rank, 52, n. William Sinclair bi-
shop of, 230, n. primitial see of
Picland, 241, n.
Dysart, Danes landed at, 77.
Earnside Wood, account of, 406, n.
Earth, for porcelain, 310, n.
Easter, Ceolfrid's letter about, 47, n.
Eden, fish in, 136, n.
Erasmus, his panegyric on archbi-
shop Alexander Stuart, 255, n.
Erskine, family of, 358.
Ethelred, called Earl of Fife, charter
of, 168. controversy concerning it,
Eumenius, his panegyric on the cli-
mate of Britain, 38.
Fair, remarkable, at St. Andrews,
350, n.
Falkland, supposed station of the
ninth legion, 70.
Ferry, Queens, 86, 300. at
Burntisland, 307. at Kinghorn,
312. at Woodhaven, 418. Ferry-
port-on-craig, 419.
Feuel, in Fife, 159.
Fidra rock, 105.
Fife, extent, name, form and situa-
tion, 3. boundaries of, 3, 84.
why called a kingdom, 7. ety-
mology of the name of, 11, 12, n.
language of Gothic, 31-34.
divisions and inquisition for va-
luing, 199, 200.
Fife, Earls of, their privileges, 212,
&c. list and histories of, 226–236.
cadets of the family, 237. male
line of, ended, 231, n. earldom of,
annexed to the crown, 236.
scription of, 85, 86. lakies of, 87, 88.
Forthever, one of the ancient divi-
sions of Scotland, 4.
Fortbric, or Fotbrif, 4, 5. etymology
of the name, 10, 11, n.
France, original treaty with, nego-
ciated by bishop Fraser for Baliol,
250, n.
Friars, Augustine, 91. Franciscan,
Dominican and Jacobine, 248.
Galgacus, chosen commander of the
Caledonians, 43, n.
Garum pickle, 124, n.
German language, specimen of, 32, n.
Germans, dress of, 30. hospitality
of, 54.
Girth, Macduff's privilege of, 214.
nature of, 216, n.
Glass, formerly made in Fife, 325.
Gothic dialects, afford etymons of many
names in Fife, 12, n. 33-36. lan-
guage, mother of the Scottish, 31.
Goths, dress of, 30, n. specimens of
their language, 32. n. 33, 34.
Greece, monuments of, 57. n.
Guard Bridge, built, 253, 264, n.
Gum, extracted from hare bells, 161,n.
Haddock-fisbery, 123, n.
Hail, storms of, 152.
Harbours, good at Inverkeithing, 301.
Burntisland, 304. Elie, 334.
Anstruther, 338.
Hay-stack, rock, 93.
Hebudes, conquered by the Danes
and Norwegians, 79, n.
Hereditary suceession among priests,
177, n.
Hermits, origin of, 196.
Fife-ness, geographical situation of, Herring-fishery, 126, n. 306, n. 414, n.
Fillan, St. account of, 336, n.
Fort, on Inchgarvie, 89. on
Hope, family of, 361, 393.
Horestii, country of, 68, n. 71, n.
Inch-Horn, remarkable, 424.
Forts, George, Augustus, and Wil-
liam, built on the sites of Roman
forts, 2, n.
Forteviot, church of, said to have
been founded by Hungus II. 5, n.
seat of the Pictish kings, 49, n.
Forth, divides the middle and sou-
thern peninsulas of Scotland, 1.
etymology of the name, 84. de-
Hospital,at Inchkeith, 97, n. at Largo,
330.
Hungus, founder of St. 'Andrews,
famous charter of, 166. son of
Forgso, a forgery, 45, n.
James I. when Earl of Carrick, com-
mitted to the charge of bishop
Wardlaw, 265, n. munificent to the
schools at St. Andrews, 265.
James II. marriage feast of, 349, n.
James III. addicted to astrology,
James IV. marriage feast of, 349, n.
suffers by the treachery of Mrs.
Heron, his mistress, 255.
James V. frolic of, 325, u.
Ioris rock, 105.
Icelandic dialect, specimen of, 32, n.
Jerne, not Strathern, but Ireland,
37, n.
