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Page_123" class="pginternal">123;
  • moves an address against the Alien Act, 126;
  • attacks Hamilton, 128;
  • his conduct during the sessions of 1706-1707, 133-138;
  • story of his leaving Scotland, 138;
  • arrested in 1708, 142;
  • reasons for not marrying, 144;
  • conversations with Wodrow, 146-148;
  • his death, 148;
  • his place in Scottish literature, 149;
  • contemporary opinions of his character, 151, 152.
  • Fletcher, Andrew (Lord Milton), 148, 149.
  • ---- ---- (grand-nephew of the patriot), 149.
  • ---- Henry (brother of the patriot), 14, 33, 144, 145, 149.
  • ---- ---- (Lieutenant-General), 149.
  • ---- Sir Robert, 9, 10.
  • ---- Lady (Catherine Bruce), 9, 10, 11.
  • Fletcher, Mrs. Henry (Margaret Carnegie), 144, 145.
  • Ford Abbey, 28.
  • Forfar, Earl of, 63.
  • Fountainhall, Lord, 14, 19, 23.
  • Glasgow, Earl of, 114.
  • ---- Burnet, Professor, at, 12.
  • Gloucester, Duke of, 11.
  • Godolphin, writes to Athole as to the Act of Security, 76;
  • attacked for advising the Queen to give the royal assent, 101, 102;
  • his views about Scotland, 102;
  • explains the position to the House of Lords, 105;
  • letters to him from Glasgow, Seafield, and Annandale, 111, 112.
  • ---- Correspondence, in the British Museum, 117, note.
  • Gordon, Duke of, 142.
  • Grand Resolve, The, 69.
  • ---- Marquis de, 20.
  • Grant, The Laird of, 18.
  • Grey, Lord, of Wark, 24, 26, 27.
  • Haarlem, Fletcher at, 21.
  • Hague, Fletcher at, 39.
  • Halifax, Lord, 21, 106, 132.
  • Halket, Sir James, 98.
  • Hamilton, James, fourth Duke of, leads the Country Party, 65, 66;
  • supports Fletcher against the Government, 72;33.
  • Seymour, Sir Edward, 88 et seq.
  • Shaftesbury, 20.
  • Sidney, Algernon, his connection with the Whig Plot, 20.
  • Sinclair of Stevenston, 15, 40.
  • Slavery, Fletcher on, 56, 57, 58.
  • Somers, opinion of the situation in 1704, 103, 106.
  • ---- proposes legislation, 107.
  • ---- State Tracts, 117.
  • Somerville of Drum, 35.
  • Spectator, The, 95, 150.
  • Speech without-doors concerning Toleration, 85.
  • Speech on the State of the Nation, 49, 60.
  • Spittal of Leuchat, 136.
  • Squadrone Volante, The, 114, 118, 137.
  • Stair family, The, 113.
  • Stair, first Earl of, 123, 124, 134.
  • State of the Controversy betwixt United and Separate Parliaments, 132.
  • Stewart, Sir James, Lord Advocate, 47, 75, 115.
  • Stirling of Keir, 142.
  • Sunderland, 146.
  • Suttie, Sir George, of Balgonie, 66.
  • Swift, Dean, his opinion of Fletcher, 151, 152.
  • Tarbat (first Earl of Cromartie), 62.
  • Tatler, The, 95.
  • Taunton, 27, 28, 32.
  • Texel, The, 26, 27.
  • Titus Oates, 39.
  • Tolemache, William, 14.
  • Torphichen, Lord, 35.
  • Tullibardine (afterwards Duke of Athole), 62.
  • ---- (Duke of Athole), 76.
  • Tweeddale, Marquis of, 47, 66, 67, 95 et seq., 108 et seq., 114 et seq.
  • Union, Act for a Treaty brought into the Scottish Parliament, 119;
  • passed, 128.
  • ---- Commission on, at Westminster, 129 et seq.;
  • Treaty of, signed, 131;
  • approved by Scottish Parliament, 137.
  • Vulpone, 117.
  • Wade,

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