conformists at Glasgow, 353; Mar- quess of, 384; his intended duel with Argyle, 391, 392; his expedition against Conventicles, 395, 396, 406. Atkins, Mr. James, minister of Birsay, afterwards successively Bishop of Murray and Galloway, 368, 369, 391, 397, 400, 403, 410.
Baillie, Archibald, 286.
Baillie, Christian, of Jerviswood, first wife of Brodie's brother, Joseph, her illness and death, 306.
Baillie, Robert, of Jerviswood, 325, 362, 363; is put in Stirling prison, 364, 399, 506.
Baillie, Mr. Robert, Principal of the University of Glasgow, 152. Bains, Mr., 231.
Baird, Sir James, of Auch medden, 354. Baker, Mr., an English minister, 320. Balbegno. See Wood of Balbegno. Balcarras, Alexander, first Earl of, 73, 76; his christian death, 202, 213. Balcarras, Lady, (Lady Anne M'Kenzie, eldest daughter of Colin, first Earl of Seaforth,) wife of the preceding, 202, 229, 242; obtains £300 Ster- ling from the King, 249, 257 ; her pecuniary straits, 258. Balcolmie. See Learmonth, Sir James, of Balcolmie.
Balfour, Sir David, of Forret, a senator of the College of Justice, 505. Balhousie. See Hay, George, of Bal- housie.
Balmerinoch, John Elphinston, third Lord of, 259, 262, 264.
Balnafairi. See Lunbar, Patrick, of Balnaferry.
Balnamoon. See Brodie, Alexander, of Balnamoon.
Balnagoun, Laird of. See Ross, David, of Balnagoun.
Auldearn, Parish of, Brodie's desire for a good minister to, 30; Sabbath day observed as a day of humiliation for obtaining this, 123; day appointed for the nomination of a minister to, 126; Mr. Henry Forbes nominated minister of, 128, 132, 135, 137, 141, 176, 181, 306; religious condition of, 310, 311.
Bamaldie, or Balmedie. See Car- michael, Sir David, of Balmedie. Band, Concerning the taking of, 398, 401, 402, 493, 494. Barclay, Mr. Adam, 435.
Barclay, Robert, of Ury, recalled from Ireland, 315; his Apology for the Quakers, 316.
Barkstead, Colonel John, one of the
Judges of Charles I., condemned and executed, 249, 250.
Bass Rock, Prisoners on the, Mr. James Fraser, 379; Mr. John M'Killikin, 397; Mr. Thomas Hogg, ib; the prisoners refuse to take the Band, 417. Bates, Dr. William, vicar of St. Dun- stan's-in-the-West, London, 239. Baxter, Richard, his Cure of Church Divisions, 411.
Beatman, Major-General, 402, 449, 484. Bell, Janet, brought before the Kirk Session, 177.
Bellacastell, in the parish of Cromdale, Garrison of, 122; residence of the Laird of Grant, 331.
Birney, Minister of, 395. Birnie, Sir Andrew, of Saline, a senator of the College of Justice, 446. Birsben, Margaret, wife of James Christie, her burial, 489. Bishops, Scottish, vote passed in Coun- cil for fourteen, 198; proclamation of Charles II. for setting them up, 213, 214; report that they would not take ordination from the Bishops of Eng- land, 221; their consecration, 232- 234; their power, 255; obtain seats in parliament after the restoration, 307; thought to be Arminian, 351. Blair, Mr. Robert, minister of St. An- drews, his endeavours to restore union between the Resolutioners and Protesters, 43; his intended voyage to New England defeated, .; little suc- cess of his labours, 141, 167; his mes- sage before his death to Brodie, 345. Blair, Mr. William, minister of Fordyce,
392; his son (Hugh) visits Brodie,
Blarie. See Dunbar, Patrick, of Blairie.
Blake, Lord, on the Coast of Spain, 160.
Blunt, Colonel, 103; his death, 164, 249.
Bog, The, (Gordon Castle) residence of the Marquess of Huntly, 386, 394, 406, 491.
Bogholl. See Campbell, Donald, of Bogholl.
