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DEEDS

INSTITUTING

BURSARIES, SCHOLARSHIPS

AND OTHEE FOUNDATIONS,

IN THE

COLLEGE AO UNIVERSITY

OF

GLASGOW.

PRINTED FOR THE MAITLAND CLUB.
M.DCCC.L.

EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES.

The Secretary intimated that he had received the following extract from
the Minutes ofthe Faculty of Glasgow College, dated 4th June, 1847.
" The Principal and Dr. Fleming having mentioned that they had
" reason to believe that the Council of the Maitland Club, would be
" pleased to be allowed to have copies of the College Mortification Deeds,
"thrown off upon the Club paper, for the use of the Members, the
"Faculty authorise these gentlemen to arrange this matter with the
" Council of the Club."
The Council authorise the Secretary to intimate their acceptance
of this handsome proposal, and direct the Secretary to arrange, that the
usual number of copies may be printed for the Members of the Club.
Extracted from the Minute of ihe Meeting of Council of the
Maitland Club, held on ihe 1st of July, 1847.

The Secretary stated that the Collection of Deeds of Foundations
of Bursaries, &c, in the CoUege and University of Glasgow, edited by
Professor WiUiam Thomson, M.D., was now completed, and a copy of
the work was produced to the Meeting.
The Council instructed the Secretary, to have the list of Members,
and extracts from the Minutes, in reference to this work, printed and
inserted in each copy, and to make the necessary arrangements for dis
tributing the work to the Members of the Club.
Extracted from the Minute of tlie Meeting of Council of the
Maitland Club, held on the 30th January, 1850.

THE MAITLAND CLUB.
FEBRUARY M.DCCC.L.

HIS GEACE
THE DUKE OF ARGYLL,
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DALE.
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THE VERY REVEREND DUNCAN MACFARLAN, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, [VICE-PRESIDENT.]
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PEEFATOET NOTICE.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Glasgow College, held on 1st May, 1846,
the Faculty resolved " that it would be both a proper tribute to the memory of
the generous individuals by whom Special Endowments have been established in this
College and University, and a matter of great convenience to all parties concerned,
that the various Deeds of Mortification constituting such endowments, and such
correlative documents as regulate the administration of the Funds, should be
printed." The parties to whom the duty of carrying this resolution into effect was com
mitted, had not advanced far in their task, when they became sensible that for the
satisfactory accomplishment of the first of the objects proposed by the Faculty, it
would be requisite to prefix to the Deeds relating to each Foundation, some com
memorative notice of the Benefactor. This they have accordingly endeavoured to
do ; but they have to regret that, in several instances, the materials they have been
able to procure have been less ample than could have been desired. They trust,
however, that what they have effected, will tend to stimulate the inquiries of others ;
and they must now leave it to those on whom the duty of supplementing this
Becord, from time to time, may devolve, to supply their deficiencies, and correct
their mistakes.
GLASGOW COLLEGE,
lat January, 1850.

INDEX.

DEEDS INSTITUTING BURSARIES :
PAGE
Crawfurd's, also called the Bishop's Bursary  1
Foundation Bursaries,  6
Howison's Bursary,  8
Wilson's Bursaries, including the Stirling and the CarmichaelorHyndfordBursanes, 13
Struthers' Bursaries,  25
Boyd's Bursaries,  33
Hutcheson's Bursary, also called the Old Library Keepership, ... 47
Ross's Bursary,  54, 291
Dundonald Bursaries, .......... 67
Adamson 's Bursary,  76
Leighton's Bursaries,  84, 292
Snell's Scholarships, also called the Baliol Exhibitions, .... 92, 296
Hamilton Bursaries,  102, 124
King William's Bursaries, .  112,119,126
Brown's Bursary,  130
Craig's Bursary,  131
Gilchrist's Bursary,  133
Williams' Bursaries, . . *  136
Hastie's Bursaries,  143

vi INDEX. PAGE
Sanders' Bursary, .... 147
Blackader's, or Ardkindlass Bursary, ... 152
Boulter's, or Armagh Bursaries, . . . . . . . .161
Forfar Bursaries,  167
Agnes Gilhagie, or Widow Someryille's Bursary, ... .177
Daniel Baxter's Bursary  179
Brisbane Bursary, . . . . . . . .180
Walton's Bursary,  187
Stuart's Bursaries,  . 191
James Adam's Bursaries, ......... 193
John Adam's Bursaries,  ... 196
DEEDS INSTITUTING PRIZES :
Muirhead Prizes, .... ..... 201
Gartmore Gold Medal, .... . ... 206
Coulter Prizes, ....  213
Watt Prize,  . . . . 214
Jefirey Gold Medal  219, 299
Ewing Gold Medal, . .  221
Cowan Gold Medals, ... .... . 222
Cleland Gold Medal  223
DEEDS INSTITUTING FUNDS FOR BEHOOF OF THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY :
Orr of Barrowfield's Mortification, .  229
Principal Stirling's Mortification, .... ... 235
Dhrwiddie's Mortification, .... . 237
Hollis's Mortification,  238
Brand Hollis's Mortification,  ... 239

INDEX. vii
DEEDS INSTITUTING SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENTS IN CONNEXION
WITH THE COLLEGE : TAGE
William Hunter's Museum,  • 241
Wilson's Astronomical Foundation,  253
Astronomical Observatory,  258
DEEDS INSTITUTING SALARIES, &c. :
King William III.'s Grant, — Confirmation by Parliament of Scotland, . . 263
Queen Anne's Grant,  267
King George I. 's Grant,  270
Waltonian Medical Lectureship, ........ 281
Yates' (Shuna) Augmentation Fund, ... ... 286
M'Turk's Augmentation Fund,  289

INSTITUTING BURSARIES.

CRAWFURD'S BURSARY,
ALSO CALLED
THE BISHOP'S BT7RSAEY,
Was originally founded in 1576, by Captain THOMAS CRAWFURD of Jordanhill, a
person of some celebrity in Scottish history. He was a younger son of Lawrence Crawfurd
of Kilbirny, by Helen, daughter of Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudon. He was at the battle
of Pinkie in 1547, and was taken prisoner there. Upon his release he repaired to France,
and was appointed one of the body of Scots Guards who waited on Francis I. After the
death of Francis II. (1561) he returned to Scotland with Queen Mary. On the dissolution
of the religious houses, he acquired from Sir Bartholomew Montgomery, chaplain of the
chapel of Drumray, in 1562, the lands of Jordanhill, which had been left to that chapel by
his father in 1546. When Darnley withdrew himself to Glasgow, on Mary's consent
ing to the pardon of those who had been concerned in the murder of Rizzio, Crawfurd
attended him as one of his gentlemen ; and on the Queen's setting out from Edinburgh
(1566-7) to visit him there, Darnley despatched Crawfurd to her with a message, excusing
himself for not waiting upon her in person. On Mary's leaving him, Darnley informed
Crawfurd fully of all that had passed at the interview. When Darnley was murdered,
Crawfurd took part with the nobles who associated themselves to avenge that murder, and
obtained from the Regent Moray the command of a body of men. He was examined on
oath before the Commissioners at York, 9th December, 1568, and gave important evidence
regarding the death of Darnley. It was by him that the charge of having been Darnley's
murderers was preferred against Lethington and Balfour in presence of Moray and his
Council (1569). During the Regency of the Earl of Lennox he took by surprise, on the 2d
April, 1571, the Castle of Dumbarton, then held by Lord Fleming for the Queen, and which
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was thought to be impregnable — an exploit that is commemorated by all the historians of
the time. For this and other good services rendered to the State, he obtained a grant of
lands from James Boyd, Archbishop of Glasgow ; which was confirmed by a charter from
James VI. He was Provost of Glasgow in 1577; about which time he built a great part
of the bridge of Partick, over the river Kelvin, consisting of four arches, on which his name
and arms were to be seen, in 1710, when Crawfurd wrote his History of Renfrewshire.
Captain Crawfurd died on the 3d Jan., 1603, and was buried at Kilbirny, in a stately tomb
which he had previously erected for himself and his second wife, Janet Ker, eldest daughter
of Robert Ker of Kersland, a family of considerable antiquity in the county of Ayr. — See
Crawfurd's History of the Shire of Renfrew, p. 47 ; also Tytler's History of Scotland, vii.
63, 65, 239, 288.
[The original Charter is preserved in the College Archives, and forms No. 407 of
Blackhouse's Inventory.]
Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris THOMAS CRAUFURD de
Jurdanehill, d'n'sque hereditarius et emphiteoticus molendini de Partik
terrarum molendinarium astrictarum et aliarum multurarum ejusdem,
jacen' in baronia de Glasgow Salutem in D'no sempiternam. Noveritis
me, certis ex causis rationabilibus animum meum moventibus, proque
specialibus zelo et affectione quam erga Universitatem seu Pedagogium
Glasguen' habeo et gero ac pro juvenum instructione in eodem ac
sustentatione eorundem inibi literas discentium pro tempore ac chari-
tatis intuitu ductum, cum expressis consensu et assensu Reverendissimi in
Christo patris Jacobi miseratione divina Archie'pi Glasguen' moderni
mei d'ni superioris dedisse concessisse assignasse et hac p'nti carta
mea confirmasse, necnon dare concedere assignare et hac p'nti carta
mea confirmare predictis Pedagogio seu Universitati Glasguen' preposito
regentibus ac studentibus in eodem nunc modernis ac eorundem succes
soribus in eodem pro tempore residentibus, totum et integrum unum
annuum redditum sexdecem bollarum bone et sufficientis farine avenatice
annuatim, inter festa Natalis D'ni et Purificationis Beate Marie Virginis,
levan' et percipien' et exeun' de toto et integro prescripto meo molen
dino terris molendinariis astrictis et aliis adventitiis multuris ejusdem
seu de qualecunque parte eorundem cum suis pertinen' deque primori-

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bus fructibus et emolumentis dicto molendino spectan' jacen' ut supra:
Tenendum et habendum totum et integrum predictum annuum redditum
sexdecem bollarum farine annuatim ad predictos terminos levan' et
percipien' de et super toto et integro dicto molendino terrisque molen-
dinariis astrictis aliisque multuris ac primoribus fructibus ejusdem seu
de quacunque parte eorundem cum suis pertinen', prefatis preposito
regentibus ac studentibus nunc et pro tempore in dicta Universitate
existen' et residen', de me et meis heredibus in feodo et hereditate im
perpetuum, cum omnibus et singulis suis libertatibus commoditatibus
proficuis asiamentis ac justis suis pertinen' quibuscunque, cumque potes
tate et facultate ipsis preposito regentibus et studentibus per se aut
eorum factores officiarios et servos, in defectu solutionis dicti annui
redditus annuatim ut prescribitur, dictum molendinum terras molendi-
narias et astrictas ac alias multuras ac proficua dicto molendino spectan'
seu quamcunque partem eorundem, toties quoties ipsis videbitur namandi
et distringendi namasque abducendi ac desuper ad sue libitum voluntatis
disponendi ac adeo libere utendi et gaudendi sicuti aliquis annuus
redditus infra regnum Scotie alicui per aliquem quovis modo datur aut
conceditur absque contradictione aut obstaculo aliquali: Reddendo inde
(dicti prepositus regentes et studentes in dicta Universitate moderni et
eorum successores pro tempore existen') mihi heredibusque meis fidem
et diligentiam in juventute sibi pro tempore commissa probe instituenda,
ac etiam cum eodem annuo redditu annuatim sustentando unum studen-
tem seu bursarium in dicto eorum Collegio seu Universitate inibi philo-
sophiam literasque prout alii studentes durante tempore cursus ut mos
collegii est discentem : qui bursarius habilis et idoneus ac in re gram-
matica probe institutus toties quoties locus ejusdem vacabit per me dic
tum Thomam et heredes meos dictis preposito et regentibus presenta-
bitur, ac per eosdem conjunctim examine previo admittetur si dignus
et idoneus ad philosophiam capescendam repertus fuerit: quod si
vacaverit dicta bursa spatio quatuor mensium et nemine idoneo aut ad
dictam bursam digno per me ipsis adhoc nominato et presentato, turn et

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ilia vice licebit dictis preposito et regentibus conjunctim unum aliquem
idoneum studentem in illius bursarii locum sufficere ac eadem bursa
gaudere durante suo cursu in philosophia tantum : pro omni alio onere
exactione questione seu demanda ac servitio seculari que de predicto
annuo reditu exigi poterunt quomodolibet vel requiri. Et ego vero dic
tus Thomas heredes mei et assignati totum et integrum dictum annuum
redditum sexdecem bollarum farine annuatim ad dicta festa levan' de
predicto molendino terris molendinariis astrictis et aliis multuris ac pri-
moribus fructibus ejusdem seu de quacunque parte eorundem, prefatis
preposito regentibus et studentibus in dictis Collegio et Universitate
modernis et eorum successoribus pro tempore existen' adeo libere et
quiete in omnibus et per omnia forma pariter et effectu ut premissum
est ac liberum et immunem a solutione firme feudifirmalis dicti molen-
dini seu cujuscunque partis ejusdem sic quod libere inde levari possit et
a quocunque impedimento ratione facti mei proprii, contra omnes mor-
tales warantizabimus acquietabimus et imperpetuum defendemus. In-
super dilectis meis Joanni Youngar in Newtoun de Partick
ac vestrum cuilibet balivis meis in hac parte
conjunctim et divisim in hac parte speciahter constitutis, stricte precipio
et firmiter mando quatenus visis presentibus postmodum indilate ad
dictum molendinum accedatis et statum et saisinam hereditariam necnon
realem actualem et corporalem possessionem totius et integri dicti annui
redditus sexdecem bollarum farine avenatice annuatim inter dicta festa
levan' et percipien' de et super toto et integro dicto molendino terris
molendinariis astrictis et aliis adventiciis multuris primoribusque fruc
tibus ejusdem cum suis pertinen' seu de quacunque parte eorundem
jacen' ut supra, dicto preposito prefati Collegii moderno nomine et ex
parte prepositi regentium ac studentium dicti Collegii nunc et in futuris
perpetuis temporibus in eodem existen', tradatis liberetis et assignetis,
seu unus vestrum tradat et assignet et haberi faciatis sine dilatione, et hoc
nullo modo omittatis, ad quod faciendum vobis et vestrum cuilibet meam
plenariam et irrevocabilem tenore presentium committo potestatem.

CRAWFURD'S BURSARY. 5
In cujus rei testimonium presentibus manu mea subscriptis sigillum
meum proprium unacum sigillo dicti Reverendissimi patris ejusque
subscriptione manuali in signum sui consensus ad premissa est appensum:
Apud Glasgow die vigesimo sexto mensis Juhi Anno D'ni millesimo
quingentesimo septuagesimo sexto, coram his testibus domino Roberto
Boid, Jacobo Greg rectore de Colmanell, M'ro Davide Weims ministro
Glasgue, cum diversis aliis. THOMAS CRAUFURD
OF JORDANHILL.
JA: ARCHIEPISCOPUS GLASGUEN.
Jacobus Greg testis.
Mr. David Weims testis.
It appears that of date 28th June, 1604, i. e. after Capt. Crawfurd's death, the
Masters of the College of Glasgow executed a resignation of the said yearly annual rent of
16 bolls of oatmeal, into the hands of the Duke of Lennox, for new infeftment thereof to
themselves : and that of that date, accordingly, a charter in their favor was expede by the
Duke, to be holden of him with the like Reddendo as was payed to Jordanhill, of maintain
ing a bursar of the Duke's presentation, &c. — (Blockhouse's Inventory, Nos. 409 & 410.)
And again, of date 21st March, 1607, there was a fresh resignation into the hands
of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and a fresh charter was issued by him (10th Feb., 1607,)
with a Novo Damns with the same holding and Reddendo, &c. — (Blockhouse's Inventory,
Nos. 411, 412, 413.)
In the ' Carta per Jacobum (Law) Archiepiscopum Glasguensem, in favorem Univer-
sitatis Glasguensis, 30 Octobris, 1628,' — (Blockhouse's Inventory, No. 489,) — the last-men
tioned deed is confirmed in the following terms : —
" Item aliam cartam et infeofamentum de data decimo die mensis
Februarh, anno millesimo sexcentesimo septimo, cum sasina inde
sequen', fact' et concess' per reverendissimum in Christo patrem Joan
nem tunc Archiepiscopum Glasguensem nunc Sancti Andreas Archiepis
copum, cum consensu decani et capituli dictse ecclesise metropolitans}
Glasguensis, in favorem prasfati Collegii de Glasgow magistrorum re-
gentium et membrorum ejusdem eorumque successorum, de et super

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una celdra farinae avenaticae annuatim percipien' et levan' de molendino
nostro de Partick multuris sequelis et fructibus ejusdem."
In the course of the Charter, the maintenance of a Bursar is specified as a portion
of the " Reddendo," in similar terms to those employed in the original mortification by
Captain Crawfurd.
This benefaction is confirmed in similar terms in the Charter granted by King
Charles I. to the College of Glasgow, of date 28th June, 1630. — (Blockhouse's Inventory,
No. 490.) ' '-'- *•

THE FOUNDATION BURSARIES,
Webe established by the Nova Erectio, or Foundation Charter, of the College of Glasgow,
granted by King James VI., ] 3th July, 1577, during the Regency of the Earl of Morton,
The passage in the Charter, relating to these Bursaries, is as follows : —
[Compared with " Exemplum Begice Erectionis," engrossed in No. 7 of Clerk's
Press, p. 41, which appears to have been carefully collated.]
" Porro paupertatis cura habita et/ifuod multi prae inopia a bonis Uteris
deterreantur, adjunximus quatuor pauperes studentes quos bursarios vo-
cant, iisque assignamus victum ex communibus fructibus dictae ecclesiae
de Govane et communi tabula dicti Collegii: eos et paupertatis nomine
commendatos esse volumus, quibus amid pras inopia suppeditare victum
non queant, et ingenii prestantia et grammatical facultatis peritia valere:
eorum prsesentationem penes Comitem a Mortoun consanguineum nos
trum et tutorem charissimum ejusque heredes masculos succedentibus
temporibus esse volumus, quibus deficientibus penes legitimos quosque
heredes suos secundum tenorem novi infeofamenti dilecto nostro con-
sanguineo et tutori predict' desuper concessi prout in eodem latius
continetur: admissionem vero et collationem dictorum bursariorum
penes Gymnasiarcham, cujus erit curse providere ne divites pauperum
loco admittantur neve fuci alvearia depascant, sed eos in Gymnasium
recipere qui patriae ornamento et ecclesias usui esse poterint: Hos
autem pauperes nostros humilitatis et obedientiaa exemplar esse volu
mus et per omnia prasceptoribus morem gerere, quod nisi fecerint

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potestatem facimus dicto Gymnasiarchas et praeceptoribus eos puniendi
et pro ratione delicti usque ad eorumdem ejectionem e dicto Collegio
inclusive si propter eorum contumaciam id promeriti fuerint : Eorum
in Collegium ingressus calendis Octobris sit, permaneantque in studio
literario et Gymnasii sumptibus alantur totos tres annos cum dimidio,
quod tempus idoneum judicamus pro ceterarum Academiarum Regni
nostri consuetudine ad studium philosophiae consummandum et lau-
ream adipiscendam, quibus exactis novi bursarii provideantur donee
iterum ad metam decurrerint."
The right of nomination, to the Foundation Bursaries, conferred upon the Earl of
Morton by the Charter, appears never to have been exercised — at least no trace of its
exercise has ever been discovered in the records of the College, while from those records
it appears that the Principal and Professors have, for a very long period, been in use to
nominate to these Bursaries,
From an explanation suggested in the ' Report relative to the University of Glas
gow,' by the Commissioners appointed to Visit the Universities and Colleges of Scotland,
(p. 63,) it would seem, that in conformity with an Act of Visitation in 1602, the nomination
to the Four Foundation Bursaries was long exercised by the Crown, through the medium
of the Barons of Exchequer ; and that the practice of the Faculty's admitting Foundation
Bursars not previously presented, was introduced in the interval between the conclusion of
the Treaty of Union, and the establishment of the New Court of Exchequer in 1709.
Of date 4th March, 1784, on occasion of an augmentation of the Professors' salaries
being resolved upon, " The Faculty further considering that the four Foundation Bursaries
are burdens on the College revenue, and that, the annual stipends of £5 each being fixed by
the origmal Charter,* similar reasons to those above mentioned render an augmentation of
them proper and necessary, — do hereby determine and enact, that the sum of £3 sterling
yearly be added to each of the four Foundation Bursaries, to be paid out of the annual in
terest of the surplus fund as above, at the usual terms," &c. This resolution was confirmed
by the Visitors of the College, 30th March, 1784.— (No. 77 of Clerk's Press, p.p. 332 and 335.)
Again, of date 15th May, 1794, on a similar occasion, " The Faculty further con
sidering that the four Foundation Bursaries are burdens on the College revenue, they do
further determine and enact, that the sum of Two Pounds sterling yearly shall be added to
each of the four Foundation Bursaries," &c. Confirmed by Visitors, 10th June, 1799.—
(No. 80 of Clerk's Press.)
* This must mean that Five Pounds was the rate of board, at the College's common table, which the
Charter assigns to the Bursars established by it.

HOWISON'S BURSARY.

HOWISON'S BURSARY
Was founded in 1613, by Mb. JOHN HOWISON, Minister of Cambuslang. Wodrow,
in his M.S. Collections, (Univ. Libr. F. 5. is. ) in acknowledging that almost all he had
ascertained respecting Mr. Howison was derived from Calderwood, observes : "He was a
man of considerable learning, and, as we shall hear, wrote and published an useful Cate
chisme. He was a fervent preacher, and zealously affected the principles of our Re
formation ; and his whole life, almost, was a continued chain of sufferings for his bold
appearances against corruptions. At least," adds Wodrow, "little else hath been handed
down concerning him at this distance : and it's natural that the sufferings and more
public appearances of many excellent persons should be alone taken notice of by writers
of our history ; while in the meanwhile, the more private part of their life, their close
walk with God, their piety and usefulness in the ministerial work, and many other things,
which deserve to be remembered, are now quite lost."
The most famous incident in Mr. Howison 's life occurred in 1582, when he was act
ing as Moderator of the Presbytery of Glasgow, assembled, in obedience to an ordinance of
the General Assembly, to give a decreet against Mr. R. Montgomerie, who, contrary to his
agreement with the Assembly, was pressing on his admission as Archbishop of Glasgow, to
which office he had, through the influence of the Duke of Lennox, been nominated on the
death of Archbishop Boyd.
" The Laird of Minto," says Calderwood, (The True History, &c. p. 126, edit. 1678,)
" Provest of the Town, accompanied with the Bailiffe and some Citizens, came in (to the
Presbytery,) and discharged them to proceed, without showing any commission publick
or privat. Because this was refused, they put violent hands on the Moderator, Mr. John
Howisone, smote him on the face, rent his beard, stroke out one of his teeth, and there
after committed him to warde in the Tolbooth. The Students in the College were so
commoved, that they entered in conflict with some of those who had done the injurie to
the Moderator, and some were hurt. Notwithstanding of all this stirre, the decreet was
given out against Mr. Robert," &c.
A meeting of the Assembly having been convened, it agreed on a representation of
grievances which included, among others, the following, viz.: — "Contempt of ministers
and dinging of many doing thair office ; and speciallie the violent drawing of Mr. Johne
Howisone out of the judgement seate, quher he was placit Moderatour of the Presbyterie
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Bailzies of Glasgow, and thair complices ; and after complaint made, no ordour takin
with the doers therof, but contrariewayis, mantaining of them, as if the same had bein
good service."— (Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, printed by the Maitland Club,
p. 583. also p. 604.) Measures were at the same time adopted for bringing the offenders
under ecclesiastical jurisdiction. "The process against the assaulters of Mr. Howison,"
says Wodrow, " took many turns which it's needless to bring in here ; and very little re
dress was got. But when the times changed, and Bishop Adamson and Arran ruled all,
Mr. Howison was violently persecute for non-complyance with Mr. R. Montgomery, now,
without opposition, thrust in upon Glasgow. He was deleted by Mr. R. Montgomery
as disobedient to the Acts of Parliament lately made," (i.e. the Black Acts,) " and one
who would not own him as Bishop. Upon this he was seized and brought before some
Lords at Falkland, and examined." Wodrow has introduced into his collection a copy
of the examination, which professes to have been held in presence of the King. What
followed upon this examination does not appear.
In November and December of the following year (1585) Mr. Howison was with other
ministers waiting on the Parliament at Linlithgow, and delivered a sermon there, of which
Mr. James Melvill, in a letter to Mr. James Carmichael, says : — " Mr. John Howison made
a good exhortation, telling the truth, and meet for the purpose. But there was no help
for it ; he must go to ward." — (See Calderwood, p. 187.) In a supplication given in
by the Commissioners of the Assembly to the King, previously to the breaking up of the
Parliament at the beginning of 1586, they, among other things, crave " speciallie, that
our brethren Mr. John Howisone and William Watsone be delivered out of ward." — (Ibid,
p. 197.) No particular notice of Mr. Howison 's liberation from ward seems to be re
corded ; but Mr. Watson's liberation was made a matter of negociation, he having "been
guilty of an odious comparison of his Majestie to Jeroboam, and making him inferior to
him."— Ibid, p. 199.
In 1596, when it was thought expedient that " an ordinarie number of Commis
sioners out of all the quarters of the country shall have ordinary residence at Edinburgh, to
communicat such advertisements as shall come from diverse parts of the country, and
consult what is most expedient in every case," Mr. Howison was one of four appointed
for the west quarter, and acted in that capacity. — (See Calderwood, p. 333.) In the fol
lowing year, when matters had been brought to issue by the famous Declinature of the
King and Council's Judicature in matters spiritual, in which Mr. David Black was put
forward as the champion of the Church, Mr. Howison again incurred imprisonment ;
for, in a petition presented by the Assembly to the King in that year, one of the requests
is, " seeing Mr. David Black hes obeyit sick things as was injoinit to him, to give him
libertie to returne to his flock ; and sicklyk to Mr. John Welch and to Mr. John
Hewisone." — (Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, p. 901. — See also Calderwood,
B

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p. 400.) No reference is made to this request in the King's reply, nor does it appear at
what time Mr. Howison's liberation took place.
The next character in which we meet with Mr. Howison is as an author, he having
published, in 1600, a Treatise upon Conscience (8vo., Edinburgh) ; and it would appear
from the following minute of the General Assembly, in 1602, that he had prepared a work
of still greater extent. Sessio 4a- 12 Novembris.
" The quhilk day the brethren haveand considered the great travells and paines
takin be thair brother, Mr. Johne Howesone, minister at Cambuslang, in ansuering to Bel
larmine in thrie sundrie volumes, and how profitable the same wilbe to the Kirk of God,
quhilk he presentit to the Assemblie, desyreing the same to be revisit be them, to the
effect, if they be found worthie they may be put foorth in print ; they appointit the said
worke first to be revisit be Mrs. Robert Howie, James Nicolsone, and James Robertsone ;
thereafter be Mr. Andro Melvill ; and last be Mrs. Robert Pont and Johne Hall ; and to
report to the nixt Assemblie : quhilk bookes are presentlie delyverit to Mr. Robert Howie."
— (The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, p. 987-8.) In the agitated state in
which the Church was kept for a number of years subsequently to this resolution being
adopted by the Assembly, Mr. Howison's answer to the strenuous defender of the Catholic
religion as against the Reformers, and of papal supremacy as regards other princes, seems
to have been lost sight of.
Mr. Howison's name appears on the list of the Assembly which met at Glasgow in
1610. — (Calderwood, p. 627.) It was in 1613 that he founded the endowment in question ;
and two years subsequently, when James, Marquis of Hamilton, mortified to the Hospital
in Hamilton the lands of Chaplainry of the Lady Chapell of Cambuslang, called the Chapel
of Kirkburn, and the lands of the Vice-Pensionery of Cambuslang, Mr. Howison in the
same deed granted " all and haill the profit of the principal sum of twa thousand merks
money of Scotland, lyand upon the lands above exprimit." At his death, which hap
pened in June, 1618, Mr. Howison further bequeathed his library to the Principal and
Regents of Glasgow College  (No. 7 of Clerk's Press, p. 24. See also reference to his
Will in Hamilton of Wishaw's Description of the Shires of Lanark, &c, printed by the
Maitland Club, p. 20.) There is a portrait of him in the Trades' Hall, taken in the year
1609, when he was in the 79th year of his age.
[Mr. Howison's Deed of Mortification is recorded in the Books of the Trades'
House of Glasgow ; but the following print has been compared with a copy engrossed in
the old parchment book, (forming No. 7 of the Clerk's Press) which is known by the title
Jura, Leges, Instituta, &c, p. 58.]

HOWISON'S BURSARY. 11
To All and Sundrie quhome it effeiris, and in speciali to ye Richt
Reverend Fader, Johnne, Archibischop of Glasgow, the Principall
& Regentis of the College thairof, and Universitie of ye samin, Wit ye
me, Mr. JOHNNE HOWISOUN, Minister at Cambuslang, for ye ernist
affectioun I have and beiris to ye flourishing of the said College, and
Studentis of ye samin, and to ye effect that thair numbir may be the
bettir increst heireftir, and for ye help and supplie of the interteny-
ment of ane Bursor to be p'ntit to ye said College in all tymis cum
ing, be ye Deaconis and Visitors of ye craftis of Glasgow — the said
Bursor alwayis being ane of ye sonis of ane craftisman of ye said
Burgh, To have gevin and grantit, and perpetually in tyme cuming
annexit and mortifeit for the glory of God, and intertenyment of ye
said Bursor within the said College, ALL and HAILL ye profite and
gud deid of ye soume of ANE THOUSAND MERKIS money, to be
gevin out be me to the use foirsaid, and the principall soume of ye
samyn to be laid upone sufficient Landis within ye said Burgh, to ye
effect ye profeit of ye samyn, aggreabill to ye lawis of yis realme,
may perpetually heireifter come to ye use foirsaid, and how oft ye
said annuellrent beis redemit be payment of ye said principall soume,
that ye samen may be of new employit, & laid upone landis againe
to ye use above writtin, be ye Principallis of ye said College and
Deacon Convenar for ye tyme perpetually heireftir. Lykeas, I will
and ordanis y' ye Deaconis & Visitors of ye said craftis of Glas
gow, and thair successors succeidand to thame in their saidis offices,
be presentaris of ye said Bursor to ye Universitie of ye said College,
and ordanis ye said Bursor to be ane qualifeit scoller, of honest name
& gud report, and apt and abill to discharge his dewtie in leirning,
being of ye craftismanis rank, and failzeand thairof, onie other y*
pleisses ye saidis Deaconis to place in ye said revenue be thair pre-
sentatione, to ye time he pas his cours w'in the said College ; and eftir
ye passing of his said cours, ordanis evir to present aneuthir young
qualifeit scoller to the said Bursorship, and being sua presentit in

12 HOWISON'S BURSARY.
maner foirsaid be thame, Willis and Ordanis the Universitie of ye said
College, to admit and receave ye said Bursor presentit in maner foir
said, and the Collector of the said College to be answerabill to ye
Auditors Ordiner of ye said College comptis; and ye said Bursor to
have his intertenyment wlin the said College upone ye gud deid and
profeit of ye soume above writtin : And farder ordanis ye said Bursor
to be ane faithfull and obedient servand to ye said Principall, Regentis,
and haill Universitie of ye said College, during his remayning w'in
the samyn : And farder, in cais ye profeit of ye said soume off Ane
Thousand Merkis money foirsaid, be not sufficient for ye interteniment
of ye said Bursor, in yt cais ye Deaconis & Visitors of ye said Burgh
to augment ye samyn give neid beis, for ye said Bursor's interteni
ment, as thai sail think expedient & necessar to y* effect, and for
securitie ordanis thir p'ntis to be insert & reg'ra' in ye fundatioun buiks
of ye said College of Glasgow, or in ye buiks of Counsall, thairin to
remane ad perpetuam rei memoriam, & to yt effect constitutes
or onie of yame, conjunctlie and severallie, our Prors- In witnes of
ye q'lkis thir presents ar subscryvit as followis : Att Cambuslang, the
twenty-fifth day of November, ye year of God jm vic thretein yeirs,
befoir thir witnesses — Mr. David Shairp, parsoun & minister att Kil-
bryde, James Braidwood, sumtyme baillie of Glasgow, Thomas Mor-
risoune, couper, Robert Burrell, saidler, burgesses of Glasgow, and Hew
Blair, writer there, (sic subscribitur) Mr. Jon Howisoun, Mr. David
Shairp, witnes, James Braidwood, witnes, Thomas Morrisoun, witnes,
and H. Blair, witnes.
In 1817 the Trades' House increased the Howison Bursary, from their own funds,
from £5, which had up to that time been paid as the annual rent of the sum mortified, to
£8 sterling annually. Upon the 6th January, 1820, the then Convener received an anony
mous letter, enclosing £20, the writer stating that he had at one period enjoyed Mr.
Howison's Bursary, and drawn this sum, which his then circumstances in the world enabled
him to pay back to the House. In consequence of this, the Bursary was increased to £9.

WILSON'S BURSARIES. 13
WILSON'S BURSARIES,
INCLUDING
THE STIRLING AND THE CAEMICHAEL OE HYNDFORD BURSARIES,
Originate in a Bequest contained in the Latter Will and Testament of Mr. MICHAEL
WILSONE, of date 15th September, 1617. Respecting this benefactor, no information
has been obtained beyond what is contained in his own Will, and in an Act of the College
narrating the singular fate of his Bequest, (both here printed,) except that in an inscrip
tion which is recorded (Monteith's Theater of Mortality, 1713,) to have formerly existed in
the College, though now effaced, he is spoken of as having been a classical teacher (literas
humaniores professus) in England.
[This Deed is printed from a " Copy of Mr. Michael Wilson's Mortification," professing
to be extracted from the Register of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and which con
stitutes No. 445 of Blockhouse's Inventory.]
In the Name of God, Amen, the 15 day of September, in the 15 yeere
of the Raigne of our Soverane Lord, King James of England, &c, and
of our Lord Jesus, one thousand sixe hundre' and seaventeene, I,
MICHAEL WILSOUNE of Eastborne, in the Countie of Sussex, gent.,
being sick of bodie, bot of good and perfect remembrance, (thanks be
to God for it) doe ordeane and mak this my last Will and Testament, in
maner and forme following : — First, I commend my soule unto the
blessed protectioune of my Heavenlie Father, and my bodie to be buried,
according to the discretioune of my Executor, w'che I sail herein nomi
nate and appoint, to quhome I give all my goods and chattells, my
Will being performed. Item nixt, I give and bequheaths all my free
hold Lands, Tenements, and Hoereditaments whatsoever lying and being
[in] Eastborn, Willingdon, and Hollinglie, Halston and Burwasch, or else-
wher wtin this realme of England, to my sole Executor, Thomas
Parker of Eastborn, in Countie of Sussex, gent, and his heirs. And my
will and my desyre is, that my Executor sail see the one part of theme,
according to his discretioune and the trew value thairof, to devyd to him-

14 WILSON'S BURSARIES.
selfe and to his wyffe, and to and among his fyve childreine equaUie,
according to his discretioune, and they to have the part and portioune of
him or her that sail dye befor they have receaved thair parts and
portions thairof, soe as my Executor and they keape and conceale
secretlie this my last Will and Testament, untill and after my death.
Item, my further desyr is, yat my said Executor shall have and take
benefite of any surrender and surrenders that shall happen or accrew unto
me more then the trew and just sumes that I have lent upon theme, so
as it may be payed unto my Executor or his Assignes, w'in six
moneths after such surrender or surrenders happen to be due to me or
to him after my decease. Item, I give and bequeath unto my brother,
John Wilsoune, of the Parisch of Cader, in Scotland, the sume of 200
hb. sterling, to be payed to him by my Execur win six moneths after
my decease. Item, I alsoe give and bequeath unto my sister's daughter,
one Margarat Scott, resedeingh and dwelling in Edinburgh, a citie of his
Ma'tie's Kingdome of Scotland, the like sume of 200 lib. sterling, for
the advauncment of her mariage, to be alsoe payed unto her w*in six
moneths after my decease. Item, all the rest of my goods and chattels,
amounting to the soume of 500 lib. sterling, according to the rate of the
new Englisch computa°ne, I give and bequeath unto my fore-named
Execut1*- upon trust and confidence that he in love towards me after my
departour of this lyfe, shall pay it over to the Provest of Glasgow, in
Scotland, and to the Principall of the Universitie there, for the present
time there being, and by theme to be imployed continuallie from tyme to
tyme to the redifying of the decayed parts and places of the sayd Uni
versitie, and to the education in meat, dring, apparell, and guid letters, of
all such of my kinred as shall stand in neid of such educa°ne, and in
default of such of my kinred as shall stand in neid of such educa°ne as
aforesayd, my will & meaning is * all such burgesses sonnes
of the sayd citie whose parents ar not able to *
* These spaces are blank in the copy.

WILSON'S BURSARIES. 15
the like educa°ne upon ther awin childrein shall have the hke benefite
of like educa°ne as my poore kinred sould have; all w'che legacies my
will and trew meaning is, that they be payed to the sayd legators accord
ing to the rate of the now Englisch computatioune; and if there shall
be ony doubt ether be law or other means to disanull this my will in
ony part or clause therof, then my will is that my Executr, upon the
trust and confidence reposed in him by faithfull promise befor the con-
firmatione of this my present will, use all lawfull and honest means to
the King's Most Excellent Ma'tye for the tyme being, that this my last
Will and Testament of me, Michael Wilsoune, and everie clause and
article therof may have free passage according to the true meaning
therof. This is the last Will & Testament of me, Michael Wilsoune,
sealed & signed w* my hand seale, the day & yeare above writtin, in the
presence of us whose names ar heereunder written, by me, Michael
Wilsoune, in three sevrall places. Jhone Winsett, his mark. George
Boniface, his marke.
Decimo Octavo die mensis Martii anno do'ni, juxta cursum et com-
putationem eccl'ise Anglicanse, millesimo sexcentesimo decimo septimo,
emacnavit comissio domino Georgio Douglassio militi p'ro'e sancti Martini
in Campis in Cont. Midle- ad administrandum bona nostra [omnia?] et
credita ejusdem def' juxta tenorem et effectum testamenti supra scripti
eo quod Thomas Parker, Executor in eodem Testo' no'i'atus, ex certis
causis et ani'um suum in ea parte moven', oneri executionis dicti
testamenti expresse renunciavit ut exhibitis plenius liquet, de bene etc,
jurate* In the Records of the University, (Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 56,) of date 5to Calend. Sextilis,
1621 there is recorded in Latin a Resolution of the Rector and Senate, setting forth the
services of Sir Wm. ALEXANDER of Menstrie, in respect of this Bequest, and binding
* The words in italics are filled up in a different handwriting from that of the transcriber.

16 WILSON'S BURSARIES.
themselves and their successors to support a Bursary to be in the nomination of him and
his Heirs, as soon as the said Bequest should come into their hands, "but not otherwise ;
and there is a similar minute of date 5 Calend. November, 1625, in favour of JAMES
CARMICHAEL of Westraw, and his heirs.— (ibid, p. 59.)
Of date 28th February, 1640, "An act concerning umq1- Mr. MICHAEL WILSOUNE,
his Legacy," was "maid be the Council of the Burgh of Glasgow" — (No. 446 of Black-
house's Inventory,) — but as it is of similar import with the following Act of the College,
made a few days later, and at the same time is less detailed, it has not been thought
necessary to insert it here. In both of these Acts, the resolutions above referred to, are
confirmed. [Recorded in No. 7 of Clerk's Press, page 71.]
j
ACT CONCERNING UMQ'i- MR. MICHAEL WILSONNE,
HIS LEGACIE.
Att the Colledge oe Glasgow, the Secund day of March, the yeir of
God jm vic fourtie yeirs, the q'lk day the Rector of the Universitie
of Glasgow, Principall of the Colledge thairof, remanent Governours and
Maisters of ye said Universitie, and Assessores of ye said Rector, being
la'ully con veined, and having taken consideratione of the l're Will and
Testament of Umq11- Mr. MICHAELL WILSONE, quho being borne
and bread in Glasgow, leived long and died in Eastborne, in ye Countie
of Sussex, within ye Kingdom of Ingland, q'lk is of ye dait the
day of the yeir of God jm vi° sevintein yeirs. Be ye q'lk
Testament he left in legacie to his broy1*- Johnne Wilsone, a blind man,
Twa Hundrethe Pund sterling, and to Margaret Scott, his sister daughter,
uthir Twa Hundred Pund Sterling, and sicklyke left to ye use of ye said
CoUedge of Glasgow, FYVE HUNDRETHE PUND sterling, q'lk Fyve
Hundrethe Pund he ordained to be payit to ye Proveist of Glasgow,
and to ye Principall of the said Colledge, and by thame to be employid
to ye re-edifieing of ye decayed pairtis and places of ye said Colledge,
and to ye educatione in meatt, drinck, apparrell, and guid lettres, of
suche of his kinred as sail stand in neid of suche education, and in de-

WILSON'S BURSARIES. 17
fault of suche of his kinred as sail stand in neid of suche educatione,
the same benefeit to be conferred to suche burgesses sones of ye said
citie of Glasgow, quhoise parentis are not able to susteain thame.
Notwithstanding it is notour that ye said Colledge could get no
benefeit be ye said legacie, in respect ye said umqu Mr. Michael Wil
sone having conqueised and keipit all his guids in Ingland, quhare
he was not a native borne, nor denisoned or naturalized, the Kingis
Majestie had onlie power of his lands guids & geir eftir his deceis, and
his Majestie granted ye gift thairof to Sr George Dowglas, one of his
Majesty's servantis, who would have intrometted with and disponed to
his awine use the said soumes of money left to ye Colledge as he did
with ye rest of ye said umq11 Mr. Michaell his guids geir & legacie,
unles by ye singular care and pains of ye Right Honb,e the Erie of
Stirling, then sty lit Sr Williame Alex1*, his Majestie being informed and
intreated, caused ye said Sr George give to ye s'd Maisters of the Col
ledge, band and securitie, with cation, for ye said soume of Fyre Hun
drethe Pund sterling, extending to Nyne Thousand Merks Scotts money.
Notwithstanding q'rof the said Sr George decaying in his estaitt and
credit, and becoming not responsall, and for uther ressones, the Col-
legde could get no payment for divers yeirs, nather of ye principaU
soume nor a'n'elrent, and thaireftir ye said Sr George band being in
ye custodie of Mr. Robert Boyd of Trochrig, Principall of ye said Col
lege, his chalmer in ye College was brockin be ane theiff, and ye said
band was stoUen away among uther geir ; and incontinent ye said Sr
George & his cationers getting inteUigence thairof, refused to pay ather
the principal soume or a'n'elrent, or to give new band or securitie
thairfoir, until Sr James Carmichael of ye Uk, undertaking great labor
& paines to informe his Majestie thairanent, and using aU other guid
meanes possible, at ye lenth, quhen ye caice was desperat, caused
ye cationers of ye said Sr George give a new band & better securitie to
ye CoUedge thane they had befoir, not only for ye principaU soume of
Nyne Thousand Merks, but also for Ane Thousand Merks more in com-
c

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position for ye a'n'elrentis of divers yeirs preceding adebtit for ye said
princ1- soume, q'lk soume accordinglie thareeftir was payit to ye said
Colledge. For ye qhUk caus it was appoynted that of ye first and
readiest of ye a'n'elrentis of ye soumes legated be ye said umq11 Mr.
Michael Wilsone to ye CoUedge there sould be maintened twa Bursors in
aU tyme cuming, the ane at the presentation of ye said Erie of Stirling,
and the uyr at ye presentation of ye said Sr James Carmichaell, and
their airis, and that eftir ye maner and form of ye other Bursors in
ye said CoUedge. Lykas, it was fund that thair hes been bestowed be
ye said CoUedge great soumes of money far exceeding the a'n'elrent
of ye said principal soume of Nyne Thousand Merks, pairtlie upon
ye fabrick of ye said College, and pairtly for ye sustentation of the
said John Wilsone, brother to ye said umq11 Mr. Michaell, quho was
disappointed of the said legacie of Twa Hundrethe Punds, being blind,
poor, and indigent, and pairtlie for the sustentation of uy'r Bursors
besyde the twa Bursors befoir mentioned, and that according to ye Will
of ye said umq11 Mr. MichaeU Wilsone ; and now lykwayes it is con-
discendit that besyde ye said twa Bursors, q'rof one is at ye presentation
of ye said Erie of Stirling, & the uther at ye presentatione of ye said
Sr James Carmichaell, and their airis, that heireftir, to wit, eftir Andrew
Snype & David Brune (quho being burgesses sons are at present
Bursors interteaned in respect of ye said legacie,) sail finisch thair
ordiner course in ye said CoUedge, there salbe interteaned in respect
of ye said legacie twa uther Bursors quha sail be Maisters of Airts and
Studentis of Divinitie, and thairfor salbe bettir interteaned thane ye pre
sent ordiner Bursors of ye said College, to wit, according to ye inter-
tenement of ye secund order of Bursors within ye said Colledge ; pro-
vyding aUwayes that in caice the ordiner boord of ye secund rank
of boordors exceid ye soume of four scoir punds in ye yeir, or during
sae meikill space of ye yeir as they remayne at ye Colledge table, that
they sail supplie ye same upone thair awne expences, and that ye Col
ledge salbe no more burdened thairby. And that ye said twa Bursors

WILSON'S BURSARIES. 19
salbe presented be ye Proveist of Glasgow, with advyse & consent of
ye Bailzies and Counsell of ye said Brughe, to ye PrincipaU & Maisters
of ye said Colledge, and eftir dew tryall and examinatione, being fund
capable & worthie to be admitted, receaved be them, aiid failzeing
thairof, uthers to be presented in thair places of ye quality foirsaid.
And ye said twa Bursors and either of thame to be nominat & chosin
of suche of the said umq11- Mr. MichaeU Wilsone's kinred quho sail
stand in neid of ye said Bursor's place, and failzieing of thame, suche
burgesses' sones of ye said citie quhois parentis ar not able to susteane
thame, and salbe fund most capable & worthie scholers be ye said Prin
cipaU & remanent Maisters of ye said Colledge. Provyding also in caice
any of ye said umq11- Mr. MichaeU Wilsone's kinred occurre, quho being
qualified & not able to susteane thameselfis, desyres to pass ye ordinar
course of philosophie & uther inferiore studies within ye said Colledge,
that they salbe preferred to ye said places of Bursors, and be enter-
teanied as ye rest of ye ordinar Bursors of ye said CoUedge, ay and
quhile they passe thair course of philosophie, by the space of four yeirs;
and y* so oft as ye said Bursors, or any one of thame, gois out, uthers
be presented and admittit in maner above specified. And for bettir
securitie of ye premisses it is aggried & concluded be those quho hes
interest, that ye soume of Nyne Thousand Merks p'ntlie adebtit to
ye said College salbe sequestrat for ye use above specified, to wit, the
soume of Fyve Thousand Merks adebtit to ye said CoUedge be Johnne
Erie of Mar & his cationers, conforme to thair band of ye date the
thrid, fourt, & sext days of June, in ye yeir of God jm vic threttie-ane
yeirs, and ye soume of Four Thousand Merks as ane pairt of ane
gritter soume adebtit to ye said Colledge be Alexr Erie of Galloway
and Alexr Lord Gairlies, his eldest son, & y'r cationer, conforme to ye
band of ye dait ye nyntene day of June in ye yeir of God jm vic threttie-
fbur yeirs; And in consideratione of the great soumes of money allreadie
bestowed upone ye fabrick of ye said Colledge according to ye wiU of ye
said Testator, It is aggreid that thair salbe no more burdine for all tyme

20 WILSON'S BURSARIES.
cumming layed upon ye said Colledge, in respect of ye said legacie, thane
the susteaning of ye said Four Bursors in manner above specified; and that
ye superplus of ye a'n'elrent of ye said Nyne Thousand Merks salbe be
stowed & imployed upone ye fabrick and other necessar & profitable affairs
of ye said CoUedge, as ye rest of ye rentis thairof, to be aUowed in ye Col
ledge comptis be ye Proveist and Bailzies of Glasgow and remanent audi
tors thairof. Provyding allwayes that ye said Colledge salbe no more
burdened in sustentation of ye said Bursors, or utherwayes, thane the an
nuehent q'lk they sail trewlie receave of ye said princip11 soume of Nyne
Thousand Merks, or of any lands or uther rentis to be bocht thairwith,
saU extend to. Q'lk articles & conditiones concerning ye said legacie, &
uthers above specified, as they ar aggried unto, approven, and allowed
be ye present Proveist of Glasgow, with advyse and consent of ye Bailzies
and CounseU of the said Brughe, conforme to ye tenor of thair Act
maid thairanent of ye dait ye tuentie-aucht day of Februar, the yeir of
God jm vi° fourtie yeirs, insert & reg'rat in the Counsell buiks of the
said Brughe ; so ye said Rector & PrincipaU, with consent of ye re
manent Governours & Maisters of ye said Universitie & Colledge, and
assessors of ye said Rector, and they all with ane consent & assent,
be ye tennor of yis present Act, hes aggried unto, approven, & allowed
ye samyn e, ordaining this present Act to be insert & reg'rat in ye Register
buik of ye said Universitie, and ye just extract thairof subscribit be
thameselfis & yr Clerk, to be delyvered to ye Proveist, and Bailzies,
and Counsell of ye said Brughe, to be keipit in their chartor kist.
Sic subscribitur,

A. FLEMING.

JO. HAY, Rector.

RO. MAINE.

JO. STRANG, Principall.

Mr. JO. BELL.

DAV. DICKSON, Dean of Facultie

Mr. ZACH. BOYD.

JO. RAE.

WILL. WILKIE.

DAV. MONRO.

WILL. HAMILTON.

WILL. WALLACE.

JO. DICKSON.

Mr. DAV. FORSYTH.
WILSON'S BURSARIES. 21
The history, literary and political, of Sir William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling,
who thus acquired the right of presentation to a College Bursary, and the high favour in
which he stood with both James VI. and Charles I., are too well known to require to be
entered on here. In 1614 he was knighted ; in 1621 — the same year in which he
rendered the important service to the College which called forth this mark of its
gratitude — he obtained large grants in the Province of Nova Scotia, with the privi
lege of conferring baronetcies on those who purchased a fixed portion of land from him ;
in 1630 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Stirling ; and in 1633, he was
promoted to the rank of an Earl under the same title. He died in February, 1640,
just about the time the act above recited was being made. — (Douglas' Peerage of Scot
land, by Wood, II. 536.) It has been alleged that he was educated at the University of
Glasgow, — (M'Ure's View of Glasgow, edit. 1736, p. 229,) — a statement which, con
sidering his great literary reputation, it would be very agreeable to be able to confirm ; but
on what authority the assertion rests, does not appear. The eldest, and several others of
his sons, attended the University, their names appearing in the Matriculation lists between
1618 and 1626, inclusive.— (Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 185 to p. 190.) The author last
referred to says that they all matriculated in 1623 ; but this is erroneous.
For what length of time Sir William Alexander, or his successors, continued to
exercise the privilege thus acquired, does not appear. That it was not long exercised is,
however, established by the fact, that in a list of Bursary Presentations, commencing
with 1663, and extending to 1727 — (No. 14 of Clerk's Press) — there occurs no mention of
a Presentation by the Earl of Stirling being received.
In 1705, Principal Stirling inserted in the Bursary Presentation book above refer
red to, (p. 3.) a memorandum, of which the following is a portion : — " Though the toun of
Glasgow have been in use to present Four Bursars of Philosophie, yet I find, upon
enquirie they have right to present none [such] ; for whereas they presented two upon
Mr. Wilson's Mortification, it is plain, not onlie by the Act of Facultie relative thereto,
but ane Act of the Toune Council following upon the said Act of Facultie, that 'they have
no right to do so."* It has been conjectured that there may have been some connection
between the Stirling family dropping, and the Town Council assuming, the privilege of
presenting Philosophy Bursars on Mr. Wilson's Foundation ; but of such a connexion
there is no evidence, and it is more probable, as has been remarked, that amidst the
* In the same volume, in a list, without date, of Bursaries payable by the College, it is said, " The
College pays  it. two on Wilson's Mortification, one of which is presented by E. Hyndford." In a loose paper
entitled "Acct 0f Bursaries payd 1706-17 16," there is specified, " It — One on Wilson's Mortification, some
time presented by the E. of Stirling, att 60 lb. ;" but it^does not appear very clearly from this list whether or
not any presentations were being made on the strength of that Bursary, or, if so, by whom.

22 WILSON'S BURSARIES.
fluctuations of the affairs of that family, and the other disasters of the times, the right
ceased to be exercised altogether. — (Royal Comm18 Report, p. 65, orig. edit.)
Of Sir James Carmichael, the other party -whose good offices were similarly requited
by the College, we have the following notice in Douglas' Peerage, (by Wood, I., 745.) — "He
was a gentleman of excellent parts, and highly accomplished. He was introduced at Court
by the Earl of Dunbar ; was particularly noticed by King James VI., who first appointed him
one of the cup-bearers, afterwards His Majesty's carver, and then Chamberlain of the
Principality, in which employment he deported himself with prudence and integrity for
many years. He was created a Baronet 17th July, 1627, on which day he got a charter
of part of the territory of Nova Scotia, in America. He was first designed of Westerraw,"
(as he is in the resolution formerly referred to,) " but succeeding his cousin Sir John,
in the estate of Carmichael, took that designation " (as in the act just recited.) " He
had the appointment of Sheriff-Principal of the County of Lanark, 1632 ; was constituted
Lord Justice-Clerk, 1634 ; resigned that office on his being appointed Treasurer-Depute,
1636 ; and was admitted one of the Lords of Session, 1639. He was appointed by Par
liament, in 1641, a Privy Councillor for life, and one of the Commissioners for the Planta
tion of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds. He approved himself a faithful subject and ser
vant to King Charles I. in his distress, and lent him considerable sums of money. For his
services His Majesty was pleased to raise him to the dignity of the peerage, by the title of
Lord Carmichael, to him and his heirs male whatever, 1647. He adhered to the ' engage
ment ' for the rescue of the King, 1648, for which he was deprived of his office by Par
liament ; but he was one ofthe last Committee of Estates, 1649. After the accession of
King Charles II. , he was sworn a Privy Councillor, and appointed Lord Justice-Clerk,
from which he was dismissed by Cromwell, who imposed on him a fine of £2000, by his
Act of Grace and Pardon, 1654. Lord Carmichael died in the 94th year of his age, 29th
November, 1672."
To this summary it may be added that Sir James Carmichael's name is found in
the list of "persons dwelling at the Court of England " who subscribed in 1632 towards
the building of the Library, &c, (Clerk's Press, No. 16, near end;) and that he was
appointed by the General Assembly in 1642, and again in 1643, a Commissioner for the
Visitation of the University of Glasgow, under the title, Sir J. C. of that ilk, Treasurer-
Depute. His grandson John, who was appointed in 1692 Chancellor of the University of
Glasgow in which he had been a student, was created Earl of Hyndford, &c, in 1701 ; and
hence, subsequently to that time, the Bursary has been known under the designation of
the Hyndford Bursary. On the decease of the last Earl of Hyndford, in 1817, the patron
age of this Bursary passed, with the entailed property in Lanarkshire, to the family of
Anstruther of Anstruther, Baronet.

WILSON'S BURSARIES. 23
The following deed, (engrossed in No. 7 of Clerk's Press, p. 103,) explains the man
ner in which the funds of Mr. Wilson's, and of some of the following Mortifications, have
been invested.
At the Colledge of Glasgow, the ninth day of November, 1659, the
Moderatores of the Universitie of Glasgow having experienced the manie
and great hazards of the principal soumes of money mortified for the
mantenaunce of Burseres, & other public uses in ye said Universitie,
through the various changes of the conditions of their debtors, which
have happened, especially in these times, and finding ye payment of
annuells of these principall soumes, intended for the uses foresaid, to be
very uncertain & unsesonable, so that it doth not reach the ende for
which it was appointed; and considering how that the Universitie hath
been att verie great charges & expences in procuring and passing ane
late gift under the great seals, of all the benefices of the Dean and
Chapter of Glasgow,* & others therein mentioned, and that thereby they
are put in a fair way to recover the full right & possession of the
tithes of Calder and Monkland, which are one of the saids benefices; and
judging it for the good and utilitie of the said University to make pur
chase of the Lady Dutchess of Hamilton her right of the tithes of the
paroches of Cader and Monkland, sometimes the Sub-Deanery of Glasgow,
her right being the only let of their possession thereof, and to employ
the soumes of money hereafter mentioned for that effect, & for settling
a securitie for the use of the saids Bursars upon the saids tithes, the
same lying convenientlie & near unto the CoUedge, whereby a more
certain & tymeous payment of the annuelrents mortified for ye use
abovementioned maybe ensured : Doe therefore appoynt & ordain that
aU & haill the pr11 soume of Five Thousand Merks adebtit by the
Earle of Galloway, & the principall soume of Five Thousand Merks
adebted sometime by the Earl of Mar, now by the Laird of Fulwood,
quhilk two soumes are made up of the soume of Nine Thousand Merks,
* Nos. 453 and 454 of Blockhouse's Inventory.

24 WILSON'S BURSARIES.
mortified by Mr. Michael Wilson for the entertainment of four schollars,
& the enlarging & building the fabrick, and Ane Thousand Merks of the
annuelrents of the said principall soume added thereto ; as also all &
haiUe the soume of Three Thousand Merks adebtit by the Town CouncUl
of Glasgow, & mortified by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, for ye maintaining of
twa Bursars, Students in Theologie, and the soume of Four Thousand
Merks adebtit by the said Town CounciU, whilk principall soume con
sists of Three Thousand Merks mortified by Mr. William Struthers for
ye maintaining of two Bursars Students, & of Ane Thousand Merks
added to the said principaU soume by the Colledge, forth of the annuel
rents thereof, together with the soume of Ane Thousand Pounds Scotts,
as being the price agreed to be paid to the Colledge by David Scott,
Burgess of Glasgow, for ye to him ackers of land
in the Long Croft, bee forthwith uplifted and bestowed upon the said
purchase of the teithes of Monkland and Calder, from Anna Dutches of
Hamiltounne and WUham Earle of Selkirk, her husband, and towards
the defraying of the forsaid great expences the Colledge hes been at.
And for the better secureing the Bursares in the annuelrents forsaid,
the Moderatores appoynt ane infeftment to be past in the name of
& his successores in office, for the use
of the saids Bursers, in ane zeirlie annuelrent equivalent to the soume
of Foureteine Thousand Merks forth of the saids teynds, for the man
tenaunce of six Bursers in Theologie, & two Bursares in PhUosophie
zeirlie.
Sic subscribitur,
PATRIK GILLESPIE, principal.
R. BAILLY.
AN. BURNETT.
ALEX1 JAMESON, Dec. Fac. GEO. SINCLAIR.
JOA. YOUNG. ROT ERSKINE.

STRUTHERS' BURSARIES. 25
That this arrangement was carried into effect appears from a " Disposition of the
Sub-Deanery of Glasgow by the Dutchess of Hamilton to the University of Glasgow, 21st
Nov., 1659."— (Billon's Inventory, M. 2. 12.)— and Charters, 5th April, 1664, and 4th
March, 1670, with Ratification by Parliament in 1672,— (Nos. 455 and 460 of Blockhouse's
Inventory,) printed among Documents presented to the University Commissioners, Appen
dix, pp. 250, 252, and 254.

STRUTHERS' BURSARIES
Were founded by the Latter Will of Mr. WILLIAM STRUTHER, or STRUTHERS,*
who, at the time of his death, (9th November, 1633,) was one ofthe Ministers of Edinburgh.
Mr. Struthers mentions in his Will that he was born in Glasgow, and brought up in its
schools. His name appears in the list of those who obtained the degree in Arts at this
University, in 1599. — (Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 130.) We have it also on his own authority,
that he spent some of his first years in directing the studies of Lord Fleming, afterwards
second Earl of Wigtoune (Dedication to his 2nd Century of Christian Observations, &c. ;)
and likewise that he was a preacher in Glasgow for some years before his removal to Edin
burgh. — (See Will.) It appears from the Records of the Presbytery of Glasgow, that he was
admitted on 4th March, 1607, to the ministry ofthe Parish of Leinzie, under which were then
comprehended the present Parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld, and of which the Earl
of Wigton was patron ; and that he was translated to be one of the ordinary ministers of
Glasgow, on the special recommendation of John, (Spottiswood) Archbishop of Glasgow, in
1612. — (M.S. transcript of Records ; Minutes of 22d April, and following meetings.) Wodrow
supposes him to have been for some time a Regent in the College ; but his name does not
appear among those admitted "innumerum magistrorum academios," from 1599 down
wards. He filled the office of Dean of Faculty, however, in 1612, and again in 1613. It
appears by an extract from the Records of the Kirk Session of Glasgow, quoted by Wodrow,
that of date 14th July, 1614, there "compeared before the Session, Commissioners from
Edinburgh, desiring their concurrence to Mr. William Struthers going to be Minister at
Edinburgh. The Session consent to it, declaring that it's agamst their hearts, if they
could lawfully resist the same." — (There is a similar entry in the Records of Presbytery,
dated 13th July.) That he actually removed to Edinburgh at this time, is farther estab
lished by his own statement, in his Will, that at the time of executing it (1633) he had
been nineteen years a preacher in Edinburgh.
* In his printed works he designates himself Struther. Elsewhere he seems to be, almost invariably,
named Struthers. D

26 STRUTHERS' BURSARIES.
Wodrow alleges that in early life Mr. Struthers was "eager and opposite to
bishops," but that " turning contrary to his former practice, keen for bishops," he became
a favourite with Archbishop Spottiswood. In August, 1616, he attended the meeting of
the General Assembly held at Aberdeen, at which, says Calderwood, (p. 667.) " there were
many dangerous acts, besides dangerous commissions, for setting down a new Liturgie, a
new Catechism, and a new Book of Canons for the Church Discipline, and to revise the
Confession of Faith presented to this Assembly, which was devised of purpose to thrust out
the Confession of Faith subscribed and sworn by all estates." Mr. Struthers constituted,
along with the Archbishop of Glasgow, the "dangerous Commission" to which was
assigned the duty of preparing a Book of Canons drawn forth of the Books of former
Assemblies ; and, where these were defective, to be supplied by the Canons of Councills
and Ecclesiastical Conventions in former times, with a view to the establishment of
" ane uniforme ordour of Church Discipline throughout all the Kirks of this kingdom."
(Book of the Universal Kirk of Scotland, p. 1128.) After the conclusion of the Assembly,
Mr. Struthers dehvered (27th August) a sermon highly laudatory of its proceedings.
Calderwood, p. 673, edit. 1678.
Por several years after this time, Mr. Struthers appears to have taken an active
part in promoting the adoption of the forms and ceremonies of the Episcopalian Church.
Wodrow, in acknowledging that " he is commended by some good judges for piety and
devotion, notwithstanding of the heights and warmth he at first ran to," says, " he was
contemporary a while with Mr. Patrick Galloway, and joyned him in his keen pressing
of conformity to the innovations brought in by the Perth Assembly." " He seems," con
tinues Wodrow, " to have had a pretty hasty passionate temper ; but with this dif
ference, that the older Mr. Galloway grew, he seems the more violently to have pressed
innovations ; but as Mr. Struthers advanced in years, he appears cooler as to these
matters." And again — after observing that " after King James his death, conformity was
not altogether so violently pressed till Bishop Laud came in to the management in
England, and then hyper-conformity was pushed" — Wodrow adds, "Mr. Struthers
seems to have cooled pretty much in King Charles the First his reign."
The most striking evidence of this change in Mr. Struthers' dispositions, is a letter
addressed by him in 1630, to the Earl of Strathern and Monteth, to be presented to his
Majesty, of which Wodrow says, " it was pretty much talked of for its moderation ; it
hath been once printed,* but it deserves a room here." This letter appears so creditable
* We are informed by Mr. T>. Laing, that it was printed in a small pamphlet, having no name of place,
editor, or printer, but apparently printed in Holland, "Anno 1635," sm. 8vo., pp. 31. The pamphlet com
mences with " The grievances given in by the Ministers before the Parliament holden in June, 1633," and
contains five other Articles, the last of which is entitled, " Master William Struthers' Letter to the Earle of
Airth." By the date of this pamphlet the Earl of Strathern and Monteth was designated Earl of Airth.

STRUTHERS' BURSARIES. 27
both to Mr. Struthers' understanding, and to his then state of feelings, that we also shall
venture to insert it, as one of the best tributes we have it in our power to pay to the
memory of this benefactor : —
" My very good Lord,
" I visite your Lordship with this letter, and that for the ende which I spoke
more largelie in conference, even for the peace of this poore Kirk, that is rent so grievouslie
for ceremonies. There is also some surmises of further innovations of Organs, Liturgies,
and such like, which greatly augments the grief of people ; but the wiser sort assure them
selves of his Majestie's royal wisdom and moderation, that his Majestie would impose no
new thing, if his Majestie were timeouslie informed of these and the like reasons.
" 1. Because King James, of happy memory, made the umquhile Marquise of
Hamiltoun promise, in his Majesty's name, to all the Estates of this Land, solemnly in
face of Parliament, that this Church should not be urged with any more novations than
these 5 Articles which then were presented to the ParUament ; upon which promise the
Parliament rested, and gave way the more cheerfully that these Articles should passe in
Act of Parliament. " 2. Next, because the motion that is said to be made to his Majesty of these nova
tions, is made by and beside the knowledge and conscience of the Kirk of this land, who
are heavily displeased for that motion ; and the more because it is alledged to have been
in their name who knows nothing thereof but by report.
" 3. Because our Church lyes already groaning under two woundes ; the first, of the
erection of Bishops, and the other of kneeling. But if a third be inflicted, there is no
appearance but of a dissipation of this Church. In the first, people were only onlookers
upon the Bishops' state. The second touched them more, in the celebration of the Holy
Sacrament, but yet left arbitrary to them. But this third will be greater, because
in the whole body of public worship they shall be forced to suffer novelties.
" 4. Because the Bishops are already publici odii vktimce, and borne down with
contempt, and their vexation is intolerable. When they depose any brother for non-con
formity, they scarcely can find an expectant to fill the empty place ; and that because they
become so odious to the flock, that they can do no good in their ministry. But if any
further novation be brought in, the Bishops will find ten for one to be deposed, and that
of those who have already given obedience to the Five Articles, who will rather chuse
to forsake their places, than to enter in a new fire of combustion.
" Lastly, because it is observed, by such as are judicious, that the former schisms
have shaken the hearts of the people in religion, and hath produced odium Vatinianum
among brethren. Popery is increased in the land, and if any farther come in, it will
be seen that, universally, people will be made susceptible of any religion, and turn
Atheists in gross.

28 STRUTHERS' BURSARIES.
" Your Lordship knows I am not one of these who stand out against order, but do
suffer for mine obedience ; and therefore the more boldly I suggest these reasons unto your
Lordship. I dwell in the most eminent part of this land, and so have occasion to see
more what is the fruit of a schisme. I profess an unspeakable grief to see any thing
done that may trouble the peace of a Church, and divide the hearts of a good People from
a good King. Our fire is so great already, that it has more need of water to quench
it, than oil to augment it.
, "Edinburgh, the 28 Januar, 1630."
" This letter," Wodrow adds, " was read to the King. What impressions it made
I cannot tell. The innovations he gives reasons against, were not brought in for some
years, and ended, as every one knows, in overturning the hierarchy."
The latter years of Mr. Struthers' life seem to have been employed in the publica
tion of his writings. In 1628 and 1629, he published " Two Centuries of Christian Observa
tions and Resolutions," besides two treatises, entitled, the one, "A Resolution for Death,"
and the other, "Scotland's Warning, or a Treatise of Fasting." In 1632, he published
two dissertations, entitled, respectively, "A Looking Glass for Princes and People;" and
" A Looking Glass for Princes and Popes." And lastly, in the year of his death, was
published, "True Happiness, or King David's Choice, begunne in sermons, and now
digested into a Treatise."
" I shall conclude," says Wodrow, in terminating his Collections on Mr. Struthers'
Life, " with that great man, Mr. Baillie, in his Historical Vindication of the Church of
Scotland, his opinion of him, whose scholar he had once been — That he was one of the
greatest divines in the Church of Scotland. I shall not grudge to transcribe the passage.
Mr. Baillie dedicates that valuable Historical Vindication to Mr. Robert Blair, Minister at
St. Andrews, and tells him that after, to his great loss, he was deprived of Mr. Blair as
his Master in the University of Glasgow, ' He came to be set at the feet of other masters,
especially Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Struthers, his very singular friends, and excellent divines
as our nation has bred.'" We also find that Mr. Baillie, in a letter for his reverend
brother, Mr. William Douglass, Professor of Divinity at Aberdeen, in which he enumerates
the eminent men who had been reared at the University of Glasgow, includes "Mr
William Struthers, borne in our towne — minister of it — very pious and learned — long
chief minister of Edinburgh — I dare say, the most eloquent and gracious preacher that
ever yet lived in Scotland." — Letters, &c, edited by David Laing, Esq., Vol. III. p. 402.
In 1631, Mr. Struthers contributed the liberal sum of £100, " to help the building
and Librarie."— (Clerk's Press, No. 16, p. 351.)

STRUTHERS' BURSARIES. 29
[The following Deed is taken from an Original Extract, constituting C. 1. 1. of
Billon's Inventory.]
In the Testament Testamentar, and Inventar of the guids, geir, soumes
of money & debtis perteaning to umq'le Mr. WILLIAM STRUTHERIS,
ane of the Ministeris of Edinburgh, the tyme of his deceis, quha deceist
upone the nynt day of November, jm vi° threttie thrie zeiris, faithfullie
maid & gevin up be himself, upone the sextene day of October, the
yeir of God foirsaid, and concerning the no'i'aoun of Executoris,
legacies, ane pairt of the debtis awin to him, and haill debtis awin be
him ; And gevin up be Elizabeth Robertoun, his relict spous, in sua far
as concern es the Inventar of his guids, geir, and ane uther pairt of the
debtis awin to him, quhome he nom'tis his onlie Executrice in his
l're Will under writtin; And quhilk Elizabeth Robertoun is also con
firmit in onlie Executrice Testamentar to the said umquhile Mr. WUham
Strutheris, hir spous, be the Commissars of Edinburgh, upone the aucht
day of August, jm vic threttie fyve zeires, as the samyn at lenth beris,
Is containit the tenor of the Legacies, and parceU of the l're Will
eftir mentionat, viz. : —
I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Chryst. I, Mr. WILLIAME
STRUTHERS, ane of the Ministeris of Edinburgh, Trusting to be with
Chryst, whoe hes comptit me faithfuU and putt me in the ministrie,
and by ane mercifull providence hes brocht me to this day, in the peice
of conscience, and under sence of Godis love, better then lyffe, doe
make my Testa' and l're Will as foUowes : In primis, I committ my
saull to God, whoe hes chosine and redemed me, and desire my bodie to
be enterit among my deare childrene, in the Gray Freir Kirk zaird, gif
God call me to himself in this towne, thair to waite on ane glorious
Resurrectioun. Item, I mak, no'in'te, & constitute my weil belouit
spous, Elizabeth Robertoun, my onlie Executrice and intromissatrice
w' my guids and geir, with power to hir to give up Inventar of my
saidis guids and geir, debtis, and soumes of money auchtand in to me,

30 STRUTHERS' BURSARIES.
and of debtis and soumes of money auchtand out be me, And for hir
help and furtherance in all hir effaires, I crave the assistance and desire
hir to use the advyse of my gude freind Mr. James Robertoun, Commissar
of Hamiltoun, Mr. David Diksone, Minister at Irving, and Mr. Harie
Gibsone, eldar, writter. And seeing God hes removet my children, I
have fund myself bund in conscience to honer God with my wardlie
meanes, and y'rby to advance the studie of gud l'res, and spe'alie of
Divinitie. And thairfoir hes dotit, foundit, & mortifeit to the Col-
ledgis of Edinburgh and Glasgow, equaUie betuixt thame, the soume
of Sex Thousand Merkes addebtit to me be Sir Walter Stewart of Mynto,
Kny4 And for the q'lk, I and my said spous ar infeft in ane annueU-
rent of Sex Hundreth Merkes yeirlie furthe of the said Sir Walter, his
lands of Dilduie, conforme to ane l're of mortifica°une maid and
sub'vit be me y'ranent, of the dait, at Edinburgh the auchtene day
of December, the yeir of God jm vi° tuentie four yeires.* Quhilk mor-
tifica°n I be thir p'ntes ratifie and approve, reservand to my said
spous hir lyfrent of the samyne, in maner y'rin sp'eit; and will and
declair that my donatioun and mortificatioun foirsaid be in maner and
upone the conditiones following : First, that everie ane of the saids twa
CoUedgis mantene twa studentis in Divinitie be the spaice of four zeres,
sua that eache of the saids students saU have the yeirlie profeit &
a'uelrent of Ane Thousand Punds money : And for the better per
forming of this my Will, I mak and c'stitute the Counsalls of Edinr.
and Glasgow respective, and the Ministeris of the s'dis twa townes,
Patrones, Presentars, and Admittars of the s'dis studentis and bur
sares, within each of yr severaU townes and Colledgis : And wiUes
that the studentis be presentit of the poore of the saids townes respec
tive, or Ministeris' sones of the presbiteries of the saids burghes of
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and that in yr tryeUs they be fund to be of
gude ingyne & fitt for learning, and that thair continowance to be
* This letter of Mortification constitutes No. 468 of Blockhouse's Inventor;/.

STRUTHERS' BURSARIES. 31
manteanit be no longer bott for the spaice of four zeires, All w'ch
tyme they most be astrictit to keep yr saids Colledgis respective fra
Michelmes to Lambes, and asseiouslie attend the exerceissis y'rof, uther
wayes that they receave no pay* of yr intertenement forsaid. And
gif it faU out (as God forbid) that any pairt of the prin'll soume or
a'uelrent thus mortifeit be intervertit be any of the saids Counsalls or
Colledgis respective, to any other use then to that w'ch I have destinat
the samyne, in that caice the uther Colledge shall have plaice and
power to evict the soumes intervertit frome the Colledge interverting
the samyn, upone the express conditiones of this p'nte mortifica°un,
that the soumes evicted be imployed in semblable maner as the uther
CoUedge sould have imployit the samyne, be this my present destina'-
°un. And this I have resolvit to doe for God's glorie, whoe hes
blessed me be letters, and for the love I beir to these twa cities, as having
bene nyntene zeires ane preicher in Edinburgh, and borne in Glasgow,
brocht up in thair scoles, and ane preicher yr for sum zeires befoir my
coming hidder. Item, I be thir p'ntes declaires, that all these legacies,
donatiounes, & mortificatiounes above writtin, in favores of the Col
ledgis above sp'eit, be and be understude, with express reservatioune
of the said Elizabeth Robertoun, my loving spous, hir lyfrent of the
haill principaU sowmes above writtine, and annuelrentis of the samyn
left and mortifeit as said is, sua that the begin'g of the ressait & pay
ment of the principaU soumes or annuelrentis of the samyne left and
mortifeit in favores of the CoUedgis, HospitaUs, and uther legators above
writtine, shall not be, haive plaice nor tak effect in thair favors q'll
efter hir deceis, bott be suspendit sua long as schoe leaves, to the effect
that schoe may bruik and injoy the profeit and annuelrent of the haUl
foirsaids soumes mortifeit and left as said is during aU the dayes of hir
lyftyme. Item, I leave my haiU buikes in maner foUowing : First, I
leave to the CoUedge of Edinburgh, and Bibliotheck of the samyne,
fyftie buiks or volumes, to be chosine out of my haiU librarie, be the
Primare of the said Colledge ; and quhen he hes takine his choise of

32 STRUTHERS' BURSARIES.
the said number of buiks or volumes, I leave to the CoUedge of Glas
gow, and BibUotheck y'rof, uther fyffcie buiks or volumes, to be chosine
out of the reddiest of my saids librarie, be the Principall of the said
CoUedge; and seing I am addebtit & auchtand to printeris for printing of
certane my works, certane soumes of money, conforme to the compts
y'rof, quhilks may overcharge my said Executrice, thairfoir it is my
will, and be thir pr'ntes declaires, that if y'r sail not sua much money
be gottine for the price of my saids works sett out be me, p'ntlie
lying heir in Edinburgh, and pairtlie sent to London to be sauld
y'r, as wiU satisfie the saids printeris for printing of my s'ds workes or
buiks, conforme to the saids comptis, that then and that caice, and not
withstanding of my l're Will & Testa*, I ordane my said Execu
trice to seU, immediatlie eftir my deceis, als many of my s'dis fyve scoir
buiks of my Bibliothek in Edinburgh, left be me in my said l're WUl
and Testa* to the CoUedgis of Edinburgh & Glasgow, re've, equaUie
betwixt thame, as will pay the saids printeris ; and q't number shall
rest of the s'dis fyve scoir buiks, onsauld for satisfeing of the saids
printeris, the samyne to be equaUie devydit betuixt the s'ds CoUedgis.
And gif the saids printeris shalbe compleitlie payit be the pryce of my
saids workes, in that caice my s'd l're Will to stand as the samyne wes
conceavit & sub'vit be me. Extractit furth of the Register of Testa-
mentis of the said Commissariat, be me Umphra Dowie, dark depute be
Mr. William Hay, prin'll dark of the samyn. Witnessing heirunto my
signe & subscriptioun manuell. (Signed,) U. DOWIE.
Of date 19th July, 1652, the College granted a discharge to the Town of Glasgow
for £500 in part of the principal, and £120 on account of interest paid by them towards
the money due on account of Mr. Struthers' Mortification, out of money due by the Town
to Sir Ludovic Stewart. — (Billon's Inventory, C. 1. 8.)
On 21st December, 1653, the College came to the following resolution : — (No. 7 of
Clerk's Press, p. 92.)

