INDEX.
- Aa-na-Mullich, skirmish at, between the government troops and the Mackenzies, 463.
- Aberdeen, King’s College, grants a diploma to a quack doctor, 262.
- Aberdeen, pope burned in effigy at, 4;
- Abernethy forest, cutting of, superintended by Aaron Hill, 547.
- Adair, John, mathematician, engaged in making maps of Scotland, 42.
- Advertisements, curious, in Edinburgh Gazette in 1707, 325.
- Advocates’ Library, established under Parliament House, 245.
- African Company, established, 121;
- Agricultural improvements, introduced into Scotland by Elizabeth Mordaunt, an English lady, 419;
- promoted by a society, 484.
- Agricultural Improvers, Society of, 484;
- implements invented, 503.
- Aikenhead, Thomas, tried and executed for blasphemy, 160.
- Allardice, Catharine, a misspelled letter by, 595.
- Anatomy first proposed to be taught in Edinburgh, 105.
- Ancrum Bridge rebuilt by kirk collection, 134.
- Anderson, James, editor of Diplomata Scotiæ, encouraged in his work, 318;
- Anderson, Mrs, printer of the Bible, 364.
- Angus, an Episcopal clergyman, deposed, 78.
- Apostasy from Protestant faith punished, 214.
- Apparel, act of parliament for restraining expenses of, 149;
- Arbuthnot, Lady, her jointure, 57.
- Archbishop of Glasgow imprisoned, 12;
- permitted to live at certain places, 167.
- Archers, Royal Company of, 495.
- Argyle, John, Duke of, takes command of government troops (1715), 389.
- Argyle, seventh Earl, and first Duke of, 1;
- Arithmetic, a mechanical invention for, 210.
- Arms being got from abroad, James Donaldson proposes to manufacture them at home, 311;
- edict against carrying arms, 497.
- Arnot, Sir David, assault by, 157.
- Assembly, General, clergy of, at first plainly dressed, 148.
- Assembly in Edinburgh for dancing purposes, 480.
- Aston’s company of players, 518, 544, 550.
- Astrology practised by John Stobo, 85.
- Atheistical books imported into Edinburgh, 160.
- Atmospherical phenomena, 366, 442, 480.
- Auchensaugh, covenant renewed at, in 1712, 376.
- Auchterarder, riot at, on reading of funeral-service, 366.
- Baillie, Captain William, imprisoned debtor, liberated by Privy Council, 28.
- Baird, Archibald, imprisoned for housebreaking, 64.
- Balcarres, Earl of, imprisoned at Revolution, 11;
- Baldoon park for rearing cattle, 152.
- Balfour of Denmill, mysterious disappearance of, 346.
- Bane, Donald, a prize-fighter, 522.
- ‘Bangstrie’ at Earlshall, Croshlachie, Ellieston, &c., 157–159.
- Banishment petitioned for by various culprits, 116.
- Bank-notes for twenty shillings commenced, 212.
- Bank of Scotland established, 128;
- Bank, Royal, of Scotland, established, 537;
- causes a stoppage in the Bank of Scotland, 544.
- Banking, primitive style of, by a shopkeeper in Glasgow, 577.
- Baptism, inconsistencies regarding, 370.
- Barbreck’s Bone, for cure of madness, 262.
- Bargarran’s daughter (Christian Shaw), her case, 167;
- thread spun by her, 510.
- Barrisdale, Macdonell of, 615.
- Bass, siege of, 95.
- Bath of hot air (a hummum) established at Perth, 260.
- Bayne, James, wright, ruined by his concern in rebuilding Holyrood Palace, 29.
- Beardie [Walter Scott]‘s marriage, 37;
- attends a funeral at Glasgow, 387.
- Bell, Sir John, of Glasgow, episcopal worship at his house disturbed, 273.
- Bible in Irish language, first printed, 39.
- ——, printing of, in Scotland (1712), 364.
- Bills of Exchange, treatise upon, printed, 278.
- Births, ceremonies at, 572.
- Bishops expelled from the Convention in 1689, 5.
- Black-foot, a, litigation by one for remuneration, 191.
- Black Mail in the Highlands, 498, 612, 614.
- —— Watch, the, 498, 581, 610.
- Blackwell, a preceptor, libels Lady Inglis of Cramond, 89.
- Blair of Balthayock and Carnegie of Finhaven, 190.
- ‘Bloody Baillie,’ a witness on Porteous Mob, 601.
- Blythswood, Campbell of, cousinred with Sir Walter Scott, 37.
- Boig, Adam, starts the Edinburgh Courant, 314.
- Books burnt at Cross, 276.
- ——, licenses for printing, 52, 220.
- Boswell of Balmouto, a rash Jacobite, 84.
- Botanic Garden established in Edinburgh, 81;
- extension of, 142.
- Brand, Alexander, in trouble for making ‘donatives’ to Privy Council, 176;
- proposes scavengering of Edinburgh, 592.
- Brewers of Edinburgh in rebellion, 509.
- Bride’s clothes, their cost, 240.
- Bridge, William, an English coppersmith, 33.
- Bridgman, or Evory, a pirate, seizes a man-of-war, 150.
- Broich, James, sad tale of his ship taken by a privateer, 22.
- Brown, Dr Andrew (Dolphington), is licensed to print a treatise of his own on fevers, 52.
- Brown, Jean, of Potterrow, a religious visionary, 430.
- Brown, Rev. George, his Rotula Arithmetica, 210.
- Browny, a spirit, 284.
- Bruce, Captain Henry, imprisoned for defending Holyroodhouse, 13.
- Bruce, David, and other boys, carried out to sea in an open boat, 355.
- Bruce, Peter, confined at the Revolution, 12;
- transfers right of making playing-cards, 34.
- Buchanan, David, servant of Lord Dundee, 15.
- Bugs in Glasgow, 542.
- Bullock, fat, at Dalkeith, 479.
- Burghs, royal, convention of, curious details, 51.
- Burleigh, Master of, murders Stenhouse, a schoolmaster, 326.
- Burnet, Captain, of Barns, his unscrupulous recruiting, 43.
- Bute, Earl of, his law-case against his stepmother, 375.
- Cairns, a boy, murdered, 547.
- Caldron, a copper, law-case about, 77.
- Callender, John, master-smith, his account against exchequer, 47 note.
- Cambuslang, religious demonstrations at, 607.
- Cameron, Sir Evan, of Locheil, 288.
- Cameronian regiment raised in 1689, 8.
- Cameronians, the, proceedings of, 376, 532.
