Part 14

Culdees supplanted, 73

Currie, James, 263

Curiosities of Church Finance, 130-161

Dead, tales about the, 166

Death and Burial. Customs and Superstitions, 237-254

Death hamper, 242

Denmark, Princess Anne and witchcraft, 175

Devil and minstrels, 170

Devil preaching a sermon, 177

Discipline of the Kirk, 108-129

Douglas, Lady Janet, suffered for witchcraft, 163

Dress of women condemned, 120

Drinking at funerals, 239

Drunkards punished, 124, 138

Duddingston jougs, 114

Dunblane Cathedral, 66

Dundee bells, 44

Easter Sunday customs, 48

Eastwood, witchcraft at, 192

Edinburgh Market Cross, 5, 7, 11

Episcopacy and witchcraft, 173

Erskine, Lord Chief Justice, married at Gretna Green, 229

Excommunications, 110

Farthings at collections, 146

Fishing on Sunday, 135

Flodden, 12

Foreign coins, objections to, 144

Forbidding the banns, 220

Forbidding marriage, 127

Frost, Thomas. Saints and holy wells, 46-63 ---- Church music, 98-107

Funeral bells, 40-41, 44, 245-247

Funeral sermons, 248

Geddes, Jenny, 256, 259

Gladstone, W. E., restores Edinburgh Cross, 10-11

Glasgow Cathedral, 67-85

Gifts of bells to churches, 35

Graveyard of Greyfriars, 260-266

Gretna Green gossip, 227-236

Gossips' wake, 195

Haddington, witchcraft at, 184

Hamilton, Sir William, funeral of, 253

Hand-bells at funerals, 40-41

Handfasting, 210-212

Hannay, Dean, 256, 258

Harmonium, 106

Holyrood Abbey founded, 31

Holy Wells, 46, 63

Hospitality at funerals, 253

Hours of church service, 96

Howlett, E. Bell Lore, 34-45

Humours of the collection, 141

Hymns submitted, 102

Ignorant persons' children not to be baptised, 205

Introduction of the organ at Glasgow, 105

Iona crosses, 18-22

James VI. and witchcraft, 174

Jougs, 113

Kilmarnock Cross, 16

Kirkcaldy, witchcraft at, 189

Kirkwall Cathedral, 67

Knox burned in effigy, 12 ---- deemed a wizard, 171

Lanark Cross, 16

Length of sermon, 121

Life in the pre-Reformation Cathedrals, 64-85

Linlithgow, 16

Liturgy used, 93

Long sermons, 95

Macintosh, L., funeral of, 253

Manner of examining witches, 180

Mar, Earl of, suffered for witchcraft, 163

Market crosses, 4

Marriage laws and customs, 210-226

Marriage vow, punished for violating, 125

Martyrs' Monument, Edinburgh, 260-266

Mass, punished for saying, 13

Medical assistance, 155

Memorable marriage at Gretna Green, 232

Millar, A. H. Life in the pre-Reformation Cathedrals, 64-85

Mode of marrying at Gretna Green, 231

Money-box, church, 147

Montrose, Marquis, body removed, 251

Monuments, Destruction of, 3

Murray, Earl, assassination of, 251

Observance of old church festivals forbidden, 121

Omens of death, 239

Opening doors for departing spirits, 238

Organs, 89, 98, 99, 102, 104, 106

Origin of Glasgow Cathedral, 71

Our Lady, wells dedicated to, 55

Pagan rites at marriages, 224

Palls, 247

Parochial inquisitions, 178

Parsons at Gretna Green, 229-232

Peebles bells, 38

Perth bells, 39, 43

Pews, introduction of, 140

Pilgrimages to saints' wells, 60-62

Pillory, 116, 124, 125

Poor travellers' hospital, 54

Prayer-book, introduction of the, 100 ---- objection to, 255

Precentor, 88, 104

Press guarded, 122

Priest pelted at the Cross, 13

Private baptism, 198-202

Proclamations published at crosses, 12

Psalmody, 100, 101, 102

Public Penance, 111

Public worship in olden times, 86-97

Ransoms for sailors, 156

Reader, 87

Rees, Rev. R. Wilkins. Curiosities of Church Finance, 130-161 ---- Witchcraft and the kirk, 162-193

Reformation, 1

Registers of baptisms, 201, 206, 208

Registers of deaths, 249

Riddle-turning, 124

Riding the marches, 16

Repentance stool, 111, 158

Roslin, Lord, funeral of, 253

Royal edicts proclaimed from crosses, 16

Ruthwell Cross, 26

Sabbath-breaking, 136

Saints and holy wells, 46-63

Scandals and marriage, 217-218

Schoolmasters, 152

Scots money, 133

Scotchmen warned not to follow James VI. to England, 17

Sculptured tombstones, 23

Seal of Holyrood Abbey, 32

Sharp, Archbishop, assassinated, 173

Silver in bells, 41

Singing hymns, objections to, 92

Slanderers punished, 125

Solemn League of the Covenant, 261

Spurious money at collections, 146

Stirling, penance at, 196

Story of a stool, 255-259

St. Andrew's Cathedral, 66

St. Andrew's Well, 56

St. Bernard's Well, 53

St. Catherine's Well, 52

St. Columba's Wells, 48

St. Corbett's Well, 54

St. Fergus's Well, 48

St. Fillan's Well, 50

St. Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, 66

St. Helena's Wells, 49

St. Iten's Well, 49

St. Kentigern, 67

St. Maelrubha Well, 47

St. Margaret of Scotland, 29

St. Medan's Chapel and Well, 50-51

St. Mulvay's Well, 47

St. Mungo, 67

St. Olav's Well, 54

St. Querdon's Well, 59

St. Ronan's Well, 48

St. Thenew's Well, 59

St. Wallach's Bath, 57

Sunday observance, 117, 133-138

Superstitions, marriage, 221

Swearing, punished for, 124

Taking snuff in the kirk, 128

Tokens of death, 237

Tyack, Rev. Geo. S. The Cross in Scotland, 1-33 ---- Discipline of the Kirk, 108-129

Tyninghame, witchcraft at, 184

Unbaptised children, burial of, 242

Uncoffined burials, 241

Votive offerings, 57

Watching the dead, 238

Waters, Rev. Alexander. Public worship in olden times, 86-97

Western Isles, crosses in, 22

Westminster Assembly of Divines, 87

Wine at Edinburgh Cross, 11

Witchcraft, 123

Witchcraft a capital offence, 164

Witchcraft and the Kirk, 162-193

Footnotes:

[1] "Iona: its History, Antiquities, etc.," by Rev. A. MacMillan and Robert Brydall, 1898.

[2] "Church and other Bells of Kincardineshire."

[3] "Church and other Bells of Kincardineshire," Eeles.

[4] Chambers' "History of Peebles."

[5] "Bell Lore," North.

[6] Hope's Reprint "Popish Kingdome."

[7] "Bell Lore," North.

[8] "Bell Lore," North.

[9] Eeles.

[10] "Bells of Exeter Cathedral," p. 7.

[11] The Relief Church originated in 1752 in opposition to the system of patronage, and received its name from its relief from that burden. In 1847 it became, by union with the Secession Church, the United Presbyterian Church.

[12] For the accompanying illustrations of a repentance-stool, and of the jagg or jougs, I am indebted to Mr Wm. Andrews, from whose work on "Bygone Punishments" (London 1899) they are taken.

[13] The spelling of this and the following extracts is modernised.

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