Potatoes, earliest trace of, in Scotland, 325.
Potterrow, 59, 168, 247, 358.
Prebendaries’ Chamber, 256, 259.
Prentice, Henry, introducer of the field-culture of potatoes, 325.
Press, printing, used in the rebel army, 72.
Prestonfield, 78.
Primrose, Lady Dorothy, 237.
Primrose, Lord, 124.
Primrose, Viscount, a profligate, 64.
Princes Street, 53, 214, 366.
Princes Street Gardens, 18.
Princes Street one hundred years ago, 6.
Princes Street, the naming of, 7.
Pringle, Dr and Miss, Newhall, 124.
Pringle, Mr, of Haining, 251.
Puppo, Signor, violinist, 253.
Queen Mary, 71, 83, 109, 163, 257-259, 271, 287.
Queensberry, Catherine, Duchess of, 339.
Queensberry House, 142, 320, 336.
Queensberry, second Duke of, strange story of, 336.
Queensberry, third Duke of, and poet Gay, 338.
Queen’s garden, 257.
Queen Street, 9.
Raeburn, Sir Henry, portrait-painter, 354.
_Rambler_, the, reproduced in Edinburgh, 49.
Ramsay, Allan, the painter, 16, 17.
Ramsay, Allan, the poet, 4, 14-18, 44, 104, 161, 248, 288, 295, 339, 346.
Ramsay, Christian, 16.
Ramsay Gardens, 16.
Ramsay, General John, 16.
Ramsay, Lady, of Bamff, 353.
Ramsay, Miss, anecdote of, 323.
Ramsay’s Inn or Tavern, 152, 171, 276.
Ramsay, Sir Andrew, Provost, 32.
Ramsay, Sir George, of Bamff, killed in a duel, 353-356.
Rats, pets of Lady Eglintoune, 197, 198.
Rats, town, 179, 186.
Rattray, Clerk, Sheriff, 281.
Register House, 7, 366.
Reinagle, Joseph, ’cellist, 253.
Renton, Eleonora, of Lamerton, 304.
Restalrig, 323, 326, 351.
Riddel’s Close, Lawnmarket, 55, 76.
Risps or tirlin’-pins on doors, 207.
Rivane, Generall, 40.
Robertson, Principal, 80, 162, 243, 262, 288.
Rochester, Earl of, 122.
Rockville, Lord, 230.
Rollo, Lord, 270.
Romieu, Paul, a noted watchmaker, 46.
Rope for hanging Porteous bought, 47.
Rose Court, George Street, 7.
Rose, Dr Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh, 170.
Rosehaugh’s Close (Strichen’s), 224.