- Campbell of Cessnock’s parks for rearing cattle, 153;
- his plan for shot-casting, 155.
- Campbell of Lawers, murdered at Greenock, 473.
- Campbell of Lochnell’s funeral, 387.
- Canongate, duels in, 466.
- —— Tolbooth, mutiny of prisoners in, 71;
- Card-playing, law against, 296.
- Cards, playing, manufacture of, a monopoly, 34.
- Cardross, Lord, and Sir John Cochrane, case between, 191.
- Carmichael of Bonnyton, his quarrel with opposite neighbours, 73.
- Carstares, William, the king’s adviser, 107;
- his death, 403.
- Catarrh, infection of, at St Kilda, 181.
- Catholics, troubles of, after the Revolution, 25;
- severe treatment of priests, 82;
- act against in 1700, 205;
- worship interrupted in Edinburgh, 108;
- at Aberdeen, 203;
- again in Edinburgh, 204, 466;
- Catholic priest banished, 362;
- gentlemen troubled, 295;
- priests numerous and bold, 383;
- seminary for priests at Scalan, 205;
- Catholic books seized and burned, 146.
- Cattle, breeds of, efforts to improve, at Baldoon and elsewhere, 152.
- Cattle fair of Crieff, 338.
- —— ‘lifting’ in the Highlands, 30, 420, 486, 498, 610, 614.
- Cayley, Captain John, shot by Mrs M‘Farlane, 412.
- Cess, evasion of, in the Highlands, 91.
- Chancellor of Shieldhill fined for a riot, 73.
- Charteris, Colonel Francis, gambling anecdote of, 296;
- his death, 579.
- Child-murder, imputed, cases of, 19, 27, 625.
- Children of the upper classes, provision for, in various instances, 55.
- Choille Van, skirmish at, 468.
- Christian Knowledge, Society for Propagation of, 252.
- Claim of Right, some articles violated, 10.
- Claret, &c., price of in Scotland, at beginning of 18th century, 183, 270.
- Cleland, William, appointed lieutenant-colonel of Cameronian regiment, 9.
- Clerical uniform recommended, 147.
- Cloth-manufacture, woollen, 155.
- Clubs of a censurable character, 521, 543.
- Cluny Macpherson establishes a guard in lieu of ‘Black Watch,’ 611.
- Coal-pits at Tranent, mode of draining, 472.
- —— -works, railway at Prestonpans, 472.
- Cockburn, Andrew, post-boy, robbed, 32.
- —— ——, an Episcopalian minister at Glasgow, his chapel destroyed by a mob, 367.
- Cockburn, Justice-clerk, quarrels with Earl of Ilay and Sir David Dalrymple, 402.
- Cockburn, Mr, of Ormiston, an improver of agriculture, 485.
- Cock-fighting introduced, 266.
- Coin of Scotland at the Union, 330.
- Coldingham, kirk discipline of, 92;
- Collegium Butterense at Aberdeen, 230.
- Colliers in Fife and Lothian, as slaves, 248.
- Combats with swords in public, 522.
- Commerce as affected by the Union, 336, 338.
- —— and Manufactures in Scotland, subsequent to Revolution, 336, 416.
- Common Prayer, Book of, two clergymen maltreated for using, at Dumfries, 65;
- Rev. James Greenshields prosecuted for using, 350.
- Companies formed for manufactures, 88.
- Concert of music in Edinburgh in 1695, 89;
- by Edinburgh amateurs, 432.
- Condition and habits of Scottish people, change for the better, 568;
- Copyrights of books, granted by Privy Council to printers and booksellers, 220.
- Cornwell, Christopher, servitor, imprisoned, 15.
- Coronation of George I., rejoicings at, 414.
- Corporation privileges, troubles arising from, 75.
- Correction-houses for mendicants built, 219.
- Courant, Edinburgh, commenced, 314.
- Courant, Edinburgh Evening, newspaper started (1718), 438.
- Covenant sworn at Auchensaugh, 376.
- Covenanters’ heads, re-interment of, 532.
- Cowbin, estate of, ruined by drifted sand, 119;
- Craig, Margaret, a poor girl, drowns her infant, 19.
- Craigcrook, romantic story of a murder connected with, 333.
- Crawford, Earl of, president of parliament, 1;
- superintends torture of a prisoner, 40.
- Crawford, John, Morer’s account of, 271.
- Crieff, cattle-fair of, described, 338.
- Crighton, Captain John, his restraint relaxed and renewed, 67;
- liberated, 68.
- Criminalities connected with the sexual affections, 59.
- Criminals condemned to become soldiers, 64.
- —— banished without trial, 115, 211.
- Cromdale, dispersion of Highlanders at, 2.
- Culloden, Lady, the body forgotten at her funeral, 309.
- Culreach, system of in Scotland, 236.
- Curiosities, House of, at Grange Park, 99.
- Customs, attacks on officers of, 215, 589, 594.
- Dalnaspidal, fête at, by General Wade, 561.
- Dalrymple, Sir John, his enmity against Highland Jacobites, 61;
- his concern in massacre of Glencoe, 62.
- Dalyell, Sir Thomas, of Binns, treated for lunacy, 297.
- Dancing Assembly established, 479;
- meetings for in provincial towns, 590.
- Darien Expedition, 107, 206.
- Davidson, Robert, of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, petitions Council in consequence of having had his house destroyed, 108.
- Davidson, William, ‘writer,’ incarcerated for false news, 72.
- Dearth in Scotland, 136, 195, 348, 606.
- Debauchery in Edinburgh, 312.
- Dee, bridge over at Black Ford, erected, 277.
- Defoe visits Scotland (1706), 322;
- Deportment, Rules of Good, by Petrie, 455.
- Dickson, Margaret, her trial, execution, and subsequent recovery, 500.
- Dickson, Sir R., of Sorn-beg, refuses to pay for wines to gratify the officers of state, 188.
- Dies and punches for coining, 141.
- Dingwall, poverty-stricken in 1704, 52;
- Dirty Luggies in Edinburgh, 593.
- Disarming of the Highlanders, 497;
- General Wade’s letter to Lord Townsend, 528.
- Dogs, mad, 624.
- Don river dried up in several places, 442.
- Don, Sir James, of Newton, receives permission to travel into England with horses and arms, 50.
- Donaldson, James, commences Edinburgh Gazette (1699), 313;
- Donatives to Privy Council, custom of giving, 177.
- Douglas, Cameronian regiment formed at, 8.
- Douglas, Captain, convicted of assault, 60.
