Belhaven, Douglas, a blind and aged lord, his design to stab
lord Dumfries in a convention of estates, iii. 91.

Hamilton, lord, imprisoned for his opposition to the
test in parliament, iv. 117. His speech against the union,
348. Arrested and sent to London, 375. His death, ib.
Bellarmine, cardinald, accuses James VI. in a controversy, of
disappointing the expectations artfully given of his speedy
conversion, ii. 55.

Berkley, sir John, employed by Charles I. to negotiate with
the army, ii. 58

Blackwood, Laurie of, consequences of his unjust attainder, iv.

131.

Bonds of peace introduced instead of religious tests, iv. 51. Re-
jected when required from landlords for those residing on
their property, 83.

Borders, iii. 5-8. Their situation at the accession, 42.
Bothwell bridge insurrection, its causes, iv. 90-96. Suppres
sed by Monmouth, 100.

Braedalbane, earl of, his character, iv. 235. Employed by
William to conciliate the clans, ib. Suggests and concerts
the massacre of Glenco, 236.

Brotherly assistance of 300,000l. voted to the Scots by the long
parliament, iii. 194.

Brownists, iii. 280. See Independents.

Buccleugh, lord, afterwards earl of, carries the most desperate
borderers to the Belgic wars, iii. 44.

-————, heiress, of, married to Monmouth, who obtains the
estate and title of Buccleugh in Scotland, iv. 90.

Buchan surprised, and the highlanders dispersed by Livingftoun,
iv. 229. His and Dundee's officers capitulate, and are trans-
ported to France, 236.

Buchanan, the first modern who asserted the doctrines of popu
lar government, iii. 21. His admirable genius, 475.
Burnet, archbishop of Glasgow, iv. 43. Withholds an order
sent from court to prevent farther executions, 44.

Gilbert, afterwards bishop of Sarum, his evidence
against Lauderdale, iv. 69. His historical merit, 390. His
history vindicated, 397.

C

Calderwood, David, the ecclesiastical historian, banished for life,
iii. 70; but remains in Scotland. Escapes to Holland,
whence his publications are transmitted to Scotland, 82. His
voluminous compilations, 480.

Cameronians, their origin, iv. 107. Their leaders, Cameron
and his brother, killed at Airdsmoss, 108. Cargill, their
preacher, excommunicates Charles I. the duke of York,
and others, ib. Taken and executed with other Cameroni-
ans, ib. Their services at the revolution, 187. 200. A regi
ment of Cameronians, 201. Their gallant defence at Dun-
keld, 224.

Campbells, defeat and slaughter of that clan by Montrose, iii.
276.
Campbell of Cesnock's trial and unexpected acquittal, iv. 135.
Attainted with his son in parliament, 159.

Cannon, general, unacceptable to the Highland clans, iv. 224.
Repulsed at Dunkeld, and his army disperses, ib.

Canons proposed by the prelates, confirmed by the king's supre-
macy, iii. 116.

Cardross, lord, imprisoned, and, with his lady, illegally fined,
iv. 72. Returns from America to join the prince of Orange,
before the revolution, 187.

Carey, sir Robert, brings the first intelligence to James VI. of
Elizabeth's death, iii. 4.

Carre, earl of Somerset, a favourite of James, iii. 62.
Carstairs, a spy employed by Sharp, iv. 72.

His

, a clergyman, treats with Russel and the council of six,
iv. 133. Tortured, and his confession employed as evidence
against Jerviswood, 137. Chaplain to William, 212.
character and influence, 246. Restrains the opposition of
the clergy, and prevents their petitions against the union, 355.
Charles I. his accession, iii. 87. Objects of his reign in Scot-
land, 88. Executes a general revocation of tithes and church
lands, 90. His journey to Scotland, and coronation there,
101. His conduct in parliament, 103. Confirms and en-
joins the canons and liturgy, 116. 119. His policy to divide
the supplicants, 127. Negotiates with covenanters, 146.
Prepares for war, 156. Advances with his army to Berwick,
161. Negotiates with the Scots, 164. Insincere in the pa-
cification, 167. Determines to renew the war, 175. Nego-
tiates at Rippon, 184. And at London with the Scots, 191.
His arrival in Scotland, 200. His policy on his return, 211.
Explained by the incident, 215. Impeaches the five mem-
bers, 219. A civil war pre-determined by him and the
queen, 228. The royal standard erected at Nottingham,
230. He retires from Edgehill to Oxford, 231. Compels
Essex's army to capitulate in Cornwall, 255. Insincere in
the treaty at Uxbridge, 274. Sustains a total defeat at Nase-
by, 300. Raises the siege of Hereford, but is defeated by
Poyntz, 304. His transactions with Glamorgan and the
Irish Catholics explained, 318. 321. 523. Escapes to the
Scottish army, 332. Treats at Newcastle, 336. His con-
troversy with Henderson, 339. He is delivered up to the
English parliament, 350. His person seized by the army,
355. Negotiates with the army, 358. With Cromwell and
Ireton, 360. With the parliament and the Scots, 363. His
letter to the queen intercepted by Cromwell, 365. 527.
Escapes to the Isle of Wight, 366. Evades a treaty with
parliament, and concludes a clandestine engagement with the

