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Title: Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Gordon, J. F. S. (James Frederick Skinner), 1821-1904
Subjects: Scotland -- Church history
Publisher: Glasgow, John Tweed
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sentDean William Nome a second time to Avignon, to get the Popes consent tohis Election; but Benedict XIII. did not Confirrn the Postulation. XXXIX. Henry Wardlaw. A.D. 1404-40. Henry Wardlaw, a son of the Family of Tony, in Fifeshire,Hector of Kilbride, and, by virtue thereof, Precentor of the Seeof Glasgowr (to which Office lie had been provided by his uncle,Cardinal Wardlaw, Bishop of that See), being at Avignon at this HENRY WAKDLAW. 207 time, was preferred to the See of St. Andrews by Pope BenedictXIII., and Consecrated there in 1404. (Sibbald.) He first laidthe Foundation for a University in the City of St. Andrews.In 1411, says Boethius, began the University of St. Andrews,and attracted to it the most learned men as its Professors, viz.,Lawrence of Lindores, Abbot of Scone and Professor of Laws;Kichard Cornwall, Doctor of Degrees and Archdeacon of Lothian;William Stephen, afterwards Bishop of Dunblane ; John Litster,Canon of St. Andrews; John Schives, Official, and John Shever,
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(Seal of the University of St. Andrews. The Shields are those of the Contem-poraries—Peter de Luna (the Antipope Benedict XIII., afterwards deposed), supportedby two Nudes of the two genders, and bearing per fess, in the upper part, a Crescentreversed; the dexter Shield (King James I.) charged with the Scotch Lion; the sin-ister, on a fess, between three mascles, three crosslets—the Wardlaw Arms. Canopiedis a Professor, grim and sage, in Ms Chair, with digit of demonstration. In lowlyposture is the Acolyte, or luminator, for snuffing the candle, during tuition of thelarge class of seven promising mothers sons, all under the patronage of S. Andrew.) Archdeacon of the same; in all, thirteen Doctors of Theologyand eight Doctors of Degrees, besides others. Nor was therewanting a corresponding auditory; for all who thirsted for litera-ture resorted to the University from every quarter, especially after 208 BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDEEWS. the return of King James from England, who en

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