round And a Dukes Coronet only Leaves without Pearls They are more especially distinguisht by their Robes of Parliament by their several Guards on their Mantles or short Cloaks about their shoulders A Baron hath but two Guards a Viscount two and a half an Earl three a Marquess three and a half and a Duke four Precedence Touching the Places or Precedences among the Nobility of Scotland it is to be observed that Dukes amongst the Nobility have the first place then Marquesses Dukes Eldest Sons Earls Marquesses Eldest Sons Dukes Younger Sons Viscounts Earls Eldest Sons Marquesses Younger Sons Barons Viscounts Eldest Sons Earls Younger Sons Barons Eldest Sons Viscounts Younger Sons Barons Younger Sons The Princes of the Blood viz. the Sons Grandsons Brothers Uncles or Nephews of the King and no further having the Precedency of all the Nobility Yea the natural or illegitimate Sons of the King after they are acknowledged by the King take Precedency of all the Nobles under those of the Blood Royal. Moreover observe that all Nobles of the same degree take place according to the seniority of their Creation all Dukes Eldest Sons have the title of Earls and the Eldest Son of an Earl hath the title of the Earls Barony and sometimes of the Viscountry according to the Patent Of His Majesties Privy Council in the Kingdom of Scotland The Privy Council is chiefly imployed about publick Affairs and are Judges of Riots and any disturbance given to the Peace of the Kingdom Antiently the Lords oâ— the Session were the King's Council and so are stiled Lords of Counciâ— and Session The Power of the Privy Council hath been most raised since King James got the Crown of England that by reason of the King 's necessary absence from Scotland the King hath lodged much of His Power with His Privy Council Lawyers do plead the Causes of Riots before them and when sentence is to be given every Privy Councillor gives his Vote and the major Vote carries it Lords and others of His Majesties present Privy Council of SCOTLAND His Royal Highness the Duke of Albany c. John Duke of Rothes Lord Chancellor Alexander Lord Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate John Duke of Athol Lord Privy Seal John Duke of Lauderdale Presid of the Council William Marquess of Douglass James Marquess of Montross Alexander Earl of Murray Secretary of State Archbald E. of Argile John E. of Errol George E. of Marischal Charles E. of Marr. E. of Linlithgow E. of Pearth Patrick E. of Strathmore Robert E. of Roxburgh E. of Queensbury E. of Ancram James E. of Airly E. of Balcarras William E. of Dondonald E. of Kintore E. of Broadalbine Archbald Lord Lorn John Lord Livingstone John Lord Bishop of Edinburgh James Lord Elphinstone John Lord Rosse Sir Charles Maitland of Haâ—tone Treasurer Deputy Sir Thomas Murray of Glendoick L. Clerk Register Sir George Mackenzy of Rosehaugh L. Advocate Richard Maitland Esq L. Justice Clerk Sir James Dalrumpell Lord President of the Sessions Sir George Gordon of Haddo Sir George Mackenzy of Tarbot John Drummond of Londy Lieutenant General Dalziel Sir George Kinnard of Rossy Sir John Wachop of Nidry Of the Supreme Court of Judicature The Supreme Court of Judicature about the Property of the Subject is called the Colledge of Justice or the Session which was antiently an ambulatory Court but was settled as it is now by King James the â—ifth Anno Christi 1532. to consist of fourteen who are called Senatours of the Colledge of Justice or Lords of Council and Session and a President to whom are added the Lord Chancellor and four Lords of the Nobility or as they usually call them Lords Extraordinary The Extraordinary Lords have no Salary and are not obliged to Attendance but when they come they have a Vote This Court sits from the first of June till the last of July and from the first of November till Christmas-Eve and from the first of January till the last of February But now by Act of Parliament the Summer Sessions are taken away and in stead thereof are henceforth to be kept in March They sit from Nine of the Clock in the Morning till Twelve all the daies of the week except Sunday and Monday There is an Outer-house and an Inner In the Outer-house there is a Bench where one of the Senators sits a week and all of them except the President have their Turns in it who hears all Causes originally and where the case is clear he gives sentence But if it be difficult or if either party desires it he reports it to the rest of the Senators who either send out their Answer by him or if it be very intricate and the parties or either of them desire it do appoint it to be heard before themselves This is a Court of great dispatch But besides the Judge upon the Bench there is a side Bar to which one of the Judges comes out by turns weekly as in the former and receives and answers all Petitions and Bills The Inner-house where