INDEX

Abbotsford, 227

Aberdeen Almanac, 45

Aberfoyle, 47

Adam, Alexander, 119

Addison, Joseph, 40, 234

Adventures of John Cheap the Chapman, The, 46

Adventures of Telemachus (Fénelon), 51

‘Ae fond kiss,’ 149, 172, 264

Agriculture in Scotland, 10-16, 188

Agriculture, Professorship of, Edinburgh, 155

Aiken, Robert, 93-96, 98, 142, 144, 147, 193, 194

Ainslie, Robert, 65, 107, 110, 112-115, 144, 150, 151, 167, 168, 170, 173, 186, 214

Albert, Prince Consort, 306

Allen, John, 110, 291

Alloway, 11, 36-41, 48, 279

Alloway Kirk, 36, 266

Almack, William, 30

‘A Man’s a Man,’ 289, 292

American Colonies. See United States

American Revolution, 70, 82, 225, 290

Anderson, Robert, 196, 247

Anne, Queen, 60, 287

‘An’ O for ane-and-twenty, Tam,’ 264

Antigua, 176

Arbroath, 266

Archers, Royal Company of, 108

Argyll, John, Duke of, 5

Armour, James, 77, 94, 139, 142-143, 150, 165, 192

Armour, Mrs. James, 168

Armour, Jean. See Burns, Jean Armour

Army, Burns’s opinions of, 155, 179

Arnot, John, 191

Arran, 47

Athole, Jane Cathcart, Duchess of, 116-117

Athole, John, Duke of, 116-117

Auchencruive, 144

Auld Brig, Ayr, 31

Auld Farmer’s New Year’s Morning Salutation, The, 58, 249, 250

Auld Lang Syne, 260

Auld, Walter, 120, 228

Auld, William, 173, 279

Austen, Jane, 278

Aylmer, Rose, 250

Ayr, 195, 279

Ayr, Brigs of, 31

Ayr, Presbytery of, 92-93

Baker, —, 127

Ballads, 25-27, 38, 43-44, 246, 252, 259, 269

Ballantine, John, 61, 93-96, 202

Ballenden, Braes of, 256

Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Baron, 229, 287

Banks of Cree, 271

Bannockburn, 48, 272, 300

Barncailzie, 125

Barrack-Room Ballads, 305

Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 305, 307

Bayard, 28

Beattie, James, 25, 29, 75, 104, 270, 302

Bede, 23

Beethoven, Ludwig von, 275

Begbie, Alison, 69-70, 189

Begg, Isabella Burns, 147

Bell, West-Indiaman, 192-193

Benson, Anna Dorothea, 132

Beugo, John, 175

Bible, 23

Black Bull Inn, Glasgow, 166

Blacklock, Thomas, 99, 195

Blair, Athole, 116-117, 207

Blair, Hugh, 29, 97, 104, 118, 155, 195, 244, 302

Blair, Sir James Hunter, 240

Blair, Robert, 259

Blake, William, 243, 278

Bloody Assizes, 293

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 60

Bonnie Dundee, 261-262

Border tour, Burns’s, 113, 200, 208, 240, 247, 255

Boston, Thomas, 19, 37, 281

Boswell, Sir Alexander, 274

Boswell, Euphemia, 165

Boswell, James, 11, 29, 60, 91, 103, 107, 111, 129, 278, 302, 304

Boyd, Thomas, 120, 213

Brawne, Fanny, 250

Braxfield, Robert M’Queen, Lord, 102, 108, 129

Bremner, Robert, 242

Brigs of Ayr, The, 248

Broadsides, Scottish, 45

Brontë, Emily, 162

Brown, Richard, 80-83, 84, 89, 92, 137-138, 163, 166, 169, 237

Brown, Samuel, 56

Browning, Robert, 250, 251

Brow Well, 133, 184-187

Bruce, King Robert the, 272, 300

Brussels, 32

Buchan, David Stuart Erskine, Earl of, 100-101, 255

Buchan, John, 305

Burke, Edmund, 278, 292, 295

Burn, Robert, 221

Burnes, Agnes Broun (mother of the poet), 37-38, 44, 90, 135-136, 138-139, 203

Burnes, Robert (grandfather of the poet), 36

Burnes, Robert (uncle of the poet), 36, 60

Burnes, William (father of the poet), 8, 34, 35, 36-39, 41, 42-43, 48, 49-50, 55, 59, 62, 70, 71-73, 84, 85-88, 90, 279

