Index.
- Aberdeen, Old, 152;
- Act of Security, The, 272
- Administration of effects, Provisions for the, 149
- Agricola in Britain, 4
- Alaric takes Rome, 10
- Alexander III., King, 41
- Alfred, King, Danish conflicts of, 39
- Angles give their name to South Britain, 19
- Anglican Church, Origin of the, 88
- Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, The, 21
- Anne, Queen, reign of, 272;
- Argyle, Earl of, sentenced to death, 231;
- Argyle, Marquis of, his execution, 212
- Arminius defeats the Romans, 10
- Assembly, General, in Glasgow, 182
- Assembly of Divines in Westminster, 192
- Athelstane, King, 41
- Augustine, Mission of, 22
- Baliol nominated King by Edward I., 65
- Barons’ sons, The education of, 114
- Battle of Bannockburn, 71
- ” Brunanberg, 41
- ” Culloden, 299
- ” Drumclog, 223
- ” Dunbar, 200
- ” Falkirk, 297
- ” Hastings, 53
- ” Killiecrankie, 261
- ” Prestonpans, 292
- ” Sedgemoor, 237
- ” Sheriff-muir, 283
- ” Stamford Bridge, 53
- ” The Standard, 58
- ” Worcester, 203
- Beaton, Cardinal, Murder of, 90
- Berwick, The Duke of, 282
- Bishops, Seven, Arrest and Trial of, 250
- Bishops, Tulchan, in Scotland, 179
- “Black Watch,” Composition of the, 289
- “Bloody Assize,” The, 238
- Boadicea, Queen, defeated by the Romans, 4
- Boot, Torture of the, 218
- Borders, The, long disorderly, 77
- Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, 225;
- cruel treatment of prisoners taken at, 227
- Bretwalda, an Anglo-Saxon dignity, 21
- Britain, Invasion of, by Julius Cæsar, 1;
- British Churches, Ancient, differences between, 24
- Brown, John, Cruel murder of, 228
- Bruce, Robert, his contest for the crown, 68;
- Burgh Court of Dundee, old records of, 134;
- Cæsar, Julius, Invasion of Britain by, 2
- Caledonians, The, 5
- Candlemas procession in Aberdeen, 153
- Canongate, The, its old memories, 124
- Canute, The Danish King, 46
- Caractacus defeated by the Romans, 4
- Catholic church utensils, Sale of, 156
- Catholic conversions under James II., 245
- Catholic worship, Stringent laws against, 116
- Celtic Language, The, 9
- Celts, Origin of the, 27
- Channel, Revolution expedition in the, 254
- Charles I., Scotland under, 178;
- Charles II. signs the Covenant, 199;
- Charles Edward, Prince, lands in Scotland, 290;
- Charles XII. of Sweden designs invading Britain, 287
- Churches, Ancient British, 24
- Civilization, Modern turning point in, 85
- Civil War, The, 191
- Claverhouse, Graham of, 223;
- Columba settles in Iona, 32
- Commission to discuss terms of Union, 273
- Constantius, The Emperor, 7
- Constantine, The Emperor, 8
- Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, 22
- Conversion of the Picts, 33
- Cope, Sir John, defeated at Prestonpans, 292
- “Covenant,” Origin of the, 91
- Covenanters at Rullion Green, 217;
- Cromwell in Scotland, 199;
- Culdees, The, 33
- Culloden, The Rebel army at, 298;
- Cumberland, Duke of, follows retreat of Rebel army from Derby, 294;
- Cures from holy wells, 167
- Dalrida, Scoto, Kingdom of, 31
- Dalziel persecutes the Covenanters, 216
- Danish invasions of Britain, The, 38
- Darien Scheme, The, 270;
- ends in disaster, 271
- Darnley, Lord, marries Queen Mary, 107;
- his murder, 108
- David I., King, 58
- Declaration of Indulgence, The, 248
- Declaration of Rights, The, 258
- “Defender of the Faith,” Title of, 87
- Derby, March of Rebels to, 293;
- retreat from, 294
- Derwentwater, Earl of, raises a rebellion, 283
- Dress regulations in Sixteenth Century, 150
- Druidism in Britain, 13
- Drumclog, Battle of, 223
- Drummond, Sir William, 83;
- his welcome of Charles I. to Edinburgh, 178
- Drunkenness, Punishments for, 145
- Dunbar, Battle of, 200
- Dunbar’s description of pageant in Aberdeen, 153
- Duncan, King, 55
- Dundee, History of Old, 134;
- Dunottar Castle, Siege of, 128
- Edgar the Peaceable, 42
- Edinburgh, Old, 111;
- Edinburgh Castle, 126;
- Edward, King, the elder, 40
- Edward the Confessor, 48
- Edward I., arbitrator on claims to Scottish crown, 64;
- Edward II. invades Scotland, 69;
- is defeated at Bannockburn, 71
- Effects, Administration of, 149
- Elizabeth becomes Queen of England, 105;
- Ella, Landing of, 19
- Emma, Queen, 46
- England and Scotland, Strained relations between, 273;
- Union of, 276
- English, Preparation against attacks by the, 155
- English Reformation, Causes of the, 86
- English and Scottish Churches, Difference between, 90
- English and Scottish Parliaments, Different constitution of, 74
- Episcopacy introduced into Scotland by Charles I., 179
- Ethelbert, Conversion of, 22
- Ethelred the Unready, 44
- Falkirk, Battle of, 299
- Feudalism in Britain, 73
