is always to be of the Sirname of FORBES whenever such shall happen to appear and claim the same without any Comparative Tryal only being habile and fit to enter to the College AND in case there shall be two or more of the Sirname of FORBES to appear to claim the said Bursary that the Youth who shall be recommended by the said Sir Arthur Forbes and his Heirs and Successors shall be preferred But in Case none shall appear of the Sirname of FORBES to claim the said Bursary when it vacates Then the same is to be given to a Youth of any other Sirname who shall be found most worthy and deserving upon a Comparative Tryal AND I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Principal Professors and Masters of the said Marischal College and University within the said Royal Burgh of Aberdeen and their Successors in their respective Offices to be perpetual Patrons of this my Mortification in all Time coming earnestly recommending to them to observe and faithfully execute this my Mortification and Pious Donation according to my Purpose above mentioned HAVING remitted the aforesaid sum to the hands of the said Principal I consent to the Registration hereof within the Publick Records of the said Burgh of Aberdeen. or any other Competent Register within Scotland therein to remain for Preservation And constitute [Alexander Charles Advocate in Aberdeen] my Procurators and so forth IN WITNESS whereof Written by Richard King Stubblefield of Chelmsford in the aforesaid County of Essex I have Subscribed these Presents at Saint John's in little. Leighes aforesaid the Ninth Day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Six before these Witnesses

[Signed]

Thomas Forbes

Thos. Pocklington witness

Philip Harvey witness

From the original deed in the Town House Charter Room (Bundle 1747-49), registered in the Baillie Court 22nd June, 1747.*

In 1746 the College received the 2000 merks, and applied the sum towards extinguishing the debt on the buildings. A bursary of £5 118. 1d. was paid regularly from the "Burse Fund" till 1860. See p. 430, footnote.

CIV.

John Paterson, London, by his last will and testament, bequeaths, inter alia, to the Principal £400 annuities to maintain a bursar, and augment the salary of the Professor of Medicine. 6th August, 1762.

In the name of God Amen I John Paterson of Pancrass Lane London Gentleman do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner following . . . I hereby give and bequeath to the Principall of the Mareschall Colledge in Aberdeen commonly called the Newtown in North Britain £300 East India Annuities the intrest thereof to be paid by him from time to time to such scholars at the Grammar School in Aberdein aforesaid as the Principall shall think proper for the four last years they shall be at the said School subject nevertheless to the proviso after mentioned And I likewise give and bequeath to the said Principall £300 three per cent Bank Annuities and do direct the intrest thereof shall be paid by him from time to time to any of the said two scholars who shall happen to be a Burser in the said Colledge and if both of them shall happen to be Bursers then to such of them as the said Principall shall think proper for the space of four years next after he shall be made a Burser Provided always and my will and meaning is and I do hereby direct and order that my relations by my father's and mother's side shall be preferred by such Principall before all other Scholars in the said Colledge and in default of any such relations then I direct that those scholars of the name of Paterson shall be preferred by such Principal and in default of any Scholars of the name of Paterson then I will and direct that the sons of Hammermen Burgesses in the Town of Aberdeen shall be preferred by such Principal before all other scholars in the said School Also I give and bequeath to the Principal of the said School [sic] of Aberdeen aforesaid £100 East India Annuities and do order that the intrest thereof shall from time to time be paid by him to the Professor of Medicine for the time being in the said Colledge . . . In witness

Here follow bequests to Decayed Hammermen; St. Paul's Chapel; Infirmary; Scotch Hall in London; and to a number of private individuals, including Henry Watson, Surgeon, Rathbone Place, who is constituted residuary legatee and sole executor.

whereof. . . this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord Christ 1762 (Signed) John Paterson Signed sealed and published by the said testator John Paterson as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses hereto at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other (Signed) Thos Webster in Queenstreet Cheapside W. Farrer in Pancrass Lane Cheapside

From the copy of the Will in Mar. Coll. Ch. Room, "Bursaries," xxv. I.

CV.

William Lorimer, Westminster, mortifies to the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, and the Principal and Professors of Marischal College, the sum of £200 sterling, for the maintenance of a bursar 6th December, 1764.

