PAGE REIGN OF WILLIAM AND MARY: 1689–1694, 1 REIGN OF WILLIAM III.: 1695–1702, 107 REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE: 1702–1714, 257 REIGN OF GEORGE I.: 1714–1727, 389 REIGN OF GEORGE II.: 1727–1748, 535 APPENDIX, 619 INDEX, 627 =Illustrations.= _Frontispiece_—CANONGATE TOLBOOTH, EDINBURGH. _Vignette_—BARGARRAN HOUSE. PAGE THE BASS, 106 AFRICAN COMPANY’S HOUSE AT BRISTO PORT, EDINBURGH, 123 PORTRAIT OF DR PITCAIRN, 224 MACPHERSON’S SWORD, 234 HOUSE OF LORD ADVOCATE STEUART, 256 DRESSES OF THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND, 1676, 270 BARGARRAN COAT OF ARMS, 511 LADY PLAYING ON SPINET, 574 OLD TOLBOOTH, EDINBURGH, 638 DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. REIGN OF WILLIAM AND MARY: 1689–1694. Our narrative takes up the political story of Scotland at the crisis of the Revolution, when, King James having fled in terror to France, his nephew and daughter, the Prince and Princess of Orange, were proclaimed king and queen as William and Mary, and when the Episcopacy established at the Restoration, after a struggling and unhonoured existence of twenty-eight years, gave way to the present more popular Presbyterian Church. It has been seen how the populace of the west rabbled out the alien clergy established among them; how, notwithstanding the gallant insurrection of my Lord Dundee in the Highlands, and the holding out of Edinburgh Castle by the Duke of Gordon, the new government quickly gained an ascendency. It was a great change for Scotland. Men who had lately been in danger of their lives for conscience’ sake, or starving in foreign lands, were now at the head of affairs—the Earl of Melville, Secretary of State; Crawford, President of Parliament; Argyle restored to title and lands, and a privy-councillor; Dalrymple of Stair, Hume of Marchmont, Steuart of Goodtrees, and many other exiles, come back from Holland to resume prominent positions in the public service at home—while the instruments of the late unhappy government were either captives under suspicion, or living terror-struck at their country-houses. Common sort of people, who had last year been skulking in mosses from Claverhouse’s dragoons, were now marshalled in a regiment, and planted as a watch on the Perth and Forfar gentry. There