Part 67
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; Strontian mines, 476; Ardnamurchan scheme, 474.
MUSHET, Nichol, murders his wife, 454; he is executed, 455.
Music, concerts of, in Edinburgh, 89, 139; rising taste for in Scotland, 432; _Orpheus Caledonius_, 434.
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; his liberal ideas, 124; opposition to Bank of Scotland, 131.
_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; prison not strong enough to secure a female culprit, 20; vested with a peculiar privilege, 51.
Perpetual motion, scheme of, by David Ross, 102.
PERTH, ‘Duke’ of, his baptism, 383.
——, Earl of, taken prisoner at the Revolution, 11, 12; liberated, 66; again imprisoned, 67.
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; anecdotes concerning, 223; brought before the Council for _leasing-making_, 224; raises an action for defamation against Rev. James Webster, 378; his death, 383; his writings, 384.
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; his unpopularity, 594; condemned for murder, 595; executed by the mob, 596.
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; persecuted at Edinburgh, 178; appear at Cross of Edinburgh, 467; build a meeting-house there, 621; one sets up a manufactory, 620.
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; his reference to Sir Richard Steele, 427, 429; reference to musical entertainments in Edinburgh, 432; to the dancing assembly, 483; concern in theatrical entertainments, 518; lends plays, 544; erects a theatre, 598; his _Gentle Shepherd_ acted, 624.
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; seizes Graham of Killearn, 420; is taken prisoner by the Duke of Montrose, but escapes, 421; forfeiture of his estate, 422; taken by Duke of Athole at Logierait, and escapes, 425; Rob’s bad excuse to General Wade, 500; his death, 624.
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; again in rebellion in 1719; his forfeited estates kept for his use by Donald Murchison, 459, 468; his ingratitude to Murchison, 471.
_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; its purity under suspicion, 291; tyranny of, 293; severity of judges of, 371; salaries of judges, 303.
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; his concern in originating a botanic garden, 81; his death, 619.
‘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; from criminals, 64; recruits kept in jails, 79; mutinies of recruits in Canongate Tolbooth, 182, 601.
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; from London to Glasgow, 613; from Edinburgh to London, 407.
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; his death, 382; Lt.-Gen. Sir James Steuart, his recollections of Duchess of Douglas at Paris, 507.
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; medical practice and literature of the time, 53; Tippermalloch’s pharmacopœia, 54; his dream about battles and ambassadors, 55.
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; slowness of, 222; means of, 406; coaches set up, 612; a difficult journey of Lord Lovat, 625.
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; pleads for exiled rebels, 523; his Highland roads, 526, 561; _fête_ at Dalnaspidal, 561.
WALKER, Helen, intercedes for her sister’s pardon, 602.
WALKER, Patrick, his account of the expulsion of the bishops in 1689, 5; his account of the Seven Dear Years, 196; denounces the dancing assemblies, 482.
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; concern in massacre of Glencoe, 60; his sentiments on Catholic worship, 204; death of, 256.
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; at Torryburn and Pittenweem, Fife, 298; at Inverness, 302.
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; on plague of bugs at, 542; excursion into Galloway, 380; deplores religious changes at Glasgow, 432, 486, 515; sad account of general condition of the country, 491; condemns theatricals, 519, 544, 550; describes profligacy of manners, 521.
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; leases Strontian mines, 475; its failure alluded to, 492; leases woods of Abernethy, 547.
YOUNG, George, troubles from enforcing Sunday observance, 271.
YOUNG, James, an ingenious mechanist and curiosity-monger, 99; House of Curiosities at Edinburgh, 100.
THE END.
Edinburgh: Printed by W. and R. Chambers.
The state of the Leg-of-Mutton-School of verse[242] in Scotland at the end of the seventeenth century, may be pretty fairly inferred from this specimen.]
Footnote 1:
A very animated review of these affairs will be found in Mr Burton’s excellent _History_.
Footnote 2:
_Collection of Papers_, &c. London, Richard Janeway, 1689.
Footnote 3:
_Account of the Pope’s Procession at Aberdene_, &c., reprinted in Laing’s _Fugitive Poetry of the Seventeenth Century_.
Footnote 4:
_Biographia. Presbyteriana_, i. 221.
Footnote 5:
Under this title, a pamphlet, detailing the _outing_ and _rabbling_ of the clergy, was published in London in 1690.
Footnote 6:
Stewart’s _Sketches of the Highlanders_, i. p. 99, note.
Footnote 7:
Wodrow’s _Analecta_, i. 338.
