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INDEX. 



Skene, Dr., on the Ebudae, 2 ; and the 

 Kilbride MS., 55. 



Skerjablesi, Asbjorn, governor of the 

 Western Islands, 15. 



Skid, the Norse name for Skye, xxxviii. 



Skye, pillaged by the Norsemen, 8 ; 

 Sheriffdom of, 27, 116; ravaged, 

 40 ; granted to Hugh, son of Earl 

 of Ross, 73 ; leased to Lauchlan 

 MacAllan, 73 ; becomes the pro- 

 perty of the Lcrds of the Isles, 

 76 ; annexed to the Common- 

 wealth, 351 ; invaded by Colonel 

 Clayton, 403 ; Prince Charles 

 lands in, 464. 



Sleat family, claims to Lewis and Uist 

 of the, 92, 93. 



Smith, Capt. John, report on the 

 Dutch fishermen, 324. 



Smith, William, report concerning 

 charges of fraud in Lewis, 424. 



Snamh-aigneach, fight at, 8. 



Sodor and Man, Bishopric of, founda- 

 tion, 517. 



Soettur or common out-pasture. 45. 



Solinus and the Ebudae, 3. 



Somerled the Great, defeats the Loch- 

 lans and Fingalls, 9 ; marriage of, 



26 ; and the Earldom of Moray, 



27 ; fights for the Hebrides, 28. 

 Somerled, son of Gillecolum, 37. 

 Somerledian chiefs, campaign against, 



Southwell, Sir Thomas, 380. 



Spens, Sir James, of Wormiston, 217, 

 248 ; charter to, 236. 



Stewart, Barbara, daughter of Lord 

 Avondale, 135, 148. 



Stewart, Duncan, of Appin, 108. 



Stewart, Capt. William, 495. 



Stone circles in various parts of the 

 world, xxv. 



Stornoway, 172 ; derivation of, xxxviii ; 

 John Roy and Malcolm at, 83 ; 

 besieged, 122 ; James V. at, 133 ; 

 Royal visits to, 133 n. ; Fife 

 Adventurers reach, 182 ; a free 

 burgh of barony, 293 ; charter 

 of erection for, 294 ; Commis- 

 sioners' objections to making it a 

 Royal burgh, 295 ; Dutchmen at, 

 302 ; reserved to the Crown, 322 ; 

 a free burgh, 323 ; Captain 

 Brassie's ship Fortune at, 343 ; 

 garrison attacked, 359 ; Jacobite 

 Council of War held in, 406 ; 

 Custom House, 423 ; neutral 

 attitude of townsmen towards 

 Prince Charles Edward, 449 ; boys 

 kidnapped at, 478 ; improved by 



the last Lord Seaforth, 489 ; Town 

 Council created by a grant in 1825, 

 492 ; Martin's description of, 509 ; 

 visited by King Edward, 516 ; 

 religious feeling between Protes- 

 tants and Roman Catholics, 527 ; 

 schools in the parish of, 530, 531 ; 

 spinning school in, 537 ; shipping 

 at, in the eighteenth and nine- 

 teenth centuries, 539, 540 ; packet- 

 service in 1759, 541 ; Post Office, 

 541 ; criminal procedure in the 

 nineteenth century, 542 ; Dr. 

 McCulloch on, 543. 



Stornoway Castle, 61, 119; sieges of, 

 146, 155 ; reserved to the Crown, 

 165 ; captured by Ruari Macleod 

 of Harris, 234 ; captured by Neil 

 Macleod, 235 ; dismantled, 372. 



Strachan, Lieut. -Colonel, 336. 



Strandford Haven, 30. 



Strathbogie ravaged by Donald of the 

 Isles, 87. 



Strathnaver laid waste by Malcolm 

 Macleod, 85. 



Strome Castle, 116, 118; blown up, 

 216. 



Stuart, Charles Edward, Prince, see 

 Charles Edward Stuart, Prince. 



Sudreys, the, 18 ; Ranald, Bishop of 

 the, 33. 



Suibne, son of Kenneth, 16. 



Sullivan, Captain, and Prince Charles 

 Edward, 440. 



Susannah, the affair of the ship, 289. 



Sutherland, Earl of, at Alness, 398. 



Sweyn Asleifsson, of Gairsay, a farm 

 Viking, 29 ; killed at Dublin, 



Talisker, tutor of Macleod, and Coloi 



Cobbet, 350. 

 Tarbat, Lord, and the peace party, 



385 ; letter to King William, 387 ; 



and the pacification of chiefs, 391. 

 Tarbert in Harris, derivation, 24. 

 Tarbert, Loch, Magnus and the 



isthmus of, 23. 

 Things of Norway, 46. 

 Thorfinn, son of Sigurd of Orkney, 17. 

 Thorfinn, son of Ottar, 26. 

 Thorstein the Red, son of Olaf the 



White, 14. 



Thorun, wife of Helgi the Lean, 14. 

 Thralls, the, 44. 

 Thrushel stone, origin of, 64. 

 Thule, Island of, 1,2; Robert Gordon 



of Straloch on, I ; mentioned by 



Pytheas, I. 

 Tobermory, 328. 

 Toland and the Callernish stones, xxvi. 



