40. Scotland Before 1700, p. 294. At an earlier date Sir David Lyndsay writes to the same effect as Lithgow: Ane uther falt, Schir, may be sene; -Satire of the Three Estates. According to Fynes Moryson, the custom of women in covering their heads when out of doors was differently regarded in Germany. "And when they (the German women) goe out of dores, they are reputed harlotts, if they couer not theire faces and theire heades with lynnen clothe, and their apparell with a Cloke, and if thay carry not in theire handes a little basket as if they went abroade to buy somethinge, tho perhapps thay goe only to visite a frend."-Shakespeare's Europe, p. 292. 41. Scotland Before 1700, p. 180. 42. Acts of Parl. of Scot., II. 488. 43. Ib., III. 221. 44. Early Travellers, etc., pp. 88-9. 45. lb., p. 88. 46. Ib., p. 89. 47. Ib. 48. Acts of Parl. of Scot., III. 174. 49. Early Travellers, etc., pp. 89-90. Fynes Moryson, the observer quoted, brings a much more sweeping charge of drunkenness against the Germans. "All the Germans," he says, "have one nationall vice of drunckennes in such excesse (espetially the Saxons), as it staynes all theire nationall vertues, and makes them often offensive to frends and much more to strangers."Shakespeare's Europe, p. 290. NOTES TO CHAPTER VI 1. Acts of Parl, of Scot., III. 225. 2. Reg. of Priv. Coun., I. 94. 3. Burgh Records of Edinburgh, II. 235. 4. Ib., II. 162. 5. Ib., p. 204. 6. Ib., III. 25-6. 7. Ib., p. 148. In 1564 one Richard, an Englishman, was made burgess that he might give instruction in the making of arrows.-I., III. 193. 8. Ib., IV. 23.-Hitherto, in all the burghs no one was permitted to open a school without a licence from the Town Council. 9. Ib., p. 58. 10. Ib., p. 530. 11. The Works of James VI. (1616), p. 164. 12. Ashley, An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (London, 1893), Vol. II. Part II. p. 341. 13. Burgh Records of Edinburgh, II. 80. 14. Ib., p. 213. 15. 16., III. 50. 16. Ib., p. 102. 17. Ib., p. 193. 18. Ib., p. 194. 19. Ib., IV. 39. 20. Ib., p. 145. 21. Ib., III. 105-6. 22. Ib., pp. 144-6. 23. Acts of Parl. of Scot., IV. 140. 24. Ib., V. 49. INDEX ABERDEEN, population of, 44, 52- | Bré, Michael, employed to pave streets of Edinburgh, 49 Brechin, 53 Bridges in Scotland, 56, 57, 60, 61 19 his description of Lothian, Burghers, their increased power in CALEDONIAN FOREST, II Capital, lack of, the cause of Cards, played both in taverns and rearing of, in the Highlands, Church, the parish, its secular uses, Church of Rome, economical reasons for its overthrow in Churchyards, desecration of, 94- Citizenship, conditions of, 113 Clerk play, enacted before Mary of 24 Coal, working of, 138 Colliers, 162, 163 Common, the town, 85, 86 Council, Privy, of Scotland, its Crafts, legislation regarding, 147- their restiveness under the Crichton, laird of Frendraught, 99 Cross, the town, 104, 105 Cupar-Fife, 53, 54 Customs, petty, 89, 123 great, 128, 129 DALKEITH, 20 David I., his legislation for the cultivation of land in his reign, 17 Discipline, First Book of, 65 FALKLAND, forest of, II Farm, a model, 79, 80 Farmers, Scottish, habits of, 80 Feu-farm, 77, 78 Fife, plantations in, II description of, 24, 25 Fire, precautions against in town Fitzherbert, his Boke of Surveyinge, Food of the different classes in the country, 172-174 |