INDEX

Account of a Conversation, 86-95, 150.

Act of Security, introduced in 1703, 71, 72;

debates on, 72-76;

passed, 77;

its chief provisions, 77, 78;

royal assent refused to, 78;

circulated in London, 84;

in 1704, proposal to tack it to a Money Bill, 97, 98;

royal assent given to, 99;

English opinion on, 102.

Addison, Joseph, 150.

Alien Act, passed, 107;

effects on Scotland, 110;

resolution against, in Scottish Parliament, 127;

hostile clauses of, repealed, 129.

Amsterdam, Fletcher joins Monmouth at, 23;

Monmouth sails from, 26.

Annandale, Earl of, 40, 62, 108.

Argyll, Archibald, Earl of, writes to Fletcher, 20;

with Monmouth at Amsterdam, 24;

invades Scotland, 26;

his execution, 109.

---- John, second Duke of, at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in May 1703, 63;

appointed High Commissioner, 108;

arranges for the dismissal of the New Party, 111;

breaks with Annandale, 112, 113;

threatens to resign, 113;

forms a Ministry, 114;

holds a Council, 116;

supports the Act for a Treaty of Union, 116 et seq.;

his refusal to act with the Jacobites in 1703, 67.

Ayloffe, 24, 26.

Baillie of Jerviswoode, 20, 21.

---- ---- (his son), 106, 114, 122.

Ballads, Fletcher’s saying as to, 95.

Belgium, Fletcher in, 21.

Belhaven, Lord, 95, 123, 135, 136, 143, 144.

Bilboa, 26.

Blenheim, battle of, 101.

Bridport, 28, 31.

Bristol, 37.

British Linen Company, 145.

Brougham, Lord, 136.

Bruce, Sir Henry, of Clackmannan, 9.

---- Captain, 33, 35.

Brussels, Argyll at, 20;

Andrew Fletcher at, 23.

Boyer, 119.

Boyle, Lord, 79.

Buchan, David, Earl of, 12, 13, 20, 38, 40.

Burke, Edmund, 136.

Burnet, Bishop, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 39, 105, 150.

Buyse, Anthony, 24, 29, 33, 35, 36.

Calderwood, Mrs., of Polton, her anecdote of Fletcher, 21, 22.

Cameron of Lochiel, 142.

Carnegie, Margaret, 144 et seq.

---- Sir David, of Pittarrow, 144.

Chamberlen, Hugh, 110, 121 et seq.

Characters of the Nobility of Scotland, Mackay’s, 152.

Chevalier de St. George, 142.

Clerk, Sir John, of Pennycuik, 35.

---- ---- ---- son of the foregoing, 95, 151, 152.

Club, The, 40, 41.

Cockburn, Adam, of Ormiston, 13, 40, 60, 114.

---- John, younger of Ormiston, 66, 67.

Coltness Collection, story of Fletcher in, 21, 22.

Company of Scotland, Trading, 47, 48.

Cromartie, Earl of, 86 et seq.

Cunningham, Alexander (the Historian), 137.

Dalmahoy, Sir John, 34.

Dalrymple, Sir James (Viscount Stair), 17, 18, 23, 33.

---- Sir John (First Earl of Stair), 47.

---- ---- (the Historian), 17, 24, 47.

Dare of Taunton, at Amsterdam with Monmouth, 24;

lands in England, 26;

killed by Fletcher, 29.

---- (the younger), 30.

Darien, 48, 49, 54.

Defoe, Daniel, 28.

Discorso di Spagna, 49, 59, 60.

Discourses on the Affairs of Scotland, 49, 53 et seq.

Douglas, James, second Marquis of, 34.

---- Archibald, Marquis of, 63.

Doyle, Mr. Conan, 24.

Dumbarton, George, Earl of, 36.

Dundas of Arniston, 95.

Dunkirk, expedition from in 1708, 142.

Edinburgh University, 12.

---- Review, article in, 117.

Edmonstone of Newton, 142.

Errol, Lord, 61, 64.

Erskine, Sir James, 98.

Essex, his connection with the Whig Plot, 20.

Eugene, Prince of Savoy, 13.

Ferguson the Plotter, 24, 26, 27, 39.

Fletcher, Andrew, birth and early days of, 9;

educated by Burnet, 10 et seq., 150;

goes on the Grand Tour, 12;

is in Parliament as member for Haddingtonshire, 13;

opposes Lauderdale, 14, and accused before the Privy Council of obstructing the King’s service, 15, 16, 18;

his return for Haddingtonshire contested in 1681, 16;

opposes the Duke of York, 17;

goes abroad, 19;

his connection with the Whig Plot, 20 et seq., 23, 34;

anecdote of him told by Mrs. Calderwood, 22;

is outlawed, 23;

joins Monmouth at Amsterdam and sails to England, 23-27;

shoots Dare, 29;

