Treasurers Principall and Deputs or Lords Commissioners of their Treasury for the time being being Students of good Report for their learning sober and pious conversation who have past their Course in one of the Colledges and being Laureated and graduated Masters of Art in one of the Colledges of that Kingdom before they can be Nominated or Presented to be of the number of the aforesaid forty Bursers and being Presented they are to study Divinity by the direction and oversight of the Professors aforesaid by the space of two full yeares within one of the four Colledges aforesaid and the third year they are to goe abroad and study one year in a Protestant University by the Direction of the Professors aforesaid whereby they may be instructed disposed and qualified to be Ministers of the Gospell as they shall have occasion to be called after their Returne and their three yeares study in Divinity And their Maiesties do impower the present Lords Commissioners of their Maiesties Treasury their Treasurers Principal and Deputs for the time being to make Statutes and Rules for the better ordering dividing and conveying the foresaid pious charitable ffond and Mortification of twelue hundred pounds sterline yearly out of the first and readiest of the Bishops Rents and to make yearly Enquiries and Accompts thereof in the Month of January that the same may be rendered effectuall for the pious uses and ends for which they are intended And their Maiesties Ordain the said Letter to be further extended in the most ample and best forme with all Clauses needfull and to pass the said Great Seale per Saltum without passing any other Seale or Register In order whereunto These presents shall be to the Directors of their Maiesties Chancellary and their Deputs for writing the same and to the Lord High Chancellour for causing the Great Seale to be appended and to the Appender for appending the same thereunto a sufficient Warrant Given at the Court at Kensington the 28th day of ffebruary 1693 and of their Maiesties reign the 4th year From the entry in the Home Office Warrant Books (Scotland) in the *This Signature seems to have escaped the notice of the editors of the Fasti Aberdonenses and the Munimenta Universitatis Glasguensis. See infra the charters by William III. of dates 29th April, 1695, and 30th November, 1699, from which it will be noticed the proposals to nominate professors "from abroad" and bursars "to goe abroad" are removed. LXXIV. King William III. grants to the University of Aberdeen £300 sterling yearly from the Bishops' rents, for the maintenance of bursars in Divinity, and of a second professor of Theology. 29th April, 1695. Gulielmus Dei Gratia Magnæ Brittaniæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Rex Fideique Defensor Omnibus probis hominibus totius terræ suæ Clericis et Laicis Salutem Quandoquidem nos considerantes quod per signaturam sub manu nostra Regia de data apud Kensingtoun vigesimo octavo die mensis Februarij Millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo tertio Dedimus concessimus mortificavimus et disposuimus ad et in favorem Universitatum ac Academiarum Sancti Andreæ Abredoniæ Glasguensis et Edinburgi summam unius mille et ducentarum librarum monetæ Sterlinensis de redditibus et fructibus Episcopatuum Scotiæ nunc in manibus nostris existentibus et ad nostram donationem et dispositionem virtute acti Parliamenti Episcopatum abolentis idque pro sustentatione unius Professoris Theologiæ et decem Bursariorum in Theologia in unaquaque dictarum quatuor Academiarum dictis Professoribus ab exteris per nos nostrosque successores vocandis et præsentandis vel per Dominos nostri Thesaurarii commissionarios ac etiam dictis Bursariis per nos vel Dominos nostri Thesaurarii præsentandis et modo in prædicta signatura specificato qualificandis prout eadem in se diversas alias clausulas continens et in scacario expedita in se latius proportat Nosque etiam considerantes quod magis commodum erit dictis Universitatibus ut dicta summa mille et ducentarum librarum monetæ Sterlinensis non solum inter eos dividatur per distinctas donationes et jura sed etiam usque dum intentus dictæ prioris signaturæ pro providendis et stabiliendis dictis externis Professoribus et accomodandis dictis Bursariis modo inibi mentionato determinetur quodque rationi consentaneum et necessarium est ut prædictæ Universitatis Abredoniensis novum et particulare jus ad prædictam summam trecentarum librarum monetæ Sterlinensis tanquam partem et portionem prædictæ summæ mille et ducentarum librarum habeat summa quadraginta librarum monetæ Sterlinensis de prædicta summa tricentarum librarum pro sustinendis duobus Theologiæ Bursariis in dicta Universitate ad ratam subtus mentionatam applicetur et reliquum dictæ summæ trecentarum lib rarum pro solutione debitorum dictæ Universitatis in primo loco applicetur et postea ut idem applicetur pro sustentatione alterius Theologiæ professoris in dicta Universitate præter eum quem nunc habent Noveritis igitur nos cum speciali avisamento et consensu fidelissimorum dilectissimorum nostrorum consanguineorum et conciliariorum Joannis Comitis de Tweedale summi cancellarii antiqui Regni nostri Scotia Jacobi Ducis de Queensberrie Joannis Comitis de Cassills Georgii Comitis de Linlithgow Joannis Comitis de Broadalbine et Alexandri Domini Raith Theasaurarii deputati infra dictum Regnum Scotia Dominorum Commissionariorum nostri Theasaurarii computorum rotulatorum et Theasaurarii novarum nostrarum augmentationum infra dictum antiquum Regnum nostrum Dedisse concessisse mortificasse et disposuisse sicuti nos per has literas damus concedimus mortificamus et disponimus ad et in favorem principalium professorum et magistrorum dictæ Universitatis Abredoniensis eorumque in officio successorum nomine et utilitate dictæ Universitatis Totam et Integram prædictam summam