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 33
At the Colledge of Glasgow,
We, the Principall, Professors & Regents of ye Universitie of Glasgow, w* ye
speciali advyce & consent of the Rector & Deane of Facultie, considering that ye prin
cipall soume of Three Thousand Merks, mortified by umquhill Mr. William Struthers,
to maintaine two Buirsares at ye presentation of the Toune Counsell of Glasgow, is not a
sufficient stock for mainteining of ye saids two Bursors of Theologie upone ye annuelrent
thairof, according to ye intent of the said mortificatione, And considering that thair is
Ane Thousand Merks principall soume by & attoure the s'ds Three Thousand Merks laid
out upone securitie graunted be the Toune Counsell of Glasgow to us, the Moderators of
the Colledge, quhilk soume of Ane Thousand Merks was the excrescence of ye foresaids
principall soume of Three Thousand Merks, dureing the non-payment of ye annuelrent due
to ye Colledge ; Thairfoir we, the saids Moderators, doe mortifie & appoint ye foresaids
Thousand Merks makeing in whole the soume of Foure Thousand Merks, lykeas, we do
heirby bind & oblidge ourselfs & our successors in office, not to apply ye said fourt
Thousand Merks to any other use than according to the will & intentione of the first
founder of ye two Bursairs, And to make it follow the nature of the first Three Thousand
Merks, for maintaineing two Bursours of Theologie,

BOYD'S BURSARIES,
Three in number, were instituted by Mr. ZACHARY BOYD, Minister of the Barony
Parish of Glasgow, by Contracts entered into by him in 1635, with the Town Council of
Glasgow as regards Two Bursars, and with the Dean of Guild and his Council of the
Merchant rank as regards a Third — it being arranged that these Mortifications should
come into operation at his decease.
Biographical notices of Mr. Boyd have been repeatedly presented to the public.
(See particularly M'Ure's View of Glasgow, edit. 1830, p. 355 ; Life prefixed to the
edition of his " Last Battell of the Soule," published at Glasgow in 1831, by Mr. Neil ;
and Chambers' Scottish Biography, I. 290.) The following notice, therefore, may be con
fined principally to his connexion with the College and University of Glasgow.
Mr. Boyd must have been born shortly before the year 1590. He received the rudi
ments ofhis education at the school of Kilmarnock, and passed through part of his academical
course in the College of Glasgow, where he matriculated in 1601. — (See No. 7 of Clerk's
Press, p. 156.) He afterwards studied at the University of St. Andrew's from the year 1603
to 1607, when he took the degree of Master of Arts. — (Miscell. of Maitland Club, Vol II.,
E

34 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
p. 123.) Subsequently to this, he went abroad, and continued his studies at the Protestant
University of Saumur, in France, under his relation, Mr. Robert Boyd, of Trochrigg, after
wards Principal of the College of Glasgow, who then held a chair in that University. He
was himself appointed a Regent in the University of Saumur in 1611, and in a letter
dated ' Saumur, Feb. 12, 1615,' addressed to Principal Boyd, which has been printed in
Wodrow's Life of Boyd of Trochrig, p. 130, he mentions the facts of his havmg been
presented to a church lately built at Nosterdam, and of his having been offered, and
having absolutely refused, the office of Principal. In an address "To the Reader,"
prefixed to the Battle of the Soul, (p. xii., ed. cit.,) he states that he spent sixteen years
in France, during four of which he was a preacher of God's word. In consequence of the
persecution of the Protestants, he was obliged, in 1621, to return to his native country,
and in 1623, he was appointed minister of the large suburban district of Glasgow, styled
the Barony Parish.
In 1631, Mr. Boyd was chosen Dean of Faculty, and from that period to the close
of his life, he was, almost uninterruptedly, an office-bearer in the University. In 1633
he was re-elected Dean. In 1634, and again in 1635, he was chosen Rector. In 1636, he
was, for a third time, Dean of Faculty. He was a member of the several Commissions of
Visitation named by the General Assembly in 1640, 42, and 43. By the begmning of
1644, if not earlier, he had been appointed Vice-Chancellor. In 1645, he was, for a third
time, named Rector ; and in the following years, down to the time of his death, he con
tinued to officiate as Vice-Chancellor, in which capacity he sat and voted in the Faculty,
though not otherwise a member,
Mr. Boyd was a man of decided literary tastes. His merits as an author, and par
ticularly as a poet, which have in former times been made the topics of much unjust ridi
cule, have been discussed by his recent biographers in a candid spirit. A catalogue of his
printed works, and of his MSS., of which no fewer than seventeen volumes are deposited in
the Library of the University, (F. 8. s-17. and F. 10. 9-10.) has been given by Mr. Neil ; who
has also given copious authentic extracts from his three principal MS. works, "Zion's
Flowers, or Christian Poems, for Spiritual Edification,"* " The English Academie, contain
ing precepts and purpose for the well both of Souls and Body," and " The Foure Evangels,
in Verse ;" as well as from his printed version of the Psalms of David, " in meeter," and the
* It appears from a Minute of 24th June, 1760, that the University Meeting having been informed
that " Three manuscript books, composed by Mr. Zachary Boyd, and written by him, viz., the Flowers of
Zion, vol. 1st, in 4to., and two others in 8vo., which belong to the publick Library, but had been taken out
of it, and lost before the Eevolution, were now in the possession of Mr. Bernard Baine, Apothecary in
London," there were presented to that gentleman some of the Classics and other books, printed by Mr.
Foulis, on condition of his restoring these MSS. to the Library, which was accordingly done  (No. 30 of
Clerk's Press.)

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 35
" Holie Songs of the Old and New Testament :" and additional extracts may be found in the
other notices of his Life. These will fully justify the remark of the late eminent scholar
and Scottish lexicographer, Dr. Jamieson, that " It is astonishing what liberties have been
taken with the memory of one ofthe principal benefactors of this University, good Zachary
Boyd, in the extracts pretended to be given from the MS. of his poetical works, preserved
in the College Library. Unpolished as many of his expressions are, they have been grossly
exaggerated." — (Slezer's Theatrum Scotise, edit. 1814.)
Besides founding the Bursaries with which we are at present more immediately con
cerned, Mr. Boyd was, in other very important respects, a munificent benefactor of the
College. In 1630, he subscribed 500 Merks "for the help ofthe building the Librarie."
— (No. 16 of Clerk's Press, p. 329.) — In 1637, he executed a disposition of his books to
the College. — (Billon's Inventory, C. 1, 2.) — In 1646 and 1648, he executed assignations to
the College of several bonds for large sums then due to him. — (Md, s, i, s.) — And
in the end of 1652, he crowned all by a Deed of Mortification in their favour, in
which, reserving the life-rent, after his own death, to his spouse, he conveyed to the College
almost the whole of his property. — (Blockhouse's Inventory, No. 474, and Billon's, C. 1, 8.)
There are some points connected with this deed, on which contradictory statements
have been made, that it would be desirable, if possible, to clear up ; and first, what was
the actual amount of benefit which the College derived from it? The sums enumerated in
his Deed of Mortification, as ultimately to fall to the College, are the following : —
A Bond by the Earl of Loudoun for - - - 6000 Merks principal,
and 1000 — interest.
Do. Earl of Glencairn, - - - 5000 —
Do. Sir Wm. Muire, RowaUan* - 8000 —
Do. Sir Geo. Maxwell, Neather PoUok, - 3000 —
Do. The Estates of Scotland, - - 900 —
Do. Ross of Broomhill, (£500) - - 750 —
making in all a sum of 24,650 merks Scots, or about £1370 sterling. '
In the Records of the College, of date 24th February, 1655, (Clerk's Press, No. 7,
p. 95,) is a resolution declaring Mr. Zachary Boyd to have mortified towards the building
of the University, the sum of 17,000 merks, in bonds due by Glencairn, Rowallan, and
Neather Pollok, in all 16,000, and by Caldwell, 1000. In this enumeration, it is obvious,
Caldwell's 1000 merks is substituted for Broombill's £500 ; while the bonds of the Estates
of Scotland and of the Earl of Loudoun are altogether omitted. Of the omission of Lord
Loudoun's bond, we shall presently have occasion to speak more particularly. That of the
* Sir Wm. Mure was, as well as Mr. Boyd himself, much engaged on a metrical version of the
Psalms of David  See Baillie's Letters, by Laing, III. S35.

36 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
bond by the Estates of Scotland, which bears date 1st July, 1646, (Billon's Inventory, C. 1, s.)
derives a ready explanation from the history of the period.
It has been said that Mr. Boyd's property in money was divided, in terms of his Will,
between his relict and the College. This statement, however, except in so far as regards
the moveables, — (see Account of Executrie and Moveable Goods printed by Mr. Neil, p.
v. of Appendix,) — is erroneous, both as regards the terms of the Will, and the actual arrange
ment. The resolution of 24th Febr., 1655, above referred to, explains the reasons why it was
thought advisable, instead of adhering to the terms of the mortification, by which the widow
was to have had the life-rent of the whole 17,000 merks, to pay her down seven years' pur
chase of her life-rent, out of Rowallan's bond ; and accordingly a contract to this effect was
regularly executed. — (Billon's Inv. C. 1, 12.) As the value of the seven years' purchase
amounted to 7150 merks, there would remain over for behoof of the College, the sum of 9850
Merks. No time was lost in applying this sum to the re-edification of the College. The author
of the memoir already referred to, says that " to Mr. Zachary's splendid legacy we appear to
be chiefly indebted for the present elegant buildings of the College, which were mostly
erected under the care of Principal Gillespie during the period of the Commonwealth."
But, though Mr. Boyd's legacy certainly constituted a very large item, it cannot, with
truth, be said, that itwas the chief means of carrying on this work. In the " Count of the
moneys bestowed upon the building of the College of Glasgow, in the years of God
1655-56," (No. 15 of Clerk's Press, p. 1,) the following items of charge appear as left by
"umq1. Mr. Z. Boyd, viz. :
Addebted by Earl of Glencairn, - - £3333 6 8
Sir George Maxwell, - 2000 0 0
Laird of CaldweU, 666 13 4
— ofRowaUan, - - 660 0 0"
which makes a total of £6659 19 8* out of a whole charge of £23326 10 8 received
during these two years alone, independently of large previous and subsequent contributions^
The next point which it seems desirable to clear up, is, whether Mr. Boyd's Deed
of Mortification imposed upon the CoUege any obligation relative to the printing of his
works ; and, if so, what was the extent of this obligation ? This is a question on which
* It is not uninteresting to notice how nearly the account of what was actually received, here ren
dered in Pounds Scots, corresponds with the account of what was due, as already stated in Merks. Beck
oning Three Merks to be equal to Two Pounds Scots.
Sum due in Merks, - - 9850, in Pounds, - 6567.
Sum received in Merks, - 9988, in Pounds, - 6659.
The small excess in receipts probably arose from interest.
f From No. 15 of Clerk's Press, p. 262, of date 2nd December, 1658, it appears that up to that time
the Building account stood as follows : — Total Charge, £35862 ; Discharge, £35857 ; Rests, say £5.

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 37
there has been considerable diversity of averment. One of his biographers (Chambers'
Scottish Biography) affirms that " it is a mistake that Mr. Boyd made any stipulation as
to the pubUcation of his writings, or any part of them." Another, in referring to the
deed in question, quotes it as imposing on the College the obUgation " to print, in one
volume, aU his work ;" and proceeds to suggest that " the work referred to was probably
'The Flowers of Zion,' which he seems carefuUy to have prepared for the press ;" adding
apologeticaUy, that " the pubUcation of this work, as was supposed, would reflect no credit
on his memory, and would be attended with no advantage to the public ; it was, therefore.
not printed." Again, the author of the Memoir of Mr. Robert BaUIie, having occasion to
speak of Mr. Boyd, says explicitly, " His fond expectations, if not positive injunctions, for
having his works published after his death, were whoUy disregarded."
The foUowing extract from the deed itself, must put an end to all dispute as to the
matter of fact so variously represented by these different writers : —
" Lykeas, it is heirby speciaUie provydit, that, out of the reddiest of the haill
foirnamed soumes, thaire be desbursed be the said PrincipaU, Professors, and M™- and y'r
successors, als much money as wiU suffice to print in one volume in foUo, consisting nearly
of four hundrethe sheets of paper, my Workes, quhilk are alreddie printed in severaU
pieces, together with dyverse Sermons and other Treatises, quhilk I have besyde me yet
unprinted, to be addit y'rto eftir the same is revised be the persons heireftir designed ;
referring to the said revisours to make choose of such of my Workis, either already
printed, or lying besyde me unprinted, as they saU think fitt to be published in print. And
for this effect I appoynt Doctor Johne Strang, & Mr. Robert Bailzie, Professor of Divinitie
in the said CoUedge, conjunctlie & severalUe, to revise my foresaid Workis ; and faiUing of
them, it is hereby provydit that the Rector of the said Universitie, Deane of Facultie,
with the Prin'aU, Professors, and Regents of the said CoUedge, and y'r other Assessors,
nominat and choose ane or moe able, godlie, and learned man or men, to revise my said
Workis to the effect above specified. Lykeas, it is also heirby expressUe provydit, that the
said Doctor Johne Strang and Mr. Robert BaUzie, and faiUing of them, any ane or more
who be directione foirsaid saU revise my said Workis to the effect above specified, saU
have for their paines pro rata for their awine propper use and benefeit, the haUl bookis to
be printed, whereof I appoynt and ordaine that there be a thousand coppies ; and y'reftir
aU the rest of the foirnamed soummes I appoynt and ordaine to be employed for building
of new buUdingis in the said CoUedge, and for no other use."
It seems very strange that no evidence is to be found on record even of any pre
liminary steps having been taken to select the materials for the pubUcation thus enjoined,
nor any explanation of the causes which prevented the fulfilment of the injunction. We
are quite aware to how many sources of faUacy, an attempt to furnish such an explana
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38 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
we shaU enable the reader to judge how far the explanation to be offered is founded on
authentic documents, and how far it rests upon conjecture.*
Of date, 16th January, 1648, Mr. Boyd had assigned to the CoUege 4000 merks,
part of 6000 merks due to him by the Earl of Loudoun, for the printing of his works.
— (Billon's Inventory, C. 1, 4.) In his Mortification (1652), he reserves to his spouse the
life-rent of aU bonds in which her name appears. Now, when Lord Loudoun's bond was
granted (June, 1636), Mr. Boyd's first wife, EUzabeth Fleming, was alive, and her name,
not that of his second wife, Margaret Muir, appears in it. Hence it is, that in the ar
rangement as above explained, entered into between the CoUege and her, with consent of Mr.
Durham, her second husband, Lord Loudoun's bond is not taken into account. In proceed
ing to apply the surplus of the proceeds of the other bonds, after buying up her life interest,
to the "buUding of newbuildingis," the CoUege probably conceived that they were reserving,
in the Loudoun bond, a sufficient sum to defray the cost of printing Mr. Boyd's works as pre
scribed by him — this being the purpose to which Mr. Boyd himself had at one time destined
the larger portion of that bond, and the one which he probably had in view, in leaving it un
fettered by any claim on the part of his relict. Unfortunately, however, the state of the
Earl's circumstances t prevented the sum contained in the bond being obtained on Mr.
Boyd's death. A few years afterwards (in 1657-8,) various legal steps were taken on the part
of the CoUege to enforce payment, which terminated in an assignation by the Earl to the
CoUege of an Annuity of Teinds. — (See bundle of papers not inventoried.) But in a Decreet
of Poynding, issued twenty years after this, (1678 — see same bundle,) it is expressly aUeged,
that from Candlemas 1657 to Candlemas 1676, no annual rent had been paid upon the
principal sum. The CoUege, therefore, up to that time, had derived no benefit whatever
from this portion of Mr. Boyd's estate ; and no one who has read Mr. BaiUie's dolorous
complaints against Principal GiUespie, for having, by the extravagant manner in which he
carried on the College buUdings, plunged them into " beggarie and dyvorie," can imagine
that there was any likelihood of funds being found for any other purpose than that of re-
edification. If we may trust to Mr. Baillie's statement, Mr. GiUespie had his eye on this
bond, also, as a means of liquidating his buUding expenses. — (Letters, IH. 432.) Whether
any farther steps were taken by the CoUege after 1678, for the recovery of the contents of the
Loudoun bond, does not appear ; but James, the second Earl — the party against whom the
* Several of the documents to be referred to are included in a bundle of papers which Mr. Dillon
had not judged it worth while to include in his Inventory  (See Inventory, p. 26.)
¦f " Chancellor Loudoun lives" says Baillie, writing to Spang, 19th July, 1654, "like ane outlaw
about Athole, — his lands comprysed for debt, under a generall very great disgrace." — (III., 249.) And
again to the same in 1655, (Ibid, p. 288,) " The Chancellor gott better conditions in his capitulation than any
did expect, albeit his debts and infamie lye very heavie upon him." On the Restoration " Loudoun had his
pension of a thousand pound, [Scots] and gift of annuities continued." — (Ibid, p. 443.)

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 39
decreet of poynding in 1678 was issued, — went abroad, in consequence of his not concurring
in the measures of Government, and died at Leyden in 1684. — (Bouglas's Peerage.) The
fact of the bond and assignation being among the CoUege 's papers, would seem to imply
that they had never been discharged. Nor could the difficulties arising from the causes
that have been adverted to, faU to be augmented by the occurrence of Principal Strang's
death, about a twelvemonth after that of Mr. Boyd himself ; and by the ascendency which
Episcopacy re-acquired in the University subsequently to the death of Principal BailUe.
It is not a Uttle singular, considering Mr. Boyd's position in society, that the pre
cise date of his death, as weU as of his birth, and the place of his interment, are unknown.
His biographers assume that he died about the end of 1653, or beginning of 1654 ; but there
seems reason to believe that this event must have occurred about or soon after the middle of
March, 1653. BaiUie informs Mr. James Wood that, on the occasion of a meeting of Senate,
held 14th February, 1653, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Zachary Boyd, was sick. — (Letters, IH.
212.) The last evidences of his being alive are, a note, at the end of his MS. work bearing
for its title "The Notable places of the Scripture expounded," (No. 4 of Mr. NeU's Cata
logue,) written in a tremulous and indistinct hand, in which he says : " Heere the author
was neere his end, and was able to doe no more ; March third, 1653," and a Codicil to his
WiU, (Billon's Inventory, C. 1. 7.) dated the 11th of the same month. By the 21st of
April foUowing, the CoUege is found actively engaged in the legal measures which had been
recommended as necessary or expedient for securing its succession to Mr. Boyd's property. —
(See " Summons, the Principal, Professors and Regents of the Universitie of Glasgow ag8'
the Heirs of Mr. Zacharie Boyd," of date above mentioned, and " Inhibition," &c, of date
a few days later, among un-inventoried papers.)* And in a receipt by Margaret & Janet
Fleming, & Katharine VaUance, &c, for legacies bequeathed to them by Mr. Boyd, bear
ing date 17th Dec, 1653, (same bundle,) his relict is already designated " spouse to Mr.
James Durham." In the January foUowing, the arrangements by which Mr. Boyd's heirs
portioners were induced to take the requisite legal steps for corroborating the CoUege's
right to the succession, were adjusted. — (Billon's Inventory, C. 1. 9.-10.)
By the resolution of 24th Feb., 1655, already referred to, " The Moderators ordain
y* the statue of the said.Mr. Zacharias Boyd, done in marble, be set up in some convenient
place of the said new buUding, with an inscription in gold letters, bearing the munificence
of the said Mr. Zacharias towards this University." This statue, or bust, was accordingly
erected over the gateway, within the CoUege Court, with the foUowing inscription : — t
* BaiUie, in a letter to Mr. Spang, mentions, incidentally, (III. 241,) that at the date of Mr.
M'Quard's election as a Master, the Vice-Chancellor was dead. This election took place on the 4th August,
1653 — (Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 89.)
f By an entry dated May, 1658, (No. 15 of Clerk's Press, p. 214,) it appears that there were
"given out for Mr. Zacharias Boyd's statue, with the compartment in whyt marbell and the wryting tabell in
black, twentie fyve poundis sterling — inde £300 00 00."

40 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
" MR ZACHARIAS BODIVS FIDELIS ECCLESIE
SVBVRBAN.E PASTOR 20000 LIB. QVA AD ALENDOS
QVOTANNIS TRES ADOLESCENTES THEOLOGIS
STVDIOSOS QVA AD EXTRVENDAS NOVAS
HAS .EDES VNA CVM VNIVERSA SVPELLECTILI
LIBRARIA ALM^E MATRI ACADEMIC LEGAVIT."
There is also a portrait of Mr. Boyd in the Divinity HaU of the CoUege, an ex
cellent engraving of which is given in Mr. NeU's edition of " The Last BatteU of the Soule. "
[The foUowing is taken from an Original Extract, which constitutes C. 1. 1. of
Billon's Inventory.]
At Edinburgh, ye sevintene day of Marche, the zeir of God jm vi°
& threttiesex zeirs, IN P'NS of ye Lords of CounsaU, compeirit
Jon Pitcairne, advocat, as pro'r speciaUie constitute for Patrik Bell,
James HamUtoun, Niniane Andersone, Jon Barnes, Jon Mershell,
Gawine Nisbet, Colene CampbeU, Walt. Dowglas, Jon Andersone,
Wm Neilsone, Jon Andersone, George Porterfeild, Ro*" Campbell,
Niniane Gilhagie, James Padie, Thomas Scot, Walt. Stirling, and Wm
Stewart, resp'ive under designit ; and siclyke compeirit George Sybald,
advocat, as pro'r lykewayis speciaUie constitute for Mr Zacharie Boyd,
under designit; and gave in ye contract underwr'in sub* with y'r hands,
to have the strenth of ane act & de* of ye Lords y'rof, with l'res &
exe'lls to be direct y'rupon, conforme to the claus of consent and pro
vision spe'it y'rintill : The q'lk desyre the saids Lords thocht resson'le,
and y'rfore hes ordanit & ordanis ye said Contract to be insert & reg'rat
in y'r saidis buiks, to have the strenth of y'r Act & De* with l'res and
exe118 to be direct y'rupon, conforme to the claus of consent & provision
spe'it y'rintill, off ye q'lk ye tenor followis : — Att Glasgow, ye tuentie-
thrid day of Junij, the zeir of God jm vic & threttie-fyve zeirs, It is ap-
poyntit and agreit betuix ye discreit persones parteis following, viz. :
Patrik Bell, Proveist; James Hamilton, Niniane Andersone, Baillies; Jon
Barnes, Deane of Gild; Jon Mershell, ther; Gawine Nisbet, deacone con-
veinar; Gabriel! Cunynghame, M1* William Stewart, Coleine Campbell,

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 41
George Mure, Walt. Stirling, Walt. Dowglas, Thomas Morsoun, Jon Ander
sone, Me'rs Wm NeUsone, Jon Maxwell, Jon Andersone, cordiner,
W™ Howie, Henrie Glen, George Porterfeild, Ro* Campbell,
Niniane Gilhagie elder, Jon SheiUs, Ri* Allane yor James Colqu
houne, James Padie, James Ogilvie, Niniane GUhagie yor and
Thomas Scot, p'nt Counsellars of ye said burgh, on the ane part;
and M1* Zacharias Boyd, mir at ye Barronie Kirk y'rof, on ye uy'r
part, in maner, forme, & effect foUowing, That is to say, forsameikle
as ye saids Proveist, BaUleis, and Counsell of ye said burgh grantis
yem to have actuaUie resaveit fra the said Mr Zacharias Boyd, the
sowme of Thrie Thowsand Merks money of yis realme of Scotland,
q'rof they haid yem weill content, satisfeit & payit, and exoners and
discharges ye said Mr Zacharias, his airs, & exe'rs of ye samen
sowme be yir p'ntis for evir; Thairfore ye saids Proveist, & BaiUeis,
& Counsell of ye said burgh, binds and obleissis yem & y'r successors
in office, to thankfullie content & pay to ye said Mr Zacharias and
Eliz* Flemyng, his spous, & langest leivar of yem twa, ALL and
HAILL the zeirlie annuellrent following, viz. : The sowme of Thrie
Hundrethe Merks, at tuatermes proportionaUie, at Mertimes & Witson-
dy nixtocum, & fra thyne furth ye zeirlie annuelrent for ye said
princ11 sowme, according to ye lawis of yis kingdome, at tua termes
in ye zeir, Mertimes & Witsonday, be eq'll portiounes, during all ye
dayes of y'r lyftymes, and ye langest leivar of yem tua, togidder w*
ye sowme of Tuentie Punds money of penaltie at ilk terme whairat
thankfull pay* beis [not] maid. And becaus the said Mr Zacharias hes,
be advyse & counseU of ane reverend fayr in God, Patrik Archebischope
of Glasgow, mortified ye foirsd sowme of Thrie Thowsand Merks
money for ye glorie of God, and yat for ye educa°n of tua Studentis
of Theologie, such as it sail pleis ye said Proveist, BaUleis, and Coun
sell of ye said burgh & y'r successors in office to mak choyse of; Thair
fore they bind and obleis yem & y'r successors in office, efter ye deceis
of ye said Mr Zacharias Boyd & Eliz* Flemyng, spouses, to imploy

42 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
ye said sowme of Thrie Thowsand Merkis money upon lands, here-
tages, or annuelrents, and to give & bestow ye zeirlie annuelrent &
profeit y'rof for ye manteinance of ye saids tua Studentis of Theologie,
of ye most godlie & fitting for ye place, so far als they sail be able to
decerne, and y* w'in ye CoUedge of ye said burgh, and ye samen
annuelrent & profeit to be equaUie devydit zeirlie betuix ye saids tua
students. And ye saids studentis to be p'ntit be ye saids Proveist,
& BaUleis, & Counsell of ye said burgh, & y'r successors in office, as
patrones y'rof, zeirhe & proportionallie, furth & fra ye deceis of ye said
Mr Zacharias & his said spous, to ye Prin'U of ye Colledge, or to
any uyr Professor of Theologie quha saU happin to be admittit & have
place w*in ye samen to y* effect ; And ye said tua students to remane
w'in the said Colledge during ye space of twa zeirs, or longer, als ye
saids patrones sail think meit & expedient, they not exceiding four zeirs.
Lyke as it is agreit betuix ye saids parteis, that ye fores'ds students
saU be burgesses sones of ye said burgh ; and if anie of ye name of
Boyd, being ane burges sone y'rof, to be readie & worthie to supplie
ye place, to be preferrit y'rto befor any uy'rs ; and gif none of thes
saU be fund, yen sum uy'rs qm ye saids patrones saU mak choyse of,
& find most capable, saU be preferrit to ye said place, to ye end y* ye
foirs'd sowme mortified for y* use as sd is, be divertit to no uyer
use. Lyke as, the saids Proveist, BaUleis, and Counsell of ye said
burgh binds and obleissis yem and y'r successors in office, to imploy the
said prin'll sowme in maner abone mentionat, to the use abone
wri'n, proportionallie, in all tyme cuming, efter ye deceiss of ye said
Mr Zacharias & his said spous, and ye samen to be wairit & bestowit
be ye speciaU sicht & advyse of ye said Deane of GUd & Deakone
Conveinar of ye said burgh for ye tyme, quha sail be in y* matter sine
quo non. And for ye mair securitie, ye saids parteis ar content & con
sent yir p'ntis be actit & reg'rat in ye buiks of CounseU & Session,
or commissaris buiks of Glasgow, ayr of ye saids Judges y'rof, y'r dets
& auctorities to be interponit y'rto, w* lr'es and exe'lls of horning,

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 43
poynding, & warding, upone ane simple charge of sex dayes to pas
heirupon; and to y* effect constitutes Jon Pitcairne & George Sibald,
y'r pro'rs conjuncthe & severalhe. In Witnes q'rof, yir p'ntis ar
wr'in be Wm Zair, notar, servitor to Mr Jo" Huchesone, Towne
Clerk of ye said burgh, they have sub* as followis, at day, zeir,
& place foirsd , before yir witnesses, Jon Andersone, Walter Ly'bodie,
servitors to ye said Mr Jon Huchesone, ye said Wm Zair, Mathew Ker,
& James Mather, officers. (Sic Sub1 ) Patrik Bell provest, James
Hamiltoun, Niniane Andersone, Jo" Barnes, Johne MersheU, Gawene
Nisbet, Coline CampbeU, Walter Dowglas, Jon Andersone, Walter Stir
ling, Wm Stewart, Wm NeUsone, Jon Andersone, Geo. Porterfeild, Ro*
CampbeU, Nin. GUhagie, James Padie, Tho. Scot, Mr Zacharie Boyd,
Wm Zair, witnes, J. Andersone, witnes, Ma. Ker, witnes, Ja. Mader
witnes. Extractum de Libro Actorum per me.
Sie subr
ALEX. GIBSONE, Cis. Regri.
[Taken from an Original Extract included by DiUon in C. 1. 1. of his Inventory, on
the supposition of its being the same Deed as the preceding.]
At Edinburgh, ye sevintene day of Marche, the zeir of God jm vic &
threttiesex zeirs, IN P'NS of ye Lords of Counsel, compeirit Jon Pit
cairne, advocat, as pro'r speciaUie constitute for Mr Zacharias Boyd,
Mir of Chrystis Kirk & Evangel at ye Baronie of Glasgow on ye ane part;
and siclyke compeirit George Sybald, advocat, as pro'r lykewayes con
stitut [for] Jon Barnes, Patrik BeU, Collein Campbell, elder, Henrie Glen,
]y[r Wm Stewart, Walt. Stirling, James HamUtoun, James BeU, George
Louke, Ard Fauldes, James Tran, Jo" Borscat, Ro' CampbeU, Colene
CampbeU yor, George Barclay, Jon Herbertsone, Adame Ritchie,
Jon GUmor, James MiUar, Wm Cunynghame, Thomas Glen, Ro* Bogle,
Mathow Hamiltoun, Ro* HamUtoun, Jon ScheUls, Peiter GemiU, Wm

44 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
Ro'sone, Thomas Norvell, WmHyndshaw, and Jo" Ore, respective under
designit; And gave in ye contract under wr'in, sub* with y'r hands,
desyreing ye same to be insert & reg'rat in ye buiks of CounsaU & Sessione,
to have ye strenth of ane act & de* of ye Lords y'rof, with l'res and
exe'lls to be direct y'rupon, conforme to the claus of consent & provision
spe'it y'rintill. The q'lk desyre the said Lordis thocht resson11, and
y'rfore hes ordanit and ordanis the said contract to be insert and reg'rat
in y'r saids buikis, to have ye strenth of y'r said act & de' in tyme
cuming, with l'res and exe'lls to be direct y'rupon, conforme to the claus
of consent and provision spe'it y'rintill; off ye q'lk ye tenor followes: —
Att Glasgow, ye aucht day of De1* the zeir of God jm vic & threttie-fyve
zeirs, It is appoyntit & agreit betuix ye descreit persones parteis wnder-
wr'in, they ar to say, Mr Zacharias Boyd, Mir of Chrystis Evangel, at
ye Barony Kirk of Glasgow, on ye ane part; Johne Barnes, p'nt Deane
of Gild of ye said Burgh of Glasgow, Patrik Bell, Provest, Coleine
Campbell, elder, Henrie Glen, Bailzeis, Mr Wm Stewart, Walt. Stirling,
James Hamilton, James Bell, George Louk, George Porterfeild, Ard
Faulds, James Tran, Jo" Borscat, Thomas Morsoun yor, Ro' Campbell,
Colene Campbell, yor, George Barclay, Jon Andersone, Jo" Herbertsone,
Adame Ritchie, Jo" GUmor, James Miller, Wm Cunynghame, Thomas
Glen, Thomas NorveU, Jo" Mershell, Ro' Boigel, Niniane Andersone,
Thomas Broun, Jo" Russall, Mathow Hamilton, Peiter Patoun, Ro*
Hamiltoun, Jo" Scheills, Peiter Gemmill, Wra Robiesone, Ro' Miller,
Jo" Orr, and Wm Hyndschaw, his Counsell of ye merchd rank on ye
uyer part, in maner, forme, & effect following, That is to say,
Forsameikle as ye said Jo" Barnes, p'nt Deane of Gild, & his said
CounseU abone wr'in for yem & y'r successors, granted yame to have
actuaUie ressavit fra ye said Mr Zacharias Boyd, the sowme of Ane
Thowsand Punds money of Scotland, q'rof they haid yem weill payit,
discharging the said Mr Zacharias, his airs, & exe'rs of ye samen
sowme be yir p'ntis for ever, Thairfore to be bund and obleist, as
be ye tenor heirof ye sd Jo" Barnes, p'nt Deane of Gild of ye said

BOYD'S BURSARIES. 45
burgh & CounseU of ye merchand rank y'rof abone spe'it, under sub-
scryv, and binds & obleissis yem & y'r successors in office, To thank-
fullie content & pay to ye said Mr Zacharias, zeirlie, during aU ye dayes
of his lyftyme, ane zeirlie annuelrent of Ane Hundrethe Punds money
foirsd , at tua termes in ye zeir, Witsondy & Mertimes, or conforme to
ye Act of Parliament & Lawis of yis kingdome proportionallie, con
forme to ye foirsd sowme of Ane Thowsand Punds money, Begin-
and ye first termes pay* y'rof at Witsonday nixt, q'lk is fra ye terme
of Mertimes last to ye said terme; and q'lk zeirlie annuelrent for
ye said sowme of Ane Thowsand Punds money, ye foirnamit persones
binds and obleissis yem & y'r successors in office, to pay to ye said
Mr Zacharias, during all ye dayes of his lyftyme, he alsweill not infeft
in lands y'rfore as infeft y'rintill, unenterit as enterit y'rto, togider
also w' the sowme of Ten Punds money, as for ilk termes failzie :
And becaus the sd Mr Zacharias hes mortified, dedicat, & appoyntit
the foresd sowme of Ane Thowsand Punds money for ye glory of
God, and y' for ye education of ane Student of Theologie, such as it
sail pleis the said Deane of Gild & his Counsell of ye merd rank of
ye said burgh, & y'r successors in office, to nominat & mak choyse
of; Thairfore ye said Jo" Barnes, p'nt Deane of Gild, & his said
Counsell of ye merd rank, w*in ye said burgh, binds and obleissis
yem and y'r successors in office, efter ye said Mr Zacharias his deceis, to
imploy ye said sowme of Ane Thowsand Punds money upone lands,
heritages, or annuelrent; and to give and bestow ye annuelrent y'rof,
sua far as ye samen will extend, for ye manteinance of ane Student of
Theologie of ye maist godlie & fiting for ye said place, sua far as they
sail be able to discerne ; and y' w'in ye Colledge of ye said burgh,
and ye said Student to be p'ntit be ye said Deane of Gild & his
Counsell pf ye said merd rank w'in ye samen, & y'r successors in
office as patrones y'rof, zeirlie & proportionaUie, furth and fra ye deceis
of ye said Mr Zacharias, to ye Prin'll of ye said CoUedge, or to any
uy'r Professor of Theologie quha sail happin to be admittit & have place

46 BOYD'S BURSARIES.
w*in ye samen to y't effect. ; And ye said Student to remane w*in
ye said CoUedge, during ye space of tua zeirs, or longer, as the said
patronis saU think meit & expedient, he not exceiding four zeirs.
Lykeas it is agreit betuix ye saids parteis y* ye said Student sail be ane
Burges sone of ye said burgh, & ane of ye merd rank, & if ony of
ye name of Boyd beand ane Burges sone of ye merd rank w*in ye
said burgh, & readie & worthie ye supplie of ye place, to be preferrit
y'rto befoir any uyr ; and if nane of aU thes saU be fund, yan sum uyer
qm ye saids Patrones sail mak choys of, & be fund maist capable, sail be
preferrit to the said place, to ye end y* ye foresd sowme abone mor
tified for ye use foirsd, be not divertit nor imployit to any uyer use.
Lyke as it is agreit betuix ye saids parteis, That if it sail happin ye foirsd
Student of Theologie to have his fayr & moyr on lyfe, & dueUing w'in
yis burgh, and had rayr remane in houshald w* yem yan to be burdid
himselff in ye CoUedge, in y* caice ye said Deane of GUd and his said
Counsell of ye merd rank, obleissis yem & y'r successors in office
to mak pay* to the sd Student, efter ye deceis of ye said Mr Zacharias
of ye full annuelrent of ye said sowme of Ane Thowsand Punds money
at ye termes abone wr'in, for sustentation of him in houshold w' his
saids parentis. And for ye mair securitie, ye saids parteis ar content &
consents yir p'nts be actit & reg'rat in ye buiks of CounseU or Com-
missers buiks of Glasgow, ayer of ye judges y'rof, y de*s to be interponit
heirto, y* l'res & exells of horning, poynding, & warding, upone ane
simple charge of sex dayes to pas heirupon; and to y* effect constituts
Jo" Pitcairne & George Sybald, y'r pro'rs conjuncthe & severaUie. In
Witnes q'rof, yir p'ntis wr'in be Jo" Andersone, servitor to Mr Jo"
Huchesone of Scotiston, they have sub* as foUowis, day, zeir, & place
foirsd<3, Before yir witnesses, ye said Mr Jo" Hucheson, Wm Zair Walt.
Ly*body not., ye said Jo" Andersone, his servitors. (Sic Subr.) Jo"
Barnes Deane of Gild, Pa. BeU, Col. CampbeU, Hen. Glen, Wm Stewart,
Walt. Stirling, Ja. Hamiltoun, Ja. Bell, Geo. Louk, Ard Fauhs, Jac.
Trane, Jo. Birscat, Ro* CampbeU, Col. Campbell, Geo. Barclay, Jo.

HUTCHESON'S BURSARY. 47
Herbertsone, J. Ritchie, Jo. Gilmur, Ja. MiUar, W. Cunynghame, Tho.
Glen, Tho. Norvell, Ro' Bogle, Ro* Hamilton, Jo" Scheills, Peit. Gem-
miU, Wm Robesone, Ma. Hamilton, Wm Hyndshaw, Jo" Orr, M. Za. Boyd,
(witnes, ?) J. Andersone, witnes, Wm Watt, witnes. Extractum de Libro
Actorum per me.
Sic subscribitur,
ALEX. GIBSONE, Cis. Regri.
This Bursary, which had faUen into desuetude, was revived in 1804, in conse
quence of a Memorial by Dr. Findlay, presented to the CoUege 1st June, 1798, (Clerk's
Press, No. 80,) the Report of a Committee appointed thereon, presented 11th May, 1803,
— and arrangeinents entered into between the CoUege and the Merchants' House. — (See
Minutes of 7th Feb. and 30th March, 1804.— Clerk's Press, No. 81.) 26th AprU, 1830.
The Faculty resolve that the bursaries on the foundation of Mr. Zacharias Boyd shaU be
augmented to £5 10s. each, in respect of the numerous vacancies which have taken place
of late years on that foundation. — (No. 84 of Clerk's Press.)

HUTCHESON'S BUESARY,
ALSO CALLED
THE OLD LIBRARY KEEPERSHIP,
Originated in a Mortification, in 1641, by Master THOMAS HUTCHESON, the brother
and heir of George, the founder of Hutchesons' Hospital, in Glasgow. Their Father,
John Hutcheson, was an old rentaUer, or tenant, under the Bishops of Glasgow, in the lands
of Gairdbreed ; their mother's name was Janet Anderson. The father, being a man of
substance, obtained a feu of the lands which he rented, at the time when Walter, Com
mendator of Blantyre, was empowered by the Crown to feu out the Barony of Glasgow,
which he generaUy did to the old rentaUers by simply converting the rent into a feu duty.
George, the elder of the brothers, was the person who acquired aU the great wealth which
he diffused so largely among his relations and the poor. — (See M'Ure's View of Glasgow,
edit. 1736, p. 76, whose statement is adopted in the "Abstract of the History of Hutche-

48 HUTCHESON'S BURSARY.
sones' Hospital," Glasgow, 1800.) Thomas, the founder of this Mortification, was born in
1589 or 90. His name appears in the list of Students matriculating in the University in
1607, and in that of the " Laurea exornati," or Graduates in Arts, in 1610, (No. 7 of
Clerk's Press, pp. 181, 133,) and hence the term Master, which is always found prefixed to
his name. It has been said that he was educated for the ministry, but M'Ure informs us that
the profession he pursued was that of a writer, and that he held the office of Keeper of, and
Clerk to, the Register of Seasines of the Regality of Glasgow and its district. His wife's
name was Marion Stewart ; but it does not appear that he had ever any famUy. It was in
1640 that he succeeded to the large fortune of his elder brother George. Thomas not
only ratified his brother's deed in favour of the Hospital, which seems to have been incom
plete, but contributed very largely to its promotion. — (Abstract of History, &c, p. 40-43.)
He did not long survive, but died on the 1st Sept., 1641, in the 52d year of his age,
having, as the inscription on his tomb bears, " compensated for his short possession of
wealth by his ample largesses to the needy." He is buried on the south side of the
Cathedral Church of Glasgow, where his wife is also interred. The statues of the two
brothers, of their fuU size, and executed in marble, are to be seen in niches in front of the
Hospital buUdings, in Ingram Street.
[The original of this Deed of Mortification constitutes No. 470 of Blockhouse's
Inventory. There is likewise a transcript, authenticated by Mr. Hutcheson's signature,
engrossed in the Records. — No. 7 of Clerk's Press, p. 77 seqq.J
TO ALL AND SUNDRY to whose knowledge thir p'ntis sail come,
Be it known, me, Maister THOMAS HUCHESOUNE of Lambhill,
Considdering how conduceable it is to the advancment of the GospeU
and the guid of the commonwealthe, that the CoUedges and Universities
be weill provydit and appoyntit ; laying also to heart my particular
interest in the Universitie and Colledge of Glasgow, being most willing
to contribute my helpe and supply thairto, for the better appoynting
whairoff, thair appearis two thingis to be most convenient quhilk ar now
wanting y'runto. The one, that for ordoring, preserving, and enlargeing
of the common Bibliothec of the said Universitie, thair be foundit the
office of ane Bibliothecare, with rent appertinent y'rto, to remaine and
continue in all tyme comeing, in constant office, within ye Universitie and
Colledge of Glasgow. The uther, that the south quarter of the buUding
of the said Colledge, quhilk is presently ruinous, be rebuildit and maid

HUTCHESON'S BURSARY. 49
sutable to the rest of the fabrick. Thairfoir, to supply in pairt the
saidis twa defectis, first, to have dottit, mortifiet, and assignit the soume
of Ane Thousand Merkis money, princ11 soume, to ye use and behove of
the Universitie and Colledge of Glasgow in manner after spe'it ; quhUk
soume is p'ntly adebtit unto me be Doctor Johne Strange, present
principall, Masteris John Rae, William Wilkie,
Regentis of the Colledge, in suae farre as they became debtaris y'rfoir to
the said umq'll George, my brother german, to whom I am air servit and
retourit, & executor testamentar nominat, and universaU legatour,
and thairby have right to the samyn by thair band, of the dait the
day of proporting the soume of Ane
Thousand Merkis, princ11 soume, then borrowit be thame frae him. In and
to' the quhilk band and soumes thairby obleist, I make & constituit the
said Principal and Regentis, and thair successoris in office, my cessioneris
and assignayis, & renunce & discharge the samyn in thair favoris, be
these p'ntis for ever. Lykeas, I have given and delyverit to ye said
Principall and Regentis, at the dait of thir p'ntis, the soume of Ane
Thousand Merkis money, to be addit to the said soume of Ane Thousand
Merkis money, y'rby to maik up the soume of Twa Thousand Merkis
money, prin11 soume, for the use underwrittin, viz. : Quhairby the
said Principal and Regentis, thair successoris in office, and thair col-
lectoris, may imploy the said principall soume of Twa Thousand Merkis
money forsaidis, for yearly profit and a'nuelrent, or otherwayis convert
the samyn for buying and purchasing ane constant yearly duetie ; the
said conversioun or purchase alwayis being maid be common advise of
the saidis PrincipaU and Regentis, and thair successoris in office, the Rector
& Deane of Facultie of the CoUedge, and of me, the said Maister Thomas,
I being on lyffe, and after my decease, be consent of the ConseU of the
Brughe of Glasgow, to the effect the said an'uelrent, or yearly rent, may
be bestowit be thame for the maintenance of ane quahfiet Student, being
ane Maister of Airts, and ane Burges sone of the name of Huchesoun or
Herbertsone; quhilk failzeand, ane Burges son of any uther name; quhUk
G

50 HUTCHESON'S BURSARY.
also failzeand, any uther quahfied young Student, being ane Mr of
Arts, who salbe receavit Bibliothecarius of the Universitie, and sail
have intrusted to him the keiping and ordoring of the Bibhothec and
bookis tharein, quhilk salbe inventarit and inroUit in catalogues, and
delyverit signit and subscryvit unto him; q'rby at his removaU, he
may be orderly exonert of his charge, & who saU attend ye Bibhothec
in his gowne, as it becomes the scholeris office beareris within that
house, and that dayly Uk work day, betwixt ten and twelve houris
before noon, & betwixt twa and four houris afternoone, and oftener,
as the Principal, Professouris, Regentis, and Studentis of Theologie within
the said Colledge saU require him having necessar use of any bookis
y'rof. Quho also, at his admissioun and receptioun to that office, salbe
obliged to commemorat this p'nt foundatioun in these words foUowing,
includit in the forme of ane oathe : — Ego, A. B., sancte poUiceor & juro
me Bibliothecarii munus in CoUegio Glasguensi, opibus & liberahtate
Georgii et Magistri Thomas Hutchesonorum fratrum a Lambhill funda-
tum, integre & fideliter administraturum. To be p'ntit to the said office,
and rent y'rto appertaining, be me, the said Maister Thomas Huche-
soun, during all the dayis of my lyftime; and after my decease, be ye
Conseil of the Brughe of Glasgow, who salbe answerable for his fidehtie
& trust; to remaine in the said office the space of four yearis only,
being alwayis found apt and qualified be the Rector, Principal, Deane
of Facultie, and Regentis of the said CoUedge, to quhom the presentatioun
salbe direct, that after thair condigne tryaU of the quahficatioun and
aptitude of the said Student to that charge, he may be admitted be thame
thairto during the space forsaid. As also to have dottit and mortifiet
to the said CoUedge of Glasgow, the soume of Ane Thousand Poundis
money, of the quhilk soume thair is adebtit to me be ye saidis Principal
and Regentis, the soume of Ane Thousand Merkis money, borrowit be
thame, at leist be Mr. Johne Herbertsoune thair coUector, to ye use
and behove of the Colledge frae me, conforme to ye band of the dait
the day of Quhilk band I have

HUTCHESON'S BURSARY. 51
given back to thame, and by these p'ntis renunce and discharge the same,
and soumes y'rby obleist, in thair favoris for ever. Lykeas, I have
giftit and deliverit unto thame, at the dait of thir p'ntis, the soume of
Fyve Hundrethe Merkis money, to make up the said Thousand Poundis
money ; quhilk Thousand Poundis money I ordaine and appoynt to be
impendit be the saidis Principall and Regentis, and thair successoris
in office, for ye re-edifieing of the south quarter of the buUding of the
Colledge ; and becaus the expence of the said re-edification wiU extend
to ane farre greater soume than ye soume fors'd, mortifiet and assignit
be me, quhilk is the first and only soume as yet dottit for y* effect;
Thairfoir, untiU the re-edifieing of the said south quarter begin, quhilk
probably wiU be suspendit for certain yearis to come, I ordaine the said
Thousand Pound to be lent out be thame for annuelrent and profit, to
ye end the excressing profitis y'rof, until the building be begunne, may
accresse to the said principaU soume, q'rby both prin'll soume, and
by gane annual rents may be totaUy convertit to ye use of that buUding,
& no uther use q'tsomever, and that be the sight of the ConseU of the
Brughe of Glasgow. And for ye mair securitie, I am content and con-
sentis thir p'ntis be insert and reg'rat in ye buikis of ConseU and
Sessioun, Comissar or Town Court bookis of Glasgow, thairin to re-
mayne ad futuram rei memoriam; and to that effect I constitute
my pro'ris promitteri de rato 6fc. In witness
q'rof, I have sub* thir p'ntis, writtin be John Adame, servitor to Mr.
Andrew Fleyming of CatgiU, Comissar of Glasgow, at Glasgow, the
threttein day of May, anno jm vic fourtie ane yeiris, befor thir witnesses,
John Wilkie, Thomas HaU, George PoUocke, students in ye said Col
ledge, and ye said John Adam, writer heiroff.
Mr. T. HUTCHESON,
with my hand.
JOHN WILKIE, witnes.
THOMAS HALL, witnes.
GEORGE POLLOK, witnes.
J. ADAM, witnes.

52 HUTCHESON'S BURSARY.
From the time of this Deed to 1782, the proceeds of Mr. Hutcheson's bequest con
tinued to be employed as a part of the remuneration of the person discharging the duties
of Librarian in the University, who, by an arrangement — between the Moderators of the
CoUege and the Town CouncU, entered into in 1651-2, and confirmed in 1656-8, — by which
the former bound themselves to augment the stipend of this officer — was nominated al
ternately by these two bodies.* It came in time, however, to be felt, that the short tenure
prescribed by the Mortification was very unfavourable for the efficient discharge of the
duties of the office, and various attempts were made to secure the services of a per
manent Library keeper. In 1732, a negotiation for this purpose was entered into between
the two bodies, which seems to have obtained the consent of aU parties, with the exception
of the principal, Mr. NeiU CampbeU, who, having brought the matter into the Courts of Law,
obtained a Summons of Suspension, which for the time put an end to the attempt.! In
1751, 1754,f & 1770,§ the same subject seems to have been again agitated. But it was in
1781-2,|| that, the proposal having been again broached to have the choice of the Librarian
entirely in the hands of the CoUege, an agreement was come to, of which the foUowing Act
of CouncU is the record. This Act continues to be observed to the present day, with this
modification, that as there is no longer any separate Old Library to keep, Mr. Hutcheson's
Bursar has now no duties to perform beyond the dUigent prosecution of his own studies.
AT GLASGOW, the Twenty-first day of February, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty-two Years,
Which day, the Magistrates and Cototcill of the City of Glasgow
being in Council assembled, there was produced a Memorial from
Glasgow College, to the Magistrates and Council, whereof the tenor
follows : — The College of Glasgow had for a long time no fund for a
Library keeper. Mr. Thomas Hutcheson of LambhiU observing this
deficiency, paid down to the Principal and Professors the sum of 2000
Merks, and by his Deed of Donation, dated the 13th of May, 1641,
* Clerk's Press, No. 7; 1651, 23d Sept. p. 85; 1652, 16th Jan., p. 88, and  Oct., p. 89; 1660,
p. 104. f Clerk's Press, No. 27 ; 1732, 20th Jan., 12th Oct., 22d Dec; 1733,4th Jan., 10th April, 26th
June, 23d Oct,, 6th Nov., 13th Nov.; 1735, 4th Nov.; 1736, 16th Feb., p. 66.
t Clerk's Press, No. 33; 1751, 26th June; 1754, 26th June.
§ Clerk's Press, No. 32; 1769, 16th Dec; 1770, 14th April.
|| Clerk's Press, No. 77; 1781, 18th May, & 6th Dec; 1782, 15th March.

HUTCHESON'S BURSARY. 53
appointed the annual produce of this sum for a salary to a Library
keeper, reserving the nomination of the Librarian to himself during his
own hfe, and vesting it in the Town Council of Glasgow after his
decease; the said Librarian to be a qualified Student and Master of
Arts, of the surname of Hutcheson or Herbertson ; whom failing, to be
a Burgess's son of any other name; whom failing, any other qualified
Student, to remain in the said office for four years, being always found
apt and qualified by the Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, and
Regents, to whom the presentation shall be directed, that after their
condign trial of the qualifications and aptitude of the said Student to
that charge, he may be admitted by them thereto during the space
aforesaid; he being obliged, at his admission & reception to that
office, to commemorate the present foundation in these words foUow
ing : " Ego, A. B., sancte polliceor et juro me Bibliothecarii munus in
CoUegio Glasguensi, opibus et liberalitate Georgii et Thomae Hutche-
sonorum fratrum a LambhUl fundatum, integre et fideliter adminis-
traturum." The annual produce of that sum being afterwards found
inadequate to the office, the CoUege, out of their own funds, raised
the Library keeper's salary to 400 Merks yearly, upon an agreement
with the Town Council, that the Magistrates and Town Council on the
one part, and the CoUege on the other, should have the right of pre
sentation allenarly, each for four years; and thus the matter stands at"
present. The University's Library is now encreased to such a size in
the number and value of the books, that four years is not sufficient
even to make a person acquainted with its contents. The salary is
altogether inadequate to the trust and high security which the keeper
ought to give for the management. The foUowing proposal is therefore
submitted to the consideration of the Magistrates & Town CouncU
of Glasgow: 1st, That the Magistrates and Town Council shall have
the sole right of presenting a Librarian in the original terms of Mr.
Hutcheson's donation, with a salary to be paid by the CoUege, of 200
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54 ROSS'S BURSARY.
charge but that of keeping the Old Library. 2dly, That the University
shall have the sole right of appointing the keeper of the New Library,
and shaU be left to find a proper salary for him in the best way they can,
and to continue him in office as long as they shaU find it expedient.
(Signed) Will. Leechman, Glasgow CoUege, 8 Feb., 1782. — Which me
morial being read to, and considered by, the Magistrates & Council,
they approved, and hereby approve, thereof, and agreed, and hereby
agree, to the terms thereby proposed. Extracted from the Records of
Council, by JOHN WILSON.

ROSS'S BURSARY
Obiginated in the latter wiU of Capt. WiUiam Ross of Rosseyle, dated 25th January, 1659.
No copy of this wUl has been found in the CoUege archives, but its substance is incor
porated in the Contract which forms the first of the two following deeds. From this it
would appear that Captain Ross considered himself as bequeathing, to the Universities of
Aberdeen and Glasgow, estates capable of furnishing a yearly rental of at least 3300 merks ;
out of which he meant that there should be maintained six PhUosophy Bursars at 200
merks, and six Divinity Bursars at 300 merks per annum, — four of each class at Aberdeen,
. and two of each Class at Glasgow, — besides a yearly fee of 300 merks to a coUector ; and
in the event of the rental exceeding these provisions in amount, the number of Bursars
was to be augmented. How little Captain Ross's anticipations have been reaUzed may be
judged of, from the fact that only one Bursary was instituted, in virtue of his bequest,
in the University of Glasgow, and none, so far as can be discovered, in the University of
Aberdeen.* We have not been able to obtain any information respecting Capt. Ross's personal
history, nor respecting the circumstances which prevented his testamentary purposes from
being fulfilled, further than these are hinted at, rather than explained, in the two foUowing
deeds. Reference, it wiU be seen, is made in the first of these to Lord Ross, and to Ross of
Auchlossine, with whom the contract is entered into, as " having right from the aire and

* "No Bursaries,'- say the Royal Commissioners, "founded by Capt. Wm. Boss, appear to be
reported as existing in either ofthe Colleges of Aberdeen." — (Report on University of Glasgow.)

ROSS'S BURSARY. 55
neirest of kine of the said deceist Capt. W. Ross." From the Inquisitionum Retornatarum
&c. Abbreviatio, (Inquisitiones Generales, Nos. 5758, & 5878) we learn that of date
13th Oct., 1674, there was a retour of " Gulielmus Ros faber Ugnarius in Tayne, hseres
Capitanei Gulielmi Ross de Rossiesland fiUi fratris avi ;" and that of date 15th Feb.,
1676, there was a retour of " Patricius Rose in Formestoune, hseres Capitanei Willielmi
Ros de Roseisle nepotis fratris proavi." But besides the general retour in favour of the
latter party, there are special retours (Inquisitiones speciales) of lands in the counties of
Berwick (396,) Dumfries (291,) Kirkcudbright (331,) Lanark (342,) and Wigton (158,) aU
dated 20th Dec, 1 677, in favour of " Patricius Ross in Formastoun hseres Capitanei
Willielmi Ross de Rossisle nepotis fratris proavi."
It does not appear that, in respect of the single Ross Bursar, the purpose of the
founder, that it should be awarded to the candidate of the name of Ross who should be
found, after dispute, to be most quahfied, was ever carried into effect.
It appears from entries in the CoUege Books (No. 14 of Clerk's Press,) that the
right of presentation to Capt. Ross's Bursary was exercised by the Lords Ross, from 1694,
downwards. WUliam, the last Lord Ross of that Une, having died in 1754, and his eldest
sister, Jane, having married in 1755, John Mackye, Esq. of Polgowan, who took the name
of Ross, the patronage of the Bursary was exercised by Mr. and Mrs, Ross Mackye, from
16th January, 1759, to 14th Dec, 1776. Mrs. Ross Mackye having died without issue
in 1777, her second sister, EUzabeth, who had married John, third Earl of Glasgow,
assumed the patronage, 10th June and 10th Nov., 1779, and it has since that time con
tinued to be exercised by the famUy of Glasgow.*
The sum received by the bursar was increased in 1830 from £4 3s. 4d. to £4 10s.
In 1844, the present Earl of Glasgow, in granting a new presentation, placed in the
hands of the CoUege a sum sufficient to afford the presentee £20 per annum during his
tenure ; and, at the same time, announced his intention of making provision, before the
Bursary should again faU vacant, for its permanent augmentation.
Att Edinburgh, and the twentieth seventh
dayes of Junii jm vic and seventie seven yeirs, It is
apointed, contracted, ffinallie endit and agried betwixt the parties
foUoweing: to witt, George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine
on the ane pairt, and Master John Menzies, Rector of the King's Col
ledge of Aberdeen, Mr Alex Midletone as prin'll, Mr George Nicolson
* George, 4th Earl of Glasgow, was created Baron Boss of Halkhead, county of Benfrew, in the
Peerage ofthe United Kingdom, in 1815.

56 ROSS'S BURSARY.
Civilist, Doctor Patrick Urq'rt, Professor of Medicin, Mr Andrew Massie,
Sub-principall, Mr Patrick Gordon, Humanist, Masters Robert Forbes,
George Midletone, and John Buchan, Regents and professores of Phi
losophie within the sd Colledge; MrJtGeorge Meldrum, rector of the
MarishaU Colledge of Aberdeen, Doctor James Leslie, prin'U, Mrs Robert
Paterson, George Peacock, John Farqr and John Pattoune, regents &
professors of philosophie within the sd Colledge; Doctor Brisban,
rector of the Colledge of Glasgow, Mr Edward Wright, prin'U, Mr David
LiddeU, professor of divinitie, Mrs William Blaire, Thomas Nicolson, John
Tran and John Boyd, regents within the CoUedge of Glasgow, for them
selves, and in name and behalfe of the remanent members of the sds
re'ive Colledges, and as takeing burden in and upon them for ther
successores members therof, on the uy'r part, in manner following: For-
sameikle as the deceist Capitan Wm Ross of Rosseyle be his Latter WUl
and Testament, daited the twentieth fifth day of Ja'rie, jm vic and
fyftie nyn zeirs, did nominat Marie Sincklair, his spous, his sole exe'rix,
and to have for the said office and also in place of joynture aU & haill
the rents of Drumgarland dureing her lyftyme, togither with the @'rent
of sex thousand merks, lying upon Eister Howlaws and Rawsterig, as
the samen was or should be imployed, togither with thrie hundreth
merks out of the readiest of his haill estate zierlie dureing the sd Marie
Sincklair her widowheid, and no longer; and after her deceis the forsaids
lands and money to acresce to the Universities underw'ten proportion
allie, as is afterdivydeit, and then if his estate did exceed the provisiones
of the number under exprest, then the number to be augmented by the
persones oversiers re'ive as is under divydeit ; and in the mean tyme,
and imediatlie after his deceis, the select number underw'ten to be
apointed, and after disput and aproba'ne in manner underw'ten, then
established ; and by the said Testament the said WmRoss did leive his
whole reall and moveable estate, except the provisiones therin exprest,
to the Universities of Aberdeen & Glasgow, two pairts therof to the
sd Universitie of Aberdeen, and ane third pairt to the forsd Universitie of

ROSS'S BURSARY. 57
Glasgow, and y4 for breiding and manteineing of the most quick and
acurat spirits of the name of Ross, who shall be found after disput to be
most qualified of that name, without respect of persons; and that aU such
scholers as should crave the benefite as bursers in the sd Universitie of
Aberdeen, should disput befor the Lairds of Balnagown, Kilravock, &
Auchlossine, the ministers of Aberdeen, New town and Old, and Masters
of the Universitie; and who amongst the said disputants should have the
aproba'ne of any two or more of the forsaids lairds, and two or mor of
the forsds ministers and prin'U ofthe CoUedge, they to be preferred; and
ane burser of philosophie to have Two hundreth merks yierlie, and each
student of divinitie to have thrie hundreth merks yeirlie, and both to
indure for four yeirs, unles it pleis the Lord they wer utherwayes im-
ployed, in q'ch caice ane uther was to succeid, and the number not to
exceid nor be under four students of philosophie, and alse manie of divi
nitie at the rates above exprest : And lykways that aU such scholers of
the forsd name who should crave the benefit of the forsaids Burses in
the Colledge of Glasgow should disput befor the Lord Ross, the Laird of
Staire, [the] Prin!ll of the CoUedge of Glasgow, the ministers of Dumfries
and Kircudbright, and who amongst the saids disputants should have
the aproba'ne of the Lord Ross or Laird of Stare, with two more of the
forsds ministers and Principall, they are to be preferred, and they to
have the aUowance aforsaid, the number being two students of philoso
phie, and two students of divinitie, and to continew in manner above
exprest, with power to the forsds persones to call the exe'rs to ane accompt
of everie particular (excepting as is excepted:) And alse the sd Lord Ross
and Laird of Balnagown, with the two Prin'Us of the sds Universities,
wer to establish ane honest faithfuU man to intromet w* or coUect the
forsaid rent, and to be comptable to the re'ive students and bursers,
who should be holden to pay as is above divydeit ; And becaus of his
travell to Abd. once in the yeir, and alse to Glasgow, was to have thrie
hundreth merks for his yeirlie fie, or in caice the sds bursers could
receive it at Edr then he was to have two hundreth merks ; but it was
H

58 ROSS'S BURSARY.
spe'allie provydeit by the said Testament that non of the forsds persones
should have power to sell, dilapidat, put away, or burden anie pairt of
the barronie of Roseyle or other lands, but may improve the rent therof
and coUect the same to the ends foresaids ; which failzieing, or in caice
of misaplyeing, the forsaids provisions to be nuU and of no effect, as if
the samen had never been granted, and the saids estates to redound and
acresce to ane second brother of the Lord Ross ; whilks failzieing, to a
second brother of the Laird of Belnagown, or to the most active of either
of them, as they should be approven by the Duke of Hamiltone, Marques
of Douglas, Earl of Nithsdaill, Earl of Queensberrie, Lord Hartfield, or
q'ch of the two should be most approven of the greattest pairt of the
forsaids honorable p'sones, the same to enjoy the forsd estate, as in the
said Testament and Letter Will of the daite above w'ten at mor lenth
is set doune. And the estate of the said Capt. Wm Ross being altogither
uncertaine, and the rights and conveyances mad be him therof in favours
of divers and sundrie persones, swae that it would be verie difficult to
the fornamed p'sones, members of the sds re'ive Colledges to prosecut
and pursue such actiones as wold be compitent upon the said Testament
for implement and fulfiUing of the clausses therin sett doune in favoures
of the saids Universities, and that the charges and expenses to be wared
out in prosecutione therof would be verie great, and the event uncertain ;
and the said George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine as
haveing right from the aire and neirest of kine of the said deceist Capi-
tan WUliam Ross, might therby have ground to quarreU the Testament
and mortifica'ne above w'ten, prevaiU, and carry the right of the heri
tage and heritable soumes belongeing to the defunct, whatever might be
ther pref'ence as to the moveable soumes ; and the fornamed persones
conceiveing it to be more profitable for the saids Universities and mem
bers therof to accept of the condi'nes underw'ten from the sds George
Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine, Therfore the fornamed
persons for themselves, and in name & behalf of the remanent mem
bers of the sds re'ive Universities, and as takeing burden in and upon

ROSS'S BURSARY. 59
them for the saids members, binds and obleidges them and ther succes
sores in thir offices, validlie and legallie to dispone, lykeas be thir p'nts
sells, annalzies, & dispones to and in favoures of the sd George Lord
Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine, their aires and assignayes, all
right, title, and interest q'somever, they, or either of them or ther suc
cessores, had, hes, or aniewayes may have, claim, or pretend to the
estate, here'll or moveable, of the deceist Captain Wm Ross, wherever
the samen lye, either within the kingdomes of Scotland, England, or
Ireland, be v'teu of the Latter Will and Testament mad be him theranent,
or anie other manner of v/ay qtsomever ; and for that effect they bind
& obleidge them and ther successores to make, grant, subscryve, and
deliver to the sds George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine
and ther forsaids, or anie uy'r persone whom they shall appoynt or
nominat, be advyce of lawiers in either of the sds kingdomes, sufficient
and valid rights and securities agrieable to the law and custom of either
of the sds kingdomes, of the forsaid estate, both heretable or moveable,
of the said Capt. Wm Ross, and to grant actourneys, pro'ries, or anie
uther w'tes requisit, with warrandice from ther own proper facts and
deids allenarlie ; and they bind and obleidge them and ther successores
to reiterat and renew the w'tes so to be granted in favoures of the
sd George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine and ther forsds
ay and q'U they find themselves sufficientlie secured anent the premises,
and the members of the sds re'ive Universities fullie denuded therof in
ther favoures ; And also the fornamed persones for themselves and ther
successores bind and obleidge them to assist and concurr with the saids
George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossin and ther forsaids in all
actiones intented or to be intented, compitent or that may be compitent,
befor qtsomever judge or judges within either of the saids kingdomes, for
recovering off the sd estate, heritable or moveable, of the sd umq11 Wm
Ross, upon the sd George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine,
and ther forssds, ther own proper charges and expenses : For the whilks
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binds and obleidges them con'lie and se'allie, ther aires and successores,
to maik pay' and deliverance to the fornamed persones, for themselves
and in name and behaU of the remanent persones members of the saids
re'ive Universities and y'r successores, the soume of sex thousand
merks Scots money, according to ther proportion and divisiones, and to
the use and behoof following, viz : to the members of the said Colledge
of Glasgow, for manteinance and sustenta'ne of bursers
of the name of Ross, wherof of divinitie, and
of philosophie, the soume of two thousand merks ; and to the mem
bers of the saids Colledges of Aberdeen, for manteinance of
bursers, of the said name of Ross, wherof of divinitie, and
of philosophie, the soume of four thousand merks; conforme to the divi-
sione and proportione contained in ane agriement betwixt the saids
CoUedges of Aberdeen, ofthe daite the day of
jm vjc an(j Seventie yeirs, and ratified be the persones
apointed for visita'ne of the saids Colledges, and that betwixt daite heirof
and the feast and terme of Mertimes jm vi° and seventie eight yeirs; with
the soume of ane thousand merks of liq4 expenses in caice of failzie,
and @'rent for the said prin'U soume yeirlie and termlie after the
sd terme of pay* above w'ten : Lykeas, the said George Lord Ross
and Francis Ross of Auchlossine bind and obleidge them and ther
above w'ten, to maik pay4 and deliverance to the fornamed persones,
for themselves and in name and behalfe of the remanent members of
the sds re'ive Universities, and ther successores, according to ther
forsaid proportione and divisione above spe'it, out of what they shall
happen to recover, from tyme to tyme, of the estate and meines of the
sd umq11 Capitan WiUiam Ross, ane just third pairt, ay and q'U the mem
bers of the sds re'ive Universities, and ther successores, be com-
pleitlie payed of the soume of Eleven Thousand Merks Scots money,
heirby agried be both pairties, to be payed to the saids re'ive Univer
sities, in full contenta'ne and satisfaction of aU right and title they
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Wm Ross, in anie manner of way; And the saids George Lord Ross and
Francis Ross of Auchlossine, binds and obleidges them and ther forsaids
to maik payment to the fornamed persones, and ther successores, for
the use and behoove, and according to the proportione & divisione
above w'ten, of the sd soume of Eleven Thousand Merks, at the next
terme of Wittsunday or Mertimes it shall happen the samen to be
recovered ; and also, it is heirby agried betwixt both the saids parties,
that the saids George Lord Ross is not only to disclame and dissown
all benefite that may acresce to him or his forsds be verteu of anie
substitu'ne or clause, in the said Letter Will or Testament of the sd
umq11 Captaine William Ross, in and through the makeing of this
present transaction and agriement, so that the samen shall nowayes
inferr any mismanadgment or misaplica'ne of the meins and estate of the
sd Capitan Wm Ross, but also the said George Lord Ross, and Francis
Ross of Auchlossine binds and obleidges them and ther forsaids to pro
cure ane Declarator befor the Lords of Counsell and Sessione, for secure-
ing the fornamed persones, members of the said respective Universities,
and ther successores, of aU dangers and inconveinents that may aryse,
or anie wayes affect them, be or threu the substituts and oversiers
mentioned in the forsd Testament, but prejudice alwayes to the said
George Lord Ross, and Francis Ross of Auchlossine, and ther forsaids,
of ther oversieing of the above wreatten soumes heirby obleidged to be
payed to the fornamed persones, to be applyed for the use and behoofe
apointed be the forsaid Testament, and to quarrel and impugne anie
futur mismanadgment or misaphca'ne of the samen be the fornamed per
sones members of the saids re'ive Universities and ther successores, and
but prejudice of the substitutione mentioned in the forsaid Testament,
as to the soumes heirby obleidged to be payed in manner above sett
doune, conforme to the forsaid Letter WUl and Testament in all
poynts : And sicklyke, it is heirby condiscendit and agried upon, that
the forsaid Declarator shall beir and containe this claus and decernitour,
that if ther shaU be defficiencie of persones of the name of Ross to be

62 ROSS'S BURSARY.
admitted to the saids bursaries, the members of the sds re'ive Universi
ties, and ther successores, ther admissione of anie uther persones of
anie uy'r name therto, shaU nowayes import any misaplica'ne or mis
manadgment, but that the saids members of the saids re'ive Univer
sities shall have power and priviledge to admitt anie uy'r persones,
without anie chaUenge or inconveniencie to be incurred be them, be or
threu the oversiers mentioned in the forsaid Testament : and also, that
the fornamed persones, members of the sd re'ive Universities, and ther
successores, shaU not be lyable to admitt anie bursars upon the forsaid
mortifica'ne, untill such tyme as the charges and expenses wared out, or
to be wared out be them, or either of them, in rela'ne to the premises,
be first repayed and reimpursed to them; and that the doing therof
shaUbe understood to be in cais of mismanadgment or misaplica'ne; and
the sds George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine, binds and
obleidges them and ther above w'ten, to obtaine and procure the for
said Declarator, in the termes above sett downe, upon ther own proper
charges and expensses; the fornamed persones, members of the sds re'ive
Universities, and y'r succe'rs, alwayes giveing ther consent and concur-
rance to the procureing thereof: And, in lyk manner, it is heirby agried
and condiscendit upon that, in caice the soumes to be recovered by
the sd George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossine, and ther
fors'ds, of the sd Captaine WUham Ross his personall and reall estate
within the kingdomes of England and Ireland, shall not amount to the
soume of threittie thrie thousand merks Scots money, the fornamed
persones, members of the sds re'ive Universities, binds and obleidges
them and ther forsaids to deduce and allow of the said soume of Eleven
Thousand Merks apointed to them, as ane equall third in manner for
said, conforme and according as the soumes swae to be recovered shaU
prove less and ineffectuaU: And both the sds parties binds and obleidges
them and ther forsaids to doe and performe the premisses to others,
under the paine and penaltie of Thrie Thousand Merks Scots money, to
be payed be the pairtie failzier to the partie obs'rver or wUling to per-

ROSS'S BURSARY. 63
forme the samen, And that, by and attour fuUfiUing of the premisses ;
And for the more securitie, both the sds parties ar content, and consents
that thir p'nts be insert and reg'rat in the books of Counsell and
Sessione, or anie uy'r judges books compitent within this kingdome, to
have the strenth of ane decreit of anie of the Lords or judges therof
interponed therto, that letters of horneing on ten dayes and uy'r exe'on
conforme, as effeirs, may be direct hereon, and therto constituts
thair pro'res. In Witness q'rof
ther p'nts (w'ten be Alexr Gordon, servitor to Mr Thomas Gordone,
wr'ter to his Majestie's signet) ar sub4 with ther hands, day, place,
moneth, and yere of God above w'ten; befor wittnesses, Mr James
Lundie, Mr Wm Meldrum, min'rs of Edr, witness to the Lord Ross,
Achlossen, Mr Pat. Gordon, and Mr Robert Paterson, yr subscrip'nes;
and thir p'nts ar sub4 at the Kings and MarshaU CoUedges, be the
remnant members, the second day of March, jm vi° and seventie eight
yeirs, before y'r witness, Pat. Farqr of Mu'nie, and Geo. Ross, pew-
terer in Abd.ROSSE. Mr. A. MIDDLETON, Prin'pall.
F. ROSS. RO. PATERSON.
A. BRISBANE, Rector Mr. GEO. NICOLSON,
Ac: Gl: J. C. P. G. PEACOCK.
E. WRIGHT. Mr. P. GORDON.
D. LIDDELL, P. D. GEO. MIDDLETON. JO. PATTOUN.
W. BLAIR. AN. MASSIE.
THO. NICOLSON. JO. BUCHAN. RO. FARQ=-
Mr. RO. FORBES. J. LUNDIE, witness.
WILL. MELDRUM, witnesse.
THO. GORDONE, witnes.
JN. ACHESON, witnes.
P. FARQUHAR, witnes.
GEORGE ROSS, wittaes.
JO. ROSE, witnes.