Lord Buchan’s erroneous account of his reasons for leaving England, 31 et seq.;

is tried for high treason and attainted, 33 et seq.;

the estate of Saltoun given to the Earl of Dumbarton, 36;

adventures in Spain, 37;

serves in Hungary, 38;

returns to Scotland at the Revolution, 39;

joins the Club, 40;

complains of the delay in restoring Saltoun, 45;

writes to Hamilton, 46;

his connection with Darien, 47, 48;

his political writings, 49 et seq.;

plans for a national militia, 49-53;

his account of the poverty of Scotland, 55;

his opinions on slavery, 56, 57;

on high rents, 58, 59;

on the Partition Treaty, 60;

returned to Parliament in 1703, 60;

speech on the Supplies, 68;

proposes Limitations on the Crown, 69 et seq., 80, 81;

attacks the English Ministers, 72;

supports the Act of Security, 71-77;

denies the power of the Sovereign to refuse the royal assent, 79;

publishes his speeches, 84;

An Account of a Conversation, 86-94;

his saying about ballads, 95;

about an hereditary professor, 95;

speeches in the session of 1704, 97 et seq.;

attacks Johnston, 98;

Sir James Halket, 98;

Hamilton, 100;

duel with Roxburghe, 121, 122;

proposes the Limitations again, 123;

moves an address against the Alien Act, 126;

attacks Hamilton, 128;

his conduct during the sessions of 1706-1707, 133-138;

story of his leaving Scotland, 138;

arrested in 1708, 142;

reasons for not marrying, 144;

conversations with Wodrow, 146-148;

his death, 148;

his place in Scottish literature, 149;

contemporary opinions of his character, 151, 152.

Fletcher, Andrew (Lord Milton), 148, 149.

---- ---- (grand-nephew of the patriot), 149.

---- Henry (brother of the patriot), 14, 33, 144, 145, 149.

---- ---- (Lieutenant-General), 149.

---- Sir Robert, 9, 10.

---- Lady (Catherine Bruce), 9, 10, 11.

Fletcher, Mrs. Henry (Margaret Carnegie), 144, 145.

Ford Abbey, 28.

Forfar, Earl of, 63.

Fountainhall, Lord, 14, 19, 23.

Glasgow, Earl of, 114.

---- Burnet, Professor, at, 12.

Gloucester, Duke of, 11.

Godolphin, writes to Athole as to the Act of Security, 76;

attacked for advising the Queen to give the royal assent, 101, 102;

his views about Scotland, 102;

explains the position to the House of Lords, 105;

letters to him from Glasgow, Seafield, and Annandale, 111, 112.

---- Correspondence, in the British Museum, 117, note.

Gordon, Duke of, 142.

Grand Resolve, The, 69.

---- Marquis de, 20.

Grant, The Laird of, 18.

Grey, Lord, of Wark, 24, 26, 27.

Haarlem, Fletcher at, 21.

Hague, Fletcher at, 39.

Halifax, Lord, 21, 106, 132.

Halket, Sir James, 98.

Hamilton, James, fourth Duke of, leads the Country Party, 65, 66;

supports Fletcher against the Government, 72;

protests against the adjournment of the House, 74;

conduct in the session of 1704, 97 et seq.;

quarrel with Fletcher, 100;

moves that the Queen should appoint the Commissioners on Union, 128.

---- William, Duke of, 14, 45, 46.

Hampden, in the Whig Plot, 20.

Hanover, Elector of, 132.

Haversham, Lord, his speech in Scotland, 104.

Helderenberg, the frigate, 26, 27, 30, 31, 37.

Hepburn of Humbie, 16.

‘Hereditary Professor,’ 95.

Highlanders, Fletchers opinion of, 54, 57.

Historical Account of the Rights and Powers of the Parliament of Scotland, 85.

Holland, Shaftesbury escapes to, 20;

Fletcher visits, 21.

Howard in the Whig Plot, 20.

Hume, Sir David, 98, 133, 134.

---- Sir Patrick (Earl of Marchmont), 40.

Hungary, 38.

Huntly, Marquis of, 142.

James ii., Letter to the Scottish Estates in 1686, 39;

grants a general pardon in 1688, 39.

Johnston, James, of Warriston, 46, 47, 95, 108.

Kerr, Lord Charles, 122.

Kerridge, John, 37.

Lauderdale, 13, 14, 34, 36, 43.

Law, John, of Lauriston, 110, 121 et seq.

Lely, Sir Peter, 11.

Leyden, Andrew Fletcher at, 21;

his nephew at, 148.

Limitations, the, 69, 70, 71, 79, 80, 81, 123.

Lockhart, George, of Carnwath, 82, 115, 152.

---- Sir William, 40.

Lorraine, Duke of, 38.

Loudoun, Lord, 23.

Louis xiv., 60.

Lyme, Monmouth at, 27 et seq.

Mackay, John, 18, 40, 152.

Mackenzie, Sir George, 33, 149.

Madrid, Fletcher at, 37.

Mar, Charles, Earl of, 34.