Bogie, Laird of, 265, 277.
Bogs or Boigis. See Dunbar, Robert of, Bogs.
Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of, 126; her death and burial, 241, 307. Bohemia, State of religion in, 245. Boin, or Boyne, Lord. See Ogilvie, Sir Patrick, of Boyne. Borders, Reformation on the, by means of the suffering ministers, 341, 373. Both. See Dunbar of Both. Bothwelbridge, Battle of, 414, 436.
Boyd, Elizabeth, wife of Forbes of Thornehill, her burial, 505. Boyle, Hon. Robert, his Treatise on the Love of God, 395.
Boyle, Roger. See Broghill, Lord. Braco, John Gordon of, in Aberdeen- shire, 322.
Bradshaw, John, 43.
Brambner, one of Brodie's servants, 181.
Brandenburg, Duke of, appearance of his quitting the cause of Holland, 337,409. Brightmonie, or Brightmannie. Hay, John, of Brightmannie. Brodie, Alexander, of Balnamoon, 409; his straits, being in prison, 487. Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie, grand- father of the Diarist, 15.
Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie, author of Diaries, his birth, 15; his marriage, 15, 137; his children, 16; his senti- ments on toleration, 18, 21, 22; death of his wife, allusions to, 25, 138, 145, 343; his refusal of employment from the English, 25, 41; his meetings with the Protesters, 43, 44, 48–50; their attempts to bring him over, 48– 50; his answer to objection against admitting malignants into the army, 48, 51; disposed to justify their ad- mission, 56; summoned to London by Cromwell, 57; his reasons for de- clining to accept employment under Cromwell, 58-66, 74, 84; his first Diary Book, 63; letter as to his be- coming a Lord of Session from Wil- liam Downie, 87; his aversion to Cromwell's usurpation, 111, 147; pro- vides a place for his grave, 121; re- ceives new invitations to go to Lon- don, 122-124; his religious dealings with his son, 130; reference to con- tract of marriage between his father and mother, 134, 135; review of some of the events of his life, 137– 141; his sisters, 139, 191; his mains
and bigging burned to the ground, 139; takes his mother to keep his house after the death of her second husband, 139; appointed a Lord of Session, 16, 17, 140; sent successive- ly to the Hague and to Breda, as one of the Scottish Commissioners to Charles II., 15, 140; pressed by let- ters from the South to go to London about his own business. 143; pur- poses to go South, 143-145; his jour- ney to the South, 146, 147; receives new invitations to London, 147, 149; is made burgess of Glasgow, 152; enters solemnly into covenant, 155; is dealt with to accept employments under Cromwell, 157; against accept- ing them, 157, 160; his return from Edinburgh, 160, 161; is unsatisfied with Warriston as to the Covenant, 160; intention to make him Justice of the Peace under Cromwell's go- vernment, 162, 163; is again desired to go to London, 174; presents young Lethen's daughter Margaret for bap- tism in the father's absence, 175; declines to take the oaths required of Justices of the Peace by Cromwell's government, 176; his exhortation to his sister, 180; accepts the office of a justice of the peace, 183; urged by letters to go South, 187; took the oaths required by Justices of the Peace, 188; takes journey to Edin- burgh, 188, 189; acknowledgment of his sins at a family fast in 1656, 191; his engagement, 192-194; inclines to go to London, 194-197; arrives in London, 197; admitted to the King, 198 his favour with Lauderdale, 199; not favoured by Middleton, 201; offers made by Archbishop Sharp to befriend him, 201, 202; purposed not to make use of Sharp, 203; his loyalty to Charles II., 208; his preparation for death, 208, 209; his sickness, 210; his low opinion of