all the rest of the Senators sit is a Court of great State and Order The Senators sit in a semicircle in Robes under them sit their Clerks who write all the most material heads of all that is pleaded at the Bar where the pleadings are long and very learned When the the Senatours have after all the parties are removed considered their arguments they give their sentence and the major part carries it Their final sentence determines all business in their Court there lying no Appeal from them only the Parliament as the Supreme Court may review and repeal their sentence their decisive sentence are called Decreets from the Latine Decreta Senators of the present Colledge of Justice The Lords Extraordinary The Lord Chancellor The Duke of Athol The D. of Lauderdale The Earl of Murray The Earl of Argile The Lords Ordinary not Noblemen Sir James Dalrumpell Lord President of the Session Charles Maitland of Hatton Sir George Mackenzy of Rosehaugh Sir Thomas Murray of Glendoick Sir James Foulis of Collington Sir John Lockart of Castlehill Sir Robert Nairn of Strathurd Sir James Foulis of Redford Sir David Nevoy of Nevoy Sir David Balfour of Torret Sir David Falconer of Newton Sir John Gordon of Pitmedden Sir Roger Hogg of Harcus Sir Andrew Birny of Saline Sir George Gorden of Haddo Of the Justice Court The next Supreme Court is the Justice Court where all Criminals are tryed It consists of a Lord Justice General and of a Lord Justice Clerk who is his Assistant The Earl of Argile had this Office by Inheritance but King Charles the First agreed with the said Earl and gave him the hereditary Justiciariship of of the High lands for which he laid down his pretensions to the other The Lord Justice General is not obliged to serve in person but may do it by Deputies and he commonly named two This Order was changed Anno 1669. and by Act of Parliament four Judges were appointed to sit
was made a Privy Councillor in 1662. and in 1666. being joyned Admiral with the Duke of Albemarl first attackt the whole Dutch Fleet with his Squadron in such a bold resolute way that he put the enemy soon to flight He enjoyes a Pension from His Majesty of 4000 l. per annum After Prince Rupert the next Heirs to the Crown of Scotland are three French Ladies Daughters of Prince Edward deceased who was a younger Son of the Queen of Bohemia whose Widdow the Princess Dowager Mother to the said three Ladies is Sister to the Late Queen of Poland Daughter and Coheir to the last Duke of Nevers in France amongst which three Daughters there is a Revenue of about 12000 l. sterling a year There was two Daughters of Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine who being unmarried are deceased The last is the Princess Sophia youngest Daughter to the Queen of Bohemia Born at the Hague 1630. and in 1659. wedded to John Duke of Lunenberg and free Prince of Germany Heir to the Dutchy of Brunswick by whom she hath Sons and Daughters she is said to be one of the most accomplisht Ladies in Europe Having this particular Account of all the nearest in Blood to the Crown of Scotland being the Issue of King James the Sixth and King Charles the First it will not be amiss to relate these that are descended of the Daughter of King James the Second since whom till the Queen of Bohemia no collateral branch sprung from the Royal Family of whom any Issue remains James Lord Hamilton was married to the Daughter of King James the Second and had Issue first James created Earl of Arran whose Son was the Duke of Chastelherault from whom by Two Sons are descended the Families of Hamilton and Abercorn and by Two Daughters the Families of Huntley and Lauderdale And by an Act of Parliament signed by all the Three Estates the Original whereof is yet extant in the Reign of Queen Mary The Duke of Chastelheraults Family is declared next the Queen and her Issue the Rightful Heir of the Crown The Sister of King James the Third bare likewise to the Lord Hamilton a Daughter married to the Earl of Lennox from whom descended the Family of Lennox There is no otther branch of the Royal Family since it was in the Line of the Stewarts except the Earl of Cassils his Family whose Ancestor the Lord Kennedy married King James the firsts Sister from which Marriage that Family is descended And so much of the Royal Family CHAP. V. Of the Chief Officers of State of the Court of Justice The Manner of Elections of the Members in Parliament and Riding of Parlialiament Of the Privy Council Of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice Of the Justice Court of the Exchequer THE Government of the Kingdom being wholly in the Crown the King administers it by his officers of State and Privy Council The Officers of State are Eight The first is the Lord Chancellour who is Keeper of the Great Seal and President in all Courts where-ever he is This Office was in the Person of John