liament, 383. Not sincere in the treaty, 387. Seized, and
the treaty interrupted by the army, 389. His trial determin-
ed, 391. High court of justice created for his trial, 393.
Removed to St. James's, 394. His behaviour and defence,
when produced at his trial, b. His sentence, 395. And
magnanimity at his execution, 398. His person described,
399. Effects of his execution on the people, ib. His cha-
racter, 400. Insincerity the chief cause of his misfortunes
and death, 423. The misfortunes of his house unparalleled,
405.
Icon Basilike not his, 406. 530.

Charles II. proclaimed in Scotland, iii. 411. His negotiations
with the Scots at Breda, 414. His reception in Scotland,
424. Signs a declaration injurious to his father's memory,
429. The Start, 436. He is crowned at Scone, 437.
Marches into England, 441. Pursued by Cromwell, 442.
Disappointed of aid, 443. His escape from Worcester, 445.
Supposed to have secretly abjured the Protestant religion at
the treaty of the Pyrennees, 496. Causes of his restoration,
ib. All parties concur in his restoration, 500. He is recal-
led and restored unconditionally to the throne, 503. Public
expectations and joy at his restoration, iv. 1. From what
causes disappointed, 2. His ministry for Scotland, ib, His
embarrassment in the settlement of the church, 4. Equivocal
assurance to the Presbyterians, 5. To Argyle, 11. Dissuad-
ed by Lauderdale, but induced by Clarendon and Ormond to
restore episcopacy in Scotland, 20. Disgraces Middleton,
32. Personally exasperated against Wariston, 35. Levies,
instead of remitting, the fines imposed by Middleton, 39.
note. His choice invariably fixed on the worst ministers, 49.
Obliged to mitigate the rigours of government, and dismisses
Clarendon, 50. Evades the removal of Lauderdale, or the
redress of grievances occasioned by that minister, 68. His
alliance with Holland, 81. Pretext sought to introduce a
standing army, 83. Highlanders introduced into the west
by his orders, 84. Rejects the complaints of the nobility
against Lauderdale, 87. Of whose conduct he signifies his
approbation, 90. His design to introduce a milder admini-
stration under Monmouth, ib. Whom he appoints com-
mander against the insurgents at Bothwell-bridge, 98.
With injunctions not to treat but to fight, 99. Acquits
Lauderdale, whom he privately condemns, 102. Refuses to
inquire after, or to pardon Argyle, 126. Ordains Gordon
of Earlston to be tortured, 135. Determines ungallantly
that the presbyterians were liable for the delinquency or ab-
sence of their wives from church, 141. Signs a warrant for
an absolute massacre, 146. note. His death, 148. Ascribed
to poison, 149. Character, ib. And person, 151. Sangui-
nary character of his reign in Scotland, 152.

Churchill, the duke of York's favourite, attends him in Scot-

land, iv. 112. Preserved in his barge when shipwrecked,
128. Abandons James at the revolution, 189.

Civil wars originate in the demand of the militia, iii. 224.
Their commencement, 231. Distinguished humanity with
which the first civil war was conducted in England, 335.
Concluded in Scotland, ib.

Clarendon, earl of, prime minister, iv. 3. His bigotry, 5. Urges
the revival of episcopacy in Scotland, 19.

exile, 50.

His fall and

Clergy, three hundred and fifty ejected after the restoration, iv.
30. Two hundred episcopal clergy ejected or displaced at
the revolution, 194.

Cochrane, colonel, engaged in the Incident, iii. 214.516.

sir John, how far engaged in the Rye-house plot,
iv. 133. Escapes to Holland, 135. Taken on Argyle's in-
vasion, but his life redeemed by his father, 167.