64 ROSS'S BURSARY.
[The previous Deed constitutes No. 1 of DiUon's Inventory of Papers respecting
Capt. Ross's Mortification (C. 1.) The foUowing Deed constitutes No. 5 of the same
Inventory.]
BEE IT KNOWEN TO ALL MEN, be thir presents, We, Doctor James
Fall, Prin'U of the Universitie of Glasgow, Doctor James Wymes, Pro
fessor of Theologie thereuntiU, Mrs Wm Blair, John Tran, John Boyd,
and Thomas Gordone, Regents therof, with consent of Mr Archibald
Inghs Persone of Glasgow, Rector, and Mr. James Crightoun, Minister
at KUbryd, Dean of Faculty of the sd Universitie : Forasmuchas the
deceist Captain Wm Rosse of Rossyle, by his Letter Will and Tes
tament, of the date the twentie fyfth day of Ja'ij jm vic & fyftie
nyne yeirs, did mortifie and appoynt a pairt of his meanes and estate to
accrese and belong to the Universities, Glasgow and Aberdeen, for
mentinance of certain bursars of the name of Ross, to have been pre
sented, provydit, and overseen in maner at lenth specd and -contained
in the sd Testament and Letter Will, as the same of the date fors'd
more fuUy beirs; Lykas, by ane contract of agreement past between
the sds Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, on the ane p4 and umq'll
George Lord Ross and Francis Rosse of Auchinlossen, on the other
p't, of the date the twentie seaventh and days of
Junij jm vi° & seaventie seaven yeirs, the means and estate of
the sd umq'll Captain WiUiam Ross being uncertain to be reco
vered, it was aggreed between the sds George Lord Ross and Francis
Rosse of Auchinlossen, and the sds Universities, that however desparat
the sd umq'U Captain Wm Rosse his estate should prove, the sds umq'U
George Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchinlossen were to make pay
ment to the sds Universities, of the soume of Six thousand merkes Scots
money, qr'of, Two Thousand Merkes money to the Colledge of
Glasgow, & the remanent to the CoUedge of Aberdeen ; Bot in eaise the
means and estate of the sd umq11 Captain Wm Ross should exceid the
soume of Thirtie Three Thousand Merkes, then, and in that eaise, the

ROSS'S BURSARY. 65
forenamed persones were obleist for payment of the soume Eleven
Thousand merkes, as the third pairt of the sd soume of Thirtie Three
Thousand Merkes, to the sds Universities by the proportiones fores'ds, at
the termes spe'it in the sd contract, as the samen of the date foresaid,
containing se'all oyr heids and obleisments more fullie beirs : And now,
at the making heirof, in regard, wee are certainlie informed, that the
meanes and estate of the sd umq11 Captain Wm Ross, hes fallen exceid-
inglie short of the said Thirtie-three Thousand Merkes money, and that
the said Francis Ross of Auchinlossen has made payment to us of the
soume of Two Thousand Merkes, as the third part of the said princ11
soume of Sex Thousand Merkes money, payable to the sd Universitie of
Glasgow, qr'of wee grant the recept, and hold us weeU content, satisfied,
and payed ; renuncand aU exceptiones in the contrair : And being also
informed by the sd Francis, that he has transacted and agreed with the
Universitie of Aberdeen for there two third pairts ofthe sd Sex Thousand
Merkes money, and @ rent thereof, in the termes of which transactione
and agreement wee, the sds Mrs of the Universitie of Glasgow, are wUling
to settle and agree with the sd Francis, for the third pairt of the sd
princ'U soume and @ rent y'rof, belonging to the sd Universitie of
Glasgow : Thairfor, witt ye us to be bound and obleised, likeas wee,
be thir presents, bind and obleidge us and our successors in office, Mrs of
the Universitie of Glasgow, that whatever ease or abaitment the sd Uni
versitie of Aberdeen have granted to the said Francis Ross, of there
two third of the said prin'U soume of Sex thousand merkes and @ rent
y'rof, That we shaU grant him the same ease and abaitment propor
tionallie effeirand to ou'r third part therof, and whatever discharges,
exonera'es or uy'r rights, the said Universitie of Aberdeen have grantit
to him of there two third pairts of the said soume that wee shaU
make, grant, subscribe, and delyver to him such lyke right of our
third pairt therof; and that betwixt the date heirof, and the first
day of March jm vic- & nyntie yeirs, under the pain of Three Hun
dreth Punds of penaltie in eaise of failzea attour performance; the
j

66 ROSS'S BURSARY.
sd Francis Ross alwayes, befor the said day, producing to us, the said
Universities of Aberdeen, the right and document grantit to him of
there two third pairts, to the effect, wee may therby cause expeed the
right of our third pairt of the soumes forsds : Lykeas, the said Francis
Ross of Auchinlossen^ by his acceptation heirof, being alwayes bound and
obleidged (upon his Own proper charges and expences) to purchase,
procure, and delyver to us, a decreet Declarator, befor the Lords of
Councell and Sessione, againest the repf esentars and overseers of the sd
umq'll Captain Wm Ross, wherby wee and our successors in office,
Masters Of the said Universitie of Glasgow, shall be exonered of any
abaitment alreadie given of the said umq11 Captain Wm Ross his estate,
by the agreement made between the saids Universities, and the said
umq11 George Lord Ross, and the said Francis, or of any abaitment
to be given by this p'nt obleisment and agreement 5 upon qlks con
ditions onlie, and no uy'r wayes, this presents are granted be us, and
accepted be ye said Francis Ross; And whilk Declarator shaU be
sua procured and delyvered betwixt and the first day of March jm vie
and nyntie yeirs> under the pain of Fyve Hundreth Pound of penaltie,
in eaise of failzea attour performance ; consenting thir presents be insert
and reg'rat in the Books of CounceU & Sessione, or any uy'rs competent
that lr'es and exe'Us of horning, and uy'rs needfuU, may heron passe
on ane simple charge of six dayes, and y'rto constitute
pro^rs : Writen be John Syme, clerk to Robert Robertsone, writer in
Glasgow, the twentie ane day of Nov. jm vic & eightie-eight yeirs;
before thir witnesses, Robert Ross, chamberland to Wm Lord Ross, and
the saids Robert Robertsone and John Syme, &c. JA. FALL.
W. BLAIR.
JO. TRAN.
THO. GORDON.
M. INGLIS.
R. ROSS.
ROB. ROBERTSONE, Witness.
JO. SYME, Witness.

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THE DUNDONALD BUKSARIES,
Fotm in Philosophy and three in Theology, were instituted by WUliam, first Earl of Dun
donald, and his son WiUiam, Lord Cochran, by a deed of mortification executed in 1673.
The foUowing notice of these benefactors is derived partly from Douglas's Peerage (by
Wood,) partly from Crawford's History ofthe Shire of Renfrew.
Sir Wm. Cochran of Cowden became famed for his prudent management and
conduct, by which he acquired a fair estate. He had charters ofthe barony of Cochran, in
the year 1 642, and of several other lands and baronies in the counties of Renfrew and Ayr, for
the latter of which he was chosen representative in the Parliament of 1 647. He was esteemed
by King Charles I. as one very fit to promote the royal interest in Scotland at that critical
juncture ; and he accordingly created him a peer by the title of Lord Cochran of Dun
donald, by patent, dated at Scarborough, 27th December, 1647, with Umitation to the
heirs male of his body. In the ParUament 1648 he gave sufficient evidence that his
Prince's favour was bestowed for the interest of the royal cause, by contributing much for
the furthering the design of sending the Scotch army into England under the command of
his Grace James, Duke of HamUton, for the relief of the King, who was at that time
a prisoner in the Isle of Wight. On this occasion Lord Cochran was sent over to
Ireland to bring home the Scottish troops, then in that kingdom.
Increasing in wealth, he acquired in 1653 the Lordship of Paisley, where he fixed
his residence, and Uved in great splendour and hospitaUty for many years. On account of
his loyalty, CromweU imposed on him a fine of no less than £5000, by bis Act of Grace
and Pardon 1654. At the Restoration, he was sworn a Privy CounciUor, and constituted
one of the Commissioners of the Treasury and Exchequer. This employment he discharged
with admirable prudence and integrity, to the general satisfaction of the nation ; of which
King Charles H. was so sensible that he advanced his Lordship to the dignity of Earl of
Dundonald, &c. the year 1669. He died in 1686, and was buried at Dundonald.
His eldest son William, Lord Cochran, who is associated with him in the mortifica
tion, was matriculated in the University of Glasgow (5th class) in 1648— (No. 7 of Clerk's
Press, p. 209.) He married in 1653 a daughter of the Earl of CassUis, and had issue, but
died in 1679, before his father. An accusation was preferred agamst the Earl of Dundonald
in 1684, of having kept a chaplain with his son, Lord Cochran, when he was dying, who
prayed to God to bless the rehels in the west with success. — (FountainhaU's Decisions I.
299.)

68 THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES.
BE IT KEND TILL ALL MEN, be thir present letters, We, WUliam,
EarU of Dundonald, Lord Cochrane of Pasliey and Ochiltree, with the
special advice and consent of WUliam, Lord Cochrane, our eldest son
lafull, and I, the said WiUiam, Lord Cochrane for myself, with consent
of my said father, and we both with ane consent and assent ; forsa-
meikUl as we have a special love and respect to the Universitie of
Glasgow, wherein we had our education and hterature, and for the
regard we have and carrie to literature and true piety, and to the
flourishing and advancement thereof, and for the supplieing of persons
to literature who are not able to entertain themselves in Colledges of
PhUosophy and Theologie, and therefore WE, the saids WUliam, Earl of
Dundonald, and WUliam, Lord Cochrane, our eldest son lafull, have
frielie and liberahe dotted, mortified, and disponed, as we be the tenor
hereof, both with ane consent and assent, as we frielie and liberalie
dott, mortifie and dispone to the Rector, Masters, and Regents of the
said Universitie and Colledge of Glasgow, and their successors in that
office perpetuaUie in all tyme comeing and for ever, ALL and HAILL
our eUevin merk land of old extent, of MUtown and Arratesholl, with
the mill, mill lands, multures, and sequels, and with the manor place,
houss, biggings, yairds, orchyairds, and all other pertinents and com
modities of the samen, lyane within the parochin of KUlbryde and
Sheriffdome of Lanerk, and that for the uses, and under the provisions
and conditions aftermentionat. To Witt for the use of the number of
four students, to be educate in the said Universitie and CoUedge in
PhUosophie, and thrie students to be educate therein in Theologie, and
for payment to each of the said persons to be educate and trained up
in Philosophy, of the soume of four scoire punds Scots money yeirlie,
during their wholl courss in Philosophy, and to each person to be
trained up and educate in Theologie, for the number of two yeirs,
yeirlie the soume of fourscoire and thirtein punds, six shiUings and
eight pennies money foresaid ; reserving always to us and our heirs and
successors in our honour, tytUl, estate, and dignitie of Dundonald, con-

THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES. 69
tained or to be contained in our infeftments thereof, the patronage and
presentation of the said students, when [within] the said re'x'ive profes
sions above written, how oft and whensoever the samen shaU vaik ; and with
this provision, that it shaU not be leisome to the said Rector, Master or
Principal and Regents, neither be themselves, nor with the consent of us
or our aires or successors, patrones foresaids, to annailzie and dispone the
said lands, miU nor others y'reof foresaid, or to invert nor apply the rents,
profits, and dewties thereof, to any other uses than to the uses before
set down ; nor to set tacks y'reof for longer space than the space of
ninetein yeirs continued and together ; nor shall it be leisome to them
nor their successors to sett any tacks y'reof, without consent of us and
our foresaids, as patrons above specified. Lykeas be the acceptation of
this present right, the said Rector, Master or Principal and Regents of
the said Universitie and their successors foresaid, shaU be halden and
obleidged to accept of such students in the said re'x'ive professions fore
said, as we, the said Earl, our said sone, and our foresaids, upon vaca
tion, shall from tyme to tyme present, being qualified for that state,
and fund to be so be the said Rector, Master, and Principal foresaid :
and in case the said Rector, Master, or Principal and Regents fore
said, or their said successors, shaU come in the contraire of any of thir
present provisions, or doe any deid in prejudice y'reof, with or without
the consent of us and our foresaids, patrons above spe'itt, and shaU
alter the good and pious intention of the mortification foresaid ; then,
and in that case, aU such deid or deids are declared heirby to be void and
nuU, and the saids Rector, Master or Principall and Regents of the
Universitie foresaid, and their successors, shah tyne and amitt the
benefite of this present mortification; and the said lands, miU and
others thereof, above spe'itt, shaU appertain and accresse to [the] Rector,
Principal, Master, and Regents of College of St. Andrews, for the
uses of the lyke number of students of the re'x'ive professions foresaid,
in the said CoUedge, upon the provisions and conditions always above
spe'itt, and no otherways, reserving always to us and our foresaids

70 THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES.
the right of patronage and presentation; in favour of which Universitie
and Colledge of Saint Andrews, the Rector, Principal, and Regents
ofthe said Universitie and CoUege of Glasgow, shaU be halden to denude
themselves omni habili modo. And in lyke manner be the acceptation
heirof, the said Rector, Masters, or Principal and Regents, shaU be
halden yeirlie to exoner, freith, and discharge us and our foresaids of
the tack dewtie of the teinds of the land above spe'itt yeirlie, extend
ing to four scoire punds money of yeirlie rent, and tack dewtie contained
in the tack of the personage teinds of the lands foresaid, yeirlie and ilk
yeir during the haill yeirs of the tack sett be them to us of the said
teinds; and in the whUk lands, mUl and others above spe'itt, we both
with ane consent and assent, as said is, faithfully bind and obleidge us,
our aires, and successors, dewlie valiedlie and sufficientlie to infeft and
sease the said Rector, Master or Principal and Regents, foresaids of the
said Universitie and Colledge of Glasgow, and their saids successors in
the said offices, for the uses always above mentionat, and upon the
provisions above and underwritten, and that be sufficient Chartor and
Infeftment, aither be resignation or confirmation, as shall be most
expedient ; To be halden off Our Soverain Lord, the King's Most
ExceUent Majestie, and as Prince of Scotland, in a frie mortification,
sycklyke and alse frielie in aU respects, as any other mortification
qt4soever. Giving therefore, yeirlie, the said Rector, Master or Prin
cipal and Regents foresaid, of the said Universitie and CoUedge, and
their successors in office, as said is, to the said students who shaU be
presented to [be] us, our said son, and our foresaids, in manner above
spe'itt, the particular soums of money above sett down; together
with the superplus, in case any shall happen through improvement or
melioration, in maner underwr'in, and with the condition of deduction
therefra, in case of deterioration or down comeing of the rent in maner
eftir spe'itt; and to make, grant, subscryve, and delyver to the said
Rector, Master or Principal and Regents foresaids, and their said
successors, aU maner of chartors, precepts, pro'ries, and instruments of

. THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES. 71
resignation and uy'r wryts necessar and requisite for y4 effect, conteining
warrandice in maner aftermentionat, for the uses above spe'itt, and
upon the provisions and conditions always above and underwry'ne,
and that upon our own proper charges and expenses. And for the
better effectuating the said infeftment be resignation, we both with ane
consent and assent, as said is, have made, constitute, and ordained, and
be the tenor heirof do make, constitute, and ordain our lovitts
and severaUie our undoubted
and irrevocabiU pro'rs, actors, factors, and special messengers to the
effect after spe'itt. Giving, granting, and committing to them our full
power and warrand for us, and in our name and upon our behalf, to
compeir before our imediat lafuU superiors of the said lands, thair aires
and successors, or before their commissionars and uy'rs having power
and warrand from them as said is, and there with aU dew reverence as
becomes, purelie and simplie be deliverance of staff and bastoun, as use is,
to resign, surrender, upgive, and overgive, likeas we, the said William
Earl of Dundonald, with consent of our said sone, and we both with '
ane consent and assent, as said is, be the tenor heirof, resign, surrender,
upgive, and overgive, aU and haiU the said ellevin merk land of old ex
tent, of MiUetoun and ArrateshoU, with the miU, mUl lands, multures,
and sequels of the same, and with the manor place, houss's, biggings,
yairds, orchyairds, and all other pertinents and commodities of the
same, whatsoever, lying as said is ; together with all right, tytill,
entres, and claim of right, which we or any of us or our foresaids had,
have, or can pretend theirto ; in the hands of our said imediat lafuU
superiors y'reof, their aires and successors, or in the hands of their said
comissionars and others having power and warrand from them as said
is ; in favors and for new infeftment of the samyne to be made and
granted to the said Rector, Master or Principal and Regents foresaids,
of the said Universitie and CoUedge of Glasgow, and their successors
in their offices foresaids, upon the provisions and conditions above and
under written, which are halden as repeated hereintUl, and are appointed

72 THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES.
to be conteined in the instrument of resignation chartor and infeft
ment to fallow hereupon; acts, instruments, and documents, thereupon,
needfuU to ask, lift, and raise ; and generaUie to doe aU and sundrie
other things necessar and requisite concerning the premises, sicklyke
and alse fuUie and frieUie in all respects, as we might doe therein our
selves, giff we were personally present, promitteri de rato. And farder, witt
ye us both with ane consent and assent, as said is, to have made, constitute,
and ordained, lykeas we be the tenor heirof doe make, constitute, and
ordain the said Rector, Masters or Principal and Regents foresaid, of
the said Universitie & CoUedge of Glasgow, and their said successors
for the uses above spe'itt, and under the provisions and conditions
above and under wr'in, our undoubted and irrevocabill cessioners and
assigneyes, in and to all and sundrie contracts, dispositions, chartors,
infeftments, procuratories and instruments of resignation, precepts and
instruments of seasing, process's and decreits of appryseing, grounds and
warrands y'roff, assignations, translations, dispositions, and uy'r wrytes of
the lands, mill and uy'r above spe'itt, and with aU other evidence, wrytes,
tytiUs, and securities whatsoever made and granted to us, or any of us, or
our predecessors or authors, or that in any wayes may be competent or
introduced in our favours, of and concerning the said lands, mill and uy'rs
above wr'in, heirby disponed with their pertinents, clausses of warrandice
conteined in the saids wrytes, haill remanent heids, articles and clausses
of the said wrytes, with all that has followed or may foUow thereupon.
And we have surrogate, as we heirby both with ane consent and assent,
as said is, doe surrogate the saids Rector, Master or Principal and Re
gents foresaid, of the said Universitie and CoUedge of Glasgow, and
their saids successors, in our fuU right, tytiU, and place of the samen for
ever, for the uses always above sett down, and upon the saids provisions
and conditions above and under written ; and we both with ane consent
and assent, as said is, heirby doe make, constitute, and ordain the said
Rector, Master or Principal and Regents foresaids, of the said Univer
sitie and CoUedge of Glasgow, and their saids successors, for the uses

THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES. 73
always above conteined, and under the said provisions and conditions
above and eftir repeited, our cessioners and assigneys in and to the
haill maills, fermes, keanes, customs, profits, and dewties of the said
lands, milne and others above spe'itt, heirby mortified and disponed,
as said is, off the crope and yeir of God, jm vic and thriescoire thirtein
yeris, and off all cropes and yeirs thereafter to come, and all action,
instance, pursuit, and execution competent, or that may be competent
to us and our foresaids thereanent, with power to them, their factors,
and servants in their name to exact, uplift, and receive the saids maills,
fermes, casualties, profeits, and dewties foresaids heirby above assigned,
and to apply the samyne for the uses foresaids, and generallie to doe all
other things necessar and requisite, concerning the premiss's alse fullie
and friellie in all respects, ase we might have done before the granting
heirof, upon the said provisions and conditions above and after spe'itt
allenairhe. And q'lk disposition, mortification, assignations, and rights
above spe'itt, we, the saids WUliam, Earle of Dundonald, and William,
Lord Cochrane, our sone lafull, both with ane consent and assent,
as said is, heirby faithfullie binds and oblidges us and our foresaids to
warrand, acquyet, and defend the said Rector, Master or Principal and
Regents foresaids, of the said Universitie and Colledge of Glasgow, and
their said successors in office, to be ane good and sufficient right and
tytill to them, anent the premiss's above disponed be us to them, for
the uses above spe'itt aUanarhe, and under the provisions and con
ditions foresaids above and underwritten, as said is, alse friellie and
quietlie in and be all things, as is above exprimatt, at. aU hands, and
against all deadly, as accords of the law. And we have now instantlie
delyvered to them the haill evidents and wryttes we have off and con
cerning the said lands, mill & uy'res above disponed, to be keeped
and used be them, as their own proper evidents and wrytes, for
the uses always above spe'itt. And because the personage teinds of
the lands above written did formerlie pertein, and yet . doe pertein
to the said Universitie and CoUedge of Glasgow, ase a pairt of their
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74 THE DUNDONALD BURSARIES.
patrimonie, and were sett be them to us in tack, for the space of two
nynetein yeirs tacks, for the yeirlie payment, be us to them, of the
said yeirlie tack dewtie of four scoire punds money yeirlie; and which
yeirhe tack dewtie of four scoire punds money foresaid, they are to
uplift and receive yeirlie furth of the first and readiest of the teinds and
teind dewties of the lands above written ; to the whilk tack and teinds
foresaids herein conteined, we both with ane consent and assent, as said
is, heirby do repone the saids Rector, Master or Principal and Regents
foresaids of the said Universitie & Colledge of Glasgow, and their
successors, and to the uplifting of the saids teinds, as they were before
the granting to us of the said tack, to the effect they may be payed
theirby of the said yeirhe tack dewtie of four scoire punds money, furth
of the readiest theirof, and to the effect the remainder of the saids
teinds and tein dewties of the lands foresaids, may be accumulate and
ingrossed dureing the yeirs of the said tack, with the rent and dewtie
ofthe said lands, mUl and uy'rs above spe'itt, to the said students, to
be presented be us in maner foresaid, and thereafter may return to the
said Universitie in proprietie, ase they were before the makeing to us of
the said tack. It is expressly conditioned heirby, that in case the rent
of the said land, miU and uy'rs above disponit, shall be augmented by
the improvement or melioration of the samen, that the increase of the
samen shall be equaUie divided among the saids students above mention
at, and in case of deterioration thereof, and the rents of the samyne shall
diminish, there shall be ane equal deduction of the saids students their
proportions yeirlie above appointed to them, yeirlie and ilk yeir of the
deterioration of the saids rents, and that the saids Rector, Master or Prin
cipal and Regents foresaids, of the said Universitie and Colledge, shall be
only liable in quantum, sua far ase they shall intromitt or may intromitt
therewith, legall diUigence being done and used for recovery thereof;
upon and with the whilk provisions and conditions above wr'in, this.;
present mortification and securitie is made and granted, and sua
accepted, and no otherways. And for the mair securitie, we are

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content, and consent that thir presents be reg'ratt in the Books of
Councill and Session, or Court buiks of any other judicatory com
petent within this kingdom, therein to remain in futuram rei memoriam,
and to have the strength of ane decreet of either of the judges thereof,
and their authorities to be interponed y'rto, that lrs and executorialls,
giff need beis, may pass heirupon in forme as effeirs. Q'runto we con
stitute [James Lennox, writer in Glasgow,*] our pro'rs in forma promitten^
de rato. In witness q'rof thir presents are written be Thomas Reid,
wryter in Pasley, for Robert Alexander of Blackhous, wryter there, and
subscryved with our hands as follows : At Edinburgh, the tenth day
of September, the yeir of God jm vic and three scoire twelve yeirs,
before these witnesses, James Cochrane, son lafull to the deceist
ColloneU Alexr Cochrane, brother to us the said Earl of Dundonald,
and John Muir and John Young, our servitors. (Signed) Dundonald,
Cochrane, Ja. Cochrane, witnes, Jo. Muir, witnes, Jno. Young, witnes.f
By a disposition, of date 24th Dec, 1798, registered in the books of CouncU and Ses
sion, on the 5th April, 1800, the patronage of these Bursaries was granted by Archibald, Earl
of Dundonald, to W. HamUton, Esq., Clerk to the Signet. Mutual actions at law were at
that time raised by the CoUege and Mr. HamUton, but these were eventuaUy settled by a
compromise, % and Mr. HamUton exercised the patronage for several years. In the docquet
which he attached to the accounts of the mortification on 6th Nov. 1802, Mr. HamUton
recommended, and, as patron, directed that the seven burses should be augmented to the
sum of £30 sterling yearly. From minute of 7th Feb., 1804, it appears that Mr. HamU-
ton's attention having been called to the provision in the original deed of mortification for
the Divinity burses being larger than the PhUosophy, he directed that each Divinity bursar
should receive £31 2 6.
In the docquet above referred to, Mr. HamUton farther recommended, and, as
* This name seems to have been filled in on occasion of the Deed being recorded in the Sheriff Court
Books of Lanark, 12th June, 1794.
f The above recited deed constitutes No. 475 of Blackhouse's Inventory. The three subsequent Nos.
consist of a Back Bond, &c. by the Masters, a Charter of Confirmation under the Great Seal, and the Seasine
thereof, containing the conditions of Irritancy.
J Minutes relative to Mr. Hamilton's assuming the patronage of the Dundonald Bursaries : —
1800. June 11th; Nov. 3d, 7th, and 17th; Dec.J6thand 29th.
1801. Feb. 7th and 18th; April 28th; Oct. 12th; Nov. 10th, 26th, and 30th.
1802. Jan. 23d; Feb. 17th; Nov. 6th, 29th; Dec. 3d, 8th.
1803. April 1st: Matters being adjusted, a presentation of a Bursar by Mr. Hamilton is received.

76 ADAMSON'S BURSARY.
patron, directed, that " no larger balance be aUowed to remain at any one time in the hands
of the Factor than £50 sterhng ; and that when the balance shaU at any one time amount
to that sum, he shaU be bound to place the same in the hands of a responsible banker, on a
proper voucher, payable to himself for the benefit of the mortification ; and that so soon
as a surplus fund shaU at anytime hereafter arise, amounting to £200, the factor shaU be
bound to lend out and invest the same on a sufficient heritable or personal security for
behoof of the mortification."
It appears from the CoUege Records (No. 83 of Clerk's Press) that on the 11th
October, 1813, "A copy of a disposition by WiUiam Hamilton, Writer to the Signet, to the
Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, of his right of presentation to seven Bursaries in the
College of Glasgow, dated 16th July, 1813 ; also a Schedule of Intimation, The Marquis
of Douglas and Clydesdale to the CoUege of Glasgow, dated 19th July, 1813, were given
in, and both the foresaid papers were ordered to be kept in retentis."
Of date 17th Nov., 1829, his Grace the Duke of HamUton gave authority for in
creasing the Dundonald Bursaries to £40 each for the Philosophy, and £45 each for the
Divinity Bursars. —(Minutes, 8th Jan., 1830, No. 84 of Clerk's Press.)

ADAMSON'S BURSARY,
Was founded, by a letter of Mortification of date 3d March, 1674, by Mr. David Adamson,
for some time Minister of the Parish of Fintry, in the Presbytery of Dumbarton.
It does not appear that Mr. Adamson took any very active public part in the
Ecclesiastical contentions of the period in which he Uved, and Uttle, therefore, of his
history survives. His name is found in the list of those matriculating in the University
of Glasgow in 1617 — (No. 7 of Clerk's Press, p. 185,)— but, as he took his degree of Master
in Arts in 1619 — (ibid, p. 134,) — it is probable that he had gone through part of his
University curriculum at some other University.
In the Records of the Presbytery of Dumbarton, Mr. Adamson's name occurs for
the first time, in the minute of 19th May, 1640. In the Records of the Kirk Session of
Fintry, which, though extending as far back as 1632, contain only a few notices of that
date, and do not begin to be continuous till the year 1640, his name occurs for the first
time, of date 25th December of that year, annexed to an account of the Poor's Funds.
But Mr. Adamson's name appears as a contributor of twenty merks towards the building
of the CoUege— (No. 16 of Clerk's Press, p. 471,)— with the designation " of Fintrie" at-

ADAMSON'S BURSARY. 77
tached to it ; and though no date is affixed to his contribution, it seems probable, from
its relative position to other contributions, that it was made in 1636.
That Mr. Adamson was a married man appears from an entry in the Kirk Session
Records, 4th June, 1643, bearing that " the Minister represented to the Elders in Session,
that he intended to build a dask (in the kirk) for his wife, and desired a convenient place
for the purpose."
From 1644, onwards, through a succession of years, frequent mention is made in the
Kirk Session Records, of his "diUgence" in obtempering the "injunctions" so rife in those
troublous times, and in promoting " voluntarie contributions for the armie," the "excom
munication" of such malignants as the Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Montrose, &c, the observ
ance of fasts and thanksgivings in connection with the public transactions of the period,
and the signing of the solemn league and covenant. But the most frequent entries in the
Record, are those which Ulustrate his zeal for education. In the year 1648, if not earlier,
he took steps to have a school " held at the kirk," and from that time forward, there are
continual intimations of the anxiety which he felt to have the youth of the parish properly
instructed. His efforts, for this purpose, seem to have been the occasion of involving bim
in no smaU degree of trouble. Having been instrumental in setting aside a schoolmaster
of the name of Wisheart, on the score of neglect of duty, Wisheart was provoked to stir
up certain " slanders" against him, which afterwards became the subject of judicial in
vestigation by the Presbytery. These " slanders" seem to have been of a very pitiful
kind, as for instance, that " ane stot had been slaine in the minister's barne, and by the
minister's man, upon a Saboth morning ;" that he had ordered or aUowed his man to pre
pare " devotts" also, " upon a Saboth ;" — and that, upon some occasion, he had "taken
two dollars for baptizing a bairne." Visitations of the parish were held in 1650, 52, and
54, at which these charges were noticed, and the minister exculpated. Nevertheless, the
same or similar slanders appear to have been very soon revived, and again made the
subject of Presbyterial inquiry. A visitation was intimated to be held at the kirk in the
month of October, 1654, which, however, was afterwards " stopped," in consequence of a
meeting of Synod having been appointed for the same day at Kilpatrick Wester ; where
upon, the parishioners resolved to transmit to the Synod, a testimonial of their minister's
" abUities in the work of the ministrie, and of his good conversatione." A testimonial
was accordingly granted, " unanimouslie subs' be ye whole paroche," and directed to be
entrusted to a commissioner, to be presented on occasion of the "tryall of Mr. David
Adamson," and with instructions to the said commissioner, that "gif he found any thing
lyk to be fondit to ye prejudice of their said minister, then to do and act aU that lawful is,
for his and their protection and defence." This is dated November, 1654, but the pro
ceedings connected with it, appear to have been protracted for a considerable period.
They resulted, at length, in the acquittal of the minister, and the exercise of discipline
upon Wisheart.

78 ADAMSON'S BURSARY.
Thus far the Records of the Kirk Session ; but the Letters of BaUIie not only
continue the narrative, but give us some insight into the secret springs of aU this persecu
tion. It would appear that Mr. Adamson took part with Douglas, Baillie, Dickson, and
the more moderate of the clergy, in carrying those resolutions in favor of reinforcing the
army by the admission, on certain terms, of persons who had been incapacitated by the
Act of Glasses, which procured for them the designation of the Besolutioners, whilst the
minority, which condemned any approach to a junction with the Malignant party, were
styled the Bemonstrants or Protesters. In a letter to Mr. WUham Spang, towards the end
of 1655, BaiUie in aUeging that the Remonstrators, " as unquestionablie masters, doe
within the bounds of the Synod whatever they think expedient," mentions amongst other
instances, that " Mr. David Adamsone, though of many libeUed scandals, they got not one
proven, yet still they keep on the panneU" (III. 278.) And in the course of the foUow
ing year, (1st Sept., 1656,) after alluding to a persecution of Mr. AUan Ferguson of Drim-
men, BaUIie says, " This process, and another of his neighbour, Mr. David Adamsone of
Fintrie, where also, after much noyse, nothing was found, has made their fervour of purg
ing in our bounds much to relent ; for, as oft I told them, they will find on tryeU, that
the men to be purged out are on their side, not on ours, if there were any justice." (p. 315.)
It appears, however, from the Records of the Presbytery of Dumbarton, that, three
years later, Mr. Adamson's conduct was again made the subject of judicial inquiry; and
that, whether from that want of justice in the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts
at which Baillie so broadly hints, — and for the carrying out of which, it may be remarked,
the nomination of Commissioners by the Synod to act along with the members of Presby
tery, probably afforded facilities, — or whether from Mr. Adamson's own infirmities, this in
quiry resulted in his deposition. This took place early in 1660, (reported 31st January.)
After the Restoration, 5th July, 1661, the Scottish ParUament voted a sum of £100 sterUng
to Mr. David Adamson, but no designation is affixed to his name as to that of some other
ministers or late ministers in whose favour similar votes are recorded. (Acts Pari. Scot.
Vol. VH Append, p. 81.) It appears from the Presbytery Records that, a few years after
wards, Mr. Adamson had made application to be aUowed to resume the functions of a
minister. Of date 31st January, 1665, there is recorded the foUowing finding of the
Presbytery, " annent an appoyntment of the Archbishop, &c, that they sould oppen Mr.
David Adamson his mouth to the exercise of the ministrie, or otherwayes to declair that
they find cause why they could not do it." How far it might be warrantable to infer from
this finding that, in compassing Mr. Adamson's condemnation, justice had at least been
strained to her full stretch, is a point that may be left to the judgment of the reader.
" The Presbytery finding that the said Mr. David was deposed for sundrie scandales
mentionat in his sentence of deposition, and that he still justifies himself, and refuses to
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ADAMSON'S BURSARY. 79
both by the elders and others, and the oath of the Clerk of the Session, we find him not
fuUie cleared of that particular upon which much of the stress of the sentence was laid,
and we being partly his judges in the said sentence of deposition, we cannot for these
reasons oppen his mouth unless we take negative guilt upon ourselves in pronouncing
such a sentence, which we cannot doe."
Of Mr. Adamson's subsequent history, we have not been able to procure any infor
mation, further than the fact, established by his letter of Mortification, that he Uved
for at least fourteen years afterwards ; and the probability that he resided at or near
Stirling, suggested by his foundation having been made for behoof of the sons of trades
men of that town. Indeed, his residence at Stirling is expressly mentioned in a minute
of the Dumbarton Presbytery, dated 17th Feb., 1674, about a fortnight previous to the
date of his letter of mortification.
The patronage of Mr. Adamson's bursary seems to have been originaUy vested in
John Campbell of Dowan and his heirs, and transferred by him to the Convener Court of
Stirling. In a memorial of that body, transmitted by their Convener to Principal Leech-
man, 24th January, 1782, it is mentioned that " the MemoriaUsts have not, at any time,
seen the Deed of Mortification." The earliest record of the transaction on their Books,
is an "Act concerning Adamson's Mortification in Stirling," dated 31st August, 1706,
from a certified copy of which, extracted from their Records by their Clerk, the foUow
ing is printed : —
AT STIRLING, the last day of August, 1706 Years,
The which day the Deacon Convener and remanent Deacons, new and
old, of the seven Incorporate Trades within the Burgh of Stirling, being
convened at their ordinary meeting place, and taking to their serious
consideration that the deceased Mr. David Adamson, some time
Minister at Fintrie, by his letter of Mortification, dated the 3d day of
March, jm vie and seventy-four years, did legate and mortify the sum of
800 Merks, due by the persons contained in the said Mortification, for
maintaining ane Bursar of Philosophy in the College of Glasgow, being
the son of any Tradesman within the said seven Incorporate Trades,
by which Mortification, the said sum of 800 Merks is appointed to
stand and continue as ane constant and perpetual stock, and only the
annualrent thereof to be applied for the use and end foresaid. By
which also it is provided,, that the said @ rent should fall due, and

80 ADAMSON'S BURSARY.
payable to John Campbell of Dowan, and his heirs, during the vacancy of
the Bursar, as the said Mortification of the date foresaid in itself more
fully bears. Likeas, the said John CampbeU, by his discharge and re
nunciation, dated the 6th day of July last, by past, not only renounced
in favour of the said Convener and Deacons present and to come, the
right of nomination and presentation of the said Bursar from time to
time, competent to him and his foresaids, by virtue of the said Mortifi
cation, but also discharged them, and their successors in office, of the
@ rent of the said mortified sum, as well of all years and terms bygone
that the same was not applied or employed for maintaining the said
Bursar, as in all time hereafter, to the effect that during the space of
the said vacancies, so often as they shall occur, the same may be added
to the stock for augmentation thereof; reserving always power and
liberty to the said John CampbeU, his heirs, and successors, to call and
pursue the said Convener and Deacons, for making payment of the
said @ rents in time coming, in case they, shall happen to bestow or
employ the same for any other use than for maintaining the said Bursar,
or for augmenting the said stock, as the said renunciation and discharge
likewise more fuUy bears. And the said Convener and Deacons likewise
considering the great trouble, pains, and expences they have been at,
in making effectual the foresaid mortified sum, so far as could be
recovered thereof, which at this present time extends to 700 Merks,
and being most willing and desirous that the same, with the annual-
rents thereof, should be secured against aU embezzlements whatsomever,
therefore, they all of one consent, hereby declare that the said sum
of 700 Merks money foresaid is, and shall continue, as ane perpetual
stock for the use and end above mentioned, in all time hereafter; and
that it shaU not be in the power of them or their successors in office,
to embezzle, or dilapidate, or diminish the same, any manner of way
whatsomever; all which power they for themselves and foirsaids
hereby renounce, discharge, and disclaim for ever. As also the said
Convener and Deacons, by these presents, .bind and oblige them and

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their successors in office, (that) during the vacancy of ane Bursar, so oft
as the same shaU occur, to add the @ rents of the said 700 Merks, so
far as shall happen to faU due from time to time, to the said principal
sum for augmentation thereof, for the more comfortable and plentiful
entertaining of the said Bursar upon the @ rents thereof, and no way to
employ or apply the same for any other end, use, or purpose whatsom
ever, under the pain of being holden and repute unfaithful Deacons, em
bezzlers of the said mortified money, and incapable to bear the office of
Deacons in all time hereafter ; and that it shaU be in the power not
only of any Deacon, but even in the power of any tradesman within
any of the said Seven Incorporate Trades, to call and pursue the Con
vener and remanent Deacons, embezzlers of the said principal mor
tified sum, or @ rents thereof, before the Magistrates and Council of
the Burgh of Stirling, for the time, or any other Judicatory com
petent for repetition, and making up of so much thereof, as bees mis
employed or embezzled be them, contrary to the terms or tenor heirof.
And lastly, the said Conveener and Deacons appoint this present
Act to be read publicly in Court, after every annual election, upon the
day that the new Deacons are to be sworn and admitted, who are
hereby appointed and obliged to subscribe a particular act for observance
thereof, in every article and clause of the same, with certification if
they refuse, they shall neither be sworn nor admitted as members of
the said Court. And the said Conveener and. Deacons consent, that
an extract of this present act be registrate in the Council Books of the
said Burgh, and that the Magistrates and Council thereof interpone
their authority thereto, to the effect the same may be inviolably observed
in aU time coming, and constitute
their pr'ors for that end. In testimony whereof, the said Convener
and Deacons have signed these presents, day, month, place, and year
of God above written. — William Allan, Conveener, John Anderson,
Deacon, &c.

82 ADAMSON'S BURSARY.
In 1772, in consequence of some inquiries instituted by the Faculty of the College,
the Convener Court drew up and transmitted to the Faculty the foUowing Resolutions —
(See No. 75 of Clerk's Press, Minutes of 22d Oct., 1771 ; 7th Feb., 10th Oct., and 31st
Oct., 1772.)
AT STIRLING, the twenty-third day of October, seventeen hundred
and seventy- two years: Which day the Convener Court of this Burgh
having met, on lawful warning, concerning the affairs of Mr. David
Adamson's mortification of a fund toward the maintenance of a Bursar
of Philosophy in the College of Glasgow, who must be the son of a
freeman of one of the Seven Incorporate Trades of this Burgh, who was
intitled to the interest of the mortified sum, now greatly increased by
the annual rents during vacancies; and having considered the demand
made by the Faculty of the said CoUege, relative to the said fund and
Bursary, and being willing to give all reasonable satisfaction thereanent
to the said Faculty, the said Convener Court does freely and voluntarily
hereby agree to the foUowing resolutions, which shall be observed by
the members and their successors in office, in all time coming: — Primo,
as often as a proper person applies, when there is a vacancy, the Con
vener Court shall elect him; or if more apply, and the fund be so
en creased as, to afford it, and that more apply than one, the Conveener
Court shall elect whom of them applying they shall find most promising a
Bursar, or Bursars, on the said mortification, and give or order an extract
of his or their election, in a letter directed to the Principal of the said
College, and that extract shall bear, that the person or persons elected
shall be a Gown Student in the said CoUege, either for three years
only, if he shall enter the Logic Class, or during four years only, if he
shall enter the Greek Class; and that he or they shall not be entitled to the
payment of his or their Bursary, but under this express condition, that
he [or they] shall produce a certificate to the Convener Court, from
the Principal or Professor under whom he has studied, of his or their
regular attendance, of his or their diligence and proficiency in his or
their studies, and ofhis or their good behaviour, in all respects, as a

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Student : — Secundo, that the security for the fund of the Mortification,
whether heritable or moveable, shaU be exhibited to the CoUege, or
any authorised by them, as often as required at this place allenarly: —
Tertio, that the Convener Court shaU, from time to time, when asked,
show the state of the mortification to any impowered by the Faculty
of the College, that it may appear to aU concerned, that every thing
relating to the said mortification is managed with integrity. Extracted
from the Record of the Convener Court Book of Stirling, upon this
and the two preceding pages, by WILLIAM M'KILLOP, Clk.
AT STIRLING, the twenty-ninth day of September, jm viic and seventy-
three years: Which day the Extract Act of the Convener Court Books
of Stirling, anent Adamson's mortification, before written, was duly
registered upon the 120th, and 121st, and 122d leaves of the Register
of Probative writes kept at Stirling, for the Sheriff Court thereof,
by me, JO. FINLAYSON.
It would appear that in the end of 1781, or beginning of 1782, the members of the
Convener Court were served with a summons before the Court of Session, at the instance
of the Principal and Professors of the CoUege to show their accounts, &c, in consequence of
which, they transmitted to Principal Leechman the Memorial and State already referred
to, including a proposal, that when the fund exceeds a capital affording £20 sterling yearly
to a bursar, the surplus shaU accumulate for a second bursary. . — (See No. 77 of Clerk's
Press, Minutes of 13th and 20th March, and 17th May, 1782.)— The Faculty were satisfied
with the information, stipulating " 1st, That the Bursar should annuaUy enjoy the full and
complete sum of £12, without giving any part of that sum by concert to any other per
son ; and 2d, That the surplus above the said £12, and all vacant salaries, shaU regularly
accumulate to make a new bursary or bursaries."

84 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.

LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES,
Two in number, were instituted by the celebrated Dr. Robert Leighton, Bishop of Dun
blane, and for some time Archbishop of Glasgow. One of them he himself founded in
1677, and the other was founded after his death, which happened in 1684, by his
affectionate and pious executors, his sister and nephew, in compliance with a wish which
they had heard him express.
Dr. Leighton's eminence as a theological writer, the prominence of the ofiices
which he fiUed, and the zealous though unassuming part he took in endeavouring to
compose the virulent and too often cruel animosities of the times in which he Uved, have
conferred a large share of interest and importance on his private and pubUc history ;
and, accordingly, his biographers have exhausted everything in the way of fact or com
ment, which could throw light upon his career.* « There seems the less propriety in
dweUing on the history of this benefactor, that, except in his character of Archbishop of
Glasgow, and, ex officio, ChanceUor of the University, — which office he held for a very short
period only — he had no connexion with the body on which he conferred these gratifying
favours. It may be noticed, generally, that he entered the University of Edinburgh in
1637, and took the degree of Master of Arts, there, in 1631 ; that, after this, he went to
France, where he remained ten years ; that soon after his return to his native country in
1641, when Episcopacy had been laid prostrate in Scotland, he was appointed Minister of
the Parish of Newbottle, about seven miles from Edinburgh ; that he had tendered his
resignation of that charge when he was chosen, in 1652, Principal of the CoUege of Edin
burgh, which office he held for ten years ; that in 1661, when Episcopacy was again as
cendant in Scotland, he was prevailed on to accept Episcopal dignity, and made choice of
the See of Dunblane as the one of the most moderate pretensions and obligations ; and
that, in 1670, he was farther called upon to undertake the administration of the See of
Glasgow, of which he was appointed Archbishop in the following year. And, finaUy, that
in 1673, finding his influence ineffectual to bring about concUiation between the contending
parties, and particularly to repress the harsh procedure of those with whom he was nomin-
* See Life prefixed to the edition ofhis works, by the Rev. G. Jerment, London, 1808.
Life by Dr. Thomas Murray, Edin., 1828.
Life prefixed to the edition of his whole works, by the Rev. J. N. Pearson, London, 1 830.
Chambers' Scottish Biography, III. 337.
Dr. Irving's Lives of Scottish Writers, II. 114. Edin. 1839.

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ally associated, he obtained the King's written engagement to aUow him liberty to retire
from his station as Archbishop of Glasgow at the end of a year ; and that, accordingly,
at the expiry of the stipulated time, he laid down his archbishopric, and soon afterwards
retired to live with his sister, Mrs Lightmaker, at her estate of Broadhurst, in Essex,
where he continued habituaUy to reside tiU the time of his death, which, as already men
tioned, occurred in 1684, in the 74th year of his age, when he happened to be on a visit to
London. It is not perhaps to be wondered at, considering the anti-prelatical sentiments
which Dr. Leighton's father, Dr. Alexander Leighton, had suffered so severely for maintain
ing, that the favour which he himself manifested for Episcopal church government, should
have been a matter of exultation to the one side, and of irritation to the other ; and that
each party should, with the view of enhancing the importance of his conversion, or the
delinquency of his apostacy, have indulged in a certain amount of misrepresentation of
his feelings and motives. The general account of his character given by his friend Bishop
Burnet i« his History of his Own Times, seems, if a few passages of a party bias be excepted
to be faithfuUy depicted ; and taken in connexion with the narrative of his life which Burnet
has himself sketched, and with the particular detaUs which the industry of others has
supplied, to leave no reasonable room to doubt that the motive which led him to accept of the
Episcopal office, and guided him through the whole of his Episcopal career, was an earnest
anxiety to promote christian conciliation and brotherly love, and not any paltry gratifica
tion of ambition, or desire of worldly wealth or pre-eminence.
Of the original deed by which the Bishop's first bursary was founded, dated 1st
August, 1677, there is no copy in the CoUege Archives, and various attempts which have
been made by the Faculty at different times, to obtain one, have proved unavaUing.
Of date 4th Nov., 1734, on occasion of the Magistrates presenting candidates fof
the Leighton Bursaries, the University meeting considering that they have not an
authentic extract of the Deed of Mortification, desire that the Rector, Principal, Dean
of Faculty, and Mr Forbes (the Professor of Law,) do apply to the Magistrates to obtain
the same to be laid before next meeting — (No. 27 of Clerk's Press, p. 53.) Of date 7th
Nov., the Rector and Principal reported that they had desired an Extract of Bishop
Leighton's Mortification from the Magistrates, but that they refused to give it. The Uni
versity meeting not being satisfied with the Magistrates' answer, appoint a memorial to
be drawn up concerning this affair, to be laid before the Town CouncU at their first
meeting ; and the meeting resolved, that if the University receive not a satisfactory
answer from the Town Council, they wiU endeavour to obtain an extract of that paper in
a legal way (loc. cit. p. 54, 5.) On 13th Dec, a Committee was appointed to draw up a
memorial conformably with the above resolution, to be laid before next meeting ; but
there seems to be no record of any farther proceedings having been taken in the matter
at this time.

86 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
Of date 4th March, 1760, Mr. Robert Simson and Mr. Muirhead were appointed to
inspect Bishop Leighton's Mortification, in the hands of the Town of Glasgow, and to
demand an extract of it. — (No. 30 of Clerk's Press, p. 1.) — On the 11th of the same
month, the Committee simply reported that the last presentation by the Town CouncU was
agreeable to the terms of the Mortification ; and here the matter was again aUowed to
rest, without any extract of the original Mortification having been obtained, and without
any explanation having been recorded at least, why there should be any difficulty in
furnishing such an extract, or any reluctance to furnish it. StUl a third time, 21st March,
1769, an appUcation was made by the Faculty to the Town Council, for a notarial copy of
Bishop Leighton's Mortification ; but again the appUcation seems in some way unac
countable, or at least unaccounted for, to have proved fruitless.
The want of this deed is the more to be regretted, as the terms on which the
Bursary was intended to be held, are not set forth in the acknowledgment of having
received the fund, which was granted by the Provost, BaUies, &c, and which now consti
tutes the authentic record of its creation. This acknowledgment is in the foUowing
terms. [The authenticated Extract is now deposited along with No. 479 of Blockhouse's
Inventory.]
BE IT KNOWNE TO ALL MEN by thir p'nts, Us, the Proveist, Baillzies,
and Towne CounciU ofthe Burgh and Citie of Glasgow, under subscryv-
ing: Forasmuch as Doctor Robert Lightone,lateArchbishope of Glasgow,
by his Mortefication, sub't w't his hand, ofthe daite the first of August last
past, hes dotted, mortefied, and appoynted the soume of Three Hundreth
Punds Sterling money, to be payed to us out of the rent restand to
him, of the Barrony Parosh of Glasgow, by James Anderson mer't, y'r
Chamberlane, and Collector to him y'rof, for the cropt jm vic and
seventy-four yeirs, q'rof 150 hb sterling money, for the yeirly men-
tinance of ane student in Philosophie, in the CoUedge of Glasgow, during
his four yeirs course in the sd Colledge ; and the other 150 lib sterling
for the yeirly mentinance of two poore men in that Hospital, w't'in
the s'd Burgh, called St Niccolas Hospitall or The Bishop's HospitaU, in
maner and conforme as the s'd Student and two poore men shaU be pre
sented y'rto, particularly sett doune in the sd mortefication, as the same
in itselfe more fully beirs: And now, seeing the sd James Anderson hes

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maid good, and thankful pay' to us, off the sd Three Hundreth Punds ster
ling, to the end and use above appoynted and mortefied by the sd Doctor
Rob' Lightone, q'rof we grant the recept, and holds us weill content,
satisfied, and payed y'rof: Witt ye us therfor to be bound and obleist,
as by the tennor heirof we, the sd Magistrates and Councill, bind and
obleise us and our successores in office, Proveist, Bafllzies, and Councill
of the s'd Burgh, that the ordinary interest or @ rent conforme to the
lawes of this kingdome, of the samen princ'll soume of 300 lib sterl'g
shall be duly and thankfully payed yeirly, to witt the @ rent of 150
lib sterl'g, for the mentinance yeirly of a student in Philosophie,
during his four yeirs course in the Colledge of Glasgow, as he shall be
presented y'rto, conforme to the tennor of the s'd Mortefication ; as
lykways to make pay* of the @ rent of the s'd uy'r 150 lib sterl'g,
yeirly, for the mentinance of two poore men in the s'd Hospitall, called
S* Niccolas or The Bishop's Hospitall, as they shall be presented y'rto,
or placed y'rin, conforme to the express tenor of the sd Mortefication :
Consenting thir p'nts be reg'rat &c. Wri'n by Rob. Allan, wryt'r in
Glasgow, and sub't at Glasgow, the 29 Dece'r 1677 yeirs, befor y'r wit
ness's, Geo. Anderson, Towne Clerk of Glasgow, the sd Rob. Allan &
Matthew Grame, s'r't to the sd Geo. Anderson. Sic subscribitur :
Ja Campbell, proveist, Jon Jonston, Jon Campbell, J. Colqhoune,
baillzies, Jon Bell, Jon Anderson, & remanent councell, &c, Geo. Ander
son, witness, Rob' AUan, witnes, M. Graeme, witnes. Registrat in the
Regality Court Books of Glasgow, the fourt day of June, 1678 yeirs.
Extract' by * JA- MURRAY, Clerk Dp*.
Bishop Leighton's Executors in proceeding, after his death, to give effect to his wish
to found a second bursary in Glasgow CoUege, do not seem to have drawn out any formal
instrument of foundation, but to have contented themselves with receiving from the
Faculty of the CoUege an acknowledgment of which the foUowing, taken from an unsigned
• scroll found among the CoUege papers, appears to be a copy. It wUl be found to be con
sonant to the Bishop's WUl, as published by Pearson in his Life.— (Works, vol. i. p. clxxiv.)

88 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
[Deposited along with the preceding and succeeding deeds.]
TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shaU come, Wee, D1* James Fall,
Principall, Dr AUexander Ross, Professor of Theologie, Masters WUliam
Blair, John Tran, John Boyd, Thomas Gordoun, James Young, Regents
and Professors of Philosophie of the CoUedge of Glasgow, in the king-
dome of Scotland, send greeting. Whereas the Most Reverend father in
God, Dr Robert Lightoun, late Archbishop of Glasgow, did in his Last
Will and Testament, in writting, bearing date on or about the 17th day
of February, one thousand sex hundered eightie and two years, give
and devise what he left behind him of mony, goods, or chattels, or
whatsoever of any kind was called his, he did devote to charitable
uses, partly such as he had recommended particularly to his sister,
Mistris Saphira Lightmaker of Broadhurst, and hir sone, Mr Edward
Lightmaker, and the remainder to such other charities as there own
discretion should think fittest ; and of the said Will made the said
Saphira Lightmaker and Edward Lightmaker, his executors; and shortly
after dyed; and the said Saphira and Edward Lightmakers have since
proved his WiU, and taken upon them the execution thereof: And
whereas, the said Dr Robert Lightoun did in his lyfetyme, particularly
recommend unto the said Saphira Lightmaker and Edward Lightmaker,
and direct them to dispose of the soume of one hundered and fyftie
pounds of lawfull English mony, unto the Colledge of Glasgow, to be
imployed and confirmed in all poynts to the lyke uses as he had setled
the lyke soume for the mantinance of a poor scholar there, in his lyfe
tyme : Witnes now these presents that wee, the said principall and
professors forsaid, have had & receaved, the day of the date heirof,
from the said Saphira Lightmaker & Edward Lightmaker, executors of
the Last Will and Testament of the said Dr Robert Lighton, the soume
of one hundered and fyftie pounds of lawfull English mony, in full pay
ment, and satisfaction of a summe of one hundered and fyftie pounds,
given, bequeathed, directed, or recomended by the said Doctor Robert
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soume of one hundered and fyftie pounds, wee doe hereby release,
acquit, and for ever discharge the said Saphira Lightmaker and Edward
Lightmaker, there executors and administrators, and everrie of them,
by these presents ; And wee, the said principaU and professors forsaid
of the said Colledge, for our selves and successors in office, doe here
covenant and promise to and with the said Saphira Lightmaker and
Edward Lightmaker, there executors and administrators, by these
presents, that wee, the said principall and professors of the said Col
ledge, shall and will put out the said one hundered and fyftie pounds
upon such securitie, and dispose of the interest that shall be found dew
for the samyn, from tyme to tyme, and that for such uses and intents &
purposes, and in such maner, in all respects, as the said Dr Robert
Lighton did in his lyfetime put out, order, direct, and appoint the
lyke soume of mony for the mantinance of a poor scholler in the said
Colledge. In witnes whereof (written be Gilbert Kirktoun, writter in
Edinburgh) wee have subscryved these presents, at
the day of one thousand
sex hundered eightie fyve years, before these witnesses.
In conformity with the above specified engagement, the Faculty transferred the sum
they had received from Bishop Leighton's Executors, to the Town CouncU. Principal FaU
in a Narrative of "Affaires relateing to the CoUedge of Glasgow, &c, writne with my own
hand as they occurred," — (No. 18 of Clerk's Press, p. 1.) — says, under date June 27th, 1685 ;
" The Magistrats of the Town of Glasgow granted their recept and obUdgement to the
Masters of the Colledge of 1501b. sterling, and for paying the yearly @ rent thereof, for
maintanance of a bursare of philosophie in the Colledge, mortify'd by the late Archbishop
Leighton, to which end he had mortify'd before the same summe fpr another bursare. Each
of them have 91b. sterling yearly." The Recept and ObUdgement referred to by Princi
pal FaU, as granted by the Magistrates and Town of Glasgow, constitutes No. 479 of Black-
house's Inventory, and is in the foUowing terms.*
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN, be thir present Letters, Wee, John
Johnstoun of Clachrie present Provest of Glasgow, George Johnstoun,
* It will be noticed that this document proceeds on the assumption that the second bursary was
founded by a similar instrument as the first, instead of, as seems to have been actually the case, by the
verbal expression to his executors, ofthe Testator's wish.
M

90 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
John Crawfurd, and WiUiam Watsoun, Baillies therof, Robert Corse,
Dean of Gild, John Smith, Deacon Conveener, David Crawfurd, The
saurer, and remanent persons of the Town CounseU of the sd burgh,
undersubscryving : Forasmuch as the deceist Doctor Robert Leighton,
lait Archbishop of Glasgow, be his Mortification, sub' with his hand,
of the dait the day of one thousand six
hundred & yeirs, hes dotted, mortified, and appoynted
the soum of ane hundreth & fiftie pounds sterling, to be payed
in to us by his exe'rs and representars furth of his means and estate,
for the yearly maintinance of one Student in Philosophie, in the
Colledge of Glasgow, during his four years course in the said Colledge,
as the said Student shall be presented therto, in manner particularlie
sett doun in the sd Mortification, as the samen in itself at mair length
beirs : And now, seeing Doctor James Fall, Principall of the sd Colledge
of Glasgow, for himself, and in name and behalf of the Professors and
remanent Regents and Masters of the samen Colledge, and as he who
received the forsd soum of ane hundred & fifty punds sterling fra
the exe'rs and representars of the said deceist Doctor Robert Leighton
hath made good and thankfull payment to us of the samen, wherof we
grant the recept and therwith hold us weill content, satisfied, and
payed with full exoneration y'rof for ever : Therfor witt ye us the saids
Provest, Baillies, and Counsell, to be bound and obleist, likeas, we
bind and obleidge us and our successors in office, Proveists, Baillies,
and Counsell of the sd burgh, that the ordinarie interest or annual
rent, conform to the lawes of this kingdome, of the forsd principall
soum of ane hundred and fiftie pounds sterling money, shall be
dewlie and thankfully payed yearlie, for the yearlie maintinance of ane
Student in Philosophie, during his four years course in the said Col
ledge, as he shall be presented therto, conform to the express tennor of
the said Mortification ; And for the more securitie, wee are content and
consents that thir presents be insert and registrat in the Books of
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this kingdome, to have the strength of ane decreit of any of the
judges therof interponed therto, that letters and exe'Us of horning on
six dayes, and others necessar, may heiron pass in forme as effeirs, and
therto constituts
pro'rs. In Witnes q'rof (written by James Muir, servitor to George
Andersone, Toun Clerk of Glasgow,) we have subscrybed thir p'ntts
with our hands, att Glasgow, the twenty-seventh day of Junii, one
thousand six hundred and eighty-fyve years, befor thir witnesses, the
sd George Andersone & James Muir. JON. JONSTOUN. .
GEO. JOHNSTONE.
WM WATSONE.
ROBERT STIRLING, ROBERT CORSE.
G.ANDERSONE,Witnes. WALTER BUCHANAN. J. BARNES.
JA. MUIR, Witnes. JOHN LILLBURN. ALEXR ROSS.
JAMES PEADIE. JO. PURVESEAME.
RO. MCMILLAN. JOHN ATCHISON.
JA. CRAWFURD. ALEX. THOM.
J. SMYTH.
H. BENNIE.
JOHN RALSTOUN.
FRANCIS STEVENSON.
In the " Account of Bursaries in the University of Glasgow, &c, drawn up by the
Town Clerks, 1792," the foUowing account is given of Dr. Leighton's : —
" This is founded by a Deed, 1st August, 1677, and another dated 4th Sept. 1681,
in favour of two Students of PhUosophy, for four years, and thereafter in Divinity for two
years. The last Deed declares that if the Student of Philosophy wishes to continue in
Divinity, and be not otherwise provided for, the Magistrates and Council have a power to
continue him for two or three years. The Patrons are not Umited in their choice of the
description of Candidates, but present two on each Bursary to the CoUege for a compara
tive trial, and on their report which of them is best qualified, he is presented by the
Magistrates and CouncU. The annual payment is £9 each, and is paid by the Town."
On this statement it is to be observed, first, that no mention of a Deed by Dr.
Leighton of date 4th Sept. 1681, has been elsewhere met with ; and, second, that its
aUeged provisions are not consistent with Principal FaU's Narrative and the Town
CouncU's "Recept," above given.

92 SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.

SNELL'S SCHOLAESHIPS,
ALSO CALLED
THE BALIOL EXHIBITIONS,
At present ten in number, were founded by the Last WUl and Testament of John Snell,
Esq., a native of Scotland, afterwards of Uffeton, in the County of Warwick, which WUl,
dated 29th Dec, 1677, was repubUshed and confirmed by a paper-writing under his hand,
dated 6th August, 1679. Though Mr. SneU's Bequest has been, on repeated occasions,
the subject of much controversy and Utigation in the Court of Chancery, and is at present
simUarly circumstanced in respect of the House of Lords, little light has been thrown on
his own personal history. He was born about the year 1630, in Ayrshire. In 1644 he
matriculated at the University of Glasgow, his name being entered for that year among
the " Novitu in quarta classe" — (Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 204) — and was, as he himself
states, under the tuition of Mr. Dalrymple, afterwards Sir James Dalrymple, and Lord
Stair* Mr. Snell seems to have retained, throughout the remainder of his Ufe, a most grateful
attachment to the CoUege of Glasgow, and the tutors under whom he had been educated.
In June, 1661, he presented to the College a copy of Walton's Polyglott Bible, in six
folio volumes, accompanied with the foUowing letter addressed to Mr. Robert Bailie, at that
time Principal of the College.
Sr, — I have sent you by this bearer the Great Bible in the OrientaU languages, contain
ing six volumes, commonly called the wXuyXorro, for the use of your publiq library, gott forth
by the learned Dr. Walton, Ld. Bishopp of Chester. I doe conceive that it is a booke very
worthy so famous an university as Glasgowe, for it is justly esteemed by aU learned men
to bee the best in that kinde that ever was yett extant. S'r, my education in that place
(under the tutorage of the truly honoble and eminent Sr James Dalrimple,) oblidges me in
gratitude to wish yor prosperitie, that as yor reUgion and great learning, so also yor
* Mr. James Dalrymple, afterwards President of the Court of Session, and Viscount Stair, was appointed
Regent in Glasgow College in 1641 at the age of 22 — (See Clerk's Press, No. 7, p. 66.) It was at that time
the practice for every regent, when he took the oath of office, to engage to vacate his charge in the event of
his marriage, and Mr. D. having married in 1643, demitted accordingly, but was re-appointed by the Modera
tors of the University — (Ibid, p. 67.J

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loyaltie, may make you famous to succeeding generations. And truly I doe thinke it my
duty to offer my small mite to promote the same, humbly beseeching you and the rest
of yor brethren, the members of that honorable society, to accept of this as the first
fruits of my affection to you, in the quaUty of,
These to the Reverend Mr. Robertt Bayly, Sr,
his most worthy freind, PrincipaU of Yors and the Universitie 's
the famous Universitie of Glasgowe, Most affectionat Servant,
in Scotland. JOHN SNELL.
The concluding expression of this letter would seem to indicate that even so early
as 1661, Mr. SneU contemplated conferring some more substantial benefit on the College.
Mr. SneU died in September, 1679.

Mr. SneU's WUl is printed at full length in the Joint Appendix of the Appellants
and Respondents in an Appeal to the House of Lords from a decree made, 24th July, 1846,
by the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce (p. 5.) It wiU be sufficient to give here the part re
lating to the Scholarships which is as follows : — *
And my farther wiU and mind is, and I doe hereby desire, direct, and
appoint, that after aU my debts, legacies, annuities, and rent charges
hereby devised and appointed, and my funeral charges, shaU be all dis
charged, satisfied, and payd, or otherwise sufficiently secured to be payd,
the said Johanna Snell, WiUiam Bridgeman, Benjamin Cooper, William
Hopkins, and Thomas Newcomb, and the survivours and survivour of
them, and the heires, executors, and administrators of the survivour of
them, shaU convey and settle all the rest and residue of my estate, which
shall then remaine in their hands, upon five or more persons to be
named trustees for that purpose, and upon their heires, such as the Vice-
Chancellor of the said Universitie of Oxford, the Provost of Queenes
Colledge, the Master of Baliol Colledge, and the President of St. John's
Colledge, in the same Universitie, for the time being, or any three of
them, shall nominate and appoint ; upon trust that the profits and pro-
* The following extract is printed from an office copy obtained from Doctors Commons, and cer
tified as having been carefully examined with the Original Will.

94 SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.
duct thereof may be imployed and disposed for the maintenance and
education, in some Colledge or Hall in that Universitie, to be appointed
by the said Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President, for the tyme
being, or any three of them, and in such proportions, and with such allow
ances, and in such manner, as they or any three of them shaU elect, think
fit, and appoint, such and so many schollars, borne and educated in Scot
land, who shaU each of them have spent three yeares, or two at the least,
in the Colledge of Glasgow in that kingdome, or one year there, and two
at the least in some other Colledge in that kingdome, as they the said
Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President for the tyme being, or
any three of them, shall think fit, not exceeding the number of twelve,
nor being under the number of five at any one tyme, unlesse the revenue
and profits of my estate, for the purposes aforesaid hereby devised, by
the discreet and prudent management of my executors and trustees,
shall increase to such a condition as may beare an allowance competent
to mainteyne a greater number : And my farther wiU and mynd is,
that every such schollar and schollars, upon each of their admissions to
such Colledge or Hall as aforesaid, shall be bound and obliged, by such
security as the said Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President for
the tyme being, or any three of them, shall think fit, to some person or
persons, to be by them, or any three of them, thereunto appointed, that
the said schollar or schollars shall respectively forfeit and pay to that Col
ledge or HaU, whereof or wherein hee or they shall be respectively ad
mitted, the summe of five hundred pounds a peece, of lawful money of
England, if hee shall not enter into holy orders, and if hee or they shall,
at any tyme after such his or their entring and admission, take or accept
of any spiritual promotion, benefice, or other preferrment whatsoever,
within the kingdome of England or dominion of Wales ; it being my
wUl and desire that every such schollar soe to be admitted shall re
turne into Scotland, and there be preferred and advanced as his or their
capacitie and parts shall deserve, but in noe case to come back into Eng
land, nor to goe into any other place, but onely into the kingdome of Scot-

SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS. 95
land, for his or their preferrment : And my will alsoe is, that none of the
scholars to be elected and admitted as aforesaid, shall take any benefit
of this my bequest above the space of tenn yeares, or eleven at the most;
for after that tyme they are, and it is my expresse will and desire that
they shaU and may be removed into Scotland as aforesaid : And it is
my further wUl and meaning, and I doe hereby appoint, that when any one
or more of the said schollars shaU be removed or dye, that the said Vice-
Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President for the tyme being, and
the Governour or Principall for the tyme being, of such Colledge or Hall,
(whereof such schollar or schoUars, soe removed or dead shall be a mem
ber or members) or any three of them, shall from tyme to tyme for ever, as
often as occasion shall be, have power to elect and admit one or more
other schollar or schollars, borne and educated as is aforesaid, to succeed in
the roome and stead of such schoUar or schoUars soe removed or dead :
And my further will and mynd is, that all such schollars as shaU from tyme
(to tyme) be elected and admitted, shall, before their admittance, be recom
mended by the Principall of the said Colledge of Glascow, the Professor of
Divinity, the Regents, and other the Chief Officers of the said CoUedge for
the tyme being, or three of them at the least, whereof the PrincipaU for
the tyme being to be one, by their letters recommendatory under their
Colledge seale; and alsoe that every such schollar, soe as aforesaid to be
elected, shall come as a probationer to such Colledge or Hall whereunto
hee shall be appointed as aforesaid, and shall there contynue at his own
charge for six months at the least, to give evidence of his behaviour,
learning, and abilities, before hee shall be admitted to receive any benefit
of this my devise and will; and after those six moneths are expired, he
shall then be allowed and admitted, or disaUowed, according to the dis
cretion of the persons before appointed for that purpose, or any three or
more of them: and to every such schollar I doe allow and appoint twentie
pounds a yeare for the first three yeares after his admission, and thirtie
pounds a yeare after that tyme, to be payd to him halfe yearely, at the
least; but if my estate wiU beare a greater allowance then what is herein

96 SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.
expressed, I desire that the schollars may have the benefit of it, and to
be payd by halfe yearely payments at Midsummer and Christmas : And
I doe give and devise the summe of tenn pounds of lawfull money of
England yearely for ever, to be issuing and payd out of my said mannor
and lands of Uffeton, by halfe yearely payments at Midsomer and Christ
mas, that is to say, to the said Benjamin Cooper during his life, to com
mence and take effect at such of the said feasts next after it shall happen
that five or more of the said schollars shall be chosen and admitted as
aforesaid, and after his death, to the Register of the said Universitie for
the tyme being, for ever, or unto such other person as the Governour or
Principall of such Colledge or Hall where such schoUars shaU be ad
mitted, by the advice of the Vice-ChanceUor for the tyme being, shaU
think fit and appoint, as a salarie and reward for the making of such bonds
and securities as are hereby directed, and as shall from tyme to tyme be
requisite, and to see them duly executed ; and upon any breach of any
covenants or conditions mentioned in such bonds or securities, that hee
or they doe sue for and recover the moneys due upon and by the breach
of such covenants and conditions, as often as hee or they shall be there
unto required ; but the charges of such suit and prosecution I doe will
and appoint to be payd out of the moneys soe to be recovered from tyme
to tyme, but the remainder of the moneys soe recovered (after the
charges payd, as aforesaid,) shall be kept and preserved, to be layd out
upon some good securitie, at the discretion of the said Vice-Chancellor,
Provost, Master, and President, for the tyme being, or any three of them,
untill it shaU amount to some competent summe to purchase lands of
inheritance, to be for an increase of the allowance or exhibition which
shall be appointed for every one of the said schollars : And my farther
wiU and mynd is, that when any three or more of the persons to whome
the estate, hereby appointed for the maintenance of such schollars as
aforesaid, shall by my executors be conveyed, shaU be dead, that the s*ur-
vivours or survivour of them, or their heires, shaU convey the same to
five or more such other persons, and their heires, as the said Vice-Chan-

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cellor, Provost, Master, and President, for the tyme being, or any
three of them, shall nominate and appoint, upon the like trusts, and
subject to the said conditions, before in this my WiU mentioned and
declared, directed, and appointed; and that the same course shall be
pursued, as often as there shall be occasion, for ever. And I doe give
and bequeath to the said Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President,
for the tyme being, five pounds of lawfull money of England yearely for
ever, to be issuing and payd out of my said mannor and lands of Uffeton,
at one entire payment, upon Midsomer-day, upon this trust, nevertheless,
that they the said Vice-ChanceUor, Provost, Master, and President, and
also the Governour or Principall of such Colledge or Hall where such
scholars shaU be admitted, together with three or more of the senior
schoUars soe to be admitted, shall meet yearely upon the said day to take
the accompts and inquire into the right management of the said estate ;
and the five pounds is to be then spent upon a dynner that day to be pro
vided for them in such Colledge or Hall. And I doe will and devise to
five of the choysest and ablest schollars of that number, such as shall be
approved by the said Vice-Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President,
or three of them, for the tyme being, five pounds a peece yearely, more
than what shall be aUowed to the rest of that number. And I doe devise
and appoint that my said estate shall be subject and lyable to all reason
able charges and expenses in the management, renewing and preserving
the said trust, and in doeing of aU acts and things which the said Vice-
Chancellor, Provost, Master, and President, for the tyme being, or any
three of them, shall think fit. And I doe give unto every one of my
menial servants, at the tyme of my death, one yeares wages a peece, over
and above what wages shall be then due unto them. In witness whereof,
to this my last Will and Testament conteyned in six sheets of paper, all of
my owne handwriting, I have set my hand and seale at the bottome of
every sheet; and I doe declare this to be my last WiU and Testament, this
nyne and twentieth day of December, in the nyne and twentieth yeare of
the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of
BT

98 SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.
God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, &c, Annoq' Domini 1677, John Snell. (L.S.) Signed, sealed, and
published to be the last WiU and Testament of the said John Snell, the
day and yeare above written, in the presence of us, Richard Tayler,
Tho. Fowle, Fra. Cane, Robert Fenwick. Republished and declared to
be the last Will and Testament of mee the said John Snell, the sixth day
of August, One thousand six hundred seventy nyne ; and all the inter-
liniations and alterations are made by my owne hand ; and all this is
done in the presence of Ric. Lydall, Tho. Mundy, John Mundy, Tho.
Snell, Thomas Adams.
On the 5th AprU, 1690, a BUI was brought into the House of Commons to estabUsh the
charity for the benefit of the University of Oxford, but, after the first reading, it was
thrown out — (p. 20 of Joint Appendix.)
On the 8th August of the same year, a Bill was filed in the Court of Chancery, in
Attorney General v. Guise and others, (Appendix, p, 19-20,) for the purpose of obtaining
a Decree relative to the provisions of Mr. SneU's Will. It appears that " The defendants
insisted that the Testator's intent in bringing scholars from Scotland to Oxford to be bred
in the discipUne of the Church of England, and to return to propagate that doctrine,
cannot now be performed, for that by two Acts of ParUament there made, the 5th and
22d days of July, 1689, Episcopacy and Prelacy is aboUshed out of that Kingdom,
by means whereof the said testator's WUl being made void, the said devised lands and
premises are descended to the defendant Dorothy, his sole daughter," &c. The Court,
however, by a Decree of 13th May, 1692, declared that "the defendant, the heir-at-law, can
take nothing, nor ought to have any benefit by the testator's Will as to any lands devised
for the aforesaid charity ;" ordered the executors to render an account ; "and after the said
account shaU be taken, this Court wiU give such directions for the performance of the said
Testator's Will touching the said charity, as shaU be just."
Since this decree, Mr. SneU's Bequest has from time to time been administered in
accordance with the following successive Decrees and Orders of the Court of Chancery : —
Decree, 23d June, 1693, in Information in Attorney-General v. Guise, bj the Lord
Keeper, (Joint Appendix, p. 20.)
Decrees, 10th Dec, 1744, by Lord Hardwicke, and 23d March, 1759, by Lord
Northington (Lord Keeper) in Information in Attorney-General v. BaUol College (p. 47.
and p. 78.)
Order of Lord Chancellor in ditto, 17th July, 1777 (p. 86.)
Do. Do. ditto, 3d August, 1795 (p. 90.)

SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS. 99
Order of the Master of the RoUs in ditto, 15th March, 1810 (p. 101.)
Do. Do. Do. ditto, 23d February, 1829 (p. 113.)