---- John, Earl of, 63.

Marchmont, Earl of, 114.

Marischal, Earl (tenth), 33, 37, 38.

---- William, (ninth) Earl, 64.

Matthews, Captain, 24, 25.

Melville, Lord, 23, 40, 46.

Micah Clarke, 24.

Militias, Discourse on, 49 et seq.

Monmouth, Duke of, in the Whig Plot, 20;

writes to Fletcher from Amsterdam, 23;

his confidence in Fletcher, 24;

his invasion of England, 25-32;

tried at Edinburgh after his death, 33.

Montgomery, Sir James, 40.

Montrose, fourth Marquis of, 66, 114.

Moray of Abercairney, 142.

Murray, Earl of, Commissioner in 1686, 39.

---- of Blackbarrony, 15.

Musgrave, Sir Christopher, 86 et seq.

New Party, The, formed, 95;

dismissed from office, 111 et seq.

Nottingham, Earl of, 101, 106.

Ochtertyre ms., 136, 148.

Oldmixon, his opinion of Fletcher, 151, 152.

Ormiston, Andrew Cockburn of, 13, 16.

Paris, Fletcher at, in October 1683, 21.

Paris, Fletcher at, in 1716, 148.

Partition Treaty, 60.

Paterson, Bishop, 16.

---- William, 47.

Pitcairn, Dr., 95.

Polton, Mrs. Calderwood of, 21.

Preston, Viscount, 21.

Prideaux, Edmund, 28.

Queensberry, Duke of, 61, 67, 72, 78, 79 et seq.;

adjourns the Parliament, 84, 95 et seq., 114.

Ramsay, General, 62.

Rawlinson, Thomas, MS. at Oxford, 148.

Rochester, Earl of, 106.

Ross, Lord, 40.

Rothes, Earl of, 66, 72, 73, 95, 114.

Roxburghe, Duke of, 75, 95, 106, 114, 122.

---- Earl of, 66.

Rumbold, 24, 26.

Russell, his connection with the Whig Plot, 20.

Rye-House Plot, 21, 24, 34.

Ryswick, Peace of, 49.

Sacheverell, 146.

Saltoun, Living of, presented to Burnet, 9;

library at, 10, 11;

Burnet leaves, 12;

estate of, forfeited, 36;

restored after the Revolution, 46;

Lord Milton succeeds to, 149;

Saltoun Hall, portrait of Lady Fletcher at, 11;

memorial tablet at, 149;

Barley Mill, 145.

Scots Plot, 95, 117.

Seafield, Earl of, Lord Chancellor, 62;

adjourns the House suddenly, 74, 108, 114.

Security, Act of. See Act.

Sedgemoor, battle of, 33.

Seymour, Sir Edward, 88 et seq.

Shaftesbury, 20.

Sidney, Algernon, his connection with the Whig Plot, 20.

Sinclair of Stevenston, 15, 40.

Slavery, Fletcher on, 56, 57, 58.

Somers, opinion of the situation in 1704, 103, 106.

---- proposes legislation, 107.

---- State Tracts, 117.

Somerville of Drum, 35.

Spectator, The, 95, 150.

Speech without-doors concerning Toleration, 85.

Speech on the State of the Nation, 49, 60.

Spittal of Leuchat, 136.

Squadrone Volante, The, 114, 118, 137.

Stair family, The, 113.

Stair, first Earl of, 123, 124, 134.

State of the Controversy betwixt United and Separate Parliaments, 132.

Stewart, Sir James, Lord Advocate, 47, 75, 115.

Stirling of Keir, 142.

Sunderland, 146.

Suttie, Sir George, of Balgonie, 66.

Swift, Dean, his opinion of Fletcher, 151, 152.

Tarbat (first Earl of Cromartie), 62.

Tatler, The, 95.

Taunton, 27, 28, 32.

Texel, The, 26, 27.

Titus Oates, 39.

Tolemache, William, 14.

Torphichen, Lord, 35.

Tullibardine (afterwards Duke of Athole), 62.

---- (Duke of Athole), 76.

Tweeddale, Marquis of, 47, 66, 67, 95 et seq., 108 et seq., 114 et seq.

Union, Act for a Treaty brought into the Scottish Parliament, 119;

passed, 128.

---- Commission on, at Westminster, 129 et seq.;

Treaty of, signed, 131;

approved by Scottish Parliament, 137.

Vulpone, 117.

Wade, 24, 26.

Wedderburn of Gosford, 16.

Westminster, Treaty of Union signed at, 131.

Whig Plot, 21, 23, 34.

Whitehall, 86.

William iii. lands in England, 39;

Fletcher’s distrust of, 60;

refusal of royal assent to Acts of Scottish Parliament, 78.

Williams, William, servant to Monmouth, 23, 35.

Wodrow, his conversations with Fletcher, 146, 147.

Yester, Lord, 16.

York, Duke of (James ii.), 16, 17, 18, 20.