After this storm followed such fair and dry weather, that in April the ground was as dusty as in any time of summer. The drought continued till the 20th of August, and made such a scarcity of hay, beans, and barley, that the former was sold at York for 30s. and 40s. a wainload.’--_History of York_, 1785, i. 256.

[355] _Letters and Papers of the Reign of James VI._, pp. 243, 317. _Balfour’s Annals_, ii. 58.

[356] Catholic historians note the martyrdom of one of their faith, which took place amidst the more immediate tumults of the Reformation. His name was Black, and he is described as a Dominican monk of Aberdeen, respectable both for piety and learning. Being taken to Edinburgh to dispute with Willox and other apostles of the Reformation, the populace cut short the argument by stoning him to death on the streets, January 7, 1562.--_Dempster._ _D. Camerarius._

[357] _True Relation of the Proceedings against John Ogilvie_, 1615: reprinted in Pitcairn.

[358] See the entire form of abjuration in _Selections from the Records of the Kirk Session, Presbytery, and Synod of Aberdeen_. Spalding Club. 1846.

[359] This term is usually applied to an insinuating, wheedling fellow of swindling propensities.

[360] See papers on these subjects in _Spottiswoode Miscellany_, vols. i. and ii.

[361] _Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI._, p. 293.

[362] The suburb called Portsburgh was under the jurisdiction of Tours, Laird of Inverleith.

[363] See documents in _Maitland Club Misc._, ii. 26.

[364] Sharp-pointed staves.

[365] ‘Who thereafter wrote himself Sir John Hay of Landes, knight, one altogether corrupt, full of wickedness and villainy, and a sworn enemy to the peace of his country.’--_Sir James Balfour’s Annals._

[366] Translated from Johnston’s _Historia Rerum Britannicarum_, _apud_ Secret Hist. of Court of Ja. I., ii. 30.

[367] _Chronicle of Perth._

[368] Johnston’s _Hist. Rer. Brit._, p. 619.

[369] See _Muses’ Welcome_.

[370] Johnston’s _Hist. Rer. Brit._, p. 519. Calderwood.

[371] We can here see the original of Scott’s exquisite picture of Caleb Balderstone endeavouring to convince a messenger that cold water was better for his stomach in the morning than ale or brandy.

[372] The organ was no new instrument at Holyrood. There is an entry in the lord-treasurer’s book, under February 8, 1557-8, of £36 ‘to David Melville, indweller in Leith, for _ane pair of organs_ to the Chapel in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.’

[373] See the satire and answer in _Abbotsford Miscellany_, i. 297.

[374] _Ferly_ is the Scotch for _wonder_.

[375] Shewed.

[376] Abridged from the _Muses’ Welcome_.

[377] The above is a traditional story related in Forsyth’s _Beauties of Scotland_.

[378] Printed in the _Scots Magazine_, January 1806, from a MS. volume of excerpts of the Edinburgh city records in the Advocates’ Library.

[379] This Colonel Gray, who is stated to have been a rank papist, embarked at Leith, about the end of May 1620, with a party of fifteen hundred men for the service of the king of Bohemia.--_Cal._

[380] Act of Secret Council, quoted in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, i. 498.

[381] See the case of Margaret Barclay at greater length in Scott’s _Demonology_, p. 307.

[382] Fleming’s MS., Adv. Lib., quoted in Pitcairn, iii. 443.

[383] _Survey of Moray._, p. 208.

[384] Now called Castle-Grant.

[385] _Works of John Taylor, the Water-poet._ London, folio, 1630.

[386] See _Drummond’s Works_, folio, Edinburgh, 1711, p. 234.

[387] Gifford’s edition of _Jonson’s Works_. London, 1816, vol. I., p. cccxxxii.

[388] He seems to have been the same with Macdonald of Keppoch.

[389] _Johnstoni Hist._, p. 529.

[390] Scot’s _Stag. State of Scots Statesmen_.

[391] Earnest-money is arles in Scotland.

[392] See under December 17, 1596.

[393] _Maitland Miscellany_, p. 195.