On the principle laid down in the Decree of 1759, (Appen. p. 85,) that the former
Decrees are to be observed in aU such matters wherein they are not varied by subsequent
Decrees, the foUowing seem to be the Regulations at present in force, under the authority
of the Court of Chancery, for the management of this Bequest.
Trustees. — The estate is under the management of Trustees, who are nominated from
time to time, as the occasion arises, under the sanction of the Court of Chancery, by the
Vice-ChanceUor of the University of Oxford, the Provost of Queen's CoUege, the Master of
Baliol College, and the President of St. John's CoUege in the same University, or any
three of them, (1759, Appen. p. 84.) The last nomination of Trustees occurred in 1829,
(Appen. p. 113.)
These Trustees are authorised to let the estate, under the sanction of the Court of
Chancery, to one or more tenants, for a term not exceeding twenty-one or less than fourteen
years, at the best rent that can be got for the same, regard being had to the tenant, or
respective tenants, giving security for his or their paying of the rent or performance of the
covenants in such lease or leases, (1759, Appen. p. 84, 5.)
The Trustees are authorised to expend a limited sum out of the surplus of the annual
rent, (£24 5s. 6d. clear, in 1810,) as occasion may require, in defraying the neces
sary expenses of superintending and inspecting the erecting of new buUdings, and re
pairs of the old, from time to time, as covenanted by the tenant ; of occasional journies
to the estate by some of their own number, or by a proper agent, to assign timber to the
tenant, according to the terms of the lease, for building and repairs ; and, more espe
ciaUy, to examine the state of the several buUdings in general, fences, timber, and cultiva
tion of the land, in order to enforce the due observance of the covenants on the part of the
tenant, and to guard against abuses of every kind, (1810, Appen. p. 111.)
Steward. — The Trustees, or the major part of them, are also authorised to appoint a
Steward (afterwards caUed the Receiver ;) which Steward, or Receiver, is to find two suffi
cient sureties to become bound with him, with the approbation of the Master in Chancery,
to such Trustees, in such sums as the said Master shaU think reasonable, for his due
accounting for the rents and profits of the said Charity estate ; and such Steward is
to send annuaUy a copy of the rental of the said Charity estate, and an account of the
money received by him and paid out of the rents and profits thereof, to the CoUege of
Glasgow, (1759, Appen. p. 85.) The salary of the Receiver was fixed in 1810, at a clear
sum of £30. (Appen. p. 111.)
Exhibitioners. — As respects the Exhibitioners, notice of any vacancy in the number is
ordered to be forthwith given to the CoUege of Glasgow ; and if the Masters of that CoUege

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shaU neglect making a nomination within six months after such vacancy shaU be notified
to them, according to Mr. SneU's WiU and the Decree of 1693, i.e., by sending scholars,
natives of Scotland, to fiU up the vacancies in BaUol CoUege, then the right of electing
to such vacancy is to go and be exercised according to the said decree ; i.e., the said Baliol
CoUege are at liberty to choose any other persons, natives of Scotland, with the approba
tion of the Trustees, or any three of them, whereof the Master is to be one, to receive
the benefit of the said charity, (1693, Appen. p. 24.) and the exhibitioner succeeding to
such vacancy is to be paid his exhibition from the time of such vacancy happening,
(1759, Appen. p. 85.)
Every scholar so to he elected, is to receive the entire profits of his place, from his
admission, reserving to the Master of the College, and the other trustees, the power of disaUow-
ing or not admitting them after six months' probation ; but such scholars are not to be
capable of the said charity unless they come Under Graduates to the said CoUege, (1693,
Appen. p. 23.)
AU the exhibitioners are to be aUowed their several exhibitions without any deduc
tion for, or on account of, absence, when leave for such absence hath been obtained from
the Master of the CoUege, (1759, Appen. p. 85.)
All exhibitioners are to enjoy their respective exhibitions no longer than ten years
from their admission into the said CoUege on the said foundation, (1810, Appen. p. 112.)
The place of every exhibitioner becomes void by marriage, or by the acceptance of
any ecclesiastical preferment in England or Wales, or by the promotion to, or acceptance
of, any place or office in the Army or Navy, (1810, Appen. p. 112.)
In case any of the exhibitioners shall at any time be rusticated, he, and they, is,
and are, to forfeit his and their proportion of his and their exhibition money, during the
period of such rustication. The sums so forfeited are not to accrue to the benefit of the
College, as in the case of absence without the Master's leave, but to be distributed among
all or such of the rest of the exhibitioners, and in such parts, shares, and proportions as
the Master of Baliol CoUege, for the time being, shaU, in his discretion, think fit, according
to their respective merits and behaviour, (1810, Appen. p. 112.)
Payments. — The Receiver is instructed to pay to the Master and Scholars of
Baliol CoUege the funds for payment of the salaries to the exhibitioners, and the aUow-
ances to the Master and Scholars : and he is authorised to retain in his hands, from time
to time, a sum equal to the amount of one clear half-year's rent of the estate, in order to
enable him at aU times to pay to the Master and Scholars of Baliol College, with exact
punctuality, a quarter's stipend for the exhibitioners, and the several aUowances to the
Master and Scholars, as the same shaU become due, (1810, Appen. p. 111.)
The Stipend or Exhibition of each of the ten exhibitioners in Baliol College was
fixed in 1810, at a clear annual income of £120, (1810, Appen. p. 110.)

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The payment to the. Master of Baliol College, for his care and government of the
scholars on this foundation, was fixed in 1810 at a clear annual sum of £28 lis. 6d.
(1810, Appen. p. 110.)
The payment allowed to the Master and Scholars of Baliol CoUege, in consideration
of the privileges of the Library, which the scholars on this foundation enjoy in the
said College, was, at the same time, fixed at a clear annual sum of £57 3s., &c, (1810,
Appen. p. 111.)
The sum aUowed yearly to the Master and Scholars for a dinner, according to the
Will of the Testator, was fixed so as to leave the clear sum of £10, (1810, Appen. p. 111.)
AppUcation of surplusses, &c. — The expenditure of the Trustees in charge of the
Estate is to be examined annually by the Testamentary Trustees ; and if, at any time,
a surplus shaU accumulate so as to amount to £100, the same is to be verified by affi
davit, and the proceeds are to be paid into the Bank by the Receiver, in the name
of the Accountant General of the Com't of Chancery, in trust in this cause ; and, when
paid in, it is to be laid out in the purchase of Bank Three per cent. Annuities, in the
name and with the privity of the said Accountant-General, in this cause ; and the said
Accountant-General is to declare the trust thereof accordingly, subject to the further
order ofthe Court of Chancery, (1810, Appen. p. 111.)
Such annuities, when so purchased, are to be added to such Bank annuities as
may be already standing in name of the Accountant-General in trust in this cause, (1810*
Appen. p. 111.)
The interest to accrue on the Bank 3 per cent. Annuities standing in the name of the
Accountant-General, is to be laid out on the like Bank Annuities, &c. ; and such Annuities,
when so purchased, are to be added to the principal thereof, which shaU from time to
time remain standing in his name, so as to constitute an adequate and ample fund to
provide against future and unforseen contingencies, (1810, Appen. p. Ill, 2.)

102 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.

THE HAMILTON BURSARIES,
In Philosophy and Divinity, (now six in number,) were founded by Anne, Duchess of
Hamilton in her own right, by a Deed of Mortification executed in October, 1694.
Her Grace, who was second daughter of James, first Duke of Hamilton, was born
about 1636. Having survived the elder members of her father's family, she, in virtue of the
ducal patent, 1643, succeeded her uncle William, second Duke, who was mortaUy wounded
at the battle of Worcester (3d Sept. 1651,) and who died without male heirs. Having
married Lord WiUiam Douglas, eldest son of the first Marquis of Douglas, her husband
was, on the Restoration, in consequence of her petition, created Duke of HamUton for Ufe.
His Grace, who for many years performed a very prominent part in public life, died
18th AprU, 1694, a few months previously to the date of this mortification. Duchess
Anne, who is represented as having been a lady of constancy of mind, evenness of temper,
solidity of judgment, and unaffected piety, survived her husband many years. In July,
1698, she resigned her titles into the hands of King WiUiam, in favour of her eldest son,
the Earl of Arran, who was accordingly created Duke of HamUton, with the original pre
cedency. Her Grace died in 1716.
[Of the foUowing deed there are in the CoUege archives two original extracts from
the Books of Council and Session, constituting No. 480 of Blockhouse's Inventory, and
art. 1. of Billon's Inventory of writings respecting the Duchess of Hamilton's Mortifica
tion, (B. 1.) There is also a copy engrossed, in 1696, in the HamUton Mortification Book,
(No. 88 of Clerk's Press) attested by Principal Dunlop, as compared with the original.
The last has been chiefly foUowed as respects orthography ; but the whole three have been
collated as respects the substance of the deed.]
BE IT KNOWEN" TO ALL MEN by these presents, Us, Anne, Dutches
of Hamilton & Chastlerault etc- Forasmuch as wee, takeing into our con
sideration how much it may contribute to the good of the Church, that
younge students of Theology be incouraged, and for the better accom
plishing some few in that study, that there be a certaine soume mortified
and sett apairt for breeding the saids students in Universities at home
and abroad and considering that the deceased William, Duke of Hamil-

THE HAMILTON BURSARIES. 103
ton, our dearest husband, did designe to mortifie ane certaine soume for
that purpose : Therefore, and for the respect we have and bear to the
University of Glasgow, where our sones receaved their breeding and
education, and in prosecution of our said dearest husband his most pious
intention, witt ye us to have given, mortified, and appointed, likeas we
by these presents, gives, mortifies, and appoints, the soume of Eighteen
Thousand Merks Scots money contained in the bond afterassigned, to the
Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters of the said University of
Glasgow, and to their successors in office, for the use and behove of three
students of Theology who are to be intertained out of the annuaUrents
thereof, in manner aftermentioned, and with the provisions, conditions, and
qualifications underwritten : And for that effect we have made, constitute,
and ordained, and does hereby make, constitute, and ordaine, the said
Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters of the said University and
Colledge of Glasgow, and their successors in office, for the use and behove
of the said three students of Theology, our very lawfull, undoubted, and
irrevocable cessioners and assignes, in and to the said soume of Eighteen
Thousand Merks good and usuall Scots money of princ'll, and to the soume
of Two Thousand Merks of liquidat expences and penalty in case of failzie,
and to the ordinar annuallrent of the foresaid principall soume, conforme
to the Act of Parliament, from and after the terme of Martimas nixt to
come, and yearly and termly in time comeing dureing the not payment of
the foresaid soume, specified and contained in a bond made and granted
be William Napier, Provest of the burgh of Glasgow, John Leckie, John
Aird elder, & George Nisbet, baillies of the said burgh, John Corss, Dean
of Gild, Simon Tenent, Deacon Conveener, Robert Rodger, Thesaurer of
the said burgh, and remanent members of the Town Counsell, for them
selves, and in name and behalf of the community of the said burgh and
incorporation thereof, to us the said Anne, Dutches of Hamilton, our
aires, exe'rs or assignes, of the date at Glasgow, the twenty seventh day
of September last by past; and in to the samine bond itself, whole
heids, clauses, force, strength and effect thereof, with all that hes followed

104 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.
or may follow thereupon, under and with the speciaU provisions, conditions,
and qualifications afterspecified, viz., with this provision allwayes, likeas
it is hereby specially provyded and declared, that we, the said Dutches
of Hamilton and our aires male, tailzie, and provision, succeeding to us
in our estate, dignity, and Dukedome of Hamilton, shall have the only
and sole right of presentation and nomination of the said three stu
dents, to the Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters of the said
University and Colledge of Glasgow, and they shall be holden and
oblidged to accept and receave the students to be nominat and pre- ,
sented by us and our foresaids ; with this provision also, that the saids
three students so to be presented, shall immediatly after their being
receaved, study Theology the space of two years at the said Univer
sity of Glasgow, and thereafter goe abroad, and prosecute the said study
one year further, at one or more Protestant Universitys abroad, by
the direction of the Principall and Professors of Divinity of the said
Colledge of Glasgow, to be signified and made knowen to us, the said
Anne, Dutches of Hamilton, and our foresaids, patrons of the said
mortification : And it is hereby declared that there shall be only one
student presented yearly, and the first person is to be presented at
Martimas nixt in this instant year of God, one thousand six hundereth
and nynty four years ; and so furth, one student at Martimas yearly
in time comeing : And it is hereby provyded, that the yeirly annual-
rents of the said principaU soume of Eighteen Thousand Merks hereby
mortified as aforesaid, shall be imployed by the said Rector, Principall,
Professors, and Masters, in manner following, viz. : that there shall be
allowed and payed to each of the saids three students, the soume
of Ane Hundereth Pounds Scots yeirly, the two yeares space they
shall continue in the said University of Glasgow; and that there shall
be payed to them the soume of Four Hundreth Pounds, that year they
prosecute the said study of Theology at the said University abroad;
and that the excressence and superplus of the said yearly annuallrent
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and all that may accress to the stock by vaccancies, deceasces, or depri
vation of any of the students, and penalties through their incurring
the irritancies underwritten, shall be stocked in a princ'U soume
yearly, and given out upon sufficient security of land or @rent, at the
sight and be the advice of us and our foresaids, patrons of the said
Mortification; and the profite of the said additionall stock to be im
ployed in manner following, viz. : In the first place, to make up Ane
Houndereth Pounds Scots more yearly to the saids students, that year
they are to study at the University abroad, which, with the foresaid Four
Houndred Pounds, will make in all Five Hundred Pounds Scots to them,
that year; and the superplus of the profit of the excressing stock to be
improven for the breeding of more students of Theology att the said Uni
versity of Glasgow and abroad, conforme to the tenor of this mortifica
tion, and according as the additionall stock shall be able to afford a man
tenance for them, and whereof we and our aires foresaid shall have the
only right of presentation in manner aforesaid : And, in like manner, it
is hereby specially provided and declared, that no students shall be nom
inat or presented by us and our foresaids, patrons of this mortification,
but such as shall make profession of the Protestant Religion, and have a
testificat oftheir Laureation, and of their good behaviour and proficiency
in learning, under the hands of the Principall and Regent ofthe CoUedge
where they studied Philosophy, and shaU produce the same to us and
our foresaids, or to such persons as we or our foresaids shall appoint :
And we farder declare, that before we present or name any of the saids
students, we will recommend either to the Minister or to the Presbytry
of Hamilton to take tryall of the literature and qualifications of the per
son who desires to be nominated and presented, that we may have the
opinion of the said Minister or Presbytry of their fittness and capacity,
that so none may be presented but such as are of promiseing spirits ;
and we doe hereby recommend to our aires and successors, patrons of
this mortification, to follow the same method in takeing tryaU of the saids
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106 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.
declared that the said students of Theology to be named and presented
by us, before they be admitted, shall give bond and sufficient caution to
the said Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters of the s'd University
of Glasgow, oblidgeing themselves that they shall foUow the said study
of Theology the space of the said two years at the University of Glasgow,
and one year at Protestant Universitys abroad in manner foresaid; and
that they shall obtaine from their respective Professors, testificats yearly
of their good behaviour and diligence in attending the lessons, and of
their proficiency in that study; and that they shall be oblidged to present
themselves yearly dureing the said two years space they study at Glasgow,
to the Minister or Presbytry of Hamilton, in order to their furder tryaU
oftheir proficiencie; and likewayes that they shall be oblidged, within the
space of six moneths after expyring of the year allowed to them for their
study at the Universities abroad, to return and present themselves to
Us, the said Anne, Dutches of Hamilton, and our foresaids, or to the
tutors and curators ofthe family, if they be minors; and in case we, and
our foresaids, be absent out ofthe kingdome for the time, the saids students
shall be holden to present themselves to the Principall and Professors of
Theology of the said University of Glasgow, and there produce to us or
them, and likewise to the Presbytry of Hamilton, sufficient testificats
from the forraigne Professors of these Universities abroad where they
studied, of their diligence, and good behaviour, and proficiency in the
study of Theology; and that they shall undergoe ane examination by the
Presbytry of Hamilton upon the principaUs of their religion and qualifi
cations for the ministry, to the effect they may obtaine the Presbytery's
testificat to be presented unto any Presbytery whereunto they shall apply
in order to their entry to the ministry : And, it is hereby declared, that
in case the saids students shaU fail in performance of any point or article
of the said Mortification and oblidgement, or contraveen the same, that
then and in that case they shall, ipso facto, not only lose, tyne, and amitt
aU right and benefit they have of the said Mortification, but, also, shall
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THE HAMILTON BURSARIES. 107
the whole soumes of money that they have receaved or shall be advanced
upon their account by vertue of this mortification; and which bond so to
be granted by the saids students, the said Rector, Principal, Professors,
and Masters of the said University shall be oblidged to cause reg'rat
in a competent register, and deliver ane extract thereof to us and our
foresaids: With this provision, also, likeas it is hereby specially pro
vided and declared that the said Rector, Principall, Professors, and
Masters of the said University of Glasgow, and their successours in
office, shall be bound and oblidged to manadge and imploy the said
mortified stock to the use of the saids students of Theology conforme to
this present Mortification, and that they shall offer ane account of their
whole administration of the said Mortification to us and our foresaids,
once every three years, or oftener if we shah desire the same; to the
effect that we and our foresaids may see that the annual rent of the fore
said soume and mortified stock, is effectuaUy imployed for the use
above mentioned, and conforme to the true meaning and destination of
this Mortification ; as, also, it shall not be leisum nor lawfull to the said
Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters ofthe said University and Col
ledge of Glasgow, and their saids successors in office, to invert or miss-
apply the said Mortification to any other use then that for which the
same is hereby destinat; and in case they doe in the contrarie, and con-
troveen any point or article in the premisses, then, and in that case,
the s'd University and Colledge of Glasgow shall, ipso facto, lose, tyne, and
amitt all right or benefitt they have or can pretend to the said Morti
fication, and that without any action or declarator to be obtained
thereupon; and that it shaU be lawfull and leisum to us and our foresaids
to assigne and transferr this present Mortification from them to the
Colledge of Edinburgh, under and with the same conditions and quali
fications abovementioned : And in case the Principall, Professors, and
Masters of the Colledge of Edinburgh, or their administrators, shall
controveen the premisses or any point or article thereof, then, and
in that case, they shall also lose, tyne, and amitt any right or

108 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.
benefitt they have or can pretend to the said Mortification, and that
without any action or declarator to be obtained hereupon; and that
it shall be lawfull and leisum to us and our foresaids to assigne and
transferr the foresaid Mortification, in favours of any other University
or CoUedge within this kingdome of Scotland, as we shall think fitt,
the same being allwayes applyed to the behove of the s'ds students of
Theology, and with and under the conditions, provisions, and qualifica
tions abovementioned : And lastly, it is heirby provyded, that seeing it
may so fall out that it be convenient and necessary to uplift the fore
said principall soume of Eighteen Thousand Merks, or some part thereof,
from the saids Magistrats of the town of Glasgow, with the additionall
mortified stock, therefor, it is heirby declared that it shaU be leisum
and lawfull to the said Rector, Principall, Professors of the said CoUedge
of Glasgow, and their saids successors in office, to call for and uplift
from the saids Magistrats of Glasgow, the foresaid princ'U soume of
Eighteen Thousand Merks or any part thereof, with the additionall stock
above mentioned ; provyding alwayes the same be uplifted with consent
of us, the said Anne, Dutches of Hamilton, and our foresaids; and that
and how soon the same is uplifted, the said Rector, PrincipaU, Professors,
Masters of the said University and Colledge, and their said successors in
office, shall be holden and oblidged, by the advice and consent of us
and our foresaids, to reimploy the same again upon sufficient security
of land or annuall rent, the rights and securities thereof being alwayes
taken for the uses and ends abovewritten, and with the provisions,
conditions, and qualifications respective abovementioned, contained in
this present Mortification, and after the forme and tenor thereof in
all points; and that as oft as the said soume and mortified stock, or
any part thereof shall happen to be uplifted : And it is hereby declared
that all execution necessary shall pass hereupon, either against the Magis
trats of the said burgh of Glasgow, or any other person to whom the
said principall soume and mortified stock shall hereafter be lent, at
the instance of us and our foresaids as patrons, and of the said Rector,

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PrincipaU, Professors, and Masters of the said University and Colledge
of Glasgow, and in case of their controvention hereof, at the instance
of the Rector, Principall, Professors, and Masters of the University or
CoUedge to whom we or our foresaids shall assigne and transferr this
present Mortification : And for the more security, we consent to the
registration hereof in the Books of Counsell and Session, or in any others
competent, therein to remaine for conservation for ever; and for that
effect constituts Mr. Thomas Veitch, advocat, our Pro'r etc- In
witness whereof we have subscrived these presents, (written by David
Crawford, our serv') att our Palace of Hamilton, the thirty day of
October, one thousand six hundereth and nynty four years, before these
witnesses, Lord John Hamilton, our third lawfull son; Mr. Robert
WyUie, Minister of the Gospell at Hamilton; Arthur Nasmyth, writer in
Hamilton, and the said David Crawford. Sic subscribitur : Hamilton,
John Hamilton, witnes, R. WyUie, witnes, A. Nasmyth, witnes, Da.
Crawford, witnes.
Of date 7th Nov., 1694, the CoUege gave a bond to the Duchess of HamUton,
narrating the conditions of the above Mortification, and binding themselves to conform
thereto. (See Art. 2 of Billon's Inventory of Writings, &c. — B. 1.) and Hamilton Morti
fication Book (No. 88 of Clerk's Press,) p. 6.
In 1758, an Act of Parliament was obtained, altering the terms of this Foundation,
— as weU as those of a grant by King William, presently to be recorded — entitled "An
Act for regulating and improving certain Benefactions, vested in the Rector, Principal,
Professors and Masters, of the University and CoUege of Glasgow."
WHEREAS the most noble Anne, late Dutchess of Hamilton, since de
ceased, did in and by a certain deed, or instrument of Mortification,
bearing date the 30th day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1694,
give, mortify, and appoint unto the then Rector, Principal, Professors
and Masters of the University and College of Glasgow, for the use and
behoof of three students of Theology, to be nominated and presented
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ing to her estate, dignity, and Dukedom of Hamilton, the sum of 18,000
merks Scots, contained in a bond from the provost, baillies, council and
community of the burgh of Glasgow; thereby requiring the said students
to continue two years at the said University, and afterwards to prosecute
the said study of Theology one year further, at one or more Protestant
Universities abroad ; and directing that there should be allowed and paid
out of the annual rents of the said principal sum unto each of the said
students, the sum of 100?. Scots, (being 8?. 6s. 8c? Sterling,) yearly, during
their continuance at Glasgow, and the sum of 400?. Scots, (being 33?. 6s.
8d. Sterling) for the year employed in the said study abroad; and
that the surplus of the said annual rents, and all that might accresce to
the said stock should be stocked in a principal sum yearly, and given
out upon sufficient security of land or annual rent by the advice of
the said Dutchess and her heirs, patrons of the said Mortification, and
the profits thereof employed in the first place to make up 100?. Scots,
(being 8? 6s. 8c?. Sterling) more to each student for the year employed
abroad, and the surplus to be improven for breeding more such students,
conform to the tenor of the said Mortification : And it was thereby
provided, that the said students should before admission, give bond and
sufficient caution, obliging themselves to follow the said study of The
ology at home and abroad in manner aforesaid, and to present themselves
yearly during the first two years to the Minister or Presbytery of Hamilton,
in order to a trial of their proficience; and within six months after the
expiration of the third year, to produce to the said Dutchess, or her
heirs, patrons of the said mortification, or to their tutors or curators,
or in case of their absence out of the kingdom, then to the Principal
and Professors of Theology in the said University of Glasgow, and to the
Presbytery of Hamilton, testificates from the foreign Professors, of their
diligence, good behaviour, and proficience in the said study of Theology;
and also to undergo an examination of the said Presbytery upon their
qualifications for the Ministry; with a declaration, that in case of failure
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should not only lose and amit all benefit of the said Mortification, but
refund the whole money received by them, or advanced on their account
by vertue thereof: And it was thereby expressly provided, that it should
not be lawful to the said Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of
the said University of Glasgow, or their successors in office, to invert or
misapply the said Mortification to any other use ; and that in case
they should contravene any point or article of the premises, then the
said University and College of Glasgow, should ipso facto lose and amit
all right and benefit to the said Mortification, without any action or
declarator ; and it should be lawful for the said Dutchess and her heirs
aforesaid, to transfer the said mortification to the CoUege of Edinburgh,
and in case of their contravention to any other University or College
within Scotland; but always to the behoof of the said students of Theology,
under the conditions, provisions and qualifications aforesaid: And it
was thereby further provided, that it should be lawful to the said Rector,
Principal, Professors and Masters of the said University and College of
Glasgow and their successors in office, to uplift from the Magistrates of
Glasgow the said principal sum> or any par,t thereof, with the additional
stock; providing the same be so uplifted with consent of the said Dutchess
or her foresaids, and reimployed with like consent upon sufficient
security of land or annual rent; the rights and securities thereof being
always taken for the uses, and with the provisions, conditions and
qualifications abovementioned; as by the said deed or instrument, duly
inserted and registered in the books of the Lords of Council and Session,
more fuUy appears :
And whereas the then Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters
of the said University and College of Glasgow accepted the said trust,
and by their bond bearing date the 7th day of November, in the said
year 1694, did oblige themselves and their successors in office to keep,
observe, and perform the whole by the said deed or instrument of Mor
tification appointed to be performed by them, as by the said bond, also
duly inserted and registered in the said books of Council and Session,
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And whereas his late Majesty King William the Hid, by an instru
ment under the Great Seal of Scotland, bearing date the 28th day of
February, in the 6th year of his reign, was graciously pleased to grant
to the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said University
of Glasgow and their successors in office in name of the said University,
the yearly sum of 300?. Sterling, payable out of the Bishops rents in
Scotland for ever, and to be applied as follows, viz., 230?. thereof for
payment of the then debts of the said University, and the remaining 70?.
for maintaining four Bursars in Theology, to be presented by the Crown,
one in every year, out of a list of six proper persons to be yearly trans
mitted to the Clerk of the Treasury by the Faculty of the said University;
the said Bursars to be aUowed the yearly sum of 10?. Sterling each, for
three years, and in the fourth year to be sent to some foreign Protestant
University, and to be allowed 40?. Sterling for that year; and after pay
ment of the said debts, the whole money to be applied, partly for Bur
sars, and partly for a Professor, or for some other pious and necessary
uses in the said University, as should be ordered by the Crown : And
his said Majesty did thereby authorise the Commissioners of his Treasury
to render the said institution effectual in all its parts, and to do all things
necessary for that effect, as in and by the said Royal Grant more fully
appears :
And whereas the said Royal Grant was afterwards confirmed by the
Parliament of Scotland the 21st day of March, in the year 1707 :
And whereas the study of Theology may at this time be prosecuted
to as great advantage in Scotland as at any foreign University; and it
would be beneficial to the said students to be enabled to go through a
course of Logics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Natural Philosophy, which are
regularly taught at the said University of Glasgow, for three years suc
cessively, as preparatory studies to that of Theology :
And whereas by various concurring circumstances, the aUowances
directed by the said Mortification and Royal Grant, are become insufficient
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at the same time that the funds thereby appointed, (the Mortification of
the said Dutchess of Hamilton, being by good management and vacancies,
improved to upwards of 2000?. Sterling) might enable them to prosecute
the said preparatory studies, as well as afford them a comfortable pro
vision for three years to be employed in the study of Theology at home,
if their going to a foreign University was dispensed with :
And wheeeas it would tend to perpetuate, and secure the Mortifi
cation of the said Dutchess of Hamilton, if the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors, and Masters of the said University and CoUedge of Glasgow,
were permitted to invest the same with the present produce thereof,
and what may hereafter accresce thereto, by vacancies, deaths or depri
vations of students, or penalties to be incurred by them, in the purchase
of lands or hereditaments :
And whereas the most noble James Duke of HamUton, the present
patron of the said Mortification, is consenting that such alterations in
respect thereof might take place ; but the same by reason of the strict
conditions, limitations, and provisions, in the said deed of Mortification
and Royal Grant respectively contained, cannot be effected without the
aid and authority of ParUament :
Mat it thereeobe please your Majesty, upon the humble petition
of the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said University
and CoUedge of Glasgow, in whom the trust and administration of the
said Mortification and Royal Grant are vested, that it may be enacted ;
And be it enacted by the King's most ExceUent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Com
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the
same, that it shaU and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal,
Professors, and Masters of the said University and CoUedge of Glasgow,
and their successors in office, and they are hereby required, at Martin
mas now next ensuing, or within one Calendar month thence next
foUowing, to accept and admit six students to be nominated and pre
sented to them, by the said Duke of HamUton, or his heir male tailzie
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and provision, succeeding to his estate, dignity and Dukedom of
Hamilton, or by the tutors or curators of such heir, in case he shaU be
minor, to the several studies, and for the times, hereinafter respectively
mentioned, that is to say, one student to attend the lectures of the
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, one other student to attend the
lectures of the Professor of Ethics, one other student to attend the
lectures of the Professor of Natural Philosophy, one other student to
prosecute the study of Theology for one year, one other student to pro
secute the same study for two years, and one other student to prosecute
the same study for three years; which said student so to be presented
to the study of Logic and Metaphysics, shall at the end of one year
employed therein, be admitted to the study of Ethics for the second
year, and to the study of Natural Philosophy for the third year, and to
the study of Theology for the three next succeeding years; and the
said student so to be presented to the study of Ethics, shall at the end
of one year employed therein, be admitted to the study of Natural
Philosophy for the second year, and to the study of Theology for the
three next succeeding years ; and the said student so to be presented
to the study of Natural Philosophy, shall at the end of one year em
ployed therein, be admitted to the study of Theology for the three next
succeeding years.
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that
it shall and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal, Professors,
and Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow, and their
successors in office, and they are hereby required, at Martinmas which
will be in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty
eight, and so yearly for ever thereafter, at Martinmas in every year, or
within one calendar month thence next following, to accept and admit
one student to be nominated and presented to them, by the said Duke,
or his heirs aforesaid, or the tutors or curators of such of them as shall
be minors, to the study of Logic and Metaphysics; which student, after
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the second year, and to the study of Natural Philosophy for the third
year, and to the study of Theology, for the three next succeeding years,
without any further presentation.
Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, by the
authority aforesaid, that in case any one or more student or students,
so to be presented and admitted, shall happen to die in the course of
his or their said studies, or shall for just cause be deprived of the benefit
of such presentation, then and so often, it shaU and may be lawful to
and for the said Duke and his heirs aforesaid, or the tutors or curators
of such of them as shall be minors, at any time before the next sitting
down of the said College of Glasgow, to nominate and present, and
the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said University
and College for the time being, are hereby authorised and required, at
such their next sitting to accept and admit, one student, in the place
and rank of every student so dying or deprived; which new presentee
shall prosecute such studies, and continue for such time as his said
predecessor would have been obliged or entitled to do, in case he had
not so dyed, or been deprived.
And it is hereby further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
that it shaU and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors, and Masters of the said University and Colledge of Glasgow, for
the time being, and they are hereby required, from and after Martinmas
next, out of the annual rents, interest, or yearly profits of the said
principal sum so mortified by the said late Dutchess of Hamilton, and
of the present produce thereof, and of what may hereafter accresce
thereto, or of the lands and hereditaments to be purchased therewith,
to pay and allow unto each of the said students, so to be presented by the
said Duke, or his heirs aforesaid, or their respective tutors or curators,
yearly and every year during his continuance in the said preparatory
studies, or any of them, the yearly sum of ten pounds sterling, and
yearly and every year during his continuance in the said study of
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sums to be payable to the said students within three calendar months
next after their said respective admissions.
Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the autho
rity aforesaid, that every student so to be presented by the said Duke or
his heirs aforesaid, or their respective tutors or curators, shall before
his admission to any of the said studies, give bond and sufficient caution
to the said Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters of the said Univer
sity and College of Glasgow and their successors in office, thereby
obliging himself to prosecute the said several studies to which he shall
so be presented or entituled, for and during the respective times afore
said, within the said University ; and to obtain yearly from his respec
tive Professors, testificates of his good behaviour and diligence in
attending his lessons, and of his progress in the said respective studies ;
and also to present himself yearly during his course of Theology, to
the Minister or Presbytery of Hamilton, in order to the further trial
of his proficience in that study; and also to present himself to the
said Presbytery within six months after he shall have finished his said
course of Theology, and undergo a solemn examination by them
upon the principles of his religion, and qualifications for the ministry,
to the effect he may obtain their testificate, to be presented to any
Presbytery whereunto he shall apply, in order to his entry to the
ministry; which bond the said Rector, Principal, Professors and
Masters shall cause to be registered in some competent register, and
deliver an extract thereof to the said Duke or his heirs aforesaid, or
their respective tutors or curators.
And it is heeeby further enacted and declared by the autho
rity foresaid, that every student so to be presented and admitted, who
shall fail in performance of any point or article of the said bond or
obligation, or contravene the same, shall thereby, ipso facto, forfeit and
lose all right and benefit of such presentation and admission, and also
be obliged to pay back and refund to the Rector, Principal, Professors,
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sums'of money which shall have been paid to him, or advanced on his
account in consequence thereof.
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors, and Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow for
the time being, by and with the advice or consent of the said Duke,
or his heirs aforesaid, or their respective tutors or curators, signified
in writing under their respective hands, from time to time, to lay out
and invest all, or any part of the said principal sum so mortified by
the said late Dutchess, or of the present produce thereof, or of what
may hereafter accresce thereto by vacancies, deaths, or deprivations
of students, or penalties to be by them incurred, in the purchase of
lands and hereditaments, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland,
to be conveyed to the said Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters,
and their successors in office, in trust for students so to be presented by
the said Duke or his heirs aforesaid, or their respective tutors or cura
tors, with and under the provisions, conditions, and qualifications herein
before contained ; the rights, charters, and conveyances of every such
purchase to be duly registered in some competent register, and extracts
thereof to be delivered to the said Duke or his aforesaids.
And it is hereby further enacted and declared, that the sur
passes of the annual rents, interest, or yearly profits of the said prin
cipal sum so mortified by the said late Dutchess, and of the present pro
duce thereof, and of all that may accresce thereto by vacancies, deaths, or
deprivations and penalties as aforesaid, or of the lands and hereditaments
to be purchased therewith, shall and may from time to time be made use
of and applied, either to provide for more presentations of students of
Theology upon the plan hereby established, or to increase the allowances,
hereby limited, for the present number of such students, as to the said
Duke or his heirs aforesaid, or their respective tutors or curators, with
the concurrence and consent of the Rector, Principal, Professors, and
Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow, shall seem most
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118 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.
Peovided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the autho
rity aforesaid, that as often as it shall happen that the annual rents,
interest, or yearly profits of the said principal sum so mortified by the
said late Dutchess, and of the present produce thereof, and of what
may accresce thereto, or of the lands and hereditaments to be pur
chased therewith as aforesaid, shall fall short of the aUowances herein
before limited to or for the said students so to be presented by the
said Duke of Hamilton or his foresaids ; then and in every such case,
and so long as such deficiency shall be, but not longer, the said aUow
ances shaU be abated, pro rata, any thing herein before' contained to
the contrary hereof in any wise, notwithstanding.
And it is hereby further enacted and declared by the autho
rity aforesaid, that so much of the said deed, or instrument of Mortifi
cation of the said late Dutchess, as tends to oblige or require any
student presented and admitted in consequence thereof, to go abroad
and prosecute the study of Theology in any foreign University, or to
give bond and caution for his so doing, or to produce testificates from
any foreign Professor, shall be, and the same is hereby absolutely dis
pensed with : And as well the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters
of the said University of Glasgow, and their successors in office, as aU
and every student and students so to be presented and admitted shall
be, and they, and each, and every of them are, and is, hereby wholly
freed and exempted, and discharged of and from aU penalties, for
feitures and irritances, in or by the said deed or instrument assigned
or appointed for the non-performance or contravention of any point
or article therein contained and hereby altered or dispensed with.
Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared
by the authority aforesaid, that in case the Rectof, Principal, Pro
fessors, and Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow, or
their successors in office, shall contravene any point or article in the
said deed, or instrument of Mortification of the said late Dutchess
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misapply the said Mortification to any other use than is hereby directed
and appointed touching the same, then and in either of the said cases,
the said University and Colledge of Glasgow shall, ipso facto, forfeit and
lose all right and benefit to the said Mortification, without any action
or declarator to be obtained thereupon ; and it shall, and may be law
ful for the said Duke and his foresaids, to assign and transfer the said
Mortification, from them to the Colledge of Edinburgh, under and with
the same conditions and qualifications herein before limited and re
quired ; and in case of their contravention, then to any other University
or Colledge, within that part of Great Britain, called Scotland, agreeable
to the proviso for that purpose, in the said deed or instrument contained:
And in any such case, the securities, lands and hereditaments, of which
the said Mortification shall then happen to consist, shall upon, and by
vertue of such assignment or transfer, be, ipso facto, vested in the Uni-*-
versity or College to whom such assignment or transfer shall be made,
without any other grant or conveyance whatsoever.
And it is hereby fuethee enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that the three students, or bursars, which have been presented to the
Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said University and
CoUege of Glasgow, by the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in Scot
land in right of his Majesty, pursuant to the said Grant from the late
King William the Hid, and- now prosecuting the study of Theology at
the said University or College, and each of them, shall continue the said
study at the same University or Colledge, for the fourth year of their
respective admissions, instead of going for that purpose to some foreign
Protestant University; the said Royal Grant, or Act of Parliament con
firming the same, notwithstanding.
And it is heeeby fuethee enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said Univer
sity and College of Glasgow, shall, on or before the first day of August
now next ensuing, transmit to the Clerk of his Majesty's Exchequer in
Scotland, three several lists of six proper persons each, for the three

120 KING WILLIAM'S BURSARIES.
several classes of Logic and Metaphysics, Ethics, and Natural Philoso
phy; out of each of which lists, the said Barons shah, on or before the
tenth day of October then next following, present one to the said
Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters : And the said Rector, Prin
cipal, Professors and Masters, are hereby authorised and required to
admit the said three persons into the said three classes accordingly ;
and the said person so to be presented by the said Barons to the study
of Logic and Metaphysics, shall, at the end of one year employed
therein, be admitted to the study of Ethics for the second year, and to
the study of Natural Philosophy for the third year, and to the study of
Theology for the three next succeeding years ; and the said person so
to be presented by the said Barons to the study of Ethics, shall, at the
end of one year employed therein, be admitted to the study of Natural
Philosophy for the second year, and to the study of Theology for the
three next succeeding years ; and the said person so to be presented by
the said Barons to the study of Natural Philosophy, shall, at the end of
one year employed therein, be admitted to the study of Theology for
the three next succeeding years.
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that it shaU and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors and Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow, and
their successors in office, and they are hereby required, on or before
the tenth day of October which wUl be in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and fifty eight, and so yearly for ever there
after on or before the tenth day of October in every year, to accept and
admit one student to be presented to them by the said Barons, out of a
list of six proper persons, to be yearly transmitted to the Clerk of the
said Exchequer, by the Faculty of the said University, on or before the
first day of August in every year, to the study of Logic and Meta
physics; which student, after one year employed therein, shall be admit
ted to the study of Ethics for the second year, and to the study of
Natural Philosophy for the third year, and to the study of Theology for
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Provided always, and it is heeeby fuether enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that in case any one or more student or students,
so presented or to be presented by the said Barons, shall happen to dye
in the course of his or their said studies, or for just cause be deprived
of the benefit of such presentation ; then and so often it shall and may
be lawful to and for the said Barons, at any time before the next
sitting down of the said College of Glasgow, to present, and the Rector,
Principal, Professors and Masters of the said University and College,
for the time being, are hereby authorised and required, at such their
next sitting, to accept and admit, one student (whose name shall within
one Calendar month next after such death or deprivation be for that
purpose transmitted by the said Faculty to the Clerk of the said
Exchequer, in a list of six proper persons) in the place and rank of
every such deceased or deprived student ; which new presentee shall
prosecute such studies and continue for such time as his said predecessor
would have been obliged or entitled to do, in case he had not so dyed
or been deprived.
And it is hereby fuether enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors and Masters of the said University and College of Glasgow, for
the time being, and they are hereby required, from and after the said
tenth day of October yearly, and every year, to apply and dispose of the
said sum of seventy pounds sterhng, part of the said grant of his late
Majesty King William III., unto, and amongst the students or bursars
already presented, or hereafter to be presented to them by the said
Barons, in manner following, that is to say, unto the three students or
bursars employed in the said preparatory studies, the sum of ten pounds
sterling each, and unto the three students or bursars employed in the
study of Theology, the sum of thirteen pounds, six shillings and eight
pence, sterling, each.
Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the autho
rity aforesaid, that every student or bursar, to be presented by the said
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122 KING WILLIAM'S BURSARIES.
Barons, in pursuance of this present act, shall, before his admission to
any of the said studies, give bond and sufficient caution to the said
Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters of the said University and
College of Glasgow, and their successors in office, thereby obliging him
self to prosecute the said several studies to which he shall so be
presented or entituled, for and during the respective times aforesaid,
within the said University, and to obtain yearly from his respective
Professors, certificates of his good behaviour and diligence in attending
his lessons, and of his progress in the said respective studies; which
bond the said Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters, shall cause to
be registered in some competent register, and transmit an extract
thereof to the said Barons.
And it is hereby furthee enacted and declaeed by the autho
rity aforesaid, that every student or bursar, so to be presented by the
said Barons, who shall fail in performance of any point or article of his
said bond or obligation, or contravene the same, shaU thereby, ipso
facto, forfeit and lose all right and benefit of such presentation ; and
also be obliged to pay back and refund to the Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors and Masters of the said University and CoUege of Glasgow, the
whole sums of money which shaU have been paid to him, or advanced
on his account in consequence thereof.
Peovided always, and it is hereby declared and enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that aU such sum and sums of money as shall be
forfeited and recovered upon aU or any the said bonds or obligations
last mentioned (first deducting thereout such necessary costs, charges,
and expences, as the said Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters of
the said University and College of Glasgow, shaU be put unto and
sustain in sueing for and recovering the same) shall from time to time
be, by the said Rector, Principal, Professors and Masters, disposed of
and applied to and amongst the students or bursars, so presented by
the said Barons, and who shall compleat their said study of Theology
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or reward, in such shares and proportions, as to the said Rector, Prin
cipal, Professors and Masters shall seem meet.
And it is heeeby fuethee enacted and declared by the autho
rity aforesaid, that so much of the said grant of the said late King
WUliam, as tends to oblige or require any student or bursar presented
and admitted in consequence thereof, to go abroad, and prosecute the
Study of Theology in any foreign University, shall be, and the same is
hereby absolutely dispensed with.
Peovtded always, and it is hereby further enacted by the
> authority aforesaid, that aU the costs and charges of obtaining, or by
reason of passing, this Act, shall and may in the first place be deducted,
and paid out of the said principal sum so mortified by the said late
Dutchess of Hamilton, and the present produce thereof, any thing
herein before contained, to the contrary hereof in any ways, notwith
standing. Saving always to the King's most ExceUent Majesty, his heirs and
successors, and the said James Duke of Hamilton, and his heirs male
tailzie and provision, succeeding to his estate, dignity, and dukedom of
Hamilton, in respect of their several rights of patronage, presentation,
intromission and visitation ; and also to aU and every other person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and their respective heirs, suc
cessors, executors and assigns, (other than the said College of Edin
burgh, in respect of any forfeiture in or by the said deed, or instrument
of Mortification of the said late Dutchess of HamUton, assigned or ap
pointed for the non-performance or contravention of any point or article
therein contained, and hereby altered or dispensed with ; and also
other than and except all and every the students or bursars presented
and admitted, in pursuance of the said deed, or instrument of Mortifi
cation of the said late Dutchess, and the said Grant of the late King
William, or of either of them ; or to be hereafter admitted in pursuance
of this present Act) all such right, title, estates, interest, claims, and
demands of, in, to, or out of, or concerning the said premises, as they,

124 THE HAMILTON BURSARIES.
every, or any of them, had before the passing this Act, or could, might, or
ought to have had and enjoyed, in case the same had never been made.
In 1791, his Grace, Douglas, then Duke of HamUton, executed the following Deed
of Augmentation in favour of the Bursars on this Foundation. (Art. 5 of Billon's Inven
tory of Writings respecting this Mortification. B. I.)
We, DOUGLAS, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, &c, considering
that there was lately laid before us an accompt of the funds of the
Mortification by her Grace, Ann, Dutchess of Hamilton, one of our
predecessors, for supporting students at the University of Glasgow, and
FINDING that there are at present considerable surplus funds after
paying the present burdens upon the said Mortification, which surplus
funds, by the Deed of Mortification, and Act of Parliament that was
passed regulating and improving the said Mortification, are directed to
be applied either to provide for more presentations of students of
Theology on the plan thereby established, or to increase the aUowances
to the number of students then established; WE, THEREFORE, in vir
tue of the powers vested in us by the said Deed of Mortification and
Act of Parliament, and with the concurrence and consent of the Rector,
Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said University, do hereby
direct and appoint that the sum of five pounds Sterling per annum be
added in all time coming to the annual allowance of ten pounds for
merly payable to the three bursars attending the PhUosophy Classes, and
the sum of three pounds Sterling per annum be added in all time com
ing to the annual allowance of fifteen pounds formerly payable to the
three bursars attending the Lectures on Theology : and we do farther
establish two additional bursars upon the funds of said Mortification, to
pursue the same studies, and continue the same number of years as the
bursars formerly estabhshed, and to be subjected to all the regulations
which are prescribed in the Deed of Mortification, and the Act of Par
liament thereanent ; and we appoint the said two additional bursars to
be paid from the funds of the said Mortification, fifteen pounds Sterling

THE HAMILTON BURSARIES. 125
per annum during the three years they attend the Philosophy Classes,
and eighteen pounds per annum during the other three years they
attend the lectures on Theology ; and we finally appoint that both the
augmentation to the present six students, and the stipends to the two
additional bursars established by this Deed, shall commence from the
tenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and
be regularly paid to them at the usual terms as long as they shall have
right by the tenor of our presentation to them ; and we consent to the
registration hereof in the books of Council and Session, or any other
judges books competent, for preservation, and also in the books of the
said University and Mortification, for publication, thereto constituting
our pro'rs. : In witness whereof these presents, written
upon stamped paper by Campbell Gardner clerk to John Davidson
writer to the signet, are subscribed at Hamilton House, the twenty-fifth
day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one years,
before these witnesses: William Kenneure, our house steward, and
John Boyes, jun., writer in Hamilton, insertor of the place and date of
subscription, witnesses' names and designations: — Signed, Hamilton
& Brandon ; Wm. Kenneure, witness ; John Boyes, jun., witness.
A simUar Deed was executed 14th Nov., 1803, by Archibald, then Duke of HamU
ton and Brandon, directing and appointing that the sum of five pounds sterhng per
annum should be added in aU time coming to the annual aUowance of fifteen pounds,
formerly payable to the four Bursars attending the Philosophy classes ; and that the sum
of seven pounds sterling per annum should be added in aU time coming to the annual
aUowance of eighteen pounds, formerly payable to the four Bursars attending the lectures
on Theology. (No. 51 of Clerk's Press.)

126 KING WILLIAM'S BURSARIES.

KINO WILLIAM'S BURSARIES
Were instituted by KING WILLIAM III., by an instrument under the Great Seal of
Scotland, bearing date 28th December, 1695.
[The foUowing copy of the Royal Grant has been compared with the Original Deed,
which constitutes No. 482 of Blockhouse's Inventory.]
Gulielmus, Dei gratia Magna? Britannia?, Francia?, et Hybernia? Rex,
fideique defensor, omnibus probis hominibus totius t'ra? sua?, clericis
et laicis, salutem. Quandoquidem nos, ex pio nostro animo et cura pro
educando et instruendo competenti numero bursariorum in Theologia
in quatuor nostris Universitatibus et Academiis in antiquo regno nostro
Scotia? (utpote quod religiosum et eruditum fiat seminarium pro implen-
dis vacantiis quae de tempore in tempus in ecclesia dicti regni cadere
necessario contigerint) statuimus mortificare, donare et disponere con-
siderabilem partem de reditibus et fructibus episcopatuum, nunc in
manibus nostris existen., virtute Acti Parliamenti episcopatum abolientis;
Igitur per signaturam regia n'ra manu signatam, de data octavo die
mensis Februarii, Anno Domini miUesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo ter
tio, dedimus, concessimus, mortificavimus et disposuimus summam unius
mille et ducentarum librarum moneta? Sterlin en., in favorem Universita-
tum et Academiarum Sancti Andrea?, Glasgua?, Abredonia?, et Edinburgi,
pro sustinendo uno professore theologia?, et decem bursarijs theologia?,
in unaquaque academia, pra?sentandis per nos et regios nostros succes
sores, vel per thesaurarios nostros principalem et deputatum, et thesau-
rarii nostri commissionarios pro tempore, dummodo dicti bursarii sint
studentes bona? fama?, qui cursum phUosophicum perfecerunt in una
aliqua dictarum Academiarum, ac etiam laurea magistrali tanquam artium
magistri honorati, antequam pra?sententur ; qui theologia? operam dabunt
de directione dictorum professorum per spatium duorum completorum

KING WILLIAM'S BURSARIES. 127
annorum in una ex quatuor dictis academiis, et tertio anno apud exteros
peregrinantes theologia? operam dabunt pro uno anno in Universitate
quadam reformata? rehgionis, unde idonei fiant ad ministerium evangelii,
prout occasio obtulerit, post eorum studium theologia? pro triennio:
Nosque etiam considerantes, quod magis commodum erit dictis Univer-
sitatibus, quod diet, summa unius mille et ducentarum librarum moneta?
Sterlinen. inter eos dividatur per distinctas signaturas et donationes,
atque usque donee efficax inveniatur methodus pro providendis dictis
externis professoribus, et stabiliendis dictis bursariis, plurima? desunt
professiones, aliique sunt necessarii usus in unaquaque diet. Universi-
tatum, quibus interim cavere nobis visum est ; Speciatim vero consider
antes Universitatem Glasguen., non solum in statu esse adeo humili,
ut ipsius ordinarii reditus expensas suas ordinarias sustinere non potest
[possint,] verum etiam perplurimis gravari debitis, qua? primo loco per-
solvenda sunt : igitur, et pro aliis usibus infra expressis, noveritis nos,
in prosecutionem et ulteriorem explicationem diet, prioris donationis,
in quantum concernit seu extendi poterit ad dictam Universitatem
Glasguen., et pro efficaciori ipsius sustentatione et relevio, cum avisa-
mento et consensu fidelissimorum et dilectissimor. nostrorum con-
sanguineorum et consiliariorum, Joannis Comitis de Tweeddale, summi
Cancellarii dicti antiqui regni n'ri Scotia?, Jacobi Comitis de Drum-
langrig, Joannis Comitis de Cassilis, Georgii Comitis de Linlithgow,
Joannis Comitis de Bra?dalban, et Alexandri Domini Raith, nostri the-
saurarii deputati, et reliquorum dominorum aliorumque n'ri scaccarii
dicti regni commissionariorum, dedisse, concessisse et disposuisse, sicuti
per has n'ras literas dam us, concedimus et disponimus, rectori, prin
cipah, professoribus, et magistris diet. Universitatis Glasguen., eorumque
in officio successoribus, nomine dicta? Universitatis, totam et integram
summam trecentarum librarum Sterlinen., tanquam eorum justam et
sequalem portionem dicta? summa? unius mille ducentarum librarum
moneta? Sterlinen., annuatim, totahter percipiend. de reditibus episcopa-
tuum, incipiend. ' pro primo termino solutionis ejusd. ad festum et

128 KING WILLIAM'S BURSARIES.
terminum Pentecostes ultimo elapsum, et ita deinceps annuatim et
terminatim omni tempore futuro continuand.: utque dicta annuitas
trecentarum librarum Sterlinen. paratius solvatur dicta? Universitati,
per presentes requirimus thesaurarii nostri commission arios concedere
et allocare dicta? Universitati, et personis supra specificatis, ejus
nomine, certam firmam, localitatem et sortem, de episcopatibus
Glasgua? et Gallovidia?, sufficientem pro solutione dicta? annuitatis
annuatim omni tempore futuro post, et includen. proventum seu an
num miUesimum sexcentesimum nonagesimum quartum, absque pra?-
judicio solutionis diet, annuitatis debit, ad terminum Pentecostes ultimo
elapsum, de pra?teritis reditibus diet, episcopatuum hactenus non dis-
posit., cum potestate dicta? Universitati factores et camerarios pro
collectione ejusdem constituendi. Et pra?terea volumus et ordina
mus diet, annuitatem trecentarum librarum Sterlinen., applicari et
expendi in usus et fines subsequen. viz. summam ducentarum et
triginta librarum Sterlinen., de diet, tercentum libris, applicari pro
solutione pra?sentium debitorum Universitatis, usquedum eadem ple
narie de eisdem exoneretur; et reliquam summam septuaginta lib
rarum Sterlinen., qua? conficit dictam summam tercentum librarum,
applicari pro sustentatione quatuor bursariorum in Theologia, per nos
pra?sentand., quorum unus pra?sentandus est unoquoque anno, ante vel
ad decimum diem mensis Octobris annuatim, ex catalogo sex idonearum
personarum clerico thesaurarii nostri transmittend. annuatim per facul-
tatem dicta? Universitatis, ad vel ante primum diem mensis Augusti
annuatim ; qui etiam bursarii sustinendi sunt pro pretio decem librarum
Sterlinen. per annum unusquisque pro tribus annis, et quarto anno
unusquisque dictorum bursariorum ad exteros mittendus est, ad quan-
dam externamUniversitatemreformata?religionis,de directione Facultatis
dicta? Universitatis, et ibidem sustinendus est pretio quadraginta librarum
Sterlinen. pro illo anno, et sic conficien. dictam summam septuaginta
librarum in dictos quatuor expendenda?, et ita deinceps annuatim, usque
dum dicta debita Universitatis persolvantur ; et tunc non solum dicta

KING. WILLIAM'S BURSARIES. 129
summa septuaginta librarum, sed altera ducentarum et triginta librarum
applicanda? sunt partim pro bursariis, et partim pro externo professore,
vel pro quibusdam aliis piis et necessariis usibus in dicta Universitate,
prout nobis ordinare visum fuerit : Atque ha?c omnia fieri et perfici
ordinamus, ex intuitu prsesentis Commissionis Parliamenti pro visitandis
Universitatibus et Academiis, vel ex intuitu quorumcunque aliorum
inspectorum, quos postea nominabimus ; atque adeo per pra?sentes
plenam committimus protestatem Thesaurarii n'ri Commissionariis,
hanc nostram institutionem omnino reddere efficacem in omnibus punctis,
omniaque in hunc effectum necessaria facere : Ac interim, donee dicta
localitas efficaciter instituatur, declaramus et ordinamus collectores
assedatarios, aliosque receptores redituum dictorum episcopatuum,
subjectos esse dicta? Universitati ejusque pra?dictis pro solutione dicta?
annuitatis, prout deberi contigerit, de primis et paratissimis eorum intro-
missionibus ; et ulterius declaramus, quod pro solutionibus dicta? Uni
versitati, ejusque antedictis, eOrum apocha? seu exonerationes, desuper
data?, sufficiens erit exoneratio dictis coUectoribus assedatariis, seu pra?-
ceptoribus de eorum intromissionibus pro tanto : Ordinamus denique
literas dirigi, ad instantiam dictorum Camerariorum seu factorum, pro
coUigenda dicta annuitate, more solito. In cujus rei testimonium, pre
sentibus magnum sigUlum nostrum appendi pra?cepimus, apud aulam
nostram de Kensingtoune, vigesimo octavo die mensis Februarii, Anno
Domini millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto, et anno regni nostri
sexto. Per signaturam manu S. D. N. Regis suprasignatam.
Sealed at Edinburgh, the first day of October, 1695, in absence
of Mr. John Dickson, by (Signed) THO. AIKMAN.
Written to the Great Seale, and registrat the first day of October,
1695.
(Signed) DUN. RONALD.
R

130 BROWN'S BURSARY.
This Grant was confirmed by the Parliament of Scotland, 21st March, 1707.
(See No. 483 of Blockhouse's Inventory ; and the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland,
vol. vU., p. 468, and Appendix, p. 132.)
The terms of that portion of the Grant which relates to the Bursaries, were altered
by an Act of Parliament, 1758, already inserted. See pp. 112 and 119.

BROWN'S BURSARY
Was instituted by the Last WiU and Testament of DAVID BBOWN, of Somerset county,
in the Province of Maryland, of date 19th July, 1697.
In the early references to this Foundation, Mr. Brown is designated as Colonel in
Maryland ; but no additional Ught is anywhere thrown upon his personal history. It
must be presumed that he was connected with Glasgow ; and it is not impossible that he
may be the David Browne whose name appears in the Matriculation Book as " ex Quarta
Classe," in 1640. It has not been thought necessary to introduce here more of his Will
than the part relating to his Bursary. It is as foUows :
[A copy of Col. Brown's WUl, professing to be copia vera, but not authenticated
by signature, constitutes No. 473 of Blockhouse's Inventory.]
Item, I give and bequeath unto the Colledge of Glasgow as a memoriaU
and support of any of my relations to be educated therein, to be payed
in cash, or secured by good exchange to the Visitours, or to Mr. James
Browne and William Carmichael for the use aforesaid, the fuU soume of
Ane Hundred Pound Sterling current money of England, with all con
venient speed after my decease. Item, I give and bequeath unto the
said James Browne and William Carmichael, Five Pound Sterling cur
rent money of England to be conveyed at the same tyme appointed them
trustees that the aforesaid money be conveniently paid to the CoUege as
aforesaid. (Sic in M.S.)
The date of Colonel Brown's death does not appear, but his precaution for securing
the speedy payment of his legacy to the College, did not prove successful. It appears from

CRAIG'S BURSARY. 131
the Minutes that two instalments, amounting together to £20, were received through the
Dean of Faculty, the Reverend Mr. James Brown, 3d July, 1707, and 12th February,
1708. On the former of these occasions allusion is made to £80 out of the £100 as being
owing by the deceased Wm. Carmichael, of which sum the first instalment does not seem
to have been received till 5th July, 1712.
On 25th April, 1715, £60 Scots of the annualrent of a part oi David Brown's
Mortification was voted to a student. On 28th AprU, 1720, and 21st March, 1721, aUow-
ances were made, upon this Mortification, to two students, on the ground that their
mother, the reUct of Mr. Thomas Brown, late minister of Paisley, was a near blood rela
tion of Colonel Brown ; and in 1723, James Rosse was, after trials, appointed to enjoy the
emoluments of the said Mortification, as being Colonel Brown's relation. (Clerk's Press,
No. 20, pp. 46 ; 47 ; 85, 6 ; 138. No. 19, p. 322. and No. 22, March 21st, 1721, and June
27th, 1723.

CRAIG'S BURSARY
Was instituted by JOHN CRAIG, Merchant in Glasgow,* who, by a Deed of Mortification
and Disposition, dated at Glasgow, the 26th day of March, 1697,t (not now forthcoming,)
* In a list given by M'Ure (edit. 1736, p. 207,) of a great company undertaking, sometime sub
sequent to 1668, the trade to Virginia, Caribby Islands, &c, and other colonies in America, the name John
Craig twice occurs, so that there must have been two merchants of that name in Glasgow.
In a list, given in the same work, of the "Names and Designations of these who did mortify
fbr the use of the poor members of the merchant rank," there stands, p. 252, " John Craig, merchant,
aged 69, died Nov. 8th, 1695;" to whose name is attached no less a sum than ,£1666 13 4. If this date
be correct, it precludes the idea of the party here referred to being the same John Craig who founded our
Bursary, tbe Deed of Mortification of which dates in the beginning of 1 697, and of whom we shall afterwards
see reason to believe that he was alive in 1700. But it is to be remarked that the mortification in question is
entered between those of persons who died in 1701 and 1702, and that from the authentic list of Benefactors
published in the History of the Guildry, p. 99, it appears that it was received in 1701. It seems by no
means improbable, therefore, that the date of death assigned by M'Ure to the mortificator of this sum, is
erroneous, and that it was actually bequeathed by the founder of the bursary.
In a "List of charitable persons who mortified sums to the poor of tbe Kirk Session, there occurs
(M'Ure, p. 262) the name of John Craig, with the sum of £342 10 attached, and lower on the list, occurs
the name of Agnes Logie, (the wife of the Mr. John Craig, with whom we are concerned) with the sum of
£133 0 6 attached  (ibid.)
f This is the date given in the Disposition, &c, which forms art. 3 of Dillon's Inventory of the
papers connected with this Mortification, but does not tally with the date assigned to the College's Bond.

132 CRAIG'S BURSARY.
mortified and disponed to the then Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, Professors, and
Regents of the said University and CoUege, the principal sum of 2500 Merks Scots,
secured on a house in the Trongate, for maintaining a bursar in PhUosophy, to be pre
sented by the Dean of Guild bf Glasgow, and his brethren of the merchant rank, under
such restrictions and provisions as were narrated at length in the said Mortification. It
was provided, however, that the interest of this principal sum should be paid to Mr. Craig
and his spouse Agnes Logie, during their Uves, and to the longest liver ; and a Bond in
conformity with these provisions was granted by the CoUege, of date 19th February, 1697.
It appears that Mrs. Craig survived her husband for some years, and died some
time about Whitsunday, 1707. — (See discharge by her heirs to the CoUege of the interest
due to her up to that date — art. 2 of Billon's Inventory of writings respecting this Morti-
cation.) The Dean of GuUd and his brethren presented a bursar upon the Foundation,
17th May, 1708. (No. 14 of Clerk's Press,)
No final settlement of the Mortification seems to have been come to till 1724, when
the Faculty submitted to the Dean of GuUd and his brethren a state of the Mortification,
showing the principal sum lent out in bonds at that time to amount to £1643 Scots,
(equal to 2464 Merks) whUst the University had incurred an expense, on account of it, fully
more, with interest, than £330 Scots beyond the amount of interest which it had received.
The result of this communication to the Dean of Guild, &c, is stated in the foUowing
Minute,— (No. 22 of Clerk's Press.)

At the College of Glasgow, January 28th, 1724.
Sederunt M1* John Stirling, P11- Mr John Simson & others.
This day the Committee appointed to meet w* the Dean of Guild and
some oyrs of his house, and to acquaint ym of the Facultie's resolve about
J° Craig's Mortification, report that they had met w* the Dean of Guild
and the rest of the Committee of his house, and having acquainted them
with the sd resolve, the Dn of Guild and these with him declared that
their house was well satisfied with the Facultie's above sd resolve w4
relation to the fund for maintaining the Bursar on the sd Mortification,
and that they propos'd that the Faculty should make an act in pursu
ance of that resolve, to be recorded in their books, promising at the
same time, that the Dn of Guild's house should make an act, declareing

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their satisfaction w' what the Faculty has enacted, to be recorded in the
Faculty Books, and therefor the Faculty enacts as follows :
" The Faculty considering the state of the late John Craig's Morti
fication, doe enact, that the fund for maintaining the Bursar on the sd
Mortification shall be the sum of Two Thousand Pounds Scots, the in
terest of which, in all time coming, shall be applied for the maintenance
of the said Bursar, and ordains an extract of this act to be given to the
Dean of Guild, to be recorded in the books of that house."
The Faculty appoints the state of the above sd Mortification to be
recorded in their books, that the reasons of their above sd act may
appear.
In the various transactions arising out of Mr. Craig's bequest, that have been men
tioned, reference is uniformly made to the Bond granted by the College in 1697, in which
the principal sum is specified as 2500 Merks. But among the CoUege papers (art. 1. of
Billon's Inventory of the papers connected with this Mortification,) is a Bond signed by
the Rector, Principal, and others of the CoUege, in 1700, (the day and month being
blank,) from which there would appear to have been an intention on Mr. Craig's part to
increase his Mortification to the sum of 4000 Merks, and to found a second PhUo
sophy bursar. It is probable that Mr Craig died before his intentions, in these respects,
could be put in execution, as no subsequent reference to this Bond appears.
In the absence of the original deed of Mortification, it may be mentioned, that in
granting to the Merchants' House the right of presentation to the said (two) bursars, the
founder obliged them to prefer any quahfied or deserving youths ofthe name of Craig, and
next to them any such who can claim and instruct kindred to his spouse Agnes Logie ;
and faUing any such appearing within a prescribed time, he devolved the absolute right of
presentation upon the Merchants' House.

GILCHRIST'S BURSARY
Was founded in the manner described in the foUowing deed, by JOHN GILCHRIST,
tailor in Glasgow, who died 7th January, 1700. Mr. Gilchrist was Deacon of his own
trade in 1670. In 1689, when, in consequence of the Revolution, the Magistrates and

134 GILCHRIST'S BURSARY.
Town Council were elected by a poU vote of all the Burgesses, Mr. GUchrist was
appointed to the office of Deacon Convener of the Trades.
It appears that the institution of a Bursary was not the sole manifestation of Mr.
Gilchrist's benevolent dispositions. His name is to be found both in the list of those mor
tifying for the use of the poor members of the Merchants' rank, and in that of those mor
tifying to the poor of the Kirk Session ; (M'Ure, edit. 1736, pp. 252 and 261,) and it is
by no means improbable that other instances of his Uberality have escaped our notice.
The authority for this Bursary is the foUowing Minute, recorded in the Books of
the Trades' House of Glasgow, 25th March, 1700, but which there has not been an oppor
tunity of coUating.
Att the Tron Church, 25 March, 1700. The whilk day conveened, John
Woddrope, present Deacon Conveener of the said burgh, George
Nisbett, present BaiUie, Baillie Buchanan, Baillie Tennent, Deacons of
the Hammermen, Cordeners, Skinners, Baxters, Weavers, Coupers,
Fleshers, Wrights, Masons, Visitor of the Maltmen, and severall other
members of the House, who takeing to their serious consideration, that
the now deceast John Gilchrist, taylor, late Conveener of the said burgh,
had mortified to the said House severall sums of money, extending in
haill of principall to the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Merks,
with the @ rents thereof and penalty, and that for maintainance of a
student of Philosophy yearly within the University of Glasgow, he
being always a tradesmans freemans son within this burgh, and delivered
the foresaids bonds to Mungo Cochrane, merchant in Glasgow, after
causeing fill up the substitutions of the same, which was then blank, with
the name of John Armour, taylor, present collector to the said House
for the behoove of the same, and to the effect foresaid; which Mungo
Cochrane was ordered by the defunct to deliver up the foresaids bonds
to the foresaid House and collector thereof, upon their granting an ob
ligation ofthe nature underwritten: Therefore the said House and haill
members thereof, unanimously give full power, warrant, and commis
sione to the said John Woddrop, Deacon Conveener, and John Armour,
collector, for themselves, and in name and behalf of the haill remanent
members of the said House, upon delivery up of the foresaids bonds to

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the said John Armour as collector foresaid, to grant to the said Mungo
Cochrane, obligation of the tenor foUowing : Be it known to all men
by thir presents, Us, John Woddrop, present Deacon Conveener of the
burgh of Glasgow, and John Armour, present collector to the Deacon
Conveeners House of the said burgh, forasmuch as John Gilchrist, taylor,
late Deacon Conveener of the said burgh, legate, mortified, and doted to
the said House severall sums of money contained in severall bonds, ex
tending in haill to the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Merks Scots
money principall, w' @ rent and penalty; and that by causeing fiU up
the name of me the said John Armour in the substitutions of the saids
writes and bonds, which are now delivered up to me the said John
Armour, collector foresaid, by Mungo Cochrane, merchant in Glasgow,
who had the trust of the samen from the sd defunct, and which summs
were legatt to the said House by the defunct for the maintainance of a
student of Philosophy, yearly, in the University of Glasgow, he being
aUways a freemans tradesmans son within the town of Glasgow : There
fore, witt ye us for ourselves and our successors in offices, Deacon Con
veeners of the said burgh, and collectors of the said House, and as take
ing the burden in and upon us for the haill remanent members of the
samen, haveing power from them for that effect, conform to their act of
this present date, to be bound and oblidged, likeas, wee hereby bind
and oblidge us and our successors in offices foresaid, to pay yearly to a
Bursar in the said Colledge, studying Philosophy therein, whom the
said House shall present in all time coming, the sum of Sexty Pounds
Scotts money for his maintainance, these of the names of Gilchrist, Bryce,
and Boyd being allwayes first preferred to the same, viz., the name of
Gilchrist in the first place, the name of Bryce in the second place, the
name of Boyd in the third place, they being tradesmens freemens sons
within the sd burgh, and qualified for the said study, and needfuU, att
Candlemass, Beltan, and Lambas, by equal portions ; containing a clause
of registration for memory only ; the entry of the Bursar being at the
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136 WILLIAMS' BURSARIES.
of the said princ'U sum yearly shall be disposed of by the said House as
they shall think fitt in all time comeing; and ordains a duble hereof to
be given, subscrived by the Clerks to the sd Mungo Cochrane. Declare-
ing, that Gilchrist, son to Gilchrist in KUlearn, shaU,
if qualified, and applying to the house for that purpose, be first pre
sented to the said Bursary, according to the will of the defunct; and
that in aU time coming, none after him shall be admitted thereto, with
out such as are tradesmen's sons within the town, and free with some of
the trades thereof, and qualified as said is.
In 1817, the Trades' House increased the GUchrist Bursary from their own funds,
from £5, which had up to that time been paid as the annual rent of the sum mortified, to
£8 sterling annually.

WILLIAMS' BURSARIES
Were founded by the Reverend DANIEL WILLIAMS, D.D., by his WUl, dated 26th
June, 1711*
This eminent divine was born about the year 1644, at Wrexham, in the County of
Denbigh, in North Wales. Nothing is known of his parentage or extraction, nor of the
particulars of his early life. He was a lover of serious religion from his youth, and was
one of the first of the rising generation who entered upon the ministry after the Bartholo
mew ejection in 1662. He says of himself, that from five years old he had no employment
but his studies, and that by nineteen he was regularly admitted a preacher. When he
had spent a few years in preaching occasionally in several parts of England, and found
the times so discouraging to Dissenters that he had little prospect of pursuing his ministry
without great hazard, he received an unexpected invitation to go to Ireland, to be chaplain
to the Countess of Meath. This offer he readily accepted, and found there an extensive
sphere for usefulness. After some time he was called to the pastoral office by the Protes-
The materials of the following notice of Dr. Williams are derived from " The History and Anti
quities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting-Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark, by Walter
Wilson, ofthe Inner Temple."— 4 vols., 8vo. London, 1808.

WILLIAMS' BURSARIES. 137
tant Dissenting Congregation of Wood Street, Dublin, in charge of which he continued for
nearly twenty years. During the troubles of Ireland, in the latter end of the reign of King
James H., he was obliged to flee, after escaping some threatening dangers, by the tyrannical
proceedings of a Popish administration. He returned to England in 1687, and made Lon
don the place of his retreat.
After he had spent some time in preaching occasionaUy about London, with gene
ral acceptance and great esteem, he at length settled (1688) with a numerous congrega
tion at Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Street.
After the Revolution he was consulted frequently by King WiUiam concerning the
affairs of Ireland, with which he was well acquainted ; and his influence at court was
often exerted on behalf of Irish refugees capable of doing service to the Government. He
received great acknowledgments and thanks upon this account, when, in the year 1700,
he revisited Ireland to settle some affairs relative to his estate in that kingdom.
About 1691, he, was involved in a theological controversy, which was carried on
with considerable acrimony for several years. In the course of it both his theological
principles and his moral character were impugned, but both were amply vindicated. On
the accession of King George I., Dr. Williams was appointed to present an address to that
monarch, at the head ofthe Dissenting ministers about London, congratulating his Majesty
upon his peaceable accession to the throne (28th Sept., 1714.)
Dr. WiUiams was twice married, first during his residence in Dublin, to a lady of
distinguished piety, as well as of an honourable family and considerable estate ; and
a second time, in 1701, to a widow, the daughter of a French Protestant Refugee, a lady
of exceUent character, and large fortune. By these two alliances he was placed in more
affluent circumstances, and enjoyed a greater capacity of usefulness than many of his
brethren in the ministry. But this opulence he used with frugality, that he might be
en abled to do the more good to others. Accordingly, the blessing of many who were
ready to perish came upon him. Ministers and students who were in necessitous circum
stances, also, received from him frequent and liberal contributions. Nor was his bounty
confined to his own countrymen : he had an extensive care for the interest of Christ in
different parts of the world, and he gave liberaUy to its support. He died on the 26th
Jan., 1715 — 16, in the 73d year of his age.
As Dr. WUliams spent much of his life in benevolent actions, so at his death he
fully evinced that they were the governing principles of his character. The bulk of his
estate he consigned to a greater variety of excellent charities, for the glory of God and
the good of mankind, than can be met with in the designs of any one man. Besides an
ample settlement to his wife, and legacies to his relations and friends, he left donations
for the education of youth in Dublin, and for an itinerant preacher to the native Irish ; —
to the poor in the two congregations in Dublin and London, in which he had been succes-
S

138 WILLIAMS' BURSARIES.
sively minister ; — to the French Refugees ; — to the poor of Shoreditch Parish, where he
lived ; — to several ministers' widows ; — to St. Thomas' Hospital ; — to the London Work
house ; — to several Presbyterian Churches in the country; — to the CoUege of Glasgow ;
— to the Society for Reformation of Manners ; — to the Society of Scotland for propa
gating Christian Knowledge ; — to the Society for New England, to support two persons
to preach to the Indians ; — to the maintaining of Charity Schools in Wales, and the sup
port of students ; — for the distribution of Bibles, and other pious books among the poor.
He ordered a convenient building to be purchased or erected for the reception of his own
library, and the curious collection of Dr. Bates, which he bought for that purpose, at the
expense of between £500 and £600. Accordingly, a considerable number of years after his
death, a handsome and commodious building was raised by subscription among the opulent
Dissenters, in Redcross Street, Cripplegate, where the Doctor's books were deposited, and
they have been gradually receiving additions ever since.
A list of Dr. Williams' works is appended to the article on his life above referred to.
They were pubUshed collectively, with a Ufe prefixed, in six volumes 8vo.
Dr. WiUiams' biographer states that he always showed a great regard to the religious
interests of Scotland, and that, could he have obtained his wiU, he would have had aU who
were designed for the ministry among the Dissenters in England, to receive at least
a part of their education in one of its Universities. He greatly encouraged a scheme for
this purpose, which, however, could not be brought to perfection for want of a general
concurrence.* * The following extracts from the Minutes of the College (No. 20 of Clerk's Press,) probably bear
reference to this scheme : —
" 3d July, 1707. The Professor of Divinity produced a letter from one Mr. Isaac Bates, at the desire
of Mr. Daniel Williams, both Dissenting ministers at London, proposeing several things with relation to the
education of the English youths at thia University, and craving an answer thereto, in order to their being
encouraged to their contributing money to this College for that purpose. The Faculty having considered
the said proposal, are of opinion that the motion deserves to be entertained and encouraged, and recommend
it to the Principal when at London, to commune with the saids Drs. Williams and Bates, and others con
cerned in the said proposalls, in order to the adjustment thereof for the interest of this University, &c. p. 46.
25th Dec. The Principal reported that he had conversed with Mr. Williams and severall others,
with respect to the motion made by some of the Dissenters in England, about the sending of their youth to
this University; and that he found the said Mr. Williams very well inclined to contribute liberally, both now
and at his death, for encouraging the said design, but that he understood from him and all others, that they
were willing to see the effects of this session of Parliament, and how the two nations coalesce before they
proceeded any further, p. 46 "
On the 22d Dec, 1708, William Dalgleish was appointed Tutor to the English Students, withasalary
allowed by Mr. Williams, p. 52. It appears also from Dr. Williams' Will, that during his lifetime, there
were several students, ofthe description referred to, attending Glasgow College, towards whose maintenance
he contributed.

