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Malcolm IV, King of Scotland
Malplaquet, Battle of (1709)
Manchester
Mansell, Francis
Mar, John Erskine, Earl of (guardian of James VI and I)
Mar, John Erskine, Earl of (‘Bobbing Johnnie’)
Mar, John Stewart, Earl of
March, Earl of
Margaret, Maid of Galloway
Margaret, Princess (daughter of James I), later Queen of France
Margaret, Princess (daughter of Robert III)
Margaret, Queen (wife of Malcolm III; mother of David I)
Margaret of Burgundy
Margaret of Denmark (wife of James III)
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (wife of James IV)
Marie de Guise (wife of James V)
Marie de Medici
Marischal, Earl
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of
as John Churchill
as Duke of Marlborough
Marston Moor, Battle of (1644)
Marten, Henry
Marvell, Andrew
Mary I (Mary Tudor), Queen of England
as Princess
Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
before her accession
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Princess (daughter of James II)
Mary, Princess Royal, later Princess of Orange (daughter of Charles I)
Mary of Gueldres (wife of James II)
Mary of Modena (wife of James VII and I)
Masque of Blackness, The
Matilda (daughter of Henry I)
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
Maurice, Prince
Maurice of Nassau
Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor
Maxwell, John, Lord Herries see Herries, John Maxwell, Lord
Maxwell, Lord
Maxwell family
Mazarin, Cardinal
Medici, Catherine de
Medici, Marie de
Medway, River
Melrose
Melun, Siege of
Melville, Andrew
Melville, Sir James
Menteith, Malise Graham, Earl of Strathearn, then Earl of see Graham, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, then Earl of Menteith
Methven, Henry Stewart, Earl of
Methven Castle
Middlesex, Earl of
Milton, John
Moffat, Alistair
Monk, Bess
Monk, General, later Duke of Albemarle
Monmouth, James, Duke of
Mons Meg (gun)
Monson, Sir William
Montagu, later Earl of Sandwich
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montereau
Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise de (La Grande Mademoiselle)
Montrose, James Graham, Earl of
Moray
Moray, Archibald Douglas, Earl of
Moray, Bishop of
Moray, Earl of (present-day)
Moray Firth
Moray, James Stewart, Earl of (son-in-law of above)
Moray, Lord James Stewart, Earl of
as Lord James Stewart
as Earl of Moray
More, Sir Thomas
More Drummond, James
Moretta (ambassador of Savoy)
Morton, Earl of (in reign of James I)
Morton, Earl of (in reign of James V)
Morton, James Douglas, 4th Earl of
Mure, Elizabeth, of Rowallan
Mure, Sir Robert, of Rowallan
Murray, Andrew
Murray, Lord George
Murray, John, of Broughton
Murrays of Atholl
Musselburgh
Muti, Palazzo see Palazzo Muti, Rome
Mutiny Act (1694)
Nantes
Naples
Napoleon, Emperor
Naseby (later Royal Charles)
as Royal Charles
Naseby, Battle of (1645)
National Covenant
Neville’s Cross, Battle of (1346)
Newark
Newbury, Mayor of
Newcastle
Newcastle, Earl of
Newmarket
New Model Army
Newton, Isaac
New York (formerly New Amsterdam)
Nicoll, John
Nimuegen, Treaty of (1678)
Norfolk, Duke of
Norham
Normandy, Robert, Duke of
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of
North Berwick witches
North Inch
Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of
Northumberland, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, Duke of
Notre-Dame, Cathedral of
Nottingham
Oates, Titus
Observant Friars
Old Pretender, the see James Edward, the Old Pretender
Order of the Knights of the Thistle
Orkney
Orkney, Bishop of
Orkney, Elizabeth Villiers, Countess of
Orléanists (or Armagnacs)
Orléans, Gaston, Duc d’
Orléans, Louis d’
Orléans, Philippe, Duc d’ (‘Monsieur’)
Ormond, Hugh Douglas, Earl of
Ormonde, Duke of
Ormonde, Marquis of
Orrery, Lord
Otterburn, Battle of (1388)
Ottoman Turks
Oudenarde, Battle of (1708)
Overbury, Sir Thomas
Oxford
Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford University
Palazzo Muti, Rome
Palazzo Savelli, Albano
Palmer, Barbara, Lady Castlemaine see Castelmaine, Barbara Palmer, Lady
Paris
Parker, Charles
Parliament (English)
during reign of Charles I
see also Commons, House of; Lords, House of
Parliament (Scottish/the Estates)
Paterson, William
Paulet, Sir Amyas