Inchcolm, situation and extent of, 90.
plundered by the English, 92, n.
Inchgarvie, 89.
Inchkeith, 94.
Inkfish, esteemed as food, 130, n.
Johnston's, Arthur and John, verses
on St. Andrews, 289. and the towns
on the coast, 354.
Jona, monastery of, built, 174.
exercised power over the Scottish |
church, 172, 175, 187, n. 241, n.
Jonathan's Cave, ancient custom at,
325, n.
Jones, Paul, 90, n. 337, n.
Ironstone, 292, n. 293, n. 320.
Isthmuses, of Scotland, 2, n.
Judges, of Fife, 239.
Keith, family of, 94.
Kilrymont, district of, granted to the
church, 166.
Kingdom of Fife, why so named, 7.
Kinross, etymology of the name of,
3. carly Christian establishment
at, 4, n. county of, disjoined from
Fife, 7, n. 271.
Kirkcaldy, Danes landed at, 76.
Lindores, Duke of Rothsay buried
at, 236, n. seal of the abbey,
Linisay, family of, 358, 362.
Lindsay, Sir David, 395, n.
Lobster-fishery, 131, n.
Lochleven, early Christian establish-
ment at, 4, n. isle of bestowed on
the church, 168, 280. castle of,
276.
Locbore, Roman camp at, 68, n.
| Lochy, loch and river, divide the mid-
dle and northern peninsulas of
Scotland, I.
Lollius Urbicus, builds a wall between
the Forth and Clyde, 2, n.
Longevity, instances of, 150.
Lundin, standing stones of, 329. fa-
mily of, 330.
Macbeth, considered as a giant, 79, n.
said to have defeated the Norwe-
gians, 80, n. 313.
Macduff, rise of, 211. privileges of,
212, &c. cross of, 219, 222, n.
flight of, 333, n.
Macintosh, descended from Macduff,
237-
Mauta, lived to the south of the Ro-
man wall, 15, 99, n.
Malcolm II. not killed at Glammis,
Malcolm III. divided Scotland into
dioceses, 181. founded Dun-
fermline, 294.
Manures, used in Fife, 156.
Marble, found, 314, 423.
Margaret, St. short notices of, 244, 11.
Lacedemonians, custom of, to their ge- | Mary, Queen, confined in Lochleven
castle, 277, n. 278.
Mary of Guise, 346.
May, name of, 36. isle, 98. &c.
priory, 99. light-house of, 100,
101, n. bought from the abbot
of Reading, and given to St. An-
drews, 250, n.
Melville, family of, 390.
Melville, sheriff of Mearns, his death,
216, n.
Micre Incb, or Mickery, 93.
Mineral Water, at Orrock, 310.
at Kinghorn, 311. at Dysart,
322.
Money, value of, in the time of Ed- |
ward II. 251, n.
Monks, origin of, 196, of Vallis
Umbrosa came to Scotland, 248.
Carthusian, 266.
Monypenny, family of, 348.
Mortimers, acquire Aberdour, 93.
Mosses, formation of, 17, 153, &c.
mode of converting into arable
land, 155.
Palladius, St. not sent to Scotland
but Ireland, 45, n. 174, 175.
Panter, secretary, imprisoned in Inch-
garvie, 98, n. tutor to archbishop
Alexander Stuart, 255, n.
Parishes of Fife, old list of, 206. list
of in 1710, 207. in 1803, 456.
Parliament, not early known in Scot-
land, 224, n. one held at Dairsie,
Muckross, early given to the priests Patrick, St.,time of his going to Ire-
of St. Andrews, 4, n.
Mugdrum Inch, 105, n.
land, 45, n.
Perth, bridge of, 88, n.
Mungo, St. or Kentigern, of Glasgow, Pettycur, Danes landed at, 76. har-
Orkney, specimen of its ancient dia-
lec, 32, n. length of days in, 39, a
principality of the Pictish king-
dom, 48, n. conquered by the
Danes and Norwegians, 79, n.
Orrea Urbs, supposed to be near
Lochore, 68. station of the
ninth legion, 70. not in Fife, 71, n.
Orwel, parish of, disjoined from
Fife, 7.