WILLIAMS' BURSARIES. 139
[The foUowing is that part of Dr. WiUiams' Will which relates to these Bursaries.]
Item, I give to the College of Glasgow, whiles the present constitution
of the Church of Scotland continueth, my house and lands in Barnet,
in the county of Hertford, let now at forty-five pounds per annum,
and the reversion of my lands in Totham in Essex, after my wife's
death; as also one hundred pounds in money at present; always provided
that my Trustees and their assigns shall appoint and nominate, from time
to time, four South Britains to be students at Glasgow, who shall receive
six pounds per annum from the said College : and also three South
Britains who, after they are commenced Masters of Arts in the said
College, shall receive ten pounds a-piece per annum for three years,
or otherwise two at fifteen pounds a-piece, as my Trustees shall direct ;
and both sorts to be removed at their discretion, and successors
appointed by them to supply their place. My will is also, that the
persons receiving the ten or fifteen pounds shall be obliged to supervise
and assist such South Britain youths as are students in the said College.
And when the lands of Totham become possess'd by the said College,
I appoint that more exhibitions be added, as the yearly profit wUl
afford, to such youths of South Britain as my Trustees shall nominate to
be added ; and that they who shall receive the benefit be designed for
the ministry, and appear likely to be useful and faithful. I appoint
that Mr. Oldsworth, Mr. Hocker, and one Jay, who are at Glasgow,
be the first who partake of the allowance ; and as soon as they are
admitted (or either of them) Masters of Arts, he or they, in order, receive
of the greater sums ; and that next to them the son of Mr. Stennet, and
the son of Mr. David Stott, be admitted ; and that in the filling up of
the vacancies, my Trustees shall prefer the sons of poor Presbyterian
Ministers, equally qualifyed, before others ; and that in extraordinary
cases they add forty shillings a year, where the devise I have made to
the said College will not afford it ; I also nominate the son of Mr.
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140 WILLIAMS' BURSARIES.
Mr. Stott ; and that if Annesley Fromantle, the son of Mr. James Fro-
mantle of London, design for the ministry, & be willing to continue at
Glasgow, he shall be allowed by my Trustees four pounds a year whiles
he stays there, to be added to the six pounds before allotted, which I
do to testify my respects for his useful grandfather, Dr. Annesley : I
desire also that my Trustees pay the first half year's aUowance after my
death to such students as they find contributed to by me at Glasgow,
that the College may be enabled by the growing profits to answer the
future demands ; of which receipts and all distributions, I ordain the
College to send every year an account to such in London as my
Trustees shall direct, and my Trustees to assist the College in letting
the premisses and receiving the rents. But it is my wiU, notwithstand
ing the foresaid grants I have made to the said College of Glasgow, that
what time soever Prelacy (or the Episcopal Hierarchy), or Popery,
shall be established in North Britain, my aforesaid grant shall entirely
and altogether become null : and the said houses and lands in Barnet
and Totham, I give to my heirs and trustees hereafter named, and
for such uses as I shall appoint, more particularly or generally ; and
that all writings and deeds concerning the premisses in possession of
the CoUege shall be restored : Yea, I do appoint and would hope that
such of the Faculty as are faithful to the interest of Christ, when they
be possess'd of any such writings and deeds, and foresee such things
approaching, will not fail to deposit them in the hands of my Trustees,
to prevent the trouble which may attend the recovery thereof,
especially when all my grant and demise to the said CoUege is for no
longer time than whiles the present constitution of the Church of
Scotland continues ; and that it is my will, and I hereby ordain, that
as often as the said present constitution is restored, and as long as at
any time it shall continue, the said College shall have the full benefit
of this my grant, though still alienable as aforesaid.
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I have before said concerning the College of Glasgow, and delivering up
of writings in the cases mentioned ; yet I appoint that in order to their
title to the mentioned houses and lands in Barnet and Totham, and re
ceiving any writings relating thereunto, the said College, or some legally
and fully empowered by them, shall sign a deed to some deputed by
my heirs or trustees, wherein they shall disclaim all right or title to all
and every part of the foresaid granted money and lands, further or
longer than the present constitution of the Church of Scotland shall
continue.
In 1813, in consequence of the improved state of the funds, an application was made
to the Court of Chancery to sanction an increase in the number of, and an augmentation
in the aUowances to, those admitted to the benefit of this Foundation. Accordingly, the
Vice-ChanceUor, by a decree of date 19th August, 1813, ordered
That the number of Exhibitioners be increased to eight, and the yearly
allowances to under Graduates be augmented to Forty Pounds each, and
the yearly allowances to Graduates who shall have commenced Masters of
Arts be augmented to Forty-five Pounds each; and as often as the accumu
lated surplus of the rents, profits, and dividends of the said Trust Estate
in the hands of the College may be sufficient to increase the Exhibitions,
it is ordered that the Principal and Professors of the said College for the
time being, be at liberty from time to time to admit an additional
Exhibitioner or Exhibitioners, upon the nomination of the said Trustees
of Dr. Williams ; such exhibitioner or exhibitioners to receive such
yearly allowance or allowances aforesaid, until the further order of this
court. Various regulations concerning Bursars upon Dr. WiUiams' Mortification, have
been from time to time issued by his Trustees. (29th Dec, 1762 ; 31st Dec, 1766 ; 27th
March, 1776 ; 26th March, 1777 ; 1st Oct., 1783 ; March, 1831.) The most important
of these seem to be a Notice to Candidates issued in 1831 ; and a Regulation respect
ing the re appointment of those who have held the Bursary for three years, issued in
1776, and repeated in 1783. They are as foUows : —

142 WILLIAMS' BURSARIES.
Notice to candidates for exhibitions at the University of Glasgow,
on the Foundation of the late Rev. Dr. Daniel Williams.
The Trustees of the estate of the late Dr. WiUiams having found that
the certificates presented to them in favor of applicants for Dr.
Williams' exhibitions to the University of Glasgow, are frequently
expressed in terms too general to enable the Trustees to form a correct
estimate of the qualifications and comparative merits of the candidates,
have unanimously adopted the following resolution, viz. : —
"That in future the foUowing qualifications be required of candi
dates for Exhibitions at the University of Glasgow: that in Latin they
shall be able to construe two books of Livy, three books of Virgil's
iEneid, Cicero de Senectute, and the principal Odes, with some of the
Epistles and Satires of Horace, and that they have some practice in Latin
composition : that in Greek they be capable of translating Luke's
Gospel, one book of Xenophon's Memorabilia, four books of Homer's
Iliad, and the Hecuba of Euripides: and that in addition to these
qualifications, they have a correct knowledge of arithmetic, including
the extraction of roots, and have studied the first six books of Euclid."
A committee of the Trustees has been appointed to examine can
didates living in or near London, and to procure the examination of can
didates living in the country, by competent persons residing at convenient
distances, who shall send to the committee certificates of such examina
tions, and some of the exercises of the candidates, especially those in
Latin composition.
Candidates may learn where, at what time, and by whom they
will be examined, by applying to the Secretary to Dr. Williams' Trust,
in London. 31st Dec, 1776.
Resolved. — That after a Student has enjoyed his exhibition at the
College of Glasgow for three years, a new nomination of him be made

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by the Trustees, he, previous to such nomination, informing them that
it is his intention, when he has finished his studies, to engage in the
Christian Ministry among the Protestant Dissenters in South Britain.
1st October, 1783.
Ordered. — That the Secretary send Dr. Leechman a copy of Order
of the Trustees at their meeting of the 27th March, 1776, for the
re-appointment of students after being at the CoUege three years, upon
making the declaration therein mentioned; and to desire Dr. Leech-
man, from time to time, to send the Secretary such declarations, accord
ing to that order, for the purpose of enabling the Trustees to make such
re-appointment.

HASTIE'S BURSARIES,
Now three in number, originated in a deed executed by the Reverend Mr. ALEXANDER
HASTLE, Minister of the East Quarter parish of Glasgow, 5th September, 1707 ; whereby
he provided, that in case his grandchild, WiUiam Pollock, should die before marriage or
attaining to the age of 21, the one-half of the goods and gear pertaining to him at his
decease, should be made over to the Faculty of the University of Glasgow, for maintenance
of a Bursar professing Theology in the said University.
Mr. Hastie seems to have been a native of Fife, probably of Dunfermline, or its
neighbourhood ; but of the date of his birth or the place of his education, no precise infor
mation has been obtained.
Mr. Stirling, Minister of the Barony Parish of Glasgow, quotes Mr. Hastie's
authority for various anecdotes which he communicated to Mr. Wodrow, particularly for
those relating to Mr. James Wood, Principal of the Old CoUege, St. Andrew's, and to
Mr. Alexander Dunlop, Minister of Paisley, and father of WilUam Dunlop, afterwards
Principal of Glasgow College. — (Wodrow's Analecta, in. 18 et seq.) Principal Wood was
one of the most eminent churchmen of the day. He was deprived of his office for non
conformity in 1663, and died early in 1667. Many of the anecdotes concerning him
communicated to Mr. Stirling by Mr. Hastie, rest only on report, and may have been

144 HASTIE'S BURSARIES.
collected by him at St. Andrew's at any period ; but some, and particularly the impres
sion made on Mr. Hastie by his public appearances, indicate personal knowledge and
observation. — (Analecta, III. 84.) It seems, at least, a probable inference, therefore, that
before the time of Mr. Wood's deposition, Mr. Hastie may have been a student at St.
Andrew's, and enjoyed opportunities of Ustening to the Principal's public instructions.
Mr. Dunlop had been minister at Paisley, but was ejected for non-conformity in
1662. He was at first threatened with banishment, but his sentence was restricted to
confinement at Culross, six miles west of Dunfermline, where he remained tUl near his
death, which took place in 1665, Mr. Hastie appears to have been in habits of intimacy
with him during his residence there, and to have repeated, in the latter period of his
Ufe, many of the conversations which passed between them. — (Analecta et seq. III. 18.)
The first public appearance of Mr. Hastie, of which any record has been found,
is in 1670, as a zealous Covenanter, attending a numerous and armed conventicle on the
HiU of Beath, in Fifeshire. — (Wodrow's History, II. 158.) On the 14th July, Mr. Alexander
Hastie, in Dunfermline, and many others, including WUliam Adam, merchant in Culross, in
whose house Mr. Dunlop had lived, were brought before the Privy CouncU for this offence ;
were found guilty of contumacy for refusing to act the part of informers, fined each of
them in 500 merks, and sent to prison, there to lie in irons during the Council's pleasure.
On the 16th of August, a farther sentence was pronounced of banishment out of the
King's dominions, and transportation to the plantations, not to return under pain of death.
To what extent of severity this sentence was executed does not appear, but as might be
expected, it had not the effect of working a conversion ; for eleven years later, in 1681,
June 16, " Mr. Alexander Hastie being cited to compear, and not compearing, the Council
find that after he had been imprisoned last year, upon suspicion of his being concerned in
the rebellion of Bothwell, he was liberate March last ; and yet, since that time, he hath
kept conventicles, in sense of law, field conventicles ; he is now denounced, and ordered
to be put to the horn."— (History, HI. 267.)
It does not appear, from any documents at present accessible, when or where Mr.
Hastie entered on the work of the ministry; but he is stated to have become minister of the
Outer Kirk, Glasgow, in 1691. — (Cleland's Annals, I. 128.) From 1692, his name appears
pretty regularly in the sederunt of the Presbytery ; and in that year, (May 4,) he is
elected Moderator for the ensuing half-year. He does not, however, appear to have taken
a prominent part in ecclesiastical matters ; his name appearing in the roll of the Assembly's
Commissioners only once, viz., in 1699. He survived, however, till 1711. In August of
that year, — (Becord of Presbytery,) — we find that " this day was given in to the Presbyterie
a demission of the ministerial charge of the East Quarter congregation of Glasgow, (now)
served by Mr. Alexander Hastie, minister there, whereof the tenor foUows, viz. : — I, Mr.
Alexander Hastie, one of the Ministers of the Gospel in Glasgow, taking into serious con-

HASTIE'S BURSARIES. 145
sideration my infirm old age and valetudinary condition whereby I am unable to discharge
my ministerial function, and being willing and desirous that my flock be provided and
my charge supplied, Therefore I doe hereby demit my ministerial charge of the East
Quarter parish of the said city, entirely in the hands of the Presbytery of Glasgow,
declaring, that for my part, the said parish shall be held (vacant,)" &c.
From Wodrow's Analecta (I. 363,) Mr. Hastie appears not to have survived his
resignation a quarter of a year.
On the 15th June, 1714, (No. 20 of Clerk's Press, p. 122.) the Principal announced
the death of Mr. Hastie's grandchild, and produced a Registered Disposition by Mr. Hastie,
to the effect aforesaid. The Faculty proceeded to take the necessary steps for realising
the debts, (Minutes, 21st, 22d, and 23d February, 1716 ; ibid., p. 149, 150 : 17th Jan. and
10th Dec, 1717 ; 15th Jan., 1718 ; No. 19 of Clerk's Press, p. 250, 251,) the Bonds of
which, however, they did not get into their own possession tiU 22d April, 1718, when
they forthwith applied the interest in Bond to the maintenance of a Bursar (ibid., p. 255, 6.)
On 30th May, 1722, a state of the Mortification was laid before the Faculty, from which it
appeared that the sum of aU the Bonds and BUls amounted to £3011 17sh. and ten
pennies Scots. — (No. 22 of Clerk's Press.)
Mr Hastie not having prescribed the precise terms on which his bursary was to be
held, it appears from the Minutes of 1st June, 1722, that,
This day, according to appointment, the Faculty entered upon the regula
tions necessary to be made with respect to the late Rev. Mr. Hastie,
one of the ministers of Glasgow's Mortification, and agreed,
lmo- That the student to be maintained on this Mortification
shall be presented for the space of three years, and that he continue no
longer, unless he shall be again presented by the Faculty to the said
bursary, in which case the said bursar shall be continued for one year
longer only.
2do- That the student to be presented to the said Mortification,
shall have the sum of one hundred and eight pound Scots yearly during
his course, and this to continue for the space of nine years after October
nixt; which regulation is thought necessary in regard of the uncertainty
of the legal interest of money for the prompt payment to the Bursar,
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146 HASTIE'S BURSARIES.
the fund, and also for defraying the necessary charges of the Mortifica
tion. And the Faculty in the mean time appoints that, yearly, at the
clearing of the accounts of the said Mortification, it be considered what
is in the factor's hands more than pays the bursar and incident charges,
in order to its being lent out for increasing the stock, and that a par
ticular book be kept for this Mortification.
3tio- That the said student shall study under the Professor of
Oriental Languages, for the first two years; and, in the whole of his
course, to attend close the lessons of Divinity and Church History.
4t0- That the said student, before he can be presented, shall have
studied Greek, Humanity, Mathematics, and the several parts of Philo
sophy in this University under the respective Professors, and thereafter
shall have taken the degree of Master of Arts in this University. But
that this regulation is not to be extended to those of the names of Hastie
and Johnston,* except that such are to be Masters of Arts in some Uni
versity. 5t0- That all presentations to this Bursary shall be made before
the first of November for the current session.
6t0- That every student presented on this Mortification who shall
have enjoyed it for one year, shall, some time in the month of October,
after the tenth day y'rof, be examined by the Professors under whom
he is appointed to study the preceding year ; and that this examination
be yearly during his course, and in presence of the Faculty, and that he
be continued or not, as he shall be found by the Faculty to have made
proficiency. — (No 22 of Clerk's Press.)
Of date 4th April, 1806, in consequence of the funds of this Foundation having
become greatly augmented by accumulations, the Faculty resolved that the original
bursary be augmented from eleven to fifteen pounds, and that two new ones should be

* It appears from Minute of 9th Dee., 1714 (No. 20 of Clerk's Press, p. 131,) that by Mr. Hastie's
disposition the Faculty are bound to prefer applicants for this bursary of the name of Johnston next to that of
Hastie.

SANDERS' BURSARY. 147
added — " one of them precisely on the same grounds with the present one ; the other to
begin in the Language Classes, to continue for four years in Languages and Philosophy,
and two in Divinity ; and that if the bursar holding it should not go through the fuU
course of six years, that the remainder should be given to a Student of equal standing to
finish the same." — (No. 81 of Clerk's Press.)

SANDERS' BURSARY,
In favour of a Student who has passed the course of PhUosophy, and is foUowing his
studies in Divinity, was instituted by ROBERT SANDERS of Auldhouse, Printer in
Glasgow, by a Deed of Mortification, bearing date 9th February, 1728, in which he also
made provision for having five poor boys bound apprentices to lawful trades.
From " A Short History of the Art of Printing in Glasgow,'' inserted in the edition
of M'Ure's View of the City of Glasgow, pubUshed in 1836, p. 367, we learn that Robert
Sanders, the father of this benefactor, was the only printer in the west of Scotland for
many years. He styled himself Printer to the City of Glasgow, and frequently used a
cut of the City Arms on his title pages, with the motto, "Lord, let Glasgow flourish
through the preaching of thy Word." Watson, in his History of Glasgow, informs us that
he died about 1696. He printed a great many books, tracts, poems, and other smaU
pieces. In the history of Glasgow typography already referred to, a list of a few of the
works from the press of the elder Sanders, in chronological order, is given. He, we are
further informed, was succeeded by his son, who was styled Robert Sanders of Auldhouse,
and who carried on the business tiU about 1727. The younger Sanders was a bookseUer
as weU as a printer, and kept a shop first above the Grammar School Wynd, and after
wards in the Saltmarket. A few of the works printed by him are mentioned in the
paper referred to.
In fulfilment of the charitable intentions announced in the foUowing Deed of Morti
fication, Mr. Sanders, besides a liberal sum for the Poor of the Kirk Session, (M'Ure,
1736, p. 261,) bequeathed his whole moveable estate to the Merchants' House, to supply
apprentice fees for poor boys to be bound to any lawful caUing. — (See View of the History,
&c, of the Guildry, Glasgow, 1817, p. 39.) In acknowledgment of his munificent bene
factions, a fuU length portrait of Mr. Sanders was placed in the Old GuUd HaU in
Bridgegate Street, (M'Ure, p. 250,) which has been transferred to the New Merchants'
Hall in Hutchesons' Street.

148 SANDERS' BURSARY.
[Mr. Sanders' Mortification is recorded in the Town Court Books of Glasgow,
23d Augt., 1731, with which the foUowing has been compared. The portions ofthe deed
relative to the apprentices, and certain provisions in case of his afterwards having a family,
it has not been thought necessary to insert here.]
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN by these presents, me, Robert
Sanders of Auldhouse, Printer in Glasgow, forasmuch as it hath
pleased God to bless me with a considerable stock of worldly means,
and considering that I have no childeren procreat of my body, and
being resolved that my lands and estate aftermentioned should after
my decease, failzeing of childeren procreat of my body, be in aU time
thereafter and forever mortified and imployed to a public and pious
use, for the end and to the effect in manner as is after exprest :
Therefor, witt ye me to have mortified and disponed, as I by the tenor
hereof, failzeing of childeren to be lawfuUy -procreat of my body of any
future marriage to be hereafter solemnized by me, or tho' there should
be childeren procreat of my said body on life the time of my decease but
yet deceasing before they attain to their age of twenty-one years com
pleat, or marriage, in that event, and no otherwayes, and with and under
the speciaU provisions, conditions, reservations, and burdens after ex
prest, give, grant, mortifie, and for ever dispone heritablie and irre-
dimablie from me, my aires, and all others my assigneys, to and in
favours of Hugh Rodger, Dean of Gild of the City of Glasgow, and James
Chrystie, coUector to the Merchants House of the said City of Glasgow,
and their successors in office, for themselves, and ih name and behalf
of the said Merchants House, for the use, well, and behoove of the poor
decayed members theirof, and for the use and behoove of the prentices
and ane student of Divinity after mentioned, in manner as is after
exprest, all and haill, that my fyve merk land of old extent of Auld
house, with the mannour place theirof, houses, biggings, yeards, orch-
yeards, mosses, muires, meadows, and haiU parts, privileges, and per
tinents thereto belonging; and sicklyke, aU and haill that my maines
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land of old extent, with houses, biggings, yeards, orchyeards, mosses,
muires, meadows, and haill parts, pendicles, privileges and pertinents of
the same whatsomever, all lying within the parochine of Eastwood and
Sheriffdome of Renfrew, and specially bounded as in the original charters
thereof, together with all heretable right, title of right, or other right or
title whatsomever, claime, interest, propertie, and possession which I
my authors and predecessors had, have, or can claime, or pretend in and
to the lands and others above disponed, with the pertinents ; reserving
allwayes, as I hereby reserve to myself, not only my liferent right of the
s'ds lands during all the days & years of my lifetime, but also full and
ample power and libertie, in case of my after marrying, to provide and
secure my spouse of any subsequent marriage, in the liferent of the s'ds
lands, in haill or in part, as I shall think fit, and grant infeftment there
upon, notwithstanding of these presents; And in like manner it is
hereby expressly provided and declared, that thir presents are granted
by me, to and in favors of the said Merchants House, with and under
the express burdens, provisions, and conditions particularly aftermen-
tioned, which they, by their acceptation hereof, bind and oblige them to
perform, fullfill, and observe in aU poynts, viz. : * * * *
And likewayes that they shall make payment to a young man of honest
parents, burges of the said Burgh, and of a good conversation, who has
past his course of Philosophie in the Universitie of Glasgow, and is fol
lowing his studies in Divinity in the said University, in order to become
a preacher of the Gospell, of the soume of ane hundered pound Scots
money, and that yearly, and during ilk year of five years, commencing
the first year's payment of the said one hundered pound at the same
terme or time when the fors'ds prentices' gratuities or prentice fees shaU
commence and become payable;* and that for enabling the said student
to continue in the prosecution of his said study in Divinity, and at the

* Viz. : " upon the terme of Martimess first ensueing after the expiration of year and day after my
decease ; and so furth yearly therafter at the terme of Martimess in all time coming."

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end and upon the expiring of the saids five years, the said benefice
or burse of ane hundered pounds yearly, is to be bestowed upon and
payed to ane other young man of the qualifications, and for the use and
end, foresaid, and so changed and bestowed at the end of each five
years successive in all time coming after the commencment, as said is,
upon young men of the qualifications and for the end above mentioned,
who and each of them, successive after others, shall continue in the en
joying of the said benefice of one hundered pound Scots money yearly,
for the number and space of five years after each of their several ad
missions ; and in case any of the saids young men, during the course
and running of his said five years, happen to decease before the expir
ing theirof, or shall be found by the Professor of Divinity in the said
University of Glasgow, not to be a proficient in the said studie, or shall
quitt and leave the said profession and his studies in Divinity, or shall
be preferred to any other benefice, or shall be placed in, and get the
charge of, a congregation, and become a Minister of the Gospell, then,
and in either of these cases, the person so enjoying and in the possession
of the foresaid burse and benefice, shall from thencefurth ammitt and
loose the said burse and benefice, and ane other young man of the
qualifications foresaid, shall be presented and installed in the said burse,
whose five years shall commence from his being presented and admitted
thereunto. ******
And I hereby wiU and ordain, that the power of presentation of the
saids prentice boys and student of Divinity be lodged, in the first place,
in the person of James Colhoun, younger, merchant in Glasgow, son
lawfuU to James Colhoun, elder, merch* there, during his lifetime;
and after his decease, in the person of Robert Colhoun, merchant in
Glasgow, eldest lawful son to the deceast Walter Colhoun, merchant
there, during his lifetime; and upon his decease, in the person of
William Colhoun, second lawful son to the said Walter Colhoun, during
his lifetime; and upon his decease, in the person of Walter Colhoun,
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upon his decease, in the person of John Woddrop, writer in Glasgow,
son to umq11 John Woddrop, late baiUie of Glasgow, during his lifetime,
all my nephews. And the said Merchants House, according as the said
prentice boys and student of Divinity shall be presented to them from
time to time by these of my nephews who shall have the power of pre
sentation for the time, shall be bound and oblidged to admit and receive
the sds boys and student of Divinity into the benefices foresaid, and
make payment thereof accordingly. And upon the decease of all of my
saids nephews, I hereby declare that the power of presentation and ad
mission of the saids prentice boys and student of Divinity foresaid, shaU,
in all time thereafter, devolve upon and be lodged in the hands of the
said Dean of Gild and collector and members of the said Merchants
House. And I hereby will and ordain, that these of my nephews in
whose hands the power of presentation of the saids prentice boys and
student of Divinity be at the time, that in their presentation of them,
they have a special regard to present and prefer, in the first place, those
of my own bloud relations; and in the next place, those of the name
of Sanders, Corbet, Colhoun, and Woddrop, if they apply therefor.
*Jf; Jt Jt Jt Jt
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And when the power of presentation and admission shall, upon the de
cease of my sds nephews, come to be devolved in the person of the said
Merchants House, then I hereby will and ordain, that in the first place,
these of my own blood relations be preferred; and next, those of the
foresaid names of Sanders, Corbett, Colhoun, and Woddrop, if they
apply. * * * In witnes whereof, I have subscrived these
presents, consisting of this and six preceeding pages, writen on stampt
paper be John M'Gilchrist, writer in Glasgow, at Glasgow the ninth
day of February, one thousand seven hundered twenty eight years, before
these witnesses : Charles Miller, merchant, late Provost of Glasgow, and
the sd John M'Gilchrist, writer hereof. ROBERT SANDERS.
Ch. MILLER, witnes.
Jo. M'GILCHRIST, witnes.

152 . BLACKADER'S BURSARY.

BLACKADERS,
OR,
THE ARDKINDLASS BURSARY,
Was instituted in 1733, out of funds which Colonel John Blackader had, by his WiU, set
aside for pious uses.
Colonel Blackader was the fifth and youngest son of the Reverend John Black
ader, whose sufferings in the cause of civil and reUgious independence, in the persecution
to which Presbyterianism was subjected subsequently to the Restoration, and whose ulti
mate death as a prisoner on the Bass Rock in the Frith of Forth, entitle him to the re
spectful remembrance of the people of Scotland. — (See his Memoirs, by Andrew Crichton,
2d edit., Edin., 1826.)
Colonel Blackader was born at Barndennoch, in the parish of Glencairn and county
of Dumfries, in 1664. He entered the army as a cadet in 1689. The regiment to which he
was attached was the 26th or Cameronian, a name which it derived from the sect who com
posed it. He served with distinguished honour under the great Duke of Marlborough, in
Queen Anne's wars, and was present at the battles of Denawert, Blenheim, Ramillies, and
most of the engagements of these celebrated campaigns. In 1702 he married Miss Anne
Callander, daughter of James CaUander, Esq. of Craigforth, near Stirling. " Though their
union," says his biographer, "was not blessed with any famUy, this circumstance seems
to have, in nothing, abated their mutual affections. He cherished for her an ardent and
steady attachment. She accompanied him to the continent, and remained generally, dur
ing the campaigns, in some of the towns within the Dutch frontier."
Colonel Blackader was, through his whole life, a man of fervent piety, and strongly
attached to the church of his country. Accordingly, in 1711, when he effected his retire
ment from the army, he returned to Scotland and gratified his reUgious feeUngs by be
coming a zealous elder of the church, and member of the General Assembly. In 1715,
among the other preparations for repelling the invasion, three battaUons of well armed
citizens of Glasgow, with the Lord Provost at their head, were marched to Stirling for the
defence of that place ; and Colonel Blackader, who had fixed his residence in that town,
was prevaUed on to accept the office of their Colonel. The services which he rendered on
that occasion, and the favourable impression he produced on the minds of those who at
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Deputy Governor of StirUng Castle, which office he continued to fill tUl the time of his
death, 31st August, 1729. — (See Life and Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Blackader, &c, by
Andrew Crichton, Edin., 1824.)
After his death, his widow, to whose entire management and disposal he had com
mitted the funds already referred to, married Sir James CampbeU of Ardkindlass, Baronet,
and in conjunction with him executed a Deed of Mortification,, instituting a Bursary in the
University of Glasgow, of which the foUowing is a copy.* In conformity with the pro
visions of the entaU therein referred to, the patronage of the Bursary has passed with the
Ardkindlass estate, to the fanuly of CaUander of Craigforth, of which Lady CaUender was
a member. [The following Deed has been compared with the original deposited in the College
Archives ; Billon's Inventory, C. l.J
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, Me, Dame Ann Callendar,!
alias Campbell, some time spouse of the now deceast ColoneU John
Blackadder,f Deputy Governour of the Castle of Stirling, now to Sir
James Campbell of Ardkindlass, Baronet, with the speciali advice and
consent of the said Sir James Campbell; and I, the said Sir James
Campbell, for myself and my own right and interest, and with advice
and consent of the said Dame Ann CaUendar my spouse ; and wee,
both of one mutual advice, consent and assent, That whereas, the said
deceast Colonel! John Blackadder, my first husband, did by his latter
Will and Testament, destinate and sett aside a certain sum of monie
for pious uses, the entire management and disposaU whereof, is com
mitted to me the said Dame Ann CaUendar ; and that I having the
greatest zeall and affection for the advancement of piety and learning,
and considering that Universitys and CoUedges are the seminaries both
of Church and State, I have resolved, for some time past, to mortifie
and dote the sums aftermentioned, in the bonds after specified, in
* It may be proper to mention, that Colonel Blackader's father had studied at Glasgow under Prin
cipal Strang, who was his uncle, and that several of his ancestors were benefactors to the College  See
Crichton's Memoirs, p. 16, 17.
f These names are spelt in the Deed, respectively, CaUendar and Blackadder ; but Lady Campbell's
signature is A. Callender, and Mr. Crichton spells Blackader, with a single d.
U

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favours of some one or other of the Universitys or Colledges within this
kingdom, as fidei commissaries and trustees, for the use and behoof of a
bursar studying at and passing his whole course through the saids
Universitys; And that I, by my contract of marriage with the said
Sir James CampbeU, the twenty-third day of August, one thousand
seven hundred and thirty-one years, obliged myself to make over in
his favours, and his heirs succeeding to him in his honours, lands, and
estate of Ardkindlass and others, the absolute right of patronadge
and presentation of such bursars and mortification, when the same
should be made by me, in manner more fully mentioned in the said
contract; And whereas I and my said husband having the greatest
honour and regard for the University of Glasgow, and zeall for pro
moting of piety and learning in that University, and having the
greatest confidence in the integrity and ability of the Masters thereof,
and their diligence and care over the youth committed to their charge,
wee are therefore resolved to mortifie and dote the sums after specified,
in favours of the said University, as fidei commissaries and trustees,
for the use of a bursar studying at and passing his whole course through
the said University, in manner, and with and under the reservations,
powers, priviledges, regulations, provisions, and conditions, aftermen
tioned: Therefore to have given, granted, mortified, transferred, and
disponed, likeas I, the said Dame Ann CaUendar, alias Campbell, with
consent of my said husband ; and I, the said Sir James Campbell, for my
self and with consent of my said spouse, and wee both of one mutual
advice, consent and assent, hereby give, grant, mortifie, transferr, and
dispone, in favours of Mr. Neill Campbell, present PrincipaU of the
Colledge and Vice-Chancellour of the University of Glasgow, Mr.
William Forbes, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, Mr. John
Simpson, Professor of Divinity, Mr. John Lowdown, Professor of
Philosophy, Mr. Alexander Dunlop, Professor of Greek, Mr. Andrew
Ross, Professor of Humanity, Mr. Charles Morthland, Professor of
Orientali Languages, Mr. Robert Simpson, Professor of Mathematicks,

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Dr. John Johnstoun, Professor of Medicine, Mr. Robert Dick, Professor
of Philosophy, Dr. Thomas Brisbane, Professor of Anatomy and Botany,
Mr. WiUiam Anderson, Professor of Church History, Mr. Francis Hut
cheson, Professor of Philosophy, all in the said University of Glasgow,
and their successors in office, for themselves, and as representing the
other Masters, Regents, and members of Faculty, if any be, scholars,
students, and whole united body and incorporation of the said Colledge,
and as fidei commissaries and trustees, for the use and behoof of a
bursar studying at, and passing his whole course through, the said
University, in manner, and with and under the reservations, powers,
priviledges, regulations, provisions, and conditions, aftermentioned, all
and whole the sum of one hundred pound Sterling monie of principall,
twenty pound monie foresaid of penalty, and interest of the said prin
cipal sum from and since the term of Martinmas last by past, and in
time coming while payment, contained in a bond granted by the
present John, Earl of Rothes, in favours of the said Colonell John
Blackadder, of the date the twenty-third of September, one thousand
seven hundred and twenty-four ; as also, the like sum of one hundred
pound Sterling of principall, twenty pound monie foresaid of penalty,
and interest of the said principal sum from and since the said term of
Martinmas last by past, and in time coming while payment, contained
in another bond granted by the said Earl to the said ColoneU John
Blackadder, of the date the ninth of January, jm vii0 and twenty-seven;
And to which two bonds and sums, principal interest and penaltys
thereby due, I, the said Dame Ann CaUendar, have right as ex'er
decerned and confirmed to my said deceast husband, by the commis
saries of Stirling, conform to the confirmed Testament, dated the sixth
day of October, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine years ;
in the inventary whereof the saids several sums are given up and con
firmed; and in consequence whereof the said John, Earl of Rothes,
granted bond of corroboration to me of the two bonds above mentioned,
and interest then resting from the term of Candlemas, one thousand

156 BLACKADER'S BURSARY.
seven hundred and thirty, payable against the term of Lambmas then
next, under the penalty of fourty pound Sterling monie, in case of
failzieur, conform to the said bond of corroboration, dated the twenty-
fourth of Februarie, one thousand seven hundred and thirty years;
together with the saids two original bonds themselves, confirmed
testament and bond of corroboration in my favour, whole clauses, tenor
and contents thereof, and all action and execution competent thereon ;
turning and transferring the whole premises from me and my foresaids,
to and in favours of the saids Principall, Masters, Regents, and other
members of the said University and their successors in office, as fidei
commissaries and trustees foresaid, with full power to them to intromet
with, uplift and receive, sue for, transferr, convey, and discharge the
sums before mortified and assigned, and generally aU and every other
thing with relation to the premisses, to do which I or my said husband
could have done before granting hereof: But with and under the
reservations, powers, priviledges, regulations, provisions, and conditions
following, viz : In the first place, that the sole and undoubted patron
adge and right of presentation of fit persons for the said bursary, from
time to time, as the same shall become vacant, is to remain with and
belong to the said Sir James Campbell, my husband, in terms of our
said contract of marriage before mentioned, and failing him to his
heirs of tailzie and provision succeeding to him in his honours and
estate of Ardkindlass, and others in the rank and order set down
and appointed by him in the settlement and entaiU of his said estate,
of the date the seventh day of September last by past, and that
the said Principal and Masters of the said University, and their
successors in office, shall by their acceptation hereof be bound and
obliged to admitt and receive such persons as shall from time to time
be presented by the said patrons to the said bursary, they being by due
examination found qualified, and under the regulations and provisions
aftermentioned, and to make payment to them of the yearly sum after
specified, at the terms aftermentioned : Secondly, That the first bursar's

BLACKADER'S BURSARY. 157
entry to the said University, as well as all the subsequent bursars from
time to time, as the same becomes vacant, shall be to the Humanity
class, and that they shall respective pass throw the several classes in
order, untill they finish their course of Philosophy ; and that after their
finishing their course of Philosophy, the said burse shall, if they incline
to study Divinity, continue with them for three years at the study of
Divinity, during which time they shall be oblidged regularly to attend
the Divinity lessons, as also the Hebrew lessons, and shall take the
degree of Master of Arts after finishing his Philosophy course, before he
attend the Divinity lessons in the said Colledge ; But if the saids
students shall, during their course of Humanity, Greek, or Philosophy,
encline at any time to leave it off, or after their finishing their course
of Philosophy, shall not incline to follow the study of Divinity, or shall
even at any time leave off that study after they have begun the same,
or shall not attend, That then, and in either of those cases, it shall be
in the patron's power either to present another for the remaining years
during which the foresaid person might have enjoyed the bursary, or a
student to enter at the Humanity class, who shall continue till he
finish his course of Philosophy and Divinity in the manner before men
tioned. Thirdly, That if the saids students or bursars, or any of them,
doe not attend the CoUedge regularly during the time they are bound
to attend the same, without a lawful excuse for their absence, as also if
they are not of a moral deportment (of both which they must be con
victed by the Faculty of the said CoUedge, and by them represented to
the patron) or if by any other accident, such as death, preferment, or
the like, the said bursary shall become vacant before the bursar shall
have finished his course in the terms above mentioned, Then, and in
all or any of these cases, it shall be in the power of the patron to pre
sent another bursar, either to begin his course at the Humanity class,
or one to enjoy the remaining years as above, in the option of the
patron, subject to the regulations before and aftermentioned : Fourthly,
That if upon any vacancy the Faculty shall legally intimate the same to

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the patron, which intimation shall be made personally to Sir James and
his heirs, patrons of the said Mortification for the time, if within
Scotland, but if out of it, at his or their dwelling-house, and at the
same time by a missive letter wrote by the Faculty to the patron
for the time, wheresoever he is, intimating the said vacancy, which
letter shall be recorded in the University's Journall or Sederunt
Books ; and if in any of these cases the patron shall faill to present
a new bursar to the Faculty within six months after such personall
intimation, if within Scotland, or within six months of the intima
tion at his dwelling-house, and date of the letter to be wrote by the
Faculty, as above, if furth of Scotland, Then, and in that case,
the power of presentation for that time alone shall fall and devolve
upon the Faculty of the said University themselves, who shall have
power to present a bursar in the terms before mentioned, without
prejudice always to the said Sir James Campbell and his foresaids theire
right of presentation when any new vacancy shall fall out : Fifthly,
That the first bursar or student's entry to the said University shall com-
mense at the term of Martinmas last : And wee hereby instantly present
and appoint James Campbell, son to Mr. William Campbell, Minister of
the Gospel at Alva, presently studying Humanity at the said University,
to be the first bursar in the terms above and aftermentioned, requiring
hereby the said Faculty to examine, admit, and receive him thereto ;
but in regard we have, or are ourselves to advance the interest of the
said mortified sums from Martinmas, one thousand seven hundred and
thirty-one to Martinmas last, for the said bursar's maintenance to Mar
tinmas next; therefore it is hereby declared, that the interest of the
said capital mortified sum of two hundred pounds Sterling for the
current year shall only be applied, when recovered, for his maintenance
after Martinmas next, and who and all the succeeding bursars, during
their several courses, shall have paid to them (by equal shares at the
three several terms at which the other Bursars of the Colledge are paid
by the factor) by the said University, after the money is recovered by

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them, from the said Earl, in manner aftermentioned, such ane interest
or annualrent as shall correspond by law for the time to the said capital
mortifyed sum of two hundred pound sterling, in manner after speci
fied ; But providing always that while the foresaids two principal sums
hereby mortified shall remain in the hands of the said John Earl of
Rothes, the said Principall, Masters, and other members of the said
Faculty, and their successors in office, shall only be bound to pay the
said annual interest upon the saids two bonds to the saids bursars,
according as they shall receive the same from the Earl, declaring, never
theless, that the said Faculty shall be bound either to uplift the said
sums, within a year after this date, or shall, at the end of that year, use
diligence, as far as can be, to raise the said sums, or sooner, if the exi
gence of the case and the patron require it. And that in case the saids
mortified sums shall either perish through default of the said University,
or their timely using sufficient diligence as said is, or that the same
shall be recovered and uplifted by them from the said Earl, that then,
and in either of these cases, the saids Principall, Regents, Masters, and
other members of the said Faculty for themselves, and as representing
the whole body and community of the said University, and their suc
cessors in office, administrators of the funds thereof, shall be bound and
obliged in all time thereafter to make payment, in manner as above said,
to the said James Campbell and the subsequent bursars so to be pre
sented from time to time as aforesaid, of such ane annual rent or interest
as shall be agreeable by law for the time, to the said capital mortified
sum of two hundred pound Sterling monie, deducing always one shil
ling in the pound to the Colledge factor, under the penalty of two pounds
monie foresaid for each year's failzieure; but in case the saids sums shall
through misfortune perish before elapsing of the said year, or even
afterwards, but before it is uplifted from the Earl, and not through the
default of the said University, then these presents are hereby declared
absolutely and utterly void, and no ways binding either upon the Uni
versity or us. And it's hereby declared, that whatever charges or

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expences the said University shall be at in recovering the saids sums
from the Earl of Rothes, so far as the penalty in the bonds do not
answer the same, that the interest due upon the saids two mortified
sums, after the first bursar's course is elapsed, shall be applied for pay
ment of the remainder of the said expences before any new bursar is
presented, but who in that case shall have his full course after the date
of his entry to the bursarie ; and the six months before allowed the
patron for presenting shall in this case only run from the date of the
Faculties intimation to the patron that the saids expences are satisfied :
And in case the said Colledge shall not make payments to the saids
bursars, so to be presented from time to time, of the legall interest,
excepting the above mentioned deduction of the said capitall mortified
sum in the respective events and manner before directed, and shall faill
in a year's payment, then it is hereby declared that these presents shall
likeways in that case become from thence furth not only absolutely and
utterly void and null, but also in case the money shall be uplifted from
the Earl of Rothes, that the said University shaU be immediately holden
and oblidged by their acceptation hereof to repeat and pay back to the
patrons for the time the said capitall sum of two hundred pound Sterling,
and interest then resting, to be used and disposed of in such manner as he
shall think fitt : And lastly, it is hereby declared, that before these presents
can be binding upon or effectuall against us, the saids Dame Ann
CaUendar and Sir James Campbell, that the same shall be accepted off
by the said University, and in token whereof recorded in the Univer
sity's Journall or Sederunt Books, by ane order of Faculty, and ane
Extract of the said order or Minute of Faculty delivered to us ; With
and under all which reservations, provisions, regulations, and con
ditions, these presents are expressly granted and shaU be accepted off,
and no otherways; And wee herewith deliver up the two original bonds
and bond of corroboration thereof before mentioned, with a particle of
the confirmed Testament of the said deceast Colonel John Blackadder
in my favours before recited : And for the more security, wee consent

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to the registration hereof in the books of Councill and Session, or of
any other proper court, therein to remain for preservation, and constitutes
our Pro'rs for that
purpose : In witnes whereof, we have subscrived this and the eight
preceding pages of these presents, all wrote upon stampt paper, by Andrew
Marjoribanks, servant to Archibald Campbell, writer to the signett, as
also another copy hereof (one whereof to be delivered to the University,
and the other to be keept by me, the said Sir James Campbell, and my
saids heirs, patrons of the said bursary and mortification,) as follows,
viz. : by me, the said Dame Anne CaUendar, att Gargunnock, the nine
teenth day of February, jm viic & thirty-three years, before these
witnesses, Sir James Livingstone of Glenlirran, bar4-- & Mr. Rob*- Fergus-
son, chaplain to the sd Sir James CampbeU ; and by me, the said Sir
James Campbell, att London, the twentieth day of March, jm viic &
thirty-three years, before these witnesses, James Murray & Archibald
Campb.ell, both my servants. Signed, A. CaUender, J. CampbeU, James
Livingstone, witnes, Rob'- Fergusson, witness, Archd- Campbell, witnes,
James Murray, witnes.

BOULTER'S,
OR,
THE ARMAGH BURSARIES,
Now three in number, originated in a Mortification by the celebrated HUGH BOULTER,
D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, dated 21st March, 1733.
Bishop Boulter was born near London, 4th J anuary, 1671-2. He finished his educa
tion at Magdalene CoUege in Oxford, where he was elected a demi, at the same time with Dr.
Wilstead, Dr. Joseph WUcox, and the celebrated Addison. On leaving CoUege he was
successively chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, rector of St. Olave's, Southwark,
archdeacon of Surrey, chaplain to George I., and tutor to his grandson, Frederick, after-
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162 BOULTER'S BURSARIES.
wards Prince of Wales. He was consecrated bishop of Bristol, 18th November, 1719 ;
and was translated to the primatial see of Armagh in August, 1724. It is said that
he accepted the Primacy with reluctance, at the strongly expressed desire of the King.
He died at London, 27th September, 1742 ; and was buried in Westminster Abbey,
where a stately monument was erected to his memory. The services which he rendered
to Ireland, were so numerous and so varied as to forbid any attempt at recounting them
here. It is said that his charitable donations in that kingdom alone, amounted to above
£40,000. The motives of his disposition in favour of the University of Glasgow, he has
himself explained in his deed. Dr. Leechman, in his account of the Life, Writings, and
Character of Dr. Francis Hutcheson, prefixed to the system of Moral Philosophy of that
eminent Professor, (whose father was Presbyterian Minister at Armagh contemporaneously
with the Primate,) mentions (p. ix.) that " he had a large share in the esteem of the late
Primate Boulter, who, through his influence, made a donation to the University of Glasgow,
of an yearly fund for an exhibitioner, to be bred to any of the learned professions.*
This (adds Dr. Leechman,) is only one instance of that prelate's munificent temper."
[The foUowing " Deed of Mortification by his Grace the Lord Primate of all Ireland,
to the University of Glasgow," has been compared with the original in I. 5.]
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN by these presents, that WE, Hugh,
by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all
Ireland, taking into our consideration the great importance of en
couraging true literature in all parts of His Majestie's dominions, and
providing Universities and CoUeges with proper funds for that purpose:
And being well informed that the University of Glasgow, in which
many students from England and Ireland are educated, is not sufficiently
provided with funds to support proper persons to take care of the
University and College Libraries ; and that there are not proper funds
for the maintainance of such students from England or Ireland as are of
a good genius, but in low worldly circumstances, in the prosecution
of their studies a sufficient time in the said University : Out of our
hearty inclination to promote literature, and our charitable disposition
* Dr Hutcheson was called to be Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, in
1729. The Deed of Mortification was given in to the University Meeting by him, 15th October, 1734. 
(No. 27 of Clerk's Press, p. 47.)

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toward all Protestant Universities, have resolved to give, mortify, and
dispone to the said University, the sum of two hundred and fifty
pounds Sterling : And know all men by these presents, that WE, the
said Hugh, archbishop of Armagh, have given, mortified, and disponed,
like as, by these presents, we give, mortify, and dispone unto Coline
Campbell of Blythswood, Esquire, Rector of the said University, Mr.
Niel Campbell, Principal of the College, Mr. WiUiam Forbes, Dean of ye
Faculty and Professor of Laws, Mr. John Simpson, Professor of Theology,
Mr. John Lowdoun, Professor of Philosophy, Mr. Alexander Dunlop,
Professor of Greek, Mr. Andrew Rosse, Professor of Humanity, Mr.
Charles Morthland, Professor of the Oriental Languages, Mr. Robert
Simson, Professor of Mathematicks, Dr. John Johnston, Professor of
Medicine, Mr. Robert Dick, Professour of Philosophy, Dr. Thomas Bris
bane, Professor of Anatomy and Botany, Mr. William Anderson, Pro
fessour of Ecclesiastick History, and Mr. Francis Hutchison, Professour
of Philosophy, all in the said University, and their successors in office,
the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds Sterling, under and with the
special provisions, conditions, and qualifications herein after mentioned,
viz. : That the Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, Professours, and Mas
ters above said, or their successors in office, shall within the space of three
years after the date hereof, employ the said sum in purchasing lands of
as great yearly value as can be obtained for the same within twenty
miles of Glasgow; and shaU take the rights of the lands so purchased to
them, the said Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, Professors, and
Masters, and their successors in office, for the use and behoof of a
student so -qualified and so to be employed as is herein afterwards
described and ordered : Which lands when purchased, the said Rector,
Principal, Dean of Faculty, Professors, and Masters, and their successors,
are hereby empowered to set in lease or tack for any number of years
they shall think proper, not exceeding twenty-one years, at the best
improved yearly rent, without taking any fine or grassum for such
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said lands, after deduction of all taxes and publick burdens or other
necessary charges the said University shall be put to on account of the
said lands, deducting also necessary factors' fees, not exceeding one
shilling for the pound, the said whole remaining free rent or tack
duty shall be paid annually, at the usual times of payment to the
bursars in the said University, unto a student born in England or
Ireland, and whose parents reside or did reside in England or
Ireland, which student shall have attended three years at least, during
three whole sessions, in the said College, in the study of Philosophy,*
and hath taken the degree of that standing in the said University ;
which student shall continue three years further after his admission
unto the said salary during the whole time of three sessions of the said
College, and during that time he shall lodge in the College, and shall
be obliged to give such assistance to the Public Library keeper, and at
such times as the University shall require, provided always that no
more be required of him that way than shall be consistent with his pro
secuting his own private studies in Theology, Law, or Medicine, according
to the rules of the University : And it is hereby provided and appointed,
that the first student upon the said foundation shall be elected in the first
University meeting held after the first day of November next ensuing
after the date hereof; and after the expiration of three years, another
student from England or Ireland, in like manner qualified, shall be
elected to succeed ; and so on continually, once in three years : And in
these elections, the Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, Professors, and
Masters aforesaid, shall regard only the regularity of manners and
proficiency in literature of the candidates who may offer themselves,
and shall solemnly promise and engage so to do immediately before
each election, and shall for this end carefully examine them in their
* The phrase " in the study of Philosophy" having proved ambiguous, the University Meeting of
15th May, 1754, " declared that no student shall be capable of enjoying this bursary, but who have been
gown students during three sessions in the Semi, Baccalour, and Magistrand classes, and are, as the Will
requires, Masters of Arts."— (No. 28 of Clerk's Press, p. 113.)

BOULTER'S BURSARIES. 165
past studies : And it is also further provided and appointed, that in case
any scholar admitted upon this foundation shall by reason of death,
preferment, or any other cause, not continue to attend during any part
of the said three years ; in that case, the residue of his salary during
the remainder of his three years, shall accumulate and accress to the
capital stock of this Mortification, the annual interest of which excres
cence shall, at the election of the University, be applied either to
encrease the salary of the student aforesaid, or to found another
scholarship hereafter for another student from England or Ireland, who,
before his admission, shall have studied three years in Philosophy as
aforesaid, and shall be elected in the manner above mentioned; but it
shall not be in the power of the University to apply any such excres
cence to any other purposes : And it is further hereby provided and
appointed, that if any scholar thus elected shall not attend in the
College from the tenth day of October to the first day of June, each
session, a deduction shall be made from his salary, in proportion
to the time of his absence from the session of the CoUege, and a
whole month's absence during the session without such reasonable
excuse as shall satisfy the University meeting, shall be deemed a
forfeiture of his salary for the remainder of his three years ; and
all deductions on account of absence shaU accress, as aforesaid, to
the capital stock : It is also provided and appointed, that aU transac
tions with relation to this fund, shaU be regularly entered into some of
the books of the University, and extracts of the same furnished to us, or
to our successors in office, or to any person we or they shall appoint to
-act in our or their name anent this foundation: Provided also, that
this Deed of Mortification, as soon as the said sum of Two Hundred and
Fifty Pounds sterling is paid unto the University,* shaU be regularly
entered into the journal books or records of the University Meetings,
with the acceptance of the same by the University, which acceptance of
* It was received by Professor Hutcheson for the University, 17th May, 1734  (No. 35 of Clerk's Press.)

166 BOULTER'S BURSARIES.
the said Mortification shall be deemed as obligatory upon the University
in the strongest manner to observe all the several provisions and limi
tations herein contained, for ever, according to the true intent and
meaning of these presents, and an extract of the said record in the
University Books, under the clerk's hand, duely attested, shaU be given
to us as soon as may be : Provided also, that if we shall think fit at any
time within a year after the date hereof, to appoint any other regula
tions consistent with the statutes and rules of the University, concerning
the schollars to be admitted upon this foundation, or concerning the
manner of their election or admission, and make intimation of the same
by any writing signed by us before witnesses, that all such additional
regulations or alterations shaU be as obligatory upon the said University
as if they had been expressly contained in this present Deed : In wit
ness whereof, these presents written upon stamped parchment by David
Tivindale, the ordinary ingrosser of the University writs, are signed
by us in Dublin, the twenty-first day of March, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirty-three years, before these witnesses: Ambrose
Philips and Richard Morgan, both of the city of Dublin, Esquires.
HU. ARMACH.
Witnesses present:
AMBR. PHILIPS.
RICHd. MOBGAN.
In 1773, an additional Bursary upon the Armagh Foundation was erected in con
formity with the following resolution of the Faculty, of date 1st May of that year,
(No. 75 of Clerk's Press, p. 152,) in which resolution the then Archbishop of Armagh
acquiesced in a letter dated Dublin, 28th December, 1773, recorded ubi supra, p. 192.
Whereas there are two acres, or thereby, of land belonging in property
to the College, contiguous to the acres bought with the money of
Dr. Boulter's Donation, and enclosed in the same field;* which two
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acres have never been stated by the Factor, as making a part of the
College Revenue ; the meeting resolves, that the said two acres should
be annexed to the said Dr. Boulter's Mortification in all time coming ;
and as the inclosure will produce nearly, at least, twenty two pounds
clear of all expence, that the produce should be divided between two
students qualified in terms of Dr. Boulter's Deed of Mortification ; and
Dr. Wight is appointed to lay this proposal before the Primate of
Ireland, for his consent, in case the Visitors of the College shaU approve
of it.
On 4th April, 1806, a Committee reported in respect of this Foundation, that the
two existing bursaries might be augmented to £15 each, and that a third one of £15 might
be added on the same principles with those already established. The minute does not ex
pressly bear that the Faculty adopted this recommendation, but in a Minute of 23d Dec,
1808, it is stated, that " the supplying the third Armagh bursary was delayed tiU a future
meeting."

THE FORFAR BURSARIES
Were instituted in 1737, by a deed of Mortification executed by Robina, Countess of
Forfar, daughter of Sir WiUiam Lockhart of Lee, grandniece of Oliver Cromwell, and
widow of Archibald, second Earl of Ormond, who was created Earl of Forfar, and who
died in 1712. Their only son, the second Earl of Forfar, died in 1715, of wounds received
at the battle of Sheriffmuir. The Countess survived tiU 1741, about four years after
having executed this deed of Mortification. — (Douglas's Peerage, by Wood, I. 597.)
[The following has been compared with the transcript engrossed in the " Book of
the Countess of Forfar's Mortification." — No. 50 of Clerk's Press.]
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN by these presents, That whereas We,
Robina, Countess of Forear, by our disposition and assignation of the
date the day of , One thousand seven hundred and
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pay, within year and day after our decease, to the Rector, Principal,
Professors, Regents, and Masters of the University of Glasgow, or to any
having commission from them, the sum of Five hundred pounds sterling
for the education of five young boys, conform to a Mortification there-
anent, therein also mentioned : Therefore, witt ye us to have mortified,
doted, and bequeathed, as we do hereby mortify, dote, and forever
bequeath the foresaid sum of Five hundred pounds sterling money, to
and in favours of the said University of Glasgow, for the use and towards
the ends, and with and under the conditions, limitations, rules, and
directions after exprest ; and appoint the said sum of five hundred
pounds sterling to be paid to John Orr of Borrowfield, Rector ; Mr. Neill
Campbell, Principal; Mr. John Simpson, Professor of Divinity; Mr.
John Lowdoun, Professor of Philosophy ; Mr. Alexander Dunlop, Pro
fessor of Greek ; Mr. Charles Morthland, Professor of Oriental Languages;
Mr. Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematicks ; Mr. William Forbes,
Professor of Civil Law ; Dr. John Johnstone, Professor of Medicine ;
Mr. Robert Dick, Professor of Philosophy ; Dr. Thomas Brisbane, Pro
fessor of Botany and Anatomy; Mr. William Anderson, Professor of
History; Mr. Francis Hutcheson, Professor of Philosophy; and Mr.
George Rosse, Professor of Humanity, or to their successors in office,
or to any having power and commission from them to uplift the same,
and that within year and day after our decease, (if not paid before the
same shall happen), with annual rent from the time of payment, while
(until) payment of the same : And, in the first place, we desire that the
above said sum of five hundred pounds sterling, be accepted by the said
Rector, Principal, and Professors, as a testimony of our singular regard
for the antient and famous society of which they have the care and
management, and of our entire confidence in their capacity and faithful
ness for managing such dotations, as well as their sincere dispositions and
endeavours for the promoting true piety, good manners, and solid and
useful learning among all the youth committed to their inspection and
discipline : Hereby declaring, that by the said Rector, Principal, Pro-

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fessors, Regents, and Masters, their acceptation of the foresaid sum of
five hundred pounds sterling, they and their successors in office shaU
become bound and obliedged to be answerable and accomptable for the
same, in all time coming, after the said sum shall be lodged in their
hands, as a perpetual fund for yielding interest or annual rent, according
to law, to be applied by them towards the education and maintainance
of five young boys at the Grammar-school and University of Glasgow,
to be nominated and presented in the manner underwritten, and under
the rules, conditions, and limitations after exprest : That is to say, It is
our wiU and pleasure that the Minister, Kirk-Session, and Magistrates of
the town of Lanerk, for the time being, the Minister and Kirk-Session of
the parish of Carluke, for the time being, the Minister and Kirk-Session
of the parish of Bothwell, for the time being, and the Minister and Kirk-
Session of the parish of Shotts, for the time being, shall, each of them, out
oftheir respective parishes, nominate and present, one boy, born of honest
parents, and educate and taught in their respective schools, and who they
have reason to believe are of hopeful and virtuous dispositions and in
clinations, not exceeding ten years of age, nor within eight years of age;
and also, that the Minister and Kirk-Session of the parish of Lamming-
toun, for the time being, shall, out of the barony and lands of Wandal,
and out of no other part of the said parish, nominate and present one
boy, born of honest parents, educate and taught in the school of the said
barony, and who they have reason to believe is of hopeful and virtuous
dispositions and inclinations, not exceeding ten years of age, nor within
eight years of age ; all which five boys are to be presented to the Head
Master of the said Grammar-school of Glasgow, for the time being, in
order to learn the Latine tongue, under his direction and care, for the
space of four years, commenceing from the term after specified ; and
which five boys, so nominated and presented, and taught in the said
Grammar-school, shall, upon produceing a certificate from the said Head
Master of the said school, of their good behaviour and proficiency, to
the said Rector, Principal, Professors, Regents, and Masters of the said

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University, be entituled to a precept, to be signed by the Rector or
Preses of the meeting summoned for that effect, upon the Factor or
Chamberlain of the said University, for the payment of the interest of
the fifth part of the said capital sum of five hundred pounds sterling, to
each of the said five boys yearly, during the four years of their stay at
the said school, at two terms of the year, viz., Whitsunday and Martin
mas, by equal portions, beginning the first term's payment at the Mar
tinmas first after their entry into the said Grammar-school, and the
second term's payment at the Whitsunday thereafter, and so on during
the whole space of the four years above written ; Hereby declaring, that
if the said boys, or any one of them, do not produce the said certificate
before each term of payment above mentioned, to the said Rector, Prin
cipal, and Masters, he or they not producing such certificates shaU forfeit
all right to a precept for that vice and term ; and if the said boy or boys
so forfeiting do not behave and apply themselves, so as to deserve a
certificate of his or their good behaviour against the next term, then,
and in that case, they shall forfeit all right to the benefit of this Morti
fication, as if they had never been presented ; and the annual appoint
ment for such boy or boys shall accresce to the Mortification, to be dis
posed of by the Rector, Principal, and Masters, in manner afterwritten :
And we ordain that after the five boys, or whoever shaU remain of them,
have finished their four years' course at the Grammar-school, then they
shall be examined in presence of the Rector, Principal, and Masters, or
majority of them, who shall nominate and pitch upon four of the five
boys of the best behaviour and most promising genius for learning, in
order to enter into the Humanity Class, and proceed in their studies for
five years, in order to get degrees in Arts, and to commence Master of
Arts ; and during the five years as under-graduates, We order that they
shall, each year of their course, be examined some time in May, and
tryed in presence of the said Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters,
or the majority of them, as to their proficiency and behaviour, and
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of the fourth part of the legal interest of the said sum of five hundred
pounds sterling, for each year of their said five years' course, as under
graduates ; but if they be not approved of, then they shall forfeit all
future benefit of this Mortification, and only have right to a precept for
the time they have been at the University: And further, We ordain
that after the above said four boys or students have finished their five
years' studies as under-graduates, and commenced Masters of Arts, then
they shall be publicly examined, and two of them who shall be found
the best schollars, and of the most hopeful and promising genius for
learning, and best life and conversation, shall be nominated and pitched
upon by the said Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or majority
of them, in order to prosecute their studies farther in the University,
in such arts and sciences and useful parts of learning, as their genius
and inclinations shall lead them, for the space of two years longer, who,
upon their production of proper certificates, some time in May each
year of the said two years' studies, to the said Rector, Principal, Pro
fessors, and Masters, of their having punctually attended during the
sessions of the College the respective Professors under whom they have
studied (with which attendance it shall not be in the power of the Rector,
or of any other member or members of the University to dispense,)
shaU each of them have precepts upon the factor for the payment of
the half of the legal interest of the said Five hundred pounds sterling
for each of their said two years' attendance, and no otherwise : And
after expiry of the said two years' studies and attendance of the said
two students, Masters of Arts, in the University, as said is, We wUl and
ordain, that they be publicly examined as to their proficiency, and
such of the two as shall be found to be best qualified, and of the most
promising genius for learning, shaU be nominated and pitched upon by
the said Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or majority of them,
to enjoy the whole legal interest of the said Five hundred pounds sterling
for two years longer, whereby he may be further enabled to prosecute
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172 FORFAR BURSARIES.
clinations shall lead him to, who, upon production of proper certificates,
some time in May each year of his said two years' studies, to the Rector,
Principal, Professors, and Masters, of his having punctuaUy attended
during the sessions of the College the respective Professors under whom
he had studied (which attendance shall not be dispensed with at any
rate,) shall have a precept upon the factor for payment of the legal
interest of the whole sum of Five hundred pounds sterling for each of the
said two years' attendance as said is, and no otherways: And further,
We ordain, that so soon as the state ofthe Mortification will allow fourty
pounds Scots per annum, by and attour their respective payments to
the five boys and students to be nominated upon this our Mortification,
that the said fourty pounds annuaUy be reserved for the University, to
be disposed of by the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or
majority of them, for defraying any expenses or charges (that) shall be
incurred by this Mortification : And further, We ordain that as soon as
the benefits of this Mortification shall take place, the Rector, Principal,
Professors, and Masters shall appoint notification to be made to the
respective Ministers and Kirk- Sessions of the parishes above mentioned,
some time in June or July foUowing, that they may nominate each of
them one boy to be presented to the Grammar-school of Glasgow, against
the tenth of October thereafter, in order to their prosecuting their studies
at the said school and University, in way and manner, and under the
same regulations and conditions as above, and that so often, from time
to time, as vacancies shall happen, in the manner foresaid : And in case
any of the foresaid Kirk-Sessions shall neglect to nominate and present
in manner above directed, We declare that the proportional part of the
annual rent of the said capital sum, which was to have been applied for
maintainance of such boy or boys, shall accresce to the Mortification, to
be disposed of as after directed : And moreover, it is hereby provided
that none of the vacancies of the saids boys dying or forfeiting as above,
shall be filled up during the said vice or presentation, that is to say, till
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of the said boys at the school and University, in terms of this present
Mortification ; And in case it shall happen that all the boys shall forfeit
or die, the annual rents arising from this Mortification shall be applyed
in manner following, viz.: All the money arising from the annual rent
of the said Mortification, either in default of any of the above-mentioned
Ministers and Kirk-Sessions their not nominating and presenting a boy
to be educated upon this Mortification as said is, or upon the death or
forfeiture of any ofthe boys nominated, and studying at the said Grammar-
school or University, either as Under-graduates, or Graduates, during the
foresaid space of thirteen years, shall be converted to a principal sum at
the expiration of each thirteen years, during the existence of this Morti
fication, and added to the foresaid capital sum of Five hundred pounds ster
ling ; and the annual rent of the said converted principal sum shall (be)
applied for a proportional increase of the yearly payments to the students
in the University, Under-graduates, and Graduates, who shall succeed by
virtue of the next subsequent presentation, but not to any of the boys at
the Grammar-school; and so also, in all time coming, until the annual pay
ments to each ofthe Under-graduates, students in the University, increase
to the sum of eight pounds sterling per annum, and the annual payments
to the Graduates, Masters of Arts, be increased proportionally : And we
ordain, that any further savings of annual rents arising from the causes
above mentioned, shall, at the expiration of each thirteen years, be
accumulated and converted to principal sums, to be lent out on good
security tiU such sums shall amount to a capital sum sufficient to yield
eight pounds sterling per annum, which we appoint to be applied for the
annual maintainance of an Under-graduate at the University, to be
presented by the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or the ma
jority of them, and to be under the same regulations and rules as the
other students above mentioned, but to continue only for five years;
and so from time to time to be presented after the expiration of every
five years, by the said Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or
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of any farther savings of the Mortification that shall afterwards happen:
And it is also hereby provided, that the above regulations shall take place
in aU subsequent presentations and vices, as weU as in the first presenta
tion : And seeing our only aim and design in this our Mortification is
the glory of God, the advantage of the University and Grammar-school
of Glasgow, and the real good and improvement of the schollars to be
nominated upon it, therefore, and that these our sincere intentions
may not be frustrated, We obtest and earnestly intreat aU persons con
cerned, either in the management of the fund, the presentation and
examination of the boys and schollars, or in signing certificates for their
promotions, or in the discharge of any other duty enjoined by or
relating to this Mortification, that they act without respect to any person
or persons whatsoever, as in the sight of Almighty God, to whom they
must be accountable at the last and great day for their whole conduct
in this as well as in other affairs : And lastly, We appoint and ordain,
that a book be kept by the University Clerk (to which aU concerned
shall have access), wherein this our Mortification shall be recorded, and
all transactions in consequence of the same that shall happen from time
to time, concerning presentations, examinations, deprivations, forfeitures,
deaths, promotions, precepts and payments, savings and improvements,
and others, conform to the directions above given; and also, what
particular study the Masters of Arts upon this Mortification, during their
four years' attendance, have been chiefly employed in, and what farther
course of hfe they shall have in view upon their quitting the University:
And we also appoint, that a copy of this our Mortification be openly read
in the first and all subsequent meetings of each ofthe above-named Kirk-
Sessions, immediately before they proceed to nominate and present the
boys that are to be sent to the said Grammar-school ; and likewise, that a
copy of the same be openly read in the first and all subsequent meetings
ofthe Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, immediately before they
proceed to the examination or promotion of the schollars or students in
the said school and University, conform to the directions above speci-

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fied : And we consent to the registration hereof in the books of Council
and Session, or any other judges' books competent, to remain therein for
preservation ; And for that effect we constitute
our procurators : In witness whereof (written on stampt
paper by David Tivindale, schoolmaster in Glasgow,) We have subscrived
this and the six preceeding pages, att Glasgow, the twenty-third day of
March one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven years, before these
witnesses, John Baxter, our servant, and the said David Tivindale.
R. Forfar. John Baxter, witness. Da. Tivindale, witness.
Registered in the Commissary Court Books at Glasgow, 28th June,
1737.
In the subsequent year, the Countess addressed the foUowing communication
To the Rector, Principal, and Professors of the University
of Glasgow.
Gentlemen, It being our fixed purpose and resolution that none shaU be pre
sented to the benefits of our Mortification, made in favours ofthe Univer
sity of Glasgow, but such as are born within the Barony of Wandal, in
the paroch of Lamington, and within the lands belonging to the famUy
of Lee, in the paroches of Lanerk and Carluke, and such as are born
within the lands and regalities of Bothwell and Shotts, belonging to the
late Earls of Forfar : We do therefor desire and appoint that as often as
you intimate the time of presentation of the boys, to be maintained on
our said Mortification, to the several Kirk-Sessions and others concerned
in the paroches of Lamington, Lanerk, Carluke, Bothwell, and Shotts,
you at the same time acquaint them that it is our express will and
pleasure, that they present no boys from the paroch of Lamington, but
such as are born in the Barony of Wandal, nor from Lanerk and Carluke,
but such as are born within the lands belonging to the family of Lee, in

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the saids paroches, nor from Bothwell or Shotts, but such as are born
within the lands and regalitie of Bothwell and Shotts, belonging to the
late Earls of Forfar : And we ordain that these our letters be entered
in the book appointed for recording our said Deed of Mortification, and
others concerning the same, for all which these shall be your warrant :
In witness whereof we have subscribed these presents, (written by Mr.
David Orr, our chaplain,) at Bothwell Castle, the fourteenth day of
March, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight years, before these
witnesses, the said David Orr and John Dunlop, our servant. R. Forfar.
Da. Orr, Witness.
Jo. Dunlop, Witness.
In consequence of the capital stock of this Mortification having increased, so as that
the interest was sufficient to answer all the purposes of the Countess of Forfar's destina
tion, the University Meeting, of date 11th November, 1768, besides augmenting the sums
payable to the original bursars, during the several stages of their progress from the Gram
mar School upwards, farther " ordain a bursar on this Mortification to be elected by the
Rector, Principal, and Masters, according to the rules of the Mortification, to enter the
Humanity Class, and to enjoy Eight Pounds Sterling yearly out of the said Mortification
during the five years of his gown studies." The allowance to this bursar was augmented,
in 1807, to £10. For a number of years past, the impossibility of carrying out the
minute and complicated provisions of the deed relative to the original bursars to be pre
sented by the five parishes, has rendered this part of the foundation nearly a dead letter.
In 1811, proceeding upon the clause of the deed of Mortification which refers to
the Rector, Principal, Professors, and Masters, or a majority of them, " the management
and application of any farther savings that shall afterwards happen," " the Faculty agreed
that £1300, out of the Forfar fund, should be appropriated to defray part of the expence
of the new buildings then in progress." — (Minute of 28th January, No. 82 of Clerk's Press.)

GILHAGIE'S BURSARY. 177

AGNES GILHAGME'S,
OR,
WIDOW SOMERYILLE'S BURSARY,
Originated in the last Will of AGNES GILHAGIE, widow of William Somerville, Mer
chant in Glasgow, dated 8th February, 1753. The portion of her WiU relative to this
Bursary is as foUows.
In like manner, I hereby mortify, legate, and bequeath to the Magistrates
& Town Council of Glasgow, the sum of One Thousand Merks Scots
money, to the effect that the interest thereof may be by them bestowed
yearly upon any student of Divinity of good character, who shall be
thought proper by a majority of the Magistrates, Town Council, and
Ministers of the City, and who shall be found qualified and deserving
by them; they always being obliged to preferr the name of Somervel
or Wallace, if students of those names should apply for the benefit;
and each student of Divinity so admitted to this benefit, shaU enjoy the
same for four years successive.
Mrs. Somerville appears to have died soon after the date of her wUl. On 24th
March, 1767, " the Dean of Faculty reported, that in consequence of an appointment of the
meeting, he had enquired concerning Mrs. SomervUle's Mortification of One Thousand
Merks for a Bursary to a student in Divinity, and found that the said sum was actuaUy
paid, agreeable to the said Mortification, to the city of Glasgow, in the year 1754 ; and
that the Magistrates, thinking the interest too smaU for a burss, had agreed to lye out the sum
at interest tUl it should accumulate to two thousand merks. The meeting approves of this
measure, and appoints the Dean of Faculty and Principal to speak to the Magistrates about
adding the past interest immediately to the capital." — (No. 31 of Clerk's Press, p. 204, 5.)
The foUowing extract from the Minutes of the Magistrates and Town CouncU, ex
plains the subsequent history of this Foundation.
At Glasgow, the sixteenth day of August, 1780.
The said day, the Magistrates and Council being in council assembled,

178 GILHAGIE'S BURSARY.
there was presented a memorial for the College of Glasgow, setting
forth that Agnes Gilhagie, widow of William Somerville, merchant in
Glasgow, did by her latter Will, appoint Thomas Wallace, merchant in
Glasgow, and Robert Colquhoun, writer there, (who she named her
executors,) to pay to the Magistrates and Council One Thousand Merks,
the interest whereof she appointed to be paid yearly to a student of
Divinity of good character, to be named by a majority of the Magistrates,
Town Council, & Ministers of the City, each student to enjoy the burse
for four years successively, and that the said sum was paid to the
Town's Treasurer; but that no meeting of the Magistrates, Council,
& Ministers, had hitherto happened, for naming any student for the
benefit of the said burse, whereby no interest had been paid on the sum
mortified since Martinmas, seventeen hundred and fifty-four, and that
the principal and interest at Whitsunday last amounted to One Hun
dred and Twenty-six Pounds Seven Shillings and Ninepence two-thirds
Sterling ; and craving that the arrears of interest owing at Whitsunday
last, should be accumulated into one sum with the principal sum, and
that Six Pounds Six Shillings Sterling as the interest of the said
accumulated sum should be bestowed yearly hereafter upon a student
of Divinity for his better support during his studies : Which Memorial
being read and considered by the Magistrates and Council, they agree
to accumulate the interest with the principal sum, as craved, provided
it shall be instructed that the foresaid principal sum of One Thousand
Merks was paid to the City at Martinmas, seventeen hundred and fifty-
four; and upon that being done, agree to call a meeting for naming a
student in terms of the Mortification, and to pay him the interest of the
accumulated sum during the time of his enjoying the benefit of the
Mortification. Extracted from the Records of Council, by
JOHN ORR.

It appears from the Minutes of " a meeting of the Patrons of Mrs. Agnes Gilhagie 's
mortification," held on the 25th Sept., 1781, that being satisfied from the Records of CouncU

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that the foresaid One Thousand Merks was paid to James Spreul, Treasurer to the City of
Glasgow, in Sept., 1755, they proceeded to nominate a Bursar, on the terms specified in
the above recited extract.— (See also 28th February, 1782 ; No. 77 of Clerk's Press,
p. 165.)

DANIEL BAXTER'S BURSARY
Was instituted by a Settlement of MR. DANIEL BAXTER, BookseUer in Glasgow, dated
14th Oct., 1776, partly altered by a writing dated 24th Feb., 1779.
Mr. Baxter was elected Preceptor of the Town's Hospital, 22d Nov., 1759, and con
tinued to fiU that office tiU 1769.— (Cleland's Annals, II. 138.)
Mr. Baxter having, by his Settlement, made over the half of his property to the
Preceptor and Patrons of Hutchesons' Hospital, the deed is printed at length in the Ap
pendix to the Rules, Regulations, and History of that Institution, p. xxxix. The portion
relating to this Bursary, is as foUows ;
And the said Preceptor and Patrons shaU also make payment to a young
man, whose father is or was a Burgess and Gild brother of the burgh of
Glasgow, who has passed part of his studies in the University of Glas
gow, and is to follow them out there, in order to become a preacher of
the gospel, Eight Pounds Sterling yearly for six years; two of these
years during his study of the Moral and Natural Philosophy, and the
other four at Divinity; commencing the first year's payment at the first
term of Candlemas that shall occur twelve months after my decease; and
the said Burse is to be bestowed or presented to one qualified as above,
at the end of each six years successive in all time coming, unless the
same shall become sooner vacant by the death of the bursar, or his
leaving the University, when it is again of new to be bestowed as afore
said : and it is declared that the said Preceptor and Patrons together
with the Principal, Professors of Divinity, Natural PhUosophy, Moral

180 THE BRISBANE BURSARY.
PhUosophy, and Logick, in the said University, or majority of them, shall
have the power of bestowing and electing said Bursar.
But on these provisions of his original settlement, Mr. Baxter, in the writing of
February, 1779, made the foUowing alterations.
lmo- The bursary to be given to a good boy, son of a burgess and
gild brother of this burgh, attending the Humanity Class, well recom
mended, especially by his former teachers, [to] be at the disposal of the
Magistrates, Dean of Guild, and Convener, the Ministers of the city,
the Principal and Professor of Divinity, and the five Regents ; to con
tinue the five years he attends the several gown classes, and the first
year he attends the Divinity Hall ; as it is judged a young man of
merit may, in that time, be able to push his way so as to pursue his
education thereafter. *m. ja jt «y, j,i.
tp w "Jt" •Jr -sp
5t0- I appoint that any person who can make out propinquity to
the fourth degree, be preferred to these charities before any stranger;
and, after such relations, the names of Baxter, Barr, Wingate, Cun
ninghame, and Cameron, if weU recommended, and burgesses and gild
brothers, and that they be preferred in the order they are herein
mentioned.

THE BRISBANE BURSARY,
For behoof of a student in Medicine, was instituted by a deed of Donation executed by
Miss Christian Brisbane, 21st January, 1777, in fulfilment of the intention of her brother,
Dr. John Brisbane of Balbegno, who had died before this intention could be carried into
execution. Miss Brisbane herself died early in April, 1780. — (No. 76 of Clerk's Press,
p. 343.) Their father, Dr. Thomas Brisbane, was the first Professor of Anatomy in this
University. His admission, (which is recorded in No. 7 of Clerk's Press, p. 281,) bears the
date of 7th March, 1720 ; and the earliest meeting, in the Sederunt of which his name

THE BRISBANE BURSARY. 181
appears, was held two days subsequently. — (No. 19 of Clerk's Press, p. 314.) He died on
the 27th March, 1742.— (No. 27 of Clerk's Press, p. 153.)
A century previously to the date of this Mortification, *. e. in 1677, Miss Brisbane's
grandfather, Dr. Matthew Brisbane, Physician in Glasgow, who is reputed to have been
a man of great learning, — and whose father, Matthew, and grandfather, WiUiam Brisbane,
had both been Parsons of Erskine,* — was elected Rector of the University, — (No. 7 of
Clerk's Press, p. 124,) which office he continued to fill tiU 1681.
The present representative of the famUy of Brisbane, General Sir Thomas
Makdougall Brisbane, bart., whose zealous labours for the promotion of Astronomical
observations, have gained for him a distinguished place among men of science, filled the
office of Dean of Faculty in the University during the years 1843 — 4, and 1844—5.
[The foUowing Deed has been compared with an authenticated extract from the
Books of CouncU.]
I, CHRISTIAN BRISBANE, daughter ofthe deceased Doctor Thomas
Brisbane, Physician in Glasgow, and sister german of the also deceased
Doctor John Brisbane of Balbegno, Considering that it was the intention
of my said brother to have established a fund for the maintainance of a
student of Medicine at the College of Glasgow; but he having died
before his said intention could be carried into execution, Therefore,
and in order to supply that defect, and for the regard I have for the
memory of my said brother, and for certain other weighty causes and
considerations me hereunto moving, I hereby bind and oblige me and
my heirs, executors, and successors whomsoever, to make payment to
the Principal, Professors, and Masters of the University and College
of Glasgow for the time being, of the sum of One Thousand Pounds
Sterling money, as principal ; and that at and against the fourth term
of Whitsunday or Martinmas, which shall happen after the death of
Mrs. Grizel Brisbane, otherwise Ogilvie, widow of the said Doctor John
Brisbane, with Two Hundred Pounds like money of penalty in case of
failure, and the lawful interest of the said principal sum, from and after
the said term of payment, during the not payment of the same : To
* William, Parson of Erskine, was the son of John Brisbane of Bishoptown, from whom the present
family of Brisbane of Brisbane, to which Miss B. assigns the alternate patronage of her bursary, is descended.
 (See Crawfurd's Eenfrewshire, p. 62; Robertson's Principal Families of Ayrshire, I. 139.)

