ABBEY laird, 199.
Academy, Edinburgh, 379.
Academy, Trustees', 480.
Academy, Scottish, 490.
Accession, deed of, 178.
Act of 1701, 310.
Act of grace, 162.
Actions,modeofraising civil, 113
Acts of the Scottish Parlia-
ment, 148.
Adjudications, 171.
Advocates, Aberdeen, 137.
Advocates, Faculty of, 141.
Advocates' Library, 485.
Advocation, meaning
powers of bills of, 106, 112.
Agent to the kirk, 630.
Aliment of debtors in jail, 163.
Aliment to bankrupts, 185.
Alsatia, sanctuary of, 191.
Altar of Mercy at Athens, 188.
Altar in St Giles belonging to
the shoemakers, 68-note.
Andersonian Institution, 491.
Anecdote of the murder of a
dancing master at Perth, 322.
Annates of the clergy, 447.
Annuity money in Edinburgh,
448.
Antiburghers, 404.
Antiquarian Society, 482.
Appeals from inferior tribunals,
113 to house of lords, 115.
Appeals from deliverances of
presbyteries, 431.
Arches, Court of in England,
125.
Arms, prices of coats of in
Scotland, 92.
Arrestment of moveables in the
hands of third parties, 166.
Articles of Union-Appendix.
Arts, School of, 491.
Arts, Society of for Scotland,
493.
Assessors of magistrates, 71.
Associate presbytery, 402.
Assythment, or action of trover,
308.
Astronomical Institution of
Edinburgh, 95.
Asyla, Roman, 188.
Attorney tax, 136,-licences,
137.
Attorney General of Scotland, 7.
Auctioning heritable property,
Scottish and English usages
in, 268.
Banks directors in, 336, partners | Burdinseck, curious old law of,
337, shares and shareholders,
338, laws regulating the,
348.
Bank of Scotland, 332.
Bankruptcy, processes of, 175,
178, 180.
Bannatyne Club, 484.
Banns of marriage-how pro-
claimed, 215.
Bargains, symbolic usages in
making, 267-note.
Barons of Exchequer, 131.
Begbie, murder of, 334.
Bereans, 411.
Bill or promissory note, differ-
ence of process in raising di-
ligence in Scotland and Eng-|
land, 159.
Bill Chamber, 111-note.
Bills on London, 351-note.
Bills, Lord ordinary upon the,
110.
Bishops' courts in England, 125.
Bishops, Scottish, 34.
Bishops after revolution, 453.
Bishops' rents, instituted, 439.
Black cap of Judgment,
319-note.
Blood wits, 70.
Board of local police, 85.
Book of common prayer used
by the Scottish reformers,
Burghs, royal, 63, their gene-
ral appearance, 64, when,
and for what purpose erect-
ed, 65, magistrates of, 69,
town council, ib. condition
of, and abuses in their re-
venues, 73, their taxations,
74, convention of, 76, reform
of, 75, 90.
Burghs of regality and barony,
80.
Burghs recently instituted, 81.
Burgesses, 65.
Burgess ticket, price of, in
Edinburgh, 65.
Burgess oath, 404.
Burghers, 404.
Burial of a pauper, cost and
mode of, 240-note.
Burial places, right to, 452.
Bursaries, 388.
Caledonian horticultural
ciety, 496.
Call to ministers, 417.
Calton, Burgh of, now extinct,
83.
Cameronians, 399.
Campvere, Conservator of Scot-
tish privileges at, 77.
Canongate, Burgh of, 82.
Capias, character of the En-
glish, 151.
Bread, price of, fixed by an as- Capital, want of, in Scotland,
Brieves of Chancery, 260.
British linen company's bank,
333.
Broughton, Burgh of, now ex-
tinct, 83.
Brodie's execution by a new
drop, 328.
Bruce infringes upon the pri
vilege of sanctuary, 194.
Cash accounts, 343, number of,
346.
Cessi corpus, writ of, 205.
Cessio Bonorum, process of, to
absolve from debts, 175,
abuses of the, 177.
Chalking doors as warning to
remove, 306.
Chamberlain Aires, 6.
Charles I. alters the teinding | Colliers, serfs until recent
Chancellors of universities,
Chancery, Scottish, 259-note.
Chapels of Ease, 420.
Chaude melle, 193.
Chislie of Dalry, 71.
Christmas boxes not given to
bankers' clerks in Scotland,
352-note.
Church yards, watching of, 85.
Civil liberty in Scotland, 43.
Clergy, character of the Scot-
tish, 418, residence of, en-
forced, 419.
Clergy in cities, 447.
Clerks of Session, 116.
Clerk of the Scottish Parlia-
ment, 5.
Colleges in Scotland, 384.
Colleges, no representation in
parliament, 34.
