https://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Opening_of_Edinburgh_University,_1583&feed=atom&action=historyOpening of Edinburgh University, 1583 - Revision history2024-03-29T11:44:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Opening_of_Edinburgh_University,_1583&diff=7247&oldid=prevPbarnaby: /* The Regenting System */2016-08-31T09:41:05Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">The Regenting System</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under the regenting system, which prevailed in Scottish universities from the Middle Ages to the early 18th century, a teacher took the same class through all four years of their degree course, teaching all subjects himself. Thus when the 1583 intake finished their first year (or ‘Bajan’<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*</del>) class, they remained with Rollock for their second year (in which they were called ‘Semies’ or ‘Semi-Bajans’). The new Bajan class was taught by Duncan Nairn, who had previously tutored them in Latin during their preparatory year. In May 1585, plague broke out in Edinburgh, and the College was disbanded until February 1586. When lessons resumed, Rollock’s class entered directly into a truncated third year, where they were known as ‘Determinands’. Duncan Nairn had died in February 1586, and [[Charles Lumsden]] took over the second year class. There was no fresh intake of Bajans until October 1586, when [[Alexander Scrimger]] was appointed as a new regent. Rollock’s class now entered their final year, where they were known as ‘Magistrands’. At this point, the university’s staff consisted of three regents: Rollock, Scrimger, and [[Adam Colt]] who took over the teaching of Lumsden's class. (There was no Semi-Bajan class, as there had been no Bajan intake during the truncated academic year 1585-86.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under the regenting system, which prevailed in Scottish universities from the Middle Ages to the early 18th century, a teacher took the same class through all four years of their degree course, teaching all subjects himself. Thus when the 1583 intake finished their first year (or ‘Bajan’) class, they remained with Rollock for their second year (in which they were called ‘Semies’ or ‘Semi-Bajans’). The new Bajan <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(from French 'béjaune' = 'fledgling') </ins>class was taught by Duncan Nairn, who had previously tutored them in Latin during their preparatory year. In May 1585, plague broke out in Edinburgh, and the College was disbanded until February 1586. When lessons resumed, Rollock’s class entered directly into a truncated third year, where they were known as ‘Determinands’. Duncan Nairn had died in February 1586, and [[Charles Lumsden]] took over the second year class. There was no fresh intake of Bajans until October 1586, when [[Alexander Scrimger]] was appointed as a new regent. Rollock’s class now entered their final year, where they were known as ‘Magistrands’. At this point, the university’s staff consisted of three regents: Rollock, Scrimger, and [[Adam Colt]] who took over the teaching of Lumsden's class. (There was no Semi-Bajan class, as there had been no Bajan intake during the truncated academic year 1585-86.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The regenting system functioned until 1708, when it was abolished as part of the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]] as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University. In an effort to remodel Edinburgh University along European lines, Carstares persuaded the [[Town Council]] (16 June 1708) to abandon regenting in favour of a professorial system that assigned each of the subjects on the Master of Arts curriculum to a single teacher. The newly created chairs were offered to the existing regents.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The regenting system functioned until 1708, when it was abolished as part of the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]] as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University. In an effort to remodel Edinburgh University along European lines, Carstares persuaded the [[Town Council]] (16 June 1708) to abandon regenting in favour of a professorial system that assigned each of the subjects on the Master of Arts curriculum to a single teacher. The newly created chairs were offered to the existing regents.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The regenting system functioned until 1708, when it was abolished as part of the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]] as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University. In an effort to remodel Edinburgh University along European lines, Carstares persuaded the [[Town Council]] (16 June 1708) to abandon regenting in favour of a professorial system that assigned each of the subjects on the Master of Arts curriculum to a single teacher. The newly created chairs were offered to the existing regents.