Burness, James, 117, 232

Burnet, Elizabeth, of Manboddo, 240

Burns, Agnes (sister of the poet), 49

Burns, Elizabeth Paton (daughter of the poet), 74, 138-139, 143, 150, 203

Burns, Elizabeth Riddell (daughter of the poet), 183-184

Burns, Gilbert (brother of the poet), 11, 34, 37, 41, 48, 50, 55, 59, 63, 68, 73, 87, 88, 90, 95, 122, 138, 143, 186, 202-203, 208, 214, 220, 245

Burns, Isabella (sister of the poet). See Begg, Isabella Burns

Burns, Jean Armour, 13, 83, 90, 91-92, 109, 110, 113, 114-115, 118, 126, 133, 136, 138, 139-144, 146-148, 150, 153, 156, 164, 165, 167-170, 172-176, 185, 187, 189, 192-193, 201, 212, 214, 217, 220, 221, 232, 233

Burns, John (brother of the poet), 88

Burns, Robert, Poems. See Poems, Burns’s

Burns, Robert, the poet, passim. Specific references are to be found in association with other persons, topics, or places.

Burns, Robert (son of the poet), 167, 174, 185

Burns, William (brother of the poet), 166, 203-204, 215

Burns, William Nicol (son of the poet), 119

Burns Clubs, 301, 306-308

Burton, Robert, 42

Bush aboon Traquair, The, 48, 255

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 5, 301

Butler, Samuel, 300

Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, 109, 278

Cadell and Davies, 199

Caedmon, 23

Ça Ira, 295-296

Caledonian Hunt, 99, 127, 197

Caller Oysters, 248

Calton Hill, 118

Calvin, John, 19

Calvinism, 5, 16-23, 66, 162, 163, 279-287

Cameron, Meg, 113, 118, 148, 151, 152, 165, 208

Campbell, Mary, 138, 144-149, 250, 307

Canada, 190

Candlish, James, 30, 62, 281

Cape Club, Edinburgh, 105

Caroline lyrics, 42

Carronades, Burns’s purchase of, 227, 295, 297

Carswell, Catherine, 84, 180

Catalan, 23

Catrine House, 96-97, 195

Cawdor Castle, 48

Centlivre, Susannah, 295

Chalmers, Margaret, 148, 160-161, 164, 256

Channing, William Eilery, 280, 285

Chapbooks, Scottish, 45-46

Chapman, George, 49, 75

Chatterton, Thomas, 62, 79

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 23, 42, 46

Chesterton, G. K., 66

Children, Burns’s feelings toward, 150-153

Chloris. See Lorimer, Jean.

Christabel, 243

Chronicle, London, 134, 206

Clarinda. See M’Lehose, Agnes.

Clarke, Samuel, 128

Clarke, Stephen, 257-258

Class-consciousness, Burns’s, 52-53

Claverhouse, John Graham of, Viscount Dundee, 301

Cleghorn, Robert, 109-111, 253, 291

Clint, Henry, 120

Clochnahill, 36

Clow, Jenny, 113, 118, 144, 146, 148, 152, 165, 170-171, 221

Clydesdale, 50

Cockburn, Alison, 43

Cockburn, Henry, 103, 108, 293

Cockney dialect, 30, 247

Coila, 157

Cole, Elisha, 281

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 243

Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, The, 46

‘Coming thro’ the rye,’ 26

Commonplace Book, Burns’s, 236-239, 242-244, 259

Composition, Burns’s methods of, 241-246

Connaught, 81

Constable, Archibald, 106

Copyrights, Burns’s, 199-201, 274

Corbet, William, 129, 294, 296

Corri, Domenico, 28

Cotter’s Saturday Night, The, 58, 154, 246, 269, 307

Court of Equity, The, 111, 146

Court of Session, 86

Cowper, William, 278

Craig, Lord, 162, 165

Craigdarroch, 121

Crane, Ichabod, 39

Creech, William, 100, 105, 106, 161, 165, 169, 197-201, 204-205, 220

Criffel, 187

Crochallan Fencibles, 104-109, 253, 254, 255

Cromek, Robert Hartley, 161

Cullen, William, 155

Cunningham, Alexander, 107-109, 110, 112, 118, 125, 126, 133-134, 167, 205, 240, 253, 268, 285, 286

