160. I James Cruickshank farmer in Toukshill in the parish of New Deer leave and bequeath to the principal and professors of the kings college of Old Aberdeen four hundred pounds sterling, which I appoint my executors

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to make over to them for the following purposes, and under the following conditions, viz., that the said principal and professors shall . . . secure the said sum upon . . . undoubted security, with the approbation of the ministers of the parishes of New Deer and Monquhitter for the time being, . . . and shall apply the yearly interest thereof for the maintenance and education of a student in said college . . of the name of Cruickshank, in the first place; and failing of a person of that name to one of the name of Top or Tap in the next place, and to no others whatsoever. And if no person of the name of Cruickshank or of Top or Tap shall appear as candidates for said bursary, then . . . the yearly interest therefore shall accumulate, and the interest of the whole accumulated sum shall be applied for the benefit of the next candidate bearing either of the foresaid names . . . and it is hereby declared that the minister of the parish of Monquhitter for the time being shall be patron of the said bursary Dated 14 December 1813.

161. The reverend . . . Johnston minister of Crimond bequeathed to the masters of kings college of Aberdeen . . . the sum of two hundred pounds sterling, the yearly interest of which sum he appointed for the maintenance and education of two young men at said university, and the burses to be ... bestowed always upon those who should have the most preferable performance at the competition for bursaries at said college; those of the name of Johnston being always to be preferred to any other if found habile, and those of the name of Forbes in the next place. He appointed the said two hundred pounds sterling to be lent out. . . by the masters of said college and the representatives of the family of Caskieben, whom he appointed joint patrons of said bursaries with the masters of said college.

Disposition of John Gordon of Murtle.

162. I John Gordon of Murtle

have... disponed my whole estate and effects... to . . trustees . . . for . . . 6thly the payment and appropriation of an annual salary to the professor of divinity of marischal college, or any other theologian, who may be named by my trustees, and who during each session shall actually deliver to the students of said college a course of lectures on practical religion; and the payment and appropriation of an annual salary for the like purpose at kings college, in case my trustees after due consultation see it advisable. Dated 11 August, 1815.

Excerpt from the will of the late sir John Macpherson baronet.

163. In testimony of my gratitude to the university of Old Aberdeen, I bequeath to ditto, so as to afford an annual bursary to any highland student who may be selected to receive the said bursary, two thousand five hundred pounds of my Carnatic stock, bearing an annual interest of four pounds per cent. Dated at Cheltenham, 4 November 1817.

Will of John Forbes of New.

164. I John Forbes of New

whereas I have £200 a year long annuities . . . at the bank of England, which annuities expire in the year 1860; therefore do establish eight burses of £25 each at the two universities of Aberdeen, to be in gift of the proprietor of the lands of New for the time being, until the extinction of such annuities; the said burses to be enjoyed by students either at a college or at the divinity hall, but not to be enjoyed by any one student above 4 years. And I direct that my executors pay .. the legacy duty on the said sum of £200 long annuities, so that the burses may be £25 clear. Dated 2 May 1820.

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Excerpt from the last will of William Davidson of Bayswater Hill, transmitted in a letter from J. Duthie solicitor London, of date 9 October 1826.

165. I give to the principal and professors of kings college in the university of Aberdeen... £400 stock of new 4 per cent. annuities of the bank of England in trust for the following purposes, viz.: First, to sell out the same, and to lend the produce on good heritable security at legal yearly interest. Secondly, this annual interest . . . to constitute a bursary for . . . one student at the said college, and to be continued to him even to the end of his studies at college. And I will that . . . the bursary becoming vacant shall be bestowed upon a new student, and that . . . the first . . . student to fill this bursary be chosen by the said principal and professors of the names of Davidson or Knowles Sim Ramsay Simpson Leslie Thom Forbes Gerard or Gordon, giving the preference to my relations . . . and to the nearest in degree of consanguinity . . . and then to strangers in the order here named; which order also is to be observed respecting relations when a greater number (having equal claims) apply than can be admitted. And I further will that this application of the interest . . . of the said £400. . . shall be continued for ever, should no proper student for this bursary be found according to the directions given in this my last will for any particular time; and should there be . . . any accumulation of the above interest . . I then leave to the judgement of the said principal and professors either to elect an additional student or . . . students, or to apply the same in assisting the elected student . . . in the prosecution of the study of medicine if he shall have chosen that profession . . . And I

direct that public notice of this bequest be given in the Aberdeen Journal, or any other public newspaper near the college . . . about one month before the beginning of the session, when . . . any vacancy occurs.

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166. The reverend George Bruce bequeathed in 1828 the sum of six hundred pounds sterling to the principal and professors of the kings college Aberdeen, and their successors in office as trustees, for the use and behoof of three bursars to be educated in said kings college, for the service of God,

as ministers in the established church of Scotland allenarly perpetually ; which sum of six hundred pounds sterling he appointed . . . the said principal and professors and their foresaids, to keep constantly lent out on heritable or good personal security, and to pay the interest thereof yearly to the said three bursars equally amongst them, share and share alike; and which three bursars should be elected by the said principal and professors. . . upon a comparative trial of the respective educations and qualifications of the several candidates, and those found best qualified should be preferred at each trial.

Extract from a codicil to the last will and testament of John Simpson of Shrub Hill in the parish of Saint Martin in the borough of Worcester, esquire, doctor of laws of the university of Aberdeen.

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167. I give and bequeath unto the chancellor doctor Macpherson and the professors of kings college, Old Aberdeen, . . . and their successors, all and singular sum and sums of money which now are, or which shall at the time of my decease be, invested in the three pounds per cent. consolidated bank annuities upon trust... and of the . . . annual proceeds thereof yearly. . . to . . . apply the sum of one hundred and eighty pounds for six bursaries or exhibitions, and to be competed for distributed and bestowed at such times and in such manner as the present, . . or any future regulations of the college may prescribe, but subject to the following rules: First, that persons admitted to the benefit of the institutution shall be virtuous youths natives of the British empire, and that candidates bearing the surname of Simpson or Thomson shall cæteris paribus be preferred. Second, that no person shall be admitted to the benefit of the institution who shall not have attained the age of fourteen years complete. Third, a strict examination shall be made respecting the qualification of candidates, and the most deserving shall be admitted without any distinction except on the score of merit . . . Fourth, that the principal and professors . . . shall at any time. . . have it in their power to deprive any student of his bursary in case such student shall be deemed by them unworthy on account of any gross irregularity of behaviour, and particularly on account of . . . want of attention. . . And upon further trust out of the said interest . . . yearly.

to pay and

apply the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds for two annual prizes of sixty pounds each, (videlicet) one to the best Greek scholar, and the other to the best mathematical scholar, such prizes to be competed for by the scholars only. . . in the fourth or magistrand class of said college . . all in that class who choose becoming competitors, and to be . . . bestowed in such manner as the trustees may in their discretion think fit, and without any distinction except on the score of merit and except that scholars bearing the name of Simpson or Thomson cæteris paribus shall be preferred, but . . . no scholar shall be competent . . . to receive any more than two of the said prizes. Provided always that in case . . . the interest ... of said stocks . . . shall not be sufficient . .

or ... shall be more than sufficient to answer and discharge the said bursaries and prizes, then . . . the bursaries and prizes shall abate or increase pari passu as the case may be. Dated 25th April 1838.