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shot for, a century ago, with a great number of me-
dals appended, on which the names of the victors are
engraved.
St Leonard's College, founded in 1512, by Prior
Hepburn, stands at the east end of South Street.
These buildings have been converted to other purpo-
ses, since the union of this college with St Salvador's,
in the year 1747 ; an d the two thus united, go by the
name of the United College. In the United College,
there are a Principal, and Professors of Greek, Lo-
gic, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Humanity, Civil
History, Mathematics, and Medicine. This college
is patron of eight parish churches.
St Mary's College is situated in South Street, and
was established by Archbishop Beaton, in 1538. A-
bout the year 1579, the university was completely re-
modelled under the direction of the celebrated George
Buchanan, and St Mary's College being appropriated
to the study of Divinity alone, was afterwards called
Divinity or New College. It has a Principal, and Pro-
fessors of Divinity, Church History, and Oriental
Languages. By the Act of Parliament, passed in 1747*
which united St Salvador and St Leonard, these two
colleges have the Library in common, and are under
one Chancellor, with a principal to each.
Adjoining to St Mary's, on the east, is the Univer-
sity Library, a room J6 feet long, 28 feet broad, and
28 feet high, it contains upwards of 30,000 volumes.
Immediately below the Library, is the room where
the Parliament met, that condemned to death, Sir Ro-
bert Spottiswood, and five other royalists, after the
battle of Philip-haugh, in 1645.
The Town Church was built about the year 1 1 12„