- Douglas, Duchess of, her style of speech, 507.
- Douglas, Duke of, murders Mr Ker, 506.
- Dow Loch, story of the, 263.
- Doxology attempted to be introduced in church, 103.
- Dress, old, articles of, enumerated, 148;
- Drove-road for cattle at New Galloway, 153.
- Drum, Lady of, petitions to be left unmolested by Irvine of Murtle, 144.
- Drum, Laird of, taken in care for weakness of mind, 22.
- Drummond, George, founds the Royal Infirmary, 557.
- Drummond, Lord, popish baptism of his child, 383.
- Drummond, May, a preaching Quaker lady, affecting case of, 559.
- Dudds, Dr, a quack mediciner, 261.
- Duel between Matthew M‘Kail and William Trent in King’s Park, Edinburgh, 149;
- Duels, military, their prevalence, 405.
- Duff, Laird of Braco, checks lawless proceedings of the gipsies of Moray, 234.
- Dumfries, riot at, from reading Book of Common Prayer, 65.
- Dun, Lord, a judge, anecdote of, 293.
- Dunbar, Sir David, of Baldoon, his breeds of cattle, 152.
- Dundee, Jacobitism in, 415;
- Dundee, Lady, 97.
- ——, Viscount of, 1, 16, 19.
- Dundonald, Countess of, her death, 356.
- Dunkeld, Bishop of, speaks pathetically of James VII., 5.
- Dupin, Nicolas, engaged in the linen-manufacture and paper-making, 86;
- his inventions, 102.
- Dutch Guards’ officer, wounded in duel, 543.
- Dysart, Rev. John, of Coldingham, his rigorous discipline, 92.
- Earlshall, violences at, 157.
- Earthenware manufacture, 156.
- Earthquake at Selkirk, 543;
- at Glasgow, 581.
- East Indiaman, loss of, near island of Lewis, 551.
- Echo, a literary paper proposed, 621.
- Eclipse of the sun, April 22, 1715, 399.
- Edie, David, apostate from Protestant faith, 214.
- Edinburgh, dirty state of, 593.
- ——, great fire in (1700), 225.
- ——, Lord Provost of, inflicts capital punishment, 568.
- Edinburgh; see the entire volume passim.
- Edmondstone of Newton, banished for concern in murder of the Master of Rollo, 119.
- Edmondstone, William, comes into collision with Row of Inverallan, 49.
- Education in practical arts recommended (1726), 530.
- Eglintoun, Earl of, beggars at his funeral, 555.
- Egyptians, or gipsies, 233.
- Election for Ross-shire, on a Saturday, 341;
- one at Fortrose, strange proceedings at, 465.
- Election of Peers at Holyrood, incident at one, 403.
- Elphinstone, Alexander, fights a duel with Lieutenant Swift, 566.
- Episcopal clergy, rabbled out at the Revolution, 6;
- Episcopal meeting-houses at Eyemouth, &c., suppressed, 229;
- Episcopalians, their troubles regarding Book of Common Prayer, 65, 366.
- ‘Equivalent Money,’ at the Union, 259, 328;
- its disposal, 444.
- Equivocating prayers, 78.
- Erskine, disgraceful scenes at parish-church of, 69.
- Erskine, Mrs, widow of minister of Chirnside, petitions for relief, 181.
- Erskine, Thomas, a Quaker brewer, 467.
- Exchange Coffee-house (Edinburgh) circulates ‘seditious news,’ and is shut up in consequence, 72.
- Exchequer, Scottish, extreme poverty of, 45.
- Excise and Customs, small amount of before Union, 339;
- curious anecdote of the transmission of excise revenue to London, 341.
- Excise law victims revenge themselves, 594.
- Fae, Sergeant, undertakes to catch robbers, 83.
- Fairfoul, David, a Catholic priest, confined, 25.
- ‘Fair Intellectual Club,’ 574.
- Fallowing first introduced into Scotland, 419.
- Famines in Scotland, 136, 195, 348, 606.
- Fast on account of sickness and scarcity, 160;
- in apprehension of renewed scarcity, 233.
- Fea of Clestran takes Gow, a pirate, 505.
- Fearn church roof falls in, 608.
- Ferintosh, whisky distilled at, free of duty, 133.
- Fife, sickness in, 363.
- Fire in Edinburgh, of 1700, 225.
- —— Insurance Company first started, 446.
- —— raising in Lanarkshire, 578.
- Flaikfield, Mary, a poor woman, prosecuted by Merchant Company, 76.
- Fletcher of Salton’s statements and proposals regarding vagrant poor, 218.
- Flogging in schools (1700), boy whipped to death, 222.
- Flood in west of Scotland (1712), 381.
- Forbes, Duncan, Lord Advocate, suppresses a riot at Glasgow, 509.
- Forbes, John, of Culloden, his convivial practices, 184.
- Forbes of Culloden obtains permission to distil usquebaugh duty-free, 133.
- Foreigners prohibited from transporting labourers, 211;
- distinguished foreigners visiting Edinburgh, 581.
- Forfeited estates, commissioners of, meet in Edinburgh, 408;
- further proceedings of commissioners, 443.
- Forfeited estates in inaccessible situations, difficulty of dealing with, 458.
- Forgery on Bank of Scotland by Thomas M‘Gie, 229;
- by Robert Fleming, 356.
- Forglen, Lord, his eccentric bequest, 533.
- Forsyth, Matthew, cook, his miserable imprisonment, 90.
- Fortrose, election at, and riot, 465.
- Foulis, Messrs, of Glasgow, their elegant printing, 516.
- France, gentlemen returned from, objects of suspicion, 216.
- Fraser, Captain Simon (afterwards Lord Lovat), his wild proceedings in Inverness-shire, 186, 254.
- See Lovat.
- Fraser, John, imprisoned for ridiculing the divine authority of the Scriptures, 147.
- Freebairn, the bookseller, 379.
- Freemasonry, 600.
- Free-trade hinted at, 243.
- French fleet appears in Firth of Forth, 332.
- —— Protestants, succour for in Scotland, 9.
- French taught by a native, in Edinburgh, 449.
- Friendly Society, the, for fire-insurance, 446.
- Frost of 1740, 605.
- Funeral at Glasgow, described by Walter Scott (‘Beardie’), 387;
- Funerals conducted on a superb scale, 307;
- Galloway, Levellers of, 492;
- state of tenantry of, 494.
- Gambling in Scotland, act regarding, and notable instances of, 296.
- Gambling Society, 543.
- Gardiner, Colonel James, his pious character, 487.