Duke of Rothes lately deceased The Second Officer is the Lord High Treasurer who governs the Revenue and presides in the Exchequer This Office is now in Commission The Third Officer is the Lord Privy Seal who is at present John Duke of Athol These Three take place of all the Nobility The Fourth Officer is the Lord Secretary who keeps the Signet and is a Lord by his Office and takes place of all of his Rank The Office of Secretary is executed by the Right Honourable Alexander Earl of Murray The Fifth Officer is the Lord Clerk of Registers who has the charge of all the publick Records Rolls and Registers and Names of all the Clerks of Parliament and Session and the Keepers of Publick Registers This Office is executed by Sir Thomas Murray of Glendoick The Sixth Officer is the King's Advocate who is also called the Lord Advocate He is commonly a Judge except in cases in which the King is concerned and in these he pleads in the King's Name The present Lord Advocate is Sir George Mackenzie of Rose-haugh The Seventh Officer is the Lord Treasurer Deputy who is Assistant to the Lord High Treasurer and is a check upon him and presides in the Exchequer in his absence This Office is executed by Charles Maitland of Hatton The Eighth Officer is the Lord Justice Clerk who assists the Lord Justice General in Criminal Causes The present Justice Clerk is Rich. Maitland Esq All these have the Title of Lord and the Precedency of all under Noble men and their Eldest Sons Of the Courts of Justice The Chief and Supream Court of Justice is the High Court of Parliament which is made up of Three Estates The first is the Ecclesiastical that of Old consisted of Bishops and Miter'd Abbots but since the Reformation consists only of Arch-Bishops and Bishops The second Estate is the Nobility who were antiently divided into the greater Barons and the lesser for every man that holds Lands of the Crown with a priviledge of holding a Court much like the Lord of a Mannour in England is called a Baron and all were obliged to appear personally in Parliament Proxies never being allowed by the Law of Scotland and give the King Counsel This proved a very hard burden to the small Barons upon which they desired to be excused from their Attendance in Parliament And this was granted them as a favour in King James's the first Reign And though by that Act they might have sent two or three or more to represent them from every Shire yet they made no use of that for above 150 years But King James the Sixth to ballance the Nobility got them restored to that Right so that ever since there are two sent from every Shire who are Commissioners of the Shires The third Estate is the Burroughs every one of which chuseth one Commissioner or Burgess only the City of Edinburgh as the Metropolis chuseth two Elections of Members of Parliament The Parliament is summoned by Proclamation made at the Head Burrough of every Shire forty daies before they meet upon which the Shires and Burroughs meet about their Elections Every one that holdeth Lands of the Crown that in the Rolls of the Taxation the Antient Name of Subsidies and Assessments are valued at forty shillings Scottish Money of Taxation to the King which will be in real value about ten pounds sterling a year is an Electour or may be Elected so he be rightly vested in the Land or according to the Scottish terms infeoft and seized and be not at the King's Horn that is under an Outlawry The Electours subscribe the Commissions they give and so their Commissioner is returned and if there be Cross Elections the Parliament is only Judge In the Burroughs the Common Council of the Town makes the Election The Manner of the Riding of the Parliament When the day comes in which
with incomparable valour and extraordinary hazard of his own Royal Person after a most sharp Engagement he obtained a signal Victory over the whole Dutch Fleet commanded by Admiral Opdam who perisht with his own and many more Dutch Ships in that Fight He married Anne the Eldest Daughter of Edward Earl of Clarendon late Lord High Chancellour of England which Lady is deceased by whom he had a numerous Issue whereof are living first the Lady Mary now Princess of Orange Born April 30. 