Abbey, etymology of, 238; manage- ment of, at Reformation, etc., 255-58. Church, recent repairs on nave, and dates on buttresses of, 135-36; antiquity of nave, 159-62; architec- ture, letter of Edward Freeman, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College, Ox- ford on, 136-41; Dedication Stone of, 162-67; circular opening in floor of, 158; Rood Altar and aisle of, and burials in, 167; south-west tower of, 158-59; Royal Gallery of, 168-69; Lady Chapel, 170; St Laurence's Altar, 15th, 173; front panelling of old royal gallery renovated and erected in new church, 318-19; alteration on the interior of tower of new church, etc., 199-200.
Beath, meeting of early Protestants at Kirk of, 266.
Black, Rev. Dr David, Dunfermline, 313-14.
Blackwood, Mr Adam, Roman Catholic and Professor, 313.
Blair, Arnald, monk and chaplain to Sir William Wallace, 309. Blake, James, first damask - weaver, Dunfermline, and his servet, 330. Bowling-greens, old and new, 198-99. Breweries, 347.
Brick-and-tile work, 347-48. Bridge over Towerburn, under Bridge Street, 123-24. Broomhall family, account of, 291-300; present Earl of Elgin, in China and Japan, 466-71.
Broomhall House, architect of, 202-3.
466; opinion of Archæological meet- ing in Edinburgh, 1856, as to sword and helmet of, 202-3; epitaph on ancient monument of, 195; proposal for tablet on site of his tomb, with notice of tomb of his queen Eliza- beth, 401. [The late Dr Gregory's appropriate and elegant inscription, Latin or English, written for a small marble monument to the royal hero, might be inserted on another tablet, also over the tomb, at one side.] Bruce-haven, 1.
Abbot's Hall, origin of name of, 177- Bruce, King Robert, date of birth of, 78. Abbots of Dunfermline, list and memo- randa of, 212-28; Seals of, 216-18, 222; Grant to, 253; dispute be- tween Abbot Alexander de Ber, and James de Dundas, as to right of abbot's men landing at certain rocks of South Queensferry, 252. Abercrombie, Dr John, inscription on tomb of, 457-58. Agriculture, statistics of, 327-30. Alexander I., King, 400. Amiens, Cathedral of, 189-90. Anne of Denmark, Queen, original charter of, and her character, 276. Annunciation Palace Stone, Mr Free- man's opinion on Arabic figures on, and date of palace; recent discovery of repetition of the date on it, etc., 127-29.
Banks in Dunfermline; Savings Bank, 322, 348-51.
Barbour's Bruce, lines from, 258-59. Barton, Charles Von, vide Stedman.
Burgh, common, and double seal of, 3-5; distinction between municipal and regality burghs, and ancient limit of, 53, 410. Burntisland, castle of, 177.
Calder, West, church, 233. Calendar of State papers, extracts from, regarding Dunfermline, 435-40. Canoes, found at Port Ling, near In- verkeithing, and ancient gravestone at ditto, 388-89.
St Mary's, 201. Cists, found at Dhu-craig villa, near North Queensferry, account of, 38688.
City of Dunfermline, claims to title of, 5-55.
Cities, table of, in England, 23. Clark, J., a military gentleman, letter of, 385.
Cleish Church, and coal rights, 233-34. Clerk, Sir Alexander of Pittencrieff,
Balbirnie, and Stenton, father and son, 383-86.
Coal, early use of, 461-63; first work
ings of, 66-72; reports on mining districts of England and Scotland, France, Belgium, and Germany, by Mr Seymour Tremenheere, parliamentary commissioner, 72-75; strikes, 75-77; Elgin colliery, 77-83, 106; Wellwood colliery, 83-92; Townhill and Whitefield, 92-96; Halbeath and Cuttlehill, 96-105. Craigluscar, inscription and shield on monument of the Durie family in old church, and on a stone which had been on the old Durie mansionhouse, Craigluscar, 156-57, 399. Crimean gun, 199. Culdees, their settlement in Dunfermline, 209-11.