- Gardner, John, minister of Elgin, falls into a trance, 422.
- Gazette, Edinburgh, newspaper commenced by Captain Donaldson, 212;
- recommenced, 324.
- Ged, William, invents stereotyping, 555;
- his son James joins the rebellion, 557.
- Gentleman, John Purdie pleads that he is not a, 352.
- Gibson of Durie and his colliers, 249.
- —— of Linkwood, imprisoned in Elgin tolbooth, and burns it, 239.
- Gilmerton, subterranean house at, 502.
- Gipsies of the province of Moray, 233.
- Girded Tails, 448.
- Glasgow, cruelty at to Quakers, 57;
- Glass for mirrors, art of polishing, by Leblanc, a French refugee, 154.
- Glass-work at Leith, 23;
- Glenbucket, Gordon of, attempt to assassinate him, 488.
- Glenbucket, Lady, dispute between her and her eldest son, 159.
- Glencoe, massacre at, 2, 62;
- French version of, 64.
- Glenorchy, Episcopal minister of kept in at the Revolution, 7.
- Gordon, Duchess of (Elizabeth Howard), meeting of Catholic worshippers at her house in the Canongate, 466.
- Gordon, Duchess of (Elizabeth Mordaunt), introduces agricultural improvements, 419;
- pensioned for Protestantising her husband’s family, 554.
- Gordon, Duke of, holds out Edinburgh Castle for King James, 1;
- has a meeting of Catholic worshippers in his house in Edinburgh, 204.
- Gordon, second Duke of, his death, and its political importance, 554.
- Gordon, Mr, his powers of clairvoyance, 490.
- Gordon of Ellon’s two sons murdered, 422.
- Gordon of Glenbucket, his attempted assassination, 488.
- Gordons of Cardiness and M‘Cullochs of Myreton, 174.
- Gordons of Gicht, 304.
- Gow, the pirate, affair of at Orkney, 505.
- Graham of Gartmore, his account of state of the Highlands, 615.
- Grain, export and import acts, 137;
- Grange, Lord, visits a religious visionary, 430;
- Grant of Monymusk’s improvements of land, 418.
- Green, Captain, and his companions, unjustly tried and executed, 316.
- Greenshields, Rev. James, Episcopal minister, persecutions of, 350.
- Gregory, Professor, his machine for raising water, 237.
- Grierson, Sir Robert, of Lagg, imprisoned as a ‘suspect person,’ 11, 68;
- accused of ‘clipping and coining,’ 145.
- Gunpowder, explosion at Leith, 264.
- Haddington, Thomas, Earl of, his improvements and plantations, 417.
- Halden and Leslie, Covenanters, 378.
- Hall, Lady Anne, her funeral, 212.
- —— of Dunglass, desecration of a church by, 369.
- Hall, Robert, of Inchinnan, his ‘pretty peculiar accident,’ 353.
- Hamilton, keeper of Canongate tolbooth, asks Privy Council to renew certain perquisites lately withdrawn, 80;
- another petition by, 182.
- Hamilton, Lord Basil, his death, 246.
- ——, William, of Bangour, in connection with the Dancing Assembly, 483.
- Hamilton’s lottery, 88.
- Hart, Rev. James, a noted clergyman of Edinburgh, 397, 429.
- Harvest of 1699, thanksgiving for, 221.
- Haunted houses, 169, 435.
- Healing virtues ascribed to crystal, ivory, stones, glass, &c., 262;
- Dow Loch, 263.
- Healths, treasonable, 182.
- Hell-fire clubs, 521.
- Hepburn, John, persecuted for preaching without authority, 149.
- Heraldry, Alexander Nisbet’s System of, published by aid from Scottish parliament, 276.
- Heriot’s Hospital boys taught useful arts at the suggestion of ‘Society of Improvers,’ 530.
- Hership of cattle on lands of Lord Rollo, 117.
- Highlanders, predatory habits of the, 30, 31, 498, 612.
- Highlands, resistance in, to taxation, 91;
- ignorance in, 252.
- Highway robberies, 83.
- Historia Anglo-Scotica, a book, burned at the Cross of Edinburgh, 276.
- Historical Society at Edinburgh, 487.
- Holyrood Sanctuary, anecdotes of the, 349.
- Home, Earl of, ordered into Edinburgh Castle as a dangerous person, but allowed, on medical certificate, to remain at home, 117.
- Home, Lady, of Renton, conduct at her husband’s funeral, 200.
- Home of Renton writes about increase of witchcraft, 94;
- affray with tenants of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 345.
- Hoops for ladies, fashionable in 1719, 448.
- Hope of Rankeillor, an agricultural improver, 485.
- Hopetoun, Charles Hope of, his arrangement for supplying victual to his miners, 210;
- his windmill at Leith, 290.
- ‘Horn Order,’ meeting called the, 482.
- Hospital for sick first established in Edinburgh, 557.
- Hospitality, great, in Scotland, 570.
- Housebreaking, capitally punished by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1730; W. Muir’s execution, 568.
- Houston, James, and Sir John Shaw of Greenock, assault between, 402.
- Hume, David, circumstances connected with his birth, 56.
- Hume, John of Ninewells, married to Lady Falconer, 55.
- Hume of Marchmont, 1.
- Hummum, a, or Turkish bath, set up at Perth in 1702, 260.
- Hunter and Strahan hanged for forgery, 335.
- Hunters’ ball at Holyrood, 590.
- Hurricane in January 1739, 603.
- Husbands ill-using wives, their punishment by the Stang, 589.
- Ilay, Earl of, admitted as an extraordinary Lord of Session, 341;
- curious anecdotes of in connection with the Post-office, 266.
- Immorality and impiety ascribed to Scotland by General Assembly in 1691, 41;
- efforts to restrain, 342.
- Improvers [Agricultural] Society of, 484, 580.
- Incestuous connections severely treated, 59, 354.
- Inchbrakie, George Graham of, makes a riot, 24;
- Patrick, the young laird, kills the Master of Rollo, 117.
- Infanticide and concealed pregnancy, 26.
- Infirmary at Edinburgh, its origin, 557.
- Influenza in Scotland, 554.
- Inoculation introduced into Scotland, 530.
- Insurance against fire, 446.
- Intelligence-office projected, 244.
- Inventions and manufactures, various, 154.
- Inverary petitions for ‘ease’ from the tax-roll, pleading ‘poverty and want of trade,’ 51.
- Invergarry House garrison, 304.
- Inverlochy, fort planted at, 2.
- Irish cattle imported, 153.