trecentarum librarum Sterlinensium tanquam eorum justam et æqualem portionem dictæ summæ mille ducentarum librarum monetæ Sterlinensis annuatim percipientem ad duos anni terminos Pentecostes et St Martini per æquales portiones de primis et promptissimis annuis reditibus Episcopatuum dicti Regni modo subtus mentionato applicandam viz Summam quadraginta librarum Sterlinensium de prædicta summa trecentarum librarum Sterlinensium pro sustentatione duorum Bursariorum Theologiæ in dicta Universitate eorumque successorum Bursariorum ibidem ad ratam viginti librarum Sterlinensium pro unoquoque bursario annuatim applicandam reliquamque summam quæ conficit dictam summam tercentum librarum pro solutione debitorum dictæ Universitatis [et postquam] soluta sunt summam centum librarum ejusdem pro sustentatione et provisione alterius Theologiæ Professoris in dicta Universitate præter eum quem nunc habent applicandam ac summam centum et sexaginta librarum quæ dictam summam tercentum librarum conficit pro sustentatione octo Bursariorum in Theologia eorumque successorum dictæ Universitatis Bursariorum ad ratam viginti librarum Sterlinensium annuatim pro unoquoque bursario applicandam præsentatione dictæ Theologiæ Professoris omnimodo nobis reservata qui de tempore in tempus personam in dicta professione sufficienter qualificatam ac ante admissionem suam a principalibus aliisque Theologiæ dicta Universitatis professoribus cum ministris dictæ civitatis Abredonensis pro tempore examinandam præsentaturi sumus Et quidquid [sic] in Theologia Bursarii per nos præsentandi sunt ad vel ante decimam diem mensis Octobris ex catalogo sex idonearum personarum clerico Thesaurarii nostri transmittendo per facultatem dictæ Universitatis ad vel ante primam diem mensis Augusti et qui etiam instituendi et locandi sunt a dictis principalibus aliisque professoribus cum dictis ministris Abredoniensibus pro tempore bonæ famæ studentibus qui cursum suum in qualibet una dictarum Universitatum dicti regni nostri peregerunt ac qui laurea donati sunt priusquam tanquam unus dictorum Bursariorum præsentari queant ac per spatium quatuor annorum ad maximum continuandi Ac qui Professor et Bursarii erunt notæ pietatis et sobrietatis ac sanctorum principiorum ac fidelitatis et boni affectus erga nos et regimen nostrum in ecclesia et statu incipientes pro termino solutionis prædictæ summæ tercentum librarum Sterlinensis ad festum et terminum Pentecostes anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quarto et ita deinceps annuatim et terminatim omni tempore futuro continuandi Atque per præsentem nostram Cartam plenam committimus potestatem Thesaurarii nostri Dominis Commissionariis solutionem punctualem præfatæ summæ factoribus dictæ Universitatis Abredoniensis pro tempore annuatim pro usu et utilitate dictorum Principalis Professorum et Bursariorum modo supra diviso causare faciendam Ac Declaramus et Ordinamus collectores assedatarios aliosque intromissores cum redditibus dictorum Episcopatuum subjectos esse dictæ Universitati Abredoniensis ejusque factoribus in solutione dictæ annuitatis trecentarum librarum monetæ Sterlinensis prout deberi contigerit de primis et paratissimis eorum intromissionibus Et ulterius Declaramus quod pro solutionibus dictæ Universitatis factoribus in usum prædictum eorum apochæ seu exonerationes desuper datæ sufficiens erit exoneratio dictis collectoribus assedatoribus et intromissoribus et eorum intromissionibus pro tanto In cujus rei Testimonium huic præsenti nostræ Cartæ magnum sigillum nostrum appendi mandavimus apud Kensingtoun vigesimo nono Aprilis Anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto anno Regni nostri septimo From the Registrum Magni Sigilli, B. lxxiii. 216. LXXIVa. Abstract of foregoing Charter. King William, referring to the signature of 28th February, 1693, and considering the desirability of apportioning the previous grant among the four Universities, and of cancelling the provisions anent professors from abroad and bursars, grants to the University of Aberdeen £300 sterling yearly from the bishops' rents: £40 for the maintenance of two bursars in Divinity, and the balance at first for payment of the debts of the University, and afterwards £100 towards the support of a second Professor of Theology, and £160 for the maintenance of eight bursars in Divinity. The patronage of the professorship and bursaries is reserved to the Crown: the bursars are to be selected annually, not later than 10th October, from a list to be transmitted before August 1st by the faculty, of six students who have completed their course. and graduated in one of the Scottish Universities: such professors and bursars to be of good morals and well affected to the State; and the endowments to run from Pentecost, 1694. The Lords of the Treasury and the collectors of the bishops' rents are empowered to make payments to the factors of the University, whose receipts shall be sufficient for the said collectors. Sealed at Kensington, 29th April, 1695. LXXV. The Scots Parliament assign to Marischal College the vacant stipends of the Churches whereof Earl Marischal was patron towards the expense of the new buildings of the College. 17th July, 1695. AT EDINBURGH the Sevinteenth day of July One thousand Six hundred and nynty-fiue years Anent the Petition given in and presented to his Majesties high Commissioner and the Estates of Parliament by the Principal and Masters of the Marishal Colledge of Aberdeen Shewing that where it had been his Majestie and Royal Predicessors constant care to provide for and give all Incouragement to Universities and Colledges and by several Acts of Parliament there had been vacant stipends allowed them for the use and upholding of their fabricks And now by the late act of Parliament the vacand stipends being applyed for pious uses within the respec * No. LXXIII. |