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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>To his Grace, Their <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of <HI>Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The PETITION of</HI> The Principalls and Regents of the &V;niver&s;ity of S. <HI>An|drews,</HI> in behalf of the &s;aid &V;niver&s;ity and Colledges thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat where it is notourly known, that the fore&s;aid Univer&s;ity, is the fir&s;t and mo&s;t ancient Univer&s;ity within the Kingdom, and was from the be|ginning endwed with the greate&s;t Rents and Priviledges, and hath ever &s;ince been &s;o re&s;pected and cared for; &s;o that King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t, after the &s;up|pre&s;&s;ion of Bi&s;hops in the year 1637. did give to the &s;aid &V;niver&s;ity, a Charter of Mortification of the whole Priory and Bi&s;hoprick of St. <HI>Andrews,</HI> with a few Re&s;erves; which yet would have amounted to at lea&s;t, One thou&s;and Pounds <HI>Sterling</HI> yearly, for the u&s;e thereof; as the Charter dated in the year 1641, (ready to be produced) te&s;tifies: Which Donative, though ratified in Parliament the third of <HI>November</HI> the &s;aid year, and many years po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, was not only taken a|way by the re&s;toring of Bi&s;hops in the year 1662. But by the &s;aid Re&s;titution, the &V;niver&s;ity was further lae&s;ed without Remedy, in as much as, &s;everal Kirks which belonged before to its Patrimony, were upon the account of the &s;aid Do|native taken from the Univer&s;ity, and Augmentations granted to their Incum|bents: And yet when the Donative was taken away, the lo&s;s of the Kirks was not repaired. And for any other Provi&s;ion that was made afterwards, either by the gift of vacant Stipends of five con&s;iderable Bi&s;hopricks, (whereof to this day, nothing hath been received) or by the King's Bounty and Benevolence out of his own Exchequer, of 200 <HI>lib. Sterling</HI> yearly, (whereof very little hath been received to this day, and the pre&s;ent Incumbents have gotten nothing thereof as yet;) and though what is yet gotten of the half months Ce&s;s, hath made &s;ome little Stock, yet no ways &s;uitable to the nece&s;&s;ity of that Univer&s;ity; whereby it is but too well known, that this famous Univer&s;ity, once the mo&s;t frequent &amp; mo&s;t convenient for Study, and be&s;t provided of all the &V;niver&s;ities, both for variety of Profe&s;&s;ions, the number of Profe&s;&s;ors, and a competent allowance for tho&s;e, is at this day the wor&s;t provided of all the Univer&s;ities: And what for want of publick Profe&s;&s;ors, and what for want of due Encouragment to tho&s;e that are, it is like to become de&s;olate. And albeit it hath plea&s;ed His Maje&s;ty of late, to give the four Univer&s;ities of the Kingdom, the &s;um of 1200 pounds <HI>Sterling</HI> among&s;t them, out of the Bi&s;hops Rents, by a Signatour under his Hand, yet the &s;ame is to Forraign Profe&s;&s;ors, and hath taken no effect, and is likely to take no effect
<PB N="2" REF="2">until the Signatour be further explained and perfected. And &s;eing, that for the vi&s;ible Good, both of Church and State, the&s;e things de&s;erve a Parliamentary Con&s;ideration,</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace, and the right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament to recommend our deplorable condition effectually to his Maje&s;ties Bounty, in re&s;toring us to the Bi&s;hoprick and Priory of St. <HI>Andrews,</HI> in as full and ample a way as it was granted by his Ma|je&s;tie, in the year 1641, and confirmed by the E&s;tates of Parliament <HI>November</HI> thereafter, that this antient and renowned Univer&s;ity may be re&s;tored to its former Integrity, and provided with Profe&s;&s;ors, and other founded per&s;ons according to the foundation, and may no long|er continue in &s;uch a Nece&s;&s;itous Condition, and the Profe&s;&s;ors expo&s;|ed to &s;uch Straits, for want of Provi&s;ion. And may it al&s;o plea&s;e your Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, that the late Gift of 1200 <HI>lib. Sterling,</HI> may be explained, and applyed to the pre&s;ent Exigence of the Univer&s;ities.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And your Grace and Lord&s;hips Petitioners &s;hall everpray, &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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