- —— ——, laws against importation of, 242;
- Irvine of Drum, of weak intellect, arrangements regarding, 22;
- anecdote of his widow, 144.
- Irvine of Murtle’s conduct towards Lady of Drum, 144.
- Irvine, Robert, murders his two pupils, 423.
- ——, Robert, of Corinhaugh—slow travelling, 222.
- Jacobite party formed, 2;
- Jacobites in Perthshire make a riot, 24;
- persecuted under apprehension of a French invasion, 66;
- the Jacobite clans unsubmissive, 60;
- Jacobite lairds of Fife, 84;
- Jacobite gentlemen troubled for drinking treasonable toasts, 182;
- their plot in 1704, 295;
- proceedings of the party in 1715, 389;
- their estates forfeited, 408;
- subscription for prisoners (1716), 411;
- gentlemen in exile, 524.
- Jamati, Joseph, Baculator of Damascus, in Edinburgh, 581.
- James VII., death of, 107.
- Jedburgh, incident at proclamation of King William at, 7.
- Johnstone, James, a very wretched prisoner, 14.
- Johnstone, Margaret, widow of Johnstone younger of Lockerby, forcibly asserts her rights, 35.
- Jubilation in Edinburgh on reconciliation between king and Prince of Wales, 453.
- Judges, severity of, in cases of Rutherford and Gray, 371;
- salaries of, 303.
- Justiciary, commissioners of, their salaries, 302.
- Kellie, John, a corporal, fights a duel, 404.
- Kennedy, James and David, under prosecution as paramours of one woman, 59.
- Kennedy of Auchtyfardel kills Houston, W.S., on streets of Edinburgh, 321.
- Keppoch, Macdonalds of, a wild race, 15;
- Ker, Robert, his censure of Girded Tails, 448.
- Kilravock, Laird of, amounts paid for his daughter’s education, 57.
- Kilsyth church, body of Lady Kilsyth preserved in, 98.
- Kincaid, Mrs, of Gogar Mains, murder of, 473.
- Kincardine, Earl of, his death, 319.
- Kinnaries, Fraser of, a Catholic, placed in restraint, 25.
- Kintore, Earl of, his concern in preservation of the Regalia disputed, 264.
- Kircher’s Disfigured Pictures, an optical curiosity, 101.
- Kirkcaldy, &c., nearly ruined by the debts of a regiment quartered there, 45.
- Kirkcudbright, stewartry of, riot in, on account of the Sheriff’s Mart, 362.
- Kirk-treasurer’s Man, a bugbear to men of gaiety, 343.
- Konigsberg, church at, built by a Scottish collection, 134.
- Ladies, Scottish, in 1718, described by a traveller, 433.
- Lagg, Sir Robert Grierson of, confined at the Revolution, 11;
- Lanark, assisted on account of poverty, in building a bridge, 134.
- Land Mint, essay published on, 320.
- ——, price of, 103.
- Langton, Laird of, his wards and their allowances, 56.
- Lantern, Magical, in 1694, 100.
- Lauder, Bailie, of Haddington, imprisoned, 33.
- Leas, John, of Croshlachie’s maltreatment, 157.
- Leblanc, French refugee, mirrors made by, 154.
- Leith, glass-work at, 23, 229;
- Levellers of Galloway, 492.
- Leven, Earl of, assaulted by Boswell of Balmouto, 84;
- Libraries, presbyterial, in the Highlands projected, 250;
- partly realised, 253.
- Licentiousness, 41, 320;
- proclamations regarding, 342.
- Lindsay, Patrick, upholsterer, connected with nobility, 547.
- Linen manufacture, 85, 541.
- Linlithgow, remarkable disappearance of a gentleman at, 239.
- Livingstone, William, of Kilsyth, a Jacobite, temporary leniency shewn to, 66;
- liberated on condition of exile, 97;
- romantic story of his marriage to Dundee’s widow, ibid.
- Lockerby, Johnstone of, troubles in family of, 34.
- Locks, ingenious, invented, 99.
- Logan, Robert, makes wooden kettles to ‘abide the strongest fire,’ 214.
- Lothian, John, imprisoned after the Revolution, 14.
- Lothian, Marquis of, letter from, regarding slave colliers, 249.
- Lottery proposed by Alexander Hamilton, 88;
- one by Roderick Mackenzie, 310.
- Lovat, Hugh Lord, confined at the Revolution, 11.
- Lovat, Simon Lord, his violences in Inverness-shire, 186, 254;
- Love, John, charged with brewing on Sunday, 582.
- Loyalty a paradoxical feeling, 415.
- Mabie, Catherine Herries of, forcibly dispossesses a tenant, 36.
- M‘Culloch, Sir Godfrey, murder by, 174.
- Macdonald of Glengarry exhibits a strange trait of Highland feeling, 18;
- a garrison at his house, 304.
- MacDonell of Barrisdale, 616.
- M‘Ewen, Elspeth, accused of witchcraft, 193.
- M‘Ewen, James, starts a newspaper, 439.
- M‘Fadyen, a drover, robbed, 83.
- M‘Farlane, Mrs, murders Captain Cayley, 412.
- M‘Gill, Mr, minister of Kinross, his house haunted, 435.
- Macgregor, Robert (Rob Roy), see Rob Roy.
- Macgregor of Glengyle levies black-mail, 612.
- Machrie, William, a fencing-master, 267.
- Mackay, General, his cheap dinner, 46.
- Mackenzie, Roderick, of Prestonhall, his petition for transporting victual from Forfarshire to Midlothian, 211.
- Mackenzie, Sir George, warrant granted to print his works, 220.
- Mackie, Andrew, his house haunted, 109.
- Mackintosh, Laird of, kept out of his property in Glenroy, 15;
- M‘Lachlan, John, sentenced to be whipped and banished for tampering with recruits, 79.
- Maclaurin, Professor Colin, election of, 512.
- Macpherson, James, the robber, 234;
- his execution, 236.
- Macpherson of Invernahaven charged with stealing cattle from Grant of Conygass, 142.
- Macqueen of Pall-a’-chrocain kills the last wolf in Scotland, 609.
- Macrae, James, a Quaker, pressed as a soldier, 59.
- Macrae’s, Governor, return to Scotland, 585.
- Magazine, Scots, established, 603.
- Malicious Society of Undertakers, 578.
- Malt, Patrick Smith’s plan for drying, 303.
- —— tax riots at Glasgow, 508.
- Manners, general change of (1730), 568;
- levity of, censured, 520.