- Field-preaching in Scotland, 214
- Folk-speech, Scottish, 84
- Foster, Mr., heads a Jacobite rising, 283
- Gaelic language, The, 29
- Geddes, Jenny, throws her stool, 180
- George I., Accession of, 281
- Glasgow, General assembly in, 182;
- fined by Prince Charles Edward, 296
- Glencoe, Massacre of, 264;
- resolution on by the Scottish estates, 269
- Godwin, Earl, 48;
- Graham of Claverhouse, 223
- Grampians, Battle of the, 5
- Halley, General, defeated at Falkirk, 297
- “Hand-fasting” in Scotland, 173
- Hardicanute, King, 47
- Harold, Earl, maltreated by William of Normandy, 50;
- Hastings, Battle of, 54
- Henry VIII., his domestic history, 86;
- Heptarchy, The Anglo-Saxon, 21
- Heresy (Lutheran), Act of Parliament against, 155
- Highlanders mode of fighting, 261;
- “Highland Host, The,” 220
- Highlands long disorderly, 76;
- under General Wade, 289
- Holyrood, History of, 129;
- Holy Wells in Scotland, 166;
- Ill-fame, Houses of, forbidden, 148
- Images in churches, Demolition of, 99
- Immorality, Penalties for, 145
- Indulgence, Declaration of, 248
- Inverness occupied by the rebels, 297
- Iona, Historical importance of, 33
- Ireland, The old races in, 30;
- Patrick’s mission in, 32
- Irish troops in London, 252
- Jacobite risings in 1715, 279
- James I., his high character, 78;
- James III. patronises poets, 129
- James IV. and Sir David Lindsay, 130;
- James V. dying at Mary’s birth, 102
- James VI., proclaimed king, 118;
- James, Duke of York, fights the Dutch at sea, 236;
- James the Pretender joins the rising of 1715, 284;
- Jeffreys, the infamous Judge, 232, 238
- Jougs, The, 149
- Justice, Good, done in Burgh Courts, 135
- Jutes first landing in Britain, 17
- Kenneth Macalpine, King of Scots, 36
- Killiecrankie, Battle of, 261
- “Kings’ Quhair, The,” 81
- Knox, John, his early life, 91;
- Landowners bound for their tenants attending church, 220
- Latin a spoken language in Britain, 8
- Lauderdale, Persecutions of Lord, 219
- Lent observances after the Reformation, 157
- Leslie, General, at Dunbar, 200
- Lindsay, Sir David, 130
- Lisle, Alice, Execution of, 238
- Literature, The older Scottish, 80
- Lochiel, Adherence of to Prince Charles, 291
- Logarithms, Invention of, by Napier, 123
- Long Parliament, The, 190
- Lothians, People of the, 80
- Lovat, Lord, his double dealing, 296;
- his execution, 301
- Lowland folk-speech, 84
- Luther’s heresies, An act against, 155
- Macbeth, King, 55
- Macdonald, Flora, aids the escape of Prince Charles, 304
- Macdonalds of Glencoe, Order to extirpate the, 267;
- treacherous murders of, 268
- Macdonalds, The, at Culloden, 299
- MacIan of Glencoe, 265;
- Mackay, General, defeated at Killiecrankie, 261
- Magus Muir, Tragedy of, 222
- Maid of Norway, The, 64
- “Maiden,” The, 119
- Malcolm II., King, 54
- Malcolm, III., Canmore, 56;
- marries Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling, 57
- Malcolm IV., The Maiden, 59
- Mar, Earl of, raises a rebellion in 1715, 282;
- Margaret, queen of Malcolm Canmore, 57
- Marriage, Scottish customs, 172;
- Mary of Guise, regent of Scotland, 90
- Mary, Queen of England, 104
- Mary, Queen of Scots, Childhood of, 102;
- Masham, Mrs., Influence of over Queen Anne, 279
- Massacre of Glencoe, The, 264
- McKail, Hugh, Execution of, 218
- Monmouth, Duke of, defeats the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, 225;
- Monk, General, storms Dundee, 204;
- “Mons Meg” at Edinburgh Castle, 126
- Montrose, the Marquis of, 194
- Morton, Regent of Scotland, 118;
- Murray, Lord George, leads the rebel march to Derby in 1745, 293
- Musselburgh, Holy-well at, 168
- Napier of Merchiston invents logarithms, 123
- Nationalism, English and Scottish, 81
- Newcastle held by the Scots, 183
- Night offences specially punished, 139
- Normandy a Danish Conquest, 44
- Norsemen hold North of Scotland, 54
- Northumbria the chief power, 23
- Offences and their punishments in the sixteenth century, 134
- Oswald, King of Northumbria, becomes Bretwalda, 23;
- his conversion, 23
- Oxford declares for the royal supremacy, 244;
- is “hoist by its own petard,” 244
- Oysters, penalty for giving false price to, 154
- Parliament, The Long, 190
- Parliament declares James’s throne vacant, 257;
- agrees to William and Mary’s joint sovereignty, 258
- Parliaments in England and Scotland, 74
- Paterson, William, floats the Darien scheme, 270;
- the total failure, 271
- Patrick, the Saint of Ireland, 32
- Penny Weddings, 173
- Perth in Jacobite occupation in 1715, 283;
- the retreat from, 284
- “Petition of Right,” The, 184
- Picts, first mention of the, 6;
- Players, Reception of in Aberdeen, 157.
