ABERCORN, Master of, marries Lady
Jean Gordon, page 13. Aberdeen, town of, prepares to resist the Covenanters, 76, 82; is fined 40,000 merks for standing out against the Covenant, 103; oppressed by the covenanting army, 105, 117, 118, 119; fined in 6000 merks, 132; in 600 merks, 158; assessed in 7000 merks yearly, to pay the ministers' stipends, 276; sends 130 soldiers to the army, 381; fortified, 383; the Provost and Magistrates taken by Haddo, &c. carried to Strathboggie and Auchindown, 388; gives 20,000 pounds to prevent being plundered, 422; taken by Montrose, and plun- dered by the Irish soldiers, 447; list of killed in this battle, 449. Aboyne, Viscount of, with five others, burnt in the house of Frendraught, 6; forfeited and declared a traitor, 345. Aboyne, Lord, raises forces against the Covenanters, 106; disbands them and goes to the King, 110; returns to Aberdeen, 123; made lieutenant of the north during his father's captivi- ty, 126; raises forces, 127; plunders Hallforest and Fintray, ib.; marches against Earl Marischal, but is beat back, 128; fortifies the bridge of Dee, which is taken by the Covenanters, 129; goes to Berwick, 132. Airly, Earl of, his houses plundered, 179. Angus, Earl of, marries Lady Mary Gordon, 12.
Apparitions seen, 323.
Argyle, Marquis of, comes to Dunnottar, 402; his proclamation as General of the Army, 411; comes to Turriff,
414; to Cullen, 415; to Elgin, 416; leaves Aberdeen, 421; comes north with an army against Montrose, 451; marches to Strathboggie, and plun- ders it, 454; comes to Bog of Gight, 456; his progress, 457; follows Montrose, 462; defeated at Inver- lochy, 471.
Auldearn, battle of, 484.
Banbury, battle of, 306.
Band between the Scots and English, 37. Banders, their meeting, 282; ordered to leave Edinburgh, 294; meet at Peebles, 358.
Banff, laird of, his house and lands plun- dered, 194, 197; created Lord Banff, 305.
Banff, town of, plundered, 397. Bishops deposed by the General Assem- bly, 69.
Bishop's Palace in Old Aberdeen plun- dered, 117. Blind Band, 379.
Bon-Accord, articles of, 169. Brownists come to Aberdeen, 303; cen- sured, 308, 317, 320, 322, 345.
Cant, Mr. Andrew, Minister at Pitsligo, translated to Newbottle, 82; and to Aberdeen, 192; his innovations in religion, 290, 320; his son accused, 348.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, Scotch Com-
missioners' charge against him, 215, Carnwath, Earl of, accused, 335; goes to the King, ib.
Charles I. comes to Edinburgh, 14; his Coronation, 15; holds a Parliament, 17; thirty-five of his domestics
drowned, 19; leaves Edinburgh and goes to England, 20; his letters to the Magistrates, &c. of Aberdeen, 54; sends down articles for reforma- tion, 57; sends a fleet to the Frith of Forth, 109; raises an army and comes to Berwick, 123; pacification between him and the Covenanters' army, 136; disbands his army, ib.; goes to arms again, 197; comes to York, 205; to Edinburgh, 246; his speech to the . Scottish Parliament, ib. ; leaves Edin- burgh, 259; shut out of Hull, 274; his character, 277; his letter to the Council of Scotland, 283; goes to York, 288; puts a garrison into New- castle, 291; besieges Hull, but raises the siege, 296; sets up his standard at Nottingham, 300; employs papists in his army, 311; his letter to the Marquis of Huntly, 332; to the Council of Scotland, 349.
Committee at Aberdeen send out a party to plunder Tibbertie, &c. 382; beat back, ib.
Convention at Edinburgh send commis-
sioners to the King, 319; his an- swer, 330; raise an army to go to England, 346.
Covenant signed at Aberdeen, 51. Covenanters, first so called, 48; their
commissioners come to Aberdeen, 50; hold a committee at Turriff, 80; their army comes to Aberdeen, 91; their grounds of umbrage against the King, 290; flee from Aberdeen, 385; and from the county, 395; raise an army against the Marquis of Huntly, 399; come to Aberdeen, 405; take the house of Kelly, 408; rendezvous at Turriff, 414; at Aber- deen, 442.
