And knowing and understanding sufficiently the Learning, abilities and merit of Mr Patrick Chalmers of Fedrett, Doctor of Medicine: Doe Therefor conform to the priviledges, liberties and rights, granted to us and our progenitors of founding and erecting, and of calling, nominating and presenting Professors and Masters of all Sciences in our said Colledge and University of Aberdeen, Hereby nominat, present and appoint the foresaid Mr Patrick Chalmers to be Professor of Medicine in our Colledge and University dureing our pleasure: Giving and granting to him full and free power and warrand to profess and teach Medicine at such hours and in such place within our said Colledge as shall be judged most convenient, Conform to the custome of professors and masters of other Sciences taught and Professed in our said Colledge, and Lykeways Giving and granting to the said Mr Patrick Chalmers all Priviledges, Liberties, Immunities, Titles and Rights which are enjoyed by any Professor or Master of any other Science and any wages due and competent to a professor of the said Science of Medicine in any other Colledge or University: And particularly such Priviledges, Titles and Rights and Liberties which are enjoyed by any Professor or Master of any other Science taught and professed in our said Colledge and University of Aberdeen: With full and free power to the said Mr Patrick Chalmers to brook and enjoy all profites Emoluments, Revenues, Establishments &c Which may or shall be made for and in behalf of a professor of the said Science of Medicine in our said Colledge, Als fully and freely in all respects as any other Professor or Master hath done heretofore, or shall do in time coming. And we do hereby require and appoint the Principall, Professors and Masters of our said Colledge immediately after the presenting of these presents to them, to receive and admitt the said Patrick Chalmers professor of Medicine in our said Colledge and to administrat the usual oaths to him. In Wittness q'of this Letter of Presentation is written by our Warrand and subscrivit by us at Edinburgh the eight day of August one thousand and seven hundereth years.

From the copy of the Letter entered in the "Register of Presentationes".*

* In the following year the Principal and remanent Masters "having just and full knowledge of the said Doctor Patrick Chalmers his Literature and Qualifications for the said Profession of Medicine, did after hearing of a publict prælection in the said Science

LXXXIV.

The Town Council approve the expenditure of sundry sums in purchasing books for the College. 1701-2.

August 20, 1701.

The Said Day the Counsell allows the master of mortifications to pay to the masters of the marischall Colledge Fiftie eight pund eighteen shilling Scots money out of Doctor liddells mortificatione for buying foure books conforme to the said mortificatione

The Said Day The Counsell ordanis mr willeam smith one of the regents in the Colledge marischall of Aberdein his oration * at his graduation J"vjc and nyntie [six] yeirs to be printed on the towns expenssis In respect the same contanis ane full accompt of this citys antiquity and of the benefactors to the Colledge and recommends to the magistrats to agrie with the printer as easie as may be for printeing the same

From the Town Council Register, lvii. 800.

Octob. 9, 1702.

The Said Day the Counsell homologats and approves provost Alardes his buyeing of severall books and mathematicall instruments to the Colledge marishall to the value of ane hundreth and fiftie pund 6s 8 pennies Scots money And appoints the master of mortifications to pay the same to the said provost Alardes out of the moneys mortified be Doctor Liddell for that effect

T. C. R., lvii. 842.t

of Medicine, admitt and receive him to be one of the Professors of the said Colledge conform to the said presentation". In 1717 the Crown acknowledged the Foundation by nominating Dr Matthew Mackaile to succeed Chalmers, who was ejected from office by the Commission of Visitation. No endowment seems to have been attached to the chair prior to 1712, when a small sum was allotted for that purpose in Anne's grant (infra, p. 395). See also Paterson's Mortification in 1762.

* This is the Oratio so often quoted from above.

† At the end of Gray's Catalogue (supra, p. 218, footnote) are added notes of two benefactions to the Library :

"Libri quos Johannes Moir Mercator Abredonensis filius D. Gulielmi Moir Medicinae Doctoris in Academia Marichallana Bibliothecae donavit Anno Dom. MDCCXIII " 306 articles.

"Catalogus librorum a Reverendo Viro Mro Joanne Dunlop Presbitero et Ecclesiae de Skeen Pastore Academiae Marischallanae legatorum quos Mr Alexr Moir et Magister

LXXXV.

John Davidson, Merchant in Aberdeen, mortifies to the Masters and Members an annuity of fifty merks Scots for the maintenance of a bursar of Philosophy. 21st February, 1706.

