by some of the electors, as a proper person to fill it.
He did not, however, actually come forwurd as a candidate, and the
gentleman who was appointed to succeed Dr. Smith, without
introducing any change as to the subjects formerly taught in the
logic class, followed the example of his illustrious predecessor in
giving his prelections in English.--Outlines of Philosophical
Education Illustrated by the Method of Teaching the Logic class in
the University of Glasgow, pp. 20-21, Glasgow 182.--_Ed._]

99 [The office of principal of the University of Glasgow was disjoined
from the cure of the parish of Govan, in 1621, and the immediate
predecessor of Binning was Mr. William Wilkie, who was deposed by
the synod on the 29th of April, 1649. "Mr. William Wilkie, I
thought," says Principal Baillie "was unjustly put out of Govan,
albeit his very evil carriage since, has declared more of his sins."
(MS Letters, vol. iii., p. 849, in Bib. Col. Glas.)

There are certain extracts from the letters of Mr. William Wilkie to
Dr. Balcanqubal, dean of Rochester, published in Lord Hailes's
Memorials and Letters (vol. ii pp. 47, 48). The learned judge,
however, has mistaken the name Wilkie for _Willie_. Not knowing,
therefore, who the writer of the letter was, he says, in a note,
"This _Willie_ appears to have been a sort of ecclesiastical spy
employed by Balcanqubal the great confident of Charles I. in every
thing relating to Scotland" (Ibid.). In his preface, Lord Hailes
acknowledges that the letters he has published were "chiefly
transcribed from the manuscripts, amassed with indefatigable
industry by the late Mr. Robert Wodrow." But Wodrow himself states,
in his Life of Dr. Strang (Wodrow MSS, vol. xiii, pp. 4, 5, in Bib.
Coll. Glasg.), that he was possessed of six original letters, which
had been written by Mr. William Wilkie, minister of Govan, during
the sitting of the famous Glasgow Assembly in 1638, and addressed to
Dr. Balcanqubal, who had come down to Scotland with the Marquis of
Hamilton, the Lord Commissioner, and was then residing in Hamilton
palace. He also informs us that these and some other letters were
discovered "after Naseby encounter, or some other, where Dr.
Balcanqubal happened to be, in a trunk found among the baggage,