trictly adhered to (Report of the Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the state of the Universities of
Scotland, appointed in 1830, p. 220). Binning was not nineteen years
of age at the date of his laureation. His distinguished
contemporary, Mr. George Gillespie, took his degree in his
seventeenth year.--_Ed._]

92 [General Monk, who, for the part he took in the restoration of
Charles the Second, was made Duke of Albemarle, encouraged most
during the time he was in Scotland the _Resolutioners_, while
Cromwell, on the other hand, befriended the _Protesters_ (Life of
General Monk, by Dr. Gumble, one of his chaplains, who was with Monk
in Scotland, p. 51, London, 1671). Monk professed to be a
Presbyterian ("The Mystery and Method of His Majesty's Happy
Restoration," by John Price, D.D., one of the late Duke of
Albemarle's chaplains. Baron Masseres, Tracts, pp. 723, 775). "In
Scotland Mr. Robert Douglas [one of the ministers of Edinburgh] was
the first so far as I can find, who ventured to propose the king's
restoration to General Monk, and that very early. He travelled, it
is said, _incognito_ in England, and in Scotland engaged
considerable numbers of noblemen and gentlemen in this project. From
his own original papers, I find that when Monk returned from his
first projected march into England, Mr. Douglas met him and engaged
him again in the attempt"--Wodrow's Hist. of the Ch. of Scot., vol.
i. p. 59.--_Ed._]

93 [Physiologia Nova Experimentalis, Lugd. Bat. 1686.--_Ed._]

94 [The Appointment of Mr. James Dalrymple, as one of the Regents of
the University of Glasgow, took place by "Id Martu 1641" (Annales
Collegae). He was then only twenty two years of age. In the year
1635, a clause was introduced into the oath, which the Regents were
required to take at their election, binding them to resign their
situation in the event of their marriage. Accordingly, having
married in 1643, Mr. Dalrymple vacated his charge, but was
immediately afterwards re-elected. Sir Walter Scott has said of
James Dalrymple, that he was "one of the most eminent lawyers that
ever lived, though the labours of his powerful mind were unhappily
exercised on a subject so limited as Scottish Jurisprudence, on
which he has composed an admirable work." It