BE IT KNOWN to all men by these present Letters Me John Davidson Merchant in Aberdeen heritable proprietor of the tenement of Land after specifiet with the pertinents Forasmuch as it hath pleased God to prosper me in my worldlie affairs and to bless me with a comfortable fortune And I being desirous to testifie my thank-. fulness to God and zeal for religion and advanceing of Learning by mortifieing a share thereof in maner and to the end after specifiet THEREFORE Witt ye me to have given mortified and disponed Likeas I hereby give mortifie and dispone the soume of Fifty merks Scots money yearly for the maintainance of a Student of philosophie in the Marischall Colledge of Aberdein Which Student being ance presented thereto by the Patrons after named He shall brook and enjoy the samen for the space of full four years that he passes all his Courses in the said Colledge Unless he Debord and Misbehave of whose misbehavior I doe appoint the Patrones after named to be Judges With this express provision and condition always that any of my blood - relationes being fit for the Colledge for the tyme shall be preferred to all others And faillieing thereof the blood relations of Christian Smith my Spouse And faillieing thereof any of the name of Davidsone And faillieing thereof any of the name of Smith being a Burgars son of Aberdein And faillieing thereof any burgars sone of Aberdein And faillieing all these the best qualified and fittest for Learning For overseeing and presenting to which Mortification I doe hereby nominat and appoint my heirs and successors and representatives being within the Kingdom George Davidsone of Cairnbrogie and the airs male of his bodie Togither with the Principal and

Gulielmus Smith Philosophiae Professores et supremae illius voluntatis Curatores Bibliothecae rediderunt Anno Dom MDCCXIV" 313 articles.

About 1720 the Library was transferred from part of the ancient Franciscan buildings to a new third storey added to the central part. The accounts, 1719-24, contain lists of subscriptions (about £400 in all) and outlays.

regents of the said Colledge to be conjunct Patrons and Administrators thereof And I appoint them to observe the order above specifiet in presenting thereto As also that they cause affix placards upon the most publict places of the burgh of Aberdein Twentie dayes before bestowing thereof of the conditiones of the same that the persones to whom the same doeth belong may get notice thereof and be preferred accordingly And I doe recomend to the saids persons above named whom I have appointed as Patrons of my said mortification that they be faithfull in bestowing administrating and preserving thereof as they shall answer to God And that they mantain and support my representatives in the right of the tenement of Land after mentioned As also in all their other just rights and pretensions AND I bind and oblidge me and my airs and successors to me in the tenement of Land afterspecifiet to pay and deliver to the said Student of philosophie in the said Colledge to be presented to the said mortification in maner forsaid the forsaid of Fifty merks Scots money yearlie begining the first termes payment thereof at the first term of Mertimes after ke shall be presented thereto And so furth yearlie therafter during the forsaids four year With the soume of Ten merks money forsaid of Liquidat expenss for ilk terms faillie and ordinar annuallrent of the said fiftie merks ay and so long as the same sall remain unpayed after the respective termes of payment DECLARING alwayes that this present Mortification shall nowayes comence nor take effect untill the first term of mertimes imediatlie following both the deceass of me and the said Christian Smith my Spouss AND FOR the farder securitie and better payment of the said soume of Fifty merks money forsaid yearlie I bind and oblidge me my airs and successors to duly and lawfully Infeft vest and sease the Masters and Members of the forsaid Colledge for the behooff of the forsaid student to be presented to the said Mortification in ane Annuitie of Fifty merks Scots money yearly to be uplifted at the termes above specifiet and comenceing as above FURTH of All and Haill That tenement of Land belonging to me lying within the burgh of Abd and west side of the broad gate of the Gallowgate therof betuixt the foreland of Alex' Anand at the South the tenement of Land belonging to myself and wherein I presentlie dwell at the North the land of . . . at the West and the high street at the

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East parts And which is presently possessed be William Blachrie and Alex Strachane merchants in Abd With free ishue and entrie therto by the haill wayes and passages used and wont With the hail parts pendicles and pertinents therof or furth of any part or portion of the same readiest maills and duties thereof And that by resignation thereof in the hands of ane of the Baillies of the said burgh of Aberdein as in the hands of our Soveraign Ladie the queens Maiestie imediat Lawfull Superior therof AND FOR that effect . . . In witness wherof I have subscryved thir presents (Written be William Lesly servitor to Charles Gordon Advocat in Aberdein) at Aberdein this Twentie first day of february One thousand seven Hundreth and sex years Before witnesses George Davidson of Cairnbrogie and the saids Charles Gordon and William Leslie Sic sub John Davidson Geo. Davidsone witnes Cha. Gordon witnes Will. Leslie witnes

From a certified Extract from the Commissary Court Books of Aberdeenshire (in which the Disposition was recorded, March 30, 1710) in the Mar. Coll. Charter Room, "Bursaries," xix., 1.*

LXXXVI.

The Scots Parliament provide for the perpetual maintenance of the Universities of Scotland. 16th January, 1707.

OUR SOVEREIGN LADY and the Estates of Parliament considering that by the late Act of Parliament for a Treaty with England for an Union of both Kingdoms It is provided that the Commissioners for that Treaty should not treat of or concerning any alteration of the Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of this King

See p. 139, footnote. Sasine was granted and recorded (Burgh Register, lvi., f. 2936) 5th March, 1726. The first entry in the College Accounts relative to this Mortification occurs in Session 1734-35. "Davidson's Burse: William Arthur wright is proprietar of the house out of which this burse is payable, and he paid the same to Innes, so that it is neither to be Charged nor Discharged here." In the next year's accounts the sum specified in the deed is mentioned, £2 15s. 6d. sterling; and this annuity continued to be paid annually to a Bursar, the account being incorporated with the "Burse Fund" (supra, p. 326), until the Commissioners of 1858 united this foundation and that of Dr. Alexander Adam (supra, p. 341) into one bursary of £10 (Ordinance No. 36, Aberdeen No. 16).