- Man-stealing, a case of, 44;
- edict against, 211.
- Manufactures set up, 85, 126, 154.
- Mar, Earl of, hoists standard of rebellion in Aberdeenshire, 389;
- letter to Robertson of Struan, 526.
- Marriages, forbidden, 353.
- Marriages in high life, ceremonies at, 240.
- Marrow Controversy, 441.
- Martin’s description of Western Isles, 278.
- Martyrs’ tomb in Greyfriars’ Churchyard, 533.
- Maxwell, John, of Munshes, his account of agriculture in his early days, 494.
- Maxwell, Robert, a noted early writer on agriculture, 485.
- Maxwell of Dargavel and Hamilton of Orbieston, dispute between, 69.
- Maxwell of Orchardton, a Catholic, his case, 295.
- Mechanical inventions, curious, 99.
- Medical practice, popular, as exhibited in Tippermalloch’s Receipts, 53;
- Mein family connected with Post-office in Edinburgh, 514, 593.
- Menzies, Major, kills town-clerk of Glasgow, 103.
- Menzies, Professor John, characteristic letter by, 524.
- Mercantile enterprise in Scotland takes its rise, 121;
- increased after the Union, 336.
- Merchandising Spiritualised, a book printed in Glasgow in 1699, 220.
- Merchant Company of Edinburgh, their treatment of Mary Flaikfield, 76.
- Metrical elegies, 140.
- Miller, George, a boy, trepanned as a soldier, 43.
- Miller, Hugh, quoted regarding sand-hills of Culbin, 110.
- Miln, Sir Robert, his reduced circumstances, 208.
- Miners’ provisions, mode of obtaining from distant towns, 210, 211.
- Mint in Scotland, 330.
- Mitchell, the ‘Tinklarian Doctor,’ 358;
- his visit to Calder, 450.
- Mitchell, William, his ear nailed to the Tron for insolency, 23.
- Mock Senator, a satire by Pennecuik, 473.
- Money in Scotland at the Union, 330.
- Monteath, Robert, advertises for epitaphs, &c., for his Theater of Mortality, 382.
- Montgomery of Skelmorley, plot of, 3.
- Moray, Earl of, small debt-case, 77.
- Morer’s Account of Scotland, 269.
- Mortality in Edinburgh (1743), 610.
- Moss Nook, a Scottish serf living in 1820, 250.
- Mowat, Ensign, concerned in a murder at Leith, 48.
- Muir, David, surgeon at Stirling, charge for drugs used by him to wounded of Killiecrankie, 47.
- Munro of Foulis, his funeral, 560.
- Murchison, Donald, defends the Seaforth estates against government troops, 459, 468;
- his death, 471.
- Mure, Elizabeth, her account of Scottish manners in eighteenth century, 571.
- Mure of Caldwell’s journey from Edinburgh to Ross-shire, 406.
- Murray, a tavern-keeper, in trouble on account of a false news-letter, 71, 144.
- Murray, Clara, her violent letter to Lord Alexander Hay, 275.
- Murray, Lady, of Stanhope, assault on, 478.
- Murray, Sir Alexander, of Stanhope, his projects, 474;
- Mushet, Nichol, murders his wife, 454;
- he is executed, 455.
- Music, concerts of, in Edinburgh, 89, 139;
- Musical instruments, curious advertisement of, 325.
- Musselburgh, riding of marches at, 622.
- Nasmyth, a builder, at Inversnaid fort, 374.
- Navigation of rivers, Henry Neville Payne’s petition, 217.
- Negro slave, runaway, advertisement in Courant regarding, 453.
- News, false, punishment for, 71.
- —— -letters, 71;
- Murray, a tavern-keeper, sued for a false news-letter, ibid.
- Newspapers, notices of early, 212, 313, 324, 414, 438.
- Nicholson, Daniel, his case of adultery with Mrs Pringle, 60.
- Nicol, William, of High School of Edinburgh, anecdote of, 223.
- Nisbet, Alexander, his System of Heraldry patronised, 276.
- Nithsdale, Earl of, troubled on return from France, 216.
- Noblemen, imprisonments of, 68.
- Norvill, Dame Mary, petitions Privy Council in behalf of her children, 55.
- Officers of the army, their accounts at hotels, 45.
- Ogilvie, Patrick, of Cairns, employed to guard the coasts against Irish importations, 243.
- Ogilvy of Forglen, his death and last injunctions, 533.
- Orkney, a pirate taken in, 505.
- Ormiston, Alexander, imprisoned, 14.
- Painting in oil, early notices of in Scotland, 563.
- Paper-manufacturing, 87.
- Paragraphs from old newspapers, Appendix.
- Paraphernalia of women, decided by Court of Session, 166.
- Parochial schools, establishment of, in Scotland, 151.
- Parsons, Anthony, a quack medicine-vender, 261.
- Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, imprisoned, 12;
- permitted to live at certain places, 167.
- Paterson, William, promotes commerce and founds African Company, 121;
- Pates of Court of Session, 291.
- Payne, Henry Neville, tortured and imprisoned for ten years, 39;
- proposes an improvement in river navigation, 218.
- Pease-meal, nutritiousness of, 472.
- Peebles, infanticide at, 19;
- Perpetual motion, scheme of, by David Ross, 102.
- Perth, ‘Duke’ of, his baptism, 383.
- ——, Earl of, taken prisoner at the Revolution, 11, 12;
- Perth, tumult at, on account of a picture, 565.
- Peterhead as a harbour of refuge for vessels pursued by French privateers, 120.
- Petrie’s Rules of Good Deportment, &c., 455.
- Piper of Musselburgh, trepanned as a recruit, 44.
- Pirates hanged at Leith, 458.
- —— under Henry Evory seize a man-of-war, 150;
- a pirate in Orkney, 505.
- Pitcairn, Dr Archibald, introduces dissection in Edinburgh, 105;
- Pittenweem, treatment of witches there in 1704, 299.
- Plantations, criminals and degraded persons transported to, without trial, 115, 211.
- Planting first attempted in Scotland, 417.
- Poiret, Elias, murdered at Leith, 48.
- Poor, vagrant, multitude of, 218;
- regulations for, proposed, 219.
- Pope, the, tried and burned in effigy in Edinburgh, 3.
- Porpoises thrown ashore at Cramond, 23.
- Porteous, Captain John, plays a match at golf with Hon. Alexander Elphinstone, 566;
- Porteous riot, unpopular witnesses regarding, 600.
