Session, church sessions, their influence, iii. 20.
Shaftsbury, Ashley Cooper, earl of, his services at the restora-
tion, iii. 500. 550.
A member of the cabal, iv. 66. His
memorable speech absurdly assigned as the cause of an in-
surrection in Scotland, 91.

Sharp, a presbyterian clergyman, commissioned to negociate for
restoring Charles on the terms of the covenant, iii. 502.
Deserts the presbyterians on the offer of the primacy, iv. 5.
Made archbishop of St. Andrews, and consecrated in Eng-
land, 21. His violence, 22. His severity in the court of
commission, 37. Cruelty after the insurrection of Pent-
land, 44.
An attempt on his life, 52. Discovers Mitchell
the assassin, to whom, on his confession, he promises his
life, 76. Instigates Mitchell's trial and execution,
77-80.
His perjury on that occasion, ib. Murdered by the fanaticks,
93. His character, 94.

Solemn league and covenant with England, iii. 242.
Spottiswood, archbishop of Glasgow, iii. 34. Contributes to
Balmerino's disgrace, 56. Appointed an extraordinary lord
of session, 57. And archbishop of St. Andrews, 58. His
consecration in England, 60. Presides in the assembly of
Perth, 78. Instigates Balmerino's trial, 108. Appointed
chancellor, 114. At first averse to the liturgy, 119. Which
he attempts to introduce, 121. Retires to England, 154.
His death and character, ib.

his son, president of the court of session, assessor on
Balmerino's trial, iii. 109. Removed for supposed malver-
sation in office, 203. Taken and executed on Montrose's
defeat at Philiphaugh, 316.

the archbishop's grandson, executed a few days after
Montrose, iii. 422.

Sprewl, tortured in duke of York's presence, iv. III.
Sprott, a notary, his supposed discoveries concerning the Gow-
rie conspiracy, iii. 53. His execution, 54.

Squadrone Volante, or Squadrone party, when and how form-
ed, iv. 311.
Retains the balance in parliament, 335. Their
accession to the court party, carries the union, 354. Pro-
cure the dissolution of the privy council, 371.

Stair, lord viscount, (see Dalrymple,) restored to the presidency
of the court of session, iv. 212. Endeavours to exclude him
from the court of session, 215. Outcry of all parties against
him as president, 243. Regulations of parliament directed
against him, 244.

, earl of, his son, (see Dalrymple, sir John,) proscribed
from office by the public hatred, iv. 322. Advises Queens-
berry to persevere in the union, 341.

Start of Charles II. what, iii. 436.

Stewart, an advocate, afterwards sir James, retires to the conti-
nent, iv. 127. Recalled and employed in a correspondence

with Fagel to procure the prince of Orange's consent to the
repeal of the test, 183. Not the author of the prince's de-
claration, 185. note.

Stirling surprised by Monro, iii. 381. The castle surrender-
ed to Monk, 448.

earl of. See Alexander.

Strachan, a distinguished sectary, defeats Montrose, iii. 417.
Defeated and deserts to Cromwell, 418.

Strafford, earl of, his violence renews the war against the Scots,
iii. 175. His impeachment, 189. And attainder, 195.
Superintendants, their office, numbers, and jurisdiction, iii. 17.
A temporary expedient, 18.

Supplicants against the canons and liturgy, iii. 124. Their
numbers encreased, 127. Proclamations against them, 127–
133. Their protestation against the last proclamation, 134.
Motives of their leaders, 135. See Tables, Covenant.
Swinton proposes to break off the treaty of Breda, iii. 423. 547.
Turns quaker at the restoration, iv. 19.

Sydserf, bishop of Galloway, iii. 128. The only surviving
prelate at the restoration, iv. 21.

T

Tables, their institution, iii. 129. Their demands increase, 130.
Project the renewal of the national covenant, 137.

Tarbet, lord, promotes the revolution, iv. 191. Accused of
falsifying the records of parliament, 243. Created earl of
Cromarty. See Cromarty.

Tarras, earl of, how far engaged in the Ryehouse plot, iv. 134.
His evidence employed against Jerviswood his uncle, 137.
Engaged in the revolution, 187.

Test, passed by the duke of York, 416. Its contradictions,
118. Explanations of the test, 119. Eighty clergymen re-
sign, to avoid the test, 120. James attempts to procure its
repeal, 172. Annuls the test by his dispensing powers,
177.
Transportation, when the punishment was first introduced, iv.

47.

Traquair, earl of, procures Balmerino's sentence, iii. 110. In-

timidated and obtains his pardon, 112. Unjustly suspected
of connivance with the supplicants, 132. Commissioner to
the assembly and parliament, 169. Letter au roi produced
at court by Traquair, 176. Afraid to return to Scotland,
179. Accused as an incendiary, but preserved by the king,
197.

Treason, trials for, after death, iii. 54. Trial and condemna-
tion in absence, iv. 46. New treasons introduced, 158.
English laws against high treason introduced after the union,
377-

Turner, his severities, iv. 38. Surprized and unexpectedly
spared by the insurgents, 41.

