mar printed, and 115 years after Chepman and Miller established their printing press at Edinburgh.

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The Bishop was fortunate in the time of his death,' escaping the storm which destroyed the Cathedral he had laboured to restore, and which threatened to involve his renovated University in the common ruin. With more feeling than he usually expresses, Gordon of Rothiemay concludes his account of the Assembly of 1640, which purged' the University. Thus the Assembly's errand was throughly done; thes eminent divynes of Aberdeen, either deade, deposed, or banished; in whom fell mor learning then wes left behynde in all Scotlande besyde at that tyme. Nor has that cittye, nor any cittye in Scotland, ever since seene so many learned. divynes and scollers at one tyme together as wer immediatly befor this in Aberdeene. From that tyme fordwards, learning beganne to be discountenanced; and such as wer knowing in antiqwitie and

derson was distinguished for his learning, and had the popular name of "Tongues." To him, along with George Gordon, professor of Oriental languages, Thomas Boston submitted his treatise on the Hebrew ac

cents, which he " pursued like fire," as of divine origin and necessary for understanding the true meaning of the Hebrew text and the Holy Spirit.-Boston's Memoirs. Dr. David Anderson died in 1733, leaving descendants who still cherish the memory of his learning and virtue.

1714. De rebus liturgicis oratio, pro gradu D.D. in sacello Coll. Regii Univ. Aberd. in festo S. Epiphaniæ a Jo. Sharp eccl. Angl. apud Americanos presbytero," dedicated to Charles, Earl of Errol, Chancellor, and the professors. Printed by the successors of John Forbes. The author is much in favour of liturgies. "Præter ecclesiam Orientalem et Romanam, omnes Reformati cujuscunque gentis, exceptis schismaticis Britannicæ ecclesiæ, liturgias probant."

1725.-"Donaides sive Musarum Aber

donensium de eximia Jacobi Fraserii J.U.D. in Academiam Regiam Aberdonensem munificentia carmen eucharisticum, notis illustratum, quibus strictim perscribitur historia Universitatis et Collegii Regii Aberdonensis. . . . Auctore Joanne Ker Græcarum literarum professore." Ruddiman, Edin., 1725. A set of very poor verses illustrated by most useful historical notes. David Malloch (afterwards, Mallet) wrote a short "Poem in imitation of Donaides,'' printed, and sometimes bound along with it.

1732.-"Frasereides sive funebris oratio et elegia in laudem. . . Jacobi Fraserii J.U.D. Col. Reg. Aberd. Mæcenatis et patroni beneficentissimi," by the same author. Aberd. excud. Jacobus Nicol urbis et Universitatis typographus. Professor Ker limits himself in this essay to an account of the family and life of Fraser, and of his benefactions to the College.

Both these little works of Ker are of some use for the University and College history. 1 1635.

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in the wryttings of the fathers, wer had in suspitione as men who smelled of poperye; and he was most esteemed of who affected novellisme and singularitye most; and the very forme of preaching, as wealle as the materialls, was chainged for the most pairt. Learning was nicknamed human learning; and some ministers so farr cryed it doune in ther pulpitts, as they wer heard to saye, 'Downe doctrine and upp Chryste !'" 1

It was in the year following2 that King Charles I. made the great experiment of uniting the two Colleges of Old and New Aberdeen under one University, to be called "King Charles's University," and which, for a short time flourished under the title of UNIVERSITAS CARCLINA. Unfortunately we learn nothing of the promoters of this measure, nor of the causes that induced one of the united bodies afterwards to dissolve a union, which, whether then legally effected or not, seems to us at the present day so reasonable and so expedient for the Colleges themselves, the public, and the cause of literature, that when it shall have come to pass, as it needs must, all men will wonder at the prejudice which so long delayed it.3

Even the sharp discipline of the General Assembly, enforced by Munro's musketeers, did not extinguish either the principles or the learning which had taken root in Aberdeen. The University continued to be well attended, and by a high class of students. The

reputation of its scholars, and its comparative moderation in church politics, drew to it the sons of many a northern lord and laird who disliked the Covenant, and of some, perhaps, who cherished a lurking reverence for Episcopacy. There, too, without doubt, came many a youth seeking an education in good letters and Christian philosophy, though not designing to throw the energy of his after life into a struggle for the predominance of any sect or any shape of church government. All alike, it would seem, must have subscribed the formula of the Covenant, with such reservation and qualification as such tests usually produce.

When John Row had been placed in the principal's chair by Cromwell's five Colonels, he brought with him the discipline of his patron, no enemy certainly to Universities, and a great store of uncommon learning.' We have evidence, in these records, of his attention to his duties while he presided over the College; and a few accounts kept by him show us somewhat of the domestic life of the students and masters of his day.

Hitherto, the Regents and founded masters, whether required or not, practised celibacy. It is noted, that in 1643, Alexander Middleton, the subprincipal, was married, "contrary to the foundation of the College, for he was the first Regent that entered into a marriage condition in this College."" Some years later, it would appear, that there was an intention to enforce a rule against Regents marrying; but the attempt, if made, was defeated, as a similar one was evaded at Glasgow.3

Then, and for long afterwards, the unendowed students, as well as the endowed members of the College, all lived within the walls of the College, and ate at a common table. The Economus kept the accounts and managed the housekeeping. It might be possible to guess at the expense of the College life, from the whole outlay compared with the number of inmates; but we have better means of learning the actual expense of students (much of which did not go through the hands of the Economus), from the chance which has preserved the accounts of a young man who studied at King's College at that time. Hugh Rose of Kilravock, having finished his elementary education at the parish school of Auldearn, left his old tower on the Nairn for the University, on the 8th November, 1657, accompanied by his tutor, a young man who had taken his master's degree seven years before, and now wrote himself Master William Geddes,' and Jacobus Rose' his page. They rode the journey to College, horseback. The expenses of all

and home again in May, on

three, including journeys, and a visit to the young gentleman's

In all things us to rectifie,

And our foundation for to sie;
To try in all what is our rent,
How we the vacant stipends spent,
How we among ourselves agree,
And how Will Black is paid his fie:
How the Principall doth hector
Procurator, Doctor, Rector:
How old Petrie, which is odd,
Lives by the purchase of a todd.
How Seaton with his fearful looks
Is payed for keeping of the books.
My Lords, since ye are men of witt,
To you these things we will submitt:
But yet that one thing which of late,
At Edinburgh was in debate,
And on both sides was handled hote,
Whither we wives should have or not,
'Gainst it to speak we would presume,
Since it a tenet is of Rome.

Ye know a doctrine it's of devills
Wives to forbear, though they be evills:
My Lords, cast not on us the knotts,

Or else we'll quitt both gowns and coatts:
For we are lustie lads indeed,

Who sitt at ease and stronglie feed:

By Jove we swear we will miscarrie,
If ye allow us not to marrie.

But

pray how comes it to pass That Principall may take a lass? But Patersone's a Principall,

I wish we Patersones were all.

Who calculat exactly find

His mear can never be behind.
And Middletown was at the south,
There his transactions were uncouth;
If he advised this gelding act,
And brought it on the Regents' back,
The gentlewomen would be clear,
He was dispatcht into Tangier
If he restrain us, but no doubt
Be merciful as ye are stout,
Let it be but a year or two
That we this pennance undergo,
For a tedious eight years lent

Was ne're enjoyned by those of Trent.
My Lords, consider our regrate,
Or else expect poor Orpheus' fate;
Your Lordships are put to a push,
Your Clerk subscrives himself

FINIS.

LENTUSCH.