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INDEX TO VOL II.

A

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.

B

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.

C

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.

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course, 135.

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.

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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.

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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.

L

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-

St Andrews, 263-64.

Guildry, 351-52.

Gyrth Bridge, 2.

H

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.

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73, 402.

Legat's Bridge, 2.

Leonards, St, hospital, 373; burying-

ground, 416; steam-factory at, 335-
36.

Lessuden, 429.

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.

Low, Provost, 313.

........ St Leonards, &c., see Leo- Luscar, Easter and Wester, 209.
nards, St.

I

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-

42.

Ironstone pits, 110.

47.

Lyne Burn, 2.

M

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.

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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-

22.

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.

N

Newburn Church, 236.
Newton Church, 236.

P

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-

29.

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,

323.

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.

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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,

183-84.

S

Sanctuary House, 195.

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.

Wilson, 57, 371.

T

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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