Aberdeen, the Assembly at, 112.
Act of 1592, 70.
Adamson, Patrick, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 38, 51-53, 59, 61.
Andrewes, Bishop of Chichester, 118.
Armada, the Spanish, 64, 65.
Assembly times in Melville's day, 41.
Balcanquhal, Walter, minister in Edinburgh, 42.
Balfour of Burley, 38, 82-84.
---- James, minister in Edinburgh, 117, 135.
Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, 125, 127, 128, 131.
Barlow, Bishop of Rochester, 117, 126.
Basilicon Doron, 108.
Beza, 21, 22.
Black Acts, 51.
Black, David, minister in St. Andrews, 77, 82, 95, 103.
'Bonnie Earl' of Moray, 69.
Bouillon, Duke de, 145.
Bruce, Robert, minister in Edinburgh, 66, 67, 69, 111.
Buchanan, George, 24, 25, 44.
Burton, John Hill, 12, 92.
Casaubon, Isaac, 143.
Covenant, renewal of, 85.
Craig, John, minister in Edinburgh, 53, 144.
Davidson, John, minister of Liberton and Prestonpans, 46, 104, 105.
Davison, the English Ambassador, 54.
Dunbar, Earl of, King's Commissioner for Scotland, 124, 135.
Durie, John, minister in Edinburgh, 36, 46, 48, 53.
---- Robert, minister of Anstruther, 150.
Edinburgh, the plague in, 55.
---- Vindictive Acts against the city of, 99.
Episcopacy, Scotland's dread of, 10.
Erskine, John, of Dun, 15, 16, 53.
Falkland, 83, 89, 90.
Fife, Synod of, 60, 76, 100.
Foreign students at the Scottish Universities, 12, 30.
Geneva, 21.
Glasgow, Assembly of, 84, 138.
---- University of, 24, 26.
Gledstanes, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 103, 142.
Gowrie Conspiracy, 110.
Hall, Bishop of Norwich, 143.
Intimates of Melville, 41.
James VI., precocity of, as a child, 24.
assumes the government, 43.
his Court favourites, 43.
his seizure by the Ruthven lords, 48.
his escape, 48.
described by Davison, the English Ambassador, 54.
his surrender to the Ruthven lords, 55.
in re Archbishop Adamson, 61.
his Popish sympathies, 64, 75.
unseasonableness in the activity of, 65.
his marriage, 67.
his laudation of the Scottish Church, 68.
rated by Elizabeth, 72, 78.
his attempt to bribe James Melville, 78.
his expedition against Huntly, 81.
removes his Court to Linlithgow, 98.
and Melville at Hampton Court (chap. ix.), 116-133.
his petty vindictiveness, 140, 141, 144.
Knox, John, 13, 144.
Lawson, James, minister in Edinburgh, 42, 50, 51, 52.
Maitland, Chancellor of Scotland, 66, 67, 70.
Melville, birth of, 15.
educated at Montrose, 16.
student of St. Andrews, 17.
goes abroad, 17.
at Paris, 17.
Melville at Poitiers, 18.
at Geneva, 21.
returns to Scotland, 22.
declines Morton's patronage, 23.
is offered the Principalships of Glasgow and St. Andrews, 24.
Principal of Glasgow, 26.
Principal of St. Andrews, 27.
attracts students from the Continent, 30.
his first Assembly, 35.
encounter of, with Morton, 37.
his intimates, 41.
in re Archbishop Montgomery, 45, 46.
encounter of, with Arran, 47.
before the King and Council, 48, 49.
his flight to England, 50.
returns to Scotland, 56.
in re Archbishop Adamson, 61.
his kindness to Adamson, 62.
and the Armada, 65.
in re Popish lords, 76.
admonishes the King and the Lords of the Articles, 79.
with the expedition against Huntly, 81.
at Falkland Palace, 83, 89, 90.
at the Dundee Assembly, 102.
at the Second Dundee Assembly, 105.
at the Holyrood Conference, 106-108.
at the Montrose Assembly, 109.
Melville attends the Parliament,
summoned to London by the King, 116.
before the King and Council of England, 121.
attends Michaelmas Day service In Royal Chapel, 123.
his satiric verses on the service, 123.
before the Scottish Council in London, 124.
at Whitehall, 125.
his attack on Archbishop Bancroft, 125.
is ordered into ward, 127.
his Henker-mahl, 129.
again before the English Council, 131.
is sent to the Tower, 131.
his occupations in prison, 141.
his visitors, 143.
his release, 145.
leaves for France, 146.
settles in Sedan as Professor in the University, 146.
his letters from Sedan, 146, 148, 150.
receives tidings of James Melville's death, 149.
the last production of his pen, 150.
his death, 151.
his character, 151.
James, affection of, for his uncle, 16, 24, 51, 132, 141, 143.
a great literary impressionist, 18.
has a warrant issued for his apprehension, 52.
escapes by open boat to Berwick, 52.
his labours at Berwick, 57.
his attack on Archbishop Adamson, 59.
has a private interview with the King, 77.
as a courtier, 78.
with the expedition against Huntly, 81.
at Hampton Court (chap. ix.), 116-133.
is ordered into ward at Newcastle, 132.
his death, 149.
his character, 149.
his Autobiography and Diary quoted, 24, 25, 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 55, 60, 79, 80, 83, 90, 107, 109, 120, 122, 129 et passim.
Morton, Regent, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 43.
Nicolson, Bishop of Dunkeld, 136.
Paris, University of, 18.
Perth, the Five Articles of, 151.
Poitiers, 18.
Pont, Robert, minister in Edinburgh, 51, 144.
Presbyterian Church the only voice of the nation, 94.
Presbyterianism, what Scotland owes to, 10.
Puritans of London and the Scottish ministers, 116, 125, 132.
Raid of Ruthven, 48.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 143.
Reformation, Assembly scheme of, 86.
'Riot of December 17th' [1596, in Edinburgh], 97.
Ruthven lords, 55, 57.
Salisbury, Earl of, Premier of England, 121, 128, 131.
Scott, William, minister of Cupar, 122, 132.
Seaton, the Chancellor of Scotland, 146.
Second Book of Discipline, 35, 40.
Sedan, 145.
Sempill, Sir James, of Beltrees, 140.
Spanish Blanks, 73.
Spotswood, Archbishop, 117, 142.
St. Andrews, University of, 17, 27.
Stewart, Esme, Duke of Lennox, 43, 48.
Stewart, James, Earl of Arran, 44, 47, 48, 50, 54, 55.
Strathbogie Castle, 'dinging doun' of, 82.
True Law of Free Monarchy, 108.
Tulchan Scheme (chap, iv.), 31-42.
Wallace, Robert, minister of Tranent, 125.
Wishart, George, 15.