The history of Scotland written in Latin by George Buchanan ; faithfully rendered into English.

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The history of Scotland written in Latin by George Buchanan ; faithfully rendered into English.
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Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.
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London :: Printed by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham Churchil ...,
1690.
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Scotland -- History -- To 1603.
Scotland -- History -- 16th century.
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  • ... Page
  • ABercorn-Castle, 22
  • ...Aberdeen, 19
  • Famous for Salmon-Fishing, ibid.
  • ...Aberdone, ibid.
  • Aberbrothock, or Abrinca, ibid.
  • Abernethy, wherein was the old Palace of the Picts Kings, 16, 18
  • Abria, or Abyr, a Country or Shire, the Etymology thereof, 19
  • Abridic, or Erisbach-Isle, 25
  • Abthane, an old Name of Magistracy and Dignity amongst the Scots, See Thane. 187, 206
  • Achaius King of Scotland, 164
  • He makes a defensive War against the Irish, ibid.
  • The First of the Scotish Kings that ever made a League with France, 165
  • Achnar-Isle, 26
  • Acho, King of Norwey, lands in Air with a great Fleet, 241
  • Is overthrown, and dies of Grief, ibid.
  • Achmode-Isles: See Aebudae
  • Adams Isle, 30
  • ...Adamannus, 161
  • Adam Huntly taken Prisoner by the Earl of Murray, (170)
  • Ado Viennensis quoted and corrected, 87
  • Adrian passes out of France into Britain, 112
  • His Wall, ibid.
  • Adrian, the Pope's Legate, in England, 433
  • Advatici, Who? 10
  • Aebudae Islands, 22
  • Their Number, ibid.
  • Aelius Pertinax in Britain, 117
  • Aelius Spartianus quoted, 118
  • Aemodae Isles, the same with Aebudae.
  • ...Aeneia, 18, 170
  • ...Air, 14
  • Aestions spake the British Language, 50
  • They inhabited Prussia, 77
  • Aetius, the Britains crave Aid of him, 93
  • Afulla Isle, 31
  • Agnes Keith, Daughter of the Earl of Merch, married to James Earl of Murray, (161)
  • Agathyrsi painted their Bodies, 53
  • Aidan, King of Scots, invested in that Dig∣nity by Columb, 155
  • Ailmer, Edward of England's General, o∣verthrows Bruce, 12, 61
  • Air County, 20
  • Alan of Lorn, keeps his Brother Prisoner, 407, 408
  • He is imprisoned himself, ibid.
  • Albanact Son of Brute, from him the Scots called Albani, 42
  • Albinick, the Scots so called, 11
  • Albium, or Albion Isle, retains the Name of Britanny, 1
  • More Islands than one anciently so called, ibid.
  • Its Etymology, 11, 12
  • Album, or White, the Name of Height, as well as of Colour; whence many Words are derived, as Albingaunum, Albula, Albici, Albini, &c. 11
  • ...Alcluyth, 92
  • Alexander I. King of Scots, 221, 222
  • Why Sirnamed Acer, ibid.
  • His Iustice to a poor Woman, 222
  • He is relieved by Hermites, ibid.
  • Alexander II. 237
  • Enters England, and takes Carlile, ibid.
  • He and his Queen visit Henry of England, 239
  • ...

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  • His Queen dies at London, 239
  • He marries a French Lady, ibid.
  • Alexander III. 240
  • The Nobles combine against him, 241
  • He hath an Interview with Henry of Eng∣land, 240
  • Is made Knight by him, and espouses Marga∣rite his Daughter, ibid.
  • Assists the King of England, 243
  • He and his Queen present at the Coronation of King Edward I. He marries Joleta a French Lady, 244
  • He forbids Traffick by Sea, ibid.
  • He reduces the Train of his Nobles in Tra∣velling, ibid.
  • His violent and untimely Death, ibid.
  • His Character, ibid.
  • Alexander, Duke of Albany, Brother of James III. taken by the English, 407
  • But soon released, ibid.
  • Committed Prisoner to Edinburgh Castle, 421
  • Whence he craftily made his Escape, ibid.
  • And coming to the King of England, solicits him to take Arms, 425
  • He is recalled by the Scots, and hath the chief Government bestowed upon him, 427
  • He restores his Brother James to the free Pos∣session of the Kingdom, ibid.
  • He falls again into Disgrace, and dies in France, 430
  • Alexander, the Son of Alexander of Alba∣ny, ibid.
  • Alexander Boyd abuses and wounds John Kennedy, 410
  • His is tried for his Life, 414
  • Beheaded, ibid.
