Part 59

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KERR, a blacksmith, hanged, i. 385.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Kindness_, a sickness so called, i. 137.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Lamentation of Lady Scotland_, i. 79.

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

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

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

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

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

LAUDER, William, murder of, i. 300.

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

LAWSON and CATHKIN oppose Episcopalian principles, i. 512.

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

Lawsuits, curious custom regarding, i. 434.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liddesdale, thieves of, i. 43-45.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linen manufacture of Scotland, ii. 421, 427.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lottery-adventure authorised in 1671, ii. 341.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MACKENZIE, John, of Kintail, i. 20.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Malignants_, persecution of, ii. 108, 173.

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

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

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

Manners, traits of, i. 342-345.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marroco, the wonderful horse, i. 271.

MARY DE GUISE, i. 7.

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

Masqueradings and frolics, i. 327-329.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mermaids seen at Pitsligo, ii. 88.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mining by Stewart of Tarlair, i. 28.

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

Ministers’ stipend, discontent about, i. 552.

Minstrels in Glasgow, i. 90.

_Mirk Mononday_, why so called, ii. 215.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Monro, his Expeditions_, ii. 10.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MONTGOMERY, Mr Robert, excommunicated, i. 148.

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

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

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

MONYVAIRD and CULTMALINDY, feud between, i. 490.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MURCHISON, Sir Roderick, quoted, i. 51.

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

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

Murrain amongst cattle, severe, ii. 437.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORKNEY, Bishop of, shot, ii. 322.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parturition pains, superstitious belief regarding, i. 39.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Periwigs in vogue in 1688, ii. 491.

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

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

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

Petards, proclamation against, i. 372.

_Phanatiques_, five of them hanged, ii. 427.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Players, an Irish company of, ii. 405.

_Playhouse_ in Edinburgh, the first, ii. 400.

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

_Pledge chalmer_ at Dumfries, i. 294.

Plumbers, curious trait regarding, ii. 408.

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

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

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

_Poltergeist_, a German spirit, ii. 232.

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