Part 63

[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.