INDEX. 



Aboyne, Jacobite meeting at, 396. 



Acts of Parliament of 1503, 116; of 

 1528, 127 ; of 1587, 160 ; of 1594, 

 163; of 1597, bearing upon the 

 Long Island, 171 ; of 1598, 178 ; of 

 1599, regarding Lewis, 196. 



Acts of Privy Council in 1616, 280. 



Adventurers, Fife, contract with James 

 VI., 174; sail for Lewis, 181 ; com- 

 manded by the Duke of Lennox, 

 182 ; reach Stornoway, 182 ; atti- 

 tude towards the Lewismen, 183 ; 

 and Mackenzie of Kintail, 191 ; 

 Act of 1599, conveying Lewis to, 

 196 ; relations with Neil Macleod, 

 200 ; negotiations with, 201 ; at- 

 tacked by Tormod Macleod, 202 ; 

 leave Lewis, 203 ; reorganisation 

 of affairs, 215 ; second expedition, 

 220 ; leaders of the second expedi- 

 tion, 221 ; take possession of 

 Lewis, 221 ; conspiracy against, 

 223 ; and the country people of 

 Lewis, 224 ; conduct of Neil 

 Macleod towards, 228 ; leave 

 Lewis, 235, 243 ; attacked by 

 Neil Macleod, 243. 



Agncola and the Hebrides, 3. 



Alastair Carroch, see Macdonald. 



Alas air Crotach, see Macleod. 



Albany, Duke of, 86, 90. 



AlK-roni, Cardinal Giulio, 407. 



Alexander II., his designs on Man and 

 the Hebrides, 40. 



Alexander III., 40; expedition to the 

 Hebrides, 42. 



Alexander, Lord of the Isles, see Mac- 

 donald. 



, AILm, Lord of Galloway, 36. 

 j Allen, great-grandson of Somerled the 



Great, 41. 



\ AlU'.n, son of Ruari of Bute, 68. 

 ! Al- Thing, or Allsherjar-Thing, the, 

 46 ; functions of, 47. 



America, emigration of Highlanders 

 to, 475. 



| Amlaff (Olaf), " King of the Hebrides," 

 17 ; killed at Clontarf, 17. 



! Angus, third son of Somerled the 

 Great, 30. 



Angus Og, see Macdonald. 



Angusson, Ronald of Uig, 153. 



" Annual of Norway," the, 43. 



Argyll, islesmen and the House of, 127. 



Argyll, Duke of, at Sheriffmuir, 400. 



Argyll, Earl of, lieutenancy over the 

 Hebrides in 1499 and 1516, no, 

 126 ; besieges Stornoway Castle, 

 146 ; disperses the Islay rebels, 



275- 



Arkaig, Loch, treasure carried to, 452. 



Arnish, Prince Charles Edward Stuart 

 at, 448. 



Aros, Lord Ochiltree and chiefs at the 

 Castle of, 238. 



Arran devastated, n8. 



Arran, Earl of, regency, 135 ; his 

 policy, 139. 



Artchain, founded by Findchan, 6. 



"Ascall, son of Torcall, King of Ath- 

 cliath," 64. 



Assynt, 61 ; Torquil Conanach granted, 

 152. 



Atholl, Earl of, at Lagabread, 96 ; 

 captured by Angus Og, 99 ; com- 

 mission over the Isles given to, 



147- 



Aude or Autha, daughter of Ketil 



Flatneb, 13, 14. 

 Auldearn, battle of, 333. 



Badenoch, Wolf of (Alexander, Earl of 



Buchan), 82. 



Baithene, St. Columba's successor, 6. 

 Balcarres, Lord, proposal to Charles 



II. regarding Lewis, 342. 

 Baliol, Edward, 75, 76. 

 Balka, the younger, in Skye, 37, 38. 

 Balkasson, Paul, Sheriff of Skye, 27, 



Balmerino, Master of, James, charter 



to, 236. 



Balveny, dispersal of insurgents at, 336. 

 Bannockburn, battle of, 74. 

 Barlow, Captain, in the Long Island, 



473- 



Barra, derivations of, xl ; bones un- 

 earthed in, 67 ; Macneills of, 94 ; 

 discord in, 284 ; emigration from, 

 in 1794,482; Lt.-Col. John Gordon 



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