Footnote 8:
_Life and Diary of Lieutenant-colonel Blackader of the Cameronian Regiment._ By Andrew Crichton. Edin. 1824.
Footnote 9:
Privy Council Record, MS., Gen. Register House, Edinburgh.
Footnote 10:
Home of Crossrig’s _Diary_. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1843.
Footnote 11:
_Domestic Annals of Scotland_, ii. 408, 432.
Footnote 12:
_Acts of Scottish Parliament_, ix. 12.
Footnote 13:
On the 12th February 1690, the Privy Council had under their notice the case of a man named Samuel Smith, who had been imprisoned in the Edinburgh Tolbooth for three years on a charge of theft, without trial, and ordained him to be set at large, there being ‘no probation’ against him.
Footnote 14:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 15:
Privy Council Record, under February 22, 1698.
Footnote 16:
_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_ [by Drummond of Balhadics], p. 243.
Footnote 17:
_Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheil_, p. 254.
Footnote 18:
C. K. Sharpe in note to Law’s _Memorials_.
Footnote 19:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 20:
Justiciary Record.
Footnote 21:
Mrs Gibb seems to have been the person who managed the transmission or carrying between Edinburgh and Haddington.
Footnote 22:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 23:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 24:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 25:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 26:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 27:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 28:
Scots Acts, iii. 310.
Footnote 29:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 30:
Contemporary broadsides.
Footnote 31:
_Domestic Annals_, ii. 384.
Footnote 32:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 33:
Privy Council Record.
Footnote 34:
A picturesque glimpse of the Highland marauding of this period was obtained some years ago at second-hand from the memory of William Bane Macpherson, who died in 1777 at the age of a hundred. ‘He was wont to relate that, when a boy of twelve years of age, being engaged as _buachaille_ [herd-boy] at the _summering_ [i. e., summer grazing] of Biallid, near Dalwhinnie, he had an opportunity of being an eye-witness to a _creagh_ and pursuit on a very large scale, which passed through Badenoch. At noon on a fine autumnal day in 1689, his attention was drawn to a herd of black-cattle, amounting to about six score, driven along by a dozen of wild Lochaber men, by the banks of Loch Erroch, in the direction of Dalunchart in the forest of Alder, now Ardverikie. Upon inquiry, he ascertained that these had been “lifted” in Aberdeenshire, distant more than a hundred miles, and that the reivers had proceeded thus far with their booty free from molestation and pursuit. Thus they held on their way among the wild hills of this mountainous district, far from the haunts of the semi-civilised inhabitants, and within a day’s journey of their home. Only a few hours had elapsed after the departure of these marauders, when a body of nearly fifty horsemen appeared, toiling amidst the rocks and marshes of this barbarous region, where not even a footpath helped to mark the intercourse of society, and following on the trail of the men and cattle which had preceded them. The troop was well mounted and armed, and led by a person of gentlemanlike appearance and courteous manners; while, attached to the party, was a number of horses carrying bags of meal and other provisions, intended not solely for their own support, but, as would seem from the sequel, as a ransom for the _creagh_. Signalling William Bane to approach, the leader minutely questioned him about the movements of the Lochaber men, their number, equipments, and the line of their route. Along the precipitous banks of Loch Erroch this large body of horsemen wended their way, accompanied by William Bane, who was anxious to see the result of the meeting. It bespoke spirit and resolution in those strangers to seek an encounter with the robbers in their native wilds, and on the borders of that country, where a signal of alarm would have raised a numerous body of hardy Lochaber men, ready to defend the _creagh_, and punish the pursuers. Towards nightfall, they drew near the encampment of the thieves at Dalunchart, and observed them busily engaged in roasting, before a large fire, one of the beeves, newly slaughtered.
‘A council of war was immediately held, and, on the suggestion of the leader, a flag of truce was forwarded to the Lochaber men, with an offer to each of a bag of meal and a pair of shoes, in ransom for the herd of cattle. This offer, being viewed as a proof of cowardice and fear, was contemptuously rejected, and a reply sent, to the effect that the cattle, driven so far and with so much trouble, would not be surrendered. Having gathered in the herd, both parties prepared for action. The overwhelming number of the pursuers soon mastered their opponents. Successive discharges of firearms brought the greater number of the Lochaber men to the ground, and in a brief period only three remained unhurt, and escaped to tell the sad tale to their countrymen.’—_Inverness Courier_, August 17, 1847.
Footnote 35:
This post-boy appears to have been forty-four years old.
Footnote 36: