XXXIII. William Jamesone, writer in Edinburgh, bequeaths his mathematical instruments and books for the use of the College.* 1632. Sep. 5, 1632. The Counsall ordaines the haill mathimaticall Instrumentes left be vmqll Williame Jamesone to the Colledge of this burghe quhilkis ar presentlie in the custodie of George Jamesone his brother to be delyuerit be Inventar to Mr Williame Johnstoun Doctor in phisick and professor of Mathimaticques within the said Colledge to the effect the saidis Instrumentis may serve the proper vse quhairvnto they wer left be the said vmqll Williame and keipit frome Roust and Canker From the Town Council Register, Vol. lii., p. 70. Jan. 23, 1633. The Said day In presence of the Prouest Baillies and Councell Compeirit George Jamesone painter burgess of Aberdeine air and executor to vmq" Williame Jamesone writtar in Edinburghe his brother germane and Exponit and declairit that the said vmq" Williame befoir his deceas left his haill mathimaticall instrumentis and bookes in legacie to the toune for the wse of the professor of mathimaticques within the Colledge of the said burghe and studentis in that professioun Present and to come And conforme thairto the said George delyuerit instantlie the saidis haill instrumentis and bookes at the directioun of the magistrattis and Counsall to Mr Williame Johnstoun doctour in phisik and present professor of mathimaticques within the said colledge be ane speciall Inventar writtin and subscryveit be the said Mr Williame on the end of the catalogue of vmq" secretarie Reidis librarie mortifiet to the said Colledge to be maid extant and furthcummand be the said Mr Williame to the wse foirsaid In respect quhairof the saidis Prouest baillies and Counsell exoners quittclames and dischairges the said George Jamesone air and executor foirsaid to the said vmqll brother of the said legacie * "Adjungo GULielmum JamiesonUM, Matheseos fautorem et Musices cultorem eximium, qui Libros Mathematicos atque Instrumenta, quæ dum in Anglia versaretur haud modico emit, pretio, Nobis consecravit" (Smith's Oratio, p. 25). Jamesone's arms appeared on the Heraldic Ceiling as, Argent, on a saltire or [!] between four ships sable, a rose gules. simpliciter and for ewir Quhairwpoun the said George askit act and instruments From the Town Council Register, Vol. lii., p. 90.* * "Ane Catalogue of William Jamisones books mortified to the Liberarie of Abd” is given in Thomas Gray's list of books belonging to the College, see page 219. Jamesone's books number 599, mostly "Libri Philosophici" and "Libri Humanioris Literaturæ," and are generally of a less valuable description than those in Liddell's and Reid's collections. Appended to Gray's list is the subjoined "Accompt of the Mathematicall Instruments Belonging to the Liberarie of Aberdein". This probably includes those presented by the relict of Professor William Johnstone (infra, under date 1641):— Twa great Globs with their Cases Ane loadstone with ane ancher Ane great woodden quadrant with its foot and basis Twa old litle terrestriall globes Ane brassen Astrolabe conteaning divers Horizones qrof one is of silver Ane wooden Astrolabe Ane brasen nocturnlabe Ane lesser nocturnlabe in brass Ane brasen analemma Ane brasen sector ex dono D. Alexri Reed Ane Box of Compasses compleatlie full Ane analemma of timber Ane Gunners Quadrant Twa compass Reules of Timber Gunter's Crostaffe in brasill wood Theoria N. Copernici in Iron The plaine table for surveying in four peices with the foot and base Circulus aeneus cum acu magnetico Graphometron portabile Ane Aequinoxiall vniversall Horologe Three leaves of ane sea cart bound in timber Ane compass of Proportion in brass Three litle brasen quadrants with a round circle with ane fixed gnomon thrvpon Twa brass compasses qrof the legge of one is broken Ane old compass dyall in brass with a black leather case Horologium aequinoxiale portabile Ane quadrant within a brassen lewell or triangle Ane brasen graphometron with a foott Twa old broken Crosstaffes broken with a reule Duo annuli astronomici aenei Ane Planysphære vpon timber Ane Instrument Called the Theodolite Ane litle timber Quadrant Ane other litle Compass Ane scallie broad Ane great timber sphære Ane vther litle brass horologicall quadrant XXXIV. William Guild mortifies to the town a house in the Broad Gate for an entrance to Marischal College. 