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
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