The Tory Lockhart, also, in a passage which is too long for full quotation, draws the character of Fletcher. He tells us how the Laird of Saltoun was master of the Latin, Greek, French, and Italian languages, and well versed in history and the civil law; a nice observer of all points of honour; free from all manner of vice; impatient under opposition, but affable in private conversation. ‘To sum up all,’ says Lockhart, ‘he was a learned, gallant, honest, and every other way well accomplished gentleman; and if ever a man proposes to serve and merit well of his country, let him place his courage, zeal, and constancy before him, and think himself sufficiently applauded and rewarded by obtaining the character of being like Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.’ INDEX _Account of a Conversation_, 86-95, 150. Act of Security, introduced in 1703, 71, 72; debates on, 72-76; passed, 77; its chief provisions, 77, 78; royal assent refused to, 78; circulated in London, 84; in 1704, proposal to tack it to a Money Bill, 97, 98; royal assent given to, 99; English opinion on, 102. Addison, Joseph, 150. Alien Act, passed, 107; effects on Scotland, 110; resolution against, in Scottish Parliament, 127; hostile clauses of, repealed, 129. Amsterdam, Fletcher joins Monmouth at, 23; Monmouth sails from, 26. Annandale, Earl of, 40, 62, 108. Argyll, Archibald, Earl of, writes to Fletcher, 20; with Monmouth at Amsterdam, 24; invades Scotland, 26; his execution, 109. ---- John, second Duke of, at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in May 1703, 63; appointed High Commissioner, 108; arranges for the dismissal of the New Party, 111; breaks with Annandale, 112, 113; threatens to resign, 113; forms a Ministry, 114; holds a Council, 116; supports the Act for a Treaty of Union, 116 _et seq._; his refusal to act with the Jacobites in 1703, 67. Ayloffe, 24, 26. Baillie of Jerviswoode, 20, 21. ---- ---- (his son), 106, 114, 122. Ballads, Fletcher’s saying as to, 95. Belgium, Fletcher in, 21. Belhaven, Lord, 95, 123, 135, 136, 143, 144. Bilboa, 26. Blenheim, battle of, 101. Bridport, 28, 31. Bristol, 37. British Linen Company, 145. Brougham, Lord, 136. Bruce, Sir Henry, of Clackmannan, 9. ---- Captain, 33, 35. Brussels, Argyll at, 20; Andrew Fletcher at, 23. Boyer, 119. Boyle, Lord, 79. Buchan, David, Earl of, 12, 13, 20, 38, 40. Burke, Edmund, 136. Burnet, Bishop, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 39, 105, 150. Buyse, Anthony, 24, 29, 33, 35, 36. Calderwood, Mrs., of Polton, her anecdote of Fletcher, 21, 22. Cameron of Lochiel, 142. Carnegie, Margaret, 144 _et seq._ ---- Sir David, of Pittarrow, 144. Chamberlen, Hugh, 110, 121 _et seq._