Part 66

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.

Poor, weekly collections for, i. 346. Falling off of collections in Glasgow churches, ii. 305.

Pope, Edinburgh apprentices burn him in effigy, ii. 412, 433.

Popery, Privy Council’s orders against persons professing, ii. 20-28.

Popish relics and furniture burnt by an Edinburgh mob, ii. 499-501.

Porpoises, or _pellochs_, thrown ashore on coast of Fife, ii. 220.

Post, the Aberdeen common, i. 346. From Edinburgh to London, established, ii. 85-87; between Port-Patrick, Edinburgh, and Carlisle, 142; arrangements in 1649, 189; improvement of, at Restoration, 263, 264; between Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Inverness, rates of, &c., 315-317.

_Powder of Sympathy_, receipt for, ii. 228.

_Prap, Sir Robert’s_, a cairn so called, ii. 425.

Presbyterian ministers, the banishment of six, i. 401, 402.

Presbyterian party in civil war, ii. 110.

Presbyterians, their severe discipline in time of the civil war, ii. 156; their inconsiderate rigours, 174, 181-185, 190-194; conduct when paramount in 1650, 196; extreme rigours with opponents, 209-212, 257, 258, 281, 451, 452, 460, 463-467; humbled by Cromwell, 221; severities against them, 280, 349, 353, 427, 448; act of grace in favour of, its effects, 368.

Presbytery, claim of independence by, its serious consequences, i. 127. How disposed of at the Restoration, ii. 256.

Press, the Regent Morton’s edict against, i. 93.

PRIMROSE, Patrick, a popish priest, his death, ii. 335-337.

PRINGLE, David, barber-chirurgeon to Heriot’s Hospital, ii. 342.

PRINGLE, Jonet, her marriage with her boy-cousin of thirteen, ii. 481.

PRINGLE, Thomas, his assault on Gavin Thomson, i. 418.

Printing-offices in Edinburgh in 1763, 1790, and 1858, ii. 447.

Printing, rule against unlicensed, enforced, ii. 490.

Privateering against the Dutch, ii. 317, 318.

Privy Council, book of, a review of the nobility and gentry of Scotland, i. 229; acts of, against murder, &c., 248; furious edict of, 274. Its occasional humanity, ii. 338.

Privy Seal record, strange adventure of, ii. 266.

Proclamation against penny-weddings, &c., ii. 459.

Prophecies regarding Queen Mary, i. 16; regarding Scots king’s succession to England, 381.

Protections against creditors, Council grants, ii. 341.

Protestant and Papist, supersession of the names, ii. 205.

Protestants expelled from the Palatinate, subscription for 700, ii. 55.

_Protesters_ or _Remonstrators_ of the kirk, ii. 216, 217.

Provost’s ox, the, i. 37.

Psalms, translation of the, introduced into Church of Scotland, ii 199; Kirk’s Irish and Gaelic, 361.

_Pulices arborescentes_ of Swammerdam, ii. 488.

PURDIE, Marion, imprisoned as a witch, ii. 462.

_Purple Fever_, mortality of the, ii. 299.

PURVES, his death from _extreme cold_, ii. 368.

_Putters_, or short pieces of ordnance, ii. 135.

Quakers, their increase and strange doings, ii. 232-234; persecution of, 311; increase of, 343; the bishop’s complaint against, at Aberdeen, 447.

_Queen’s Chocolate House_, in Edinburgh, Dryden’s play acted at the, ii. 404.

Rain, great fall of, in Moray-land, ii. 113, 114.

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

RAMSAY, Thomas, minister of Dumfries, his zeal against popery, ii. 11, 72, 73.

Rats and mice, act favouring machines for catching, i. 429.

RAY, John, the naturalist, his journey into Scotland, ii. 282, 283.

Records of Scotland, interesting notices regarding, ii. 264-266.

Red herrings, privilege of making, granted, i. 443.

_Red Parliament_, Melville’s definition of, i. 394.

_Red-hand_, a butcher taken, and instantly hanged, ii. 381.

REDPATH, George, author of _Answer to the Scots Presbyterian Eloquence_, ii. 413.

