Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . one in the old premises in the occupied apartments in the different courts, and dined at a commontable. At first they appear to have paid no rent for their rooms, butafter 1712 a charge was made for each room, varying from four shillingssterling to ten shillings for the session, according to the situation.^ Thestudents appear to have furnished their own rooms. Dr. Carlyle ofInveresk, who studied at the university in 1743, says: I had my lodging this session in a college room which I had
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . one in the old premises in the occupied apartments in the different courts, and dined at a commontable. At first they appear to have paid no rent for their rooms, butafter 1712 a charge was made for each room, varying from four shillingssterling to ten shillings for the session, according to the situation.^ Thestudents appear to have furnished their own rooms. Dr. Carlyle ofInveresk, who studied at the university in 1743, says: I had my lodging this session in a college room which I had furnished for the session at a moderate rent. John Donaldson, a college servant, lighted my fire and made my bed; and a maid from the landlady who furnished the room came once a fortnight with clean linens.* The accompanying view of the inner court of the college is interest-ing from its having been taken on the occasion of the rejoicings which 1 ProJessor Innes. ^ Munimenta, vol. iii. p. 379. ^ Ibid. vol. iii. p. 513. * Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Edin. i860, p. \ CoUcs;e Gardens. 127 took place in Glasgow in 1761 on the coronation of George III. Thesmoke behind the steeple proceeds from a bonfire kindled in the HighStreet before the college gate. On this occasion the court was decoratedwith pictures supplied by the Foulises, who had at that time their studiowithin the college buildings. The illustration is copied from an engrav-ing executed in their academy, and published at the time. It is fartherinteresting as showing the costume of the citizens of Glasgow in the
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