Currie, James, 125, 182, 246, 273

‘Cutty stool,’ 17

Daer, Basil William, Lord, 96, 131, 291, 293

Daft Days, The, 25, 248

Dalrymple, 51

Dalrymple, William, 279

Dalswinton, 114, 207-212

Dalyell, Sir John Graham, 124

Dalziel, Alexander, 98, 99, 195

Darien Expedition, 7

Davidson, Betty, 44, 136

Davies, Deborah Duff, 149

Deans, Jamie, 283

Deans, Jeanie, 305

Death and Dr. Hornbook, 39, 46, 83

Death, Burns’s, 133

Deists, 20, 22, 281, 286

Democracy, Scottish, 32-33

Dempster, George, 32, 290

Dickens, Charles, 65, 266, 300

Dinmont, Dandie, 305

Dods, —, 127-128

Dods, Meg, 305

Don, Lady Harriet, 61, 132

Doonholm, 36

Douglas and Heron Bank, 16, 70, 85, 230

Douglas, Charles, 192

Douglas, Gawain, 23, 247

Douglas, Lady Mary, 132

Douglas, Tragedy of, 21, 40

Douglas, William, 250

Dover, 227

Drama, Burns and the, 251-252

Drama, in Edinburgh, 21

Dramatic lyric, Burns’s use of, 250-251

Dramatic monologue, Burns’s use of, 250-251

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 23

Dryden, John, 42

Dumfries, 68, 110, 113, 118, 124-134, 152, 160, 171, 177, 208, 219, 221-233, 267, 294-297, 298

Dumfries Academy, 224

Dumfries Burgh Council, 224

Dumfries Public Library, 106

Dumfries Theatre, 179, 295-296

Dumfries Volunteers, 228, 231, 232, 295, 299

Dunbar, William (the poet), 23, 247

Dunbar, William (Edinburgh), 106, 157, 254

Duncan, Adam, 303

Dundas, Henry, 5, 101, 108, 116, 207, 292, 301

Dundas, Robert, 107, 108

Dunlop, Andrew, 82

Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 61, 96, 101, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153-160, 167, 194, 199, 206, 209, 240, 260, 267, 282-283, 284, 286, 297-298, 302

Dunlop House, 156, 167

Dunlop, Keith, 157, 167

Dunlop, Rachel, 156, 167

Dunlop, Thomas, 154

Dunnottar, 36

Dunscore, 288

Dunse, 112, 113

Durham, 127

East India Company, 6, 190

East Lothian, 208

Easy Club, Edinburgh, 105

Eclogues, Virgil’s, 252

Edinburgh, 7-10, 75, 78, 94, 99-119, 124, 153, 162-172, 195-202, 209-210, 216, 221, 245, 252, 291-293, 294

Edinburgh High School, 116, 119

Edinburgh University, 8, 96

Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of, 197, 202

Eglinton, Countess of, 197

Eglinton Wood, 82

Elegies (Shenstone), 57

Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair, 240

Elibanks and Elibraes, 48, 255

Elizabethan lyrics, 42

Elliot, Jean, 43

Ellisland, 101, 110, 113-115, 119-122, 158, 174, 202, 203, 207-222, 262

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 261, 280, 285

Encyclopædia Britannica, 105

Epistle to John Rankine, 77

Erskine, Andrew, 91, 99

Erskine, Henry, 108, 293

Erskine, John Francis, of Mar, 291, 297

Esopus to Maria, 181

Evening Courant, Edinburgh, 288

Eve of St. Agnes, The, 250

Excise, 55, 98, 101, 109, 115, 116, 129-130, 133, 165, 169, 170, 190, 206-207, 209-210, 212, 214-233, 262, 269, 277, 289, 294, 296

Faculty of Advocates, 293

Falstaff, 167

Farington, Joseph, 121, 165

Farming, Burns’s, 204, 210-222

Fénelon, François, 51

Ferdinand Count Fathom, 58

Fergusson, Alexander, of Craigdarroch, 121-122, 291

Fergusson, Robert, 25, 61, 75, 91, 104, 105, 134, 221, 237, 241-242, 247-248, 252, 304