Otolinia, a name given to Fife by
Boeth, 8.
Ottedini, where seated, 9, n.
Oyster-fishery, 93, n. 95, 311, n.
Pics, priests among, generally from
Iona, 4, n, 185, n. converted to
Christianity, 4, n. 45, n. 241, n.
in Britain before Cesar's time, 18.
came from Germany, 19, &c.
seated in the north of Britain, 36.
elected their princes, 42, 43, 48,
n. choice confined to the royal
race, 48, n. sovereign power, li-
mited, 43, list of their kings,
44, &c. names of their
kings Gothic, 49. residence of
their kings, ib. race of hardy and
warlike, 53. settled in England,
74, 75, n. said to have brought the
Danes to invade Scotland, 76. fa-
bulous account of their conver-
sion, 163.
Pilchard-fishery, 126, n. 307, n.
Pitfirran, privilege relating to its
coal, 292, n.
Porpess, food for the royal table, 116.
Priory, of May, 100. of Lochleven
or Portmoak, 280, &c. of St.
Andrews, 187, &c.
Pittenweem, 336.
Purple dye, made from a shell, 134, n.
Queensferry, origin of the name of,
86, n. 300, n.
Regulus, St. legend of, 163, &c. tower
of, 165, n. 351.
Robert III. supported by bishop Ward-
law, 264, n.
Rocking-stone, 425.
Roman army,loss of,under Severus,16,n.
Roman, trenches at Lochore, Benarte
and Clatchart, 70, 71. works, few
vestiges
vestiges of in Fife, ib. n. coins | Tay, rise and course of, 88, n. 149.
found near the water of Leven,
arms found in different places, ib.
72, n.
Ross, included Fife, Montieth, and
Strathern, 3.
Rotbsay, Duke of, murdered at Falk-
land, 234, n. buried at Lindores,
ib. 386.
Royal sepulchres, 297.
Russian bospital, at Inchkeith, 98, n.
Saint Clair, Earl of Orkney, 318.
family of, 319.
Salmon-fisbery, 125, n. 338, n. 382,
Salt, 299, 315, 319, 322, n. 324, n.
328, 336, 340, 403.
Salvator, St. or bishop's barge, 269, n.
Scot, Sir Michael, 317, n. of Scots-
tarvet founds a professorship, 344.
Scotland-Well, founded, 247, 282.
Scottish, old, specimen of, 32, n.
Scythia, or the north of Germany,
the original country of the Pics,
20, &c.
tradition concerning, 406.
Temple's, Sir William, opinion of the
origin of the Scots, 27.
Thanes, said to be civil officers among
the Picts, 49, 50, 51. Selden's
account of, 51.
Thule, said to be the country of the
Pias, 20, 36. situation of, 37.
Thunder storms, 421, n. ¡
Trade of Fife, causes of its decline,
339, n. of Scotland described, 395,n.
Trout-fishery, in Lochleven, 284, n.
Turbot-fisbery, 119, n.
Urchin, sea, esteemed as a food, 133, n.
Vacomagior Vicomagi, where seated, 9.
Valentia, Roman province of, 2, n.
Valuation of Fife, in 1517, 201. in
1695, 445.
Vanguard, Macduff's privilege of
leading, 212, &c.
Vecturiones, inhabited Fife, 6, n.
etymology of the name, 6.
Venicontes, or Vennicones, said to have
inhabited Fife, 12, 69.
Scythian language, mother of the Go-
thic, and thence of the Scottish, 31.
Sea, encroached at St. Andrews,
153. at Burntisland, 311, n. at An-Wampum, substance of, 135, n.
struther, 338, n.
Vespasiana, Roman province of, 2, n.
Seals, used as food, 114, n. as matter
Selkirk, Alexander, story of, 333, n.
Servan, St. a bishop, 175.
Sheriffs of Fife, 238, 239, n.
Sibbald, family of, 360, 399.
Sinclair, William, the king's bishop,
231, n.
Smelt, or Spirling fishery, 125, n.
Soil, nature of, in Fife, 153.
Solan Goose, 109.medical use of, 111,n.
Solway, ancient name of, 5, n.