I William Lorimer of the Parish of St James's Westminster in the County of Middlesex being impressd with a proper sense of the many pleasures and advantages I have received from a liberal Education and willing to contribute towards the assisting my Relations that may come after me in partaking of the like I hereby leave mortify and dispone to and in the Trust of the Provost Magistrates and Town Council of Aberdeen and to the Principal and Professors in the Marshall College of Aberdeen jointly and severally and to their Successors in Office whom I hereby appoint joint Patrons Trustees and Overseers of the following Donation the Sum of Two hundred pounds sterling And I hereby appoint the Interest of the same to be applied by them for the maintenance and education of a

* Proved at Doctors' Commons 2nd November, 1762. The accounts of Paterson's Mortification have always been kept apart. Owing to accumulations the amount now payable to the College bursar is £14 (Calendar for 1889-90). With the transcript of the will is tied up a well-written pamphlet (xxv. 2) entitled Remarks on Dr. Paterson's Will relating to some Bursaries, &c. By Principal Campbell. Undated, but evidently printed in 1794. Alexander Paterson, shoemaker, claimed the bursary as of right for his son Joseph, who had not succeeded in obtaining a place among the bursars of 1793. This claim the Principal resisted, preferring Charles Blake, whose version was first in order of merit.

Boy of the description aftermentioned for one year at the High School of Aberdeen and four years at the said Marshal College successively one Boy after another in all time hereafter And I hereby ordain that the said Boy shall be of the Relations of my Father and Mother each alternate five years and the first Boy who shall enjoy the benefit of this donation shall be that Relation on my father's side who shall have immediately after my death finished the common Course of five years in his Education on my Great Uncle's Mortification at the School of Cullen under the following Restrictions and Limitations and the second Boy I appoint to be of my Mother's Relations and who can prove his descent from James Lawtie of Tochineal my Grandfather wherever he has been educated but under the like Restrictions and so alternately from five years to five years in all time to come And I direct and appoint that neither of said Boys shall apply for the benefit of this donation until they are possessed of the following respective certificates That is to say my Relation on the Father's side need make no application untill he carries along with him a certificate from the Baillies Minister and Schoolmaster of Cullen that he has been educated five years on said Mortification And that my Relation on the Mother's side may supersede his application untill he has produced to the said Baillies and Minister a satisfactory proof that he is a relation of my said Grandfather James Lawtie together with a like satisfactory proof from the Minister and Schoolmaster of the Parish where he has received the Rudiments of his Education certifying that he has studied Latin English and Arithmetick at some regular School for five years each Boy who shall appear Candidate as above must also produce a Certificate properly vouchd that he is turnd of fourteen years of Age and not above sixteen All which proofs and circumstances being duely certified to said Baillies and Minister I humbly request they will give them to said Candidate or Candidates And in case two or more of my said Grandfather's descendants shall at the same time offer themselves to said Magistrates and Minister as Candidates for this Donation and bring along with them the Proofs and Certificates above required I desire the said Magistrates and Minister will give

* See the Fasti Aberdonenses, p. 176.

them the like certificates of the same without taking any notice of the nearer propinquity and when said Boys Candidates as above shall have obtain'd said Certificates I desire they may present them to the Provost or any of the Baillies of Aberdeen and the same being perused by them and found agreeable to my intention as above exprest I humbly request they will deliver them to the Principal and one of the Regents of said Marishal College and to the Rector of the High School that they may be pleased to take said Boy who comes from my Great Uncle's Mortification at Cullen under examination as to his progress in Classical Learning and Arithmetick and if after such examination they are of opinion that another year's Education under the care of said Rector will render him fit for academical Education at said College in that event I hereby desire said Magistrates and Masters of the Marishal College joint patrons as above mentioned to present and receive such Boy and entitle him as I hereby do to all the Profits and Emoluments arising from this Mortification for one year at said School and thereafter for four years at said Marishal College successively But if they are of opinion that one year's Improvement will not answer the above Intention I hereby desire said Examinators to dismiss as I hereby dismiss said Boy from having any claim or title whatever to this present Donation then or at any time thereafter And I appoint and request the like Examination years of Education respectively Irritances and dismission with regard to my Mother's Relations who shall offer themselves Candidates And if two or more of them shall present themselves I appoint that the better Scholar and not the nearer Relation shall be preferred And I direct that the Interests Emoluments and Burse Money so lapsed may be put out on Interest and turned into a sinking Fund towards the Improvement of this Donation and for any necessary expence that may attend the carrying these presents into execution And I desire that in like manner the Annuity or Burse Money due to any of the Bursars on this Mortification who while at the University shall be expelled from or voluntarily leave the same or die thereat shall be consolidated in the said sinking Fund for the purposes above mentioned and that in time if possible two Bursaries may be form'd on and from this foundation one for my father's the other for my mother's Relations of