College of Justice, origin of,
107. senators of, 108. im-
proper privileges of, 78.
members of, 75.
Collegiate churches, 419.
Collistriguum, or old Scottish
pillory, 328.
Commissary courts, origin of,
126. head-court at Edin-
burgh, 127. provincial com-
missariots, 128.
Commissioner to the Scottish
parliament, 8.
Commissioners of supply, 61.
Commissioners of burghs in
Scottish parliament, 10.
Commissioner to General As-
sembly, 427.
Confession of Faith, signing,
368.
Consistorial courts, origin of,
126.
Constables, 94. body of high, in
Edinburgh, 95. origin of the
office and phrase, 95-note,
once the only civic authority
in Edinburgh, 96-note.
Constitutional Associate Synod,
Convenery of Deacons, 68.
Convention, puritanic, instance
of its injustice, 18.
Coroner, no in Scotland, 57.
Counsel allowed free of cost to
criminals, 312.
Courts of jurisprudence, 97.
Courts, English, 99, 100.
Court, small debt of magis.
trates, 71, 100.
Court, small debt of justices,
101.
Court, small debt of sheriffs,
104.
Courts of record, 105.
Court of Deans of Guild, 105.
Court of record of sheriffs, 106.
Court of Session, 107.
Court, Jury, 115, 118.
Court, Teind, 121.
Court, Commissary, 127.
Court, Exchequer, 131.
Court, Justiciary, 122.
Court, Police, 88.
Court, Magistrates criminal,
71.
Court, Sheriffs' criminal, 122.
Covenant, 397.
Commission of General As- Covenanters, 399.
Dress of the clergy, 434.
Criminal law, peculiarities in Drinking cup, privileges con-
Criminal letters, 311.
Criminal trial, routine of a,
313.
Cromwell introduces toleration,
398.
Curriculum of study, 390.
Curates, Scottish, 398.
Cutty stool, 422.
Deacon Convener, 68.
Deacons in the church, 414.
Deans of Guild, duties of, 65.
their courts, 105.
Death warrant, 320.
Debtors, imprisonment of, in
Scotland, 162.
Debts, how made good in Scot-
land, 156.
Debts, difficult of recovering in
England, 155.
Declarator of the expiry of the
legal, meaning of the process
of, 171.
Declarations of prisoners, 308.
Deemsters, 318-note.
Deforcement of officers, 94.
Degrees given by colleges, 287.
.Delegates, court of, in Eng-
land, 125.
Deodands, 307.
Deserting the diet, 314.
Dilaiting to the privy counsel,
306-note.
Diligence, meaning of the
phrase, 111-note.
Discipline, books of, 395.
Dissenting clergy, not eligible
as parish ministers, 417.
Divinity students, number of,
Divorce, pleas for, 216.
Divorces, easily effected in
Scotland, 217.
Dollar academy, 384.
ferred by a, at York, 191.
Drop or falling table, when
Fast days, 433.
Fee fund, 116, 136.
Fiars, 445.
Fiere facias, a writ used to
seize moveables in England,
153.
Fine arts, institution for pro-
moting, 489.
Flittings in Scotland, 204.
Flowers laid before dignitaries
in church 134-note.
Forthcoming, action of, 167.
Freeholders, qualifications of,
15. when rolls of are made
up, 36.
Freemen or burgesses, 65.
Fuge warrants, or summary
writs, 161.
Game laws in Scotland, 207.
Gaming, laws against private,
Gazette, the Edinburgh, 180
General Assembly, its power,
12. alarm of, at the Union,
General Assembly, court of,
425.
General Associate Synod, 406.
Gipsies, Scottish, 245.
| Girth-gaits, 192.
Girth Cross, 198.
Glassites, 400.
Glebes, 447.
Good Friday kept by college of
Edinburgh, 434.
Government of Scotland, an-
cient, 2. changes in, at the
Union, 24. modifications of,
since, 26.
Gowns and bands, 434.
Grand Lodge of Scotland, 499.
Grassums, 276.
Great Seal, its uses, 4.
Greek literature in Scotland,
Gretna-green mariages, 214.
Guildry in royal burghs, 65.
Guinea notes, 342.
Habeas Corpus, no laws of,
in Scotland, 310.
Habit and repute, 304.
Half-merk marriages, 215.
Hangmen, 318-note.
Harmonious call, a, 417.
Heiring heritable and moveable
property, 263.
Heritable jurisdictions abolish-
ed, 29, 30.
Highland Society o Scotland,
474.
| Highland Club, 497.
High Flyers, 432.
High School of Edinburgh, 376.
High Sheriff, 52.
Hirels or erles, 203.
Holidays in Scotland, 434.
Holland, Scottish trade with,
77.
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