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
Penal Laws
Penderel, Richard
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel
Percy, Henry, Earl of Northumberland
Percy, Sir Henry
Percy family, see also names of individuals
Perth
Gowrie House
Perth, Earl of
Peterborough Cathedral
Peterhead
Petition of Right
Philip II, King of Spain
Philip III, King of Spain
Philiphaugh, Battle of (1645)
Physic Garden, Trinity Hospital
Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius (later Pope Pius II)
Pinkie, Battle of (1547)
Pitscottie, Robert Lindsay of
Pius II, Pope (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini)
Plantation of Ulster
Poitiers, Battle of (1356)
Ponsonby, General
Pontefract Castle
Portland, William Bentinck, Earl of
Portsmouth
Portsmouth, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of (‘Fubbs’)
Power (or Polwarth), James
Prague
Prayer Book (1662)
Presbyterianism
Preston, Battle of
1648
1715
Prestonpans, Battle of (1745)
Pride, Colonel
Privy Council
Protestantism/Protestants
in Bohemia
and Buchanan
and Charles II
and Elizabeth I
in France
in Germany
and Henry VIII
in Ireland
and James V
and James VII and II
and James Edward, the Old Pretender
and Mary, Queen of Scots
in Netherlands
in Scotland
and the succession
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Puritans
Pym, John
Queensberry, Duke of
Radcliffe, Thomas, Earl of Sussex
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ramillies, Battle of (1706)
Ramsay, John
Ramsay, John, of Balmain
Randolph, Sir Thomas
Red Douglases, see also names of individuals
Reformation
Retz, Cardinal de
Rheims, Archbishop of
Richard II, King of England
Richard III, King of England
Richard, Duke of York (opposes Henry VI)
Richard, Duke of York (son of Edward IV)
Richelieu, Cardinal
Richmond and Gordon, Duke of (present-day)
Richmond Park
Ridolfi plot
Riot Act
Rizzio (or Riccio), David
Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
Robert II, King of Scotland
Robert III, King of Scotland (formerly John, Earl of Carrick)
Rob Roy
Robsart, Amy
Rochester, Earl of
Roe, Sir Thomas
Rogers, William
Rome, see also Palazzo Muti
Ronsard, Pierre de
Ross, Countess of
Ross, Euphemia
Ross, Thomas
Rothesay, Prince David, Duke of
Rothesay Castle
Rowse, A. L.
Roxburgh
Roxburgh Castle
Royal Ascot
Royal Charles (formerly Naseby)
as Naseby
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Society
Royston
Rubens, Peter Paul
The Apotheosis of King James
Rupert, Prince
Russell, Admiral
Russell, Conrad
Ruthven, Alexander, Master of Gowrie
Ruthven, Beatrix
Ruthven, Lord
Rutland
Rye House Plot
Ryswick, Treaty of
St Albans, Duke of (present-day)
St Andrews
St Andrews Castle
St Andrews University
St Leonard’s College
St Bartholomew’s Night Massacre (1572)
St-Germains
St Giles, Edinburgh
St John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke see Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount
St Leonard’s College, University of St Andrews
St Malo, Gulf of
St Peter’s, Rome: Stuart monument
Saint-Simon, Duc de
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of see Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury
Sauchieburn, Battle of (1488)
Savage, Richard
Scheves, William
Scone
Scott, Anne, Lady of Buccleuch
Scott, Janet, Lady of Branxholm
Scott, Sir Walter
The Fair Maid of Perth
The Fortunes of Nigel
Kenilworth
The Lady of the Lake
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Quentin Durward
Redgauntlet
The Tale of Old Mortality
Tales of a Grandfather
Scott of Buccleuch
Scott family
Scottish Privy Council
Scrope of Masham, Lord
Sedgemoor
Selkirk
Royal Burgh of
Sevigné, Madame de
Sexby (trooper)
Seymour, Henry
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, 1st Earl of
Shakespeare, William
Macbeth
The Tempest
Sharp, James, Archbishop of St Andrews
Shaw of Fintrie
Sheen
Sheridan, Sir Thomas
Sheriffmuir, Battle of (1715)
Shetland
Shoreham
Shrewsbury, Duke of
Shrewsbury, Earl of
Sidney, Algernon
Sidney, Robert
Sinclair, Earl of
Sinclair, Oliver
Skye
Sobieski, Clementina
Solemn League and Covenant
Solway Moss
Somerset
Somerset, Duke of
Somerset, Robert Ker (or Carr), Earl of
Sophia, Electress of Hanover
Sorbonne, the
Southwold Bay, Battle of (1672)
Stair, Lord
Star Chamber
Stevenson, R. L.
