THE SCOTTISH

HISTORICAL REVIEW

THE

SCOTTISH
HISTORICAL
REVIEW

Volume Fifteenth

GLASGOW

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS

PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY

1918 c

thin belme

Contents

The Influence of the Reformation on Social and Cultured

Life in Scotland. By D. Hay Fleming

On the Foundation of the College of Justice. By R. K.

Hannay

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I

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30

The Palace of Birsay in Orkney. By The Rev. Thomas
Miller. With plan of the Palace of Birsay

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The Race of the Trough. Sliochd 'n Amar. By A. M.
Mackintosh -

The Politics of Burns. By W. P. Ker

47

53

59

The Old Chapels of Orkney. By J. Storer Clouston 89, 223
The Pretender's Printer. By the Rev. W. J. Couper

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106

124

Sir John Hay, the 'Incendiary.' By John A. Inglis

The Coffin in the Wall. By the Dowager Lady Forbes 146

Note on the Coffin in the Wall. By R. K. Hannay

'The British Empire.' By C. H. Firth

James I., Bishop Cameron, and the Papacy. By R. K.

Hannay

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155

185

The Haunting of Blantyre Craig.

Craig. By J. R. N. Macphail,

K.C. -

The Appellate Jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament.

By Sir Philip J. Hamilton-Grierson

List of Old Kirks and Chapels in Orkney

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205

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