Sharp, ib.; lends Lorn some money, 218; not averse from a form of Liturgy, 225; is blamed by Sharp for exciting commotions in Scotland, 227; calls Sharp Lord, 232; his re- flections on the consecration of the Scottish Bishops, 232, 233; finds Lauderdale failing him, 235, 240; his sentiments as to liturgies and the imposition of the ceremonies, 237, 254; has access to the King, 253; sets out from London for Scotland, ib.; arrives in Edinburgh, 254; would not defend what was done in and before 1649, 257, 265, 315; con- ference between him and Alexander Colville of Blair as to witches, 260, 261; solicits Sharp's assistance for obtaining remission of his fine, 265; his dreams, 267, 268, 270, 271, 283; reference to his being deprived of the offices of a Lord of Session and a justice of the peace, 270; sets out from Edinburgh for home, 273; holds a court with his tennants, ib. ; afflicted with gravel, 274, 286, 287, 290, 291; his sentiments as to the punishment of witches, 276; gives to the Bishop of Murray his titles, 277; his sentiments as to the conforming ministers, 287, 318; his sickness and infirmities, 288, 289, 295, 296, 302; acts as commissioner for trial of witches, 293, 294; his irritability of temper, 297, 300, 304, 305, 385, 388, 396; considers whether he should petition Parliament anent his fine, 307; his religious advices to his grand-daughters, 310; dines the Lords of the circuit, 313, 314; con- tinues a member of the Kirk Session, at which Mr. Thomas Hogg is of- fended, 324, 325; has a fit of the stone, 327-329; difference of senti- ment between him and Mr. Thomas Ross as to hearing the conform minis- ters, 328; maintains that other chur-
ches were in various respects superior to the Church of Scotland, 330, 332; his sentiments as to the religious questions agitated in his time, 338- 341, 346-348, 355-395; found fault with by Mr. Thomas Hog for com- municating with the conformists, 341, 342; vindicates himself, 341, 342, 360; his moderation in judging of the religious condition of others, and debate between him and Hog on that subject, 343, 344, 357; the fining of him often urged by Arch- bishop Sharp and Haltoun, 350, 351; forbears to hear Mr. William Falconer an other ministers that conformed, 352, 356, 362, 363; his reasons for this, 365; is ill reported of at Court, 355; expresses him- self with much freedom to the Bis- hop of Murray as to his office, 357, 358; purposes to goe to St. Cyrus to observe the Sacrament, dispensed by Mr. David Campbell, indulged minister of that parish, 359, 360; went to hear Mr. James Urquhart at Penick, 361, 364, 367; reasons against separation from the con- formists, 363; defends the non- conformists to the Bishop of Murray, 365; ready to be stumbled at the infirmities of great and good men, 370; is expostulated with by Mr. William Falconer for not hearing him, 373; sense in which he did not take the Covenant, 375; expects to be called before the Court held at Elgin against conventicles, 377; did not approve of field meetings, nor of ordination by the ejected ministers, 379; receives a letter from the Earl of Argyle to come to Stirling, 380, 382; arrives in Stirling, 383; takes journey to Edinburgh, ib.; inter- cedes unsuccessfully with the Earl of Murray in behalf of Mr. James Ur- quhart, 387; offence taken at him by
the Earl of Murray, 386-388; pre- judice against him at the South, 389; opposed to all tumults against the King's authority, 391; blamed for all the conventicles in Morayshire, 396; held the lawfulness of paying cess for the suppression of field conventicles, 408; against Erastiauism, 408, 409; condemns those who put Archbishop Sharp to death, 412, 413; his danger of being prosecuted for noncon- formity, 413-415; his reflections on suppressing the Covenanters in the West, 414; his illness, 417; by his influence his grand-daughters Anne, Catherine, and Elizabeth enter into Covenant with God, 418; his distress of mind, 419, 422; afraid of the power and ill-will of the Earl of Murray, 420; has a fit of gravel, 421 circumstances of his death, 425, 426; his corpse embalmed, 427; his burial, 428; meeting of his friends after his death, 429, 430, 445, 454, 456. Brodie, Alexander, of Brodie: his sis- ter's son, 142, 149-152, 157, 161, 174, 209. 218-221; death of his nephew Alexander, 218. Brodie, Alexander, (the first) of Lethen,
uncle of the Diarist, 76, 86, 87, 90, 109; his corns and houses burned by Glencairn and the Highlanders, 16, 110, his confession and engagement at a family fast, 113, 114, 121, 127, 131; consults with his friends as to seeking reparation from the English, 133, 135; his lands and house burned by Huntly, 139, 161, 171, 172, 177, 206, 231; comes to Edinburgh, 256, 259, 263-265, 272, 279, 281, 284, 292, 293, 310; his death and funeral, 335.
Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, eldest. son of the preceding, 23; his con- fession and covenant, 114; baptism of his daughter, Margaret, 175; mar- riage of his daughter, Janet, with
Ludovicus Grant of Frewchie, 319, 322, 323, 325, 328, 329, 345, 346, 353, 354, 357, 361, 362, 374, 377; to be required by the Earl of Murray to present Mr. Thomas Hog, conform to his bond, 378, 380, 381, 384, 388, 396, 397, 401; converses with Brodie on the troubles of the times, 410, 412, 414, 415, 418, 420, 421, 427, 428, 430, 436, 441, 443, 445, 452, 453, 456, 457, 459, 464, 465, 467, 469, 470, 474, 477, 479-481, 483, 484; his purpose of marrying Eliza- beth, daughter of James Brodie of Brodie. 484-488, 490, 491, 494; con- tract of marriage between him and Margaret Aiton, daughter of Aiton of Inchdarnie, 495, 496, 501–505. Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, elder,
Wife of, 91; her confession and en- gagement, 115, 121, 129, 171, 317, 335, 336; infirm and weak, 448, 452, 465, 468.
Brodie, Alexander of Lethen, younger, First wife of, visits Brodie, 164, 175, 304; her zeal for nonconform minis- ters, and against the conform, 347, 349, 358, 370, 397, 446; her death and excellent character, 477-479. Brodie, Alexander, of Main, his wife's sickness, 368, 372, 377; not inclined to appear at a court held at Elgin for suppression of Conventicles, 377- 379, 388; intends to go out of the country, 391; Conventicles held in his house by Mr. James Urquhart, 395, 412, 415, 427, 428, 448, 455, 467, 471, 483, 485, 487, 488, 492- 495, 501, 502, 508.
Brodie, Alexander, of Main, Wife of, visits Brodie under his last illness, 422, 427.
Brodie, Alexander, cousin to Alexander Brodie of Brodie, 226, 240. Brodie, Anne, daughter of James Brodie of Brodie, her marriage with the Master of Forbes, 417, 418, 427; her
father's purpose to move to her to bring herself under new engagements, 434, 435; is ill of a fever, 437-439, 442, 447, 453, 454; birth of a son at London, 479, 486.
Brodie, Catharine, of Fedden, burial of, 346.
Brodie, David, father of Alexander Brodie of Brodie, 15.
Brodie, David, brother to Alexander Brodie of Brodie, afflicted with in- sanity, 51, 57, 84, 87, 89; his blas- phemous violence, 95, 96, 140, 183, 191.
Brodie, David, 275, 333, 352. Brodie, David, of Pitgaunie, son of Alexander Brodie, the first of Lethen, and to whom he disponed his estate of Pitgaunie in 1657, 115, 180, 278, 312, 323, 331, 352, 353, 357; re- solved to suffer for nonconformity, 368-370; his purpose to retire for some time, 371, 372; writes to Brodie that the storm of persecution was growing, 373, 375, 382; is at Stir- ling, and averse to return to the north, 383; is visited on his return from the South by Brodie, 384, 386, 389, 391, 392, 397; speaks with Brodie anent the lawfulness of pay- ing the cess, 408, 415, 421, 427, 445, 447, 452, 453, 464-467, 474-480, 482, 486-491, 494, 496, 500. Brodie, Elizabeth, daughter of James Brodie of Brodie; proposition of, marrying her made to her father by Robert Dunbar of Dumphail, 479, 505; by Alexander Brodie of Lethen, 484, 487; and by others, 496, 500, 505, 506. Brodie, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis
Brodie of Miltoun, marriage between her and John Hay agreed to, 398. Brodie, Francis, of Balivat, uncle of the Diarist, his confession and cove- nant, 113, 114, 194, 206, 262, 265, 268, 269, 277, 281, 284, 292, 317,
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