PAGE THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN 1 BRITAIN AS A ROMAN PROVINCE 12 THE ANGLO-SAXONS IN BRITAIN 18 THE RISE OF THE SCOTTISH NATION 26 THE DANISH INVASIONS OF BRITAIN 38 THE LAST TWO SAXON KINGS OF ENGLAND 48 HOW SCOTLAND BECAME A FREE NATION 63 SCOTLAND IN THE TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER 73 BANNOCKBURN THE OLDER SCOTTISH LITERATURE 80 THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 85 THE RIVAL QUEENS, MARY AND ELIZABETH 102 OLD EDINBURGH 111 OFFENCES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT IN THE 134 SIXTEENTH CENTURY OLD ABERDEEN 152 WITCHCRAFT IN SCOTLAND 160 HOLY-WELLS IN SCOTLAND 166 SCOTTISH MARRIAGE CUSTOMS 172 SCOTLAND UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST 178 SCOTLAND UNDER CROMWELL 199 SCOTLAND UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND 211 SCOTLAND UNDER JAMES THE SECOND 236 THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 252 THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE 264 THE UNION OF SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND 270 THE JACOBITE RISINGS OF 1715 279 THE REBELLION OF 1745 289 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BYGONE SCOTLAND. -->-•♦•-<-- The Roman Conquest of Britain. We cannot tell—it is highly improbable that we ever shall know—from whence came the original inhabitants of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Men living on the sea-coasts of the great quadrant of continental land which fronts these islands, would, when the art of navigation got beyond the raft and canoe, venture to cross the narrow seas, and form insular settlements. It is indeed possible that, before that subsidence of the land of Western Europe which separated our islands from the mainland and from each other, was effected by the slow but ever-acting forces of geology, men were living on the banks of ancient rivers which are now represented by the Clyde, the Thames, and the Shannon.