Series 1 > Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760

ST. ANDREWS.
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There is a University here, which did consist of two Colleges
for Philosophy, Law and Physick, and the College of Divinity:
Bishop Wardlaw is said in 1411 to have first laid the founda¬
tion of a University for teaching Arts and Sciences : And yet
if I mistake not, Prior Heberden1 founded the College of St.
Leonard. The next Bishop, Kennedy, in 1456 founded St.
Salvator College and was buried under a very beautifull Gothic
monument of freestone which he himself erected ; and there
seems to have been a Couchant Statue on it: His Successor
Graham obtained that this See should be erected into an Arch
Bishoprick : Arch Bishop James Betoun began to found the
divinity College which he left to be finished by his Nephew
and Successor the Cardinal, one part of it for the library, and
a room under it for Exercises ; This building is of hewn stone,
and the parliament was held in it, when the plague was in
Edinburgh : A Court adjoyns to it which is the Divinity
College : Here are lodgings and a large room in which they
eat with one of the Professors who always attend in turns.
There are about eight on the foundation and as many
Exhibitioners, the former have their Lodgings and diet,
and the latter their Diet only, and they have a large room
for their Lectures : They have a principal and four other
professors: beyond this College is a building erected for an
Observatory under the famous Gregory, who not agreeing
with the Professors here went to Oxford. In the Library
is a Manuscript of one or two of the Classicks not very old,
one is a poem, the other a part of Cicero’s Works, and some
Church books.
Leonards College was by Act of Parliament united to St.
Salvators and is now let for houses and lodgings: There is a
Tower to it as well as to St. Salvator, and the parish Church ;
And the two principals and sixteen other professors were
reduced to thirteen. They are repairing their Chapel at St.
Salvators in which is a very fine Gothick tomb in freestone of
the founder Kennedy, erected by himself; A Couchant Statue
of him seems to have laid on it. They have a room for
Exercises and a Library: In which I was shown a very fine
Gothick Mace or Verge of Silver gilt. On it is the name of
1 Prior John Hepburn of the Augustinian Monastery, 1512.