182 THE BRISBANE BURSARY.
the end and intent that the foresaid sum may be uplifted by the said
Principal, Professors, and Masters at the foresaid term of payment, and
may be by them lent out at the sight, and with the advice and consent
of the ordinary visitors of the College of Glasgow ; and likewise with
the consent of Thomas Brisbane of Brisbane, Esquire, or other repre
sentative of the family of Brisbane for the time being, upon good and
undoubted security, or upon the purchase of land or of ground rent ;
and that the annual rent of the said sum or yearly rent to be purchased
therewith, may be a perpetual bursary or foundation for the maintainance
of a student of Medicine for the space of four years in the course of his
medical studies : But always with and under the regulations and re
strictions after-mentioned, to the strict observance whereof, the Faculty
of the said College shall, by their acceptance of this donation, be bound
and obliged to conform themselves in all time coming, viz.: First, I
ordain and appoint that the representative of the family of Brisbane,
and who shall bear the arms of that family, shall, in all time coming, be
the overseer of the administration of this donation, with power to the
said representative to examine all the acts and deeds of the said Prin
cipal, Professors, and Masters relative thereto, whereof a full and exact
register shaU be keept in a book for that purpose, distinct from the
College Record; and with power to the said representative to caU the
said Principal and Professors to account for their conduct in any court
competent, in case they shall act contrary to the rules of this donation,
and to my intentions respecting it : Secondly, I order and appoint
that the neat yearly produce or rent of the said sum or lands to be
purchased therewith, (after deducing the necessary charges of investing
the money, and of levying the annual produce thereof,) shall be
appropriated for ever as a fund or bursary to a student in Glasgow
College, in the profession of Medicine, to be enjoyed by him for
the term of four years, and no longer, in order to enable him to
prosecute his studies in the said profession with greater advantage;
and I ordain, that no student shall enjoy the benefit of the said bursary,

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unless- he shall be possessed of each of the following qualifications, viz. :
first, he shall be under twenty-two years of age : secondly, he shall be
a Master of Arts of the University of Glasgow, or of some other Univer
sity, but his degree in another University shall not be sufficient to
entitle him to be elected a bursar, till, after an examination by the
Senate of the University of Glasgow, he shall be found qualified to be
received ad eundem gradum: thirdly, of those candidates who are
equally well qualified as to the goodness of their characters and their
progress in learning, that one shall be preferred who shall make it
appear that he is akin or related to me by consanguinity : fourthly,
his election and presentation shall be null and void, unless he shall give
to the said Faculty a bond, with sufficient cautioners, by which he shaU
oblige himself to be prudent and virtuous in his conduct, and to be
attentive and laborious in his studies, and by which he shall oblige
himself to refund all the money which he shall receive from this dona
tion, unless he shall behave as becometh a virtuous and laborious
student, and unless he shall take the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in
the University of Glasgow, and shall present one copy of his Theses to
the family of Brisbane, and- another to the University Library : And I
order and appoint that the said bursar shaU, during the four years of
his bursary, attend the lessons or lectures fit for a student of Medicine,
according to directions to be given to him by the Faculty of the said
College; and that besides a knowledge in Medical learning, he shall
learn the useful modern languages, and such other accomplishments as
are suitable to a liberal education, according to the orders of the said
Faculty: And I order and appoint, that it shall be lawful for the said
bursar to spend part of the four years during which his bursary shall
continue, at some other place than Glasgow, if celebrated as a School of
Medicine, but not tiU he shall have obtained leave for that end, and
instructions in writing from the Faculty of the said College : Which
leave and instructions shall be null and void, without the advice and
consent of the Ordinary Visitors of Glasgow College, and without the

184 THE BRISBANE BURSARY.
advice and consent of the representative of the family of Brisbane :
And I order and appoint, that he shall not receive any part of the
money of this bursary, till he shall have produced certificates to the
said Faculty, of his having attended the lessons or lectures prescribed
by the Faculty, and behaved in a becoming manner ; and that this shall
be requisite, whether he shall study the whole four years at Glasgow, or
any part of them at some other celebrated School of Medicine : And as
the necessary expence of the said bursar may be very different at the
different periods of the said four years, I order and appoint the said
Faculty, with advice and consent of the Ordinary Visitors, and with
advice and consent of the representative of the family of Brisbane, to
settle and determine what part of the yearly amount of the said bursary
shall be paid each year : but upon this express condition, that the whole
of what is retained in years of less expence, shall be paid in the more
expensive years, and that he shall not in any one year have less than
the half, nor more than the double of the yearly produce of the said
bursary: And I order and appoint, that the said bursar shall be subject
to the discipline of the said College and of the said University ; and
if, on account of misbehaviour, the said bursar shall encur a sentence of
expulsion from the said College and University, his bursary shall thereby
become vacant, as if he were naturally dead, or as if the term of four
years was ended : Further, I order and appoint, that the person elected
and presented to this bursary, shall receive payment of one half of his
first year's allowance of . money, upon the fifteenth day of November,
that shall be next after the date of his presentation ; and that he shall
receive payment of the other half upon the first day of May following,
and that his allowance money for the several subsequent years of his
bursary shall be paid in like manner; namely, one half upon the
fifteenth day of November, and the other half upon the first day
of May following. Further, I order and appoint, that as often as
any part of the money of this bursary shall be saved, by the death,
resignation, or expulsion of any bursar upon this foundation, or by

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vacancies, or by refunding the sums which had been paid to any of the
students, by his not complying with the regulations before mentioned,
all such sums so saved or refunded, shall be lent out and secured,
and the interest thereof, from time to time, added to the said savings,
until the same shall amount to the sum of One Thousand Pounds Stg.,
and so soon as this shall happen, a new bursary shall be instituted with
that sum, which shall be lent out or applied for the purchase of lands
in the manner before directed, and the yearly interest or rent arising
therefrom, shall, be paid to another bursar qualified in manner foresaid,
and to be presented in manner after mentioned : And if more savings
shaU be made, the same shall be accumulated, and when such accumu
lations extend to One Thousand Pounds Stg., the same shall be applied
for the use of a third bursary, and so on, as the fund increases. And I
order and appoint that the representative of the family of Brisbane,
and the Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said College, shall
elect and present a bursar upon this foundation, per vices, the first election
and presentation being to be made by the said Thomas Brisbane, or his
representatives ; and when it shall be the turn of the Faculty of Glasgow
College to present a bursar upon this foundation, if they shall neglect
to present within six months after a vacancy, their right shall for that
vice devolve upon the representative of Brisbane ; and if such repre
sentative shall not present within six months more, his right shall
devolve for that vice to the Professor of Anatomy in Glasgow College ;
and if he shall not present within one month more, his right shall
devolve for that vice to the Visitors of Glasgow College ; and if they
shall fail to present within one month more, their right shall devolve
for that vice upon the Preses of the Incorporation of Physicians and
Surgeons in Glasgow : And in all these cases, when the vice is not in
the family of Brisbane, of these candidates who are equaUy well quali
fied as to the goodness of their characters and their progress in learning,
that one shall be preferred, who shall make it appear that he is akin or
related to me by consanguinity: Further, I order and appoint, that if a
a 2

186 THE BRISBANE BURSARY.
lawsuit shall arise concerning the person who is the representative
of the family of Brisbane, the Visitors of Glasgow College shaU have
the right to determine which of the litigants, as the representative
of the family of Brisbane, ought to present during the continuance
of the litigation : And if, in the course of human affairs, the family
of Brisbane shaU become extinct,, the Faculty of Glasgow College and
the Professor of Anatomy in the said College shall present to all
vacancies in one or more bursaries upon this Foundation, per vices:
And if there shall be a vacancy in the chair of Anatomy in Glasgow
College, or if the Professor of Anatomy shall, by disease, be unable
to present, the ordinary Visitors of Glasgow College shall present for
that vice, and act as the representatives of the Professor of Anatomy;
and if the representative of the family of Brisbane shaU leave Scotland,
and shall not appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners to act with re
gard to this bursary in his stead, in that case, the Visitors of Glasgow
CoUege shall have the power belonging to the said representative in
managing this bursary, until the said representative shaU return to
Scotland, or until he shall appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners to
act in his stead : And in case any dispute concerning the meaning of
any clause or clauses in this deed, or concerning the management of
this donation, shall arise between any of the members of Faculty, or be
tween the Faculty and the representatives of the family of Brisbane, or
the said Professor of Anatomy, I hereby order and appoint, that the
ordinary Visitors of the said College shall be a court competent to hear
parties, and to pass sentence upon the subject of dispute relating to this
bursary, there being an appeal from the said visitors to the Court of
Session : And I dispense with the not delivery hereof, and declare, that
these presents, tho' found lying by me at my death, or in the hands of
any other person, undelivered, shall be equally good and effectual, as if
the same had been formally delivered during my life : And I consent to
the Registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session, or of any
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Mr. David Rae, Advocate, my Pro'rs for that purpose : In witness
whereof, I subscribe this and the six preceding pages of stampt paper,
all written by John RiddeU, apprentice to Patrick Robertson, Writer in
Glasgow, at Glasgow, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-seven years, before these witnesses, the saids
Patrick Robertson and John Riddell. (Signed) Christian Brisbane.
Patrick Robertson, witness. John RiddeU, witness.

WALTON'S BURSARY.
The origin of this benefaction is explained in the following minute, dated Glasgow
CoUege, 1st August, 1763.
"WHEREAS the Reverend WILLIAM WALTON, Batchelor of Laws and Rector
of Upton in Huntingdonshire, who has for a long time past taken particular pleasure in the
study of Medicine, has attended several teachers of the best reputation in London, and
has practised since that time in a charitable manner these twenty years, applied lately to
this University, by letter, dated for a degree of Doctor of
Medicine, and is now come here to offer himself a candidate for the same ; and, whereas,
he has likewise declared a generous resolution to make over at present, or bequeath at his
death, to this University, a foundation for a bursary to a student of Medicine, of about
twenty pounds per annum ; and, whereas, Dr. Black reported that upon conversing with
him, he has found him weU qualified : The meeting resolve to make him a present of a
degree in Arts, and of the said degree in Medicine, in a silver box, and in the most
honorable manner ; agreeably to which resolution, he took and subscribed the usual oath,
recorded at the end of this book, and the diploma was ordered to be expeded." — (No. 33
of Clerk's Press.)
Accordingly it would appear, that on the foUowing day, Dr. Walton granted to
the CoUege a Bond, making over an estate to them as security for the payment of £400.
No contemporaneous record of this transaction has been met with, indeed, but on 6th
December, 1769, " a letter was laid before the University meeting from the Reverend Dr.
Walton at Upton, near Alconbury Common, in Huntingdonshire, in which he says ; — ' As
every reflection on my intended benefaction to the University of Glasgow gives me pleasure,
so my apprehension of the possibiUty of having that design frustrated gives me pain.' With

188 WALTON'S BURSARY.
that view, as the University may be put to trouble after his death, he says ; — ' As I have now
an opportunity of selling the estate for four hundred pounds, which is all I can get for it, on
account of the titles not being absolutely and indisputably clear, I do hereby propose to
seU the estate for £400, and to give the University fuU possession of that money, provided
that the University wiU engage to pay me lawful interest for the same during my natural
life.' The meeting having considered this proposal, are unanimously of opinion that it wiU
be for the interest ofthe University to accept ofit, and appoint the Principal to write to Dr.
Walton accordingly." — (No. 32 of Clerk's Press, p. 142.) And in the foUowing year, on 17th
October, 1770, " the Principal is appointed to transmit to Dr. Walton his bond of the date
2d August, 1763, as the Doctor has actually paid £400, at which the estate was sold.
The Principal is likewise appointed to write to Dr. Walton concerning the interest to be
paid him annuaUy ;" (ibid, p. 197, 8.) and on the 30th of the same month, " it having been
reported to the meeting that Dr. Walton had paid, at London, a draught upon him for
£400, as the sum given by him to the CoUege, &c, Mr. Barclay is appointed by the
meeting to get a bond, as soon as may be convenient, for the said sum."
In 1788, on occasion of a stiU more munificent benefaction of Dr. Walton's, after
wards to be more particularly noticed ; " The Faculty finding that the obUgation granted
to the said Dr. Walton, respecting his Medical Scholarship, as per minute of Faculty of
, with which this new institution is connected, is not
engrossed in the Records of the CoUege, they therefore order the said obligation to be
recorded verbatim," &c, — (No. 78 of Clerk's Press, p. 343.) — of which deed as there re
corded, the foUowing is a copy : —
Bond granted by the Principal and Professors of Glasgow College,
to Dr. William Walton of Upton, for the application of his Donation of
Four Hundred Pounds Sterling, for a Medical Scholarship or Burse.
KNOW ALL MEN, by these presents, That the Rector, Principal,
Dean of Faculty, and Professors of the University of Glasgow, whose
names are underwritten, Do hold ourselves and our successors in office,
firmly bound unto the Reverend Doctor William Walton of Upton, in
the county of Huntingdon, and to the Right Honorable John, Earl of
Sandwich, of the said county, and to his heirs, and every the succeeding
head of his family, in the sum of Six Hundred Pounds of good and law
ful money of Great Britain, to be paid to them, or either of them : For
the payment whereof, we bind ourselves and our successors in office for

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the whole and every part thereof, firmly by these presents, sealed with
our seals, & dated the day of in the
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the
Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender ofthe
Faith; and in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and The condition of which obligation is such, that if the
above bounden and subscribing members and their successors in office
shall, yearly, and every year, pay the sum of Twenty Pounds to the above
named WiUiam Walton, or his order, during his natural life, and from
the date hereof ; and, if within a year after the decease of the said
William Walton, the said members do lay out and secure the sum of
Four Hundred Pounds in making a purchase of lands in Scotland, or
upon a good mortgage or other sufficient security, until such purchase
can be made to an advantage, taking the income thereof to and in favor
of themselves and their successors in office, for the use and endowment
of a bursar student of Medicine of the said University of Glasgow, to be
appointed by the Earl of Sandwich, and the heirs of his title and dignity,
being chosen by him or them, out of two students in Medicine, nomin
ated or presented, from time to time, by the Rector, Principal, Dean of
Faculty, and Professors of the said University, and their successors in
office, with this proviso: That if the said Earl of Sandwich, or the heirs
ofhis title and dignity shall, for the space of months from the
date of the Universitys presentment, fail to appoint such bursar, and to
notify such appointment to the said University, that then, and so often
as this case shall happen, the said Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty,
and Professors shall and may proceed to elect and appoint the said
bursar themselves; & which bursar so to be appointed by the said Earl
of Sandwich, and the heirs of his title and dignity, or in default thereof,
to be elected by the said University, shall be admitted in manner, upon
the terms, and with the qualifications and limitations hereafter men
tioned, viz. : That such bursar student be a member and under graduate
of the said University; that he shall, by a writing, declare to the Rector

190 WALTON'S BURSARY.
that he will apply himself to the study of Medicine, and conform him
self thereto, and to the rules and discipline of the said society; and
moreover, that the said bursar student shall openly speak an oration in
praise of Physic, upon St. Luke's day each year, and deliver a copy of
the same to the Preses of the Faculty and Corporation of Physicians
and Surgeons in Glasgow, and to the Earl of Sandwich for the time
being; and also, that the said bursar student duly nominated or pre
sented and elected, and conforming himself to the premises, shall receive
and enjoy the annual income of the said burse, without any deduction
whatever : And moreover, that whatever saving shall arise from vacan
cies and other contingencies, shaU be accumulated by the members of
the said University, and appropriated to the funds of this Mortification,
ay and until the same shaU, upon the whole, be sufficient to complete
the purchase of lands of the clear value of Twenty Pounds neat rent :
But thereafter, in case the said burse shall be suffered to remain vacant
for the space of one or more years, or in case the said bursar student
shall neglect to pronounce the said oration on St. Luke's day, and deliver
a copy thereof to the aforesaid Preses, and to the aforesaid Earl, or the
lawful heirs of his title and dignity, annually, then, and in such case or
cases, and so often as the same may happen, the clear annual income of
the said burse shaU be paid to the said Preses, till the aforesaid injunc
tions are complied with, and no longer; and that the said Preses be en
joined to apply the same with, and by the approbation of, the said Earl,
or his said heirs, to put out lads apprentices to Apothecaries or Surgeons;
and that the said burse be continued to any one student of Medicine for
the space of four years, and no longer to the same student: and that
students of the English nation (if there be such in the said University,)
be nominated and appointed as aforesaid, preferable to those of any other
country, upon and under the express conditions before mentioned : And
that a Registration hereof be made in the Books of Council and Session,
or any other Judges Books competent in Scotland, and with the Clerk
of the Peace in the County of Huntingdon, in England, therein to re-

STUART'S BURSARIES. 191
main for the preservation of the remembrance of this benefaction to
future ages : And lastly, if the above mentioned conditions be complied
with, then this obligation to be void ; otherwise to remain in full force
and virtue. Signed, &c. &c.

STUART'S BURSARIES
Were instituted by the last WUl, of date 3d May, 1809, and CodicU, of same date, appended
thereto, of the REV. JAMES STUART.
Mr. Stuart was born at Upper DaUochie, in the parish of Boyndie in Banffshire,
shortly before the 21st July, 1743, on which day, it appears from the Parochial Register
of Baptisms, that he was baptized. His father, Mr. Alexander Stuart, seems to have
spent his life in Boyndie and the adjoining parish of Alva, as a farmer. His mother's
name was Isobel Simpson. He had three sisters (who, with their famUies, are mentioned
in his WUl,) but no brothers. On a visit which he paid to his native parish some years
previously to his death, he erected, over the remains of his parents, a gravestone inscribed
to the memory of the Stuarts, formerly of Ordens, of which family that had been the
burying place for many ages, and of which he esteemed himself one of the descendants.
After a preliminary education in Boyndie, Mr. Stuart studied for the Church ;
but nothing farther has been ascertained relative to his personal history beyond what is
communicated by his will itself, viz. : that he went to America, and became there Rector
of George Town and AU Saints, South Carolina, and Chaplain to the King's Rangers in
North America. Mr. Stuart bequeathed by his wiU an equal sum to each of the five Universities in
Scotland. He left legacies also to the Academies at Banff and Fordyce, as weU as to
Baliol CoUege, Oxford ; but whether he had any particular connexion with any of these
Seminaries, and with which of them, is left whoUy to conjecture. He also left a legacy
to the poor of each parish in the county of Banff, and extra legacies to the poor of the
parish of Boyndie.
[Compared with Notorial Copy Probate, &c. ; Iron Chest — drawer 6.]
I, the REVEREND JAMES STUART, formerly Rector of George
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192 STUART'S BURSARIES.
in North America, but now lying ill at Newbury in Berkshire, make
this my last WiU and Testament. I give and bequeath the sum of
fifteen thousand pounds, three per cent, consols, and all other my
personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever, unto Mr. George
Grant and Mr. John Bremner, both of Piccadilly, and Mr. Charles
Grant of Bedford Street, in the City of Westminster, whom I appoint
my Executors. * * * * *
I direct my said Executors to sell out five thousand pounds, three per
cent, consols, another third part of the said sum of fifteen thousand
pounds, and to divide the same into five parts in manner foUowing.
*Jfc -V. .If, JA
TT Ir *n" •SI"
To the Magistrates of Glasgow for the time being, I give another fifth
part, in trust and for the use and benefit of the University of Glasgow,
and to apply the interest from time to time, for ever, in and towards the
instruction, and for the better education, of youth, as to the Principal
and others having power vested in them by Charter or otherwise, shall
, JI. M. JJ. J£ Jfc
seem meet. *****
It is my will and meaning, that any person of the name, first of Stuart,
and then of Simpson, shall always be preferred (thereat and also) at any
of the Universities before any other person or persons. * *
It appears that the sum realised for each £1000 three per cent consols, the amount
of Mr. Stuart's legacy to each University, at the time when his Executors proceeded to
fulfil his testamentary instructions, was £670, which was farther reduced by payment of
legacy duty to £603 ; and this accordingly was the sum received by the Town Council, on
account of the University, of Glasgow.
On 31st March, 1812, upon the report of a Committee, the Senate resolved that —
1. The Bursary shall begin in the Latin or Greek Class, as the
Senate shall find expedient, and continue till the completion of the
course of Philosophy in the Natural Philosophy Class.
2. When any vacancy shall happen during the above course, by death
or otherwise, it shall be filled up by a student who is qualified to enter the
class which the former bursar would have entered, the following session.

JAMES ADAM'S BURSARIES. 193
3. Each bursar shall have twelve pounds per annum, and the
balance shall be suffered to accresce, and form a fund to be afterwards
disposed of by the Faculty, agreeably to the intention of the donor.
4. The election shall take place in the month of January, and a
Book be kept, in which shall be recorded a copy of Mr. Stuart's Will,
of the memorial and opinion upon that subject,* and all transactions
respecting the bursary.
5. As the capital is in the hands of the Magistrates and Council
of Glasgow, they shall be requested to cause a Book to be kept by
their Chamberlain, of all debursements, which shaU be balanced every
year at Candlemas. — (No. 73 of Clerk's Press, p. 187.)

JAMES ADAM'S BURSARIES,
Three in number, for Students of Languages and Philosophy, were instituted by the late
Reverend JAMES ADAM, Minister of Cumbrae, in the Presbytery of Greenock.
Mr. Adam was born in 1743. He was the eldest son of WUliam Adam and Janet
Maitland, who occupied a farm in the parish of Campsie in Stirlingshire, called the Clouse,
which their ancestors are reputed to have occupied for about 400 years. The farm-house,
which was situated about 300 yards from the parish church, is now in ruins.
Mr. Adam entered the Latin Class of the University of Glasgow in 1764. How
long he continued to study there, and what classes he attended, there are not the means of
ascertaining ; but it is understood that at the conclusion of his studies he became tutor in
the famUy of CampbeU of Craignish in Argyle shire. He was licensed to preach the Gos-

* In consequence of some uncertainty as to the construction of the Will and Codicil, a memorial
for the opinion of counsel was prepared (18th January, 1812, loc. cit. p. 181.) ; but the answers received, if
any, are not recorded, no book of the kind above referred to seeming to have been opened. A legal opinion
relative to the construction of Mr. Stuart's Will was obtained by the University of St. Andrew's — (See Report
of Boyal Commissioners of 1840, Appendix No. VI. p. 14. Mr. Stuart's Will is printed at length in the same
Appendix, No. V. p. 94.)
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194 JAMES ADAM'S BURSARIES.
pel in 1773, and in the same year he became assistant to the Reverend Malcolm Brown,
Minister of Kilbirnie, in which situation he appears to have remained for eight or nine
years. He is reported to have been possessed of great medical skiU, and to have made
himself very useful to the parishioners in that respect, there being no medical practitioner
at that time resident there.
Not having succeeded to the charge of Kilbirnie on Mr. Brown's death, Mr. Adam
went from thence to Glasgow, where he opened a bookseller's shop ; but this not proving a
successful speculation, he about 1795, went to act as assistant in the parish of Kirkoswald,
where he remained for about four years, At length in 1799, he was ordained Minister of
the Cumbraes, two small islands in the Frith of Clyde ; and he continued in charge of this
parish tiU the time of his death, which happened in June, 1831.
Mr. Adam appears to have been a man of a very shy and retiring disposition ; and
this seems to have been the cause which mainly delayed and retarded his professional
advancement.

[The following is the portion of Mr. Adam's WiU relative to these Bursaries.]
That my said Trustees or Trustee shall, from the produce of my said
means and estate and subjects, at the first term of Whitsunday or Mar
tinmas which shall happen six months after my decease, pay to the
Right Honourable George Boyle, Earl of Glasgow, or to the Right Hon
ourable the Earl of Glasgow, to the Professor of Divinity of the College
of Glasgow, now or for the time being, and the Minister ofthe said parish
of Cumbrae for the time being, or major part of them, the sum of eleven
hundred pounds sterling; which I will, ordain, and appoint them to
secure on land, as soon as a convenient purchase can be made in Scotland,
or to lend the said sum of eleven hundred pounds sterling on good
heritable security, and in the mean time, until such purchase is made,
or security found, to lodge the same in the Bank of Scotland, or Royal
Bank of Scotland ; the perpetual produce, interest, or income whereof to
form three Bursaries, and to be applied as after mentioned by the Earl
of Glasgow, the Professor of Divinity of said College, and the Minister
of the said parish of Cumbrae, all for the time being or a major part of
them, as constant patrons of said Bursaries hereby nominated and

JAMES ADAM'S BURSARIES. 195
appointed : And I give and grant full power to said patrons, or major
part of them, to nominate and appoint three Students of said College
entering or having entered the gown classes, and said Students being
nominated by the patrons as said is, shall each of them be entitled to the
one-third part or share ofthe free yearly produce of said lands, or ofthe
interest or income of the said sum of eleven hundred pounds sterling,
and that for the space of four years, while he is prosecuting his studies
in the gown classes of said College, but not otherwise, he always behaving
himself regularly and properly, and with attention to his studies : And I
appoint and ordain that the said Bursaries shall be called Adam's Bur
saries, and that one of my own kindred shall always be preferred to one
of them, some person of the name of Adam to another thereof, provided
any of my kindred or person of the name of Adam shall be at the time
Students at said College ; and to the remaining Bursary, as well as to any
of the others not filled up or disposed of, the person or persons Students
at said College who are rather poorest, and most deserving, shall be pre
ferred : And I give and grant to the said Earl of Glasgow, the Professor
of Divinity of said College, and the Minister of the said parish of Cum
brae, all for the time being, or major part of them, sufficient power and
authority to do everything else appearing to them necessary in the man
agement of said Bursaries, and to pay out of the said produce, interest,
or income, the expense to be incurred in securing the same, and in
framing and completing the deeds and writings necessary for that pur
pose, and in collecting the annual produce thereof; and farther, to take
the writs, titles, and securities of said lands when purchased, or said
money lent out as aforesaid, to themselves and their successors, in trust
for the purposes hereinbefore expressed, and when the money shall be
uplifted to reinvest the same in the same manner, or otherwise, as shall
occur to them to be legal and proper for said uses and purposes.

196 JOHN ADAM'S BURSARIES.

JOHN ADAM'S BURSARIES,
Three in number, for Students of Theology, were instituted by the late Mr. JOHN ADAM
of the Inner Temple, London.
Mr. Adam was born about 1752, in the parish of Kirkintilloch. His father's name
was James, and John was the eldest son. He entered the Humanity Class of Glasgow
College, in the session of 1766-7.
It is beUeved that for a considerable time after the conclusion of his Uterary course,
Mr. Adam continued in Glasgow as a tutor to young men studying at the CoUege, or
engaged in other literary capacities. Some of his pupils being natives of England, he was
induced to accompany them to the south, and ultimately removed to London. " Soon after
his coming to London," says his executor, "his time was partiaUy occupied as a Parlia
mentary reporter for the Times newspaper, occasionaUy writing the leading articles ; and I
have heard from what I consider good authority, that the elegance and correctness of his re
porting secured the favour of the public to that able journal. He was caUed to the English
Bar, first I beUeve at Lincoln's Inn, and removed his name to one of the Temples to enable
him to hold chambers, but, from an excess of modesty, never could be prevailed upon to
practise at it ; and yet so acknowledged were his abilities, that Lord Erskine, on being
appointed ChanceUor, urged him to accept some office in his patronage, his Lordship
kindly conveying his offer on the ground of his serving his country by appointing Mr. Adam.
The latter, however, said he had no famUy to provide for, and would never take office of any
kind. After ceasing to report for the Times, he became a short-hand writer in the Courts
of Law, by which he gained the principal part of whatever he possessed at his death.
Amongst other great men of his time who honoured him with their friendship, I have
heard him more particularly mention Lord Erskine, Dr. Moore, and his son Sir John Moore.
He was, in the most comprehensive sense, a scholar and a gentleman, and weU worthy of
imitation in every respect. His Wife pre-deceased him several years, and he died in his
chambers on the State Stair-case of the Temple, in the autumn of 1836, and was interred
in the Temple burial ground. His retired habits caused him to be known to very few now
living, and he had outlived all the friends of his youth and early manhood, but to the last
he retained his extraordinary mental powers and accurate memory. I knew him from my
infancy, and sincerely esteemed him in common with aU who had the honor of knowing
him. He was only once married, and never had any issue."

JOHN ADAM'S BURSARIES. 197
[The following is the portion of Mr. Adam's Will relative to these Bursaries.]
I give and bequeath to the University and College of Glasgow, where I
was educated, 1500?. stock in the new 3^ per cents., now standing in my
name in the books ofthe Governor and Company ofthe Bank of England,
to promote the blessings of moral and religious education, and as the
Foundation of three Bursaries for the benefit of three Students of Theo
logy. I wish these Bursaries to commence the first year oftheir attending
the Divinity Hall, and to continue for the space of four years. And I
ordain and appoint the Principal, the Professor of Theology, and the
five Professors of the Gown Classes, now or for the time being, or the
major part of them, of the said University and College, to be the constant
and perpetual Trustees and Patrons of said Bursaries. And it is my
most anxious wish that these Bursaries should be bestowed only on
extraordinary merit ; it is my earnest request that they should be open
to competition to as many Students of Theology, who shall have entered
the Divinity HaU the first year, as choose to become Candidates for the
same, and that after a careful and strict public examination of such
Candidates, conducted in the manner prescribed by the said Trustees
and Patrons, these Bursaries shall be adjudged to the three Students
who shall be declared to be the most deserving, and to have gained the
highest attainments in Latin, Greek, Logic, Moral and Natural Philosophy
and Mathematics. I request my Executors after my decease to transfer
said stock to said Trustees and Patrons, and I give them full power to
sell said stock, and to secure the produce of it on land, as soon as a
convenient purchase can be made in Scotland, or to lend the money on
good heritable security, and in the mean time, till said purchase be made
or security found, to lodge the same in the Bank of Scotland, the per
petual produce, interest, or income of which is to found and constitute
the said three Bursaries. Also, I give and grant full power to said
Patrons and Trustees to nominate and present the three Students who
shall be thus found best qualified to one of the said Bursaries each. And

198 JOHN ADAM'S BURSARIES.
as often as any vacancy happens or vacancies occur, to present another
young man or young men thereto, he or they being always Students of
the junior class in the Divinity Hall ; and being so nominated and pre
sented by the said Trustees or Patrons, each of them shall be entitled to
one third part or share of the free yearly produce of said lands, or ofthe
interest or income of the said stock, and that for the space of four years,
while he is prosecuting his studies in the Divinity Hall, but not otherwise,
he always conducting himself regularly and properly, and with strict
attention to and proficiency in his studies. As to one of the said Bur
saries, I wish a preference always to be given to one of my kindred, [or] to
a person ofthe name of Adam or of Dollar, if equally qualified as to char
acter and literature. Finally, I give and grant to said Trustees and
Patrons sufficient power and authority to do everything else appearing
to them necessary in the conduct of the said Bursaries, and to pay out
of the produce, interest, or income, the expense to be incurred in securing
the same, and in framing and completing the deeds and writings necessary
for that purpose, and in collecting the annual produce thereof; and
further, to take the writs, titles, and securities of said lands when pur
chased, or said money, lent out as aforesaid, to themselves and their
successors, in trust for the purposes hereinbefore expressed.

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INSTITUTING PRIZES

INSTITUTING PRIZES

THE MUIRHEAD PRIZES,
To be bestowed, in the form of Books, on the most deserving Students of the Humanity
Class, were instituted in 1776, by JOHN MUIRHEAD of Teggetsheugh, and the Rev.
PATRICK MUIRHEAD of Dysart.
Mr. GEORGE MUIRHEAD, from a pious and fraternal regard to whose memory
these Prizes were mstituted, as explained in the foUowing Deed, was the second son of
John Muirhead of Teggetsheugh, in the Parish of Dunipace, and County of Stirling ; the
family from which he sprung being an offset from the parent stem of the Muirheads of
Lachop in Lanarkshire. His mother's name was Margaret Sim. He was born on the 24th
of June, 1715 ; matriculated in the Fourth Class in the University of Glasgow in 1728,
and was educated for the Church. His first charge was the Parish of Minigaff, in the
Presbytery of Wigton, to which he was ordained on the 4th December, 1746. Towards
the end of the foUowing year, on the occurrence of a vacancy in the second charge of the
Parish of Dysart, appUcation having been made, to the Presbytery for "a caU at large,"
and Mr. Muirhead having been proposed, he received an unanimous caU. His brethren
in the Presbytery of Wigton, felt great regret at parting with him ; and it is stated
in the Minutes of the Presbytery of Kirkaldy, that a letter had been received by their
Moderator, from the Moderator of the Presbytery of Wigton, "in which he gave him
a large character." Mr. Muirhead was admitted to his charge in Dysart, on 28th January,
1748. Towards the latter end of 1752, on the removal of Mr. Rouet to the Chair of
Ecclesiastical History in the CoUege of Glasgow, Mr. Muirhead was elected (il December,
1752) Professor of Oriental Languages ; and, having been loosed from his charge at Dysart,
was admitted to his Academic office stthnecember 1753. (No. 28 of Clerk's Press, pp. 93
Sth January v ' rr
and 96.) He again carried with him the esteem of his coUeagues in the ministry, it ap-
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202 THE MUIRHEAD PRIZES.
pearing from the Presbytery records, that all the brethren expressed their sorrow at losing
him, and their earnest wishes for his happiness and success in the office to which he was
caUed. It yet lives in the recoUection of the older inhabitants of his parish, that his
memory was uniformly spoken of with the greatest respect by their fathers. On the death
of Mr. Rosse, Professor of Humanity in the same CoUege, Mr. Muirhead was transferred
to that Chair (2d and 3d December, 1754,) which he continued to fill, with exemplary
diligence in the performance of its duties, till his death, which took place on the 31st of
August, 1773. He was never married, and died intestate. His two brothers amicably
divided the small property which his frugal habits had enabled him to acquire ; and it
having been remembered by his brother Patrick, that he had heard him at one time express
an intention, or wish, to found a Prize for Students of the Latin Class, his other surviving
brother at once agreed that this design should be carried out in the manner mentioned in
the Deed. Mr. Muirhead, who was an enthusiastic and accomplished classical scholar,
was by his colleagues associated with Professor Moor in superintending the magnificent
edition of Homer, in four volumes foUo, printed and published by the brothers Robert
and Andrew Foulis ; of which the IUad appeared in 1756, and the Odyssey, with the
Hymns and Fragments, in 1758 ; and which, for accuracy and beauty of typography, has
never been surpassed.
Of Professor Muirhead 's elder brother JOHN, there is little to be added to the record
which the Deed of gift supplies ; as his blameless life was passed in the unambitious pur
suits of agriculture, on his patrimony of Teggetsheugh, which has remained for centuries
hereditary in his family.
The Reverend PATRICK MUIRHEAD, the younger of the two gentlemen by whom
this memorial of their brother's connection with the University of Glasgow, was liberally
provided, was born on the 20th October, 1718, and received his education in the same Uni
versity ; his name being enrolled in the Matriculation Book as having entered under Mr.
Andrew Rosse, in 1731. He was for some time a preacher in Edinburgh ; and on his
brother's removal from Dysart to Glasgow, having been favourably spoken of in the parish
thus left vacant, and an application having been made to the Presbytery for a hearing of
him, he received an unanimous call, and was ordained and inducted as his brother's successor
in the second charge, 10th May, 1753. In December, 1757, he was presented to the first
charge in the same parish, in which he continued until his death in 1807. " From what I
know personally," says his successor in the first charge, " as weU as from what I have
heard, I may safely say that Dr. Patrick Muirhead was an amiable, benevolent, and good
man, and highly esteemed by the whole parish. The aged people stiU cherish a most
affectionate remembrance of him ; indeed, they seem to have regarded him as a father."
In 1761, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Muirhead, then
deceased, late minister of Glassford ; and one of his sons by this lady, Dr. Lockhart Muir-

THE MUIRHEAD PRIZES. 203
head, (after having in a brilliant career as a Student, repeatedly gained the Prize
which his kinsmen had founded) became Principal Librarian, and first Regius Professor of
Natural History in the same University, in which the names of his father and uncles are
thus honourably perpetuated. He died on the 23d of July, 1829, aged 63.
The original Deed is deposited in the College Archives, and a copy has been en
grossed in a volume (No. 112 of Clerk's Press,) intended exclusively for recording the tran
sactions of this foundation.
WE, John Muirhead, of Teggetsheugh, in the parish of Dunipace,
and county of Stirling ; and Mr. Patrick Muirhead, Minister of the
Gospel at Dysart, in the county of Fife, broth ers-german of the de
ceased Mr. George Muirhead, Professor of Humanity in Glasgow Col
lege, in the University of Glasgow, For the Regard we have to the said
College and University, of which our said deceased brother was long a
member, and for the prosperity and success of learning in the said Col
lege, and for the memory of our said brother, do hereby bind and oblige
ourselves, jointly and severally, our heirs, executors, successors and
intromittors with our goods and gear whatsomever, thankfully to make
payment to the Principal and Professors of the said College, or to their
factor or chamberlain, in their name for the time being, for the use
and behoof of the said College and common funds thereof, all and
haill the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, and that at and upon
the eleventh day of November next, but delay, with the sum of twenty
pounds farther of liquidate penalty and expences in case of faillie,
attour payment of the said principal sum, together also with the law
ful interest of the said principal sum, from and after the foresaid term
of payment, until payment thereof; But declaring that the foresaid sum
of one hundred pounds sterling, is meant as a donation from us to the
said CoUege, for the reasons above mentioned ; and that the same is
given by us to it, for the ends and purposes, and with and under the
express burdens, provisions, and conditions, herein after mentioned ; to
the mutual performance whereof, the said Principal and Professors, and
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204 THE MUIRHEAD PRIZES.
themselves and their said successors in office, by their acceptance hereof,
in the same manner and as effectuall as if the present Principal and Pro
fessors, for themselves and their successors in office, were parties contrac
ted hereto, and had signed the same: in the first place, that the foresaid
principal sum of one hundred pounds sterling, shall lie and remain in
the funds of the said College, as a sunk stock in all time coming after
the same is paid, the capital whereof shaU on no account be encroached
upon : In the second place, that the legal yearly annualrent or inte
rest of the said capital sum, shall be applied and laid out by the said
Principal and Professors, and their successors in office, for the promo
tion ofthe study of Humanity in the said College, in the following man
ner : — Primo, That the said annualrent or interest, shall be applied in
the purchase of books, to be distributed as prizes to those students at
tending the Humanity Class in the said College, who shall be thought
most deserving : Secundo, That the prizes be distributed, and given to
those students in the said Humanity Class, who shall excel in exercises
to be given out, and prescribed to them, by the Professor of Humanity
in the said College for the time being, who shall be obliged to present
to the Principal and Professors in the said College for the time being,
yearly, such exercises as he shall think most proper for trying the skill
and knowledge of the students in the said Humanity Class, according
to whose skill and performance the said prizes shall be yearly distributed
by the determination of the said Principal and Professors, or the major
part of them present for the time, who are hereby authorised and em
powered to judge upon the merits of the different candidates, and to
determine accordingly: Tertio, That the prizes shall be annually deter
mined and given, on or before the tenth day of June in every year :
Quarto, That the Professor of Humanity present, and his successors in
office, shall have the care and charge of purchasing the said books to be
given in prizes as aforesaid, and shall expend the whole of the annual
or legal interest of the foresaid sum of one hundred pounds sterling, and
shall give in his accounts to the said Principal and Professors, on or be-

THE MUIRHEAD PRIZES. 205
fore the tenth day of June annually ; and his discharged account shall
be a sufficient and legal voucher for the said College and their factor
for the time being, to deburse the said yearly interest: Quinto, Declaring,
nevertheless, that if at any time hereafter, it shall be found and deter
mined by two-third parts of the Principal and Professors of the said
College, the Professor of Humanity for the time being always one of
the number, that the applying the yearly interest of the mortified sum,
in any other method than the one hereby pointed out, will contribute
more effectually to promote the study of Humanity, in that case, it shall
be in the power of the said ^rin cipal and Professors for the time, or
two-third parts of their number, the Professor of Humanity being always
one, to alter the mode of applying the said interest, providing always
that the capital be not encroached upon, and that the interest be applied
for promoting the study of Humanity in the said College, which it is
our intention, by the present donation, to encourage : Sexto, That the
payment of the foresaid sum of one hundred pounds sterling, shall stand
suspended by us and our foresaids, ay and untill the said Principal and
Professors shall record this Deed of Donation in a competent register,
and furnish us, or either of us, with a sufficient authentic extract thereof,
from which their acceptance hereof shall be sufiiciently vouched and in
structed, and they and their successors in office, in all time coming, be
bound to implement and fulfill the terms and conditions herein before
written, upon which the foresaid sum is sunk in their hands : Providing
always, likeas it is hereby specially provided and declared, that in case
the said Principal and Professors, and their successors in office, shall at
any time hereafter Faill, Omit or Neglect to apply the annual legal in
terest of the foresaid sum in the manner herein before prescribed, or to
the promoting of the study of Humanity, according to the true intent
and meaning of this deed, in that event the said Principal and Profes
sors so failing, omitting, or neglecting, shall for themselves, their suc
cessors in office, and the said College, Forfeit, Amitt, and Lose all right
and title to the foresaid sum of one hundred pounds sterling, and the

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same shall revert and return to us, our heirs and successors ; for which
end action shall be competent at our instance against them, as accords
of law: And consent to the registration hereof in the Books of Councill
and Session, or others competent, therein to remain for preservation ;
and if need bees, that letters of horning on six days charge, and all
other execution needful, may pass hereon in form, as effeirs ; and con
stitute pro'rs: In
witness whereof, these presents consisting of this and the two preceding
pages, written upon stampt paper, by James Lennox, apprentice to
Joseph Crombie, writer in Glasgow, are subscribed by us as follows,
vizt. : — By me, the said John Muirhead, at Teggetsheugh, the tenth day
of September, seventeen hundred and seventy-six years, before these
witnesses, Archd- Muirhead of Croftfoot, and Thomas Bruce, son to John
Bruce, tenant in Broomhill ; and by me, the said Mr. Patrick Muirhead,
at Dysart, the fifth day of October, and year foresaid, before these wit
nesses, David Black, maltman in Dysart, and William Wilson, school
master there ; the places and dates of the said subscriptions, and names,
and designations of the witnesses above named, being insert and fiUed
up by John M'Ewan, clerk to Joseph Crombie, above designed, and who
is also inserter of the term of payment. (Signed,) John Muirhead,
Patrick Muirhead, Archd- Muirhead, witness, Thomas Bruce, witness,
David Black, witness, William Wilson, witness.

THE GARTMORE GOLD MEDAL,
To be given, once in two years, for the best Discourse on Political Liberty, or on any
subject intimately connected with the nature, foundation, advantages, and support of
Political Liberty, was instituted in 1787, by ROBERT GRAHAM, Esq. of Gartmobe.
Mb. Graham was second son of Nicol Graham, of Gartmore, and Lady Margaret
Cunninghame, daughter of William, twelfth Earl of Glencairn. His father, who is be-

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lieved to have been bred to the Scottish Bar, was an active county magistrate, and emi
nently useful in suppressing those depredations which, for some time after 1745, were
carried on to a considerable extent by those who had been dispersed in consequence of the
unfortunate insurrection of that year.
Mr. Graham was educated at Glasgow CoUege. His name, and that of his elder
brother WiUiam, are to be found in the list of students who were matriculated in 1749,
under Mr. Robert Dick, then Professor of Natural Philosophy. At an early period of life
he went to Jamaica, where he resided for many years, holding the office of Receiver-General,
and married Miss Taylor, sister of Sir John and Mr. Simon Taylor, of the family of Taylor
of Borrowfield, in Forfarshire, and aunt of Mrs. Watson Taylor, who ultimately suc
ceeded to their fortune. On his return to Scotland, he assumed the name of Bontine, and
settled on the estate of Ardoch, near Dumbarton, which had been entailed on him by Nicol
Bontine, Esq., the former proprietor, his near relative. His elder brother having prede
ceased their father, without male issue, on the death of the latter, in 1775, the succession
to the famUy estate of Gartmore devolved on him, whereupon he resumed his paternal
name, and fixed his residence at Gartmore House during the remaining period of his life.
Mr. Graham was a man of a highly cultivated mind, an elegant classical scholar,
and a poet of no mean pretensions. None of his poetical compositions have been brought
before the pubUc, with the exception of one — the well-known and universaUy admired verses
" TeU me how to woo thee, love," — respecting the merits of which, we may refer to the
opinion of a very competent judge.* He was also the reputed author of the paper No. 8
of the " Mirror," which was pubUshed in 1779, and announced as having been received
from an unknown correspondent.
The circumstance of his own education, and that of his elder brother, having been
completed in the University of Glasgow, and the fact that, in the previous generation, his
father and uncle were also Students in the same University, (having both matriculated in
1711, under Mr. Andrew Rosse, Professor of Humanity,) could not fail to give Mr. Graham
a warm interest in its prosperity. This was probably confirmed by his intercourse with
Professor Richardson, who went to reside, about the time of Mr. Graham's succession to his
paternal estate, at a cottage on the banks of the Forth, in the immediate vicinity of Gartmore
House, where he spent his summers tiU 1790. Mr. Richardson was a native of the same
* In introducing this song into the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," Sir Walter Scott said,
(2d edition) " The following verses are taken down from recitation, and are averred to be of the age of
Charles I. They have, indeed, much of the romantic expression of passion common to the poets of that
period, whose lays still reflected the setting beams of chivalry; but since their publication in tlie first edition
of this work, the editor has been assured that they were composed by the late Mr. Graham of Gartmore."
And the Editor of Sir Walter's Poetical Works states, that he was told by Sir Walter, that when these verses
were included in the first edition ofthe " Minstrelsy," he believed them to have been the composition of the
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district, and had been early known to Mr. Graham. Their intimacy was now renewed, and,
cemented by the sympathy of their tastes in poetry and literature, it was kept up to the
end of Mr. Graham's life. Through this friendship, he became weU acquainted with the
then Professors of Glasgow College, particularly with Mr. Thomas HamUton, Dr. Macleod,
Mr. Millar, and Mr. Young ; and this probably led to his being elected, in 1785, Lord Rector
of the University, as the successor of Edmund Burke, on quitting which office he instituted
the Prize now in question.
As explanatory of the class of topics which he required to be prescribed for the
Essays for his Prize Medal, it may not be unsuitable to mention, that Mr. Graham was
connected by similarity of views on pubUc matters, as weU as by friendship, with Mr. Fox,
Mr. Sheridan, Sir Thomas Dundas, and the leading Whigs of the time, both in England
and Scotland. He took a deep interest in what was then one of the leading objects of the
Reformers in this part of the kingdom, viz., the reform of the Royal Burghs ; was chair
man of the Convention of Delegates of Burghs, which met in Edinburgh for the purpose of
promoting that measure ; and in furtherance of the object, published a letter to Mr. Pitt,
"On the Internal Government of the Royal Burghs of Scotland." Entertaining these
opinions, it was natural that he should wish to direct the thoughts of the rising generation
, to the value of constitutional principles.
On the elevation of Sir Thomas Dundas to the peerage in 1794, Mr. Graham was
chosen, without opposition, to succeed him as representative of the county of Stirling. In
his latter years, he suffered severely from hereditary gout, under frequent attacks of which
his constitution gave way, and he died at Gartmore on the 11th December, 1797, at the
age of 62. The following copy (from the Sheriff-Court Books of Lanarkshire, where it was
registered on the 24th March, 1788,) has been compared with the original deposited in the
CoUege Archives.
I, ROBERT GRAHAM, oe Gartmore, lately Lord Rector of Glasgow
College, in the University of Glasgow, from the regard which I have for
the said CoUege, and with the view of promoting the success and ad
vancement of the members thereof in learning and knowledge, and par
ticularly in the study and knowledge of Political Liberty, its nature,
foundations, advantages, and support, Do hereby bind and oblige
me and my heirs, executors and successors whomsoever, to make pay
ment to the Principal and Professors of the said College, or to their
Factor for the use and behoof of the said College and common funds
thereof, of the sum of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, at and upon the

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second day of February, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-
eight, without delay, with the lawful interest thereof since the term of
Martinmas One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven, with the
sum of Twenty Pounds Sterling further of liquidate penalty and ex-
pence in case of failure, besides the said principal sum itself and the
lawful interest of the said principal sum from and after the foresaid
term of payment until payment ; Declaring that the foresaid sum of
One Hundred Pounds Sterling, is meant as a donation from me to the
said College, for the reasons above mentioned, and that the same is given
for the ends and purposes, and with and under the express conditions
and provisions hereinafter mentioned; to the performance whereof
the said Principal and Professors Bind and Oblige themselves and their
successors in office, by their acceptance hereof, in the same manner and
as effectually as if the present Principal and Professors for themselves
and their successors in office, were partys to these presents, and had sub
scribed the same : And in the First Place, It is hereby provided, that
the foresaid principal sum of One hundred pounds sterling, shall lie and
remain in the funds of the said College, as a sunk stock in all time
coming after the same is paid, the capital whereof shall on no account
be encroached upon : In the Second Place, That the legal annualrent
or interest of the said capital sum shall be applied and laid out by the
said Principal and Professors, and their successors in office, for the pro
motion of the study of Political Liberty in the said College, in the fol
lowing manner : — First, That the annualrent of the foresaid sum of
one hundred pounds sterling, shall be applied for the purchase of a
Medal, to be called " The Gartmore Medal or Prize," to be given once
in the two years as a prize for the best discourse on Political Liberty,
or any subject intimately connected with the nature, foundation, advan
tages, and support of Political Liberty : Second, That the discourse for
which the said prize shall be given, shall be composed by a student actu
ally attending and studying in the College of Glasgow : Third, That
the particular subject of the discourse shall be prescribed by the Faculty
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of the College : Fourth, That the subject shall be announced, the dis
courses transmitted to the Faculty, and judgment given concerning
them, in the same manner as is usuaUy practised in regard to the prizes
given at this time by the University : Provided always, as it is hereby
expressly provided and declared, that in case it shall appear at any com
petition, that none of the discourses given in are worthy of a prize, in
that case the medal or prize shall be withheld, at every time that the
discourses appear undeserving, and shall come in place of the medal
offered for the prize at the end of the next two years ; and the interest
of the foresaid One hundred pounds for these two years, shall, at the
time aforesaid, be accumulated along with the surplus aftermentioned,
in manner and for the purposes after specified : Fieth, That the Prin
cipal and Professors and their successors in office in all time coming,
shall be bound to transmitt to me or my representative in the estate of
Gartmore, immediately after the giving of the prize, a copy of the dis
course for which it has been obtained : Sixth, That the medal shall be
of gold, of the intrinsic value of Five pounds fifteen shillings and six
pence, having engraved on one side, a representation ofthe front ofthe
College, with this inscription, " Ex Acad. Glasg. Decreto Tulit,"
and on the reverse,. a figure of Liberty presenting a wreath of laurel,
with this motto, " Libertate Extincta Nulla Virtus ;" the dies of
which medal, made at my expence, I hereby assign to the said Principal
and Professors, as the same lie at this date in the custody of John Milton,
engraver to his Majesty's Mint in the Tower of London ; and I have
herewith delivered to the said Principal and Professors, a bond by the
said John Milton, dated the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, obliging himself to deliver the said dies
to the College when required, and obliging himself whUe the dies remain
in his custody, to furnish the College with medals of the kind above
described, at the price of six pounds six shillings, being five pounds
fifteen shillings and sixpence for the intrinsic value, and ten shiUings
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from the annualrent of the said One hundred pounds sterling, they shall
be accumulated till a capital be made, the legal interest of which shall
be Eight pounds sterling, upon which a Bursary shall be founded in the
sole gift of me or the representative of the family of Gartmore, for the
encouragement of literature in the University of Glasgow: Eighth,
That the said Bursary shall be given to a student entering the Humanity
Class in the said College, who shall retain it for four years, and it shall
not be given twice to the same person : Ninth, That any more sur
pluses arising from the original One hundred pounds, shall be laid out
in founding similar Bursaries, or in any way for encouraging literature
at the University of Glasgow, which the representative of the family of
Gartmore shall think proper : Tenth, In case at any time hereafter it
shall be found and determined by two-thirds in number of the Principal
and Professors of the said College, (the Professors of Law and Moral
Philosophy being always of the number) with the concurrence of the
representative of the family of Gartmore, that the applying the foresaid
sum in any other method than the one hereby pointed out, will contri
bute more effectually to promote the study of Political Liberty in the
College, then it shall be in the power of the said Principal and Professors
for the time, or two-thirds in number of the said Principal and Profess
ors, (the Professors of Law and Moral Philosophy for the time, being
always of the number) with the concurrence aforesaid, to alter the mode
of applying the said interest : Provided always that the capital be not
encroached on, and that the interest be applied for promoting the study
of Political Liberty in the said College, which it is my intention, by the
present donation, to encourage: Eleventh, That this Deed of Donation
shall be read at every meeting of Faculty when the prize is to be de
cided; and that a committee, (of which the Professors of Law and
of Moral Philosophy are to be members) shaU then give in a report from
a record kept by them for the purpose, of the state of the fund, and
that the said record shall contain a narrative of the subjects prescribed,
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the foresaid donation of One hundred pounds sterling, shall stand sus
pended by me and my foresaids, ay and until the said Principal and
Professors shall have recorded this Deed of Donation in a competent
register, and furnished me or my foresaids with an authentic extract
thereof, from which their acceptance hereof shall be sufiiciently vouched
and instructed, and they and their successors in office, in all time com
ing, be bound and obliged to implement and fulfill the terms and condi
tions herein before written, upon which the foresaid sum is given by me
to them. Providing always, as it is hereby specially provided and de
clared, that in case the said Principal and Professors, or their successors
in office, shall at any time hereafter fail, omit, or neglect to apply the
lawful interest of the foresaid sum in the manner herein before pre
scribed, or to the promoting of the study of Political Liberty, according
to the true intent and meaning of this Deed, in that event, the said
Principal and Professors so failing, omitting, or neglecting, and their
successors in office, and the said College, shall forfeit, amitt, and lose all
right, title, and interest to or in the foresaid sum of One hundred pounds
sterling, and the same shall revert and return to me and my heirs and
successors in the estate of Gartmore ; for which end, action shall be
competent to me and my foresaids against them, as accords of law : And
I consent to the registration hereof in the Books of Council and Ses
sion, Sheriff Court Books of Lanarkshire, or others competent, for pre
servation ; and that letters of horning on six days charge, and all other
legal execution may thereon pass, if necessary, in usual form, and thereto
constitute James Lennox, writer in Glasgow,
procurators : In witness whereof, these presents written on
this and the two preceding pages of stampt paper, by Alexander Park,
clerk to Thomas and Robert Grahame, writers in Glasgow, are subscribed
with the marginal addition on the second page, also written by him, at
Glasgow, the seventeenth day of December, one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-seven, before these witnesses, William M'Kinlay, my
servant, and Thomas Buchanan, writer in Glasgow, who are also wit-

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nesses to my signing (place and date aforesaid) the marginal addition on
the first page, written by the said Alexander Park. (Signed,) R. Graham,
William M'Kinlay, witness ; Tho. Buchanan, witness.

THE COULTER PRIZES
Weue founded by the Latter Will of JAMES COULTER, Esq., himself a merchant in
Glasgow, and the descendant of a Une of merchants of the same city, extending over
several generations. His grandfather, James Coulter, Esq., who filled the office of baUie
in 1 703, and again in 1706, is included by Mr. Ure in his enumeration of a great company
trading to the colonies in America. He died in 1708. The father of our benefactor, Mr.
John Coulter, filled the office of Lord Provost in 1736-37. Mr. Coulter himself was born
in 1718, and matriculated in this University under Mr. Andrew Rosse, Professor of
Humanity, in 1730. He died 6th September, 1788.
Various other bequests by Mr. Coulter attest the UberaUty of his dispositions, parti
cularly a Mortification of £500 for the erection of a school for girls, which he directed to
be caUed Peadie's School, for the respect he bore to the memory of the worthy persons of
that name, citizens of Glasgow, and lairds of RuchhiU, ancestors of himself and his deceased
wife (Cleland's Annals, I. 275.) ; Mortifications of £400 towards the erection of a Bride
well, — of £500 in conjunction with his brother, towards the formation of a Humane
Society, — of £1200 to furnish a fund for Ufe pensions to worthy and deserving persons in
indigent circumstances, — and of £200, the interest whereof to furnish a prize for an inven
tion or improvement in machinery beneficial to trade. In the History of the Glasgow
Royal Infirmary it is said, " The year 1789 was memorable in the Hospital annals, by the
reception of a splendid mortification of £300, by the late James Coulter — a commence
ment of those legacies which have so much contributed to the independence of the
Institution." Mr. Coulter's Deed of Settlement, dated 22nd November, 1787, is recorded in the
Books of Session, (H. S.) 11th September, 1788. The clause relating to the CoUege Prizes,
is as follows : —
ITEM, the sum of Two Hundred Pounds Sterling, which for the
respect I bear to Glasgow College, where I was educated, and towards
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and appropriate, as a small fund in perpetuity, in order that the annual
proceeds thereof may be applied annually, by the Faculty of the Prin
cipal and Professors in the said College, in premiums one or more, either
pecuniary or honorary, to be given or distributed among students, for
the encouragement of Composition and Elocution, upon subjects of the
Faculty's chusing ; and which sum I appoint to be lodged in the hands
of the said Principal and Professors, and to be under their direction and
management ; and in order they may lend out and secure the same for
such annual proceeds as can be got for it.
A discharge to Mr. Coulter's Trustees for the above sum was signed in presence of
the Faculty, 3rd Dec. 1790. (No. 79 of Clerk's Press, p. 98.)

THE WATT PRIZE
Was instituted in 1808, by the late celebrated JAMES WATT, for the best Essay on some
subject connected with Science or the Useful Arts.
After the complete and able manner in which Mr. Watt's career has been traced, and
his character depicted by hands most fuUy qualified for their respective tasks,* it would be
altogether out of place to introduce here any detaUed biography of thatUlustrious philosopher ;
but a few incidents, marking his connection with Glasgow College, may be briefly noticed.
Mr. Watt was born at Greenock, 19th January, 1736. In 1755, being then in his
twentieth year, he "went to London," as we are informed by his biographer, "to place
himself with Mr. John Morgan, mathematical and nautical instrument maker, in Finch
Lane, Cornhill." "He remained not quite a year with Mr. Morgan, and returned to
Glasgow, where considerable difficulties awaited him. Taking their stand on their
ancient privileges, the corporations of arts and trades looked upon the young artist
from London as an intruder, and obstinately refused to aUow him to set up even the
humblest workshop. All conciliatory measures having failed, the University of Glasgow
* See article Watt in Chambers' Scottish Biography, vol. IV., (1835,) and the Historical Eloge of
James Watt, by M. Arago, translated by James Patrick Muirhead, Esq., London, 1839, with an Appendix
containing a Character of Mr. Watt by Lord Jeffrey, and a report of the proceedings of a public meeting held
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interfered, made a grant, in favour of young Watt, of a small room in their own buildings,
permitted him to estabUsh a shop, and honoured him with the title of their Mathematical
Instrument Maker." Eloge, pp. 10, 11.
It has been stated (see Rectors' Addresses,) that Mr. Watt was appointed Mathe
matical Instrument Maker to the University, in 1757. No precise notice of this appoint
ment has been found in the Records ; but it appears from a minute of date 29th October,
1756, (No. 28 of Clerk's Press, p. 194.) that, Mr. Macfarlane of Jamaica having bequeathed
a valuable collection of Astronomical Instruments, which he had formed in Jamaica, to
the College of Glasgow, and " several of the instruments from Jamaica having suffered by
the sea air, especially those made of iron, Mr. Watt, who is well skilled in what relates
to the cleaning and preserving of them, being accidentally in town, Mr. Moor and Dr. Dick
are appointed to desire him to stay some time in town, to clean them and put them in
the best order for preserving them from being spoUed :" and at a subsequent date, viz.,
2nd December, 1756, (ibid, p. 199) "a precept was signed to pay James Watt Five
Pounds Sterling for cleaning and refitting the instruments lately come from Jamaica."
Of date 27th November, 1759, (No. 29 of Clerk's Press, p. 1.) directions are given
for having " the room above Mr. Watt's workshop" repaired ; no previous notice, however,
has been found of the workshop having been assigned to him.
But the most important incident in Mr. Watt's connection with the College of
Glasgow, is that referred to in the foUowing passage of the Eloge, pp. 61, 62 : —
"There was in the coUection belonging to the University of Glasgow, a small
model of Newcomen's Steam Engine, which could never be got to work weU. Anderson,
the Professor of Natural PhUosophy, gave it to Watt to be repaired. Under the powerful
hand of the artist, the faults of its construction disappeared ; thenceforward, the apparatus
annuaUy went through its performance in the lecture rooms, before the eyes of the wonder
ing students." The preeise period of this occurrence seems to be fixed by the foUowing minute,
of 10th June, 1766. " An account was given in by Mr. James Watt for repah'ing and alter
ing the Steam Engine, with copper pipes and cisterns, amounting to Five Pounds Eleven
Shillings Sterling. The said machine being the property of the College, and having been
in such a situation that it did not answer the end for which it was made, the Principal is
appomted to grant a precept for payment of the said account, which is to be stated upon
the fund for buying instruments to the CoUege."
In 1806, the University conferred upon Mr. Watt the degree of Doctor of Laws,
desirous, no doubt, to express by this compliment not only their appreciation of the im
portant services which he had, by the appUcation of his scientific genius, conferred upon
mankind ; but also their gratification in feeling that their predecessors had in some degree
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At a meeting of Faculty on 9th June, 1808, "a letter was produced by the Principal
addressed to him, to communicate to the Faculty, from Dr. James Watt of Birmingham,
the tenor whereof foUows " : — Heathfield, Birmingham,
June 3d, 1808.
Revd- D- WILL"- TAYLOR,
Coll. Glasgow.
Revd- Sir, I take the liberty of requesting you, in your
official capacity, to communicate the following proposition to the Faculty
of your University, and on my part to request their favorable acceptance
ofit. Entertaining a due sense of the many favors conferred upon me
by the University of Glasgow, I wish to leave them some memorial of
my gratitude, and at the same time to excite a spirit of enquiry and
exertion among the students of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry
attending the CoUege, which appears to me the more useful, as the
very existence of Britain as a nation seems to me in a great measure to
depend upon her exertions in Science and in the Arts. I therefore
propose to settle £300 upon the CoUege in trust, to be laid out
at the best interest upon landed security; £10 of which to be given
annually as a premium for the best essay on some subject in one
of the branches of Natural Philosophy, herein after mentioned, which
shall be appointed by a majority of the Principal, Professors, and Lec
turers of the University, and which shall be composed by any actual
student at the University, who shall have gone through a regular course
of Languages and Philosophy, either at Glasgow, or in any other Scottish
University: the prize to be adjudged by the majority abovementioned,
in conjunction with Gilbert Hamilton, Esqre- my brother in law, so long
as he shall live ; and shaU be subjected to the same rules and regula
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appointed by the University. If in any year no essay shall be judged
worthy of the prize, the same subject shall be re-appointed for the fol
lowing year, and the premium reserved for it shall be adjudged at the
same time with the premium for such other subject as shall be regularly
appointed for such year; and if then no adequate essay shall appear,
the said premium shall be added to the principal sum.
I know not whether the interest wiU be subject to the property-
tax, but in any case the surplus, after paying the premium and 10s. 6d.
to the clerk of the meeting, is to be added to the principal annually,
until it shall accumulate so that the interest shall be able to afford two
premiums on two subjects, to be appointed as aforesaid.
I had at first intended that the subjects for the prize-essay should
be taken from any branch of Natural Philosophy or Chemistry, but
now think it proper to restrict them to the following branches, and in
the ensuing rotation : —
1st year, to any branch of Mechanicks or its dependent Arts.
2d year, to Staticks, and the Machines and Arts dependent.
3d year, to Pneumaticks, Statical or Chemical, Machines and Arts.
4th year, to Hydraulicks, Hydrostaticks, their Machines and Arts.
5th year, to Chemistry, its Arts and Apparatus.
In sixth year the rotation to begin with Mechanicks as before, and
so on by five years rotations.
I should request a copy of the successful essay to be sent me
annually, and after my decease to my male representative ; and I
request that no publick mention be made of this donation by paragraphs
in the newspapers, or other ways, until a prize comes to be adjudged ;
not being, so far as I know, actuated by vanity, but by a desire to
stimulate others to do as I have done.
I reserve to myself at any time during my life, by any writing
under my hand, to change either the rotation or the subjects of the
essays, as well as the other regulations concerning them.
Should what I now propose meet the approbation of the Faculty,
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I shall immediately direct a proper deed to be drawn, and the money
to be paid to their order.
Requesting you, Sir, to accept my most respectful comphments,
and to present them to aU the other members of the Faculty, I have
the honor to remain, Revd Sir, Your most obliged
and most obedient humble Servant,
JAMES WATT.
The Faculty having gratefully accepted this donation, on the terms proposed by
Dr. Watt himself, no further deed of foundation seems to have been considered requisite;
and on 10th October of the same year, a discharge for the sum of £300, as having been
received from Dr. Watt, was subscribed in presence of the Faculty on their behalf.
In 1825, Dr. Watt's son, the late James Watt Esq., presented to the University a
marble statue of his Father, executed by Chantrey, with the foUowing inscription. " This
Statue of James Watt, FeUow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and Mem
ber of the Institute of France, is presented by his son to the University of Glasgow, in
gratitude for the encouragement afforded by the Professors to the scientific pursuits of his
Father's early life."*
Dr. Watt died, 25th August, 1819, having reached his 84th year.

* In the Parting Address delivered by Sir James Mackintosh as Lord Hector emeritus, on Monday,
4th April, 1825, he thus referred to this gift.
" I feel peculiar pleasure in having become the channel through which a valuable gift has been be
stowed upon the University. The memory of James Watt is greatly honoured ; and will receive from the
gratitude of his country and of mankind, the highest respect, while talent and genius continue to be admired.
Through me his son has presented the statue of an illustrious Father, to be placed in some conspicuous place
of this University, in which he imbibed a philosophical spirit that has been the means of immortalising his
name. I feel proud, Gentlemen, in being the channel through which this statue has been given ; and I trust
in God that it is destined to awaken in generations yet unborn, the ambition of multiplying the means of
human enjoyment, and of extending the dominion of man over nature." — Rectors' Addresses, pp. 35, 6.

THE JEFFREY GOLD MEDAL. 219

THE JEFFREY GOLD MEDAL
Was instituted in 1821, by FRANCIS JEFFREY, Esq., now one of the Senators of the
CoUege of Justice in Scotland. It was originaUy intended for the encouragement of
Recitation and Declamation among the Students of the Greek and Latin classes; but was
afterwards, with the consent of the donor, bestowed on the best scholar in these two classes
alternately ; and since the institution of another medal, presently to be noticed, for the
best student in the Latin class, Lord Jeffrey's has been appropriated exclusively to the best
student in the Greek class.
This foundation presents the first instance that has as yet presented itself in this
compUation, of a benefactor who stiU survives ; a circumstance which at once precludes
aU idea of attempting here a biographical notice. It may be mentioned, however, that
Mr. Jeffrey matriculated as a student of the Logic class in Glasgow CoUege, under Pro
fessor Jardine, in the session of 1787 — 88, (No. 64 of Clerk's Press,) and spent two ses
sions at the University, there "receiving," to quote his own eloquent words, "the ear-
Uest and by far the most valuable part of my academical education; and first imbibing that
reUsh and veneration for letters which has cheered and directed the whole course of my
after Ufe, and to which, amidst aU the distractions of rather too busy an existence, I
have never failed to return with fresh and unabated enjoyment."*
In the beginning of the session of 1820 — 21, on being caUed, under circumstances
of a somewhat delicate character, to fiU the office of Lord Rector, Mr. Jeffrey deUvered an
Address glowing with reminiscences of the distinguished individuals by whom the Univer
sity was adorned at the period of his first connection with it, and from whom his first
impressions of inteUectual excellence were derived.!
It was on the occasion of his re-election in the succeeding session, that Mr. Jeffrey
announced, in the foUowing words, his design of instituting a prize : —
" I have been early connected with the University of Glasgow, and will
* From Mr. Jeffrey having proceeded from Glasgow to Oxford, it has been sometimes supposed
that he went thither as a Snell Exhibitioner. This, however, was not the case; and the College
unfortunately has not the gratification of including him among the, not infrequent, instances in which its
choice of the parties on whom it has conferred the patronage entrusted to it by Mr. Snell, has been hon
orably justified by the eminence in different walks of literary and scientific exertion to which these parties
have subsequently attained.
t See Inaugural Addresses by Lords Rectors ofthe University of Glasgow, &c. 8vo. Glasgow, 1839.

220 THE JEFFREY GOLD MEDAL,
yet have a pleasure and delight in looking back to this period of my life,
long after the memory of it has been effaced from the minds of my hearers.
To render this recollection stiU more pleasing, I have taken steps to
gratify my taste, by founding an additional prize, in all time coming.
In judging ofthe department of literature in which "it would be proper
to award it, I have encountered great difficulty, as there are already
more prizes in this seminary than in any other that I know of, and all
of them judiciously and beneficially applied. I most cordially agree
with the manner in which a number of the rewards of this University
are adjudged, namely, by the suffrage of all the competitors ; a system
which tends to make them generous and candid, and to inculcate feel
ings which, I am happy in thinking, are pretty generally understood
here. I have now determined to give a prize, to be awarded by the
young men themselves, to the individuals who shall excel in recitation
and declamation, a science, in the study and knowledge of which, we are
so much behind our Southern neighbours. The prize, a Gold Medal,
wiU be confined to the two classes where such an excitement seems more
particularly called for, the Greek and Latin classes, to each of which it
will be given alternately, commencing with the Greek."
The arrangements for placing this Medal on a permanent footing, will be found in
the Appendix.

THE EWING GOLD MEDAL. 221

THE EWING GOLD MEDAL,
Fob the best Essay on a subject in History, was instituted by JAMES EWING, Esquire,
of Strathleven, who, having been born in Glasgow and educated at her University, has filled
successively the offices of Dean of Guild, Lord Provost, and one of the Parliamentary
Representatives of his native city.
Having accompanied Mr. Thomas Campbell to the Common HaU of the College,
on the occasion of his InstaUation (12th April, 1827,) after his first election to the office
of Lord Rector of the University, and having heard Mr. Campbell's Address, in which he
particularly urged upon his hearers the utiUty of the study of History, it occurred to
Mr. Ewing to foUow up the recommendation of his eminent friend by this practical
method of encouraging the Students of the University in the pursuit of historical know
ledge. Accordingly at a meeting of Senate, held on the 9th May foUowing, " a letter
from the Lord Rector was laid before the Senate, intimating that James Ewing, Esquire,
of this city, had communicated to him his intention of instituting an annual prize, to be
given to the author of the best Essay on a subject in Modern CivU History, and begging
this intimation to be communicated to the Senate. The Senate agreed that the Lord
Rector be requested to offer the thanks of the University to Mr. Ewing, for his very Uberal
and acceptable donation, and to request that he wiU have the goodness to suggest a sub
ject for the first prize essay to be prescribed." Agreeably to the Senate's wish, Mr.
Ewing proposed an Essay on the History and Effects of the Revolution in 1688, for the
first competition ; after which he requested the Senate to select the subject which might
appear to themselves most suitable.
In compliance with a request of the Senate, Mr. Ewing afterwards agreed that his
Medal should be competed for every second year only, alternately with the Gartmore
Medal ; and he farther extended the field of research to ancient as weU as modern history.
Mr. Ewing has not judged it necessary to issue any formal instrument setting forth
the purposes for, or conditions on, which, his gift of One Hundred pounds was made, leaving
these, so far as is not above stated, to the discretion of the Senate.
The University had, on a previous occasion, expressed its sense of Mr. Ewing's
various public services, by conferring upon him the Degree of Doctor of Laws.

222 THE COWAN GOLD MEDALS.

THE COWAN GOLD MEDALS,
Three in number, were instituted, two in 1836, and the third in 1839, by JAMES
COWAN, LL.D., of DUdawn, Kirkcudbrightshire, late Head Master of Grange School,
Bishopwearmouth, an alumnus and graduate of this University. The two first were ap
pointed to be awarded annuaUy to the two Students who may distinguish themselves most
in the Greek and Latin Examinations upon the Blackstone, and the third, to the best
Student in the Humanity Class.
The purposes and conditions of Dr. Cowan's first foundation are set forth in a Disposi
tion by James Laurie of Laurieston, Merchant in Glasgow, of a Ground Annual, or Yearly
Ground Rent, of the sum of £20 sterling, payable half-yearly, in consideration of the sum
of £440 sterhng paid to him by Dr. Cowan, of which disposition, bearing date 13th April
and 7th June, 1837, and recorded in the Minutes of Faculty, 12th December, 1837, (No.
84 of Clerk's Press,) the following is an extract.
It is hereby expressly provided and declared, that these presents are
granted and to be accepted of, and that my said disponees shall hold,
and the said Reverend Duncan Macfarlan, as Principal of the said Col
lege, and Laurence Hill, factor of the said College, by their subscribing
these presents, bind and oblige the said College to hold, the said ground-
annual or yearly ground rent, thereby disponed, (along with the yearly
interest, at the rate of five per centum per annum, of the sum of Twenty
Pounds sterling, now paid by the said Dr. James Cowan to the said
Laurence Hill, as factor foresaid, and of which sum he, the said factor,
acknowledges the receipt,) in trust only for the purpose of purchasing
and providing two Annual Prizes to be given at the annual distribution
of prizes in the College of Glasgow, — one to the Student who shaU
most excel in Greek, and the other to the Student in the said CoUege
who shall most excel in Latin, at the annual examination, commonly
caUed the Blackstone Examination ; and which Annual Prizes shall
consist of two Gold Medals, to be called the " Cowan Medals," of the in-

THE CLELAND GOLD MEDAL. 223
trinsic value of Ten Guineas each, with suitable inscriptions, and shall
be awarded by the Professors in the said College, in the same manner
in which prizes for excelling at the said annual examination have been
in use to be awarded.
The conditions of Dr. Cowan's Second foundation were finally arranged by a
minute of Faculty of 25th April, 1848, the CoUege engaging, in consideration of the sum
of £105 received from Dr. O, to provide, annually, a Medal of the value of £5, for the
best scholar in the Humanity Class.