Fergusson, William, 36, 50, 53

Ferrara, Duke of, 250

Fifeshire, 247

’Fifteen, Rebellion of, 36, 287, 304

Findlater, Alexander, 96, 129-130, 217, 219, 229, 296

Fisher, Edward, 281

Flax-dressing, Burns and, 71, 79-84

Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, 301

Flowers of Edinburgh, The, 272

Flowers of the Forest, The, 43

Folk-songs, Scottish, 26-28, 38, 43-44, 75, 132, 252-263, 269

Fornicators’ Court, 112

’Forty-five, Rebellion of, 4, 7, 26, 46, 287, 292, 304

Four-Fold State (Thomas Boston), 19, 37, 279, 281

Fox, Charles James, 294

Franklin, Benjamin, 22, 61, 100, 103, 266

Freemasonry, 67-68, 87, 99, 104, 144, 145, 297

French, Burns’s knowledge of, 51-52

French Convention, 227, 295

French Revolution, 51, 119, 128, 159-160, 182, 226-228, 270, 272, 290-299, 306

Friars Carse, 120, 176, 177, 181, 182, 212, 265

Friars Carse Hermitage, Written in, 262

Friends of the People, 293-294

Gala Water, 255

Galileo, 297

Galloway, Burns’s tour in, 229

Galloway, John Stewart, Earl of, 131

Galt, John, 305

Gazetteer, Edinburgh, 297

Gentlemen’s Magazine, 31

George III, 292, 296-297

Geographical Grammar (Guthrie), 48

Gillicrankie, 237

Glasgow, 7, 83, 166

Glasgow University, 20, 30

Glenbervie, 36

Glencairn, Elizabeth M’Quire, Countess of, 132

Glencairn, James, Earl of, 95, 98-101, 107, 120, 195-197, 209, 210, 216, 240

Glenconner, 211

Globe Inn, Dumfries, 120, 174

God Save the King, 295-296

Godwin, William, 278

Goldielea, 122, 178

Goldsmith, Oliver, 31, 302

Gordon Castle, 117

Gordon, Jane, Duchess of, 117, 132, 159

Gow, Neil, 27

Graham, Dugal, 11, 45-46

Graham, Robert, of Fintry, 68, 111, 116, 207, 216, 223, 224, 294, 297

Grave, The (Blair), 259

Gray, James, 124, 152

Gray, Thomas, 103, 157

Greenfield, William, 252

Greenock, 192-193, 306

Grieve, James, 85

Grizzel Grimme, Ballad of, 246

Grose, Francis, 121, 176-177, 265, 268

Guthrie, William, 48

Guy Mannering, 104

Halleaths, 182

Hallowe’en, 248

Hamilton, Charlotte, 256

Hamilton, Gavin, 72, 76, 78, 87-88, 90, 92-93, 142, 202

Hamilton, John, of Sundrum, 85-86

Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield, 24, 45

Hamlet, 40

Hampstead Heath, 244

Handsome Nell, 236, 242

Hannibal, 45, 234

Hanover, House of, 4, 26, 287-289, 294

Hardyknute, 27, 43

Harry, Blind, 25, 45

Hastings, Warren, 5, 302

Hay, Charles (Lord Newton), 106-107, 108, 253

Hay, Lewis, 161

Health, Burns’s, 54, 83-84, 184-187, 217, 231-233

Helenore (Alexander Ross), 24

Henley, William Ernest, 138, 144, 145, 168

Henri, Susan Dunlop, 152, 286

Henry VIII, 40

Henryson, Robert, 23

Herald’s Office, Edinburgh, 35

Herd, David, 27, 43, 110, 252

‘Here is the glen and here the bower,’ 272

Heron, Lady Elizabeth, 271-272

Heron, Patrick, of Heron, 16, 131, 230, 271

Hey, Johnie Cope, 26

Hey tutti taitie, 272, 300

Highland clans, suppression of, 4

Highland Lassie, 145

Highland Mary. See Campbell, Mary

Highland tours, Burns’s, 116-118, 256

Hildebroad, John, 283

Hill, Peter, 106, 200, 281

History of Sir William Wallace, The, 234

History of the Bible (Stackhouse), 48

Hogg, James, 102, 135

Holinshed, Raphael, 261

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 19, 280

Holy Fair, The, 76, 248

Holy Willie’s Prayer, 46, 76, 111, 249, 250, 307

Home, John, 21, 28, 40, 42, 75

Homer, 49, 75

Hopetoun, James Hope, Earl of, 228

Horace, 236

Housman, A. E., 244-245

‘How are Thy servants blest’ (Addison), 40

Hume, David, 29, 31, 197, 278, 279, 300, 304

Humphry, James, 83

Hutcheson, Francis, 20, 22, 281, 285

