Transfer of Rectorship to Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1665

On 10 November 1665, the Town Council of Edinburgh ruled 'that the Lord Provost, present and to come', should always hold the post of Rector of Edinburgh University.

be always Rector and Governor of the College."

agreed that the Lord Provost, present and to come, should be always Rector and Governor of the College.

It was also agreed that Mr. William Colvill, Primar, should be sent for to the Council, and gently reproved for having given greater importance to the Commis- sioners from the College of Justice, at the choice of a Professor of Humanity, than to the Commissioners from the Town-Council.