THE CLELAND GOLD MEDAL,
Was instituted by a supplementary Trust Deed of JAMES CLELAND, Esq., LL.D.,
who, for twenty years, fiUed the office of Superintendent of PubUc Works in Glasgow, in
which capacity he rendered highly important services, not only to the community of that
city, but to the public at large.
Mr. Cleland was born in Glasgow, in January 1770. By his industry, enterprise,
and skill, he had acquired a very extensive and lucrative business, when (in 1814) his zeal
for the public service induced him to relinquish it, and to accept the office of Superin
tendent of Public Works.
Having, from 1800 downwards, been caUed on to fill a succession of offices in the
Town Council, he was led to draw up and publish in the newspapers, a variety of statistical
papers, having reference to the various subjects which, from time to time, engaged the
attention of the civic authorities. In 1813, he pubUshed a pamphlet on two matters of
much interest to the citizens of Glasgow, under the title of " A Description of the Manner
of Improving the Green of Glasgow, of raising Water for the Supply of the PubUc Build
ings of that City," &c, &c. In 1816, two years after his appointment as Superintendent
of Public Works, ho published, in two volumes, his "Annals of Glasgow," comprising an
account of the Public Buildings, Charities, &c, and of the rise and progress of that City.
ln 1817, he prepared for the Ministers of Glasgow, their repUes to queries that had been
circulated by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, at the instance of the
Government, relative to the Poor Rates, a subject on which he subsequently published
several tracts. In 1820, he pubUshed a summary of the " Annals," under the title of " The
Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow ;" and in the same year, in preparation for the
National Census, which was to take place in the succeeding year, he pubUshed his " En
umeration ofthe Inhabitants ofthe City of Glasgow, and its connected Suburbs," the first

224 THE CLELAND GOLD MEDAL.
systematic attempt at a classified and authentic account of that population, and a work
which was referred to by the Government in terms of special commendation, and in some
of its details adopted by them in their succeeding census of 1821. That census, so far as
regarded Glasgow and its suburbs, Mr. Cleland was employed by the Government to take.
In the same year, (1821,) he performed an important public service by preparing a set of
Tables, showing the exact contents of the numerous denominations of Weights and Measures
of the City and County, which had, up to that time been so undefined as to give rise to
great abuses. These were published in 1822, under the title of "An Exemplification of
the Weights and Measures ofthe City of Glasgow, and the under Ward of Lanarkshire."
On the passing of an Act in 1826, for abolishing local weights and measures, the accuracy
of his labours in this department was fully confirmed.
In 1823, availing himself of the materials coUected during the recent census, he
published an Enumeration ofthe Inhabitants of Scotland. In 1831, he was again employed
by Government to conduct the decennial Census, not only for the City and Suburbs of
Glasgow, but for the whole County of Lanark, which he shortly afterwards published under
the title of "Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow and County of
Lanark for the Government Census of 1831." How much, on these and various other
occasions, Dr. Cleland's statistical and literary labours were labours of love, may be
judged of from the facts, that the profits of his Annals of Glasgow were made over to the
Royal Infirmary ; and that the remuneration which he received from Government for his
Census in 1821, and again in 1831, was expended in printing and circulating the results
ofhis inquiries. On Dr. Cleland's retiring from pubhc life in 1834, the University took occasion to
mark the interest it felt in his statistical and other labours, by conferring upon him the
degree of Doctor of Laws ; and a still more solid testimony of approbation was at the same
time conferred upon him, which, as being intimately connected with his benefaction to
the University, now faUs to be here particularly noticed.
On the 7th August of that year, there was held a very numerous meeting of Mer
chants, Bankers, Manufacturers, and other Inhabitants of Glasgow for the purpose of testi
fying to Dr. Cleland in the most respectful manner, the grateful sense entertained by his
feUow citizens of his long and meritorious services. A Subscription having been entered
into by this meeting, and a Committee appointed for deciding on the most proper means of
carrying the wishes of the Subscribers into effect, by such application of the sums sub
scribed as they might on mature consideration deem most eUgible, it was by them resolved
that the entire sum, amounting to nearly £5000, should be laid out on a productive
building to be erected in a suitable part of the City, and to bear the name of the Cleland
Testimonial. It is on this property that, in the Deed from which the foUowing extract is
taken, Dr. Cleland secured the annual payment of Ten Guineas to be expended in the

THE CLELAND GOLD MEDAL. 225
purchase of a Gold Medal, to be bestowed at the yearly distribution of Prizes in the Uni
versity of Glasgow, as a Prize for the best essay on any subject to be prescribed by the
Principal and Professors of the said College, to the Students of Divinity and of Natural
Philosophy alternately. Dr. Cleland died 14th October, 1840.
KNOW ALL MEN, by these presents, that I, James Cleland, ll.ij.,
residing in West Nile Street, Glasgow, considering that I have, of
equal date herewith, executed a General Trust Disposition and Deed
of Settlement, disposing of my whole heritable and moveable property,
with the exception of that portion of it called the " Cleland Testimo
nial ;" And I being desirous of making provision for the management
and disposal of that property, and having full confidence in the ability
and integrity ofthe persons after named and designed, I have given,
granted and disponed, as I do hereby give, grant and dispone to, and in
favor of Mrs. Mary Stewart or Cleland, my wife ; Alexander Stewart
Cleland, my son ; Henry Wilson Cleland, my son ; George Burns, mer
chant in Glasgow, my son-in-law ; Charles Ritchie, surgeon in Glasgow,
my son-in-law; William Rodger, merchant there; WiUiam Hamilton,
merchant there ; Robert Dalghsh, merchant there ; Donald Cuthbert
son, accountant there ; William Davidson, writer there ; and to and in
favor of the Very Reverend Dr. Duncan Macfarlan, Principal of the
College of Glasgow ; the Reverend Dr. Stevenson M'Gill, Professor of
Divinity in the said College ; Mr. Robert Davidson, Professor of Civil
Law in the said College; and Archibald Alison, Esquire, Sheriff of
Lanarkshire ; and to the successors in office, for the time being, of the
four gentlemen last mentioned, during the whole continuance of this
Trust ; and also to such other person or persons as shall be assumed
into the Trust in manner after mentioned, all and whole that area
&c, «fec, &c. But declaring always that these presents are granted in
Trust for the purposes after mentioned : First, My said Trustees shall,
out of the first and readiest rents of said property, upon the 1st of
March yearly, pay to the Principal and Professors of the College of
Glasgow, the sum of Ten Guineas, which sum I direct to be expended
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226 THE CLELAND GOLD MEDAL.
in the purchase of a Gold Medal, to be bestowed at the yearly distribu
tion of prizes in the University of Glasgow, as a Prize for the best Essay
on any subject to be prescribed by the Principal and Professors of said
CoUege; Declaring that the Students of Divinity and the Students at
tending the Natural Philosophy Class, in each alternate year, shall be
exclusively the competitors for said Gold Medal ; and the said Principal
and Professors shall decide and fix on the successful competitor, and
award and deliver the same to him accordingly : And I farther direct
that the first payment of said sum of Ten Guineas shall commence on
the first day of March that shall occur twelve months after my death,
and shall be expended in the purchase of a proper die for said Medal,
the device and inscription put thereon to be fixed by said Principal,
Professor of Divinity, Professor of Law, and Sheriff of Lanarkshire, for
the time being, or the majority of them : * * *
Thirdly, I appoint my said Trustees, as soon as may be after said term
of Whitsunday, One thousand nine hundred, to expose said subjects
called the Cleland Testimonial, to public roup in Glasgow, after adver
tising the time and place of such sale, in such Glasgow newspapers and
for such period as they shall think proper, with power to them to adjourn
the roup from time to time, as they may judge expedient, and when sold,
I direct my said Trustees to apply the price of said subjects : — First, In
securing in name of the said Principal and Professors, the said sum of
Ten Guineas, to be paid to them yearly in manner and for the purposes
before mentioned, &c, &c.

39 t 1 5 i

INSTITUTING FUNDS FOR BEHOOF OF THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY.

eetttf

INSTITUTING FUNDS FOR BEHOOF OF THE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY.

ORR OF BARROWFIELD'S MORTIFICATION.
JOHN ORR, Esq., of Barrowfield, by whom this mortification was instituted, matriculated
in the third class of the University of Glasgow, under the charge of Mr. Gerschom Car
michael, in the session 1700-1701. (Mar. 3, 1701.) The next record of him that has
been found is his Marriage Contract, dated 30th Nov., 1714, in which he is designated
" Student of Divinity in Glasgow. " The lady whom he then married, Helen Smith, was the
co-heiress of a deceased Glasgow Merchant, and seems to have been possessed of some pro
perty. Wodrow gives the foUowing very honourable narrative of Mr. and Mrs. Orr's early
career. " Mr. Orr has been my acquaintance since his youth. He was a student of divin
ity under my father about the 1700, and a lad of good parts, for whom my brother
Mr. Alexander had a great value, he being one of his parishoners. After my brother's death
he quite his studyes, and marryed his present wife, by whom he has [had] a competency to live
on, and took himself to trading ; and with Mr. Harvey and some others, who had been gra-
duat and scholars, fitted out a ship whom they named Apollo, but they lost her, and wer
reduced to great straits. His wife's uncle (Mr. Mitchell,) inclined about twenty years ago
or thereby, to be chosen member of Parliament for Glasgou, and said he would leave
twenty thousand pounds sterling to the Toun. But that did not hold. Mr. Orr then intirely
broke, paid all his debts honestly, and had nothing left ; and Mr. A. Dunlop, Mr. R. Sim
son, Mr. Johnstoun, and some others, lent him fifty pounds sterUng apeice six or seven of
them, and took his bUl for it, and he set up a shop in Glasgou for cloaths, &c, and had
many customers ; and being a man of good sense and integrity, he got a Uvelyhood ; and
graduaUy cleared what he had borroued, and was chosen BaUay of Glasgow ; he stiU con-
tinoued to read and was bookish. In his straits he went up to London, and communicat
his straitned case to his (wife's) uncle, Mr. Mitchell, but he gave him litle or nothing,

230 ORR'S MORTIFICATION.
being such a narrou man, one that could part with nothing, and cooked his oun meat ;
and they say would never so much almost as keep a servant. Many wer the straites
B(ailie) Orr and his family went throu these last ten or twelve years. His wife, a piouse
good woman, had a trade of thread-making, and menteaned the famUy, and he keeped the
shop, and they say she gave him eightpence a day for pocket money, most of which he
gave in charity. Nou, on a suddain, his circumstances are altered, and by his uncle's
death (beginning of January, 1730,) he has got forty two thousand pound, in good money.
It's said that it's good to be sibb to gear ; but here I desire to observe the vanity and foUy
of the world, the uncertainty of riches, and the present strange turns of them ; and even
a present providentiall retribution of his honesty and fair dealing, and his and his wife's
diligence, and I hope dependance on God, and their mite of charity." — Wodrow's Analecta,
IV. p. 106. Mr. Orr on relinquishing his theological studies and devoting himself to merchan
dise, did not abandon the literary tastes which he had acquired, nor the affection for the
University which he had contracted during the prosecution of his studies, and on the ac
quisition of the ample fortune referred to by Wodrow, he lost no time in testifying these
tastes and this affection, and thereby probably manifesting his gratitude to several members
of the University for the assistance they had afforded him in his time of difficulty. It
appears from the Records of the University, that, on 26th June, 1730, " the Principal ac
quainted the Faculty that Mr. John Orr, merchant in Glasgow, had been pleased to give and
mortify to this University, the sum of Five hundred Pounds sterling, for the use ofthe pubUck
Library thereof, under and with the special provisions, conditions, and quaUfications men
tioned at length in the Deed of Mortification ; and for that effect had assigned to the Uni
versity a Bond of Five hundred Pounds sterling, granted by John Govan and Claud John
stoun, merchants in London, and likewise had oblieged himself in case of not thankfuU
payment by them, to pay the same himself, the University retrocessing him, and putting
him again in his own place, as to the Bond. And that Mr. Orr had just then deUvered
to him, the said Deed of Mortification, Bond, and Assignation, which the Principal read
and deUvered in presence of the Faculty ; after which, the Faculty ordered that Dr. John
stoun, Mr, Lowdoun, Mr. Dunlop, and Robert Simson should wait upon Mr. Orr this
night, and thank him in name of the University, for this most generous donation, and
particular mark of regard and esteem for the University. The Faculty also appoints that
a Bond be drawn up, by which the University obUege themselves, and successors in office,
to fulfiU the conditions of the mortification, which are to be particularly recapitulated
therein, and that John Sym draw up the same against Tuesday morning next.* Also,
* Accordingly on 30th June, " A Bond granted by the University to Mr. John Orr, merchant in
Glasgow, oblieging the present members and their successors in office, to perform the conditions specified
and required of them in the Deed of Mortification mentioned in last Sederunt, was read, and approved, and
signed by the Faculty."

ORR'S MORTIFICATION. 231
the Faculty appoint that all the books bought with the interest of this sum, shall have
wrote upon their title page "Ex Libris Universitatis Glasguensis quos acceptos refert
munificentise ornatissimi viri Johannis Orr," and that they be put in presses by themselves,
and also, that Mr. Orr's picture shaU be got drawn by a good hand, and placed in the
Library."* In the year foUowing his mortification, Mr. Orr became possessor of the lands of
Barrowfield, in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, (Cleland's Annals, I, 22,) and accordingly
a trust Disposition executed by him, in favor- of his wife, is dated at Barrowfield, 12th
August, 1731. In the same year he was appointed Lord Rector of the University, an
office to which he was afterwards twice re-elected, at intervals, viz : — in 1735, and in 1741,
on each occasion holding the appointment for two years.
His first wife, by whom he had several sons and daughters, having died in 1742,
he in the following year married Margaret Stuart, daughter of the deceased Sir Archibald
Stuart, of BlackhaU, and reUct of Peter Murdoch, Jun., merchant in Glasgow.- He did
not long survive his second marriage, having died 25th August, 1744. His widow sur
vived him fifty years.
[Compared with the original Deed contained in the Iron Chest, Drawer 1.]
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN, by these presents, Me, Me. John
Orr, Merchant in Glasgow, for as much as takeing into my serious con
sideration, how much true learning conduces to the benefite of Mankind,
by improveing and adorning their minds with the knowledge of things
Divine and Humane, and thereby enabling them to act with under
standing, prudence, and integrity in every station, and successfully to
cultivate these arts and sciences which contribute to the safety, ease,
and happines of every nation and society; And also considering that
Public Librarys, or the collection of the writeings of the most learned
and excellent persons in all ages and nations, are one of the best means
of acquireing, preserveing, and encreasing usefull learning, and that it is
most proper such Librarys should be promoted and augmented in
places where there are publick Schools and Universitys. Therefore, and
for the respect I bear to the University of Glasgow, where I had my
* Mr. Orr's Portrait by Mr. Jo. Williamson, was accordingly obtained, and is at present suspended
in the College.

232 ORR'S MORTIFICATION.
education, and with severall of the Professors in it have long lived in
particular friendship and amity, Witt ye me to have given, mortified,
and disponed, likeas by these presents I give, mortifie, and dispone, to
the Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principall, Professors, and Masters in the
said University of Glasgow, and to their successors in office, for the
behoove of the Publick Library of the said University, the summ of Five
hundred Pounds sterling, which summ of Five hundred Pounds sterling,
I have instantly paid in to Francis Dunlop, of that Ilk, Rector of the said
University, Mr. Dean of Faculty ; Mr. Neill Camp
bell, Principal ofthe Colledge of Glasgow; Mr. John Simson, Professor of
Theology; Mr. John Loudon, Professor of Philosophy; Mr. Alexander
Dunlop, Professor of Greek ; Mr. Andrew Ross, Professor of Humanity ;
Mr. Charles Morthland, Professor of the Orientali Languages ; Mr.
Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematicks ; Mr. William Forbes, Pro
fessor of Law; Doctor John Johnstoun, Professor of Medicine; Mr.
Robert Dick, Professor of Philosophy ; Doctor Thomas Brisbane, Pro
fessor of Anatomy and Botany ; Mr. William Anderson, Professor of
Ecclesiastick History ; all in the said University of Glasgow, under and
with the speciaU provisions, conditions, and qualifications after specified,
viz , that the yearly annuall rent of the said principall summ of Five
hundred Pounds sterling, hereby mortified, shall be employed by the
said Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principall, Professors, and Masters, afore
said, and their successors in office, to buy and provide Books for the
publick Library aforesaid, in the manner following, viz. In regard the
writings of the antient Greek and Latin authors contain the most valu
able things in the severall parts and kinds of learning, and that the
library of the foresaid University is yet unprovided with severall of these
antient authors, therefore, such antient Greek and Latin books as have
been wrote before the year of our Lord, Three Hundred and Fifty, by
authors of known esteem and repute, shall be purchased with the fore
said annuall rent, before any books wrote since that time, att least one
good edition of each of such as the library has not aUready a good

ORR'S MORTIFICATION. 233
edition of. And it is hereby provided, that once every year, upon the
first Thursday of the month of January, there shall be held an Univer
sity meeting, in which it shall be determined by the majority of the said
meeting what books (within the condition above specified,) shall be
bought with the annual rent of the foresaid summ, gott for the pre
ceding year, and these books shall be immediately wrote for, and pro
cured as soon as can be conveniently. But in case it shall be thought
proper to buy any book within the foresaid condition, the price of which
exceeds the said annuall rent, then in that case, it shall be allowable
to the said meeting to deferr the buying of books out of this fund for
that year, and the said book shall be ordered to be bought at the next
yearly meeting. And it is hereby provided, that when all the books
within the condition above mentioned, shall have been purchased to the
Library, then the University meeting aforesaid shall purchase any other
with the said annuall rent they think proper. And in the like manner,
it is hereby specially provided, that none of the books purchased at any
time with the said annuaU rent, shall be lent out without the library fore
said, except to the foresaid Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principall, Pro
fessors, and Masters, and their successors in office, and to myself and
my heirs, nor shall they be lent out to any of these persons for a longer
time than the space of four months, and that upon the recept of the
Borrower and his obligation to return the same, and not to lend them
to any other person. And it is likewise specially provided, that once
in three years the University shall lay before me and my heirs, an ac
count of the application of the foresaid annuall rent towards buying
books in the manner foresaid, or oftner within the space of three years
annually, if required by me and my foresaids. And that the Rector,
Dean of Faculty, Principall, Professors and Masters aforesaid, shall by a
write under their hands acknowledge the recept of the above named
summ of Five Hundred Pounds, and shaU, together with their succes
sors in office, be bound and obleidged to manadge and employ the said
mortified stock for buying books to the Library, conform to the con-
g2

234 ORR'S MORTIFICATION.
ditions of the mortification above expressed. And that it shaU not be
lawful to the said Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principall, Professors and
Masters, of the said University of Glasgow, and their successors in office,
at any time to invert or misapply the said mortification to any other use
than that for which the same is hereby destinated, and that in case they
do contraveen the premisses, then, and in that case, the said University
of Glasgow shall ipso facto lose, tyne, and amitt all right and benefite
they have, or can pretend, to this mortification. And in that case it
shall be leisum and lawfull to me and my heirs, to transferr this present
mortification to any other pious or charitable use we shall think proper.
Also, it is hereby provided, that the foresaids Rector, Dean of Faculty,
PrincipaU, Professors and Masters, and their successors in office, shall be
obleidged to apply the whole legall annuall rent of the foresaid principall
summ, annually, for the foresaid use, and under the provisions and con
ditions above specified, and that albeit the foresaid principall summ be
lost in whole or in part, in any event whatsoever ; and that the said
principall summ of Five hundred Pounds sterling, shall be lent out, and
secured upon the Colledge hadzard and risque. Consenting these pre
sents be insert and registrat in the Books of Councill and Session, or any
others competent, therein to remain for conservation, and thereto con
stitutes Pro'rs. In wittnes whereof,
I have subscryved these presents, consisting of this, and the three pre
ceeding pages, (written on stampt paper, by John Sym, younger, writer
in Glasgow) att Glasgow the twenty sixth day of June, One Thousand
seven hundred and thirty years, before these wittnesses, John Sym, elder,
writer in Glasgow, and the said John Sym, younger, writer hereof.
JO- ORR.
J. Sym, Witnes.
John Sym, Junior, Witnes.
The proceedings connected with this mortification, including the works purchased,
were kept in a separate book (No. 49 of Clerk's Press,) down to 1784, after which they
were incorporated in the " Quaestor's book."

STIRLING'S MORTIFICATION. 235

STIRLING'S MORTIFICATION.
The Reverend JOHN STIRLING, Principal of the CoUege of Glasgow, at his death, in
1727, left 3000 merks scots (£166 13s. 4d. sterling) for the use of the Public Library, to
be paid up on Mrs. Stirling's decease, which event occurred in Dec, 1738, when the be
quest was realised. — (See No. 36 of Clerk's Press, Minute of 13th March, 1739.)
Principal Stirling was a member of a famUy eminently clerical. His father, the
Rev. John Stirling, was Minister of Kilbarchan ; his uncle, the Rev. James Stirling, was
ordained Minister of Paisley, in 1654 (Wodrow's Analecta, III. 23,) and "after he was cast
out of his charge, (in 1662) would never rest, but went from place to place, tiU at Leith he
sailed away to the East Indies, to the Isle of Bombay, where he dyed in 1671, or 1672,"
(ibid. p. 24) ; and his brother, the Reverend James Stirling, was ordained Minister of Kil
barchan, in 1688, and translated to the Barony Parish of Glasgow, in 1699, where he re
mained tiU his death in 1737.
The Principal's father was ordained Minister of Kilbarchan, 12th December, 1649 ;
married Jean Maxwell, in 1653 ; had a son in the foUowing year, baptised John, and a
sixth son, in 1662, baptised James. In the last mentioned year he was, with very many
others, ejected from his charge for refusing to own prelatic government, but having ac
cepted what is commonly called the second Indulgence in 1672, was restored to his
parish after an absence of ten years. — (Wodrow, pp. 30, 31, 33, 34.) During a part of this
time he appears from an anecdote related by his son James, in the notice of his father's
life which he contributed to Wodrow, to have resided at Cunninghamhead. — (ibid. p. 34.)
It seems probable that in the interval his eldest son died, and that another son, the future
Principal, having been bom to him about 1666, received the paternal name which had thus
become vacant. He died 18th July, 1683.
Principal Stirling probably received some portion of his education at Rotterdam. —
(ibid. p. 35.) He was admitted Minister of Inchinnan, 1st May, 1691 ; was transported to
Greenock in 1694 ; and preferred to be Principal of Glasgow College in 1701. Of the
circumstances attending this last nomination, he has himself given the following account.
" Mr. Dunlop being removed by death ye 8* of March, 1700, The prinls place
continu'd vacant tiU May 8*. 1701. The which day his Majestie King WUliam honoured
me with a Presentation to be Principal of this Universitie, which with considerable difficul-
tie I did accept of (the presenta'n having been procured w'out my desire,) yet not till the

236 STIRLING'S MORTIFICATION.
Presbyterie of Pasley in whose bounds Greenock is, where I was Minister, did, notwith
standing of great aversion signifyed by me, loose me from that charge, and seriously
recommend it to me to accept of the Presenta'n tho' I was sensible it was cross both to
their interest and incUna'n to lay so great a congregation as I then had, vacant. This
with other things relating to that affair as it was then circumstanced, had such weight
w'- my conscience, that I found myself oblidged to accept of the Presenta'n, and accord
ingly, Sept. 18, 1701, I was admitted Principal by the then members of the Faculty, after
I had said ane inaugurall oration before 'em and many others in the back common hall."
(See No. 18 of Clerk's Press.)
Wodrow, who lived in habits of intimacy with Principal Stirling, has given in his
Analecta (III. 444,) the foUowing notice of his death and character.
"Upon Friday, September 28 or 9, (1727,) about five of the clock on the afternoon,
dyed Mr. John Stirling, PrincipaU of the CoUedge of Glasgow, of a paraUtick distemper,
which ended in a flux, in the sixty-first year of his age. In his young years, and throu
his whole life, he was under deep exercise, and early religiouse (impressions.) He was an
useful Minister in Inshanan, and longer in Greenock. He had many seals of his ministry.
[In] 1700, if I remember, he was transported to be PrincipaU, and did very much for that
Colledge, and brought in a great number of neu Masters, and Professions, of Law, Physick,
&c. ; and the multitude of Masters, and opulencie of their sellaries, occassioned them to
turn in factions, and nou, for twenty years their has been litle but faction, and one side
drawing contrary to the other, in partys, and constant wrestlings ; and lately the party
that opposed him got in my Lord Isla, and that party in Court, to knock him down and
the Chancelour, the Duke of Montrose, with a Royall Visitation. The neu notions that
Mr. J. Simson has vented these years bygone in teaching, [and] the lamentable instances
of the corruption of the youth, have sat very heavy on him, and helped to sink his spirit,
he having brought him in, and [Mr. Simson] being marryed on his neice. And the poor
and mean change of sides, and ungrateful treatment from him, have been very greiving to
him ; and, indeed, I think, have shortned his dayes. The PrincipaU was an exceUent Gos-
pell preacher, and preached much. He was with me at eighteen or nineteen Communions,
and had great liberty in this place, many times ; and I know he had many sweet times to
his oun soul at our Communions. He was weel seen in the discipline of our Church, and
once Moderator of the Assembly ; and when he was Moderator our form of process was
passed by the Assembly, in which he had a good share. He was a person of great weight
in our Synods, Commissions and Assemblys. He caryed most uprightly and faithfully in
the present proces against Mr. Simson, and was by him, therfore, and his freinds, reconed
his enemie. Ther was a poor, pitifull pamphlet published by Arbucle, the crooked Poet,
misrepresenting him, and some other of the Masters, some years ago, wherein I know ther
are severall false facts, and many false representations of matters. It was penned from

DINWIDDIE'S MORTIFICATION. 237
materialls suggested by the discontented Masters."* And after enumerating the legacies
which the Principal had left, Wodrow proceeds ; " I had much conversation with P. Stir
ling, and generaUy nou these seventeen years, we used to ride in and out to Edinburgh, to
Commissions and Assemblys, three times a-year : He had a strong memory, was well seen
in our late History. He was a person of a publick spirit, and singularly sweet in prayer,
and very much taken up in ejaculatory prayer, even to his being mocked for it by his
enemies, and a solid Divine. Our loss is very great !"

DINWIDDIE'S MORTIFICATION.
The author of this mortification was ROBERT DINWIDDIE, Esq., who at an early period
of American dissatisfaction, held the office of Governor of Virginia, (from 1753 to be
ginning of 1757,) and who in that capacity afforded to the celebrated Washington his first
opportunity of displaying his qualifications for the performance of public duty. — (See
Washington's Life and Correspondence by Sparkes, vols. I. and II.)
Governor Dinwiddie was a native of Glasgow, and an alumnus of the University.
How the office of Governor, or rather of Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia came to be as
signed to him, we have not been able to ascertain. His famUy, however, had been for
some time engaged in commerce with that and other American Colonies, the names of
Mathew and Laurence Dinwiddie appearing in the list given by M'Ure, (p. 209,) of " a great
company undertaking the trade to Virginia, Caribby Islands, Barbadoes, New England,
St. Christopher's, Monserat, and other Colonies in America."
At a meeting held on 20th December, 1754, " It was represented by some mem
bers of the Faculty that it would be very proper to confer the degree of Doctor in Laws
upon the Honourable Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., Governor of Virginia, both as he was an
alumnus of this Universitie and a native of this city, and as being a person who, by the
high office he bears, does honour to both, and may have occasion to promote their interest.
And the Faculty unanimously agreed to confer the said degree upon him honoris causa,
and appoint a diploma to be immediately expeded for that purpose, to be sent him in a
silver box, with the arms of the University engraved upon it."
* In a pamphlet entitled " A short account of the treatment of the Students in the University of
Glasgow," printed in 1722, there is a very unfavourable picture drawn of Principal Stirling's talents and
erudition, but the account therein given of Prof. Simson is not more complimentary. See M'Ure 's History,
&c, edit, of 1830, p.p. 190—1. Note.

238 HOLLIS'S MORTIFICATION.
On his death in 1770, Governor Dinwiddie bequeathed to the University a legacy
of £100, to be laid out in the purchase of books. " The Faculty conceiving that it would
be most respectful to his memory, and most useful to the Library, to make this sum a
standing fund for buying books," and this proposal being agreed to by his widow and
daughter,* the meeting accordingly appointed the interest of the £100 to be appUed for
purchasing books. — (See Nos. 32 and 75 of Clerk's Press, Minutes of 21st November, 1770,
27th February and 19th April, 1771.)

HOLLIS'S MORTIFICATION.
THOMAS HOLLIS, Esq., op Corscombe, in the County of Dorset, who died 1st January,
1774, bequeathed to the PubUc Library of the University of Glasgow, a legacy of £100,
to be laid out in books written by English, Scottish, or Irish authors, relating to Govern
ment, or to Civil or Natural History, or to the Mathematics, for the use and benefit of the
Public Library. This bequest having been announced to a meeting of Faculty, held on
10th October of the same year, they at a subsequent meeting (12th Nov-) resolved to in
vest it as a standing fund, and appointed the interest of the £100 to be annuaUy applied
according to the purpose of the donor. — (Clerk's Press, No. 75, pp. 256 and 264.)
Mr. Hollis, who was born in London, 14th April, 1720, inherited an ample fortune
from his father and great uncle. From his memoirs, compiled by Mr. Archdeacon Black
burn, and published in two quarto volumes in 1780, it would appear that Mr. HoUis early
imbibed a very ardent attachment to the principles of Civil and Religious Liberty, and
that a large portion of his time, and a considerable portion of his income were spent in
promoting the publication and diffusion of improved and embeUished editions of works
favorable to these principles, as those of Algernon Sidney, Ludlow, MUton, Locke, &c.
Two gentlemen with whom Mr. Hollis had much intercourse had received their
education at Glasgow CoUege. One of these was the Rev. Mr. Richard Baron, a dissenting
Minister, who, among other literary labours in which Mr. Hollis took an interest, discov
ered and re-pubUshed the second edition of Milton's Iconoclastes. (T. HolUs' memoirs, I.
61, and II. 573.) The other was Thomas Brand, Esq., a gentleman presently to be noticed
* Governor Dinwiddie left an only daughter, who was afterwards married to Thomas Hamilton,
Esq., and died without issue. His brother Laurence Dinwiddie, Esq. of Germiston, was Provost of Glasgow
in 1742 and 1743, and died in 1764. The Provost's sons Robert and Laurence died without issue: his
daughter married the Eev. Dr. John Lockhart, Minister of the Black Friars' Church, Glasgow, and was
mother of Wm. Lockhart, Esq. of Germiston, and Milton Lockhart, at present M.P. for Lanarkshire, who
is also lineal representative ofthe founder ofthe Coulter Prizes.

BRAND HOLLIS'S MORTIFICATION. 239
as himself a benefactor to the Library, who had traveUed in company with Mr. Hollis in
early life, and to whom, as his "dear friend and feUow-traveUer," he at his death left all
his real estates, and the residue of his personal property.
It is mentioned in Mr. HoUis' Memoirs that through his instrumentality the degree
of Doctor in Divinity was conferred by the University of , Glasgow, . upon the Reverend
WUUam Harris. From the University Records, it appears that the application on Mr.
Harris' behalf was made by Mr. Andrew Millar, bookseUer at London, " at the desire of a
gentleman of worth from whom the University has received presents of books at different
times ; " so that his legacy was not the first expression of good wiU which the University
had received at the hands of Mr. Hollis.

BRAND HOLLIS'S MORTIFICATION.
THOMAS BRAND, Esq., of the Hide in Essex, the gentleman referred to in the previous
notice, was born in 1719.
From school he was removed to the University of Glasgow, where he was matricu
lated in the third (i. e. the Logic) Class, in 1738. Whether he was placed under the
immediate care of Dr. Francis Hutcheson, or was only an attendant on his public lectures,
is not ascertained ; but he so greatly esteemed this eminent and amiable professor that
he took repeated occasions in after Ufe to do all honour to his memory. At an interval of
nearly sixty years from the time of his having been Dr. Hutcheson's pupil, he paid the
tribute to his memory, which is recorded in the foUowing minute, of date, 14th July, 1797.
" The Clerk of Senate represented to the meeting that he had received a letter from
T. Brand HoUis, Esq.,* announcing a present made by that gentleman to the University,
of a Busto, as large as life, and a MedaUion in Bronze.t both executed at Rome, of the late
Doctor Hutcheson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in this College, together with seventeen
* Mr. Brand assumed the name of Hollis on succeeding to his friend's fortune.
t It may not be amiss to extract here the following history of the Medallion and Bust of Dr. Hut
cheson, thus presented to the University, as given in a note to Mr. T. Brand Hollis' Memoirs. (Note A. p.
27.) " A medallion in wax was modelled by the very ingenious Mr. Gosset, under the direction and care of
Mr. Hamilton, afterwards Earl of Selkirk, and of Mr. Brand, who were contemporary pupils of Professor
Hutcheson. It exhibits a striking likeness. Another was made in ivory, by Pozzi, at Rome, as was also a
cast by Selvi of Florence, at the desire of Mr. Brand, which is described in Mazzuchelli's " Numismata virorum
doctrina prsestantium," vol. ii., and extracted in the Hollis memoirs, p. 833. An engraving from the cast
was taken for Mr. Hollis, by Barto!ozji, and is inserted in the Memoirs, p. 586. The large bust was by
Philippo della Valle, at Koine, at Mr. Brand's desire."

240 BRAND HOLLIS'S MORTIFICATION.
volumes of the various editions of Dr. Hutcheson's works, all which Mr. HoUis wishes to be
placed in the proper Repositories of the University, in order to perpetuate the memory
and doctrines of so emment a man. AU the above articles being now arrived, the Senate
with sentiments of much gratitude and respect for Mr. HoUis, accept of his very valuable
present, and order the Bust and MedaUion of Dr. Hutcheson to be placed in a conspicuous
situation, and in a good light, and the Books to be immediately delivered in to the Lib
rary, and entered on the Catalogue. And the Senate desire their Clerk to send an
extract of this minute to Mr. HoUis, in testimony of their high regard and consideration,
and of their great sense of obligation to him, for a present so acceptable.
" The Senate further recommend it to the Faculty of Glasgow CoUege, to order a
copy of the whole works of the late Dr. Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy,
together with a MedaUion of the author, by Tassie, to be presented to T. Brand HoUis,
Esq., as a smaU token of the respect and esteem of this University," (No. 72 of Clerk's
Press, p. 243 ;) a recommendation to which the Faculty gave effect at a meeting held three
days later. (No. 80 of Clerk's Press, p. 194.)
Mr. Brand HoUis died 9th September, 1804, leaving the great bulk of his fortune
to the Reverend Dr. Disney (by whom his Memoirs were published, 4to., London, 1808,)
and the foUowing among some other pecuniary legacies.
" I give to the Public Library of the University of Glasgow in Scot
land, where I was educated under the excellent Francis Hutcheson,
Professor of Moral Philosophy, one hundred pounds, to be laid out in
books relating to Government or Civil History, or to the Mathematics,
for the use and benefit of that Public Library."
Of this sum, likewise, it was resolved to constitute a standing fund. (See Minutes
of Faculty, No. 81 of Clerk's Press, 10th October, and 8th December, 1804, and 10th
June, 1805.)

Q CC5) 5

INSTITUTING SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENTS IN
CONNEXION WITH THE COLLEGE.

WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER — who for a period of nearly forty years, enjoyed the highest
reputation as a Teacher of Anatomy, and as a Teacher and Practitioner of Midwifery, in
London, and whose work on the Gravid Uterus, independently of other important contribu
tions to Medical science, must carry down his memory with honour to the latest posterity —
devised by his last WiU and Testament, dated 23d July, 1781, and a CodicU thereto, dated
31st August, 1782, the ultimate possession of his Museum and Library to the Principal
and Faculty of the CoUege of Glasgow ; and by a Trust Disposition and Settlement of his
property in Scotland, dated 12th September, 1782, he bequeathed to the same parties the
sum of £8000, for purposes connected with the former devisal.
What may have been the entire money value of this bequest, it is not easy to esti
mate. It is understood that on the Coins and Medals alone Dr. Hunter spent upwards of
£20,000 ; and that that sum was offered by the Trustees of the British Museum for a
comparatively smaU portion of the Cabinet, previously to its removal from London to Glas
gow. The Library, consisting of more than 12,000 volumes in the highest preservation,
and comprising many beautiful specimens of almost every press since the introduction of
printing — including some of the choicest specimens of printing on vellum, together with
MSS. to the extent of 600 volumes, in almost every language — a library of which it was
said by a competent judge, during Dr. Hunter's Ufe, that it was the most magnificent
treasure of Greek and Latin books that had been accumulated by any person then living
since the days of Mead ; and of which it has more recently been said that, in proportion to
its extent, the number of works of excessive rarity is unequalled, such a library could
not have been brought together without a very large outlay of money.
As respects the collection in Natural History, judging from the richness of the
several departments, as well as from accounts to dealers in minerals, &c, stiU preserved,
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242 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
large sums must have been expended on its formation. As a contribution towards the illus
tration of one limited department of this very extensive field, Dr. Hunter is known to have
paid £1,200 for a coUection of corals, shells, &c, that had been formed by Dr. FothergiU,
and which, by his directions, was sold by his Trustees to Dr. Hunter for £500 less than its
appraised value.
As to the Anatomical collection, iUustrative of both healthy and diseased structure,
and most particularly rich in those departments which Dr. Hunter especially cultivated,
some idea might be formed of its value, even independently of actual survey, from a con
sideration of the large opportunities of obtaining specimens of this class which he enjoyed,
both as a teacher of anatomy, and as extensively engaged in practice ; and of the zeal
with which these opportunities were turned to the best account. Nor must we overlook
the aid which he derived from attached pupils, scattered throughout the country, who were
well aware how much they gratified their former instructor by contributing to his museum ;
or those larger additions which from time to time he acquired by purchase, on the occa
sions of different Anatomical coUections being offered for sale in the Metropolis. But in
dependently of its intrinsic value, this portion of Dr. Hunter's coUection must, in the eyes
of Medical men, possess a surpassing interest, as presenting a substantial memorial of his
zealous and successful exertions for the promotion of Anatomical science. " The other
portions of his Museum do great credit to his love of general knowledge, to his taste, and
to his munificence. But it is on the Anatomical coUection, in conjunction with his pub
lished works, that his own claims to eminence must ever rest : and the CoUege of Glasgow,
in accepting the custody of that coUection, must be held by the public to have, at the same
time, undertaken the guardianship of his scientific reputation."
When to the several departments that have been mentioned, we add a choice col
lection of Paintings, and an infinite number and variety of other articles of curiosity, we
cannot regard an estimate which seems to have prevailed among parties likely to have
been well informed, that Dr. Hunter had expended upwards of £60,000 on his Museum and
Library, as at all excessive or exaggerated.
In the short space which can here be aUotted to a notice of this distinguished bene
factor, it would be impossible to exhibit any satisfactory view of the services which he ren
dered to those branches of Medical science, to the improvement and advancement of which
he more especially directed his attention. And it is the less necessary to enter minutely on
a narrative of the events of his life, as very soon after his decease, this pious duty was per
formed by his pupU and friend, Dr. Foart Simmons,* who, besides having lived on terms
* An Account of the Life and Writings of the late Wm. Hunter, M.D., 8vo., London, 1783. See
also, Lives of Eminent British Physicians ; Family Library, vol. XIV. Chambers' Scottish Biographical
Dictionary, vol. III. Introductory Lecture by Dr. B. Lee, Lond. Med. Gazette. Thomson's Life of Cullen,
I. 539 — Appendix.

WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM. 243
of intimacy with Dr. Hunter himself, had access to many of those among whom the
successive periods of his life had been spent. What seems desirable on the present occasion
is to point out some of the circumstances which more particularly led Dr. Hunter to commit
to the custody of Glasgow CoUege, the very extensive, varied, and valuable collection of
natural productions and works of art, which, at an enormous cost of labour and of money,
he had accumulated.
Dr. Hunter, was born, on the 23d of May, 1718, at Long Calderwood, in the parish
of KUbride, and county of Lanark, about eight miles south from Glasgow. In session
1731-32, he matriculated in the fifth (i. e. the Latin) class of the University of Glasgow,
under Mr. Andrew Rosse. His name is inscribed in the Album, as " Gulielmus Hunter,
F. Johannis Hunter, inter Dominos de Long Calderwood."
In the second session of his attendance at CoUege (14th December, 1732,) " the
Faculty appoints the two vacant Foundation bursarys, last possessed by Patrick M'Kellar
and James Hunter, to be given to David Campbell, in the Magistrand class, and WUliam
Hunter, in the Bajan (i. e. the Greek) class ; " and, accordingly, the acknowledgements in
his own hand writing, of having received the several moieties of this bursary, are stiU pre
served. He continued to hold it for four sessions, that is to session 1735-36, inclusive.
In pursuing his literary and philosophical course, Mr. Hunter had intended to enter
on the study of Divinity. The considerations which led to the abandonment of that inten
tion have been repeatedly explained. But it is impossible to trace WilUam Hunter through
his subsequent career, without feeUng how much the mental discipline to which he was
necessarUy subjected in that course, must have influenced his future habits and tastes, as
weU as his position in society ; and to such a consciousness on his own part must mainly be
referred, as we conceive, that Uvely interest in the prosperity of the University which he
never ceased to feel, and which ultimately prompted his benefaction to it. Of what
inestimable value might not a simUar course have been to his brother John, who, superior
to him in acute observation, phUosophical invention, and deep thought, feU so far short of
him in the power of clearly expressing the results of his investigations and reflexions !
Dr. Hunter's connexion with Dr. Cullen, then a practitioner at Hamilton ; the
purpose of his visit to London, in the summer of 1741 ; the connexion which he there
formed with Dr. James Douglas ; and the important influence which this connexion, and
the early death of that indefatigable teacher, exercised on his subsequent career ; have all
been narrated by his biographers. How rapidly he rose to distinction, and how gladly his
progress was acknowledged by his alma mater, may be judged of, from the language of the
foUowing minute, dictated, no doubt, by his former preceptor Dr. Cullen, who by that time
had been called to fiU the chair of Medicine in the University, and towards whom
throughout his whole Ufe he continued to entertain the warmest attachment. " 24th Octo
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244 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
confer the Degree of Doctor in Medicine upon Mr. William Hunter, Surgeon in London,
who past his course in Languages and PhUosophy in this University, and, by his great skiU
and ability, is justly celebrated as one of the most able Anatomists in Europe ; and the
Faculty unanimously agreed to confer the degree upon him, and appoint a suitable diploma
to be expeded for him." (No. 33 of Clerk's Press, p. 65.)*
In 1764-5, Dr. Hunter made a proposal to the government, their neglect of which
had no doubt an important influence in fixing Glasgow as the destination of the literary
and scientific treasures which he was then coUecting, and of the objects of curiosity and
taste which he subsequently added.t The foUowing letter addressed by him at that time
to Dr. CuUen, besides explaining the nature of his proposal, and the feelings which its
neglect had excited in his mind, is at the same time so characteristic of the generous
ardour of his friendships, of the vivacity of his resentments, of his indifference to lucre for
its own sake, and of his desire for honourable fame, as to give a more forcible notion of
the man, than many pages from another hand could convey. This letter was enclosed
within another, on matters connected with Dr. CuUen's interests, in which he refers to it
in the following terms : J
" With this, I have sent you another letter which will startle you. I have a great
inclination to do something considerable at Glasgow, some time or other." 2nd April, 1765.
DEAR SIR, I have felt disappointment myself ; and therefore can easily
imagine what you must feel in meeting with such opposition to a scheme which I know to
be of so much more consequence to the pubUc, than it can be to yourself. Mine was to
have founded a perpetual school for Anatomy here. I ¦will, one day or other, send you a
* As a contribution to the history of the Medical School of the University of Glasgow, it may not be
inappropriate to insert here the subsequent part of the minute.
" At the same time the Faculty unanimously agreed to confer the degree of Doctor in Medicine upon
Mr. John Gordon, one of the expertest Surgeons in Glasgow, and who was the first person who taught
Anatomy in this University, long ago, with great applause and success."
In one of the notices of Dr. Hunter's life, that have been published, after mentioning the fact of this
degree having been conferred upon him, occasion is taken to state that " the degree of doctor of medicine
at that (i. c. the Glasgow) and other Universities of Scotland, was at this period granted on the candidate's
paying a certain sum of money, and presenting a certificate from other doctors of medicine, of his being
qualified to practise the healing art," &c. Whatever laxity may have existed in this respect, certain it is that
for honorary degrees, such as the two included in the above quoted minute, no payments were received.
f See relative papers appended to his Two Introductory Lectures, published after his death. (4to.
1784.) t Thomson's Life of Cullen, I. 150.

WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM. 245
copy of my Memorial to the Ministry. In short, without asking any thing for myself, but,
upon the contrary, declaring I would have nothing, I only asked a piece of ground to build
upon, and offered to lay out £7000 immediately on a buUding with every convenience for
Anatomy, and obliging myself to give it to the public the moment it was built ; and said,
farther, that I meant, but would not now oblige myself, to give likewise my preparations and
books. My library has already cost me, I presume, between £3000 and £4000 ; and my
Anatomical Museum is of more worth to the public, because they are things that cannot be
bought. I am resolved never to be much richer than I now am. I am independent, and
wish to do something that shall be mentioned when the few years which I have to live are
gone. Now, you shaU see to what purpose aU this. I should like to be joined with you in
the end of life, as in the beginning. Tou have been ill used at Edinburgh, as I have been
at London. Could you make a sacrifice of the few more guineas you would receive by
practice at Edinburgh, and join with me to raise a School of Physic, upon a noble plan, at
Glasgow ? I would propose to give all my Museum and Library, and build a Theatre at
my own expense ; and I should ask nothing for teaching, but the credit of doing it with
reputation. You, and Black, and I, with those we could chuse, I think could not fail of
making our neighbours stare. We should at once draw all the EngUsh, and, I presume,
most of the Scotch Students. Among other reasons, I should not disUke teaching Anatomy
near my two friends the Monros, to whom I owe so much. * * *
I shaU explain myself further whenever you please. Let me now only say, before I
put my name to this, neither of us has been well used ; and it is in our power to do
ourselves immortal honour. I am, as you weU know, dear Sir, always your's most obUged,
WILLIAM HUNTER.
On the expiry of the term beyond which he had intimated to the government, that
he would no longer consider his offer as binding upon him, Dr. Hunter set about the erec
tion of those extensive premises in Great WindmiU Street, in which for more than half a
century from the time of his taking possession of them, in 1770, Anatomy and other de
partments of Medical Science continued to be taught by a succession of men of the highest
reputation. It was then that instead of confining himself, as he had previously done, to
the increase of his Library and Anatomical Museum, he launched forth as a collector in those
other departments in which, before his death, his Museum had become such an extensive
and varied repository of treasure. And there can, we think, be little doubt, that from this
¦time forward he was animated by that "great incUnation to do something considerable at
Glasgow, some time or other," which he had professed to Dr. CuUen.
Nor were additional occurrences subsequently wanting, to keep aUve Dr. Hunter's
kindly feelings towards Glasgow CoUege. In 1775, Dr. James BaiUie, who had been mar
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246 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
was caUed by the Faculty of the College to fill the chair of Divinity in the University.
Dr. BaiUie survived this appointment only a few years, but after his decease, his only
son, Matthew BaiUie, who subsequently rose to so much eminence as a pathologist and
physician, was sent, by the Faculty, (1779) to Baliol CoUege, Oxford, as an exhibitioner
on Mr. SneU's foundation.
[The foUowing extracts from Dr. Hunter's Last Will and Testament have been com
pared with an authenticated copy, extracted from the Register of the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury, in which it was recorded 4th April, 1783. Iron Chest, Drawer 1.]
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me, William
Hunter of Windmill Street, in the liberty of Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, Doctor in Physic. I give and devise my house in Windmill
Street aforesaid, my Museum, Theatre, and all other Offices and Buildings
whatsoever thereto belonging, or near adjoining, with their and every of
their rights, members, and appurtenances thereto belonging, to George
Fordyce of Essex Street, Doctor in Physic ; David Pitcairn of Lincoln's-
Inn-Fields, Batchelor in Physic ; and Mr. Charles Combe of Hart Street,
near Bloomsbury Square, Apothecary — their heirs and assigns ; upon
trust to permit and suffer my nephew, Mr. Mathew Baillie of Baliol
College, in the University of Oxford, to dwell therein for the space of
twenty years, to be counted from the day of my death ; and either by
himself, or with the assistance of, or in partnership with, Mr. William
Cruikshank of Leicester Fields, my present partner in anatomical lec
tures, or other proper partner or assistant, or assistants, to be nominated
and appointed by my said nephew, to read lectures in anatomy, or any
other branch of natural knowledge for which my museum and theatre
may be useful, in such way and manner as he shall think fit : And from
and after the expiration of the said term of twenty years, upon trust to
convey and assure my said house, museum, theatre, and other the offices
and buildings herein before-mentioned unto my said nephew, Mr. Mathew
Baillie, his heirs and assigns, forever. But in case my said nephew shall
happen to die unmarried or without issue, within the aforesaid space of
twenty years, then it is my will and meaning that the said George For-

WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM. 247
dyce, David Pitcairn, and Charles Combe, or the survivor of them, and
the heirs and assigns of such survivor, do permit the said Mr. William
Cruikshank to inhabit my said house and other the premises above-
mentioned, and to have the use and occupation thereof, to and for his
own use and benefit, for the purpose of reading lectures as aforesaid,
with the assistance of such persons as he shall think fit, during the resi
due of the said space of twenty years ; and from and after the expira
tion of the said term of twenty years, or the deaths of my said nephew
without issue, and of the said Mr. Cruikshank, then, upon this further
trust, * * *. I give and bequeath all and singular my books, printed
and manuscript, prints, and books of prints, engraved copperplates,
drawings, pictures, medals, and coins, anatomical preparations of every
kind, fossils and ores, shells, corals, and other marine productions, birds,
insects, and all other preserved animals, or parts of animals, dried plants,
curiosities from the South seas, and whatever can be naturally reckoned
a part of my collection of curiosities, all the cabinets, cases and apparatus
for containing and preserving the above articles, instruments for anatomy
and surgery, and a chased silver cup which was presented to me by the
students of anatomy, unto the said George Fordyce, David Pitcairn, and
Charles Combe, their executors, administrators, and assigns, upon special
trust and confidence, nevertheless, that is to say ; In the First Place
to make out or complete, or cause to be made out or completed, the
catalogue or catalogues that I shall leave of my said books, &c, &c, &c,
respectively, and, as soon as may be, to transmit a true, full, and perfect
catalogue thereof, signed by my said trustees and by my said Nephew,
Mr. Baillie, and the said Mr Cruikshank, or the survivors or survivor
of them, to the Principal and Faculty of the College of Glasgow, and
also deliver one other catalogue thereof so signed as aforesaid to the
said Mr. Mathew Baillie and Mr. Cruikshank, respectively: and also
upon the farther trust and confidence that they, the said George For
dyce, David Pitcairn, and Charles Combe, do permit and suffer the said
Mr. Mathew Baillie, during the said space of twenty years, to be com-

248 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
puted as aforesaid, if he shall so long live, to have the possession, use,
and enjoyment of the said Books, &c, &c, &c. And in case of his death
within the said space of twenty years, then, I do hereby direct the said
George Fordyce, David Pitcairn, and Charles Combe, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, to permit the said William Cruikshank, if
he shall be then living, to possess, use, and enjoy the same, and every
part thereof, for and during the remainder of the said term of twenty
years. And I do hereby desire that when my said nephew, Mathew
Baillie, and the said William Cruikshank shall be respectively put into
possession of my said Books, &c, &c, that they do respectively sign an
undertaking, or engagement to return the same safe and undefaced, in
good condition, to the said Dr. George Fordyce, David Pitcairn, Batchelor
in Physic, and Mr. Charles Combe, or to the survivor of them, or the
Executors or administrators of the survivor of them, reasonable use
and wearing, and all damages done by fire or other inevitable acci
dents, only excepted. And I do hereby farther direct the said Dr. George
Fordyce, David Pitcairn, Batchelor in Physick, and Mr. Charles Combe,
and the survivor of them, his executors and administrators, at, and im
mediately after the expiration of twenty years after my death, or the
deaths of Mr. Baillie and Mr. Cruikshank, which shall first happen, to
cause the said Books, &c, &c, &c, to be well and carefully packed up,
and safely conveyed to Glasgow, and delivered to the Principal and
Faculty of the College of Glasgow, to whom I give and bequeath the
same, to be kept and preserved by them and their successors forever, to
and for the use of the said Principal and Faculty of the College of
Glasgow, in such way, sort, and manner as I shall by any codicil to this
my will, or any other writing or writings under my hand, direct or
appoint ; and, in default of any such direction or appointment, in such
sort, way, manner, and form as to the said Principal and Faculty of the
College of Glasgow, and their successors for the time being, shall seem
most fit and most conducive to the improvement of the Students of the
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WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM. 249
that, during the said space or term of twenty years, the said Mr. Charles
Combe shall have full liberty and permission, at his free will and plea
sure, at all seasonable hours in the day, to come into and upon my said
house or museum, or other place where my medals and coins, or any
part thereof, shall, from time to time, be deposited, and to handle, ex
amine, and view the said medals, in order to form an account or ac
counts thereof, or of any part or parts thereof that he shall think fit,
and to print or publish such account or accounts thereof as he shall,
from time to time, think proper. And I do also give, during the said
term of twenty years, the like liberty and permission to Dr. George
Fordyce, to come into or upon my said house and museum, or other place
where my fossils, shells, corals, and dried plants, or any part thereof
shall, from time to time, be deposited, and to handle, view, and examine
the same for the purpose of taking an account or accounts thereof, or
any part or parts thereof, and printing and publishing the same as he
shall think fit. And I do hereby farther authorise and empower my
said Executors and Trustees, and the survivors or survivor of them, to
permit or give leave, for the sake of the public, that any of the Books
or other articles in my said library and museum may be examined, and
such use made of them in publications as my said Trustees, or the sur
vivors or survivor of them, may think proper and for the improvement
of knowledge. And in case of the death both of my nephew, Mr. Mathew
Baillie, and of Mr. William Cruikshank, before the expiration of the
said term of twenty years, I do hereby farther authorise and empower
the said Dr. George Fordyce, David Pitcairn, Batchelor in Physic, and
Mr. Charles Combe, and the survivors or survivor of them, and the Ex
ecutors or administrators of such survivor, to appoint one or more pro
per person or persons, to inhabit my said house and museum, to take
care of my whole collection till the expiration of the said term of twenty
years, if my said Trustees, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the
Executors or administrators of them, shall think that they can, without
injury to the collection, make it useful to the public here, or till the
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250 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
Principal and Faculty of the College of Glasgow shall have got ready
a dry, well aired, and convenient house, built on purpose, for containing
my said collection, to the satisfaction of my said Trustees, and survivors
or survivor of them.

By a Codicil dated 31st August, 1782, Dr. Hunter directed that the term of Twenty
years specified in his will, should be extended to the term of Thirty years. The other pro
visions of the codicil do not seem to require notice here.
[The foUowing excerpts from Dr. Hunter's Trust Disposition and Settlement, have
been compared with a Notarial copy of the Original Deed, transmitted from London.
Iron Chest, Drawer ] .]
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN, by these presents, that I, William
Hunter, Doctor of Physic, for certain good causes and considerations,
have alienated and disponed, like as I do hereby alienate and dispone
to, and in favours of Mr. Mathew Baillie of Baliol College, in Oxford,
Robert Barclay of Glasgow, Esqre- and Mr. John Millar, son of John
Millar, Professor of Law in the College of Glasgow, as Trustees, for the
uses, ends, and purposes underwritten, &c, &c. * * * Fourthly, on
Trust to make payment and satisfaction of the sum of Eight Thousand
Pounds Sterling, to the Reverend Doctor William Leechman, Princi
pal; the Reverend Doctor William Wright, Professor of Divinity;
Mr. James Clow, Professor of Philosophy; Mr. John Anderson,
Professor of Natural Philosophy; Mr. Alexander Wilson, Professor
of Astronomy ; Mr. John Millar, Professor of Law; Mr. Patrick Cumin,
Professor of Oriental Languages; Dr. James Williamson, Professor
of Mathematics; Dr. Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy;
Dr. Alexander Stevenson, Professor of Medicine ; Mr. William Richard
son, Professor of Humanity; Mr. John Young, Professor of Greek;
Mr. Hugh M'Leod, Professor of Church History; and Mr. William
Hamilton, Professor of Anatomy and Botany, in the University and
College of Glasgow, and their successors in office, as representing

WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM. 251
the said University, and to be applied by them to, for, and upon such
trusts, ends, purposes, and intents as I shall think fitt, by any Deed or
Deeds in writing under my hand, to declare, appoint, and direct ; and
for want of any such declaration, direction, or appointment, from time to
time to place out the said sum of Eight Thousand Pounds Sterling on
heritable security, or securities, or in the purchase of land in that part
of Great Britain called Scotland, and also, from time to time to call in
the said several sums of money so lent out, and to lay out and reinvest
the same upon like securities, or purchases. And from time to time,
the said Principal and Professors, and their successors in office, are
authorised and directed to pay and apply one moiety or half-part of
the rents, interest, and profits arising from the premises, to Dr. George
Fordyce, of Essex Street; Mr. David Pitcairn, Batchelor in Physic, of
Lincoln's-Inn -Fields; and Mr. Charles Combe, of Hart Street, Bloomsbury;
the Trustees and Executors named in my last Will and Testament of, and
concerning, my Estate and Effects in that part of Great Britain called
England, their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, or the Trustees or
Trustee of my said Estate and Effects for the time being, for and during
the term of Thirty years, to be computed from the day of my decease,
to be laid out and expended by my said Trustees in supporting, repair
ing, maintaining, and augmenting the Collection of Books, &c, &c, &c.
And also to pay, and apply, during the said term of Thirty years, the
other moiety of the said rents, interest, and profits arising from the
premises aforesaid, and also, so much and such parts and part of one
moiety of the said sum of Eight thousand pounds sterling, as they shall
think proper, in or towards purchasing a spot or piece of ground, in or
near the College of Glasgow, and in or towards erecting and building
thereon, a fit and commodious house or buildings for the reception of
my Books, and all the above mentioned articles contained in my Mus
eum, or constituting a part of my Cabinet, or Collection of Curiosities.
And also, to pay and defray the Expenses and charges of transporting
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252 WILLIAM HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
may happen to be, and putting the same up in the building or buildings
herein before directed for the reception thereof. And also, from and
after the end of the said term of Thirty years, by, and out of, the rents,
interest, and profits arising from the whole of the said sum of Eight
Thousand Pounds sterling, or from the purchases to be made therewith,
to establish such Lectures and Lecturers, and also, from time to time,
to alter such establishments, and to keep the said Collection in such
good repair, and to make such additions thereto, especially in adding
to or completing, if possible, any useful series, and under such rules and
regulations as I may direct by any deed or writing for that purpose :
Failing which, all as the said Principal and Professors, and their suc
cessors in office, shall, from time to time, judge most conducive to
promote the utility of my Collection to the Students in the University
of Glasgow, and to the public in general. And I direct, and appoint,
the said sum of Eight Thousand Pounds Sterling to be raised from my
Estate, and paid over to the said Principal and Professors of the said
University, and their successors in office, within the space of two years
after my death, (but not sooner, except with the approbation of my
nephew, the said Mathew Baillie,) and I appoint the interest of the
said sum to be also paid them from the day of my decease, for the
purposes aforesaid, ay and until the principal itself is paid.

Dr. Hunter died in London, 30th March, 1783. It would, consequently, have been
competent for his Trustees, or for Dr. BaUIie, or Mr. Cruikshank, to retain the Museum in
London tiU 1813, in the event of their surviving to that time. Mr. Cruikshank, however,
died in 1800, in the 55th year of his age. Dr. BaUIie, who began to teach Anatomy,
in conjunction with Mr. Cruikshank, two years after his uncle's death, had retired from
this duty in 1799, after having pubUshed (1793) his Synopsis of the Morbid Anatomy of
some of the most important parts of the human body, and having prepared materials for,
and commenced the publication of, his series of Engravings illustrative of the same subject,
upwards of a hundred figures in which were derived from specimens in Dr. Hunter's col
lection. Under these circumstances, the longer detention of the Museum in London did
not seem likely to conduce to any beneficial end ; and, accordingly, after some preliminary

WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION. 253
negotiations for protecting the interests of the Trustees and some other parties, Dr. Baillie
obtained and forwarded to the Faculty the formal consent of the Trustees to the removal
of Dr. Hunter's Museum to Glasgow, when a suitable building should have been erected
to receive it.
Designs for the intended building having been procured from several architects, and
submitted to the consideration of the Trustees, those of the late Mr. WUUam Stark were
preferred ; and in conformity with these, the present Museum was erected — a building
which, as a chaste specimen of Grecian architecture, has, perhaps, not been exceUed by
any building of the like extent in modern times. In AprU, 1807, when the building was ap
proaching to completion, Mr. Lockhart Muirhead, who had been appointed by the Senate
their Lecturer on Natural History, and who had, in the interim, received from the Crown
a commission as Professor of the same department, proceeded to London, at the request of
the Faculty, to superintend the removal of the various portions of the Museum ; and in
the course of the autumn the whole coUection was transferred to Glasgow.

WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION.
PATRICK WILSON, LL.D., Professor of Practical Astronomy in this CoUege and Uni
versity, on resigning that chair, in 1799, conveyed to the Principal and Professors of
Glasgow CoUege the sum of One Thousand Pounds, to form a permanent fund for the
purchase of Astronomical Instruments.
This benefactor was the son of Dr. Alexander Wilson, who, in early life, attained to
much eminence as an improver in the art of Type-founding ; and who, on the Professor
ship of Practical Astronomy being erected by the Crown, in 1760, was appointed Professor
and Observer. (See Memoir of his Ufe in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia.)
The subject of this notice was born on 16th January, 1743. His mother's name
was Jean Sharpe. It is beUeved that in early life, after completing the Uterary and
philosophical curriculum, and taking the degree in Arts, he foUowed, with his brother, Mr.
Alexander Wilson, the business of Type-founding, which their father had been so successful
in establishing. At the same time, he seems to have taken a deep interest in, and lent an
active assistance towards prosecuting, his father's Astronomical observations and Meteoro
logical experiments.
The results of one very remarkable series of experiments performed by him, were
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254 WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION.
which was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions for 1781, (vol. lxx. p. 451) under the
title of "An Account of a most extraordinary degree of Cold at Glasgow in January last ;
together with some new Experiments and Observations on the comparative Temperature
of Hoar Frost and the Air near to it, made at the Macfarlan Observatory belonging to the
College." These were foUowed up by " Farther Experiments on Cold," &c, pubUshed in the
succeeding volume of the same Transactions, (lxxi. 386 ;) and by " Experiments and Obser
vations on a remarkable Cold which accompanies the separation of Hoar Frost from a Clear
Air," which were pubUshed in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for
1788, (i. 146 ;) and the whole of these memoirs must be regarded as very important con
tributions to that department of Meteorological science — the Theory of Dew and of Hoar
Frost — which subsequently received so much elucidation at the hands of WeUs, Dufay,
and LesUe. Another paper by Dr. P. Wilson was also judged worthy of pubUcation in
the Philosophical Transactions, having for its object the proposal of an " Experiment for
determining by the Aberration of the Fixed Stars whether the Rays of Light in pervading
different media, change their velocity according to the law which results from Sir Isaac
Newton's ideas concerning the cause of Refraction ; and for ascertaining their velocity
in every medium whose refractive density is known." (1782, vol. lxu. p. 58.)
In the beginning of 1782, (January 8 and 18) Mr. Patrick Wilson received an
appointment from the Faculty as Assistant to his father, in the duties of his office ; and in
1784, (10th June) the Faculty unanimously agreed on a Memorial to the Minister of State,
soUciting his appointment as Assistant in, and Successor to, that office. Such a presentation
was accordingly issued a few weeks afterwards, (28th July) but it was not laid formaUy
before the Faculty tiU the 23d February, 1786 ; and Mr. Wilson, after undergoing the
usual trials, was admitted, in terms of his commission, on 2d March foUowing. His father
survived little more than half a year, having died on 16th October, 1786, and Mr. P.
WUson was admitted Professor a few days later. (No. 78 of Clerk's Press., pp. 12, 121,
125, 161.) Towards the end of 1798, Mr. Wilson resolved upon resigning his Chair, and going
to reside in the vicinity of London, where he might enjoy the society of persons devoted to
astronomical pursuits. His purposed retirement he communicated to the Faculty, in a
letter dated 17th October, 1798, (entered on Minutes of 23d of same month) in which he,
at the same time, announced the munificent intentions on behalf of the department of
science committed to his care, which he had formed ; and expressed great anxiety that his
Chair should be fiUed up by a person of abiUty and zeal. His coUeagues entered heartily
into his views ; and at their urgent request he was at length induced to suggest Mr.
Thomas Jackson, afterwards the eminent Professor of Mathematics at St. Andrew's, as
the person whom they should solicit the Government to name as his successor. * An ap-
* See letter dated 4th March, 1799, entered on Records of 20th of same month.

WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION. 255
plication in favour of Mr. Jackson was accordingly forwarded to the proper authorities,
which Mr. Wilson, to remove all imputation of interested motives, insisted on accompany
ing with his own formal resignation, (dated 9th April, 1799.) Though the appUcation in
Mr. Jackson's favour was not successful, Mr. Wilson did not depart from his liberal
purpose ; and, accordingly, of date 1st June, 1799, he executed the foUowing Disposition
and Assignation in favour of the College of Glasgow, which was recorded in the Minutes
of Faculty on the 10th of the same month. (See No. 80 of Clerk's Press., p. 320.)
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL MEN, by these presents, That I, Mr.
Patrick Wilson, lately Professor of Practical Astronomy in the Uni
versity of Glasgow, considering, &c. Now as a mark of my high regard
for Glasgow College in the University of Glasgow, a society so long and
so intimately known to me, and in testimony also of my desire for the
future prosperity of the office of Professor of Practical Astronomy, in
the said College, which was first filled by my ever honoured Father,
the late Doctor Alexander Wilson, and which office I resigned in the
month of April last, on account of the state of my health, and of other
objects of moment to me; and in order that the said office may become
more extensively useful, by a provision being made for augmenting, from
time to time, the Astronomical Apparatus connected with the said chair,
and for such other purposes connected with it, as may in this, or any
subsequent deed by me, be particularly specified, and expressly excluding
all other purposes not so specified by me, though the same may have
relation to the objects of the said chair, I have resolved to convey to the
Principal and Professors of the said College, and their successors in office,
in trust as after mentioned, the principal sum of One Thousand Pounds,
* * Declaring always, as it is hereby expressly provided and declared,
that this Disposition and Conveyance, in as far as respects the said prin
cipal sum of £1000 sterling with interest and consequents, (part of the
foresaid sums above conveyed) is granted, and the said principal sum,
* * are conveyed to the said Principal and Professors, and their fore
saids, upon Trust, for the ends, uses, and purposes, and under the
Reservations and Conditions after specified, viz : — That the legal inter-

256 WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION.
est ofthe said principal sum of £1000 sterling, may be, from time to
time, applied to the purchase of new and accurate instruments, suited
for Practical Astronomy, connected with the chair first filled by the
late Doctor Alexander Wilson, my Father, and afterwards by myself,
and to the purchase of good Models of the Apparatus used in Observa
tories, for the better illustrating and explaining, to the Students study
ing under the said chair, the principles and necessary adjustments of
Astronomical Instruments : And farther, for the purpose of gradually
forming an appropriate Library of Astronomical Books, for the use of
the Professor in the said chair, and of the Students who may attend his
prelections : And farther, for the purpose of adjudging occasionally a
Gold Prize Medal, to such persons actually Students under the said pro
fessor, who may make discoveries, or improvements in Practical Astro
nomy, that, in the opinion of competent judges, may be deemed of real
importance. Declaring that the said principal sum of £1000 sterling
shall, in all time hereafter, be employed by the said Principal and Pro
fessors, and their successors in office, and invested by them in good and
sufficient heritable securities ; and the rights and securities thereof shall
be taken in name of the said Principal and Professors, and their
successors in office, in the terms, and for the express purposes above
specified, or for any other purposes connected with the general object
of the said Donation, to be specified by me in any Deed which I may
hereafter execute in virtue of the reserved powers after expressed.
And that it shall not be lawful to, nor in the power of, the said Principal
and Professors, or their foresaids, to apply, or appropriate the whole, or
any part ofthe said principal sum of £1000 sterling, either for promot
ing the purposes above-mentioned, or any other purposes whatsoever ;
it being my intention that the said principal sum should be, and continue,
a permanent and undiminished Fund, in all times coming. And I
hereby reserve to myself during my own life time, or for such period
thereof as I may think proper, the full and entire use and enjoyment of
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WILSON'S ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDATION. 257
power to receive, discharge, and use the same at pleasure. And further,
I reserve to myself full power and authority, at any time in my life, by
a Deed or Deeds under my hand, to make such other, or further, regu
lations, provisions, and appointments as I may think fit respecting the
application and management of the said principal sum of £1000, or of
the interest and consequents thereof, for the purposes connected with
the general objects of this Donation. And though from my long experi
ence and intimate knowledge of the careful and faithful administration
of all the Public Funds of the said College, I do not think any clause of
Irritancy in these presents in the least necessary, during the incumbency
of the present administrators, yet looking forward to future times, I
hope that such a clause in common form will appear to the Faculty, as
it does to me, desirable ; Therefore, for securing the performance and
observance of the said regulations, provisions, and appointments now
made by me, or which I may hereafter make, respecting the premises,
I hereby reserve to myself full right, power, and authority to provide,
and annex to any failure on the part of the said Principal and Profes
sors, or their successors in office, in the performance and observance of
the said regulations, provisions, and appointments, and to any contra
vention by them, or their successors in office, of the same, such irritan
cies and forfeitures of these presents, and of the Donation hereby made,
as I shall think proper, in favour of such other persons or Bodies
Corporate, as I shall think fit to appoint. Which Declarations, Provi
sions, and Reservations above written, I hereby appoint and ordain to
be verbatim engrossed in the Instrument of Seisin to follow hereon,
and in all the future rights, securities, and infeftments in security of the
said principal sum of £1000, interest and consequents, otherwise the
same, and all following thereon, shall be void and null, &c, &c, &c.
It appears from the Minutes, that " The Faculty having read over the above Deed
of Donation, do hereby accept of the same according to the terms and conditions therein
specified. And the Faculty, being deeply impressed with respect and gratitude to their
late worthy coUeague, for this very substantial proof of his regard and attachment to this
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258 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY.
University, do unanimously desire the Principal to express their best acknowledgements to
Mr. Wilson, with the most perfect assurances of their determination to do every thing in
their power to promote the very laudable ends and purposes of this Donation."
But Mr. Wilson's liberality did not stop here. In the Minutes of 9th January, 1800,
(loc. cit. p. 356,) there is recorded "A statement of the pecuniary amount of the present
made by Patrick Wilson to Glasgow CoUege in the University of Glasgow, in improvements
made at London upon some of their astronomical instruments, and on instruments which
belonged to himself," but which had been made over by him to the College, showing that
he had expended, on these purposes, an additional sum of upwards of £400.
Shortly after this, (19th February) the Senate of the University unanimously agreed
to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws upon their late coUeague, Mr. Patrick WUson, as a
mark of their high respect for his character, and consideration of his eminent literary
abihties. (No. 72 of Clerk's Press.) The Diploma was accordingly transmitted to him in
London, enclosed in a sUver box.
After enjoying his scientific retirement for upwards of twelve years, Dr. Wilson died
at Kensington, on 31st December, 1811, upon which event his gift came into operation.

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERYATORY.
ALEXANDER MACFARLANE, Esq., Merchant in Jamaica, — who seems to have been ad
dicted to Astronomical pursuits — having died in that island, in the course of the year 1755,
bequeathed to the CoUege of Glasgow, certain valuable Astronomical Instruments, which
he had procured from the first artists in London.* (See No. 33 of Clerk's Press, p. 89, 20th
Jany-, 1756.) These instruments were accordingly brought home from Jamaica, under the
CoUege's instructions, (Clerk's Press, No. 28, pp. 187 and 192,) and, as formerly noticed,
were put in repair by Mr. Watt. Previously to the reception of this bequest, the CoUege
had been directing its attention to Astronomical matters, the idea of opening a Subscrip
tion for the erection of an Observatory, having been entertained at a meeting of Faculty,
on the 24th June, 1754, in consequence ofthe report of a Committee for Astronomical
Instruments, previously appointed. (No. 28 of Clerk's Press, p. 116, 7.) Mr. Macfarlane's
bequest probably stimulated the College's exertions, for on 8th April, 1757, they re-
* This benefactor was brother of Walter Macfarlane, Esq. of Macfarlane, (Scottice, the Laird of
Macfarlane,) on whom, not less in acknowledgement of his own " excellent knowledge of the Antiquities of
Scotland, and every thing relating to them," than of his brother's liberality, the University conferred, upon
this occasion, the degree of LL.D. in a silver box. (Clerk's Press, No. 33, uti s. cit. ; and No. 28, 5th
Feby., 1756. See Draft of Diploma in Book of Forms, No. 92 of Clerk's Press, p. 72.)

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. 25.9
solved to expend £400, if necessary, ou the erection of an Observatory, which, out of
compliment to their benefactor, they agreed to call the Macfarlane Observatory. (No.
28 of Clerk's Press, pp. 219, 224, 225 and 268.) This buUding, which stiU stands in the
CoUege grounds, by the gradual multiplication of Manufactories in the neighbourhood,
became unfit for purposes of Observation, and fell in a great measure into disuse. Various
attempts on the part of the inhabitants of Glasgow to establish an Observatory had either
failed entirely, or had had only a very temporary success, when in 1836 a number of
gentlemen belonging to Glasgow and the neighbourhood, associated themselves, under the
designation of the Astronomical Institution of Glasgow, for the purpose of effecting the
erection of an Observatory in this city, in which regular observations might be conducted.
A Communication was opened by them with the Faculty of the College, which led to a
mutual agreement being entered into, on the footing that the Institution should provide
suitable premises for the purpose, and the College supply the necessary instruments
and an Observer.
The present Observatory on Horslet HiU, was accordingly erected; but notwith
standing that a grant of £1500, presently to be more particularly noticed, was received
from Government in aid of the erection, the funds that were raised proved inadequate to
defray the expenses incurred. After some ineffectual efforts to remedy this state of matters,
it was ultimately resolved that the premises should be transferred to the College, on con
dition of their relieving the Institution of their pecuniary and other responsibUities. On
this object, the Faculty, with the concurrence ofthe Visitors, expended a sum of £1859.
As the government grant was made under certain stipulations relative to the man
ner in which the business of the Observatory was to be conducted, and as the consent of the
Treasury to the transference of the premises from the Institution with which they had
contracted, to the CoUege, was made to depend on the latter engaging to fulfil these stipu
lations, there seems to attach to this establishment so much ofthe character of engagements
undertaken on account of a benefaction received, as to make it proper and desirable that
these stipulations should be inserted here. They are set forth in the foUowing Extract from
a Treasury Minute, dated 9th April, 1839 ; and in a letter from the Secretary to the
Treasury, of date 14th May of same year, agreeing to a modification of one, (viz. the
third) of the conditions laid down in the Minute, which is subjoined. Treasury Chambers,
9th April, 1839.
My Lords have before them the resolutions of the Royal Society, the Royal Astro
nomical Society, and the answers of Professor Airey, and the Lords of the Admiralty,
respecting the utiUty of the proposed Astronomical and Physical Observatory at Glasgow.
From these documents it appears, that, under proper regulations, considerable
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260 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY.
estabUshment of this Institution ; and as the parties locaUy interested, as weU as those
who have made an application to Government for assistance to complete the object
they have in view, have themselves most Uberally contributed to the projected undertaking,
and have likewise engaged to provide an endowment for its future support, my Lords
will feel justified in recommending to Parliament to afford the additional assistance
required, should the Subscribers to the Obsorvatory consent to bind themselves by the
regulations which my Lords wiU feel it their duty to propose on the part of the public,
with a view to secure those benefits to Science and Navigation, which alone warrant my
Lords interfering in behalf of an Institution of this nature.
My Lords proceed to consider these Regulations.
1st. My Lords will require the Managers of this ¦ Institution, to lay before this
Board, an Annual Account of their Receipts and Expenditure.
2nd. My Lords desire it to be understood, that the Observations shaU not be con
fined solely to Meridional ones, in which my Lords are informed by Professor Airey, there
are already so many Observatories employed ; but that Extra-meridional and Magnetic
Observations, in which the country is generaUy deficient, shall form a considerable portion
of the class selected by the Institution.
3rd. My Lords wUl require that annuaUy the public shall be furnished with the re
sults of the Astronomical, Magnetical and other Observations ; aud to ensure this, my
Lords will require a printed copy of their Transactions to be transmitted to the Admiralty,
and to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
4th. My Lords will feel it necessary to ensure that facUities be afforded for giving
Time to Ships ; and they wiU require an undertaking, that satisfactory regulations shaU
be estabUshed for this purpose. Treasury Chambers,
14*^ May, 1839.
Gentlemen, Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury, your letter of the 23d ulto., upon the subject of the conditions attending the
Grant to the Observatory at Glasgow, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you,
that the object which this Board had in view, wiU be attained by the transmission annuaUy
of written Records, in fuU, of aU your Transactions, to the Admiralty and to the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich, as proposed by you, provided the results of the reduced Obser
vations are published, either by you, or some other competent authorities ; and on this
understanding, my Lords are pleased to authorise you to proceed with the undertaking.
****** I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant,
To the Managers of the G. J. PENNINGTON.
Observatory, Glasgow.