Hyslop, William, 120

Immortality, Burns’s views on, 284-286

‘I murder hate,’ 82, 155, 237

India, 190

Inquisition, Spanish, 17

Irvine, 67, 71, 72, 79-84, 87, 88

Irving, Washington, 266

‘I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,’ 43

Jacobitism, Burns’s, 209, 229, 287-290, 304

Jamaica, 93, 98, 147, 151, 162, 171, 172, 191-193, 206, 239

James I, of Scotland, 23

James VI, of Scotland, I of England, 3, 23, 287

Jefferson, Thomas, 272

Jeffrey, Francis, 29

Jeffreys, George, 293

Jocky and Maggie’s Courtship, 46

John Anderson, 26, 264

John Barleycorn, 246

John o’ Badenyon, 43, 256

Johnson, James, 120, 132, 214, 220, 254-264, 269, 273

Johnson, Samuel, 11, 24, 29, 31, 43, 102, 300

Johnston, William, 297

Jolly Beggars, The, 59, 111, 144, 249, 307

Journalism, Burns and, 205-206

Junius, 61

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 102, 108, 129

Keats, John, 11, 35, 49, 75, 79, 239, 250

Kemp, John, 162, 164, 165

Kilmarnock, 76, 167, 193-194, 198, 306

Kilpatrick, Nellie, 63, 68, 82, 137, 234-235

King’s Arms, Dumfries, 120

Kinmonth, 36

Kipling, Rudyard, 247, 305

Kirk, Scottish, 16-23

Kirkcudbright, 125, 131, 230

Kirkoswald, 37, 55-60, 69, 72

Kirkpatrick, Joseph, 282, 288

Kiwanis Club, 104

Knox, John, 16, 19, 22

Lake District, 47

Lamb, Charles, 278

Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn, 240

Landor, Walter Savage, 250

Lapraik, John, 249

Lapraik, Tod, 305

Laurie, Annie, 250

Laurie, Sir Robert, 121-122

Lawrie, George, 99, 195

Lawrie, Mrs. George, 153

Leader Haughs and Yarrow, 255

Leeward Islands, 176

Lewars, Jessie, 130, 148, 149, 277

Lewars, John, 130, 295

Lewis Gordon, 272

Letters, Burns’s, 60-61

Letters Moral and Entertaining (E. Rowe), 60

Linlithgow, 90

Lippo Lippi, Fra, 250

Lisbon, 9

Little, Jenny, 158-159

Livingstone, David, 303

Lochaber, 256

Lochiel, Donald Cameron of, 301

Lochlie, 62-63, 70, 72-73, 74, 84-88, 90, 138, 208, 214

Lochmaben, 182

Lochmaben Harper, The, 258

Locke, John, 22

Lockerbie, 182

Lockhart, John Gibson, 118

Logan Braes, 299

Lomond, Loch, 47

London, 204, 287, 293, 295

Longtown, 204

Lorimer, Jean, 148, 149, 219

Lorimer, William, 219

Loudoun, 99, 153, 195

Louis XVI, 160, 292, 294, 298

Lounger, The, 31, 302

Lowell, James Russell, 247

Loyal Natives Club, Dumfries, 126-127

M’Auley, John, 151

Macbeth, 261, 266

Mackenzie, Henry, 12, 31, 58, 60, 66, 75, 84, 93, 118, 125, 197, 199, 201, 251, 252, 301, 305

Mackenzie, John, 90-92, 99

Mackenzie, S. (Dumfries), 124

Mackintosh, James, 292

McKnight, —, 274

‘Maclaren, Ian.’ See Watson, John

M’Lehose, Agnes, 70, 114, 125, 144, 148, 152, 153, 156, 160-172, 174, 176, 179, 209, 210, 212, 221, 251, 258, 281, 283, 284, 307

M’Lehose, James, 162, 166, 171, 172

M’Lure, David, 62, 70, 72, 85-88

M’Murdo, John, 111, 133

Macpherson, James, 27, 43

M’Pherson’s Farewell, 264, 307

Mallet, David, 30

Man of Feeling, The, 31, 35, 58, 60, 84, 144, 189, 279, 299, 306

Man Was Made to Mourn, 236

Manners, Burns’s, 102-104, 144, 153-157

Manual of Religious Belief (William Burnes), 59, 279

Marie Antoinette, 160, 298

Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl of, 36

Marriage, Burns’s, 168-176, 189

Marrow of Modern Divinity, The, 281

Marxism, 18

Mary Morison, 251

Mary, Queen of Scots, 300-301

Masons. See Freemasonry

Massachusetts, 16, 20

Masson, Arthur, 40, 41-42, 58, 60

Mathieson, W. L., quoted, 18-19

Mauchline, 67, 75, 83, 89, 90, 93, 124, 138, 150, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 195, 212

