Forest, meaning of term in Middle Ages, 8
Forester, the town, 86 Freemen of the burghs, their privileges, 142; their responsi- bilities, 143, 144 Fruits, 32
GALLOWAY, description of, 22 woods in, II
Games, outdoor, 166 Gardens, gentlemen's, 32
in Lothian, 19
Garlies, wood of, 11
Gates of the towns, 88, 89
Gaunt, John of, his invasion of Scotland, 8, 9
Glasgow, 44, 45, 53, 54
population of, 52
Glencairn, Earl of, 75
Glenmoriston, woods of, 12
Gowrie, Carse of, its ancient of, its ancient fertility, 26
Guilds, craft, their suppression in England, 191, their importance in the time of Mary, 192,
193 Guilds, merchant, their privileges, 145, 146
HADDINGTON, description of, 20 53, 54 Hamilton, description of its neigh- bourhood, 24, 44
Hardyng, John, English chronicler, 21; his description of Nithsdale,
his description of Ayrshire, 23, and of Clydesdale, 24 Harrison, William, his Description of England, quoted, 36 Hay, absence of in Scotland, 31 Hemp, 31, 32
Hertford, Earl of, his invasion of Scotland, 18
Lochs, disappearance of since time of Mary, 12
Logan of Restalrig, 131
Lothian, plantations in, II
the shire where fences were first introduced, 16
fertility of, 18, 19
Lyndsay, Sir David, quoted, 79
MACINTOSH, of Borlum, William, his book on planting and en- closing, 15, 16
Maitland of Lethington, William, 183
Major, John, his description of Scotland, 6
his explanation of the absence of enclosures, 14
his proposals for improving the condition of the poor, 198,
199 Manufactures of Scotland, 136, 137 Manures, 88
Maree, Loch, woods round, 12 Mary of Lorraine, her impressions of Fife, 25
Mary, Queen of Scots, prohibits the Robin Hood games, 165,
her reign a period of gradual transition as well as of revolution, 177, 178
Mearns, The, its fertility, 27 Melrose, lands of the Abbey of, 18 Merchants, conditions under which they engaged in foreign trade, 132, 133
their antagonism to the crafts- men, 144, 155-158 Merse, crops grown in, 18 Middens, 90, 91
Middle Ages, economical system of, 188, 189
Mills, let to the highest bidders, 118, 119 Montrose, 53, 54
Moray, its high cultivation and fertility, 27
Moryson, Fynes, says that trees were rare in Fife, 9
his description of Hadding-
his description of a meal at a knight's house, 173 Moss, the town, 86 Mountains, cultivation of in Scot- land, 13 Mull, 30
NESS, Loch, woods round, 12 Netherhole, where prisoners were confined, 111
Nithsdale, description of, 21, 22 Nobles, Scottish, change in their habits of life, 76
retained their power longer than those of other countries, 179; why the Crown failed to check them, 180, 181; their power declined during the reign of Mary, Ib.; religious and economical reasons for this, 181-184; deprived of their power by James VI., 184
those of England, France and Germany, 36, 37
Perth (or St Johnston), description of, 27
claims precedence of Dun-
dee, 157 Pig-sties, 91 Pinkie, battle of, 54 Pirates, 70-72
Pitscottie, Lindsay of, his descrip- tion of a royal hunting, 21 Plaids, 170; worn by women as a covering for the head, 171, 172 Playing-fields, attached to the towns, 164
Pont, Timothy, his maps of Scot- land, 5
Poor, legislation regarding the, 199, et seq.
Population of Scotland, 52; of England, Ib.; of Scottish towns, lb. Portmoak in Kinross-shire, 59 Prices, fixing of, at first the privilege of the municipalities, 158; assumed by Parliament and Privy Council, lb.; the great eco- nomical question of Mary's reign, 159-161
fixing of, 190, 191 Prisoners, method of warding, 107
RABBIT-WARRENS, 80, 86
Ray, John, the naturalist, his description of Clydesdale, 24 Reformation, its influence on the Scottish people, 205-209 Richardson, John, saddler in Edin- burgh, 101
Robin Hood and Little John, festival of, 165, 166 Rue St Jacques, Paris, 48
SAINTS' DAYS, abolished at the Reformation, 162
Salt, manufacture of, in Scotland, 8
Salt, export of, 137-139 Sandilands, Sir James, 75 Scot of Scotstarvet, Sir John, 6 Scott, Sir Walter, his remarks on David I.'s planting religious houses on the Borders, 17 Session, Court of, 46 Service, military, exacted of burg- hers, 113-115
Sheep, multitude of, in Tweeddale,
Stewart, Lord James, afterwards Regent Moray, 75
St Andrews, 44, 51, 54 St Boswells, 104
St Giles's Church, Edinburgh, disturbance in, 99
poor-tax collected in, 201
St Kilda, 30, 31 Stirling, 53, 54 Stirlingshire, its fertility, 24 Streets, dangers of the, 100 "Summonds, Beggars'," 187, 197 Swine in the towns, 91, 92 Sylvius, Æneas, his travels in Scot- land, 7
says that in reign of James I. there was little wood be- tween Berwick and Edinburgh, 9
TARIFFS, not levied on imported goods till 1597, 129
Taverns, 65, 66, 161, 162 Taxation of the burghs, 54, 55
Teinds, 81-83
Tenant-farmers, 77, 78 Tennis (catchpully), 166 Teviotdale, its fertility, 18
Timber, its export from the High- lands, 28
Tolbooths, 97, 106-108
Tor Wood, its extent and remains
in time of Mary, 11, 12
VENNELS, 108, 109
Villages, description of, 33-35; English, as they appeared to Spaniards, 35, 36
WEAVERS, Flemish, introduced into Scotland, 194
Towns, Scottish, described, 38; Wedel, Lupold von, a Pomeranian
noble, visited Scotland in reign of James VI., 33 Weigh-houses, 105
Weldon, Sir Anthony, says there was not a tree in Scotland, 10 Windows, 41, 43
Woods, laws ordaining the planting of, 9, 10
Wool of the Galloway sheep, 22 Wrights, 193
YARDS or gardens in the towns,
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