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Title: Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin
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, and had over it the r.andsome stone panel,which is still preserved in the last new school, andwhich bears the city arms, the royal cypher, andthe motto. MVSIS . RES IUBLICA . FLORET . I57S. At tiiat time, says Arnot, there appears to havebeen only two teachers belonging to this school,with a small salary, the extent of which cannot be hence, says Dr. Steven, they may be viewed asportions of one great institution. The encouragement recei\ed by the masters wasso small that they threatened to leave the school ifit were not bettered, on which they were orderedto receive a quarterly fee from the sons of the free-men ; the masters of three, and the usher of twoshillings Scots (nearly 6s. and nearly 4s. sterling)from each; and soon after four teachers wereapjiointed with fixed salaries and fees, whichwere augmented from time to time as the value ofmoney changed, and the cost of living increased(Arnot). In 1584, a man of superior attainments andconsiderable genius, named Hercules Rollock, a
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sa THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM 1, exterior; 2, THE GREAT HALL; 3, THE NATURAL HISTORY ROOM. The Old High. School.) SCHOOL BRAWLS. 289 native of Dundee, after undergoing a full course of ; Scots quarterly for each pu()il writter. Li 1595 study at St. Andrews, became head-master, andamong his pupils the name of one alone has comedown to us, William Drummond of Hawthornden,the historian of the Jameses, the poet and Cava-lier. In those days, says Steven, frequenttumults took place, which seldom or never charac-terise modern times. The rude behaviour of theboys towards their teachers, particularly manifestedin what has been termed a barring-out, was frequentlypractised both in England and in Scotland in thesi.xteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 15S0 the scholars were so turbulent that nineof them were put in thecommon prison; and duringRoUocks term of office theboys rose in absolute re-bellion, and arming them-selves with those deadlyweapons which thenabounded in every Scottishhousehold, they

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