Redshanks, Highlanders so called, i. 2.

_Reek Pennies_, or hearth-money, ii. 212.

Reformation, i. 2, 4.

Regalia of Scotland, interesting anecdote of the, ii. 213, 214.

Regals, or rigols, an ancient musical instrument, i. _n._, 198.

_Regiam Majestatem_, dispute between author and printer of, i. 421.

REID, a mountebank, and his _Tumbling Lassie_, ii. 487.

REID, a sorcerer, strangled and burnt, i. 382.

REID and MOSCOW, two charlatans, pretend to cure the blind, ii. 483.

Religious persecutions, remarks on, ii. 451.

_Remonstrance_, presentation of the famous, ii. 108.

_Remonstrators_ or _Protesters_ of the kirk, ii. 216, 217.

Restoration, rejoicings in Edinburgh at the, ii. 261, 266.

_Revels, Masters of the_, the Fountains’ patent as, ii. 400.

Revenue of Scotland, let on lease, ii. 427.

Revolutionary symptoms in Edinburgh, ii. 483.

RICCIO, David, murdered, i. 35, 38.

RIDDELL, John, a broken merchant, petition of, ii. 431.

_Riding of the Parliament_, i. 48. Increased splendour of, ii. 65, 66.

RIG of Atherny, threatens the clergy, i. 544, 545, 549.

RIG, Robert, imprisoned for marrying an excommunicated papist, ii. 72.

Riot of 1682 in Edinburgh, ii. 437.

Roads and bridges, ruinous state of, ii. 409.

Robberies, their frequency in 1664, ii. 298.

ROBERTSON, Bailie John, erects a leper-house in Greenside, Edinburgh, i. 226.

ROBERTSON of Struan, quarrel with Marquis of Athole, ii. 423; his wood and saw mills in Rannoch, 447.

Robin Hood games, i. 8.

ROBISON, Alexander, a Jesuit, petitions of, ii. 16.

ROCHE, Eustachius, contracts with James VI. for gold-mines, i. 151, 152; proposes to make a superior kind of salt, 189.

Roman antiquities found at Inveresk, i. 33.

ROMANNO, Murrays of, letters raised at the instance of the, i. 227-229. Gipsy-fight at, ii. 388.

RONALDSON, Walter, his ‘familiarity with a spirit,’ i. 358.

ROSE, Hugh, of Kilravock; character of, i. 287, 288.

Roslin, monster-calf at, i. 102; a grand resort for gipsies, 539, 540.

ROSS, Sinclair, Bishop of, afflicted with stone, i. 24. Young, Bishop of, afflicted with same disease, ii. 453.

ROSS, Thomas, his libel on the Scottish nation; beheaded and quartered, i. 504.

ROSSES, clergymen, crave compensation for losses incurred through persecution, ii. 451-453.

ROTHES, Earl (subsequently Duke) of, Lord High Commissioner, his progress through the west country, ii. 304; his funeral-procession, 426.

ROTHIEMAY and FRENDRAUGHT, dispute between, ii. 45-50, 76-79, 84, 98.

ROY, Bessie, tried for witchcraft, i. 206.

RUTHERFORD, Colonel, killed by the Moors, ii. 298.

RUTHERFORD, Lord, his engagement with the _Bride of Baldoon_, ii. 326-328; his prosecution of Captain Rutherford, 333.

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

_Ruthven, Raid of_, i. 128.

RUTHVEN, Sophia, Duchess of Lennox, buried, i. 222.

RUTHVENS, their complaint against Baillie of Torwoodhead, ii. 403.

SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, his duel with Edward Lord Bruce of Kinloss, i. 447-451.

St Andrew’s Day, kept as a holiday, ii. 297.

St Fittich’s and St Wollok’s Wells, sickly children bathed at, i. 323, 324.

Salt, Charles II.’s restrictions on making, ii. 332.

Saltmarket of Glasgow, great fire in, ii. 389.

SAMPSON, Agnes, burnt for witchcraft, i. 212-216.

SANDEMAN, Charles, his obligations as a cook, i. 47.