11th March, 1633.* OMNIBUS hanc cartam visuris vel audituris MAGISTER GULIELMUS GUILD Minister verbi Dei in Ecclesia Burgi de Aberden hereditarius proprietarius Terræ Anterioris inferius bondatæ Æternam "Inter summos Academiae Marischallanae Euergetas, collocandus est D. GULIELMUS GUILDUS S. S. T. D. hac in Urbe Natus, et in Academia hac institutus: Vir à teneris annis Sacris Studiis totus deditus: Qui postquam Ecclesiae de Kingedward curam, singulari cum pietate, multos per annos tenuisset, à Senatu Abredonensi, ad Evangelium praedicandum vocatus; postea S. Theologiae Doctor creatus, et CAROLO I. Britanniarum Monarchae, a Sacris constitutus; tandemque ad Gymnasiarchae, in Collegio Regio Abredonensi, dignitatem erectus: In quibus omnibus muniis, universas officii sui partes, ad stuporem est exequutus. Hic divitiis, honore, doctrinâ et omnigena virtute, coruscans, de Republica Literaria, et Religione, scriptis et vitâ, deque Civitate hac et Academia, insolitâ Munificentia optimè meruit; amplumque Patrimonium piis erogavit usibus. "Hic enim rarae Pietatis Vir, domum propriis sumptibus comparavit, et eâdem dirutâ, Academiae nostri Propylaeum, anteà humile et indecorum, de novo extruxit, magnificum et pulcherrimum reddidit, COMITISQUE MARISCHALLI insignibus gentilitiis, affabre admodum excisis, aere proprio ornavit. "Idem etiam Fanum Franciscanorum (à Gavino Dumbaro Episcopo Abredonensi, extructum) maximis impensis reparavit, fenestrasque, numerosas admodum, vitris instruxit: ALEXANDRO STUARTO Abredonensi, meridionalem tantum ejusdem partem specularibus ornante. Sed jam eheu! spreta jacet Pietas, et omnium fere Charitas refrixit! Nec ullus est, qui ferreo hoc saeculo, sanctissimi GULIELMI pietatem imitari, et Templum hoc jam penè collapsum de novo adornando, sibi perennem nominis celebritatem comparare, aut curet, aut cupiat. “In multis etiam aliis, pietatem suam testatus GULIELMUS, nam amplos admodum reditus, Tribus Artificum Filiis, Philosophiae studiosis; Pauperibus etiam et Orphanis educandis et alendis, et senio confectis Artificibus sustentandis, consecravit; et Palatium, quod olim fuerat GULIELMI SCOTORUM Regis, emit, instauravit et cum Templo, hortisque Artificibus Abredonensibus donavit: Denique aedes Collegii S. Leonardi, Andreapoli denuò aedificandas, curavit, copiosamque suam Bibliothecam Universitati Andreanae legavit. “Religiosissimi hujus Viri reconditam eruditionem, intaminatam sanctimoniam, et eximiam pietatem, praedicabunt et in aeternum celebrabunt, Doctorum chori, Academicorum, Civium et Artificum cœtus; GULIELMI Fama erit immortalis, et vivet post funera Virtus." Smith's Oratio, p. 21. See also An Inquiry into the Life, Writings, and Character of the Reverend Doctor William Guild. By James Shirrefs, D.D. Aberdeen, 1798. On the Heraldic Ceiling Dr. Guild's arms appeared as, Azure, a chevron or between three roses slipped, argent seeded gules. On the "broad" the chevron is argent, and the flowers (resembling sunflowers) are or, stalked and leaved gules. obscuratum in domino salutem NOUERITIS me naturali Inductum amore quem habeo et foueo erga vrbem Abredonie in qua natus et ab Incunabulis educatus fui Presertim vero vt edes per Senatum populumque Abredonensem Collegio nouo dicti Burgi donatæ Ampliorem et magis