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JAMES, UISHOI' OF DUNBLANE. 29<br />

<strong>the</strong>se letters, wliicli iirc pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> full belmv (iiust Ap[.. ii. pp. 35-41), we get some Part i<br />

iufonnatiou jis to <strong>the</strong> eli.iractoi- ami movenioiits <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> writer from IG 13-26. It docs not^''^P '•<br />

appear when lie took orders, hut <strong>in</strong> 1(51.5 he was m<strong>in</strong>ister at llarstone {Ely Episc. Ret.y<br />

aud was liv<strong>in</strong>g' at Camhndi,'e, whence, 1.") Maruii ICI.'), lie dates one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> above-named<br />

letters. He did not, however, rema<strong>in</strong> tiiero lonj;, Imt returned north <strong>in</strong> IGIG and was <strong>in</strong><br />

1617 pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Uiv<strong>in</strong>itv <strong>in</strong> tlie new Colletre at S. Andrew's. When on July 11 <strong>in</strong> tliat<br />

year <strong>the</strong> Kiiif; visited tiic University. Mr. .himes \Vcdderbi<strong>in</strong>i, one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essors,<br />

presented a poem to his Majesty,- and <strong>in</strong> Nov. <strong>of</strong> tlie same year he is designed " pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />

<strong>of</strong> div<strong>in</strong>ity <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> now colleirc " on an oc<strong>ca</strong>sion when he acts as a witness (D.B.R. 401).<br />

He was still at S. Andrew's 23 Nov. KiJO, and <strong>in</strong> a grant by <strong>the</strong> Marischall college to<br />

Lord Carnegy is <strong>ca</strong>lled " batclielor <strong>of</strong> tiieoloiry " ami " one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> masters <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> college "<br />

(F.S. 2). In <strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g year, 2 April, 27 July 1G21, he is a witness and is termed "one<br />

Tabular Pediijree <strong>of</strong> thf dccount given <strong>in</strong> this Sectio7i.<br />

James \Veil(lcrliurii,=f

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