Diary, Robert Birrel's, 275-76. Donaldson, Mr Andrew, teacher, 313. Douay, town and college of, 18789. Dunfermline, distant view of, 1; claims to be a city, 5-55; comparative size of with Edinburgh in 1360, 55; supply of water, 63-5; ancient orthography of names in parish of, 117; ordnance survey of, ib.; views of, 117-18; monastery of, 228-29; grants to monks of, 230-32; regality, privileges of, 252; great fire in, 278-79; great flood at, 283-84; Earls of, 284-91; townhouse and bell, 316-17; guildhall, 317; etymology of name, 393; periodicals conducted in, 426.
Dunfermline House, near Elgin, 4046; 432-35; Earl of, the Chancellor, letters to James VI., and to nobility, 406-9; James, fourth Earl of, and George Seton of Barns who assumed the title of Earl, Pinkie House, etc., 287-91.
Durie, Abbot, seal and family of, 222, 315-16.
Genealogical Tables of Wellwoods, Prestons, &c., note upon, 440-59. Gilfillan, Mr Robert, 314.
Golf, game of, curious story of Charles I. as to, 198-99.
Golfdrum Street, 198.
Lady's (Marie) Mill, and gudlie lands, 53. Landowners, list of, 119. Laurence, paintings of, 193.
Leckerstone, and derivations of name, 57-9.
Graham, Patrick, first archbishop of Lectures, popular, in Dunfermline, 372-
Hailes, now Colinton church, 234. Halket, family of, &c., see Pitferrane. Hardyknute, poem of, 301, 412-14. Headwell, origin of name, 395. Henry, eldest son of James VI., birth, baptism, and death of, and names of other children of the king, 276-77. High School, rectors of, 370. Hill-house, 323-24.
Leonards, St, hospital, 373; burying-
ground, 416; steam-factory at, 335- 36.
Libraries in Dunfermline, 372. Limekilns, 1, 2.
Lindores Abbey, 57-8.
Livingston, Rev. John,-452-53; Genca- logical Table, No. I.
Lochleven Castle, siege of, 261-62; escape of Queen Mary from, 267-68. Logie House, 323.
Hospital, fever, MacLean, 322; classi- Long-Craig Island, 111.
fied table of inmates, 378.
........ St Leonards, &c., see Leo- Luscar, Easter and Wester, 209. nards, St.
Incorporated Trades, Act as to, 352. Interments in churchyard, 326. Inveresk, 234; etymology of, 254. Inverkeithing Church and Chapel, 234-35; minor palace or inns, 241-
Mackie, Dr John, 313.
Malcolm III., original verses on the legend of him and his false baron, 120-22; portrait of, 167; red crosse erected in his time between England and Scotland, and sons of, 183; sus- picious charter of, 207.
works, old malleable, 346- Manse and Glebe, 360.
Manufactures, specimens of Dunferm- line, at Great Exhibition in London, 1851, 332-35; mottoes on James Blake's servet, wrought at his work- shop over the pends or arched gate- way, in 1719, 330.
Margaret, St, Queen of Malcolm III., life of, 170-72; relics of, and where now, 173-76; death, account of, by Turgot, her confessor, and her chapel in Edinburgh Castle, 178-182; cave or oratory of, 122-23; St Margaret's Well, 117; St Margaret's Stone, 121-
Markets, corn and other, ancient and modern, 383. Mary's, St, churchyard, 201.
Keavil, Barclay, family of, 430-32; and Mason marks on palace crypt, remarks
Genealogical Table, No. I.
Kinglassie, 235. Kinghorn, 235.
Kirkaldie, Laird of Grange, injury to, in Dunfermeling; Complent vpoun Johne Knox, and answer of the Reformer to, 268-71.
on, by A. Jervise, Esq., F.S.A. Scot., 126-27.
Master of the Grammar and Song schools, bond of Queen Anne of Denmark, relative to, 417-19. Maygate, supposed etymology of, 196. Medical men, list of, 326.
Melville (Maleville), ancient church of, 235-36.
Meteorological Table kept in Dunferm- line, 60-61.
Mill, Walter, the convert to Protestant- ism, and martyr, 266-67. Mills, 347.
Ministers and Churches of all denomi- nations in Dunfermline, 360-64. Missionary, City, former and present, 364, 417.