Stirling, bridge at, 85.
Strivelin, John de, besieges Lochleven
castle, 276.
Sueno, king of Norway, invades Fife,
80.
Sympathy,remarkable instance of, 151.
Water, means of converting salt into
fresh, 105, n.
Temyss, family of, 227, 237, 309,
Whales, found in the Frith of Forth,
94, 115, 292. head esteemed a de-
licacy, 116, n.
William, the Conqueror, statute of,
mentioning the Picts, 74.
William, the Lion, firmness in resist.
ing the pope's influence, 246, n.
Wishart, bishop of Glasgow, taken at
Cupar, 399, n.
Wood, Sir Andrew, pilot to James
IV. 100. brilliant actions of, 330, n.
John, his school and hospital, 333,
356, n.
Woods, Fife once full of, 153.
Wypont, Alan, defends Lochleven
castle, 277, n..
Dr. Adamson, St. Andrews.
Rev. Thomas Adamson, Cameron.
Andrew Aitken, Carnbee.
George Aitken, Esq. Cupar.
George Aitken, Kirkcaldy.
Thomas Aitken, Westhall.
William Allastar, Writer Edin.
James Anderson, Star.
James Anderson, Esq. of Inchry.
John Anderson, Newburgh.
Patrick Anderson, Esq. W. S. Edin.
Robert Anderson, Pathhead.
William Anderson, Cupar.
Thomas Archbald, Merchant, Elie.
William Arthur, Esq. Kemback.
Robert Arnot, Esq. of Chapel.
James Ayton, Kinghorn.
Robert Baillie, Esq. of Carphin.
Robert Baldie, Cupar.
James Balfour, Kilmany.
James Balfour, Kirkcaldy.
John Balfour, Fernicbarns.
General Nisbet Balfour.
John Balfour, Esq. of Balbirnie.
James Balfour, Brochlie.
William Balfour, Bankhead.
Thomas Ballingall, Balmalcolm.
William Barclay.
Alex. Bayne, Esq. of Rires.
William Bayne, Esq. of Newmill.
David Beatson, Dunfermline.
Robert Beatson, Esq. of Bruntisland
Castle.
Robert Beatson, Esq. of Pitteadie.
William Beatson, London.
Alex. Bell, Surgeon, Errol.
Rev. Andrew Bell, Crail.
Charles Bell, Esq. of Pitbladdo.
James Bell, Brownhills.
John Bell, Cupar.
Gilbert Bethune, Esq. of Balfour.
Henry Bethune, Esq. of Kilconquhar.
William Bethune, Esq. of Blebo.
James Begbie, St. Andrews.
Robert Birrel, Kirkcaldy.
David Black, Esq. Dunfermline.
Blair, Colin..
John Blyth, Leven.
Miss Boswell, Cupar.
John Braid, St. Andrews.
Thomas Brand, Teasses.
John Brash, Leith.
Archibald Brodie, St. Andrews.
Rev. David Brown, Crailing.
Rev. Dr. Brown, Tranent.
James Brown, Kirkcaldy.
John Brown, Gencalogist R. H. P.W.
Peter Brown, Esq. of Newton.
Robert Brown, Kirkcaldy.
Thomas Bruce, Esq. of Grangemuir,
Walter Bruce, Cabinet-maker, Leith.
Rev. George Buist, Falkland.
Henry Buist, Braeside.
Henry Buist, Weddersbie.
Rev. James Burns, Brechin.
Right Honourable Earl of Craufurd and Lindsay, 4 copies.
Rev. Adam Cairns, Longforgan.
Lieutenant General Alex. Campbell
of Monzie, M. P.
Rev. Dr. Campbell, Cupar.
George Cant, Kingsbarns.
William Carnie, Collinsburgh.
Rev. Andrew Carstairs, Kingsbarns.
George Carstairs, Merchant, Leith.
James Carstairs, Writer, Cupar.
John Carstairs, Esq. London.
Thomas Carstairs, Hillary.
William Carstairs, London.
Rev. Thomas Chalmers, Kilmany.
George Cheap, Esq. of Pusk.
James Cheap, Esq. of Strathtyrum.
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