SANDILANDS, Sir James, and Mr John Graham of Hallyards, litigation between, i. 246.

SANDILANDS, Sir James, and Earl of Montrose, street-combat between, i. 258.

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

_Saw-mills_, Robertson of Struan’s, ii. 447.

SCHAW, John, fined for burying his wife in parish-church of Galston, i. 425.

School-discipline at Kirk of Dundonald, in Ayrshire, ii. 138.

Schools, Privy Council order plantation of parish, i. 479.

Scolding and slander, rigorous punishment of, i. 344, 345.

Scotch, order against their going to England, i. 432. Nobles and entire community nearly ruined by the civil wars, ii. 225.

Scotland, general sketch of, i. 1-6; factious state of, in 1571, 72. Indifference of England to, ii. 113; state of, after Cromwell’s invasion, 209, 212; concluding remarks on, 496.

_Scotland, Perfect Description of the People and Country of_, a satire, i. 481.

Scots, their supposed origin, i. 1.

---- Guard of the French king, its re-establishment craved, i. 535, 536.

SCOTT, Alexander, poet, his New-year Gift to Queen Mary, i. 15.

SCOTT, Captain, beats Mr Gregory, ii. 478.

----, George, Walter, & Ingram, condemned to death for an atrocious crime, i. 472.

SCOTT, George and William, their achievements, ii. 169.

SCOTT, John, a Quaker, fined for brewing on Sunday, ii. 376.

SCOTT of Pitlochie, story of his unfortunate voyage to East Jersey, ii. 479-481.

SCOTT of Raeburn, a Quaker, his children ordered to be separated from him, ii. 311.

SCOTT, Sir Walter, of Branxholm, Laird of Buccleuch, celebrated exploit of, i. 269-271.

SCOTT, Thomas, hanged for murder of Robert Donaldson, ii. 329.

SCOTT, Walter, of Harden, married to the Flower of Yarrow, i. 46.

Sea-monsters, various appearances of; superstitions regarding, i. 64-66.

SEATON, Thomas, his religions dissimulation, ii. 301.

SEMPLE, Lord, and his son, ii. 336.

----, Robert, his writings, i. 49.

Service-book or Liturgy introduced into Scottish church; its reception, ii. 101-104.

_Seventeenth of December_, tumult of the, i. 276-278.

SHAKSPEARE, surmised to have been in Aberdeen while the remarkable witch-trials were proceeding; quotations from _Macbeth_ and _Othello_ strengthening this supposition, i. 283-285, 357.

SHARPE, Archbishop, ii. 256; his _cortège_ to St Andrews, 291; his land purchases, 300; attempt on his life, 322; assassination of, 350.

SHAWS and the FAWS, battle between, ii. 388.

Sheep and cattle, abundance of, ii. 371.

Ship-of-war burnt in Leith Roads through the mad humour of an Englishman, i. 453.

_Shorter Catechism_, General Assembly sanction, ii. 170.

Shotts, Kirk of, communion at, ii. 41.

Shrovetide customs, revival of, ii. 273, 274.

Sieve, divination by the, strange story of, ii. 434.

Sigget Well, dedicated to Virgin Mary, i. 324.

Siller Gun at Dumfries, i. 294.

Silver Heart in Culross Abbey Church, wood-cut of, i. 450.

Silver lace and silk stuffs, law against wearing, ii. 357, 358.

SINCLAIR, Colonel, with 900 Scotsmen, slain in Norway, i. 446.

SINCLAIR, George, author of _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered_, ii. 387; his copyright of, 475.

SINCLAIR, Henry, Bishop of Ross, dies of stone, i. 24.

SINCLAIR, Sir William, of Mey, shoots Bailie Macmoran, i. 262, 263.

Single-combats, edict against, i. 310.

SKEYNE, Dr, his treatise on the pest, i. 54.

SLEZER’S _Theatrum Scotiæ_, ii. 485.

Small-pox, severe visitation of, in Aberdeen, i. 431. Great severity of, ii. 85; about 240 children die of, 140; upwards of 800 deaths in Glasgow from, 347.

