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merly prohibited, as ufelefs and unprofitable to the Public, aj
at all weapon fchawings, or reviews of the people, it was ordered' t i l
fute-bal and golf e be utterly cryed down, and that bow-mar-kes be miM
ilk parijh kirk, a pair of buttes and fchutting be ufed. And that ilk m
fchutte fex Jlholles at leajh, under the paine to be raiped upon them lit
cummis not, at leafi twa pennyes to be given to them that cummis to ;$j
bow-markes ta drinke *.
The town of St. Andrew’s was ereited into a royal borough, by
David I. in the year 1 140, and their privileges were a fte rw a rd s c o l
firmed. The charter of Malcolm II. kpreferved in the T a J
and appears written on a bit of parchment; but th e conteJ
equally valid with what at this time would require whole fkins. Ilij
this place is to be feen the monftrous ax, that, in 1646, to o k off J
heads of Sir Robert Spotfwood, and other diftinguilhed- lo y a lilb , f j
the wretched preachers had declared-' that G o d required th eir b lo o j
Here are kept the filver keys of the city, which, for fo rm fake, a |
delivered to the king, fhould he vifit the place, or to a vidorioJ
enemy, in token of fubmiffion. It underwent a fiege in 1337,11!
which time it was pofleiled by the Englijh, and other partizans of]
Baliol-, but the loyalifts, under the earls of March and Fife,
themfelves mailers of it in three weeks, by the help of th e ir battering
machines. It furrendered on terms of fecurity to the inhabitants |
to life, limbs and fortune.
The city is greatly reduced in the number of inhabitants; -at prA
lent it fcarcely exceeds two thoufand. There is no certainty of th |
film, when it was the feat of the primate; and in the fulneis of i f l
r S-ktnt’i SattiJb A£ts o f Pari. James II. c. 6 j .
elotfl
(lory, All we know is, that during the period o f its fplendor,
were between fixty and feventy bakers •, but at this time nine
are fufficient for the place. The circuit of this city is a
lr ten \
liile, and contains three principal ilreets. The trade of St. An-
L d’s was alfo once very confiderable. I am informed, that,
Lring the time of Cromwel’s ufurpation,-fixty or feventy vefiels
Longed to the port; at prefent only one of any fize. The har-
lour is artificial, guarded by piers, with a narrow entrance to
five Ihelter to vefiels from the violence of a moft heavy Tea.’
fhe manufactures, this city might in former times pofiefs, are
Sow reduced to one, that of golf-balls ; which, trifling as it may
, maintains feveral people. The trade is commonly fatal to
artifls, for the balls are made by fluffing a great quantity
if feathers into a leathern cafe, by help of an iron rod, with a
»den handle, prefled againft the breaft, which feldom fails to
ing on a confumption.
The 'celebrated univerfity of this city.was founded in 1411,
by bifliop Wardlew, and the next year he obtained from Benedili
III, the bull of confirmation.- It confifted once of three colleges:
ft, Salvator’s, founded in 1458, by biihop Kennedy. This is a
hiding,, with a. court or quadrangle within ; on-one
de is the church, on another the library; the third contains,
jpartments for Undents : the fourth is unfiniffied.
St, Leonard’s college was founded by prior Hepburn, in 1512.
“is is now united with the laft, and the buildings fold, and con-
into private houfes.
I The new, or St. Mary’s college, was eftabliihed by archbiihop- I553 » km the houfe was built by James,, and David
Bethune>
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