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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