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;
his high character, 51;
chosen king, 52;
defeats the Norsemen at Stamford Bridge, 53;
defeated and slain at Hastings, 54
Hastings, Battle of, 54
Henry VIII., his domestic history, 86;
his evil character, 87;
effects the English Reformation, 88;
demands Mary for his son’s wife, 102
Heptarchy, The Anglo-Saxon, 21
Heresy (Lutheran), Act of Parliament against, 155
Highlanders mode of fighting, 261;
advance into England, 293;
in retreat, 294
“Highland Host, The,” 220
Highlands long disorderly, 76;
under General Wade, 289
Holyrood, History of, 129;
Queen Mary’s apartments in, 130;
gallery of ancient kings in, 35;
the church, 132
Holy Wells in Scotland, 166;
associated with certain saints, 167;
pilgrimages to, 167;
at St. Fillans, 168;
at Musselburgh, 168;
at Muthill near Crieff, 169;
at Strathnaven, 169;
at Spa near Aberdeen, 170;
pilgrimages to denounced by the Strathbogie Presbytery, 170
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;
a poet, 82;
his wise laws, 113
James III. patronises poets, 129
James IV. and Sir David Lindsay, 130;
his entry with his queen into Edinburgh, 114;
into Aberdeen, 153
James V. dying at Mary’s birth, 102
James VI., proclaimed king, 118;
supposed to be under witchcraft, 161;
quarrels with Edinburgh, 120;
becomes James I. of England, 122;
revisits Edinburgh, 123;
his method of arguing with the Puritans, 185
James, Duke of York, fights the Dutch at sea, 236;
in Scotland, 230;
as king attempts to re-establish popery, 242;
issues the declaration of indulgence, 248;
sends seven bishops to the Tower, 249;
has a son born, 250;
retracts unpopular measures, 253;
his flight, 255;
his throne declared vacant, 257;
Scotland under, 246
James the Pretender joins the rising of 1715, 284;
makes arrangements for his coronation, 284;
deserts his adherents, 286
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;
preaching at Perth, 92;
admonishes Queen Mary, 96;
his strong character, 98
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;
takes the oath of allegiance, 266;
his murder, 268
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;
is checked at Sheriffmuir, 283;
deserts his army at Montrose, 286
Margaret, queen of Malcolm Canmore, 57
Marriage, Scottish customs, 172;
lax notions on, 174;
restrictions on, 175;
unlucky months for, 172;
a woman’s outfit, 175
Mary of Guise, regent of Scotland, 90
Mary, Queen of England, 104
Mary, Queen of Scots, Childhood of, 102;
sent to France, and marries the Dauphin, 103;
returns to Scotland, 116;
her entry into Edinburgh, 117;
marries Lord Darnley, 106;
her sad after-history, 109;
compared with Elizabeth, 110;
her apartments in Holyrood, 130
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;
his Moderation, 226;
his own Rebellion, 237
Monk, General, storms Dundee, 204;
completes Cromwell’s subjugation of Scotland, 206;
restores the Stuarts, 211
“Mons Meg” at Edinburgh Castle, 126
Montrose, the Marquis of, 194
Morton, Regent of Scotland, 118;
accused of being accessory to Darnley’s murder, 118;
his execution by the _Maiden_, 119
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;
origin of the, 28;
conversion of, 33;
coalesce with the Scots, 36
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;
its influence on Scottish character, 95;
bareness of its forms of worship, 100;
its fight against episcopacy, 181
Presbyterianism in England, 193
Prestonpans, Battle of, 292
Pretender, Birth of the, 250;
in the rebellion of 1715, 284;
birth of his two sons, 288
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;
browbeaten by James I., 185;
their Old Testament leanings, 208
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;
the present, 127;
its adventures, 128;
after the Union to remain in Edinburgh, 128;
supposed loss, search for, and recovery, 128
Regencies disastrous to Scotland, 75
Regicides, Execution of the, 212
Religion in Scotland under Charles I., 181;
under Cromwell, 209;
under Charles II., 214
Renwick, the last covenanting martyr, 248
Revolution, The, of 1688, 252
Rizzio, David, Murder of, 108
Roman invasion of Britain, 3;
rule in Britain, 12;
Empire divided, 9;
fall of the Western Empire, 11;
Evacuation, 16
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;
under Charles I., 178;
under Cromwell, 199;
under Charles II., 211;
under James II., 236;
“Company of,” 270;
union with England, 270
Scottish Kings:—The Mythical, 35;
Fergus, 35;
Kenneth Macalpine, 36;
Malcolm II., 54;
Duncan, 55;
Macbeth, 55;
Malcolm III., 56;
David I., 58;
Malcolm IV., 59;
William, 59;
Alexander III., 61;
Baliol, 65;
Robert Bruce, 72;
James I., 78, 81;
James III., 129;
James IV., 130;
James VI., 116
Scottish Nation, Rise of the, 26;
Parliament a single chamber, 74;
Nobles, quarrels amongst, 75;
Nationalism pronounced, 81;
Reformation, a struggle with authority, 90;
Convention declare James’s throne vacant, 259
Scoto-Irish piracies, 15
Scots first found in Ireland, 29;
lesser number of than of Picts, 36;
“King of,” the title of the sovereign, 72
“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;
farewell speech of James VI. in, 122;
commotion in over new liturgy, 180
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;
their claims to the English throne, 105;
the last act of the dynasty, 281
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;
its terms, 274;
opposition to in Scotland, 275;
its accomplishment, 276;
early years of the, 276;
attempts to repeal the, 277;
its good results, 278
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;
his fleet in the Channel, 254;
his landing and progress, 254;
refuses the regency, 257;
elected King and his wife Queen, 258;
his tolerant policy, 262;
signs order against the Macdonalds of Glencoe, 266;
opposes the Darien Scheme, 271;
his last message to Parliament, 272
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
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