Moncreiff, Rev. Sir William, Rev. Sir Henry, and Lord, from whom de- scended, 306; Genealogical Table No. I. Murray of Perdew, monumental in- scription stone, and account of fa- mily of, by W. Downing Bruce, Esq. F.S.A., of Garlet, 151-55; charter of, 201-2.
Newburn Church, 236. Newton Church, 236.
Palace, when founded, 127-29; remarks on its probable age, by E. K. Free- man, Esq.; recent discovery of ninute repetition of date on the palace annunciation stone, &c., 127-
Paton, Joseph Noel, R.S.A., list of works of, 204-7; recent paintings of, 402-4.
Waller, paintings of, 207, 402. Joseph, senior, list of additions to his collection of antiquities, 203-4.
Perth, claims of it to being a city, 35, 36; ancient church of (St John's), 236-37.
Pinkie Field, battle of, 265-66. Pitcairn, Abbot or Secretary, two new engravings of his house, Maygate Street Plates X. and XI.; monu- ment on north wall of old church, 156.
Pitferrane, family of, 300-3, 357, 414-
15; mansion-house, 323. Pitliver, property of Dempsters, after- wards of Wellwood, 304; house of,
Pitreavie House, ancient tapestry in (now removed to Fordel old castle); mercantile books of the Blackwood family'in, 56; battle at; bones, and silver coin of Charles I. found at, 279-83. Pittencrieff House, 323.
Randolph, Sir Thomas, note on, 459- 60.
Reader in Church, office of, 370. Redstone Crosse, march between Eng- land and Scotland, 183. Refreshment Rooms, 354. Regality, privilege, ancient register, benefits, and Coquet Seal of, 252-54. Registration Table of births, deaths, and marriages for 1855-56 and 1858, 120, 464.
Reid, Mr John, teacher, 316. Robert II., King, 262. Rolland, Adam, of Gask, who ob. 1763, and son the advocate, 157-58; family of, Genealogical Table No. I. Ropeworks, 347.
Roscobie limestone and fossil remains, 108.
Rosyth, old church and yard of, inter- ments in, 326; castle, and inscrip- tion-stone on; Easter and Wester Rosyth, 65, 267-68, 393-95; ancient family of, 66, 420-25. Rotten-Row, etymologies of, 130-31,
George William, M.D., 456.
Sarcophagus, Elgin marble, in entrance | Stedman John, M.D., 305-6, 456-57. hall of Broomhall House, 203. Schaw, William, monument of, and woodcut of monogram of his name, 155.
School of Arts edifice, now a printing establishment, 57.
Table-cloth, Crimean, 342-45. Table-linen weaving at Carthagena in Spain, anecdote of, 345. Tanneries, 347.
Female Industrial (teacher now Teaching of deaf and dumb, 372.
certificated), 318. Schools, ancient, 251.
in parish, statistics of, and rate of attendance at, 370-71, 417.
grammar and song, bond of town of Dunfermline anent Queen Anne of Denmark's mortification to, 417-19.
Seal, Coquet, or seal of regality, 253-54. of Inverkeithing, 254.
Seton family, and houses of, see Dun- fermline.
Spinning-mills, 345-46.
Soap and candle works, 347. Societies, Bible and Sabbath school, 365; horticultural, 352; total absti- nence, 419-20.
Spens, Sir Patrick, ballad of, 426-29. Steam-factories, 335-42. Stedman, Charles Von Barton, Besselich Abbey, near Coblentz, 305-8, 456-57, and Genealogical Table No. I.
Tobacco manufactories, 347. Total abstinence societies, 353-54. Tournour Hill, 1. Tower-burn, 1, 2. Tower, Malcolm's, 4. Town old arms, 4.
Clerk's new offices, 380. Transy House, 324. Triforium, etymology of, 184-86, 202. Tron Well, and woodcut of, 196-97.
U Urquhart, priory of, 241.
W Wardlaw family, 303-4.
Water Company of Dunfermline, 379- 380.
Wellwood family, note on Genealogical Table No I., 440-59.
Witches, 203-4; witchcraft, 370.
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