- Post-office, general arrangements in 1689, 20;
- the post sometimes robbed and tampered with, 21, 74;
- post-boy robbed by Jacobite gentlemen, 32;
- act for establishing General Post-office, 125;
- violation of letters at Post-office, 265;
- affairs of, in 1710, 327, 357;
- improvements of, by Mr James Anderson, 400;
- accidents to postbags, 513;
- improvements of, 514.
- Potato culture, 604.
- Poverty of Scotland, traits of the extreme character of, 45.
- Prayers, equivocating, 78;
- meetings for, 228.
- Preaching in open air, 606.
- Pregnancy, concealment of, act against, 26.
- Presbyterian form of worship, innovation on, punished, 350.
- Press, restrictions on the, 181.
- Priests in trouble. See Catholics.
- Pringle of Clifton, fights a duel with Scott of Raeburn, 330.
- Printing, art of, in Scotland (1712), 363.
- Prisoners’ aliment, 208.
- Prisoners detained, from inability to pay prison dues, 34.
- Prisoners of Canongate Tolbooth, take possession of it, 71.
- Prisons crammed with disaffected persons in 1689, 11.
- Privy Council deals with Episcopal clergymen, 78.
- Profaneness, proclamations against, 342.
- Prussian grenadiers, recruiting for, in Edinburgh, 490.
- Purdie, John, pleads he is not a gentleman, 352.
- Quack medicines vended, 260.
- Quakers, persecuted at Glasgow, 57;
- Racing in Scotland, 454.
- Raffle of Indian screens by Roderick Mackenzie, 310.
- Railway, an early, at Prestonpans, 472.
- Ramsay, Allan, Scottish poet, satirises metrical elegies, 140;
- Rattray, John, a poor man, imprisoned at the Revolution, 14.
- Rebel prisoners removed from Edinburgh to Carlisle for trial, by virtue of ‘treason-law,’ 411.
- Rebellion of 1715, 389;
- of 1745, 535.
- Recruiting, unscrupulous system of, 43.
- Recruits kept in jails, 79, 182, 601.
- Regalia, controversy about its preservation, 264.
- Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch, 498.
- Repentance Tower, subject of a rustic bon mot, 429.
- ‘Rerrick Spirit,’ strange story of the, 169.
- Restoration of Charles II., celebrated by one Jackson, 371.
- Restrictions regarding victual, troubles from, 210.
- Revenue laws disrelished and resisted, 508, 589, 594.
- Review of Highland Companies at Ruthven, 581.
- Revolver, the, anticipated, 101.
- Ritchie, Charles, a minister, in trouble about an irregular marriage, 190.
- Roads made in the Highlands, 526, 561.
- Rob Roy, first public reference to, 373;
- Robberies, great number of in 1693, 83;
- increase in Highlands from withdrawal of ‘Black Watch,’ 610.
- Robertson, Alexander, of Struan, 523.
- —— ——, Duncan, dispossesses his mother, Lady Struan, of her property, 233.
- Roderick, the St Kilda Impostor, 179.
- Rollo, Lady, her charge against her husband, 143.
- Rollo, Lord, tries to repress cattle lifting, 31;
- prosecuted by his lady, 143.
- Rollo, Master of, killed, 117.
- Rope-performers, Italian, 582.
- —— -work established, 87.
- Rose, Bishop of Edinburgh, his death, 452.
- Roseberry, Earl of, pranks of, 604.
- Ross-shire, election for, on a Saturday, 341.
- Row, Captain, raises sunk treasure, 551.
- Royal Bank of Scotland, started, 537;
- rivalry of banks, 537.
- Royal burghs, convention of, curious details concerning, 51.
- Ruddiman, Thomas, his connection with Dr Pitcairn, 385;
- improves the classical learning of Edinburgh, 438.
- Rum, sale of forbidden, and subsequently permitted, 277.
- Rutherglen, Earl of, ‘bangstrie’ upon his property, 158.
- Saddle, Elastic Pacing, invented, 101.
- St Cecilia, feast of, celebrated in 1695, 139.
- St Cecilia’s Day, celebrated in Edinburgh with a concert, 139.
- St Kilda, account of, 168.
- —— —— islanders acquire a minister, 178;
- curious peculiarity attending the inhabitants, 181.
- St Luke, School of, institution of at Edinburgh, 564.
- Salaries of judges of Justiciary and Court of Session, 303.
- Salmon-fishery in Scotland (1709), 353.
- Salt proposed to be made in a new manner, 154.
- Salters and miners considered as slaves or necessary servants, 248.
- Salton and Murray, Lords, seized by Master of Lovat, 185.
- Sanctuary (Holyrood Abbey), taken advantage of by Patrick Haliburton, &c., 349.
- Sandilands, Hon. Patrick, a boy, bewitched, 449.
- Savery’s engine for raising water, 237.
- Scavengering of Edinburgh, 593.
- Schools, parochial, establishment of, in Scotland, 151;
- plays acted at, 584.
- Scots Magazine established, 603.
- Scott of Raeburn killed in a duel, 330.
- ——, Walter, of Kelso, his marriage, and letter describing it, 39;
- funeral of his father-in-law at Glasgow, 387.
- Scriptures, a multitude of copies of, distributed in the Highlands in 1690, 39.
- Seaforth, Earl of, in rebellion of 1715, 391, 393;
- Secession, The, a schism in the kirk, 588, 625.
- Second-sight, described by Martin, with instances, 278.
- Servants, register-office for, proposed in 1700, 244.
- Session, Court of, new judges appointed for, 10;
- Seton, Hon. James, accused of robbing a post-boy, 32.
- Settlement, an inharmonious, 580.
- Sharps, a trial at designed, 209.
- Shaw, Christian, of Bargarran, her case, 167;
- thread spun by her, 510.
- Shaw, Sir John, of Greenock, his marriage, 240;
- kills Mr Houston, 402.
- Short’s telescopes, 567.
- Sibbald, Sir R., claims a share in Adair’s maps of Scotland, 42;
- ‘Siller,’ origin of term in Scotland, 212.
- Silver-mine at Alva, 247.
- Simson, Professor John, teaches Arminianism, 441.
- Skye, Isle of, Second-sight in, 280.
- Slaughters—town-clerk of Glasgow by Major Menzies, 103;
- Master of Rollo by Graham of Inchbrakie, 117;
- Houston, Writer to the Signet, by Kennedy of Auchtyfardel, 321;
- Cowpar of Lochblair by Ogilvie of Cluny, 322;
- Robert Oswald by Baird of Sauchtonhall, 322;
- by Master of Burleigh, 326;
- of Mrs Kincaid by her husband, 473;
- of Campbell of Lawers, 473;
- a boy Cairns killed, 547.