Catriona
Kidnapped
Stewart, Alexander (son of Murdoch Stewart)
Stewart, Alexander, Archbishop of St Andrews
Stewart, Alexander, Duke of Albany see Albany, Alexander Stewart, Duke of
Stewart, Alexander, Earl of Buchan, ‘the Wolf of Badenoch’
Stewart, Charles, Earl of Lennox see Lennox, Charles Stewart, Earl of
Stewart, Dorothea
Stewart, Esmé, Seigneur d’Aubigny, Earl of Lennox see Lennox, Esmé Stewart, Seigneur d’Aubigny, Earl of
Stewart, Frances
Stewart, Francis, 5th Earl of Bothwell
Stewart, Henry, Earl of Methven see Methven, Henry Stewart, Earl of
Stewart, Henry, Lord Darnley see Darnley, Henry
Stewart, Lord Stewart, James, Earl of
Moray (son-in-law of Lord James Stewart)
Stewart, James (son of Murdoch Stewart)
Stewart, Lord James, Earl of Moray see Moray, Lord James Stewart, Earl of
Stewart, Sir James, ‘the Black Knight of Lorne’
Stewart, Joan
Stewart, John (illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots)
Stewart, John, Duke of Albany see Albany, John Stewart, Duke of
Stewart, John, Earl of Buchan
Stewart, John, Earl of Mar see Mar, John Stewart, Earl of
Stewart, Margaret
Stewart, Matthew, Earl of Lennox see Lennox, Matthew Stewart, Earl of
Stewart, Murdoch, Duke of Albany see Albany, Murdoch Stewart, Duke of
Stewart, Robert, Earl of Fife, Duke of Albany see Albany, Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife, Duke of
Stewart, Sir Robert
Stewart, Walter (son of James, Steward-Guardian of Scotland)
Stewart, Walter (son of Murdoch Stewart)
Stewart, Walter, Lord Blantyre
Stirling
Stirling Bridge, Battle of (1297)
Stirling Castle
Stonehenge
Stone of Destiny
Stosch, Baron von
Stourbridge
Strafford, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of
Stratford-upon-Avon
Strathavon Castle
Strathearn, Euphemia of
Strathearn, Malise Graham, Earl of see Graham, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, then Earl of Menteith
Stuart, Arbella
Stuart, Charles Edward see Charles Edward, the Young Pretender
Stuart, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany
Stuart, Henry see Henry, Duke of York (son of James Edward, the Old Pretender)
Stuart, James Edward see James Edward, the Old Pretender
Stuarts of Bute
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Sully, Duc de
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of
Swift, Jonathan
Swynford, Catherine
Swynford, Sir Hugh
Swynford, Thomas
Tain: shrine of St Dutho
Talbot, Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell
Tangier
Tantallon Castle
Tattersall (ship’s captain)
Taylor (Darnley’s valet)
Test Act (1673)
Thames Ditton
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Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion
Thirty Years War
Threave
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas
Torbay
Tories
Torpichen (fencing master)
Touraine
Tower Hill
Tower of London
St Peter’s Chapel
Traquair House
Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1503)
Trebizond
Trelawney, General
Trent House
Trinity College, Oxford
Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh
Tullibardine, Marquis of
Turenne, Marshal
Turner, Mrs
Tyburn
Tyrconnell, Richard Talbot, Earl of
Ulster
Union, Treaty of (1707)
Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland (1603)
Urbino
Utrecht, Treaty of (1713)
Vallière, Louise de la
Van der Goes, Hugo
Van Dyck (Vandyke), Anthony
Vane, Sir Henry
Vendôme, Constable de
Venice
Victoria, Queen
Vienna
Villiers, Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney
Villiers, Francis
Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham see Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of
Villiers, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham see Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
Villon, François
Voltaire
Vyvyan, Sir Richard
William, Prince, Duke of Gloucester
Wade, Marshal
Wakefield, Battle of
Waldegrave, Henrietta, Lady
Waldegrave, Lord
Walkinshaw, Clementina
Wallace, William
Walpole, Sir Robert
Walsh, Antoine
Walsingham, Sir Francis
Walter, Lucy
Walter Fitzalan
Warbeck, Perkin (pretended Richard of York)
Warminster
War of the Austrian Succession
‘War of the Common Weal’
Wars of Independence
Wars of the Roses
Warwick, Earl of
Warwick, John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland, Earl of
Weldon, Sir Anthony
Wentworth, Sir Thomas, Earl of Strafford see Strafford, Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Hall
Westphalia, Treaty of (1648)
Wharton, Duke of
Wharton, Sir Thomas
Whigs
Whitehall, Palace of
Whitelaw, Archibald
White Mountain, Battle of the (1620)
Whithorn: shrine of St Ninian
William I, the Conqueror
William III, King
as Prince of Orange
as King
William, Prince, Duke of Gloucester (son of Queen Anne)
William the Lion, King of Scotland
William of Orange, known as ‘the Silent’
William II of Orange
William III of Orange see William III, King
Wilmot, Henry
Windsor
Wishart, George (chaplain and biographer of Montrose)