A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . rious offences are referredto the sheriffs court. For parliamentary purposes theburgh is associated with Aberdeen, and the right ofelection, under the Reform act, is vested in the resident£10 householders of the place. The number of mem-bers of all the several guilds does not in the aggregateexceed 120, and of t
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . rious offences are referredto the sheriffs court. For parliamentary purposes theburgh is associated with Aberdeen, and the right ofelection, under the Reform act, is vested in the resident£10 householders of the place. The number of mem-bers of all the several guilds does not in the aggregateexceed 120, and of these not more than fifteen exerciseany trade. The town-hall, which is situated at thenorthern extremity of the principal street, was built bysubscription, in 1702, and has been since rebuilt. Itcontains a spacious hall for public meetings, a couucil-room for the occasional use of the magistrates, andvarious other apartments; in the upper floor is thegrammar school, and on the ground floor a school forEnglish. Opposite to the town-hall was formerly anancient cross, consisting of a pedestal bearing the armsof the Bishops Dunbar, Stewart, and Gordon, from whichrose a pillar surmounted by an effigy of the Virgin Mary;but this was removed on the rebuilding of the hall. A B ER ABE R. Seal of the University. Since the dissolution ofthe see^ the town has owedits chief prosperity and sup-port to its university, whichwas founded by BishopElphinstone, in the reign ofJames IV., who for that pur-pose procured a bull fromPope Alexander VI. Thecollege was first dedicated toSt. Mary ; but from the greatliberality of the monarch inits endowment, it was subse-quently called Kings College, a designation it hasever since retained. The first principal of the collegewas Hector Boethius, the celebrated historian, underwhom and his successors it continued to flourish till theReformation, when many of its functionaries were ex-pelled. In 1578, the institution received a charter fromthe parliament, aft
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