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INTRODUCTION.
custom of the time, probably implies that he had entered as
a student there before the close of the year preceding, if not
even at an earlier date. In the following year—1510—he
appears in the list of Determinants, or Bachelors of Arts,
and among those of them who had prosecuted their studies
not in Pcedagogio but in Collegia—i.e., in the College of St
Salvator. In the next year his name appears in the lists of
Masters of Arts, not as Gau or Gall, but as Gavy or Gawy,1
—probably through the carelessness of the scribe, as the
name immediately preceding his is that of Gavyn Logye.
His history for a number of years after he completed his
studies, quite as much as before he began them, is involved
in the deepest obscurity. Whether, like so many of the
other promising alumni, he was drafted into one or other of
the monastic establishments of St Andrews, or was recalled
to the “ Fair City,” and found a place in one of its religious
houses, we have as yet not a vestige of sufficient data to
warrant us to determine. The brief reference in the close
of his treatise to the cruel martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton
is hardly such as could only have come from a sympathiser
who was then in St Andrews, and an eyewitness of his
long agony. In later life it was his lot to be patron¬
ised by the same king, and located in the same city of
Copenhagen, with John Macalpine, who, for several years,
had been Prior of the Dominican Monastery in Perth,
but fell under the suspicion of his ecclesiastical superiors,
and had to flee from his native land,2 not long after the
time when we come again on traces of John Gau.
1 Patrick’s name appears in our books as Gaw, Gawe, and Gawy.
2 He fled first to England, where through the favour of Bishop Shaxton he
was promoted to a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral. This he held till 1540, but
on the passing of the Statute of the Six Articles, he, like his countrymen Ales-
ius and Fyffe, left England for Wittenberg, and was enrolled in the University