Mauchline Wedding, The, 240

Maule, Ramsay, of Panmure, 127

Maxwell, James, 133, 294, 298

Maxwell, Robert, 111

Melrose, 266

Merry Muses of Caledonia, The, 111-112, 253-254

Mill, Mill O, The, 242

Mill Street, Dumfries, 133, 222

Millan, —, 30

Miller, Eliza, 13, 145

Miller, Patrick, 101, 114, 120, 133, 202, 207-212, 220

Miller, Mrs. Patrick, 220

Miller, Patrick, Jr., 206

Milne, A. A., 307

Milton, John, 42, 164, 244, 282

Minstrel, The (Beattie), 25, 29

Mirror, The, 31, 302

Mississippi Bubble, 7

Mitchell, John, 111, 217, 218

Moderates. See New Lights

Moffat, 228

Monboddo, James Burnet, Lord, 108

Monkland Friendly Society, 106, 281

Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice, 181-182

Montgomerie, Margaret, 103

Montrose, 117

Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 303

Moodie, Alexander, 76

Moore, John, 78, 104, 199, 201, 252

Morison, Mary, 68

Mossgiel, 13, 73-74, 87-88, 95, 138, 143, 167, 190, 202, 204, 208, 211, 214

Mound, Edinburgh, 8

Mount Oliphant, 34, 41, 48, 50, 54-56, 59, 61-62, 70, 72, 208, 220, 279

Muir, Robert, 150, 198, 284

Muir, Thomas, 293, 294

Muir, Mrs. William, 165

Mundell, James, 120

Munro, Neil, 305

Murdoch, John, 34-35, 39-43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 51-55, 57, 204

Murray, Sir James, 272

Murray, John, of Broughton, 4, 30

Murry, John Middleton, 250

Music, Scottish, 26-28, 40, 120-121

Music, influence on Burns, 236-237, 240-244, 246, 248

‘My father was a farmer,’ 236

‘My Love is like a red red rose,’ 26, 107, 261

Nairne, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness, 261, 305

Nancy, West-Indiaman, 192

Napoleon, 7, 28, 225, 226

Nationalism, Scottish, 303

New Brig, Ayr, 31

Newcastle, 204

New England, 16-17, 247, 280

New Lights, 21-23, 66-67, 75-78, 95, 280-287, 299

Newton, Charles Hay, Lord. See Hay

Nicol, William, 98, 112, 115-119, 207

Night Thoughts (Young), 169

Nimmo, Erskine, 162, 209

Nith, River, 220, 226, 245

Niven, William, 56, 61, 63

Norval, Charles, 85

Observations on the Scottish Dialect (Sinclair), 29-30

Ochiltree, 244

Ochiltree, Edie, 188, 305

Ochtertyre, 256, 287

‘Of a’ the airts,’ 149, 174

Oldbuck, Jonathan, 265

Old Lights, 21-23, 66-67, 75-78, 279-287

On God’s Sovereignty, 281

On the Death of Lord President Dundas, 107

‘O poortith cauld,’ 271

Ordination, The, 76

Orr, Thomas, 61

Ossian (Macpherson), 27, 43

Oswald, James, 27

Oswald, Mary Ramsay, of Auchencruive, 144

Oswald, Richard, of Auchencruive, 291

‘O wat ye wha that lo’es me,’ 110

‘O wert thou in the cauld blast,’ 251, 277

Paine, Thomas, 226, 290

Paisley, 167, 198, 306

Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, 293, 294

Pamela, 58

Pantheon, The (Tooke), 49

Park, Anne, 146, 148, 174

Park, Mungo, 303

Parliament, 3-4, 5-6, 289, 290-294, 295, 302

Parnell, Charles Stuart, 4

Paton, Elizabeth, 74, 76, 138-139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 148, 150, 193, 194, 203

Patriotism, Burns’s, 234, 278, 287-306

Patronage, Kirk, 22

Pattison, Alexander, 198

Peacock, —, 80, 83

Peggy Bawn, 236

Percy, Thomas, 25, 43

Perry, James, 206

Philosophy of Natural History (Smellie), 105

‘Pindar, Peter.’ See Wolcot, John

Pinkerton, John, 43

Pitt, William, 226, 290

Plane-stanes and the Causey, The, 248

Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph, 268, 270

Poems, Burns’s, Kilmarnock ed., 29, 82, 94, 98, 118, 139, 142, 154, 191, 193-196, 202, 239, 244, 247-249