1662. whose Godfather was Prince Rupert and Godmothers the Dutchess of Buckingham and Ormond His Royal Highnesses other Daughter is the Lady Anne Born in Feb. 1664. whose Godfather was Gilbert then Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Her Godmothers were the young Lady Mary her Sister and the Dutchess of Monmouth This present Dutchess hath had several Children but are all dead Her Royal Highness is Daughter to the Duke of Modena in Italy The Titles of His Royal Highness are Duke of Albany and York Earl of Vlster Lord High Admiral of Scotland c. Of the Prince of Orange Next to the Duke of York and his Issue is William of Nassaw Prince of Orange only Issue of the deceased Princess Royal Mary Eldest Daughter to King Charles the First and wedded 1641. to William of Nassaw Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the States General both by Land and by Sea His Highness the present Prince was Born Nine daies after his Father's Death on the 14th day of November 1650. had for his Godfathers the Lords States General of Holland and Zealand and the Cities of Delph Leyden and Amsterdam His Governess was the Lady Stanhop then Wife to the Heer Van Hemvliet At Eight years of Age was sent to the University of Leyden His yearly Revenue is about 60000 l. sterling besides Military Advantages He is a valorous Prince and a great example of Valour and Courage besides a great lover of Souldiers Of the Princess Henrietra The next Heir after the fore named to the Crown of Scotland is the Princess Henrietta her Issue who we Born the 16th day of June 1664. at Exeter during the heat of the Late Rebellion After the surrender of Exeter conveyed to Oxford and thence 1646. to London whence with her Governess the Lady Dalkeith she escaped into France was there educated as became her high Birth and Quality but being left wholly to the care and maintenance of the Queen her Mother at Paris embraced the Romish Religion At the Age of sixteen was married to the only Brother of the French King the Illustrious Prince Philip then Duke of Aujou till the death of the Uncle and now Duke of Orleans whose Revenue is 1100000 Livers Tournois besides his Appanage Her Portion was 40000 l. sterl her Joynture to be the saâ—e with the Dutchess Dowager of Orleans This Princess had one Daughter who is now married to the King of Spain Of the Prince Elector Palatine There being left alive no more of the Off-spring of King Charles the First the next Heirs of the Crown of Scotland are the Issue and Descendants of Elizabeth late Queen of Bohemia only Sister to the said King who was married to Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine afterwards stiled King of Bohemia whose Eldest Son was Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine commonly called the Palsegrave from the High Dutch Psaltzgraff Palatii comes was Born the 22d of Decemb. 1617. at Heydelberg and afterwards at the Age of three or four years conveyed thence into the Countries of Wittenberg and Brandenburg then into Holland and at the Hague and at the University of Leyden was educated in a Princely manner At the Age of Eighteen years came into England was created Knight of the Garter about two years after fought a Battel at Vlotta in Westphalia In the year 1637. passing incognito thorow France to take possession of Brisach upon the Rhine which the Duke of Saxon Weymar intended to deliver up unto him together with the Command of his Army he was by the quick-sighted Cardinal Richlieu discovered at Moulins and thence sent back Prisoner to the Bois de Vincennes where after twenty three weeks Imprisonment he was by the mediation of the King of Great Britain set at Liberty In the year 1643. he came again into England and with the King 's secret Consent because the King could not continue unto him the wonted Pension whilest the Rebels possest the greatest part of His Majesties Revenues made his Address to and abode with the disloyal part of the Lords and Commons at Westminster until the Murther of the said King and the Restauration of the Lower Palatinate according to the famous Treaty of Munster for which he was constrained to quit all his Right to the upper Palatinate and accept of an Eighth Electorship at a juncture of Time when the King of Great Britain had he not been engaged at home by an impious Rebellion had been the most considerable of all others at that Treaty and this Prince his Nephew would have had the greatest Advantages there In the year 1650. he espoused the Lady Charlotte at Cassele Daughter to the Landgrave of Hessen he had one Son named Charles who is now present Prince Palatine of the Rhine a hopeful and magnanimous Prince He had likewise one Daughter named Charlotte This being all the Issue he left behind him Of Prince Rupert Next to the Issue of the Prince Elector Palatine is Prince Rupert Born at Prague the 17th of December 1619. not long before that very unfortunate Battel there fought whereby not only all Bohemia was lost but the Palatine Family was for almost thirty years dispossest of all their possessions in Germany At Thirteen years of Age he marcht with the then Prince of Orange to the Siege of Rhineberg afterwards in England was created Knight of the Garter At the Age of Eighteen he Commanded a Regiment of Horse in the German Wars and in the Battel of Vlotta 1638. being taken by the Imperialists under the Command of Count Hatzfield he continued a Prisoner above three years In 1642. returning into England made General of the Horse to the King 's Fights and