  • Alexander Bruce surrenders himself to Ba∣liol, 287
  • Slain in a Fight with the English, 290
  • Alexander, Earl of Buchan, base-born Son to Robert II. 307
  • Alexander Cambel, a Dominican, the No∣toriety of his End, (53)
  • Alexander Cuningham slain (with King James III.) in his Army, 433
  • Alexander Cuningham brings Aid to the Reformers, (129)
  • Being taken Prisoner, he takes him Prisoner, whose Captive he was, before, (282)
  • Alexander Elphinston slain in Fight, (26)
  • Alexander Forbes marries Graecina Boyd, (6)
  • Alexander Forbes taken by Adam Gordon, (284)
  • Alexander, Earl of Crawford, deserts Dou∣glas, and submits to the King, 388
  • Alexander, Earl of Glencarn, banished, (175)
  • A General in the King's Army, (220)
  • Alexander Gordon beats the Earl of Craw∣ford, 387
  • Alexander Hume marches into England, (19)
  • He brings his Squadron off safe from Flodden Field, (25)
  • His great Authority, (28)
  • Accused by Hepburn, (33)
  • Sides with the Queen, (34)
  • Goes for England, is reconciled to the Re∣gent, and returns, ibid.
  • He raises an Insurrection, (35)
  • His Goods confiscate, he is taken and behead∣ed, (36)
  • Alexander Hume, as a Proxy, takes the Co∣ronation-Oath for James VI. yet a Child, (214)
  • He is General of the King's Army, (220)
  • Wounded, (221)
  • Revolts to the Queen's Party, (243)
  • His Castle taken and rifled by the English, (256)
  • He is chief in the Council of the Rebels, (280)
  • Taken Prisoner, but by the coming in of his Friends released, (281)
  • Alexander Haliburton wounded, and dies, (141)
  • Alexander Levingston made Supream Go∣vernour, or Regent, 357
  • He puts the Queen in Prison, 364
  • Disagrees with Creighton the Chancellour, 360, 364
  • The King taken out of his Hands, 365
  • Reconciled to the Chancellour, 366, 368
  • Lays down his Office, 372
  • Is brought to his Trial, and remanded to Pri∣son, 375
  • Alexander, the Son of William Leving∣ston, taken Prisoner, (265)
  • Alexander, the Islander, gathers together a Band of Free-booters, 341
  • But is forced to submit to the King, 342
  • Alexander Lindsy overcomes Alexander Ogilby, 273, 274
  • Alexander Macrory, Captain of Thieves, executed, 341
  • Alexander, Earl of Marr, the Son of Alex∣ander, 348, 349
  • Alexander Ramsay, a brave Souldier, 299
  • His House the School of War, ibid.
  • He takes Roxburgh, 300
  • Wounded, and starved to Death, by Dou∣glas, 301
  • ...

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  • Alexander Ramsay's chearful Forwardness in surprizing Dumbarton Castle, (265)
  • Alexander Seton sent to Berwick, (287)
  • Having no hopes of Relief, he surrenders up the Town to the English, (290)
  • Alexander Stuart, Arch-bishop of St. An∣drews, slain at Flodden-Fight, (29)
  • Alexander Stuart's Encounter with the King of Norway, 242
  • Allectus, a Roman, slain, 124
  • Alfrid, King of Northumberland, 161
  • Alnwick Castle taken, 398
  • Alsa, or Ailze Isle, 24
  • Alpa, for Alba, 11
  • Alps, whence so called? ibid.
  • Alpin, King of Scots, 166
  • Slain by the Picts, ibid.
  • Altissidorus, i. e. Auxerre in France, 68
  • Alured, King of England, makes Peace with the Scots, 177
  • Amberkeleth King of Scots, 162
  • Slain, ibid.
  • Ammianus Marcellinus quoted, 88, 89
  • Amiens, the Bishop thereof in Scotland, his Cruelty, (148)
  • St. Andrews, 18
  • Its Vniversity, when erected, 333
  • Andreae Fanum; and Fanum Reguli, i. e. St. Andrews, why so called? 16
  • Andrews, a great Astrologer, 420
  • Andrew, the Apostle, Tutelary of Scotland, 218
  • Andrew Briton, or Breton, his Story, (18)
  • Slain by Thomas Howard, the English Ad∣miral, (19)
  • Andrew Berclay beheaded for Treason, 273
  • Andrew Car escapes out of Prison, (36)
  • He disagrees with Douglas, (38)
  • Andrew Car revenges his Father's Death, (18)
  • Andrew Car beaten by the Duke of Norfolk, (120)
  • Andrew Forman sent into England and France by James IV. (16)
  • He hath a great many Church-Preferments, (29)
  • Sent again into England, (26)
  • He is accused by Hepburn, (33)
  • Mediates for Peace, (35)
  • Andrew Murray, Bruce's Sister's Son, Re∣gent, 296
  • Taken by the English, 288
  • Ransomed, 294
  • His Faithfulness and Death, 297
  • Andrew, Earl of Rothes, banished, 175
  • Andrew Wood faithful to King James III. (1)
  • Admiral of the Scots Navy, (1)
  • Reconciled to James IV. (2)
  • Overcomes the English in one Sea-Fight, ibid.
  • And also in a second, (4)
  • Andrew Stuart, Chancellour, 413
  • His Freedom of Speech against a Popish King, (173)
  • He is wounded in Fight, (222)
  • ... Angus, 18
  • Angus, or Aeneas, raised an Insurrection in Galway, 230
  • Angusianus, King of Scotland, 126
  • Slain by the Picts, ibid.