[394] Father Anderson was afterwards the author of a book entitled _The Ground of the Catholique and Roman Religion_, 1623, 4to.

[395] _Lives of the Saints_, i. 358.

[396] _Succinct Survey of Aberdeen_, 1685.

[397] _New Stat. Acc. of Scotland_--Aberdeenshire, _passim_. _Beauties of Scotland_, iv. 199.

[398] _Letters of Reign of James VI._ Pitcairn.

[399] Adamson’s Notes to Sibbald’s _Hist. Fife_.

[400] See under July 28, 1612.

[401] A fixed bar of iron, with fetters attached by movable rings.

[402] Session Register of Perth.

[403] _Chronicle of Perth_, 23.

[404] Calderwood.

[405] Philip, second son of the Landgrave of Hesse, came to the English court April 6, 1622, on a negotiation from his father.--_Nichols’s Progresses of King James I._, iii. 759, 763.

[406] Gregory’s _History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland_, 1836, p. 405.

[407] _Archæologia Scotica_, i. 43.

[408] _Virtues of the Indian Perfume Tobacco_, 1667. _An. Scot._, i. 82.

[409] See under October 1590.

[410] Stones supposed to possess medicinal virtues were then not uncommon.

[411] _Miscellanies_, p. 39.

[412] Calderwood.

[413] See under March 30, 1620.

[414] _Life of John Livingstone_, Glasgow, 1754, p. 89.

[415] _Letters of Reign of James VI._, p. 368.

[416] See the undated letter of Gordon, _Analecta Scot._ ii. 386. Patrick Gordon was the person who had acted for the king in prosecuting poor Stercovius to the gallows for a satire on the Scottish nation. See pp. 448, 449.

[417] _Mait. Club Misc._, iii. 344.

[418] ‘Wha had brought money with the infection from Danskein.’--_Chron. Perth._

[419] Extract from _Privy Council Record_, _Edin. Mag._, Oct. 1817.

[420] _Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain_, p. 268.

[421] _Archæologia Scotica_, ii. 111.

GENERAL INDEX.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adulteration by Edinburgh traders, ii. 240.

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

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

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

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

Ale, impost-duty on, ii. 253.

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

Anabaptists, dipping of the, ii. 213.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apostates, punished as adulterers, i. 140.

Apparitions, frequent, ii. 435.

Apprentices, restriction of, ii. 41.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bankrupts, severities against, i. 392.

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

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

Baptisms, order against extravagance at, i. 541.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Black Saturday_, why so called, i. 523.

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

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

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

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

Bleeding heart prophecy, i. 145.

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

Bog an Gicht Castle, illustration, ii. 48.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bothwell Moor, harrying of, i. 71.

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

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

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

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

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

BRACKLA, Laird of, murdered, i. 233.

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

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

Brandy, its importation restricted, ii. 332.

Branks, an instrument of punishment, i. 47.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camel, exhibition of a, ii. 69.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Caravan betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 393.

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

CARGILL, Donald, his predictions, ii. 372.

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

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

CARRUTHERS, Marion, an heiress, i. 25.

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

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

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

_Cashielaws_, an instrument of torture, i. 273.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapel of Grace, pilgrimages to, i. 325.

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

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

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

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

Cheviot, order against hunting in, i. 453.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Clairvoyance, quasi_ case of, ii. 394.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COCKBURN, the executioner, hanged, ii. 433.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Costume, court order of, i. 426.

Court of Session, suspension of, ii. 128.

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

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

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

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

_Covenanter’s Ribbon_, ii. 124.

_Cowdothe_, an epidemic so called, i. 117.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CULTMALINDY and MONYVAIRD, feud between, i. 490.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dancing, laws against, i. 338.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dissection, malefactors given for, ii. 96.

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

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

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

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

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

DONALDSON, Robert, murdered, ii. 329.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dowries or Tochers, examples of, ii. 35.

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

Dream regarding Dunnottar Castle, i. 210.

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

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

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

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

Dromedary, exhibition of a travelling, ii. 249.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.