Fletcher of SaltounOmond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
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Fletcher of Saltoun
Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716
_Characters of the Nobility of Scotland_, Mackay’s, 152.
Chevalier de St. George, 142.
Clerk, Sir John, of Pennycuik, 35.
---- ---- ---- son of the foregoing, 95, 151, 152.
Club, The, 40, 41.
Cockburn, Adam, of Ormiston, 13, 40, 60, 114.
---- John, younger of Ormiston, 66, 67.
Coltness Collection, story of Fletcher in, 21, 22.
Company of Scotland, Trading, 47, 48.
Cromartie, Earl of, 86 _et seq._
Cunningham, Alexander (the Historian), 137.
Dalmahoy, Sir John, 34.
Dalrymple, Sir James (Viscount Stair), 17, 18, 23, 33.
---- Sir John (First Earl of Stair), 47.
---- ---- (the Historian), 17, 24, 47.
Dare of Taunton, at Amsterdam with Monmouth, 24;
lands in England, 26;
killed by Fletcher, 29.
---- (the younger), 30.
Darien, 48, 49, 54.
Defoe, Daniel, 28.
_Discorso di Spagna_, 49, 59, 60.
_Discourses on the Affairs of Scotland_, 49, 53 _et seq._
Douglas, James, second Marquis of, 34.
---- Archibald, Marquis of, 63.
Doyle, Mr. Conan, 24.
Dumbarton, George, Earl of, 36.
Dundas of Arniston, 95.
Dunkirk, expedition from in 1708, 142.
Edinburgh University, 12.
---- _Review_, article in, 117.
Edmonstone of Newton, 142.
Errol, Lord, 61, 64.
Erskine, Sir James, 98.
Essex, his connection with the Whig Plot, 20.
Eugene, Prince of Savoy, 13.
Ferguson the Plotter, 24, 26, 27, 39.
Fletcher, Andrew, birth and early days of, 9;
educated by Burnet, 10 _et seq._, 150;
goes on the Grand Tour, 12;
is in Parliament as member for Haddingtonshire, 13;
opposes Lauderdale, 14, and accused before the Privy Council of
obstructing the King’s service, 15, 16, 18;
his return for Haddingtonshire contested in 1681, 16;
opposes the Duke of York, 17;
goes abroad, 19;
his connection with the Whig Plot, 20 _et seq._, 23, 34;
anecdote of him told by Mrs. Calderwood, 22;
is outlawed, 23;
joins Monmouth at Amsterdam and sails to England, 23-27;
shoots Dare, 29;
Lord Buchan’s erroneous account of his reasons for leaving
England, 31 _et seq._;
is tried for high treason and attainted, 33 _et seq._;
the estate of Saltoun given to the Earl of Dumbarton, 36;
adventures in Spain, 37;
serves in Hungary, 38;
returns to Scotland at the Revolution, 39;
joins the Club, 40;
complains of the delay in restoring Saltoun, 45;
writes to Hamilton, 46;
his connection with Darien, 47, 48;
his political writings, 49 _et seq._;
plans for a national militia, 49-53;
his account of the poverty of Scotland, 55;
his opinions on slavery, 56, 57;
on high rents, 58, 59;
on the Partition Treaty, 60;
returned to Parliament in 1703, 60;
speech on the Supplies, 68;
proposes Limitations on the Crown, 69 _et seq._, 80, 81;
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