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The foUowing letter from the Secretary to the Treasury, contains the authority
under which the CoUege came into the place of the Institution, in regard of the responsi
bilities imposed by the above stipulations. Treasury Chambers,
18th March, 1845.
Gentlemen, The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, having had
under consideration the several Memorials transmitted to them, relating to the proposed
sale to you of the Property of the Glasgow Astronomical Institution, I am commanded by
their Lordships to convey to you their consent to the purchase in question, upon the under
standing that you take upon yourselves aU the obligations and conditions to which the
Proprietors of the Institution are liable to the Crown, thereby relieving the Institution from
its responsibility. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant,
C. E. TREVYLYAN.
The Principal and Faculty of the
College of Glasgow.

tt%£

INSTITUTING SALAEIES, OR AUGMENTATIONS OF SALARIES, -FOR
* PROFESSORS AND LECTURERS IN YARIOUS DEPARTMENTS.

KING WILLIAM III.'S GIFT
OF £300 YEARLY FROM THE BISHOPS' RENTS.
The Deed of Gift is already printed at p. 126 of this volume. The foUowing Ratification
by the Parliament of Scotland, shortly before its final dissolution, constitutes No.. 483 of
Blockhouse's Inventory, with which the print has been compared. See "The Acts of
the Parliament of Scotland," vol. XL, p. 468, and Appendix, p. 132.
At Edinburgh, the twenty-first day of March, jm viic and seven years,
OUR SOVEREIGN LADY, with the special advice and consent of the
Estates of Parliament, Ratifies, Approves and perpetually Confirms a
Gift under the Great Seal of this kingdom, granted by the deceased
King William, with consent of the Lords and others Commissioners of
his Thesaury and Exchequer for the time, of the date at Kensingtoun, the
twenty-eight day of February, jm vi° and ninety-five, to the Principal,
Professors, and Masters of the Colledge of Glasgow, and their successors
in office, in name of the said University, of Three hundred pounds
sterling yearly, to be wholly received, in prosecution of a former gift to
the four Universities, out of the Bishops rents in all time coming, To be
applyed thus —viz. Two hundred and thirty pounds thereof for payment
of the debts of the University, untill fully satisfied, and the remaining
Seventy pounds for maintaining four Bursars in Divinity, to have been
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264 KING WILLIAM III.'S GIFT.
yearly each for the first three years, and Fourty pounds sterling the last
year at a forreign University of the Protestant religion ; And after
payment of the debts of the University, the haill sum to be applyed
partly for bursars, partly for a professor, or any other pious uses in the
University, as should have been appointed by His Majesty, as the said
gift more fully bears, In the haill heads, articles, and clauses of the said
gift: And Her Majesty with consent foresaid, Wills Grants Statutes and
Ordains that the samen Gift shall, conform to its tenor, be a good valid
and sufficient right to the Principal, Professors, and Masters of the said
Colledge and their successors in office, in name of the said University,
for possessing and enjoying, in the terms thereof, the foresaid Three
hundred pounds sterling, yearly, in all time coming, without stopt or
impediment so far as concerns her Mats- interest, and declares that the
same shall never hereafter be quarrelled or revocked by her Majesty,
or her royal successors : And that this present Ratification shall be as
valid and sufficient as if every word of the said gift were inserted herein,
with the not inserting whereof, and with all other defects and imper
fections that can be objected against the same, or this Ratification
thereof, Her Ma1*- for her and her foresaid, with consent above men1-
has dispensed and hereby dispenses for ever. Extracted furth of
the Records of Parliam4-, By me, Sir James Murray, of Philiphaugh,
one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice, Clerk to the Parliament,
and to her Majestie's Councils, Registers and Rolls.
JA°- MURRAY, Cl's. Reg.
Under the power reserved in the original Gift and in this Ratification, Queen Anne,
in 1713, allotted £90 out of the unappropriated £230, as a salary for a Professor of Civil
Law, and £40 as a salary for a Professor of Medicine, leaving £100 to supply deficiences
in the revenue of the University, with a reserved power to regulate its appUcation.
[Compared with the Original Deed preserved in the College Archives, M. 5.]
ANNA, DEI GRATIA Magnae Britannise Francise et Hibernise Regina,
Fideique Defensor, Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos prsesentes

KING WILLIAM III.'S GIFT. 265
literae nostrae pervenerint, Salutem. Quandoquidem nobis represen-
tatum fuit nomine Universitatis nostrae Glasguensis in ilia parte regni
nostri Magnae Britanniae Scotiae vocatae, quod nuper regius noster frater
Gulielmus tertius, Rex, dictae Universitati concessit Tres centum libras
sterlinenses per annum ex reditibus nuper'um Episcopatuum ibid'
ad usus sequentes: — viz. Ducentum et triginta libras ejusdem pro
solutione debitorum dictae Universitatis donee complete persolver-
entur, et remanen' Septuaginta libras per annum pro sustentatione
quatuor Bursariorum in Theologia ad Decem libras sterlinenses annu
atim unusquisque pro primis tribus annis, et Quadraginta libras quarto
anno apud externam Universitatem reformatae religionis; et post solu-
tionem debitorum dictae Universitatis Integra summa erat applicanda
talibus usibus in dicta Universitate ut per dictum nuperum Regem
ordinaretur ; quod dicta donatio per Parliamentum Scotiae confirmata
erat; quodque, debitis diet' Universitatis nunc exoneratis, humillime
rogatum erat ut nobis benigne placeret concedere Unum centum libras
de dictis Duabus centum et triginta libris per annum ad supplimentum
annui defectus proventuum, et ad proveniendum eos in debita devenire
ut antea, et remanen' Centum et triginta libras per annum pro susten
tatione Juris Civilis et Medicinae professorum pro quibus nullae sunt
allocationes ; Nosque regio nostro animo praemissa perpendentes suppli-
cationem dictae Universitatis exaudire statuimus : Noveritis igitur nos
appropriasse et allocasse sicuti tenore praesentium appropriamus et
allocamus Unum centum libras de antedictis Duabus centum et triginta
libris per annum in supplimentum annuorum defectuum proventibus
ad dictam Universitatem pertinentibus contingentium ; et remanen'
Centum et triginta libras per annum modo subsequente, viz : — Nbna-
ginta libras pro sustentatione professoris Juris Civilis, et Quadraginta
libras pro sustentatione Medicinae professoris. At quoad dictum Centum
libras per annum reservandas in casu defectuum diet' allocationum seu
proventuum diet' Universitatis postea contingentium, per p'ntes diri-
gimus et mandamus ratiocinium proventuum et expensarum diet'
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266 KING WILLIAM III.'S GIFT.
Universitatis ad finem uniuscujusque duorum annorum Thesaurario
nostro seu Commissionariis Thesaurarii nostri haeredum et successorum
nostrorum pro tempore existen' transmitti, ut si nullus defectus con
tigerit, vel si sit superplus diet' Unius centum librarum per annum
quam eundem efficacem reddere sufficiens fuerit, application em ejus
dem talibus usibus dictae Universitatis ut nobis maxime idoneum
videbitur dirigamus. In cujus rei testimonium praesentibus Sigillum
nostrum per Unionis tractatum custodiend' et in Scotia vice et loco
magni Sigilli ejusd' utendum ordinatum, appendi mandavimus. Apud
Aulam nostram de Windsor Castle decimo sexto die mensis Decembris
anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo tertio et anno regni
n'ri duodecimo. Per signaturam manu, S. D. N. REGINiE, Suprascript.
Written to the Seall and reg'rat the eight day of January, 1714.
Charles Kerr,
&c, &c, &c.
The College remained in the uninterrupted enjoyment of this £100 per annum,
for a period of 113 years, i.e., tiU 1826, when it was appUed by the Crown to increase the
salary attached to the Regius Professorship of Botany, which had been created a few years
previously, as appears from the foUowing Extract prom Warrant of King George IV.,
dated 7th August, 1826, granting to the Principal, and Professors of the College of
Glasgow, £800 per annum, for fourteen years, in lieu of a renewal of the Lease of the
Archbishoprick of Glasgow.
[Compared with the Warrant preserved in the CoUege Archives, M. 5.]
" And We being desirous that an annual sum of One Hundred Pounds
allowed to the College out of the Revenues of the said Bishoprick, by a
grant of her Majesty Queen Anne, bearing date the sixteenth of Decem
ber, Seventeen hundred and thirteen, in aid of the ordinary revenues of
the College, should, in consideration of this present grant, cease and
determine, and that the said One Hundred Pounds should be applied in
future to increase the salary of the Regius Professor of Botany, in the
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QUEEN ANNE'S GRANT. 267
pleasure that the allowance of the said One Hundred Pounds so made
to the College by the said grant of Queen Anne, do cease and determine
from and after crop and year Eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and be
no longer allowed : And that you, our Chief Baron and Barons, do order
and direct the said sum of One Hundred Pounds to be paid to the
Regius Professor of Botany in the said University, in all time thereafter,
for increasing his salary, out of the rents and revenues of the said Arch-
bishoprick ; the first payment to commence at the tenth day of October
next, for the year ending Whitsunday, Eighteen hundred and twenty-
five ; the next payment to be made at the fifth day of April, Eighteen
hundred and twenty-seven, for the year ending Whitsunday, Eighteen
hundred and twenty-six ; and so on yearly thereafter, at the fifth day of
April, for the year ending Whitsunday preceding, in all time coming. —
Given," &c.

QUEEN ANNE'S GRANT
OF £210 YEARLY OUT OF THE CIVIL LIST OF SCOTLAND.
[The Original Grant constitutes No. 484 of Blockhouse's Inventory, with which the foUowing
print has been compared.]
ANNE, by the Grace of God Queen of Great Britain France and Ire
land, Defender of the Faith, &c. To Our High Treasurer and Under
Treasurer of Our Exchequer now being, and to Our High Treasurer or
Commissioners, or Commissioners of Our Treasury and Under Treasurer
of Our Exchequer, for the time being, and to all others herein concerned,
Greeting. Whereas it hath been represented unto Us in behalfe of Our
University of Glasgow, that some of the Professors there have no ffonds
at all, and that the allowances to others of them are so small that they

268 QUEEN ANNE'S GRANT.
do not afford them a competent subsistence. Now Know yee that Wee,
upon a due consideration of the premisses, and for the better encourage
ment and promoting of Learning and Piety in that part of Our King
dom of Great Britain called Scotland, are graciously pleased to allow to
the said severall Professors in Our said University of Glasgow here
under mentioned the yearly sums following : — That is to say, to the Pro
fessor of the Orientali Languages, a salary of Forty pounds; to the
Professor of Mathematicks, Forty pounds; to the Professor of Humanity,
Twenty-five pounds ; to the Professor of Bottany, Thirty pounds ; to the
Principall or Head of the said University, by way of augmentation to his
present salary, Twenty-two pounds ; to each of the three Professors of
Philosophy, as an augmentation to their respective salaries, Eleven
pounds ; and to the Professor of Greek, there, as an augmentation to
his salary, Twenty pounds ; amounting in all to Two Hundred and ten
pounds. And accordingly, Our Will and pleasure is, and Wee do hereby
direct, authorize, and command, that out of any Our Treasure or Reve
nue, that is and shall be from time to time in the receipt of Our Exche
quer, applicable to the uses of Our Civill Government, or in the hands
of the Receiver of the revenues and profits ariseing by our Post Office
in Scotland, or in the hands of the Receiver or Receivers of any other
branch of Our Revenues, applicable as aforesaid, you cause payment to
be made to the said severall Professors now being, and to their succes
sors in office for the time being, respectively, or to their respective
assignes, of the severall and respective annuall sums above-mentioned,
during Our naturali life : The same to commence from the term of
Martimass One thousand seven hundred and seven, and to be paid, and
accounted payable, at the terms of Whitsuntide and Martimass in every
year, by equal proportions ; the first payment due at Whitsuntide now
last past, to be made forthwith ; and the subsequent payments, from
time to time, as they shall incurr and become due, according to Our
pleasure herein-before declared. And these, our Letters, shall be your
sufficient warrant and discharge in this behalfe. Given, under Our

QUEEN ANNE'S GRANT. 269
Privy Seale, at Our Palace of Westminster, the two-and-twentieth day
of September, in the seventh year of Our Reign.
JOHN TENCH, Depy. to THO. GOSLING, Esq.
&C, &C, &c.
On the renewal of this Grant, by King George II. , in 1729, the sum being left the
same, some alterations were made on the distribution ; the Principal (Mr. Neil CampbeU,)
having declared that he was willing that the Twenty-two pounds formerly paid to the
Principal, should be applied for augmentation of smaller salaries to Professors, as His
Majesty should think fit. (See Minute of 22nd March, 1728, in No. 23 of Clerk's Press, p. 34.)
[Compared with the Original Deed preserved in the College Archives, M. 5.]
GEORGE THE SECOND, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain,
France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To the Commissioners
of Our Treasury now being, and to the High Treasurer or Commissioners
ofthe Treasury for the time being; And to the Barons of Our Court of
Exchequer in Scotland, now and for the time being; And to all others
to whom these presents do or shall appertain, Greeting. Whereas We
are graciously pleased, out of our pious and princely zeal for the good
and flourishing estate of Our University of Glasgow, to Grant to the
several Professors herein-after mentioned, and to their successors in
office, the yearly sum of Two Hundered and ten pounds, to be distri
buted amongst them in manner following: — That is to say, to the
Professor of Oriental Languages, Twenty pounds per annum ; to the
Professor of Mathematicks, Sixty-two pounds per annum ; to the Pro
fessor of Humanity, Twenty-five pounds per annum ; to the Professor
of Botany, Thirty pounds per annum; to the Professor of Ethicks, Eleven
pounds per annum; to the Professor of Logicks, Eleven pounds per
annum; to the Professor of Natural Philosophy, Twenty-one pounds
per annum ; to the Professor of Greek, Twenty pounds per annum ; and
to the Professor of Medicine, Ten pounds per annum. Our will and
pleasure therefore is, and we do hereby direct, authorise, and
command that you cause the said annual sums, amounting, as aforsaid,
to Two hundered and ten pounds per annum, to be placed on our

270 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
Establishment for Civil Affairs in that part of Our Kingdom of Great
Britain called Scotland, to commence from Christmass, One thousand
seven hundered and twenty-seven, the first payment to be made there
upon to be for one year ended at Christmass last, One thousand seven
hundered and twenty-eight; and from thencefurth to be payed and ac
counted payable quarterly to the said several Professors now being, and
to their successors in office for the time being, or to their respective as
signes, in the proportions before expressed, for and during Our pleasure,
in like manner as other the pensions on Our Establishment are, or shall
from time to time, be payed or payable. Given at Our Court at St-
James's, and under our Privy seal of Scotland, the ninth day of April,
One thousand seven hundered and twenty-nine, in the second year of
Our Reign.
Per signaturam manu S. D. N. Regis suprascrip*- manibusque
quorundam Dominorum Commissionariorum Thesaurarii Magnae
Britanniae, nee non Baronum Scaccarii Scotiae, subscript
Written to the Privy Seal, and Registered the sixth day of Decem
ber, 1729. (Signed) THO. GOLDIE, Dep''
&c, &c, &c.

KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT
OF £170, AFTERWARDS INCREASED TO £203 6s. &>., YEARLY, OUT OF THE
REYENUES OF THE ARCHBISHOPRICK OF GLASGOW.
In 1716, George I., by the following instrument under the Great Seal of Scotland, granted
a yearly salary of £100 for a Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and at the same time
allotted £70 per annum for the. augmentation ofthe smaUer salaries.
[Compared with the Original Deed preserved in the College Archives, M. 5.]
Georgius, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae Rex,
Fideiq' Defensor, Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos praesentes literae

KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT. 271
nostrae pervenerint, Salutem. Quandoquidem nobis representatum fuit,
nomine Academiae nostrae Glasguensis in hac parte Regni nostri Magnae
Britanniae Scotiae nuncupa1-, Quod nihilominus provisionum ex ben-
ignitate quondam Gulielmi Regis et quondam Annae Reginae, utriusq'
beatae memoriae, in solutionem debitorum, in Legis et Medicinae profes-
sores fundandos et dotandos, et Bursarios Theologiae sustendandos, et in
alios usus die*- Universitatis concess', adhuc deest provisio professori
Historiae Ecclesiasticae ut die4- Universitas et Ecclesiae et Statui magis
utile reddatur, Et etiam altera provisio in augmentationem sallariorum
exiguorum quorundam praeceptorum dictae Academiae, Et idcirca rogan'
ut nobis benigne placeret tales provisiones ad hos effectus concedere ut
nobis ex nostra benignitate et sapientia visum fuerit ; Et nos volentes
secundum exemplum nostrorum inclytorum praedecessorum quicquid
conducere poterit ad incrementum Pietatis et Doctrinae et illorum bene-
ficiorum quibus aut subditi nostri aut etiam alienigeni frui poterint in
prosecutione Artium et Scientiarum Liberabum in his nostris dominiis, ac
praesertim in hac nostra Academia, addere ; Nosq' regio nostro animo
praemissa perpendentes, supplicationem dictae Universitatis exaudire
statuimus : Noveritis igitur nos dedisse concessisse et disposuisse in
forma amplissima supplendo omnes clausulas necessarias, ex Archie-
piscopatus Glasguen' reditibus summas respective sequen', viz. sum
mam Unius centum librarum monetae sterlinensis ad duos anni ter
minos, festa, viz., Pentecostes et Sti Martini, per aequales portiones
solubilem, ad terminum St! Martini proxime futuri pro dimidio anno
immediate praeceden' inchoand,' et sic deinceps annuatim omni tempore
futuro, tamquan perpetuum sallarium professori Historiae Ecclesiasticae
in die*- Universitate ; et qui quidem professor Historiae Ecclesiasticae,
ejusq' successores, iisdem statutis dictae Academiae quibus ceteri ejusdem
professores et praeceptores eodem modo subjectus erit : Et summam
Septuaginta librarum monetae sterlinensis in augmentationem sallariorum
praeceptorum die1- Academiae eorumque successorum, allocand' et dis-
tribuend' in tales proportiones ut CanceUario, Rectori, Gymnasiarchae, et

272 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
Decano Facultatis die*- Academiae, aut quibusvis eorum tribus, in pri-
mum diem mensis Novembris proxime sequen' nondum sufficienter pro-
viss' videbitur, talibus prseceptoribus secundum dictam distributionem
ad festum Pentecostes et S4i Martini per aequales portiones solubilem ;
ad festum S4i Martini proxime futuri pro termino immediate praeceden'
inchoand', et sic deinceps annuatim omni tempore futuro. Quaequidem
summae Unius centum librarum et Septuaginta librarum respective
erint absque praejudicio donationis per die1" quondam Regem Gulielmum
ex reditibus dicti Archiepiscopatus praedic4 Academiae, et praeter et
ultra eandem aut quasvis alias donationes per dictum quondam Guliel
mum Regem, dictam quondam Annam Reginam, aut quosvis alios
nostros praedecessores regios, in favorem die4- Academiae concess'. In
cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus sigillum nostrum per Unionis
tractatum custodiend' et in Scotia vice et loco Magni Sigilli ejusdem utend'
ordinatum, appendi mandavimus. Apud Aulam nostram de S'- James's
quarto die mensis Julii anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo
sexto, Regniq' nostri secundo.
Per Signaturam Manu S. D. N. Regis suprascrip4- &c.
Wryten to the Seall and Reg'rat the second day of August.
Sealed at Edinburgh the sixth day of August, One thousand Seven
hundred and Sixtein.
THO. PRINGLE.
Circumstances having occurred to prevent the objects of the above Grant from being
carried into effect, George I. issued, in 1721, the following Warrant to the ChanceUor,
Rector, Principal, and Dean of Faculty, to make a suitable distribution of the sum of £70,
granted for the augmentation of the smaUer salaries, and of a farther sum of £33 6s. 8d.,
formerly granted for promoting the study of Ecclesiastical History in the University, as
well as of certain accumulations which had accresced in consequence of the above grant
not having been brought into operation.
[Compared with the Origmal Deed preserved in the CoUege Archives, M. 5.]
GEORGIUS, Dei Gratia Magnaa Britanniae Francise et Hiberniae Rex,
Fideique Defensor, Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos praesentes literse

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n'rae pervenerint, Salutem. Sciatis nos cum avisamento et consensu
Dominorum Commissionariorum nostri Thesaurarii et Domini capitalis
Baronis et reliquorum Baronum nostri Scaccarii in Scotia; Quemadmo-
dum nupera Anna Regina per suam Regiam Donationem de da4-
die anno D'ni millesimo septingentesimo
concessit et allocavit ex redditibus Archiepiscopatus Glas
guensis summam Triginta trium librarum sex solidorum et octo denari-
orum monetae sterlinen' annuatim M'ro Gulielmo Jamieson de Universitate
Glasguensi nunc demortuo, ratione suae eminentis literaturae et animi
dotium et particulariter suae summae in Historia peritiae, et tanquam
sallarium et incitamentum illi ad docendam earn partem literaturae in
die4- Universitate ;* Quaequidem donatio ratificata et durare et effectum
* The early history of this grant in favour of Mr. Jamisone, is explained in the two following excerpts,
the first from a Representation for the Principal, &c, addressed to the Parliamentary Commissioners of
Visitation, who sat between 1696 and 1699; and the second from the Records ofthe Faculty.
I. "Att the Colledge of Glasgow, 4th of October, 1699, 'Wee, the Moderators of the Universitie of Glas
gow, do humbly represent unto your Lordships and Wisdomes the following particulars in relation to the
said Universitie. 1st. That whereas Mr. William Jamisone did, on account ofhis blindness, apply unto the Honourable
Commission of Parliament for Visitation of Universities, that the said Commission might recommend him
to His Majestie for an aliment of Six hundred merks yearly ; and that the said Commission did not only re
commend him to the Lords ofhis Majestie's Thesaury, but, in the mean tyme, until a fond should be settled,
they recommended it to this Universitie, by their Act, daited 15th Julii, 1696, to pay the said Four hundred
pound yearly unto Mr. Jamisone, which the Universitie hath accordingly done, and yet nothing hath been
done for the releiffe of the College," &c.
II. " 18th January, 1705. The Principal acquainted the Faculty that, upon application to the Lords of
Her Majestie's Thesaury, for their allowing the payment of Four hundred pounds Scots, given yearly to Mr.
William Jamisone, conform to the recommendation of the late Commission for Visitation of Schools and
Colleges, Their Lordships were pleased to allow Three hundred pounds Sterling, for nine years bygone, as
ane article of Discharge in the College Account of the Tack of the Archbishoprick for the year 1703. As
also that they had, by their Act, ordained the said summ of Four hundred pounds Scots to be payed yearly to
the said Mr. Jamisone, and to be allowed to the College in their yearly Accompt of the Archbishoprick."
(No. 20 of Clerk's Press, p. 33.)
The first presentation to the Chair of Ecclesiastical History, was in favour of Mr. James Dick, Minister
of Carluke, whose Commission, dated 13th January, 1720, is preserved among the College Archives, (M. 5.)
But the General Assembly having refused to translate Mr. Dick from Carluke to Glasgow, this nomination
" did not take effect." A Commission, to the same chair, in favour of Mr. William Anderson, was laid be-
fore the Faculty, on 29th August, 1721, and Mr. Anderson was admitted in conformity therewith.
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274 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
obtinere destinata fuit per aliam donationem per Nos in favorem die4-
Universitatis datam sub nostro sigiUo in Scotia custodiend' vice magni
sigiUi perprius ibid' servari consuet' de dat' apud Hampton Court viges
imo sexto die mensis Julii anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo
septimo et anno Regni n'ri tertio : Et quod per mortem dicti M'ri
Gulielmi Jamiesone praedic4- summa Triginta trium librarum sex solid
orum et octo denariorum illi solven', nunc in manus nostras et ad nos
tram dispositionem devenerit : Et quod Nos per aliam donationem
sub dicto sigiUo in Scotia vice et loco magni sigilli ejusd' custodiend',
de da4- ad Aulam nostram de S4- James's quarto die Julii anno D'ni
miUesimo septingentesimo decimo sexto, Dedimus concessimus et dis
posuimus ex redditibus dicti Archiepiscopatus Glasguen' summam
Centum librarum sterlinensium, ad duos anni terminos, festa, viz., Pen
tecostes et S4i Martini, per aequales portiones solven', Inchoando primum
solutionis terminum ad terminum S4i- Martini tunc proxime sequen'
post datam die4- donationis, pro dimidio anni immediate praeceden', et ita
deinceps annuatim et terminatim omni tempore futuro, tanquam per
petuum saUarium professori Historiae Ecclesiasticae in dicta Universitate
Glasguen' : Et quod ulterius Nos concessimus summam Septuaginta
librarum sterlinen' annuatim in augmentationem sallariorum magis-
trorum dictae Universitatis suorumque successorum, allocan' distribuen'
et proportion an' inter magistros non sufficienter provisos, in tali modo
et proportionibus ac destinatum fuerit per Cancellarium, Rectorem,
Principalem, et Facultatis Decanum dictae Universitatis pro tempore exis
ten,' aut quosvis tres eorund', In aut ante primum diem Novembris datam
dictae donationis proxime sequen', omni tempore futuro obtinend' ; et
hoc ultra et sine praejudicio ulterius cujusvis donationis aut donationum
in favorem dictae Universitatis factam et concessam per quond' Gulielmum
Regem quond' Annam Reginam- aut quosvis alios nostros regios praede-
cessores ; Et quod qusedam difficultates intervenerunt quae stabilitionem
idonii et qualificati personal in officio professoris Historise Ecclesiasticae
in die4- Universitate obstruebant, per quas quidem die4- saUarium Centum

KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT. 275
librarum sterlinen' per nostram regiam donationem concess' residuum
manet vacans et non applicatum est : Et insuper quod die4- summa
Septuaginta librarum sterlinen' in augmentationem sallariorum ut praedi-
citur concess', nondum allocata proportionata et distributa fuerat
secundum intentum et directionem die4- donationis; Excepto solum-
modo quod Sexaginta librae ejusd' ex consensu magistrorum die4' Uni
versitatis da4- et appropria4- erant Sarae Dunlop viduae magistri
Gulielmi Dunlop quond' principalis in die4' Universitate, pro sua
sustentatione et alimento, durante sua vita; Et quemadmodum
Nobis benigne placitum est ad Pietatem propagandam et Doctrinam
promovendam, ulterius signum nostri regii favoris et benignitatis in
die4- Universitatem conferre, igitur Dedisse et concessisse, sicuti Nos
tenore p'ntium, cum avisamento praedic40- Damus concedimus et dispon-
imus ad et in favorem die4- Universitatis Glasguen', CanceUarii, Rectoris,
Principalis, Facultatis Decani, singulorum magistrorum, professorum
ejusd', pro tempore, eorumque in officio successorum, Totam et Integ-
ram praedic4- summam Triginta trium librarum sex solidorum et octo
denariorum ex redditibus Archiepiscopatus Glasguensis p'rprius die4-
M'ro Gulielmo Jamieson solven', et hoc usque a decessu die4- M'ri Guli
elmi Jamieson, et deinceps omni tempore futuro ad eosd' terminos et
eodem more solven' prouti eadem die4- M'ro Gulielmo Jamieson solveba-
tur, et applicand' in usum die4- Universitatis more ut subtus dirigitur :
Et ulterius Damus et concedimus ad et in favorem die4- Universitatis,
CanceUarii, Rectoris, Principalis, et magistrorum ejusd' eorumque in
officio successorum, tota et integra praeterita lie bygones die4- saUarii Cen
tum librarum sterlinen' da4- et appropria4- more praefa4- pro professore
Historiae Ecclesiasticae in die4- Universitate, et hoc usque a tempore
inchoationis et obtentionis die4- donationis ad terminum Pentecostes
proxime sequen'; provtden' omnimodo quod die4- summa Triginta trium
librarum sex solidorum et octo denariorum monetae praedic4- tenore
pr'ntis Cartae da4- et mortificata die4- Universitati a morte die4- M'ri
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276 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
idua seu praeterita Lie bygones die4- sallarii Unius centum librarum
da4- et appropriat' pro professore Historiae Ecclesiasticae quae hue usque
non applicabantur a tempore quo praedic4- donatio erat inchoatura ad
terminum Pentecostes proxime sequen', per pr'n4m Cartam die4- Universi
tati concess' applicatae et appropriatae erint ad talem usum seu usus in
et ad beneficium die4- Universitatis ut determinatum stabilitum et des-
tinatum fuerit per quamvis syngrapham sub manibus CanceUarii, Rec
toris, et Principalis, die4- Universitatis, nunc in officio aut in possessione
praedic4- officiorum, aut duorum eorum quorumlibet, per illos exequend'
in aut ante primum diem mensis Maii anno Domini millesimo septingen
tesimo decimo secundo : Quaequid' syngrapha per illos aut duos quoslibet
eorund' ita executa, recordata erit in Registris Facultatis die4- Universitatis
aut in quovis alio Registro ut per syngrapham ipsam dirigetur, et inibi
remanebit tanquam perpetua Regula ordinatio et stabilitio pro applica-
tione et occupatione praedic4- summae Triginta trium librarum sex soli
dorum et octo denariorum et praeteritorum lie bygones die4- Centum lib
rarum aut annui reditus die4- Centum librarum, in casu quod die4 Can-
ceUarius, Rector et Principalis, aut duo quilibet eorund', determinabunt
et destinabunt die4- Residua praefa4- Centum hbrarum in usum die4- Uni
versitatis in foenore poni. Et praeterea dand' et concedend' sicuti Nos
tenore praesentium damus et concedimus praedic4- CanceUario, Rectori, et
PrincipaU, nunc in officio aut possessione die4- officiorum, aut duobus
eorum quibuslibet, plenam potestatem appropriandi dividendi et propor-
tionandi die4- Septuaginta libras tam praeteri4- quam pro tempore futuro
per nostram donationem antedic4- praefa4- Universitati concess', in aug
mentationem sallariorum, et hoc per quamvis syngrapham sub suis
manibus per illos exequen' in aut ante primum diem Maii anno D'ni
millesimo septingentesimo vigesimo secundo, et recordan' in Registris
Facultatis die4- Universitatis aut in quovis alio registro quod per illam
syngrapham dirigetur: Quae divisio determinatio et stabilitio sic facta
perpetua erit Regula pro applicatione die4- Septuaginta librarum in aug
mentationem sallariorum concess' : Providen' omnimodo quod eadem

KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT. 277
erit absque laesione et praejudicio die4- Sarae Dunlop viduae die4- M'ri
Gulielmi Dunlop quond' principalis die4 Universitatis quoad jus suum ad
sexaginta libras sibi durante sua vita appropria4- : Et Volumus et Ordina
mus quod praedic4- Triginta tres librae sex solidi octo denarii annuatim
et residua die4- sallarii Centum librarum annuatim professori Historiae
Ecclesiasticae appropria4-, et per p'ntes die4- Universitati concess', iUis
deducentur tanquam articuli exonerationis quum eorum computorum ra-
tionem reddant pro assedationis devoriis per illos solvend' pro redditi-
bus aut decimis Archi episcopatus Glasguen' Ulis per Nos in assedationem
locatis. In cujus rei testimonium praesentibus sigillum nostrum per
Unionis tractatum custodiend' et in Scotia vice et loco magni sigilli
ejusd' utend' ordinatum, appendi mandavimus, Testibus praedilecto
nostro consanguineo Alexandro Domino Polwarth, nobis ab Archivis et
Reg'ris Clerico, et praedilectis nostris Adamo Cockburn de Ormistoun n'rae
Justitiariae Clerico, et Domino Carolo Kerr n'rae Cancellariae Directore.
Apud Aulam nostram de Kensingtoun decimo nono die mensis Septem-
bris anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo vigesimo primo et anno
Regni n'ri octavo.
Written to the Seall and Regrat- the tenth day of March, 1722.
(Sigd-) RON. CAMPBELL, Dep.
Sealled at Edinburgh, <fec.
(Sigd- ) JA. ROBERTSON.
The Deed of Distribution, prepared in accordance with the instructions of the above
Warrant, of date 21st April, 1722, after a fuU recital of the terms thereof, proceeds as
follows. [Compared with a Transcript engrossed in No. 10 of Clerk's Press.]
THEREFORE WITT YE US, JAMES DUKE OF MONTROSE,
Robert Dundass, younger, of Arnistoun, His Majestie's Advocat ; Mr.
John Stirling, Principal of the said University of Glasgow ; who were
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278 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
Rector and Principal of the said University, and in possession of the
said offices, and are now in the right and possession of the said several
offices, in consequence and in execution of the powers given Us by his
Majestie's said Royal Grant, of the da,te the Nineteenth day of Septem
ber last by past, to divide, appropriat, and proportion the said several
Sums therein and above recited, for the use and benefit of the Univer
sity ; To have appointed and appropriated, Likeas we hereby appropri
at and appoint the Sum of Two hundred pound Scots, of the said Four
hundred pounds Scots formerly payable to the said Mr. WiUiam Jameson,
yearly to be payed to Mr. John Simson, professor of Divinity, and his
successors in office, and to belong to him as an addition to his sallary
in all time coming, commenceing from the death of the said Mr.
William Jameson, and payable in the same manner and at the same
terms as the same was payable to the said Mr. William Jameson. Item,
we do appropriat and appoint Sixty six pound thirteen shiUings and
four pennies Scots yearly, of the said sum formerly payable to the said
Mr. William Jameson, to belong, and to be payed to Mr. Andrew Ross,
professor of Humanity in the said University, and his successors in
office : Item, Sixty six pounds thirteen shiUings and four pennies Scots,
of the same fund yearly, to be payed and belong to the first professor
of Philosophy ; And the like sum of Sixty six pound thirteen shillings
and four pennies Scots, to the second professor of Philosophy, and their
successors in office; commencing likewise from the death of the said
Mr. William Jameson, and payable in all time coming, in the same
manner, and at the same terms as the same was payable to the said
Mr. William Jameson ; which four Sums exhaust and make up the
totall sum of Four hundred pounds Scots, payable to him, the said
Mr. Jameson, by the aforesaid Grants now mortified to the said
University. Item; we do appoint Four hundred pound Sterling,
part of the bygones of the sum of One hundred pound Sterling appro
priated for a Professor of Church History, that were due and payable
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KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT. 279
•
and which were not employed by reason of the vacancy of the office, to
be secured for the use of the University, upon sufficient security as a
capitall to bear interest in time coming, and the yearly produce and
interest thereof, we do appropriat in manner following, viz : — The sum
of Seventy-three pound six shillings and eight pennies Scots, yearly,
to the present professor of Divinity, and his successors in office ; the
sum of Thirty three pound six shiUings and eight pennies Scots, to
Mr. William Anderson, present professor of Ecclesiastic and Civill His
tory, and his successors in office ; the like sum of Thirty three pound
six shiUings and eight pennies Scots, to each of the three professors
of Philosophy, and their successors in office ; and the like sum of
Thirty-three pound six shiUings and eight pennies yearly, to the
professor of Humanity, and his successors in office. Item ; We appoint
the sum of One hundred pound Sterling, of the said sallary appointed
for the professor of Ecclesiastick History, falling due betwixt Whitson-
day j™ viic and twenty one, and Whitsonday jm viic and twenty two,
and payable at the term of Martinmass jm viic and twenty one, and will be
payable at Whitsonday next, to belong, and be payed to Mr. William
Anderson, professor of Ecclesiastick History, in the said University ;
conform to, and in the terms of his Gift and presentation from His
Majesty, to his office. And as to the sum of Seventy pound Sterling
yearly, Granted by His Majesty for augmentation of saUarys; we
do appoint and appropriat the sum of One hundred and twenty
pounds Scots thereof, not liferented by the said Sarah Dunlop, to
belong and be payed to the present professor of Oriental Languages,
and his successors in office, yearly, commencing from the date of his
Majestie's Grant thereof, and payable in the manner and at the terms as
by the samen Grant io directed ; And as to the Sixty pound Sterling life-
rented by Mrs. Dunlop, we Destinate and appropriat the same after her
death, to belong and to be payed in manner following, viz : — To the
principal of the University for the time being, and his successors in
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280 KING GEORGE I.'S GRANT.
shilling and four pennies Scots money yearly; To the professor of
Oriental Languages, and his successors in office, the sum of Sixty six
pound thirteen shilling and four pennies yearly ; To the first and second
professors of Philosophy the sum of Thirty-three pound six shilling
and eight pennies Scots yearly, to each of them ; To the third professor
of Philosophy, the sum of Thirty four pound thirteen shilling and four
pennies Scots yearly ; To the professor or Regent of Greek, the sum of
Sixty pounds Scots yearly ; and to the professor of Humanity, and his
successors in office, the sum of Thirty three pound six shilling and
eight pennies Scots yearly, Commencing all these payments from the
time of the expiring of the said Mrs. Dunlop's her liferent, and there
after payable in aU time coming, in the manner and at the terms as the
said Seventy pound Sterling, granted for augmentation of Sallarys, is
payable by the tenor of his Majesty's Grant. And whereas after the
appropriations and payments aforesaid, there will yet remain of the
bygones of the said sum of One Hundred pound Sterling, appointed
for a professsor of Ecclesiastick History, that were due and payable at
or before the term of Whitsonday jm viic and twenty one inclusive,
and which were not employed by reason of the vacancy of the office,
the sum of Six Hundred pound Scots money, not appropriated by
Us, Therefore we do appropriat and appoint the sum of Two hundred
and fourty six pound seventeen shilling and six pennies, thereof, for
reimbursing and Dayment of the expences laid out in passing and pro
curing his Majestie's said last Grant to the University, of the sums
hereby appropriated; and the sum of Two hundred and thirty one
pound twelve shilling Scots, for reimbursing the charge of the Gift
formerly obtained in favours of Mr. James Dick, to be professor of
Ecclesiastick History in the said University, which did not take effect ;
And the remaining sum of One hundred and twenty one pound ten
shilling and six pennies, to be employed for repairing, so far as it goes,
the Fore Common HaU in the College of Glasgow, at the sight of the
said Principal and Dean of Faculty of the said University. And we do

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further appoint, That in case the legall interest should fall lower than
it now is, whereby the produce or annual rent arising from the bygones of
the sallary of the professor of Ecclesiastick History, hereby appointed
to be stocked out upon interest, may be diminished, That the Defalca
tion and Diminution that may be occasioned thereby, shall fall propor
tionally upon the respective professors, and their successors, to whom
the said interest and produce is above appropriated. In witness
whereof, Consenting and Appointing that one authentick copy of
thir presents be recorded in the Faculty Records of the said University
of Glasgow, and another in the Books of Councill and Session for con
servation, and for that effect Constituting
Our pr'ors, &c, We have subscribed two Copies
of these presents, consisting of this and the nine preceeding pages
written on stamped paper, by Patrick Hepburn, Writer in Edinburgh,
at Edinburgh the twenty-first day of April, one thousand seven hun
dred and twenty-two years, before these Witnesses, Mungo Graeme, of
Gorthy, and the said Patrick Hepburn. Sic Subscribitur, Montrose,
Ro. Dundas, Jo. Stirling; Mungo Graeme, witness, Patrick Hepburn,
witness.

WALTONIAN MEDICAL LECTURESHIP.
The history of this benefaction, already referred to in the notice of the Bursary founded by
the same gentleman, (p. 187,) may be gathered from the foUowing Minute of Faculty,
dated 25th September, 1788.
" The Principal laid before the meeting several letters received from Dr. Walton
since the meeting of August 6th, and also scroUs of the Principal's answers to Dr. Walton,
from which it appears that the new Medical Institution which he had in contemplation, is
now fuUy settled, in terms perfectly consistent with the constitution and laws of this Uni
versity and CoUege ; and that the Doctor has been so good as to agree to aU the altera
tions in his original Plan, proposed to him by the Faculty of this CoUege-. And Doctor
Walton having by his late letters agreed to grant a Bond to any person the Faculty shaU
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282 WALTONIAN MEDICAL LECTURESHIP.
name, for One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable in six months after his death, but not
bearing interest tiU that time, for the purposes of the said Institution, and having desired
from the Faculty an Obligation to fulfil aU the terms and conditions of said Institution
agreed upon, the Faculty having this day had laid before them an ObUgation to be granted
by them for that effect, and having considered the same and found it fuUy containing aU
the terms and conditions of said new Institution, to be caUed The Waltonian Medical
Lectureship in the Universitv and College of Glasgow, They approved of the same, and
signed it in prmsentia, and appoint the Principal to transmit the said ObUgation to Dr.
Walton, and to inform him that Mr. Robert Graham, Junior, Writer in Glasgow, is the
person they have fixed upon to whom his Bond for £1000 is to be granted."
Dr. Walton died Uttle more than a twelvemonth after the date of this Minute, viz..
on 16th October, 1789. It may be noticed here that from the terms of the diploma granted
to Dr. Walton, it appears that in early life he had been for six years a member of Queen's
CoUege, Cambridge.
[Compared with Transcript in College Records, No. 78 of Clerk's Press, p. 346.]
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, That we, The Principal and
Professors of the College and University of Glasgow, whose names and
seals are hereunto sett, do hold ourselves and our successors in office,
firmly bound to the Reverend Doctor William Walton of Upton, in the
County of Huntingdon, and to his heirs, assigns, or nominees, in the
sum of One thousand five hundred pounds of good and lawful money
of Great Britain, to be paid to them, for the payment of the whole and
every part thereof (whereof), We bind ourselves and our successors in
office foresaid, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated the
twenty-third day of September, in the twenty-eighth year of the Reign
of Our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in
the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
The condition of which Obligation is such, that the foresaid Prin
cipal and Professors, and their successors in office, shall, within a year
after the decease of the said Doctor William Walton, lay out and secure
the sum of One thousand pounds money foresaid, in the purchase of
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WALTONIAN MEDICAL LECTURESHIP. 283
security there : The yearly rents and profits of the said Lands, when
purchased, or the interest and profits of the said One thousand pounds
whilst lent out, to be by them applied, after deducting the necessary
expence of management, in all time coming, for the support and main
tainance of an Institution founded in the said College and University of
Glasgow, by the said Doctor William Walton, to be called The Wal
tonian Medical Lectureship in the University and College of
Glasgow, for the support of which Institution the said Doctor William
Walton has aUotted the said One thousand pounds, upon the terms and
conditions, and under the restrictions and limitations following : —
Primo, The Lecturer fbr the time being, on the foresaid Waltonian
Medical Foundation, to be obliged in all time coming to lecture for six
months in the year, and four days in each week, within the said CoUege
of Glasgow, on that branch of medicine or science connected with it
which the Faculty of the said College shall allot to him, the said Faculty
always giving him six months' previous notice what branch he is to
teach, and that branch not to be afterwards changed without giving the
said Lecturer five years' previous notice ; and the said lecturer is to be
entitled to, and is to receive the same fees yearly from each of his pupUs
or scholars who attend his lecture, as the other Lecturers in medicine
in the said College receive from their pupils or scholars.
Secundo, George Walton Furniss, adopted son of the said Dr. William
Walton, now studying grammar at Dunfermline, is, after he shall have
taken out his degree in medicine in the said College and University of
Glasgow, to be admitted and received as first Lecturer on the said
Waltonian Medical Foundation in the said College, by the Faculty
thereof, and to all the privileges and emoluments of the said office of
Lectureship as after-mentioned ; and upon the death or resignation of
the said George Walton Furniss, or on his refusing to accept of the said
Lectureship, then, and in that event, John William M'Kie, son of Doctor
John M'Kie, and godson to the said Doctor WiUiam Walton, a boy of
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284 WALTONIAN MEDICAL LECTURESHIP.
admitted and received Lecturer on the said Waltonian Medical Founda
tion, and to all the privileges and emoluments thereof, by the Faculty of
the said College as aforesaid.
Tertio, After the death or resignation of both the said George Walton
Furniss and John William M'Kie respectively, or if both of them should
decline to accept of the said office and lectureship, after they come to the
age of twenty-eight years respectively, in those events, the Faculty of the
said College of Glasgow, consisting of the Principal and all the Professors
thereof, shall have then, and also on every future vacancy in the said
lectureship, full power to elect a Lecturer into the aforesaid Waltonian
Medical Foundation out of the Medical scholars bred, at the said Uni
versity and College of Glasgow, on the Medical Scholarship formerly
founded in the said University and College by the said Doctor William
Walton ; Which person so elected shall, in all time coming, be entitled
to all the privileges and emoluments of the said office ; but it is hereby
expressly declared that none of the said Waltonian scholars shall be
eligible into the said Waltonian Lectureship until he shall have taken
out his degree in medicine in the said University of Glasgow.
Quarto, It is expressly provided that, in all future times, if, upon a
vacancy in the said lectureship, the Faculty of the said College of Glas
gow shall not then find a person properly qualified amongst the persons
who have enjoyed the said Scholarship in the said College and Univer
sity, that then, and in that event, the said Faculty shall have full power
to elect yearly, and from year to year, a fit Lecturer to prelect and enjoy
all the privileges and emoluments of the said office, until a person pro
perly qualified for the said office shall be found amongst the persons
who have enjoyed the said Waltonian Medical Lectureship (Scholarship);
and that upon every vacancy which shall happen in the said Lectureship
after the death of the said George Walton Furniss and John William
M'Kie, or in case of their resigning or refusing to accept of the said
office, the Faculty of the said College shall be obliged, within six
months after such events respectively, to elect a fit person to the said
Lectureship.

WALTONIAN MEDICAL LECTURESHIP. 285
Quinto, The Lecturers on the said Waltonian Medical Foundation
are to receive from the Faculty of the College of Glasgow yearly the
full legal interest, or rents and profits, of the foresaid One thousand
pounds, after deducting the necessary expense of management.
Sexto, Every Lecturer on the foresaid Waltonian Medical Foundation
is to be allowed once, at any time of his life after his election and
admission when he shall chuse it, one year of grace to attempt a settle
ment as a practising physician in any part of the world which he shall
judge proper ; and the interest, rents or profits, of the said One thousand
pounds shall be payable to him for the said year, provided it shall be made
appear that he was bona fide attempting a settlement that year as a prac
tising physician as aforesaid ; and he is to have full liberty to return to
his Lectureship at the end of the said year, and to enjoy all the profits
and emoluments thereof, if his attempt to settle as a practising physician
do not succeed.
Septimo, If the Lecturer on the said Waltonian Foundation in any
time coming shall refuse or neglect in any future Session of the College
to lecture six months in the year, and four days every week as aforesaid,
then, and in that event, the Faculty of the said College shall have full
power to elect another fit Lecturer, for the said Session of the College,
and to pay to the person so elected by them the interest, rents or profits
of the said One thousand pounds for the said year.
Octavo, The whole interests, rents or profits of the foresaid One
thousand pounds, ay and until the admission of the foresaid George
Walton Furniss and John William M'Kie to the said Waltonian Lecture
ship, in the manner and at the times above-mentioned, shall be at the
disposal of the Faculty of Glasgow College in the University of Glasgow.
Nono, The Lecturers on the said Waltonian Medical Institution are,
in all time coming, to be subject to the laws, discipline, and regula
tions of the said University and College of Glasgow, lawfully and con
stitutionally made or to be made and established.
And it is hereby provided, that if the above-mentioned conditions be

286 YATES' AUGMENTATION FUND.
complied with, then, this Obligation to be void and null, otherwise to
remain in full force and virtue. And the foresaid Principal and Pro
fessors consent that these presents be registered in the books of Council
and Session in Scotland, or any other competent Judicature there, to
remain therein for preservation ; and, if needful, that all letters and
execution may thereupon pass in usual form ; and for that purpose they
constitute Procurators ; and also, they consent that
a Registration hereof be made with the Clerk of the Peace in the County
of Huntingdon in England, to remain therein as well as in the said
Books of Record in Scotland, for the preservation of the remembrance
of this Benefaction and Institution to future ages.
(Signed) &c. &c.

YATES' (SHUNA) AUGMENTATION FUND.
The most authentic information which we have been able to procure relative to this bene
factor is contained in the following extract from the Annual Report of the Glasgow Royal
Infirmary for 1829.
" JAMES YATES, Esq., of WoodviUe, Devonshire, was born in Glasgow, and for a
time a writer in the office of one of the Town Clerks, but left his native place nearly fifty
years ago, [i. e. about 1780.] He afterwards became a merchant in London, and lately re
tired from business to his romantic residence at WoodvUle. Some time ago he purchased
for £10,000 the island of Shuna, part of the united parish of KUbrandon and KUchattan,
in the Lordship of Lorn, one of the extensive districts of Argyleshire. A few weeks after
paying a visit to Shuna and to his native city, he died in Devonshire in August last, leav
ing, as we understand, above £25,000, in trust, for the behoof of his relatives. By a separate
deed, executed in April, 1829, he conveyed his estate of Shuna in favour of Trustees, to
be by them invested as a perpetuity in the Magistrates of Glasgow, who are nominated to
the charge of management, and directed to apply the annual produce, — two-fifths to aug
ment the salaries of four Professors in the University, one-fifth for improvements in the
city, one-fifth to Anderson's Institution, and the remaining fifth for the use of the Royal
Infirmary. The granter contemplates, in the deed of settlement, that the revenue will
amount to £500."

YATES' AUGMENTATION FUND. 287
[The following extract from Mr. Yates' Deed of Settlement is authenticated by the
Secretary to his Trustees.]
I, JAMES YATES, sometime Merchant in London, but now residing
at Salcombe, in the parish of Malborough, and county of Devon, wishful
to promote learning and improvement, am desirous, for these purposes,
to bestow or mortify the Lands and others herein-after described, as a
fund for effecting and in part maintaining the same ; and having full
confidence in the persons after-named for executing the Trust after
written, I have, therefore, given, granted, and disponed, as, under the
reservation of my own liferent, use, and enjoyment thereof, and under
the other burdens, provisions, and declarations herein-after contained,
I do hereby give, grant, dispone, assign, and convey, and make over to
andin favour of Alexander Thomson of Greenock, banker, Thomas Walker
of Cross Lane, Saint Dunstan's in the East, London, wine merchant, and
Henry Strang of Salcombe aforesaid, maltster, or to such other person or
persons as they or the acceptors or survivors shall appoint by virtue of
the powers herein-after committed to them, and to the acceptors or ac
ceptor, survivors or survivor of them (the major number being always
a quorum) as Trustees for the ends, uses, and purposes after written,
and to themselves, Disponees or Assignees, All and whole the Lands and
Island of Shuna or Suna.
# # # *
Providing always, and declaring, as it is hereby provided and declared,
that these presents are granted by me, and shall be accepted by my said
Trustees with and under the burdens, provisions, and conditions, and
reservations after specified, and for the uses and purposes herein-after
directed, all which are hereby ordained and appointed to be inserted in
the Instrument of Sasine, to follow hereupon : videlicet, that my Trustees
or the acceptors, or survivors, or any of them, being the sole acceptor or
survivor, or such persons as they or the survivors of them, or any one
of them, may hereafter assume, shall be bound and obliged to dispone,
assign, convey, and make over to and in favour of the Lord Provost

288 YATES' AUGMENTATION FUND.
and Baillies of the city of Glasgow (my native place) and their succes
sors in office ; and failing their acceptance, to any fixed pubUc body of
men whom my said Trustees or Trustee may be pleased to appoint, All
and whole the foresaid Lands and others particularly above described,
with the pertinents, but for the sole uses and purposes following, That is
to say, upon trust, that they, the said Lord Provost and Bah1 lies, and
their successors in office, upon receiving the rents and profits thereof
(which I now reckon worth Five hundred pounds a year, and which may
be very considerably improved) shall divide the same in the manner
after mentioned, after deducting all the charges of management and
collection and every other expense that may have been reasonably
incurred ; viz., One fifth of the nett proceeds, whatever the same may
be, to be retained by the said Lord Provost and Baillies, in order to be
distributed in any manner they may chuse for the use and benefit of
the said city, either in public buildings, or the amelioration of those
already built, or in any other charitable or useful purpose ; Two fifths
to the University of Glasgow, to be appropriated by the managing
members of the University, and in equal portions, to each of the several
professors of Natural Philosophy, of Moral Philosophy, of Botany,
and of Mathematicks, and to their respective successors in office ; One
fifth to the Directors or Governors of Anderson Institute, a moiety of
which is to be for the uses of the Institution, in purchasing or preser
ving proper instruments, or for other purposes of the establishment,
of which they are to judge, and the other moiety in augmentation of
the professor or professors' salary, in the manner and proportion they,
the Governors or Directors, may fix ; and the last Fifth to the public
Infirmary, to be applied by the Governors, Directors, or Managers of
the same, as they may think proper.A true Copy.
A. TURNER,
Secy, to Mr. Yates' Trustees.

M'TURK'S AUGMENTATION FUND. 289

M'TUUK'S AUGMENTATION EUND.
WILLIAM M'TURK, LL.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical. History in this College and Uni
versity, who died, unmarried, 10th March, 1841, by his Last WiU, dated 26th January,
1841, intended to bequeath to the Principal and Professors of the Faculty, a Thousand
Pounds, to form a Fund, of which, after it should have accumulated for twenty years, the
annual interest should be applied to augment the Salary of his successors in that chair.
But on the Trustees proceeding to carry his WUl into effect, it was found that only a
third part of the sum which he had destined for the formation of this Fund, could be
applied to that purpose. This arose chiefly from the time which elapsed between the execu
tion of his WiU, and the occurrence of his death, not having been so long as is required by
the law of Scotland to give validity to a death bed disposal of heritable property. By
the deduction of Legacy Duty the sum was stUl farther reduced to £300. At a meeting of
the Summer Committee of the Faculty, held on 26th June, 1843, there was accordingly
produced, and signed, a receipt to Dr. M'Turk's Trustees for that sum.
Dr. M'Turk was the second son of Alexander M'Turk, Merchant in Glasgow, in
which city he was himself born. He matriculated in the University as a student of the
Latin class, under Mr. Richardson, in session 1779-80 ; and from that time forward to his
death in 1841, he seems to have been almost uninterruptedly connected, in one character
or other, with this Academic body,, the credit and interests of which he throughout his
whole life had most zealously at heart.
In 1794 he was appointed Librarian, which office he resigned at the commencement
of session 1795-6. In the previous session he had been chosen as one of four CoUege
Chaplains ; and as only three chaplains were nominated for session 1795-6, among whom
his name is not included, it seems probable that he had left Glasgow for that session. In
the subsequent session he was again elected one of the four chaplains ; but this arrangement
not having been found advantageous, he was appointed in 1798 (23d AprU,) sole chaplain,
in which capacity he continued to act tUl 1809. In the interim (27th February, 1797,) he
had produced to the Faculty a commission from the Crown, as Assistant and Successor in
the chan- of Ecclesiastical History, to Dr. Hugh Macleod, in which character he was
admitted after the usual trials. Dr. Macleod survived tiU May (22nd,) 1809, and Dr.
M'Turk consequently did not acquire his fuU status as Professor till that time. The
Faculty, however, had availed itself of his accurate and methodical business habits, by
appointing him their Clerk in 1806, and he continued to officiate as such for four years.
o 2

290 M'TURK'S AUGMENTATION FUND.
I, DOCTOR WILLIAM MACTURK, Professor of Ecclesiastical History
in the College and University of Glasgow, for settling the succession to
my estates, &c. Do hereby dispone, assign, convey, and make over to,
and in favor of James Ballantyne, of Castlehill ; Robert Buchanan, of
Ardoch, Merchant in Glasgow ; The Reverend Dr. William Fleming,
Professor of Moral Philosophy, in the University of Glasgow; John
Smith, Merchant in Glasgow, of the house of John, Thomas and
Archibald Douglas, and Company ; and Donald Cuthbertson, Account
ant, in Glasgow, and the acceptors and survivors, and the acceptor and
survivor of them, and the heirs of the longest liver of them, the major
number of the said Trustees accepting and surviving from time to time
being a quorum. ^P 9? *JF w w
In the third place, I appoint my said Trustees and their foresaids,
at the first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after my decease, to pay
over to the Principal and Professors of the Faculty of Glasgow College,
in the University of Glasgow, the sum of One Thousand pounds sterling;
and I direct and appoint the said Principal and Professors, and their
successors in office, to hold the said sum of One Thousand Pounds in
vested in their persons, on heritable or other good and sufficient security,
and to accumulate the Interest accruing on the said sum of One Thous
and pounds during the term of Twenty years; and at the expiration of
the said term of Twenty years, I direct and appoint the said Principal
and Professors, and their foresaids, to invest the said accumulated sum
of One Thousand Pounds, with the Interest which has accrued thereon,
on heritable or other good and sufficient security, and to pay the Inter
est on the said accumulated sum, so to be invested, annually to the
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, in the said University, for the time
being, and his successors in office, as an augmentation to his salary in
all time coming.

ADDENDA.

ROSS'S BURSARY.
(Continued from page 66.)
From the following Extract from the " Inventor of the Writts and Evidents belonging to
the King's CoUedge of Aberdeen, that are found in the Charter Chest belonging to the said
CoUedge," (pp. 73 and 74,) it would appear that there are preserved in the Archives of that
CoUege, documents that might possibly throw some clearer Ught on the circumstances
which prevented the liberal intentions of this benefactor from being reaUsed.
(32 Shuttle, Captain Rose Mortificatione.)
1. Imp : Attested Double of William Rose of RosehUl, his latter WiU and Testa
ment, wherby he leaves his whole real and moveable estate, two parts therof to the Uni
versity of Aberdeen, and the other third part to the University of Glasgow. Dated, 25
January, 1659 years.
2. Item, Coppie Commissione and Instructiones from the Masters of both CoUedges
of Aberdeen, to Mr. Patrick Gordon and Mr. Robert Paterson to goe to Edinburgh and
prosecute the foresaid Legacie. Dated, June, 1671 years.
3. Item, Contract betwixt the Lord Ross and Francis Ross of Auchlossen, on the
ane part, and the Masters and Members of the Universitys of Glasgow and Aberdeen,- on
the other part, wherby the saids Lord Ross and Laird of Auchlossen oblidge themselves
under the provisiones therin mentioned, to pay to the saids Universityes of Glasgow and
Aberdeen by the divisione forsaid, Eleven thousand merks Scotts money. Dated, 27 June,
1677 years. 4. Item, Three Informationes by the University of Aberdeen, against the said Lord
Ross and Laird of Auchlossen in annis 1677 and 78.

292 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
5. Item, Decreet obtained at the Instance of the saids Lord Ross and Laird of Auch
lossen, against the Masters of the University of Aberdeen, decerning them to Implement
the forsaid agreement made by their constituents. Dated, last January, 1678 years.
6. Item, Horning following att their instance thereon, against the said Masters, of
the same date.
7. Item, ObUdgement by the said Francis Ross of Auchlossen, wherby he obUdges
him to procure and obtain the forsaid decreet. Dated, March 2, 1678 years.
8. Item, Declaration and ObUdgment by the said Francis Ross of Auchlossen and
Robert Ross his sons, declairing that the Masters giving a new Commissione to Dr. Dunn
in Ireland to Inquire after the effects of the said WUliam Ross, shall not inferr double
deeds against the saids Masters. Dated, 1 and 11 July, 1681 years.

LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
(Continued from page 91.)
Since the deeds relative to the Leighton Bursaries were printed, access has been obtained,
by the kindness of the Civic Authorities, to the original deed of Mortification, which is
preserved in the Burgh Archives, (Letters G. H. Bundle 41st, Nos. 8 and 9,) and which is
in the following terms.*
KNOW ALL MEN, by these presents, That I, Doctor Robert Leighton,
late Archbishop of Glasgow, in Scotland, upon grave and serious con
siderations, by the tenor hereof, Mortifie, dote, and appoint for ever, the
soumes of money following, to the ends and uses underwr'en ; To witt,
out of ye rent that remains due to mee, out of ye Barony and Regality
of Glasgow for ye crop and year of God, one tb : sixe hunder seventy
* Even earlier than the period to whieh reference has been made at p. 85, the uncertainty that existed
relative to the conditions of tenure of Bishop Leighton's bursaries had proved a source of annoyance. In 1691,
two presentations from the Town of Glasgow for Theology bursaries on Bishop Leighton's Mortification
having been given in, each was received with this protestation, that " the acceptance hereof shall be no pre
cedent, and until it be cleared how the said Mortification hath ordered the presentation to be made, and that
only for this year." — (See No. 14 of Clerk's Press, 2nd and 20th February, 1691. See, also, ibid. 23d January
1705.)

LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES. 293
four : I doe hereby appoint, first, that James Anderson, collector of ye
said rent for mee, sail retain twenty pounds sterl., for so much already
distributed by him towards ye end of ye sd year to ye poor of the town
of Glasgow, upon my order : next, doe give and appoint out of ye same
rent, one hundreth and fifty pounds sterl. to the CoUedg of Glasco, for
ye yearly maintenance of one student in Philosophie in all time coming,
during his foure year course in ye sd CoUedg : Item, to the Hospitall in
ye said Burgh of Glasco, called, ye Hospitall of St. Nicolas, or ye Bishops'
Hospitall, one hundr. and fifty pounds sterl: for ye standing mainten
ance of two poor men, yearly, in ye sd Hospitall : Thirdly, to ye CoUedg
of Edenburgh, I give out of ye same rents, fifty pounds sterl:, to be
added to one hundreth pounds sterl:, formerly given by mee to ye same
CoUedg, that ye rent of ye whole together may bee for ye yearly main
tenance of one student in Philosophie there, during his four years'
Course. And for these intents and purposes, I doe hereby appoint ye
sd collector, James Anderson, to pay in the above written sumes, the
last, to witt, fifty p: sterl: to the treasurer of Edenburgh CoUedg ; the
other two, being each 1501b Sterl:, in all three hunder pounds Sterl:, to
ye Magistrates and Town Counseil of Glasco, or to whom they shall
appoint to receit it in their names ; the whole to remain in their hands
for ye uses above said, of ye CoUedg and Hospitall in the sd Burgh,
they paying ye yearly rent thereof to the sd student in ye CoUedg, to
ye two poor men in ye Hospitall, and giving security for ye effect to ye
faculty of ye sd CoUedg, and to those entrusted with ye affairs of ye
sd Hospitall respective. And these above named sums being payed as
sd is, by ye sd collector, James Anderson, shall bee allowed to him as suffi
cient discharges pro tanto in his Account. As to ye right of presenting to
these allowances as they shall bee vacant, after my decease, for the
Bursary in Glasco CoUedg being vacant, two are to bee offered to tryaU
to ye Masters of ye CoUedg ; ye one nominated by ye Archbishop of
Glasco, for the time being, and ye other by ye Magistrats and CounciU
of ye sd Burgh, and upon the testificate of ye sd Masters, (who, I hope

294 LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES.
will remember that they are to be answerable to God for their faithfull
and impartiall report,) hee of ye two who shall bee found the better
qualified, and more hopefull to prove an able schollar, shall be admitted
to ye sd Bursary ; And if the sd Masters shall find neither of ye two to
bee sufficiently worthy, then shaU two others bee offer'd them ; and so
on, if need bee, till they shall find one with whom they doe testify them
selves fully satisfied ; and hee that is thus approved and admitted, shall
bee obliged, during his continuance therein, to bring yearly, a new tes-
tificate, under ye hands of ye sd Masters, both of his proficiency in
learning, and of his good conversation, without which he is not to receiv
the benifit of it any longer, but to be cashierd, and another after ye
aforesaid manner, chosen in his stead; and, in case when this nomination
of two for triall is to bee made, either ye Archbishoprigg shall bee va
cant, or ye ArchBp. shall neglect to name one for that effect, for ye
space of full three moneths after ye vacancy of ye sd Bursary, then shall
ye sd Magistrats and Councill name both ye two, and, after triall, preferr
ye more deserving of them ; And if ye sd Magistrats and Councill shall
neglect to name one within ye same space of time, then shall ye ArchBp.
have power to nominate both ye two for triall, and, thereupon, to admitt
the fitter as sd is; And if both ye ArchBishop and Magistrats shall neglect
this nomination full three Moneths after ye vacancy thereof, then shall
ye Masrs- of ye sd CoUedg put two, or three, or more, as they shall think
fitt, upon triall, and out of them, chuse and admitt the worthiest. As
for ye two poor men for ye Hospitall, ye sd ArchBp. shall, if hee please,
chuse one of them out of ye Barony, and ye sds Magistrats ye other,
either out of ye town or Barony, as they please; provided alwayes, that
one of ye two shall still bee of ye Barony ; And I hope they both will
be carefull to chuse such as upon whom that litle charity may bee best
bestowed, both in respect of their indigency and good conversation,
which is to bee testified by ye Minister of ye Barony, or some of ye
Ministers of ye Burgh, respective; And in case of ye fayling of ye
ArchBp. or Magistrats in chUsing one as sd is, within three moneths of

LEIGHTON'S BURSARIES. 295
ye vacancy, ye other shall have ye right of it, after that time, after ye
same manner as is above sayd concerning ye Bursary of ye CoUedg.
And in case of the neglect of both, for ye sd time, the Ministers of Glasco
and ye Barony, joyntly, shall have power to chuse pro ilia vice. As for
ye Bursary of Edenbour CoUedg, it is, after my decease, to bee in ye
hands of the Magistrats and Councill of the sd Burgh to dispose of it,
by nominating two or more, as they think fitt, for triall, by ye Masters
of ye sd CoUedg, and bestowing it on him y* shall by them bee testified
to deserv it best. And by all means, lett each of the above named
allowances remain entire, and not bee clipp'd to help out other smaller
provisions, either in ye sds Colledges or Hospitall, nor divided betwixt
more then two* at once in ye Hospitall, or betwixt two in ye Colledges,
but remain one Bursary for one only at once, as ye Hospitall provision
for two. And though I have reason to suspect that this draught is not
exactly sutable to ye legal stile and forms usuall with you, yet I hope
that no informalities or defects of y' kind shall any way prejudis ye
reall validity of it, for the effect to woh it is intended; And for ye more
security, I am willing these presents be inserted and registrated in ye
books of Councill and Session, or any other judges books within ye
kingdom of Scotland, that ye samen may remain therein for future
memory ; And for this effect I make and constitute my pro'res.
In Witness whereof, I have subscribed these presents with my hand, at
Bradhurst, in Sussex, Aug. 1, Anno Do: 1677, before these witnesses,
Mr. Edward Lightmaker of Bradhurst, and John Pellin, indweller
there. R. Leighton, Edw. Lightmaker, wittness, John Pelling, witness.
In the " Memorabilia of the City of Glasgow, selected from the Minute Books of the
Burgh, 1588—1750," (printed for private circulation, Glasgow, 1835 ;) p. 305, of date
8th Sept., 1677, may be found a letter of thanks addressed, on this occasion, to Bishop
Leighton, by the Magistrates and Council.

296 SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.
A subsequent deed, dated London, 4th September, 1681, relative to the same (i. e. the
first) bursary, which appears to have been mislaid, is noticed in the Inventory of the
Town Council or Burgh Records, in these words.
Item, The said Doctor his farder pleasure anent the said Mortification,
whairby he signifies, that, in case the student should, eftir his course
of Philosophie, incline to study Divinity, in order to the Ministrie, and
if he, by the testimonie of the masters, especially of the Professors, shall
be judged of very hopeful expectation for proficience in learning, and for
his grave and pious conversation ; and shall, withall, engage himself to
attend on exercises of Divinity, in the College, and be not otherwayes
provided ; The Doctor desyres in that eaise, That the CounciU con
tinue the said yearly provision to the same Bursar, or Bursars, succes
sive, for twa years, or three, at most. This is dated at London, 4th
September, 1681.
It is obvious that the knowledge of such a deed having existed, and of its purport,
clears up a number of points relative to these Mortifications, which were previously obscure ;
and it is obvious, too, that though this deed was originally intended to apply only to the
First bursary, yet from the terms in which the Second bursary was subsequently instituted
by the Bishop's executors, it is, in fact, appUcable to both.

SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.
( Continued fi om page 101.)
By some oversight, the information relative to Mr. Snell 's personal history contained in
Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, p. 212, (added to Vol. II. of the Athenss Oxonienses, edit. 1721,)
was neglected in the preparation ofthe "Notice" prefixed to the Extract from his Will.
From that and other sources, the foUowing particulars have been gathered.
Mr. Snell was born in the parish of ColmoneU in Ayrshire, in 1629, so that when
he entered Glasgow CoUege in 1644, (see p. 92) he had attained the age of 15. Wood says
" he was afterwards diplomated Master of Arts," but his name does not appear in the
Register of Graduates.
At what time he removed to England, there is no means of knowing. He isniext
met with as Law Clerk to Mr. Bridgeman, afterwards Sir Orlando Bridgeman, while en-

SNELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS. 297
gaged in Chamber practice during the time of Cromwell. On the restoration, Mr. Bridge-
man was knighted, and made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1st June, 1660, and he
immediately appointed Mr. Snell to be his Crier ; and on his removal to the Court of Com
mon Pleas as Lord Chief Justice, on 22nd October of the same year, Mr. SneU followed
him as Crier of that Court. As Sir Orlando Bridgeman presided at the trial of the
Regicides in October 1660, (Pepys' Memoirs, I. 145,) Mr. SneU must have been Crier of
the Court when they were condemned. On Sir Orlando being finaUy made Lord Keeper
of the Great Seal on 31st August, 1667, Mr. SneU removed to the Court of Chancery as
Seal Bearer ; and on the Earl of Shaftesbury being made Lord Chancellor in November,
1672, Mr. Snell still continued in the office of Seal Bearer.
Wood says that, after Mr. Snell was appointed Seal Bearer to Lord Keeper Bridge-
man, " being much esteemed for his great diligence and understanding, he was employed
some time into Scotland for James, Duke of Monmouth." This allusion, however, must
refer altogether to the private affairs of the Duke, who had married the heiress of the
estates of the house of Buccleugh in April, 1663, for that unfortunate nobleman does not
appear to have held any public office in Scotland till after Mr. SneU's death.
From a letter, which has recently been recovered, addressed by Mr. Snell on 26th
March, 1670, to Mr. WiUiam Blair, then one of the Regents of the CoUege of Glasgow, it
appears that Mr. Snell had made a visit to Glasgow, a short time previously. It farther
appears that by this time he had got at least one young Scotsman placed as a student at
Oxford, and that he was desirous that others should be sent to him for the same purpose.
It is curious that as the main purpose of his letter to Principal Baillie (already
printed) was the transmitting to the University Library a copy of Walton's Polyglott Bible,
so in this letter to Mr. Blair, he announces his intention of transmitting a copy ofthe
celebrated " Synopsis Criticorum aliorumque S. Scripturse Interpretum," of Matthew
Poole, which was ultimately completed in five folio volumes, and on which that learned
non-conformist is understood to have bestowed the labour of ten years.
" There is," says he, in the letter referred to, " a new book of Criticks coming out
upon the Bible, much more methodicaU and succinct than that voluminous one of Mr.
Bee's.* It is undertaken by one Matthew Poole. It wiU consist of two or three volumes.
I have the first already. So soone as they are aU finished, I will have them bound up and
* Cornelius Bee was the bookseller at whose charge the " Critici Sachi," in nine volume folio, had
been printed and published in 1660. The Dedication to King Charles II., and the Notice to the Header, are
in his name, and the Boyal licence is in his favour. It may be mentioned here, that of two copies of Matthew
Poole's work in the University Library, one is on thick paper, and has prefixed to it a print of Sir Orlando
Bridgeman, rendering it probable that Mr. Snell had carried out the intention announced in the above-quoted
letter.
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transmitted to your BibUotheck, for I heartily wish that pyetie, learning and ingenuity
may flourish and bee encouraged amongst you ; which that it may be is the daylie prayer
and shaU bee alwayes the endeavor of
Sm, Your and your Universitie 's
Most affectionate humble servant,
JOHN SNELL."
" Mr. Snell," says Wood, " died in the house of Mr. Benjamin Cooper, in HalyweU,
(or Holywell,) in the suburbs of Oxon, on the 6th day of August, 1679, aged 50 years,
after he had spent some time there, and was buried at the upper end of the Chancel (under
the north wall) of the Chapel or Church of St. Cross of Holywell." This Mr. Benjamin
Cooper, whom he appointed one of his executors, was Register of the University of Ox
ford ; and from Mr. SneU leaving five pounds to Silvester Cooper, his sister, to buy her
a ring, appears to have been brother-in-law to Mr. SneU.
In 1844, (28th May) an Information was filed in the High Court of Chancery, by
Her Majesty's Attorney General, at the relation of the Honorable John Hay Forbes, com
monly caUed Lord Medwyn, one of the Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland, and
of James Robert Hope, of No. 6 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law, — praying
that it might be referred to one of the Masters of the Court to settle and approve of a
projjer scheme for the better regulation and management of this charity, for the future ;
and for the moro effectual execution of the trusts of the will, as nearly in accordance with
the will and intentions of the testator, as the alteration of circumstances since the date of
the said will, and the present state and condition of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scot
land wUl permit, &c, &c. In accordance with this prayer, the Vice-ChanceUor (Knight
Bruce) issued a decree, 24th July, 1846, directing certain inquiries and references to a
Master in Chancery, with a view to the re-modeUing of the scheme under which the
foundation had been managed since the year 1759, when it was settled by a Decree of
Lord Northington. But an Appeal against the Vice-ChanceUor's Decree having been
brought into the House of Lords, their Lordships were pleased to "order and adjudge that
the said Decree complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby reversed ;
and that the Information filed in the Court below, &c, be dismissed with Costs," &c.

LORD JEFFREY'S MEDAL. 299

LORD JEFFREY'S MEDAL.
(Continued from page 220.)
In a letter addressed to Principal Macfarlan of date 6th November, 1849, and which is in
serted at length in the Records of the Faculty, (16th of same month,) Lord Jeffrey pro
posed the following as the final settlement of his Medal.
" I have within these few days remitted to Mr. L. HiU, the College Factor, the sum
of £120, of which I propose ten guineas to be applied for the purchase of two Medal Dies,
on the one of which shall be cut a head of Minerva, and on the other the following inscrip
tion -. " Prsemium Solenne in Academia Glasguensi — Francisci Jeffrey — Alumni olim non
Immemoris — Anno MDCCCXX. Rectoris, — Donum ;" and after a little space for the name
of the successful competitor ; " Inter Literarum Grsecarum Studiosos — Condiscipulorum
Suffragiis— Anno MDCCCL_— Tulit."
The balance of the sum remitted I wish to be securely invested by the Faculty, for
the purpose of providing and engraving annually in all time coming, a Gold Medal of such
value as can be obtained for the amount of the yearly interest ; except that as there wiU
be no more than half a year's interest accruing before the 1st of May next, the amount of
another half year's interest shaU be taken from the principal, for defraying the cost of the
Medal to be then awarded.
The terms of the inscription sufiiciently explain that I mean this prize to be always
allotted to the most distinguished student in the Greek Class ; and wish the award to be
made by the votes of his fellow- students.
I would by no means put the CoUege to the trouble or expense of recording the
conditions of this Mortification in any separate or formal instrument, but flatter myself
that you will think it right to have an entry made of their substance, in such terms as you
may think most suitable, in the Books or Register of the Faculty."
" The Faculty agree to aU the conditions of Lord Jeffrey's Gift, as stated in the
above letter, and request the Principal to thank him in their name for this renewed expres
sion ofhis attachment to Glasgow CoUege."

GEORGE RICHARDSON, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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