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The regenting system functioned until 1708, when it was abolished as part of the programme of reforms introduced by [[William Carstares (1649-1715)]] as [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University. In an effort to remodel Edinburgh University along European lines, Carstares persuaded the [[Town Council]] (16 June 1708) to abandon regenting in favour of a professorial system that assigned each of the subjects on the Master of Arts curriculum to a single teacher. The newly created chairs were offered to the existing regents.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under the regenting system, which prevailed in Scottish universities from the Middle Ages to the early 18th century, a teacher took the same class through all four years of their degree course, teaching all subjects himself. Thus when the 1583 intake finished their first year (or ‘Bajan’) class, they remained with Rollock for their second year (in which they were called ‘Semies’ or ‘Semi-Bajans’). The new Bajan class was taught by Duncan Nairn, who had previously tutored them in Latin during their preparatory year. In May 1585, plague broke out in Edinburgh, and the College was disbanded until February 1586. When lessons resumed, Rollock’s class entered directly into a truncated third year, where they were known as ‘Determinands’. Duncan Nairn had died in February 1586, and [[Charles Lumsden]] took over the second year class. There was no fresh intake of Bajans until October 1586, when [[Alexander Scrimger]] was appointed as a new regent. Rollock’s class now entered their final year, where they were known as ‘Magistrands’. At this point, the university’s staff consisted of three regents: Rollock, Scrimger, and [[Adam Colt]] who took over the teaching of Lumsden's class. (There was no Semi-Bajan class, as there had been no Bajan intake during the truncated academic year 1585-86.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under the regenting system, which prevailed in Scottish universities from the Middle Ages to the early 18th century, a teacher took the same class through all four years of their degree course, teaching all subjects himself. Thus when the 1583 intake finished their first year (or ‘Bajan’) class, they remained with Rollock for their second year (in which they were called ‘Semies’ or ‘Semi-Bajans’). The new Bajan class was taught by Duncan Nairn, who had previously tutored them in Latin during their preparatory year. In May 1585, plague broke out in Edinburgh, and the College was disbanded until February 1586. When lessons resumed, Rollock’s class entered directly into a truncated third year, where they were known as ‘Determinands’. Duncan Nairn had died in February 1586, and [[Charles Lumsden]] took over the second year class. There was no fresh intake of Bajans until October 1586, when [[Alexander Scrimger]] was appointed as a new regent. Rollock’s class now entered their final year, where they were known as ‘Magistrands’. At this point, the university’s staff consisted of three regents: Rollock, Scrimger, and [[Adam Colt]] who took over the teaching of Lumsden's class. (There was no Semi-Bajan class, as there had been no Bajan intake during the truncated academic year 1585-86.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following Bishop [[Robert Reid]]’s bequest of funds to found a college of higher learning in Edinburgh in his [[Will of Bishop Robert Reid, 1557 | will of 1558]], the Town Council of Edinburgh was determined to establish a university in the capital. Edinburgh was now firmly the centre of administrative, religious, and legal power in Scotland, and there were growing calls for an institution to train future ministers, lawyers, and state functionaries. In the wake of the Scottish Reformation of 1560, the Town Council hoped that monastic sites and revenues in Edinburgh might revert to them and be employed for educational purposes. In August 1562, they thus petitioned [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to grant them the site of the former Collegiate Church of Mary in the Fields (or Kirk o’ Field) ‘to build a school’. Mary’s response was a vague promise to supply a suitable site for a college in future, and the Council was forced into ultimately fruitless negotiations with William Penicuik, Provost of Kirk o’ Field, who was disposed to sell the site. In a charter of 13 March 1567, Mary eventually granted all monastic property in Edinburgh to the Town Council, but stipulated that it would be for the support of Protestant ministers and the poor, and that all present incumbents would enjoy a life-rent of the benefices. Little progress was made over the years of civil conflict which followed Mary’s abdication in 1568, and in the face of opposition from the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews who opposed the establishment of an institution which might compete with the universities already established in their dioceses. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following Bishop [[Robert Reid]]’s bequest of funds to found a college of higher learning in Edinburgh in his [[Will of Bishop Robert Reid, 1557 | will of 1558]], the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Town Council<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of Edinburgh was determined to establish a university in the capital. Edinburgh was now firmly the centre of administrative, religious, and legal power in Scotland, and there were growing calls for an institution to train future ministers, lawyers, and state functionaries. In the wake of the Scottish Reformation of 1560, the Town Council hoped that monastic sites and revenues in Edinburgh might revert to them and be employed for educational purposes. In August 1562, they thus petitioned [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to grant them the site of the former Collegiate Church of Mary in the Fields (or Kirk o’ Field) ‘to build a school’. Mary’s response was a vague promise to supply a suitable site for a college in future, and the Council was forced into ultimately fruitless negotiations with William Penicuik, Provost of Kirk o’ Field, who was disposed to sell the site. In a charter of 13 March 1567, Mary eventually granted all monastic property in Edinburgh to the Town Council, but stipulated that it would be for the support of Protestant ministers and the poor, and that all present incumbents would enjoy a life-rent of the benefices. Little progress was made over the years of civil conflict which followed Mary’s abdication in 1568, and in the face of opposition from the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews who opposed the establishment of an institution which might compete with the universities already established in their dioceses. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:0055378d.jpg | border | 250 px | right | thumb | [[Charter by King James VI, 14 April 1582 | Charter of Novodamus]] under the Great Seal (the seal itself is not present), on permanent loan from Edinburgh City Council (Edinburgh City Archives, 'Historical Charter Number 65'). EUA GD4]]Plans to establish a university were eventually revived in the late 1570s, thanks to the efforts of [[James Lawson (1538–1584)]], Knox’s successor as first Minister of Edinburgh, and allies such as advocate [[Clement Litill]] (founder of [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]]), and his brother William Litill, future Provost of Edinburgh. The Town Council set up a committee in 1579 to investigate the possibility of siting a school in or near the old Trinity Collegiate Kirk, and when this plan was thwarted, reverted to the original plan of siting the college at Kirk o’ Field. In November 1579, Robert Balfour, Penicuik’s successor as Provost of Kirk o’ Field, was forfeited by Parliament as an accessory to the murder of Darnley. The Council hoped that Kirk o’ Field would immediately be granted to them, but [[James VI and I | James VI]] gave the provostry as a gift to his valet John Gib. Gib, however, proved willing to sell, and the Town was finally able to purchase Kirk o’ Field in 1581. The temporary abolition of the episcopacy between 1580 and 1584, aided the Council’s scheme, by neutralizing the opposition of the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St Andrews. In April 1582, James VI, petitioned by the Town Council, issued two charters. The first (11 April 1582) empowered the Town Council to recover the money bequeathed by Reid for establishing a college, which remained unpaid by his heirs. The [[Charter by King James VI, 14 April 1582 | second]] (14 April), extended Mary’s charter of 1567 to permit the town to use monastic properties for educational purposes, empowered the Council to appoint and remove professors and to build houses for their accommodation, and ratified the sale of Kirk o’ Field to the Town.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:0055378d.jpg | border | 250 px | right | thumb | [[Charter by King James VI, 14 April 1582 | Charter of Novodamus]] under the Great Seal (the seal itself is not present), on permanent loan from Edinburgh City Council (Edinburgh City Archives, 'Historical Charter Number 65'). EUA GD4]]Plans to establish a university were eventually revived in the late 1570s, thanks to the efforts of [[James Lawson (1538–1584)]], Knox’s successor as first Minister of Edinburgh, and allies such as advocate [[Clement Litill]] (founder of [[Library|Edinburgh University Library]]), and his brother William Litill, future Provost of Edinburgh. The Town Council set up a committee in 1579 to investigate the possibility of siting a school in or near the old Trinity Collegiate Kirk, and when this plan was thwarted, reverted to the original plan of siting the college at Kirk o’ Field. In November 1579, Robert Balfour, Penicuik’s successor as Provost of Kirk o’ Field, was forfeited by Parliament as an accessory to the murder of Darnley. The Council hoped that Kirk o’ Field would immediately be granted to them, but [[James VI and I | James VI]] gave the provostry as a gift to his valet John Gib. Gib, however, proved willing to sell, and the Town was finally able to purchase Kirk o’ Field in 1581. The temporary abolition of the episcopacy between 1580 and 1584, aided the Council’s scheme, by neutralizing the opposition of the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St Andrews. In April 1582, James VI, petitioned by the Town Council, issued two charters. The first (11 April 1582) empowered the Town Council to recover the money bequeathed by Reid for establishing a college, which remained unpaid by his heirs. The [[Charter by King James VI, 14 April 1582 | second]] (14 April), extended Mary’s charter of 1567 to permit the town to use monastic properties for educational purposes, empowered the Council to appoint and remove professors and to build houses for their accommodation, and ratified the sale of Kirk o’ Field to the Town.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pbarnabyhttps://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php?title=Opening_of_Edinburgh_University,_1583&diff=5697&oldid=prevPbarnaby: /* The Foundation of Edinburgh University */2014-11-18T10:35:19Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">The Foundation of Edinburgh University</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following Bishop [[Robert Reid]]’s bequest of funds to found a college of higher learning in Edinburgh in his [[Will of Bishop Robert Reid, 1557 | will of 1558]], the Town Council of Edinburgh was determined to establish a university in the capital. Edinburgh was now firmly the centre of administrative, religious, and legal power in Scotland, and there were growing calls for an institution to train future ministers, lawyers, and state functionaries. In the wake of the Scottish Reformation of 1560, the Town Council hoped that monastic sites and revenues in Edinburgh might revert to them and be employed for educational purposes. In August 1562, they thus petitioned [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to grant them the site of the former Collegiate Church of Mary in the Fields (or Kirk o’ Field) ‘to build a school’. Mary’s response was a vague promise to supply a suitable site for a college in future, and the Council was forced into ultimately fruitless negotiations with William Penicuik, Provost of Kirk o’ Field, who was disposed to sell the site. In a charter of 13 March 1567, Mary eventually granted all monastic property in Edinburgh to the Town Council, but stipulated that it would be for the support of Protestant ministers and the poor, and that all present incumbents would enjoy a life-rent of the benefices. Little progress was made over the years of civil conflict which followed Mary’s abdication in 1568, and in the face of opposition from the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews who opposed the establishment of an institution which might compete with the universities already established in their dioceses. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following Bishop [[Robert Reid]]’s bequest of funds to found a college of higher learning in Edinburgh in his [[Will of Bishop Robert Reid, 1557 | will of 1558]], the Town Council of Edinburgh was determined to establish a university in the capital. Edinburgh was now firmly the centre of administrative, religious, and legal power in Scotland, and there were growing calls for an institution to train future ministers, lawyers, and state functionaries. In the wake of the Scottish Reformation of 1560, the Town Council hoped that monastic sites and revenues in Edinburgh might revert to them and be employed for educational purposes. In August 1562, they thus petitioned [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to grant them the site of the former Collegiate Church of Mary in the Fields (or Kirk o’ Field) ‘to build a school’. Mary’s response was a vague promise to supply a suitable site for a college in future, and the Council was forced into ultimately fruitless negotiations with William Penicuik, Provost of Kirk o’ Field, who was disposed to sell the site. In a charter of 13 March 1567, Mary eventually granted all monastic property in Edinburgh to the Town Council, but stipulated that it would be for the support of Protestant ministers and the poor, and that all present incumbents would enjoy a life-rent of the benefices. Little progress was made over the years of civil conflict which followed Mary’s abdication in 1568, and in the face of opposition from the Bishops of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews who opposed the establishment of an institution which might compete with the universities already established in their dioceses. </div></td></tr>
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