Crawford, Earl of, imprisoned and for- feited, 464.
Christmas, or Yool-day, prohibited to be Crighton, brother to Frendraught, killed,
Clanchattah rise in arms, and plunder
the country, 2; intercommuned, and such as harboured them punished, 4. Clangregor, proceedings against them,
Dearth of victuals, 318, 331.
Douglas, William, Minister of Forgue, chosen Professor in Dr. Forbes' place, 353.
Commissioners sent to the English Par- Drum, house of, taken, 173; plunder-
Committee of Estates, resolve to make
the Marquis of Huntly, &c. sub- scribe the Covenant, 75.
Common Prayer Book, the reading of it in Edinburgh disturbed by a mob, 42; in Brechin, and the Bishop forced to flee, 44; proclamation for using it, 46; protested against, 47; des- troyed in the Channery Kirk of Ross, and the Bishop flees, ib.; pro- hibited by his Majesty's proclamation,
58, 61. Communion, the Presbyterian method of
observing it, 302, 350. Confession of Faith and Band of Main- tenance ratified by the King, and or- dained to be signed, 58; protested
ed by the Irish soldiers, 406; laird of, apprehended in Caithness, 425. Drummond, Lord, married to Lady Ann Gordon, 148.
Dumbarton, Castle of, taken by the Co-
venanters, 201. Dunglass, Castle of, blown up, with 80 persons in it, 202. Durris plundered, 394.
Edinburgh Castle, attacked by the citi- zens, 160, 185; surrendered, 204. Elgin, Cathedral of, its ornaments de- faced, 223.
Elders chosen, their duty, 438. English Commissioners, their supplica- tion to the General Assembly, 389.
against at the cross of Aberdeen, 63. Family Prayer enjoined, 310.
Fast-days kept, 304, 321, 327, 334, 353, 365, 367, 384; causes of, 427, 454. Fetternear, house of, taken and destroy. ed, 174.
Fish, great scarcity of, 289.
Flesh prohibited to be brought to market, 272.
Forbes, William, translated from Aber- deen, and made Bishop of Edin- burgh, 22.
Forbes, Dr., of Corse, deposed, 229; persists in refusing to subscribe the Covenant, 290, conference between him and some presbyterian ministers, 309; goes to Holland, 379. Frendraught, house of, burnt, 6; laird of, kills Gordon of Rothiemay, 5; his grounds plundered by the Gor- dons, 23; created Lord Crichton, 305; marries Drum's daughter, 311. Galloway, Bishop of, fines Gordon
for indecent behaviour, 41. General Assembly sits at Glasgow, 65; at St. Andrew's, 297; at Edinburgh, 338; its proceedings, 339, &c. Gight, laird of, quarrels with his mother,
and assaults the house, 299; his house plundered, 417.
Gilderoy, seven of his followers hanged,
Glasgow, Lindsay, Archbishop of, flees
Gordon, John, of Haddo, accused of plundering Lord Fraser and Forbes of Leslie's grounds, and fined 13,500 merks, 235.
Gordon, Sir George, of Haddo, accused
Gordon of Duncantie and his son mur- dered by the Highlanders, 21. Gordon of Tilliefroskie imprisoned for Brownism, 345.
Gregory, John, Minister of Drumoak, fined 1000 merks for not subscribing the Covenant, 173.
Guild, Dr. William, chosen Principal of King's College in room of the deposed
Dr. Lesly, 196; causes the walls of the Snow Kirk to be pulled down, 209; demolishes the Bishop's palace, 289, 302, 304, 364, 440, 465. Haddington, Earl of, marries Lady Jean
Gordon, 151; blown up in the Cas tle of Dunglass, 202. Hamilton, Marquis of, created a Duke, 358.
Huntly, Marquis of, accused by Frend-
draught of sending the Gordons to plunder his grounds, 25; is obliged to go to Edinburgh, and is imprison- ed, 35; released, 37; dies in 1636, 38.
, George Marquis of, comes from France to Scotland, 39; his lady dies, 50; raises forces to disperse the Covenanters' committee at Tur- riff, 79; receives arms from the King, 84; his proclamation as lieutenant, 85; disbands his army, 88; is had to Edinburgh by the Covenanters, 102; imprisoned in the Castle, 106; his reply to certain noblemen, 108; set at liberty, 135; his lands of Strath- boggie plundered, 194.
