for the better execution of this my Last Will and Testament I hereby nominate and appoint my Trusty Friends Alexander Goodall Francis Lovell and Robert Gordon of Madras to be the Sole Executors in India of this my last Will and Testament in full confidence of their Integrity in fulfilling these my last good intentions To each of my Worthy Friends Messrs William Fraser and James Norris of Madras who have attested this will I bequeath a mourning ring value five (5) guineas Signed sealed published and declared by the above named John Mather to be his last Will and Testament In the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the testator done at Fort St George this eighteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven [Signed] J. Mather Surveyor W. Fraser Jas Norris D. Reid

I John Mather Surveyor do this eighteenth day of February in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and seven make and publish this Codicil to my last will and testament in manner following That is to say that I hereby nominate and appoint the Honorable the Provost and Magistrates of the City of Aberdeen North Britain for the time being my perpetual Trustees to the due Execution of my last will and testament in confidence whereof I trust they will deposite in perpetual safety all my property that shall be remitted from my Executors in India and cause to be paid the annual Legacies specified in my Last Will and Testament I allot the sum of £5 per annum to the Town Clerk or Register of the said City in consideration of his trouble in keeping the accounts and paying the legacies annually and I hereby direct that my executors in India as soon after my decease as possible to remit all my property by the best exchange unto the said Provost and Magistrates of Aberdeen aforesaid that they may be enabled to fulfil my good intentions towards the poor of my native Country trusting in full confidence that the aforesaid Provost and Magistrates will with fidelity uprightness and cheerfulness execute this important trust committed to them The Principal to be funded as soon as possible to the best advantage at annual interest as soon after the Remittances are received from India and the Legacies to operate as soon as one years Interest is received Witness my hand this Eighteenth day of February One Thousand Eight hundred and seven

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the above-named John Mather as a Codicil to be annexed to his last will and testament in the presence of [Signed] J. Mather, Surveyor W. Fraser Jas. Norris D. Reid

From the copy entered in the Register of Deeds (Book vi., f. 66) in the Sheriff Court of Aberdeen, in which the Testament was recorded as a Probative Writ, 1st December, 1812.*

CXX.

The Rev. James Stuart, by his last will and testament, bequeaths, inter alia, to the Magistrates of Aberdeen £1000 consols for the better education of youth at Marischal College. 3rd May, 1809.

I the Reverend James Stuart formerly rector of George Town and All Saints South Carolina and chaplain to the King's Rangers in North America but now lying ill at Newbury in Berkshire make this my last

The sum received from Mr. Mather's estate in 1812 was £3953 6s. 7d., inadequate to the annual payments (£205) provided by the Deed. The fund was therefore allowed to accumulate. The Commissioners of 1836-37 reported "The accounts returned to us in reference to this mortification are by no means satisfactory. While the sums paid on account of the Bursaries provided for young men from the parishes of Foveran and Fyvie have varied very much in different years, nothing has been paid on account of the Bursaries at the disposal of the College " (Second Report, p. xvii.).

In the Burgh Accounts for 1859-60 are the entries: "47. John Mather's Morti- | Balce 1850

Revenue

Expenditure Balce 1860

Stock

67 14 3

65 0 0

fication to Foveran and Fyvie Bursars at College 748 9 18 11 2019 1811" By the Provisional Order of 1881, ten Mather Bursaries are instituted, four of £15 in Arts, four of £20 in Medicine, and two of £10 in Law, all to be awarded by open competition; but it is provided (§ 11), “If any candidate at the said open competitive examination, who shall have attended any public or State-aided schools in the Parishes of Foveran or Fyvie for a period of at least two years, shall satisfy the Examiners that he is of sufficient ability and attainments to profit by attendance at the Curriculum of the Faculty of Arts, the Town Council shall, upon the report of the Examiners to that effect, and notwithstanding that such candidate might not otherwise have been found entitled to a bursary, present such candidate to the Mather bursary which falls to be competed for at the said Examination in connection with Faculty of Arts".