Defeats Collonel Sands near Worcester Routed the Rebels Horse at Edge-Hill took Cirencester raised the Siege of Newark recovered Lichfield and Bristol raised the long Siege before Latham-house fought the Battel at Marston-Moor was created Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland after the extinction of the Male-line of the Cliffords 1643. Finally The King's Forces at Land being totally defeated he transported himself into France and was afterwards made Admiral of such Ships of War as submitted to King Charles the Second to whom after several disasters at Sea and wonderful preservations he returned to Paris 1652. where and in Germany sometimes at the Emperour's Court and sometimes at Heydelberg he passed his time in Princely Studies and Exercises till the Restauration of His Majesty now Reigning after which returning into England
in this Court with the Lord Justice General and the Lord Justice Clerk All Tryals for Life are in this Court which sits every Friday in the Time of Session in the Afternoon Here all the Subjects Peers as well as Commons are tryed The difference between a Peer and Commoner in their Tryal in this Court is this viz. The greater part of the Peers Jury called by the Scottish Law an Assize must be Peers The Jury is made up of 15 The Foreman who is called the Chancellor of Assize gathers and reports the Votes The major part determins the matter The present Justice General is the Earl of Queensbury Of the Exchequer The next Supreme Court is the Exchequer That consists of the Lord Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury when it is in commission the Lord Treasurer Deputy and some Assistants called the Lords of Exchequer who have little power the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Treasurer Deputy usually carry all matters in it as they please Here all the King's Grants Pensions Gifts of Wards Letters Patents and such like are to be passed And these are the Supreme Civil Courts The Seat of these Courts is Edinburgh which has been long the chief Seat of the Government though the making of Circuits for giving Justice has been oft begun yet the charge it puts the Country to is found a greater inconvenience than the bringing up all their Affairs to Edinburgh CHAP. VI. Of Inferiour Courts of the Sheriffdoms The Names of the Sheriffs who are so most by Inheritance The Courts of Regality A Barons Court NExt to these Supreme Courts there are other Inferiour Courts And first there are in all the Shires of Scotland Sheriffs who are the Judges in all Matters of of Meum and Tuum in Thefts and in all lesser crimes as likewise in Murthers if the Murtherer be taken in hot blood as they call it when the person is newly slain But though there lyes no Appeal in this Kingdom in any Court yet there is somewhat equivalent to it for the Supreme Courts by a Writ called an Advocation may take any Cause out of the hands of Inferiour Judges and order to be brought before themselves Most of the Sheriffs were antiently so by Inheritance and it being in this Kingdom no matter of charge but of profit it gave the Hereditary Sheriffs so great a Power in their Shires that our King of late hath thought fit to agree with many of these Sheriffs for their Rights by which it comes to pass that many of them now are in the King's Gift The Sheriffs may either sit and give Judgment themselves or do it by a Deputy which they most commonly do except in some great cases For the more full satisfaction of the Reader it will not seem superfluous here to give a List of the Shires or Counties of Scotland and their Sheriffs Shires or Counties of Scotland and their Sheriffs Shires Sheriffs The Shire of Edinburgh containeth Middle Lothian Charles Maitland The Shire of Berwick containeth Mers Earl of Home The Shire of Peeblis containeth Tweddail Earl of Tweddail The Shire of Selkirk containeth the Forrest of Etterick Murray The Shire of Roxburgh containeth Tiviotdale Lidisdale Eshdail Eusdail Duke of Buckleugh The shire of Dumfreis containeth Nithisdail Anandail E. of Queensbury The shire of Wigton containeth the West part of Galloway Sir Patrick Agnew of Lochnaw The shire of Aire containeth Kyle Carrict and Cunninghame E. Dumfreis The shire of Renfrew containeth the Barony of Renfrew E. of Eglington The shire of Lanerick containeth Clidsdail D. Hamilton The shire of Dumbritton containeth Lenox D. of Lenox The shire of Bute containeth the Isles of Bute and Arran Sir James Stewart of Bute The shire of Innerara containeth Argile Lorn Kintyre the most part of the West Isles all Ila Jura Mull Wyist Teriff Coll Lismore c. E. of Argile The shire of Perth containeth Athol Goury Glenshee Strath-Ardell Broad Albine Ramach Balhider Glenurqhuay Stormont Menteith and Strath-Yern D. of Atholl The shire of Striveling lyeth on both sides the River Forth E. of Marr. The shire of Linlithgow