--, Dowager Lady, obliged to leave Scotland on account of her religion, and go to France, 240; dies in France, 302.
of the murder of James Stalker, 290; goes to the King, 294; hurts Baillie Jaffray and his brother, 336; is fined 20,000 merks, 343; protests against the Covenant, 356; intercommuned, 361; assigns his property to Gilbert Gordon, ib.; order issued for appre- Kemnay, house of, plundered, 397. hending him, 363; his house of Kelly attacked by the Covenanters, 367; excommunicated, 398; taken prisoner, 409; sent to Edinburgh, 412; tried, 432; executed, 433, 434.
Irvine, Alexander, of Kingcausie, shot by William Forbes, 439.
League and Covenant sworn in England,
353; in Old Aberdeen, 355. Leith, George, killed by his father-in- law, 337.
Lesly, Felt Marshall, comes from Ger- many, 74; commands the Covenan- ters' army, 90; marches to Dunse, 197; passes Newburn Ford and takes Newcastle, 201; created Earl of Leven, 258. Lesly, General, gets the command of the
Scotch army, 347; marches into England, 362.
Letter from the Governor and Gentry of Newcastle to the Commissioners of the Scotch army, 369; from the English Peers to the same, 372.
Marischal College, east quarter of it burnt, 145.
Marischal, Earl of, causes Aberdeen sub-
scribe the Covenant, 156; holds a committee at Aberdeen, 350. Mayor of London imprisoned and de-
posed for publishing the King's pro- clamation, 291. Meldrum, John, tried for the fire at
Frendraught, and executed, 20. Menzies, Sir Gilbert, of Pitfoddels, shoots Forbes of Lesly in the leg, 310; goes to France, 364. Mitchell, Thomas, Parson of Turriff, ac- cused of fornication, 275; acquitted, 288, 308.
Monster seen in Don, 33.
Monster, an Italian one, comes to Aber- deen, 272.
Montrose, Marquis of, comes to Aber- Ideen as Commissioner for the Cove- nanters, 50; comes to Aberdeen as General of the Covenanters, 117; joins Earl Marischal, 129; quarrels with Argyle, 236; confined in Edin- burgh Castle, 240; writes to the King, 256; is set at liberty, 259; rides to the King, but prohibited from his presence, 279; is made Lieu- tenant-General of Scotland, 430; lands forces in Ardnamurchan, under M'Donald, ib.; embarks them, and lands in Skye, 431; joins M'Donald in Athol, 443; defeats the Covenan- ters at Tibbermuir, 444; takes and
plunders St. Johnston (Perth), ib.; marches through the Mearns, and passes Dee, 445; defeats the Cove- nanters at Aberdeen, 447; marches north, plundering the country, 448; comes to Speyside, and encamps at the wood of Abernethy, 455; marches through Athol into Angus, 457; and through Mearns to Strathboggie, 459; his progress, ib.; plunders the county of Argyle, and marches north again through Badenoch, 470; de- feats Argyle at Inverlochy, 471; plunders the Covenanters in Moray, 473; plunders Cullen and Banff, 477; comes to Durris, 481; burns the town of Stoneliaven, 482; marches through Angus, and assaults the town of Dundee, 485; railed at from the pulpit, 486; defeats the Cove- nanters at Auldearn, 492; plunders their houses and lands in Moray, 493.
Nithsdale, Earl of, forfeited and declar- ed a traitor, 345.
Oldtown Church visited, 291; ornaments of the high altar pulled down, 292,
Orange, Prince of, married to Princess Mary, 231.
Ordinance for raising men and money for the service of Ireland, 341; for putting Scotland in a posture of de- fence, 344, 378; for raising men, 359; for an excise, 374.
Papists excommunicated, 294, 351, 357, persecuted and banished, 327; their rents seized to make up the Covenan- ters' losses, 465. Parliament of England, their demands to his Majesty, 294, 315; establish a Committee of War, and raise forces, 299; petition the King for peace, 324. Peaceable Warning published, 321. Petition of the Noblemen, &c. to the Privy Council, 285. Pirates infest the Coast, 331.
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