will and testament I give and bequeath the sum of fifteen thousand pounds three per cent consols and all my other personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever unto Mr. George Grant and Mr. John Bremner both of Piccadilly and Mr. Charles Grant of Bedford Street in the city of Westminster whom I appoint my executors . I direct my said executors to sell out five thousand pounds three per cent consols another third of the said fifteen thousand pounds and to divide the same into five parts in manner following: To the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh for the time being I give one fifth part in trust and for the use and benefit of the University of Edinburgh . . . To the Magistrates of Glasgow for the time being I give another fifth part in trust and for the use and benefit of the University of Glasgow ... To the Magistrates of St Andrews for the time being I give another fifth part in trust and for the use and benefit of the Colleges in the University of St. Andrews t... To the Magistrates of Aberdeen for the time being I give two other fifth parts in trust as to one fifth for the use and benefit of Kings College in the University of Aberdeen and as to the other fifth in trust and for the use and benefit of Marischal College in the University of Aberdeen and to apply the interest of the said two fifths respectively from time to time for ever in and towards the instruction and better education of youth as to the Principals and others of the said two Colleges respectively having powers vested in them by charter or otherwise shall seem meet and I direct that any young man of the name of Stuart who may be educated at either of the said Universities shall always be preferred to any others As to the remaining five Thousand Pounds three per cent consols I direct my said Executors to make sale thereof and with the proceeds to pay unto the Masters or others having the government of the Academies at Banff and Fordyce Six hundred pounds sterling each to be laid out at interest in the names of trustees in the Bank at Aberdeen and the interest applied from time to time for ever for the instruction and better education of youth and I direct that any young man of the name of Stuart who may be educated at either of the said Academies shall always be preferred to any others. . . In witness

See "Deeds instituting Bursaries in the University of Glasgow," 1850, p. 191, where

a brief account of Mr. Stuart is given.

† See Report of St. Andrews University Commissioners, 1840, Appendix V., p. 94.

whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the third day of May

In regard to the bequests to the Academies at Banff and Fordyce I give the said sums of six thousand pounds each to the Presbytery of Fordyce for the time being (instead of the Masters and others having the government thereof) in trust to lay out the same sums at interest in the names of trustees in the Bank at Aberdeen and to apply the interest for the instruction and education of any young man of the name of Stuart who shall offer himself as a candidate for either of the said Academies within a year after my decease and if none of that name shall offer then to any young man of the name of Simpson who shall offer himself within a month afterwards and if neither shall offer himself then the interest to be applied in manner before directed And I direct that such young man shall be educated five years at the said Academies and removed from the Academy at Fordyce to the Marischal College of Aberdeen for four years and from the Banff Academy to the King's College Aberdeen for four years and the interest applied by the said Colleges for the benefit of such young men during their continuance at College and so from time to time as any vacancy shall happen hereafter at either of the said Academies It is my will and meaning that any person of the name first of Stuart and then of Simpson shall always be preferred thereat and also at any of the Universities before any other person or persons [Signed] James Stuart

May 3rd 1809

Witness to the Signing [Signed]

H. Wright

G. Gray

From the original at Doctors' Commons where probate was granted 19th

October, 1809.*

* The proceeds of the sale of £1000 consols reduced by legacy duty to 603 were in 1810 invested by the Magistrates on the security of the Harbour Trust. Since that date the interest has been regularly paid. In the current Calendar (1889-90) the Stuart competition bursaries are stated to be four in number, in value £14, £14, £13, £9, tenable for four years.

CXXI.

King George III. grants a yearly sum of £337 for augmenting the salaries of the Principal and all the Professors. 17th October, 1812.

George the third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith To the Commissioners of our Treasury now being and to our High Treasurer or Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being and to the Chief Baron and the rest of the Barons of our Court of Exchequer in that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland now and for the time being and to all others to whom these presents shall come or may appertain Greeting Whereas the Commissioners of our Treasury have laid before us a Memorial of the Principal and Professors of Marischall College and University of Aberdeen with a Report of our said Barons thereon of date the third day of February one thousand eight hundred and ten whereby it appears that the present Livings are not adequate for the support and dignity of the said Principal and Professors whose exertions for the education of the young men under their charge and in the promotion of science deserve encouragement Together with a Letter from Lord Auckland Chancellor of the said University and an Abstract of the whole emoluments of the several Professors of the said College And we being desireous that this our said Ancient College and University should not be allowed to go to decay for want of proper funds for its support are graciously pleased out of our Pious and Princely Zeal for the good and flourishing Estate of our said College to grant to the Principal Regents and Professors of the said College and their successors in office during our Royal pleasure the following yearly additions to their present Stipends for their better maintenance and support that is to say To the Principal the sum of Forty pounds To the Professor of Divinity the sum of Thirty three pounds To the Regent or Professor of Natural Philosophy Thirty three pounds To the Regent or Professor of Moral Philosophy Thirty three pounds To the Regent or Professor of Natural History Thirty three pounds To the Regent or Professor of Greek Thirty three pounds To the Regent or Professor of Mathematics Thirty three pounds To the

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