Part 67

Whale captured by the English at Leith, ii. 218.

Whales, fourteen killed at Dornoch, i. 319.

Wheat, Council grants licence for exporting 4000 bolls, ii. 54.

_Whig_, origin of the term, ii. 171, 172.

_Whilliwha’s_, swindlers so called, i. 468.

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

Wind, tremendous storm of, i. 421.

Wine, its importation into Western Isles restricted, i. 531.

WIRTEMBERG, Duke of, visits Scotland, i. 418.

WISHART, Janet, burnt for witchcraft, i. 278, 279.

Witchcraft, act against, i. 24; William Stewart, Lyon King-of-arms hanged for, 60; witches of Athole, 70; Bessie Dunlop, burnt for, 107-110; Alison Peirson, burnt for, 183; trials of Lady Foulis and Hector Monro, 202-206; Bessie Roy tried for, 206; extraordinary trials for, 210-218; devil preaching to witches, illustration, 215; numerous cases of, 257; barbarous legal procedure in cases of, 273; remarkable trials in Aberdeen, 278-285; ‘the great witch of Balwery,’ 291; wood-cut of a witch seated on the moon, 378; the Broughton witches, 420; Margaret Barclay, executed for, 488; John Stewart, tried for, 488; Margaret Wallace, worried and burnt for, 527-529; Bessie Smith, of Lesmahago, 539; Thomas Grieve, strangled and burnt, 540; Privy Council’s doubts regarding, 548. Various cases of, ii. 31-34; John Balfour, a discoverer of, 61; William Coke and Alison Dick, burnt for witchcraft, their bill of expenses, 70, 71; case of Agnes Finnie and others, 149-154; conference of ministers on, 180; several trials and burnings for, 186-189; presbytery of Lanark and the eleven witches, 194, 195; proceedings of Cromwell’s law-commissioners for Scotland, 219, 220; burnings for, 243, 244; numerous trials for, at the Restoration, 277-279; confessions of Isobel Gowdie and Janet Braidhead, 285-291; M‘Leans and others tortured for, 293-295; more cases of, 330; Jean Weir hanged, 333; curious cases of, 376-381; another witch-storm, 385, 386; anecdotes of, 393-395; Katherine Liddel persecuted for, 396; curious witch-trial at Borrowstounness, 405, 406; Marion Purdie imprisoned for, 462; books on, 475.

WOGAN, Captain, his daring march to the north, ii. 223; verses quoted from _Waverley_ on his death, 224.

WOOD, George, threatened arrestment of his corpse, ii. 328, 329.

WOOD, James, heir of Bonnington, beheaded, i. 350.

Wool, prohibition against exporting, &c., i. 475; Petition for dressing and refining of, ii. 346.

Wreckers of Dunbar and Western Islands, Council’s proceedings against, ii. 94, 95.

Writs, several persons hanged for making false, i. 260, 296.

YESTER, Master of, and Stewarts of Traquair, feud between, i. 168-170.

YORK, James, Duke of. See _James VII_.

YOUNG, Isobel, burnt for witchcraft, ii. 31.

----, John, his attack on Richard Bannatyne, ii. 16.

YOUNG, Margaret, petitions Privy Council against false imprisonment, ii. 153.