
Index 327
Islay cottage, 58 Fig. 2.3
isolation, rural, 254, 267
Jacobitism, 20, 191, 204, 248
James VI and I, 16, 224
Jardine, Marion, 94
Johnson, Samuel, 1, 222
jougs, 196
journeymen associations, 297
justice system, 193–4
justices of the peace, 192, 193, 199
kelp harvesting and burning, 11–12,
221
Kilsyth drainage project, 267–8
kind, payment in, 281, 282
king’s birthday celebrations, 206–7,
289
king’s evil (scrofula), 225
King’s House inn, Glencoe, 57
kinkhosts (wells for treating whooping
cough), 240
kirk see church
kirk sessions, 195, 200, 205
labour
division, 279, 292
female, 276–7
for harvest, 260
imported, 283
mobility, 276, 277, 278
periods of engagement, 277
Lamlash Bay vernacular houses, 56
Fig. 2.2
land division, 43–4
land improvement see improvements
landscapes, pre-improvement vs
improved, xiii, 44–5
language, 164–6
Latin, 16, 239–40
Lawrence, Thomas, 274
Lawrie, James, clothing inventory,
156–7
lead fumes, 223
learning, informal, 168
Leckie bridge, 258 Fig. 10.1
Lefebvre, Henri, xv
legacies, 90
leisure, 291
Leith races, 265
Letham, 74
letter writing, 19, 164, 177–9, 182, 196
by women, 179
libel, 181
libraries
circulating and subscription, 172
private, 172, 173
public, 172
life expectancy, 13, 14, 15, 286
Lindsay, William, 279
linen weaving, 282
literacy, 18, 167–71, 169 Fig. 6.1
female, 18–19, 167
male, 167
see also reading, writing
lithotomity (cutting for bladder
stones), 113, 125
living standards, 12–13, 285, 286
Livingstone, James, 288
Lockhart, J. G., 154
Lom, Iain, 180
‘Lord Thomas and Fair Annet’ ballad,
100–1
The Lost arable fi eld, 44
Lowe, Peter, 120, 121
loyalism, demonstrations of, 20
luck, 236
Luss, 57
McAlexander, Janet, 127
Macdonald, Revd James, 17
McFarquhar, Hugh, 121
MacGillvrie, Patrick, 260
Macintosh, William, of Borlum, 154
McKay, Isabel, 223
Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of
Feeling, 100
McKenzie, Sir George, 235
Mackintosh of Borlum, 179
MacLeod, John and wife, clothing,
141 Fig.5.1
MacMartine, John, 71
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