. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. theage. I Much scandal has been thought to attach to the state of education inScotland by a clause in an old act of parliament classing among illegal andsturdy mendicants all vagabond scholars of the Universities of St. Andrews,Glasgow and Aberdeen, not licensed by the rector and dean of faculty ofthe university. But the same characteristics pervaded the other universitiesof the day, and were not foreign even to the magnificent institutions ofEngland. An article in the regulations, prohibitory of public indecorums andof armed encounter
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. theage. I Much scandal has been thought to attach to the state of education inScotland by a clause in an old act of parliament classing among illegal andsturdy mendicants all vagabond scholars of the Universities of St. Andrews,Glasgow and Aberdeen, not licensed by the rector and dean of faculty ofthe university. But the same characteristics pervaded the other universitiesof the day, and were not foreign even to the magnificent institutions ofEngland. An article in the regulations, prohibitory of public indecorums andof armed encounters, is at the same time, as curiously descriptive of the * Report of Commissioners on the Scottish Universities, p. 305. t This distinction has now disappeared since the union of the two colleges in the University of Aberdeen, effectedin i860. Arts and divinity classes are now held in Kings College, and those for law and medicine in MarischalCollege. J It was modelled upon the University of Paris, and had the four nations of Mar, Buchan, Moray and Angus,. KiN(;s C();e, TIIK LUiKAin. ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND IJ manners of all such institutions as of this particular one.* A Scotsman ofthe early part of the seventeenth century, named David Camerarius orChambers, has left a very magnificent account of the wealth of the establish-ment and its fine discipline ; but it is evident that he was actuated more bythe desire of national glory than a strict regard to truth, for he tells us thatthere are six colleges, of which Kings—which he not inaccurately describes—is but one, and he evidently fills up the list by enumerating the severalclasses or departments of instruction there pursued, which give him thePhysicians College, the College of Jurisprudence, &c. His appreciation ofwhat must have been his native seat of learning is very different from thatof his foreign contemporary, Freher, who, in his Thealrum Claronim Virorum^introduces Aberdeen as a place celebrated for
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