West Lothian John Hope of Hoptoun The shire of Clackmanan containeth a small part of Fife lying on the River Forth towards Striveling Sir D. Bruce of Clackmanan The shire of Kinross containeth so much of Fife as lyeth between Loâ—hleiven and the Ochell Hills E. of Morton The shire of Câ—uper containeth the rest of Fife D. of Rothes The shire of Forfar containeth Angus with its pertinents as Glen Ila â—len Esk Glen-Prossin E. of Southesk The shire of Kinkardin cont Mernis E. Mareschal The shire of Aberdeen containeth Mar with its pertinents as Birse Glentaner Glen-Muik Strath-Dee Strath-Don Bray of Mar and Cromar most part of Buchan Forumarten Gareoch and Strathbogie-land E. Dumfermline The shire of Bamf containeth a small part of Buchan Strath-Dovern Boyn Enzy Strath-Awin and Balveny Sir James Baird of Auchmedden The shire of Elgine containeth the Eastern part of Murray Robert Dumbar of The shire of Nairn containeth the West part of Murray The shire of Innerness containeth Badenoch Lochabyr and the South part of Ross E. of Murray The shire of Cromarty containeth a small part of Ross lying on the South side of Cromarty Firth Sir John Vrquart of Cromarty The shire of Tayne containeth the rest of Ross with the Isles of Sky Lewes and Harrigh E. of Seaforth The shire of Dornoch containeth Southerland and Strath-Naver E. of Southerland The shire of Weik containeth Cathness E. of Cathness The shire of Orkney containeth all the Isles of Orkney and Schetland The Constabulary of Haddington containeth East Lothian and Lauderdale D. of Lauderdale Stewartries Stewards Strath-Yern E. of Pearth Monteith E. of Monteith Annandail E. of Annand Stewartries Stewards Kirkudbright containeth the East part of Galloway E. Nithisdail Baileries Bailiffs Kyle Carrict E. of Cassiles Cunninghame E. Eglington Court of Regalities There are also many Regalities in the Kingdom where the Lord of the Regality has a Royal Jurisdiction within his grounds and power of Life and Death besides many other great immunities and priviledges This began chiefly in Church lands for all the Bishops and most of the Abbots had these Regalities granted them some of the antient and great Peers got the same power bestowed upon them and many more have lately got their Lands erected into Regalities The Judge is called the Bailiff of the Regality who sits as often as there is cause Most of the Bailiffs of the Regalities of Bishopricks are so by inheritance These being given by the King a Church-man not being allowed to give a Commission in causa sanguinis A Barons Court Besides these every one that holds a Barony of the King has a Baron Court in which leâ—â—er matters are also judged and they may fine and distrain Antiently these Baron Courts might judge of Life and Death but now it is not so For all the other particulars that relate to the Regalities Superiorities and
He died about the year 1664. James Wood Professor of Divinity and Provost of St. Salvators was a person both judicious and wise as also of considerable Learnâ—ng he wrote a Book against Indepenâ—ency He died about the year 1664. John Johnston Professor of Divinity in the New Colledge wrote a Paraphrase of the Psalms and other most excellent Poems and was very much admired for his skill in the Latine Tongue and Poesie He flourished about the year 1610. David Calderwood a man of great Reading and Study but very unhappy in his way of expressing himself both which appeared in his Altare Damascenum He was at first very factious and banish'd the Kingdom by King James the Sixth yet was afterwards much neglected by that violent party who judged him too moderate though from his Book none would imagine him guilty of it James Durham a Gentleman of a good Family and Learned was bred in this famous University he wrote a judicious Book of Scandal with good Learning in it There are also Expositions of his upon the Revelation and on the Song of Solomon and the Ten Commandments all published since his Death George Gillespie was also bred here who was a very pregnant young man had great freedom of expression and much boldness which raised him to make a very considerable figure among the Covenanters He had some good Learning but was very factious He wrote against the Ceremonies and many pieces against the Erastians He died Anno 1649. James Gregory Professor of the Mathematicks in this University was a person of most extraordinary Learning in that Science He had a strange faculty of resolving the hardest Problems and seems to have found a Non plus ultra in Geometry He was Fellow of the Royal Society much admired both in France Italy and England where he travelled but lost both his Eyes and soon after died 1674. In this University many of the chief Nobility are bred among whom none has done greater honour to St. Leonard's Colledge where he was bred than his Grace the Duke of Lauderdale to