- Slave (or ‘perpetual servant’), man adjudged to be for theft, and handed over to Sir John Areskine of Alva, 246.
- Slave, negro, advertisement of a stolen one found, 453.
- Slavery of salters and miners till 1775, 249.
- Slezer, John, in prison after the Revolution, 13;
- a creditor punished for imprisoning him, 27.
- Small-pox (1713), 387;
- inoculation for introduced, 530.
- Smith of Whitehill’s plans for introducing water into towns, 238.
- Soldiers, recruiting of, by nefarious means, 43;
- Spirits, young man troubled with, at Glencorse, 555.
- Spott church communion-cups, 335;
- witch of Spott, 275.
- Stage-coach from Edinburgh to Glasgow (1758), 612;
- Stair church burnt, 355.
- Stair, Viscountess of, death of; her coffin placed in an upright position; bon mot of, 74.
- Stang, riding of the, a punishment for cruel husbands, 589.
- Staving of Irish victual, proclamation regarding, 241.
- Steele, Sir R., visits Scotland, as a commissioner on forfeited estates, 409, 426;
- anecdotes concerning, 429.
- Stereotyping invented by Ged, 555.
- Steuart, Sir James, Lord Advocate for Scotland, favourable to witch-prosecutions, 135;
- Stewart, General, killed by Elliot of Stobbs, 523.
- Stirling of Kier, his trial for high-treason, 345.
- Stobo, John, ‘student in astrologico-physick,’ 85.
- Storm, an extraordinary, in 1739, 603.
- Strahan, W.S., of Edinburgh, is robbed of a large sum, 333.
- Strathmore, Earl of, killed in a drunken fray, 545.
- Streets and Wynds of Edinburgh, in 18th century, 591.
- Suddy, Mackenzie of, killed at Inverroy, 16.
- Summer of 1723, its sultriness, 480.
- Sunday observance, 271, 342, 344, 397, 569.
- Sutherland, James, in charge of the Physic Garden, 81;
- introduces culture of melons, 142.
- Tain Tolbooth steeple falls, 277.
- Tarbet, Master of, charged with a murder at Leith, 48.
- Tascal-money, murder of Cameron for, 486.
- Tavern-bill, example of one in Edinburgh, 183.
- Taverns much frequented, 575.
- Taverns open on Sunday, disturbance regarding, 271.
- Taxes of Scotland and England equitably adjusted by Union, 328.
- Tea, its disuse recommended in favour of beer, 613.
- Tennis Court, theatricals in, 398.
- Thanksgiving hypocritically ordered, 221.
- Theatricals in Edinburgh (1715), 397, 518, 544, 550, 583, 598;
- at Glasgow, 550.
- Thrashing-machine invented, 503.
- Thunderstorm at Edinburgh (June 10, 1717), 424.
- Tinklarian Doctor, a strange enthusiast, 358;
- visits the witch-boy of Calder, 449.
- Tippermalloch’s Receipts, 53;
- Toasts, treasonable, drunk at Dumfries, 182.
- Tobacco trade of Glasgow, 431, 516.
- Tolbooth, Canongate, mutiny of recruits in, 601.
- Tolbooth of Edinburgh stuffed with political prisoners, 11.
- Toleration Act for Scottish Episcopalians, 367.
- Torture employed after the Revolution, 39.
- Travelling, formal permission required from government for persons of eminence, 51;
- Treasure lost at sea, dived for, 551.
- Trotter’s Compendium of Latin Grammar, 582.
- Trustees, Board of, established, 541.
- Tyninghame Woods planted by Earl of Haddington, 417.
- Union, changes in commerce produced by, 336;
- customs and excise of Scotland, 339.
- Union, treaty of, 258.
- University of Edinburgh, cleared of Episcopalian professors, 7;
- medical education introduced, 105.
- Vice and immorality severely punished, 342.
- Violante, Signora, an Italian rope-dancer, 625.
- Wade, General, sent as commander-in-chief to disarm the Highlanders, 497;
- Walker, Helen, intercedes for her sister’s pardon, 602.
- Walker, Patrick, his account of the expulsion of the bishops in 1689, 5;
- Walking-swords and other weapons worn by gentlemen, 49.
- Wallace, Captain John, long kept a prisoner for defending Holyroodhouse, 13;
- petition for release, 68.
- Watson, Andrew, Glasgow shoemaker, 386.
- ——, a skipper, subscription in behalf of, 134.
- Weapons worn by gentlemen, a fatal practice, 49.
- Weights and measures, statutory, confided to various towns, 51.
- Western Isles, Description of, by Martin, 278.
- Whales in Firth of Forth, 77, 327;
- at Culross and Kilrenny, 458.
- Whiston’s Primitive Christianity seized, 363.
- Whitfield’s open-air preaching, 606.
- William III., crown settled on, 1;
- Williamson, Rev. J., of Musselburgh, his letter on ‘recent domestic events,’ 403.
- Wilson, Robert, a servant lad, stolen as a recruit, 44.
- Windmill at Leith, building of, 290.
- Winds, destructive, in Lothian, 471.
- Wines, use of, and prices, 183, 270.
- Witch-boy at Calder, 449.
- ——, Marion Lillie, at Spott, 275.
- ——, the last burnt in Scotland, 540.
- Witchcraft jurisprudence, 135;
- laws against, repealed, 597.
- Witches at Coldingham, 94;
- Witches, five, burnt at Paisley, 172.
- —— of Ross-shire treated leniently for the first time, 216;
- see also, 540.
- Witches, various, proceedings against, 66, 94, 135, 193, 216, 275, 298, 302, 540.
- Wodrow, Rev. Mr, his remarks on mercantile losses at Glasgow, 337, 487, 565;
- Wolf, last in Scotland, killed, 609.
- Women of evil repute banished, 115.
- Women’s ‘Girded Tails’ satirised, 448.
- Wool forbidden to be exported, 238.
- Woollen manufactures at Aberdeen, 156.
- Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, satirises Lady Murray of Stanhope, 479;
- introduces inoculation, 530.
- Writers, malignant feelings displayed on opposing interests, case of; Leslie and Comrie, 278.
- Writing, engine for, invented, 99.
- York Buildings Company purchases forfeited estates, 443;
- Young, George, troubles from enforcing Sunday observance, 271.
- Young, James, an ingenious mechanist and curiosity-monger, 99;
- House of Curiosities at Edinburgh, 100.