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"For the accomplishment of this resolution, the three kingdoms lie under no small debt of grat.i.tude to the Covenanters. They suffered and bled both in fields and on scaffolds for the cause of civil and religious liberty; and shall we reap the fruit of their sufferings, their prayers and their blood, and yet treat their memory either with indifference or scorn? No! whatever minor faults may be laid to their charge, whatever trivial accusations may be brought against them, it cannot but be acknowledged that they were the men who, 'singly and alone,' stood forward in defence of Scotland's dearest rights, and to whom we at the present day owe everything that is valuable to us either as men or as Christians."
[Ill.u.s.tration: THE MARTYRS' MONUMENT, EDINBURGH.]
It only remains for us to add that James Currie, who was the means of raising the original monument, suffered much during the persecution and more than once narrowly escaped capture.
INDEX
Alloway Kirk, witches in, 178
Antiquity of bells, 34
a.s.sa.s.sins of James I., 6
Averting evil spirits at birth, 194
Bag-pipes at funerals, 254
Banns, publication of, 213
Banquets at baptism, 207
Baptism of bells, 42
Beating bounds, 16
Begg, Dr, opposes the organ, 107
Behaviour at kirk, 119
Bell Lore, 34-45
Beltane superst.i.tions, 46
Betrothals, 212, 213
Bible and witchcraft, 166
Bible thrown into the fire, 191
Biers, 241
Biggar, witchcraft at, 184
Birth and Baptism. Customs and Superst.i.tions, 194-209
Black Rood, 29
Brank, 115
Brechin Cathedral, 66
Bristo Port, heads on, 252
Burghs, origin of, 64-66
Burning witches, 163, 168, 184, 191
Calvinism, advent of, 164
Care of the poor, 149
Celtic crosses, 24, 28
Charter of St. Giles's Church, 6
Children, marriage of, 216
Christmas, punished for keeping, 117
Church, marriages to be celebrated in, 222
Church music, 98-107
Churches, interment in, 243
Clova jougs, 113
Coins, objection to foreign, 144
Compulsory attendance at kirk, 119, 137
Consent of parents to be given for marriage, 216
Covenanters slain, 262
Covenanters' flag, 27, 28
Craft-gilds, 128
Creeping to the cross, 27