- Poetry, The older Scottish, 81
- Pope, Henry VIII. quarrels with the, 88
- Popery, Protestant intolerance towards, 116
- Presbyterian Church of Scotland, distinctive features of, 94;
- Presbyterianism in England, 193
- Prestonpans, Battle of, 292
- Pretender, Birth of the, 250;
- Protestantism established in England, 88;
- in Scotland, 92
- “Protestant wind,” A, watched for, 253
- Psalms and paraphrases in the Kirk, 100
- Punishments in the sixteenth century, 135;
- for speaking, falsely of burgh officers, 136;
- for slander, 136;
- for “flyting,” 137;
- of having to pay for healing hurts, 138;
- of banishment from the town, 140;
- of scourging through the town, 141;
- of death under burgh laws, 141;
- of restitution, 142;
- when there was “vehement suspicion,” 142;
- of forfeiting the right to wear swords, 143;
- for drunkenness, 145;
- for immorality, 148
- Puritans, the English, 184;
- Queen of Charles I., evil influence of, 186
- Queens, The rival, Mary and Elizabeth, 102;
- their relationship, 105
- Rebellion, Jacobite, of 1715, 283;
- Executions following the, 286
- Rebellion of 1745, 289;
- atrocities and executions following, 300
- Reformation, The, in England and Scotland, 85;
- in danger from James II., 242
- Regalia, the ancient Scottish, 127;
- Regencies disastrous to Scotland, 75
- Regicides, Execution of the, 212
- Religion in Scotland under Charles I., 181;
- Renwick, the last covenanting martyr, 248
- Revolution, The, of 1688, 252
- Rizzio, David, Murder of, 108
- Roman invasion of Britain, 3;
- Rome taken by Alaric, 10
- Rullion Green, Fight at, 217
- Russell, Sir William, Execution of, 233
- Ryehouse Plot, The, 233
- Sabbath-breaking, Penalties for, 158
- Saints associated with Holy-wells, 167
- “Saxon shore,” The, 15
- Scotia, an old name of Ireland, 29
- Scotland, how it became a free nation, 63;
- Scottish Kings:—The Mythical, 35;
- Scottish Nation, Rise of the, 26;
- Scoto-Irish piracies, 15
- Scots first found in Ireland, 29;
- “Security, Act of,” 272
- Sedgemoor, Battle of, 237
- Sharp, Archbishop, Murder of, 221
- Sheriff-Muir, Battle of, 283
- Sheriffs in Scotland, Education of, 114
- Shipmoney, Levy of, 187
- Springs of mineral waters become holy wells, 167
- St. Fillans, Well of, 168
- St. Giles, The saint’s statue in, removed, 115;
- St. Mary’s altar, Fines of lights for, 138
- Stair, Master of, author of Glencoe massacre, 265;
- punished by dismissal from office, 269
- Stamford Bridge, Battle of, 53
- Standard, Battle of the, 58
- Star-Chamber, The, 184
- Stocks, Punishment of the, 138
- Strafford, Execution of, 191
- Strathbogie Presbytery denounce pilgrimages to holy wells, 170
- Strathclyde, Kingdom of, 21
- Strathnaven, Holy well at, 169
- Stuarts, Family traits of the, 213;
- Superstition, Hard death of, 160
- Swearing, Penalties for, 147
- Sweden, Charles XII. of, 287
- Sweyn, The Danish King, 45
- Swords, Wearing of, led to crime, 143;
- disallowed after misuse, 144
- Test Oaths in Scotland, Evasion of, 245
- Teutonic rule, Spread of the, 18
- “Thorough,” The game of, 184
- Tory ministry of Queen Anne, 281
- Treason, English laws of, applied to Scotland, 276
- Tulchan bishops in Scotland, 179
- Union of England and Scotland, William’s dying message in favour of, 272;
- Wade, General, in the Highlands, 289
- Wallace, Sir William, 67
- War, The Civil, 191
- Wedding Feasts in Scotland, 172
- Westminster Assembly of Divines, The, 192
- William the Conqueror, 52
- William, Prince of Orange, invitation to, 252;
- Witchcraft in Scotland, 160;
- in Aberdeen, 164
- Witches, An assize on in Edinburgh, 161
- Witchfinders, 163
- “Woo’d and married and a’” 176
- York, Early importance of, 7