... administrators of the deceist Walter Ogilvie of Reidhyth his mortificationes, . . . all and haill the tounes and lands of Balmad, comprehending therin the particular tounes lands and others underwritine, viz. the tounes and lands of Balmad and Craighead of Balmad, with the milne of Balmad milne lands multures suckine sequells and knaveships thereof, the tounes and lands of Gorrachrie Broomhill Haulkhillock and Moirless, with the maner place houses biggings yairds orchards . . . and universal pertinents of the same whatsomever . . . together with the teynd sheaves and parsonage teynds of the lands and others above-written, . . . all lying within the parochine of Kingedward and shirrefdome of Aberdein, . . . with this speciall provisione and declaratione alwayis, .... that the granting of this present dispositione . . . shall nowayes prejudge enervat nor infreing myne the said Sir Patrick Ogilvie of Boyne and my aires maill and successores our right of comptrollerie and conjunct patronage of the said . . . mortificatioune . . . In witnes whereof, (writtine be John Clark servitor to Mr. Alex Thomsone toune clerk of Aberdein) wee have subscryved thir presents as followes, viz.: I the said Sir Patrick Ogilvie have subscryved the same with my hand at Old Aberdein, the seventh day of March one thousand seven hundreth and one years, befor thir witnesses: Mr. Archbald Ogilvie advocat my sone, and the saids Mr. Alex' Thomsone and John Clark; and I the said James Ogilvie younger of Boyne have subscryved thir presents with my hand at Edinburgh, the sixteinth day of July one thousand seven hundred and thrie years, befor thir witnesses, the said Mr. Archibald Ogilvy, and Sir James Elphinstone of Logy inserter of the last dait and witnesses names. Patrick Ogilvie. Grant by queen Anne in favour of the university and colleges of Aberdeen. 142. Anne by the grace of God queen of Great Britain France and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. To our high treasurer and under treasurer of our exchequer now being, and to our high treasurer or commissioners of our treasury and under treasurer of our exchequer for the time being, and to the barons of our court of exchequer in that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland now and for the time being, and to all others whom this may concern greeting: Whereas we are graciously [pleased,] out of our pious and princely zeal for the good and flourishing estate of our university of Aberdeen, to grant to the several professors hereinafter mentioned the yearly sums following amounting in all to two hundred and ten pounds per annum, that is to say, to the principall of the marshalls college there twenty pounds per annum, to the professor of divinity there twenty pounds per annum, to the three professors of philosophy and the professors of Greek Mathematicks and Medicine there, to be equally divided amongst them, sixty-five pounds per annum, to the principal of kings college in the said university twenty pounds per annum, to the professor of divinity there twelve pounds per annum, to the three professors of philosophy the professors of Greek medicine humanity and the civil law there, to be equally divided amongst them, seaventy-three 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 aforesaid to two hundred and ten pounds per annum, to be placed on our establishment for civil affaires. in that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland, to commence from lady day last one thousand seven hundred and twelve, and to be paid and accounted payable quarterly to the said severall professors now being and to their successors in office for the time being respectively, or to their respective assigns in the proportions before expressed during our naturall life in like manner as other the pensions on our said establishment are or shall be paid or payable: nevertheless our will meaning and intention is, and we do hereby declare the same to be, that the said several and respective sums hereby granted are to be deemed and reckned in full satisfaction of all manner of claims or demands which the said university of Aberdeen, or the said principals or professors or any of them, may or can anywaies make claim or pretend to out of any part or parts of our revenue that they have not enjoyed since the union. Given under our privy seal at our palace of Westminster, the one and thirtieth day of May in the eleventh year of our reign. Henry Ludlow. Foundation of four burses by Sir Alexander Falconer. 143. Be it known to all men be thir presents, me Sir Alexander Falconer of Glenfarquhar, for the encouragement and advancement of letters and learn ing within the king's colledge of Aberdeen ... to have left . . . the sume of three hundreth and twentie pound Scots money of yearly annuitie, payable out of . . . the lands of Tillevaird, . ... and the superplus of the said annuitie to be payed out of . . . the lands of Midletown, lying within the parochin of Conveth and sheriffdome of Kincarden, . . oblidgeing me and my heirs. to pay and deliver yearly .. to the provost baillies and council of Aberdeen, or to their treasurer in their name, the said sume . . . for educateing and meintaining of four boys yearly that are of good enjoyn and sufficiently qualified at the said colledge of the name of Falconer, if any such there be, and falzieing of them of any other boyes that shall be born or educated within the parochins and at the school of Conveth, and falzieing that of Fordon, and falzieing of them of such other boyes duely qualified as .. my heirs and successors shall nominate . . . at the downsitting of the college, and which sume is to be yearly imployed and distribute by the saids magistrates or their thesaurer yearly, . . . at the rate of eighty pound Scots money to each of them that shall happen to be presented . . . In witnes wherof, I have subscrivit thir presents . . . at Glenfarquhar, this seventh day of August one thousand seven hundred and sixteen years . . . Mr. David Ogilvy's foundation. ... .. 