Part 64

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.

---- School boys of Edinburgh, mutiny of, i. 261-264. Illiberality of master of, to private teachers, ii. 426.

Highland and Border incursions, i. 310.

---- bowmen, Charles I. raises a small troop of, ii. 14.

Highland _spraichs_, ii. 262.

Highlanders, pure loyalty of the, ii. 178, 179.

Highlands, rude condition of, i. 164, 378; ii. 306-311. Scarcity of schools in, 179.

Hilderstone silver-mines, i. 411, 412.

Hill, a musician, his abduction of Marion Foulis, ii. 227.

Hirsel, tragical incident at the, ii. 455.

HOGG, James, account of ‘Thirteen Drifty Days,’ ii. 366.

Holidays and popular plays, i. 326, 327.

Holland, war with, causes stagnation of trade, ii. 302.

HOLSTEIN, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. 298.

Holyrood and Falkland, improvements on the palaces of, for king’s visit, i. 476.

Holyrood Palace, as before the Fire of 1650, illustration, ii. 205; a popish chapel, college, and printing-office in, 483.

HOME, David, of Wedderburn; his son’s portraiture of, i. 95-99.

HOME, Jean, of Ayton, her abduction and marriage to George Home, ii. 390.

HOME, Lady, of Manderston, tried for witchcraft, ii. 33.

HOME, Lord; slaughter of Bailie Lauder, i. 300.

HOME, Sir George, of Wedderburn; sketch of his character by David of Godscroft, i. 119-122.

HOME, William, stabs Johnston of Hilton, ii. 455.

HOPE, Sir Thomas, extracts from his Diary, ii. 148.

HOPPRINGLES and ELLIOTS in Edinburgh, day of law between, i. 71.

Horse, exhibition of a dancing, ii. 247.

Horse-racing in Scotland, early practice of, i. 103, 410, 514. Every Saturday at Leith, ii. 273.

Horses, act preventing exportation of, i. 47.

House-painter craves permission to set up in Glasgow, ii. 247.

HUME, Sir Patrick, of Polwarth, his remarkable hiding-place and escape, ii. 464-467.

Huntingtower Well, supposed sanative qualities of, i. 322.

HUNTLY, fifth Earl of, his mysterious death, i. 103-106.

HUNTLY, sixth Earl (subsequently first Marquis) of, marriage to Lady Henrietta Stuart, i. 184; slaughter of Bonny Earl of Moray, 230-236; makes his peace with the kirk at Aberdeen, 288; his rental sheet, 315-317; excommunicated as an apostate papist, 417; relieved from excommunication, 429; Orders of Privy Council against, ii. 20-28, 36-41; his death and character, 89-92.

HUNTLY, Marchioness of, her mourning procession to Charles I., ii. 69; persecuted and exiled as a Catholic, 139.

HUNTLY, second Marquis of, marriages of his daughters, ii. 134; beheaded, 178.

HUNTLY, fourth Marquis of, decree ordering him to be separated from his mother, ii. 311.

Idolatry, act against, i. 147.

Illusions of sight and sound, curious, ii. 313-315.

Importation of goods, decree against, i. 458.

‘Incest,’ trials, and severe punishment of cases so called, ii. 28, 29.

Independents in civil war, ii. 111.

_Indian Emperor_, Dryden’s prologue to the, ii. 404.

INGLIS, Esther, her beautiful handwriting, i. 550.

INNES, Alexander, slays Innes of Peithock; beheaded, i. 110-112.

INNES, tragedy, the, i. 134-137.

Insane, treatment of the, in past times, ii. 424.

Interregnum, 1649-1660, ii. 174-254.

Inundation and violent tempest, memorable, ii. 17.

Invasion, alarm of, from vessels in Firth of Forth, ii. 15; fear of, 18; by the Dutch fleet, 318.

Inverness-shire, sad account of, in 1666, ii. 308.

IRELAND, Alexander, minister of Kincleven, his complaint against Sir John Crichton, of Innernytie, i. 390.

_Irish Ague_, an epidemic so called, ii. 199.

Irish beggars, order against, ii. 34.

---- rebellion, anecdote of Charles I., ii. 141.

‘Iron yetts’ of the Border thieves, i. 401.

IRVINE of Drum, his dispute with presbytery of Aberdeen, ii. 210-212.

IRVING, Francis, imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for a papist riot, ii. 338-340.

ISLAY and KINTYRE, Lords of, tale of commotion between, i. 164-168.