Idoneum Introitum necnon pulchrius et magis conspicuum habeant frontispicium quod prius prius per terram siue domum anteriorem subtus designatam vetustate collapsam collapsam et obstructum fuit proque diuersis aliis bonis respectibus et considerationibus me ad hoc mouentibus DEDISSE concessisse alienasse et hac presenti carta mca confirmasse Necnon tenore presentium dare concedere alienare et hac presenti carta mea confirmare Preposito Balliuis Consulibus et communitati dicti burgi de Aberdene et eorum successoribus Prepositis Balliuis consulibus et communitati eiusdem burgi Imperpetuum Totam et integram illam Terram siue Domum meam Anteriorem quam proprie acquisiui conquestu et deinde non solum Introitum ad dictum Collegium. ampliari verum etiam frontispicium ad decorum et ornatum eiusdem Collegii meis sumptibus edificari feci Quæquidem Terra Anterior jacet infra dictum burgum de Aberdene in via Lata vici furcarum ex orientali parte eiusdem vici Inter terram quondam Joannis Barbour nunc vero Patricii Barbour eius filii ex australi Terram heredum quondam Henrici Patrie ex Boreali Templum aliquando fratrum Minorum dicti burgi versus oriens et communem viam regiam versus occidens TENENDAM et habendam Totam et integram predictam Terram siue Domum Anteriorem cum pertinentiis prefatis Preposito Balliuis Consulibus et Communitati dicti burgi et eorum successoribus predictis A me heredibus et assignatis meis De Supremo Domino Nostro Rege et suis successoribus in feodo et hereditate et in Libero Burgagio Imperpetuum FACIENDO inde annuatim dicti Prepositus Balliui Consules et communitas dicti burgi de Aberdene eorumque successores antedicti Prefato Supremo Domino Nostro Regi et suis successoribus seruitium Burgagium inde debitum et consuetum . IN CUIUS REI testimonium huic presenti cartæ per Walterum Robertson Scribam dicti burgi scriptæ meaque subscriptione manuali subscriptæ Sigillum meum proprium vnacum Sigillo honorabilis viri Magistri Vedasti Lowson unius Balliuorum dicti burgi ac datoris sasinæ hujusmodi sunt appensa Apud Aberdene Vndecimo die mensis Marcij Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Trigesimo Tertio Coram his testibus dicto Magistro Vedasto Lowson Balliuo Andrea Meldrum olim Balliuo dicti burgi dicto Waltero Robertson Ioanne Ingrahame scriba deputato eiusdem burgi Patricio Smith et Magistro Georgio Robertson notariis publicis Mr W Guild [Sic subsc.] Mr Vedast Lowsone bailly witnes and giver of the seasing A Meldrum witnes W Robertson witnes Pa Smith testis Maister George Robertson witnes Jo Ingrahame witnes From the original Charter in the Town House Charter Room (M1. "Mortifications for College," No. 32).* XXXIVa. Abstract of foregoing Charter. Mr. William Guild, Minister of the Word of God in the church of Aberdeen, from his love to that city, the place of his birth and education, and from his desire to furnish a suitable entrance to the New College, grants to the provost, baillies, &c., his land on the East of the Broadgate between the land of the late John Barbour (now of Patrick Barbour his son) on the South, the land of the heirs of the late Henry Petrie on the North, the Greyfriars Church on the East, and the King's Highway on the West. To be held from the granter, of the King, in fee and heritage and free burgage for ever; the provost, &c., rendering therefor burgage service used and wont. Signed and sealed at Aberdeen, 11th March, 1633, before witnesses: Baillie Vedast Lowson, ex-Baillie Andrew Meldrum, Walter Robertson, Town Clerk, John Ingram, Town Clerk depute, Patrick Smith, and Mr. George Robertson, Notaries. With the Charter are tied up the Instrument of Sasine following thereon dated 9th April, 1663 (see also Burgh Sasine Register, Vol. xxxviii., p. 2146), and eleven prior writs relating to the same land dated 1567 to 1623. FF |