SMIBERT, William, his unbaptised child, i. 32.

SMITH, James, barters wheat for Norway timber, ii. 71.

SMOLLETT, George, an ancestor of the novelist, denounced as a rebel, i. 248. Spanish ship blown up by, ii. 387.

_Sneesh-box_, fondness of the Scotch for the, ii. 494.

Snow-storm, an enormous, i. 458, 459. Great, in 1633, ii. 61; in 1664-5, 302; in 1674, 365.

Soap, first manufactured in Leith, by Nathaniel Uddart, i. 511, 512. Patent granted to Patrick Mauld for making, ii. 80, 81.

Soldiers, Colonel Monro endeavours to erect hospital for Scottish, ii. 75.

SOMERVILLE, James, younger of Drum and Cambusnethan, his marriage, ii. 207-209; his son’s death, 443.

SOMERVILLE, Lord; his lawsuit with his cousin, and its success, i. 113-116.

SOMERVILLE, Lord, sad accident in the family of, i. 190-192.

SOMERVILLE of Drum, anecdote of, i. 491.

Spanish and Dutch sea-fight on coast of Zetland, ii. 15.

Spanish Armada, excitement in Scotland caused by, i. 185-189; vessels destroyed, 186; ii. 386.

‘Speat’ on the Water of Carron, ii. 98.

Sports, James VI.’s declaration regarding, on Sundays and holidays, i. 491.

SPYNIE, Lord, dies of wounds received in a street-fight, i. 406.

Stage-coach, Countess of Crawford travels to England in a, ii. 218; advertised for various towns, 247; betwixt Edinburgh and Haddington, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 391.

STAIR, Lord, ii. 370.

STALKER, Andrew, a goldsmith, kills a servant of Earl of Angus, i. 294.

Standing army in Scotland, commencement of a, ii. 313.

STANFIELD, Sir James, his son hanged for his murder, ii. 491, 492.

Star, Melville’s notice of a brilliant, i. 386; appearance of a great fiery, 472; ii. 84.

_Star of Tycho_, Holinshed’s notice of, i. 84.

STERCOVIUS, a Pole, beheaded for publishing his _Legend of Reproaches_ against the Scottish nation, i. 452.

STEWART, Alexander, an itinerant doctor, ii. 184.

STEWART, Hercules, brother of the Earl of Bothwell, hanged at the Cross of Edinburgh, i. 259.

STEWART, James, banished for performing mass, i. 451.

STEWART, Janet, petition of, ii. 437.

----, John, a vagabond, hangs himself in prison, i. 488, 489.

STEWART, John, hanged for witchcraft, ii. 377-379.

STEWART, Margaret, abduction of her daughter, i. 419.

STEWART, Master Allan, receives the revenues of the Abbey of Crossraguel; his torture by Earl of Cassillis, i. 65-68.

STEWART of Minto, his dispute with Sir George Elphinstone, i. 396-398.

STEWART of Tarlair, mining by, i. 28.

----, William, stabs Lord Torthorald, i. 415.

STEWARTS of Coltness; anecdote of the plague, ii. 165; Thomas of, his country-house, 245; his flight to Holland, 448-451.

STEWARTS of Traquair, and Hay of Yester, feud between, i. 168-170.

_Stewarton Sickness_, a religious fervour so called, ii. 42, 43.

Stirling, a parliament held by Regent Lennox at, i. 76; taking of, quick transmission of news to London, 159; strange sounds heard by four gentlemen of, 541. Sixteen farms between Falkirk and, buried in moss, ii. 35; the session sitat, 116.

Stones, large, transported by a river, ii. 98.

Stool of repentance, i. 334, 335.

STORIE, Richard, charged with murder, ii. 442.

STRACHAN of Thornton, his alleged theft, i. 534, 535.

Strathbogie, Presbytery Record of, extracts from, ii. 156-161.

Street-carriages of Edinburgh, regular system of, ii. 358.

Street-conflicts in Aberdeen, i. 343.

---- fights, Edinburgh, the first of, i. 48.

STRUAN, Laird of, his dispute with Marquis of Athole, ii. 423; his saw-mills, 447.

