Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• BOOK I
• A View of the Islands, considered as a whole, combined with a Geographical Description of each
• Chap. I.
• Some Observations that regards the Islands in general
• Chap. II.
• A Geographical Description of the Islands
• BOOK II
• An Account of the Earliest Inhabitants, with whatever is most remarkable in their Manners, Customs, and Institutions; of the Transactions and Character of those People that conquered, and mingled with , or succeeded them, and a Description of some remaing Monuments of both these people
• Chapt. I.
• The time they were probably first discovered, the Origin of their Name, their First Inhabitants, and the Mode of Government that, if not at first, at least at a very early Period, seems to have prevailed
• Chap. II.
• Of the Manners and Customs of the Picts
• Chap. III.
• Of the Arrival of the Scandinavians, and their Transactions in these Islands
• Chap. IV.
• Of the Trasactions in the Islands, till they became subject to the Crown of Scotland
• Chapt. V.
• Of some Monuments of Antiquity that are ascribed to the Scandinavians, or, at leaset, referred to the Period when they possessed these Islands
• Chap. VI.
• Of the Islands after they became subject to another Sovereign. the many changes that they underwent; and the Influence which these seem manifestly to have had, in retarding their Improvement
• BOOK III.
• The Present State of these Islands, their favourable Situation and Circumstances, and the Advantages that inight be derived from them
• Chap. I.
• Their Natural History
• Sect. I. - Mineralogy
• Sect. II. - Botany
• Sect. III. - Zoology
• Chap. II.
• The Inhabitants of the Islands
• Sect. I. - The Population
• Sect. II. - Manners and Customes
• Chap. III.
• Industry
• Sect. I. - Agriculture
• Sect. II. - Manufactures
• Sect. III. - Commerce
• Sect. - Fisheries
• APPENDIX
• No. I. - Diploma, of Deduction, concerning the Genealogies of the Ancient Counts of Orkney, from the first Creation to the Fifteenth Century:
• No. II. - Dean Gule's Translation of the foregoing Deduction of the Orkney Count, transcribed from the Original Copy bound in with Dr Bennet's Book of Battles,
• No. III. - From Sir James Balfour's Catalogue of the Scottish Nobility, MS. in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh. He was Lord Lyon King at Arms in the beginning of King Charles the First's Reign
• No. IV. - Earls of the Orkneys
• No. V. - Table of the Ancient Counts of Orkney, according to the Genealogical Series above stated, also of the line of these Counts down to this day.
• No. VI. - Exemplum Contractus Matrimonialis inter Sereniffmum Scotiae Regem Jacobum Tertium et Sereniffimam Principem Margaretham Potentissimi Principis Christiani Primi Daniae Norvegiae et Sveciae Regis Filiam. E Torfaei Hist, extractum
• No. VII. - Descriptio Infularum Orchadiarum, per me Jo. Ben, ibidem Colentem, in anno 1529
• No. VIII. - A Short Relation of the most Considerable Thrings in Orknay, by Mr Mathew Mackaile, Apothecary at Aberdeen,
• No. IX. - The Acts of Bailiary for executing of Justice through the County of Orkney
• No. X - From the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus
• The Lord's Prayer, in Norn or Norse, as spoken formerly by the Natives of Orkney, from Dr Percy's Preface to Mallet's Northern Antiquities
• No. XI - Respite in favour of Edward Sinclare and others, for teh Slaughter of the Earl of Cathness. From the Original Parchment