Poems, Burns’s, 1st Edinburgh ed., 95, 98, 105, 106, 118, 127, 195-201, 203, 254

Poems, Burns’s, 2nd Edinburgh ed., 204-205

Poems, Burns’s, Gilbert Burns’s ed., 203

Poet’s Progress, The, 234

Poet’s Welcome to his Bastart Wean, A, 111, 150

Politics, Burns’s, 102, 131, 225-226, 230-231, 278, 287-299

Poosie Nansie, 57

Pope, Alexander, 42, 49, 60, 181, 216

Port Antonio, 192

Potterrow, Edinburgh, 165

Prayer in the Prospect of Death, 84

Preaching, Scottish, 19-20

Prelude (Wordsworth), 234

Prestonpans, 26

Prior, Matthew, 42

Princes Street, Edinburgh, 8

Provençal, 23

Psalms, 40, 135, 151, 236

Puritanism, 16-17

Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 225

Raeburn, Sir Henry, 107

Ramsay, Allan, 23-25, 75, 91, 104, 247, 248-249, 252, 301, 304

Ramsay, David, 288

Ramsay, John, 287

Rankine, Anne, 68

Rankine, John, 74, 77, 98, 249

Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin, 307

‘Rape of the Sabines, The,’ 122, 180-181

Reformation, Scottish, 23, 290

Regency Bill, 226

Reid, Alexander, 183, 229

Religion, 59

Religion, Burns’s, 278-287

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), 25, 43

Revolution of 1688, 288-289

Riccarton, 76

Richardson, Samuel, 58

Richmond, John, 13, 65, 89-90, 112, 141, 143, 144, 147, 151

Riddell, Elizabeth Kennedy (Mrs. Robert), 177, 181, 182

Riddell, Jean Fergusson, 177

Riddell, Maria Banks Woodley, 105, 110, 122-123, 125, 144, 148, 152, 175, 176-187, 219, 267, 295, 298

Riddell, Robert, 61, 96, 120-124, 148, 176, 181, 182, 260, 265, 267, 291, 294

Riddell, Walter, 122, 127, 176-177, 178, 181, 182

Rights of Man, The, 292, 299

Robertson, William, 22, 31, 155

Robertson, William, of Lude, 291

Rochester, 11

Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 225

Rodger, Hugh, 55

Rosamond, schooner, 226-227, 295, 297

Ross, Alexander, 24

Rossetti, Christina, 162

Rotary Club, 104

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 272, 299, 300

Rowe, Elizabeth, 60

Russell, John, 76

Ryedale, 126, 130

Sabbath, Scottish, 17, 92

St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, 9

St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton, 67-68, 91

St. Kitts, 176

St. Mary’s Isle, 131-132

Samothrace, Victory of, 250

Sanitation, 9-13

Satan, Milton’s, 164, 282

Savannah-la-Mar, 192

Schetki, Theodor, 28

Schoolmistress, The (Shenstone), 57

Schools, Scottish, 38-42

Scotch Drink, 248

Scotland and the Union (W. L. Mathieson), quoted, 18-19

Scots language, 23-31, 75

Scots Magazine, 31, 100, 228

Scots Musical Museum, The, 120-121, 214, 220, 254-264, 269, 273-274, 276

‘Scots wha hae,’ 272-273, 292, 300

Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 9, 44, 47, 65, 100, 104, 121, 135, 197, 246, 261, 265, 267, 274, 293, 300, 304, 305