Tweedale, earl of, his mild administration, iv. 51. Attempts
an union, 58. His opposition to Lauderdale, 67. Ap-
pointed chancellor, 235. Marquis and commissioner to par-
liament, 247. Displaced, 255. His death, ib.

marquis of, his son, his feeble administration, iv. 301.
Dismissed, 310. His party forms the Squadrone, 311.
Tythes, the revocation of, iii. 89. Opposed by a convention of
estates, 91. Supported by the clergy and landholders, 94.
The king's arbitration concerning them, ib. Its effects, 95.

U

Vane, sir Harry, the younger, sent a commissioner to Scotland,
iii. 237. His artifice in framing the solemn league and co-
venant, 241. Once governor of Massachusets, 281. A com-
missioner to settle and unite Scotland with the English
commonwealth, 449.

Union of the crowns, how accomplished, iii. 1, 2. Of the king-
doms, first attempted by James VI. 9. A treaty for that
purpose, 10. Obstacles to its success, 11. Postponed, 13.
And abandoned by James, 14. Compulsive union with the
English commonwealth, 449. Completed 459. Union at-
tempted by the earl of Tweedale, iv. 58. Union proposed
at the revolution by William, 202. Recommended in his
last message to the house of commons, 272. Resumed and a
conference held at Westminster on queen Ann's accession,
280. Act for a treaty of union with England, 312-314.
Motives of statesmen for a union; of Godolphin, 318. Of
the whigs, 319. The advantages proposed by an union to
England, ib. To Scotland, 320. Motives of the Scottish
statesmen, Queensberry and Argyle, 322. Commissioners
for the treaty appointed, 324. Treaty begun at Westmin-
ster, ib.
An incorporating, preferred to a federal union,
325. Equalizing taxes adopted, 326. Land tax limited to
a certain amount, 327. Excise on malt suspended, 328.
Representation, 329. Enlarged from a thirteenth to a twelfth
of the united parliament, 331. Motives of the Scottish peers
in the treaty, 332. Equivalent, 333. Suspense and appre-
hensions which the treaty occasioned, 336. Articles of
unión introduced into parliament, 337.
Universal outcry
and alarm, ib. Articles of union examined in parliament,
338. Tumults on that occasion, 339. Debates on the four
first articles, 341. Approved, 351. Union opposed by the
clergy, 354. An act passed for the security of the church,
355. Succeeding articles of union approved, 356. Malt

tax suspended during the war, 357. Tumults, insurrections,
projected, 358. Prevented by Hamilton, 359. Remaining
articles ratified, and the whole transmitted to England, 362.
Debates in the English parliament, 363. Articles of union
exemplified in England, 364. Distribution and choice of
representatives in the Scottish parliament, 365. Commence-
ment and reception of the union in England, 368. In Scot-
land, 369. Completed by the dissolution of the privy
council of Scotland, 373. Improved by the introduction of
the English laws against high treason, 376. General re-
view of the principles. 378. And consequences of the
union, 380. Benefits of the union at first imperceptible,
386. Afterwards immense, 388. Its effects on literature,
389. On the administration of justice, 392. Religion, 393.
Its recent benefits, 395.

Universities filled by the covenant with fanatical teachers, iii.
245. Scottish universities less adapted than the English for
classical literature, 479. University of Edinburgh shut up,
iv. 113. English universities, their privileges invaded by
James, 180.

Uxbridge, treaty of, iii. 266. Interests of each party at the
treaty, 267. Its failure, 272.

W

Waller, sir William, his defeat, iii. 232. Pursues but repulsed
by Charles, 254.

Wariston, Archibald Johnston of, an advocate employed in
framing the covenant, iii. 138. Clerk to the assembly at
Glasgow, 151. A commissioner in the treaty at London,
190. Appointed a lord of session, 203. Sits in Cromwell's
house of peers and council of state, 486. President of the
council of state, 494. Attainted after the restoration, iv. 19.
Delivered up by the French court, 35. His execution and
character, 36.

Welsh and Dury, two clergymen, condemned for treason and
banished, iii. 27.

Westminster assembly of divines, iii. 289. Its directory for
public worship, 291. Form of ordination, 292. Church
government debated, 293. Confession of faith, 294. In-
tolerance of the assembly, ib. Its conclusions adopted and
sanctioned in Scotland by the assembly and parliament, 326.
Its confession of faith confirmed after the revolution, iv.
232.
Whigamere's inroad, the first insurrection and origin of the
whigs, iii. 381.

William, (see Prince of Orange,) William and Mary proclaimed
king and queen, iv. 208. His concern in the massacre of

Glenco, 238-242. His inattention to the affairs of Scotland,
246. Opposes the Darien company, 258. Death and cha
racter of William, 272.

Wogan, his romantic expedition and premature death, iii, 455.
Worcester, battle of, iii. 444.

York, siege and surrender of, iii. 250-253.

James, duke of, his arrival in Scotland, iv. 105. His
administration there, 109. His character, 111. Holds a
parliament, 113. Obtains an act to secure his succession,
114. And a test to disqualify the presbyterians, 116. His
persecution of Argyle, 121. Shipwrecked, 128. See James.

THE END.

T. Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.