Bygone Scotland: Historical and SocialMaxwell, David
History
Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social
Maxwell, David
Scotland -- History
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
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