  • Annandale, so called from the River Annand, 13, 14
  • Anna Momorancy suspects the Power of the Guises in France, not without Cause, (121)
  • Anselm, the Norman, Arch-bishop of Can∣terbury, 219
  • Anti-Assemblies in Scotland, two, (276, 280)
  • Anthony Darcy slain by David Hume, (38)
  • Apparition to King Kenneth III. upon his Murder of Malcolm, 195
  • Apparition to King James IV. dissuading him from a War with England, (20, 21)
  • Apoceanitae, Who? 10
  • Apology of the Scots Nobles to the Queen of England, (267, &c. 272, &c.)
  • Apostacy punished by God, 159
  • Arran, or Arren, Island, 24
  • Arborary, or Tree Isle, 25
  • Archibald Douglas created Regent, 288
  • He is slain by the English, 290
  • Archibald, Earl of Douglas, sirnamed the Austere, his Feuds with Geo. Dunbar, 325
  • He dies, 326
  • Archibald, his Son, succeeds him, who is ta∣ken Prisoner by the English, 329
  • Released, ibid.
  • Made Duke of Turein by the Dolphin of France, 336
  • Slain by the English there, ibid.
  • Archibald Douglas his great Power, 359
  • His affronting Answer to the Chancellor, 362
  • His Death, 363
  • Archibald Douglas his Oration to the Nobles against the King's Evil Counsellors, 423
  • With the Effects thereof, 424
  • Archibald Douglas his Speech to King James IV. dissuading him to fight the English, (22)
  • At which the King is offended, and Douglas retires in Discontent, (23)
  • He marries the Widow of James IV. (29)
  • Accused by Hepburn, (33)
  • Takes Edinburgh, but resigns up the Govern∣ment thereof, (38)
  • Flies into England, (34)
  • ...

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  • Returns from France and England into Scot∣land, (46)
  • Opposed by his Wife, (46)
  • Chosen one of the Governours of King and Kingdom, (47)
  • Overthrows Lennox, (50)
  • Forbid to meddle with the Government, (53)
  • Outlawed and banished, (56)
  • Returns after fifteen Years Exile, (75)
  • Coming to compose Controversies, he is detain∣ed by Hamilton, (82)
  • His memorable Speech and Fact, (87)
  • He persuades the Regent to break with the Cardinal, and to side with the Nobles, (88)
  • He beats the English, (89)
  • Archbishop of St. Andrews (with the Bishop of Aberdene) imprisoned, (46)
  • Archbishop of St. Andrews executed as Ac∣cessory to the King and Regent's Murders, (266)
  • Ardan Rider, or the High Isle of the Horse∣man, 28
  • Ardiescar Isle, 25
  • Aremorici, or Armorici, Who? 7, 8
  • Argadius, Regent, 115
  • Being accused, he repents, and supplicates for Pardon, ibid.
  • Whereupon, he is continued in his Govern∣ment, ibid.
  • And prevails against the Islanders, 116
  • Argyle Country, 17
  • Argyle, Earl, joins with the Reformers, (131)
  • Arren, see Arran.
  • Arrii painted their Bodies, 53
  • Arrogance, the usual Companion of Power, 412
  • Arthur Uterson's begotten in Adultery, King of the Britains, 150
  • His Character, 154
  • He overcomes the Saxons, and takes London and York from them, ibid.
  • He is slain, 151, 152
  • Arthur, the Son of Henry VIII. of Eng∣land, marries Katherine the Infanta of Spain, (11, 14)
  • Arthur Forbes slain, (284)
  • Arveni, Who? 46
  • Asclepiodotus, a Roman Lieutenant-Gene∣ral, kills Allectus in Britain, 124
  • Askerme Isle, 29
  • Assassination of King Henry odious to all Na∣tions, (192)
  • Assassins of King Henry labour to impute the Parricide to Murray and Morton, (191)
  • Astrological Predictions, Courtiers much ad∣dicted to them, 418
  • Asyle Isle. See Flavannae, 30
  • Athelstan, King of England, fights the Picts, 165
  • He is slain at a Place, since called Athelstan's Ford, 165
  • Athelstan, base Son of Edward King of England, overcomes the Danes and Scots in Battel, 179, 180
  • Recovers Dunbritton from the Scots, ibid.
  • Athircus, or Athirco, King of Scotland, 119
  • He reigns vitiously, and kills himself, 120
  • Athol, a fruitful Country, 18
  • It abounds with Witches, 357
  • Atrebates, Who? 56
  • ...Aven, 15
  • Aven and Avon, What they signify? 70
  • ...Avon Laggan, 26
  • Avona Isle, its Etymology, 25
  • Auresius Ambrosius his Original, 146, 147
  • Aureliacum (i. e.) Orilhach, 60
  • Austin, a Monk, comes into England, and calls himself Archbishop of all Britain, 157
  • He promotes Superstition rather than true Re∣ligion, ibid.
  • Authority, got by good Arts, is lost by bad, (208)
  • Avus, or Aw, a Loch or River, 17
  • Auxerre; see Altissidorus.
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