Commissary or consistorial courts restored to the prelates, iii. 57.
Commission, court of, ecclesiastical or high commission, erected
in Scotland, iii. 57.
Ecclesiastical commission revived,

iv. 36.

Comprehension of sects attempted by Leighton, iv. 53. Declin-
ed by the presbyterians, 55.

Conference at court between the presbyterian clergy and the bi-
shops, iii. 34. Its issue, 35.

Consecration of the Scottish prelates in England, iii. 60. Why
necessary, ib. Renewed at the restoration, iv. 21.
Conventicles, their origin, iv. 31. Their rapid growth and en-
crease, 56. Severe laws against them, 60. Field and armed
conventicles continue to multiply, 73. 75. Conventicle at
Loudonhill, 97. Defeats Claverhouse, ib. Another at the
Torwood excommunicates the king, 108. House and field
conventicles, rigour of the laws against them, 159.
Convention, an ecclesiastical one held at Linlithgow, iii. 38. As-
sumes the name and powers of a general assembly, 39.
Another ecclesiastical convention, 91.

of estates held, iii. 41. Its legislative powers, ib.
Another, 91.
Convention of estates held without authority
from the king, 236. Convention held by Lauderdale, iv.
89. Convention of estates at the revolution, 197. Abandon-
ed by Dundee, 200. And the adherents of James, 202. Its
proceedings contrasted with those of the English convention,
203. Declares that James had forfeited the crown, 204.
Its settlement of the crown and declaration of rights, 206.
Converted into a parliament, 263. Convention parliament ;
See Parliament.

National cove-

And univer-

Covenant, its origin, iii. 137. Its nature, 138.
nant sworn in the Greyfriars' church, 140.
sally received, 141. King's covenant, 147.

Rejec ed y

land, 241. Its nature and reception in both kingdoms, 243′
The covenants indirectly repealed, iv. 10. And abjured, 34.
Council, privy, of Scotland, intrusted with the administration at
the accession, iii. 5. Its character, iv. 19. Dissolved after
the union, 372.

of peers at York, iii. 184.

Craig, sir Thomas, the learned feudalist, iii. 477.

Cromarty, earl ef, (see Tarbet,) accused by Fraser of the Scotch
plot, iv. 299.

Cromwell, Oliver, his conduct at Marston-moor, iii. 252. Pro-
poses the self-denying ordinance, 296. His conduct at
Nafeby, 301. Instigates the army to seize the king, 356. He
and Ireton negociate with Charles, 360. Request a conci-
liatory letter to the army, 362. Recommend a treaty on mo-
derate terms, 363. Intercept a letter from Charles to the
queen which difcovers his insincerity, 365. 527. And
determines Cromwell to confide no more in the king, ib.
Quells the agitators, 366. Proclaims the king's dissi-
mulation and duplicity in parliament, 370. Defeats Ha-
milton and the royalists at Preston, 379. Conducted to
Edinburgh with his army, and renews the solemn league
and covenant with the Scots, 382. Invades Scotland, 427.
Opposed by Leslie, ib. Reduced to extreme distress, 431.
Defeats the Scots at Dunbar, 433. Reduces the south of
Scotland, 439. Crosses to Fife, 440. Defeats Holburn and
Brown, and reduces Perth, ib. Pursues Charles II. into
England, 443. His victory at Worcester, 445. His go-
vernment or protectoral reign in Scotland, 457. 486. His
death, 487. And character, 488.

, Kichard, declared protector, iii. 491. Degraded
by the army, 493•,

Cuningham, major, chofen by the Cameronians for their lea
der against the union, iv. 358. Betrays their designs to
Queensberry, and perfuades them to difperfe, 359.

D

Dalrymple, president of the court of session, iv. 69. 73. Pro-
poses the first confession of faith to be added to the test, 117.
Displaced from the court of session, 121. Retires to the
continent, 127. Provides at the revolution for a majority
of presbyterians in the convention of estates, 198. Created
viscount Stair, 212. See Stair.

sir John, his son, suborns evidence against lord
Bargeny, iv. 115. Appointed king's advocate, 174. Pro-
motes the revolution, 191. Conducts the debate in the con-
vention, on the question whether James had forfeited the
crown, 205. Deputed to tender the crown to William and
Mary, 208. Appointed king's advocate, 212. Odious to