whom as Learning seemed entailed his Family for four Descents having been most famed for Learning of any of their Quality so he received these impressions in this University that being since much improved have rendered him so eminent for Learning of which only my Subject leading me to speak I shall say nothing of his other extraordinary Qualities Archbald Napier of Marchistone was a profound Scholar and of profound worth His Logarithms have rendered him famous throughout the whole world He wrote also an Exposition on the Revelation He died 162 Sir Robert Murray a great promoter and Fellow of the Royal Society was a person of wonderful Abilities vast Apprehensions great depth of Judgment and universally known in every thing but more particularly in the Mathematicks He was a great ornament to the Age he lived in and an honour to his Country He died Anno 1674. CHAP XII The University of Glasgow IT was founded Auspiciis pietate benignitate eximii principis Jacobi Secundi Scotorum Regis Serenissimi indulgentiam faciente jus ac facultatem studii generalis sanciente Nicolao Quinto Pontifice Romano ejus erectionem constitutionem magno labore sumptibus procurante Reverendo Antistite Guilielmo Turnbullo Episcopo Glascuensi The words of the Bull are Vt studium generale vigeat tam in Theologia ac jure Canonico civili quam artibus qualibet alia facultate quodque Doctores Magistri ibidem omnibus singulis privilegiis libertatibus honoribus immunitatibus exemptionibus per sedem Apostolicam vel alios quomodolibet Magistros Doctoribus Studentibus in studio nostrae Civitatis Canoniensis Concessis gaudeant utantur The persons founded were a Rector a Dean of Faculty a Principal or Warden who was to teach Theology Three Professors to teach Philosophy Afterwards some Clergy-men professed the Laws here being invited to that profesâ—â—on rather by the convâ—nience of a Collegiate life and the immunities of the University than by any considerable Salary King James the Sixth Anno 1577. did establish Twelve persons in the Colledge viz a Principal three Professors of â—hâ—losophy called Regents four Scholars called Bursars an Oeconomus or Provisor who furnisheth the Table with provisions the principal Servant a anitor and a Cook Benefactors The Kings of Scotland have been great Benefactors to this University King James the Second the Founder of it did bestow considerable Revenues and endowed it with many priviledges and immunities The words of the Letter under the Great Seal 12. Kal. Maii 1453. are Omnes singulos Rectores qui pro tempore fuerint facultatum Decanos procuratores Nationum Regentes Magistros Scholares in hac universitate studentes sub nostra firma pace custodia defensione manutentia suscipimus eosdemque Rectores c. ab omnibus Triâ—utis exactionibus Taxationibus collectis vigiliis custodiis eximimus postea eximendos statuimus The same priviledges were confirmed by King James the Third Anno 1472. by King James the Fourth 1509. by King James the Fifth 1522. by Queen Mary 1547. About the time of the Reformation the University was almost brought to desolation and had been ruined had not King James the 6th in his Minority restored it by his Royal bounty and munificence He confirmed all the priviledges and bestowed upon it the Tithes of the Church of Govan Anno 1577. Afterwards he ratified all the former Acts made in favour of the University and made some new Donations Anno 1617. King Charles the First did ratifie all the old Priviledges and bestowed Money for repairing the Fabrick King Charles the Second by the Advice of the Estates of Parliament gave also Money for the same purpose Bishop Will. Turnbull by whose procurement the Popes Bull was obtained was very liberal to the Colledge bestowing upon it both Lands and Revenues and so were several of the Bishops and Archbishops who succeeded him The City of Glasgow were also Benefactors to the Colledge The Ground on which the Colledge stands with a Field adjacent thereunto was the Donation of James Lord Hamilton Since the Reformation sundry private men have given considerable sums of Money towards the maintenance of poor Sholars as William Struthers Zachary Boyd Thomas Crawford Ministers Others have bestowed Money for repairing the Fabrick as Alexander Boyd Matthew Wilson Ministers James Law Archbishop of Glasgow was very bountiful to the Colledge for he much augmented the Revenues thereof and bestowed many choice Books which are in the Library Will. Earl of Dundonald An. 1672. gave about a thousand pounds sterling towards the maintenance of Bursars John Snell hath of late bestowed six thousand Marks Scottish for enriching the Library and adorning the Fabrick The Archbishops of Glasgow are perpetual Chancellors of the University The Rector is chosen once every year David Cadyow Canon of Glasgow was the first Recotr and William Elphistoun Official of Glasgow