Scottish National Gallery, 8

Seasons, The (Thomson), 25, 57

Sedition trials, 272

Select Collection of Scotish Airs (Thomson), 205, 257, 264, 268-277

Selkirk, Dunbar Douglas, Earl of, 96, 131-132, 293

Sentimentality, 58

Sentimental Tommy, 153

Shadow of the Glen, The (Synge), 46

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 22

Shakespeare, William, 11, 34-35, 42, 261

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 102

Shaw, George Bernard, 65

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 35, 239, 306

Shenstone, William, 57, 75, 238

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 278

Sheridan, Thomas, 29

Sidney, Sir Philip, 28

Sillar, David, 65, 89

Simpson, William, 244, 249

Sinclair, Sir John, 29-30, 301, 302

Six Excellent New Songs, 45

Skinner, John, 43, 256

Smellie, William, 103, 105-106, 110, 121, 177-178, 181, 253, 254

Smith, Adam, 31, 206, 278

Smith, James, 13, 89-90, 112, 150, 173, 249

Smith, Leonard, 215, 216

Smollett, Tobias, 58

Smuggling, 56

Snyder, Franklyn Bliss, 145, 147, 199

Solway, 184-187, 226

Sorrows of Werther, The, 115, 125

Souter Johnie, 97

South Sea Bubble, 7

Southey, Robert, 197

Sow’s Tail to Geordie, The, 26

Spectator, The, 31, 42, 164, 302

Spenser, Edmund, 42, 157

Spenserian stanza, 57

Spinoza, Baruch, 281

Stackhouse, Thomas, 48

Staig, David, 223, 224

Star, London, 205

Steenson, Steenie, 305

Sterne, Laurence, 42, 66

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 305

Stewart, Catherine Gordon, of Stair, 153

Stewart, Dugald, 61, 96-97, 98, 99, 118, 195

Stewart, Mrs. —, 165, 209

Stewart, William, 229

Stinking Vennel, Dumfries, 221, 222

Stirling, 209, 294

Stobbie, Adam, 130, 232

Stuart, House of, 4, 287-289, 294

Stuart, Peter, 205

Surgeoner, Jenny, 13, 143

Sweet Afton, 307

Swift, Jonathan, 60, 304

Syme, John, 57, 96, 109, 111, 125-134, 174, 181, 203, 229, 267, 295, 296

Synge, John Millington, 46

Tam Glen, 264

Tam o’ Shanter, 59, 121, 204, 264-268, 305

Tarbolton, 62-67, 89, 90, 124

Tarbolton Bachelors’ Club, 63-66, 88, 89

Tarbolton Mill, 165, 167

Tatler, The, 42, 302

Taylor, John, 100

Tea-Table Miscellany (Ramsay), 25

Telford, Thomas, 127, 213

Tennant, John, 211

‘The last time I cam o’er the moor,’ 179

‘The robin cam to the wren’s nest,’ 277

Thompson, Harold William, 305

Thomson, George, 61, 109, 133-134, 148, 186, 205, 232, 241, 243, 244, 249, 256, 258, 260, 264, 268-277

Thomson, James, 25, 28, 31, 42, 57, 151, 302

Thomson, Peggy, 56, 59, 69, 146

‘Thou Lingering Star,’ 148

Thrawn Janet, 305

Tinwald House, 182

Titus Andronicus, 34-35

To a Haggis, 248

To a Mountain Daisy, 59, 307

To a Mouse, 307

Toddlin hame, 275

‘To Fanny fair could I impart,’ 242

Tooke, Andrew, 49

Tooke, John Horne, 226

Tories, 225-226

Treatise on Solitude (Zimmermann), 125

Tudor, House of, 288

Tullochgorum, 43, 256

Twa Dogs, The, 154

Twa Herds, The, 76, 92-93

Twain, Mark, 65, 280

Tytler, William, 253

Union, Act of, 3, 6, 16, 23, 302-303

Unitarianism, 280

United States, 7, 29, 190, 218, 289, 290

Urbani, Pietro, 28

Versailles, 100

Vicar of Wakefield, The, 31

Virgil, 252, 276

Vocabulary, Burns’s, 247

Voltaire, 300

Wallace, Lady Antonia, of Craigie, 155

Wallace, Lady Eglintoune Maxwell, 155

Wallace, Sir William, History of (Blind Harry), 25, 45

Wallace, Sir William, 82, 153, 154, 234

Walpole, Horace, 278

Wardlaw, Lady Elizabeth, 27, 42-43

Washington, George, 290

Watson, John, 305, 307

Wedderburn, Alexander, 301

Wesley, John, 14, 278

West Indies, 7

Westminster, 293

‘When Princes and Prelates,’ 111

Whigs, 102, 131, 225-226, 230-231, 287, 294

Whistle, The, 121-122, 225

‘Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad,’ 264

Whitefoord, Sir John, 91, 99

Wig Club, Edinburgh, 104

Wigglesworth, Michael, 20

Wilkes, John, 287, 289

Wilson, John (‘Dr. Hornbook’), 39, 83

Wilson, John (Kilmarnock), 194

Wolcot, John, 270

Wolsey, Cardinal, 40

Women, Burns’s views on, 149-150

Women, education of, 37, 135-136

Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret, The, 295

Wood, Alexander, 210

Woodley Park, 122-123, 178-179, 180, 182

Wordsworth, William, 226, 234, 241, 278, 284, 304, 306

World War, 303

Young, Edward, 169, 279

‘Young Jocky was the blithest lad,’ 272

York, House of, 288

Zimmermann, Johann Georg von, 125