Part 57

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

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

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

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

GENERAL INDEX.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adulteration by Edinburgh traders, ii. 240.

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

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

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

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

Ale, impost-duty on, ii. 253.

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

Anabaptists, dipping of the, ii. 213.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apostates, punished as adulterers, i. 140.

Apparitions, frequent, ii. 435.

Apprentices, restriction of, ii. 41.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bankrupts, severities against, i. 392.

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

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

Baptisms, order against extravagance at, i. 541.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Black Saturday_, why so called, i. 523.

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

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

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

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

Bleeding heart prophecy, i. 145.

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

Bog an Gicht Castle, illustration, ii. 48.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bothwell Moor, harrying of, i. 71.

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

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

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

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

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

BRACKLA, Laird of, murdered, i. 233.

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

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

Brandy, its importation restricted, ii. 332.

Branks, an instrument of punishment, i. 47.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camel, exhibition of a, ii. 69.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Caravan betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow, ii. 393.

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

CARGILL, Donald, his predictions, ii. 372.

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

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

CARRUTHERS, Marion, an heiress, i. 25.

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

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

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

_Cashielaws_, an instrument of torture, i. 273.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapel of Grace, pilgrimages to, i. 325.

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

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

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

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

Cheviot, order against hunting in, i. 453.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Clairvoyance, quasi_ case of, ii. 394.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COCKBURN, the executioner, hanged, ii. 433.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Costume, court order of, i. 426.

Court of Session, suspension of, ii. 128.

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

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

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

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

_Covenanter’s Ribbon_, ii. 124.

_Cowdothe_, an epidemic so called, i. 117.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CULTMALINDY and MONYVAIRD, feud between, i. 490.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dancing, laws against, i. 338.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dissection, malefactors given for, ii. 96.

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

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

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

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

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

DONALDSON, Robert, murdered, ii. 329.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dowries or Tochers, examples of, ii. 35.

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

Dream regarding Dunnottar Castle, i. 210.

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

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

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

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

Dromedary, exhibition of a travelling, ii. 249.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.