STRUTHERS, William, his sermon, i. 513.

STUART, Esme, usually called Monsieur D’Aubigné; his mission to Scotland, i. 126-128.

STUART, James (Earl of Arran), his rise, i. 126; influence over James VI., 128; his fall, 129; his marriage to the Countess of March, 146; his death, 275; his death avenged, 414.

STUART, Robert, natural son of the Earl of Orkney, beheaded, i. 461.

STUART, Sir William of Monkton, slain by Stuart Earl of Bothwell, i. 184, 185.

SUFFOLK, Earl of, his journey of pleasure through Scotland, i. 454, 455.

Sugar-works at Glasgow, ii. 455.

_Summaries_: Reign of Mary, 1561-1565, i. 7; Regency of Moray, 1567-1570, 43; Regencies of Lennox and Mar, 1570-1572, 61, 62; Regency of Morton, 1572-1578, 82, 83; Reign of James VI. 1578-1585, 126-129; 1585-1590, 160, 161; 1591-1603, 219-221; 1603-1625, 379-381. Reign of Charles I., 1625-1637, ii. 1-3; 1637-1649, 105-113; Interregnum, 1649-1660, 174-177; Reign of Charles II., 1660-1673, 255-261; 1673-1685, 349-355; Reign of James VII., 469-475; concluding remarks, 496-499.

Sun, total eclipse of the, i. 296. Celebrated eclipse of, ii. 215.

Suns, curious appearance of three, ii. 9.

Sunday, observance of, i. 329-333.

Superstitions and superstitious practices, i. 322-326.

_Suppers_, laudable custom of, revived, ii. 267.

Surgeons exempted from serving as jury-men, i. 42.

SUTHERLAND, Earl of, overtaken by a snow-storm, i. 363; contributions of tenantry to, 517.

SUTHERLAND of Duffus, his quarrel with Gordon of Enbo, ii. 5, 6.

Swans on Linlithgow Loch, anecdotes of, ii. 267, 268.

Swearing, fines for, i. 342.

Sweden, king of, troops levied in Scotland for, i. 445; unfortunate issue, 446.

Sword-dance, description of the, ii. 67, 68.

SYDSERF, Thomas, editor of the _Mercurius Caledonius_, ii. 271; his theatre, 324.

TAILIEFEIR, Bessie, sentenced to be _brankit_, i. 46.

Tailors, petition against outlandish, ii. 253, 254.

Tallow, laws against exporting, ii. 5.

_Tarugo’s Wiles_, Sydserf’s play called, ii. 324.

Taxes, allocation of, to various towns, ii. 7.

Tay, remarkable flood in the, i. 525-527.

TAYLOR, John the Water-poet, his visit to Scotland, i. 493-500.

Tea, in Scotland, its first introduction, ii. 405.

TENNANT, Francis, hanged for his pasquils against the king and progenitors, i. 320.

Tercel called for by James VI., i. 391.

Test, magistrates of Peebles in a puzzle about the, ii. 429; burlesque of, 433.

Thanksgiving-day, on settlement between King and Estates, ii. 140.

Theatre, first, in Edinburgh established about 1679, ii. 400.

Theatricals in Scotland, toleration of, i. 306, 307.

_Thirteen Drifty Days_, Hogg’s account of the, ii. 365-367.

THOMSON, Annaple, and others, worried and burnt as witches, ii. 405, 406.

THOMSON, Gavin, assaulted by Thomas Pringle, i. 418.

THOMSON, Margaret, her complaint against Tutor of Calder, ii. 154.

_Thumbikens_, an instrument of torture so called, ii. 460.

Tide, remarkable swelling of the, at Leith, &c., i. 476.

Tobacco, Murray’s patent for importing, i. 531, 532. Licence for sale of, ii. 74; tax on, 332; first practitioner of tobacco-spinning in Leith, 346.

Toe-writing, singular instance of, ii. 253.

Toleration, want of, in Scotland, i. 244; imputation of toleration indignantly repudiated by King James, 533. Declared against by the Presbyterian kirk, ii. 180; granted by James VII., 470; want of, at the Revolution, 498.