144. In the name of God Amen. I David Ogilvy of the parish of St. Stephen Coleman Street London, clerk, . . . do make this my last will and testament . . . I . . direct that the . . sum of £200 .. be paid into the hands of the right honourable the earl of Findlater, the lord Deskfoord, the lord provost of Aberdeen, the principal of the kings college of Aberdeen, and to my nephew Thomas Ogilvy, or to any person whom they . . . shall appoint, . . . and that the interest ... and that the interest. . . be yearly paid to a young gentleman in order to his being handsomely educated in the kings college of Aberdeen, and that my nephew Thomas Ogilvy and his heirs for ever shall have the sole nomination and appointment of such young man, . . . and that he be taken out of the four bred (on my foundation) at the school of Kirriemuir if any of them be found capable, and that in this election speciall regard be had to those of our own name and who have relation to our family, that he be capable in his genius, dilligent in his studys, and exemplary in his moralls, that he be oblidged to study the Greek tongue Da. Ogilvy. John Greig's mortification. 145. I John Greig merchant in Old Aberdeen . . . mortifie and bequeath to Mr. George Chalmers principall, and the remanent members and professors of the kings college of Old Aberdeen and their successors in office, . . . all and haill the soume off one thousand five hundered merks Scots money, . . . to be laid out . . . upon land or upon reall or personal security, . . and the interest or yearly produce thereof is to be applyed for the mantinance and support of ane indigent student or burser at the said college, during the continuance of his studies therein for the space of four years, . providing alwayes if at any time any indigent habile student of my own kindered or of the name of Greig Thomson or Erskine shall apply for the said burse, that then . . . the said principall and other members of the said college are to accept of him without any comparative triall with other students contending for burses. Dated 5th October 1724. . Macintosh's mortification. 146. Wee Lachlan Macintosh of that ilk chieff and principall of the Clanchatton, and Mrs. Ann Duff my spouse, do . . . give . . . and dispone to the kings college in Old Aberdeen, to be in proper manner annexed ... to other the like mortified funds, for mantaining hopefull students thereat, the summ of two thousand merks of principall, . . . the yearly annual rents of which... is to be applyed by the said colledge for subsisting a student in philosophy, and such parts of learning, for the space of four years successive in these terms, viz.: primo, that . . . such student not under the age of twelve years shall be presented to the said benefite . . . by the lairds of Macintosh successively in all time comming; secundo, that a youth of the name of Macintosh or of the Clanchatton shall be preferred to those of any other name, . . . and if at any time the patron shall recommend two or more young men to the examination and judgement of the said university for preference, his title whom they shall declare the most deserv ing shall be equally valid . . . with the patrons presentation; tertio, in case it shall happen. that no youth of the said clan offers, that it .. ... to ... shall be . competent to the patron present . . a well qualified youth of any other name or clan; quarto, that such youth . . . be as exempt from all servitude and restrictions, and possest of as ample immunities and priviledges as by the constitution laws or practice of that university are allowed to any bursar educate thereat . . . In witness whereof we have subscribed thir presents . . . at Inverness, the eighteenth day of March M. viie and twenty-eight years. Bequest of James Fraser, LL.D. ... 147. I James Fraser, late secretary of the royal hospital at Chelsea, doctor of the laws, do make this my last will and testament. . . . As for kings college at Old Aberdeen in North Brittain I have already done. . . towards the rebuilding of that college, by paying to Mr. George Chalmers principal. . . the summe of £200 in June last 1729, which is the last money I purpose to lay out . . . on account of that building, besides the continuance of £50 annually during my life out of the rents of my estate of Wester Moy . . . I leave to the said college £220 in the south sea stock, to be laid out in a good fund and security, for the maintainance of two bursars in the said college perpetually, whereof one is to be a bursar in theology and the library keeper during four years after he is made master of arts, and the other to be a burser in philosophy during four years, after the expiration of which he is to succeed in the place of the bursar in |
