Wee under-subscribers masters and professors in the Colledge of New-Aberdeen, are constrained by pressing necessity to give this candid declaration of the low condition of this famous seminary wherein we bear charge 1660 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-04 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A37337 Wing D564 ESTC R41084 19618086 ocm 19618086 109200

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WEE Vnder-Subſcribers Maſters and Profeſſors in the Colledge of New-Aberdeen, are conſtrained by preſſing Neceſſity to give this Candid Declaration of the low Condition of this Famous Seminary wherein we bear charge. It hath pleaſed the Lord ſo to bleſse this Houſe both in our time and in the time of our Predeceſſors, that as eminent men, yea and renowned at home and abroad for Godlines and Learning, and that in all Sciences and Profeſſions have ſprung out hence as this Nation hath afforded. But we can hardly look upon our ſcurvy and ruinous Edifices without weeping, we having neither Houſes fitted for our publick Actions and Commencements, nor for Aeconomy, neither for the Accommodations of Students. And the poor Cottages we have are quite ruinous and that by many ſad accidents, as by Fire, which conſumed a quarter of the whole building, the riſe whereof is not known to this day, ſo that all ſtrangers, whom the ſame of this Houſe drawes hither to viſit us, condole and compaſſionate our Condition; That a Seminary ſo eminently bleſſed of God, ſhould have ſo bad Accomodation, and theſe which we have threatning preſent ruin. Wee can hradly expreſs how irkſome it is to us, to publiſh our Indigencies abroad, but we might juſtly be judged acceſsory to the ruin of this Houſe, if we ſhould not repreſent the low Eſtate thereof, before the lovers of Godlineſs and Learning, whoſe bowells we doubt not, will be moved with compaſſion towards ſo Famous and fertile, but now a periſhing Nurſery of both. Wherefore we have Commiſſionated the Reverend Bearer, Mr. Alexander White, one of our number to goe through the moſt eminent places of this Iland, and to give a more full account of the languiſhing Condition or our Famous Colledge, then in ſuch a line can be expected from us. And if the Lord ſhall encline the hearts of thoſe, who tender the flouriſhing of Holineſs and Learning, to contribute for the building of an Edifice amongſt us, for the accommodation of our Students, though our Colledge hath no publick Revenewes, beſides the petty Salaries of the Maſters, yet all who have Charges, reſolve to abridge themſelves in their own Emoluments, to promote the work. We are not in any capacity to promiſe retribution to thoſe who ſhall hearken to this our requeſt, but good works of this Nature, when ſincerely performed, have a reward in their boſome: Yet if any oppertunity ſhall offer, to doe any office to Them or Theirs; we ſhall not be forgetfull of their beneficence, and in the meane while they ſhall be had in gratefull remembrance amongſt the Publick Benefactors of our Colledge.

Mr. Will. Moir Principall. Mr. John Menȝeis. Profeſsor of Divinity. Dr. Will. Moir Profeſsor of Medicine. Mr. Rob. Forbes Profeſsor of Philoſophy. Mr. Joh. Forbes P. P. Mr. Will. Meldrum P. P. Mr. G. White Profeſsor of Humanity.

WEE being neceſſitated to call home our Commiſſioner Mr. Alexander White to attend his charge amongſt us before he could fully accompliſh the buſineſs for which he was commiſſionated, have therefore thought fit to appoint, and doe by theſe preſents impower and intruſt our Worthy and well beloved friend Laurence Mercer Marchant, now reſideing at London to proſecute our above-written Commiſſion and Supplication: and doe devolvefull Power and Right on him to Act in all things that may conduce for the advantage of the buſineſs. And in particular that he may receive what Charitable Contributions of moneyes the Lord ſhall be pleaſed to enlarge the hearts of any to bes;tow in a matter of ſuch publick concernment. This we have given under our Hand and Seal.

Given at our Colledge Mariſchall in New Aberdeen, the 7th, of Febr, 1660. Mr. Will. Moir. Principall. Mr. John Menȝeis, Profeſsor of Divinity. Dr. Will. Moir, Profeſsor of Medicine. Mr. Rob. Forbes Profeſsor of Philoſophy. Mr. John Forbes, P. P. Mr. Will. Meldrum, P. P. Mr. G. White, Profeſsor of Humanity.
At a Meeting of the Deligates of the Vniverſity of Oxon, May 23.1660.

WHereas the Colledge of the Vniverſity of New Aberdeen in Scotland, having ſuffered great damage by Fire, and the Building which remaines is ſo Ruinous, that there is no conveniency and accommodation for Students, nor for the performing of their Acts and Commencements. A certificate whereof under the Seal of the ſaid Colledge ſubſcribed by the Profeſsors and other Members thereof hath been brought to this Vniverſity, deſiring a Charitable Contribution to be made toward the rebuilding of the ſaid Colledge: The Delegates of the Vniverſity of Oxon, ſeriouſly weighing the Premiſses, did think fit in an eſpeciall manner to recommend the deſires of that Vniverſity, to the ſeverall Colledges and Halls in this Vniverſity, deſiring the Heads in their reſpective Houſes effectually to promote ſo good and charitable a worke.

Ben. Cooper, Regiſtrarius Vniverſitotis Oxon.