_Tories_, first introduction of the word into Scotland, ii. 227.

TORTHORALD, Lord, stabbed by William Stewart, i. 415.

Town-guard of Edinburgh, origin of the, ii. 438.

Trade, decree against freedom of, i. 458. Interesting particulars regarding, in Scotland, ii. 248, 249.

Transmigration of witches to distant places, &c., disputation on, i. 305.

Traquair, burning at Peebles of popish relics found at, ii. 499-501.

TRAQUAIR, Countess of, and her son, ii. 336.

----, first Earl of, anecdote of, ii. _n._ 88; his death and character, 251, 252.

Travelling, anecdotes of, i. 299, 381, 493; ii. 218, 247, 391, 476.

_Trembling Exies_, a disease so called, ii. 222.

Trough, Children of the (a singular anecdote), i. _n._ 234.

_Tulyies_ or combats in Edinburgh, i. 47, 185, 258, 318.

_Tumbling Lassie_ and Reid the mountebank, ii. 487.

TURNBULL and SCOTT, hanged for publishing a libel against Morton, i. 125.

TURNBULL, Andrew, beheaded, i. 320.

---- of Airdrie, abduction of his daughter, i. 419.

_Turners_, a base coin so called, ii. 128.

TWEEDIES and VEITCHES, feud between, i. 200-202; James VI. endeavours to suppress, 432.

Universities, order against receiving fugitive students at, i. 439.

URQUHART of Craigston, singular fortunes of his grandson, ii. 81-83.

USHER, Adie, a Border-thief, hanged; his son Willie, i. 546.

Usury severely punished, ii. 298.

VALLAM, James and George, hanged for robbery, i. 364.

VAUTROLLIER, a French Protestant, prints a volume of poems for James VI., i. 154.

VEITCHES and TWEEDIES, feud between, i. 200-202, 432.

Victory, naval, over the Dutch, rejoicings at, ii. 303.

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

Visions in the air, ii. 313-315.

VOIS, Cornelius de, his gold and silver licence, i. 50.

Wages of skilled artisans in Scotland, ii. 235.

WALDEN, Lord, his journey of pleasure in Scotland, i. 454, 455.

WALKER, Patrick, his account of illusive psalm-singing, ii. 314; of visions of bonnets and weapons at Crossford, 485.

WALLACE, Margaret, worried and burnt for witchcraft, i. 527-529.

WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, a councillor of Queen Elizabeth, his mission to James VI., i. 152.

_Waly, waly!_ a popular ballad, composed on the Marchioness of Douglas, ii. 340.

_Wame-ill_ or _land-ill_, also called the _Pestilence but Mercy_, i. 57.

_Wappinshaw_, why so called, i. 542.

_Watch_, a body of men appointed to keep peace in the Highlands, ii. 306.

WATSON, William, minister of Burntisland, i. 467.

WATT, John, shot dead on the Burgh-moor, i. 349.

WAUGH, Robert, hanged for rebuking the Regent Morton, i. 80.

Weather, the, i. 107, 112, 259, 286, 421, 431, 457, 458, 523, 541; ii. 4, 12, 17, 28, 61, 79, 83, 113, 115, 122, 134, 149, 199, 217, 222, 224, 234-236, 240, 253, 298, 299, 305, 313, 319, 324, 358, 365-367, 371-373, 426, 454, 462.

WEIR, Bessie, hanged as a witch, ii. 377-379.

----, John, tried for ‘incest,’ for marrying the relict of his grand-uncle, ii. 28.

WEIR, Major, strangled and burnt, ii. 332.

----, of Cloburn, a boy of fourteen, taken to Ireland, and married to a daughter of Laird of Corehouse, i. 454.

Wells of Edinburgh run dry, ii. 226.

WEMYSS, Countess of, death and extravagance of the, ii. 215.

WEMYSS of Logie, Mrs Margaret Twinstoun contrives his escape from confinement, i. 238.

West Indies, deportation of poor people to the, ii. 304, 305.

WESTERHALL, Laird of, slain by the Hamiltons, i. 99.