Old Testament, and to whom we owe
that graphic diary which gives us several interesting glimpses of
college life in those early days. To John Robertson succeeded Mr John
Johnston, author of Latin poems in praise of our reformers and martyrs,
and of Latin verses descriptive of the line of our Scottish kings.

Melville was by no means an illiberal theologian, and he and Johnston
wrote to the Protestant churches of France urging moderation on them in
controversies which were then being discussed with great bitterness.
Both lived with and for their pupils, and secured in an unusual degree
their reverence and affection. Both ultimately lost the favour of the
king; and Melville, after being cruelly used in London, had to spend his
declining years in the French Protestant University of Sedan.

FOOTNOTES:

[321] [This is taken from a paper on "St Mary's College," contributed by
Dr Mitchell to the "Student's Handbook to the University of St Andrews,"
1895, pp. 12-15.]

APPENDIX B (p. 30).

CITATIO PATRICII HAMILTON

E FORMULARI VETERE ANDREANO.

_Citatio super suspecto de heresi ad faciendum purgationem alias ad
videndum [ipsum] hereticum declarari._

Jacobus etc., Decano Christianitatis nostre de L[audonia] Universisque
et singulis aliis Dominis rectoribus, vicariis perpetuis, capellanis
curatis et non curatis per provinciam nostram S[ti Andree] ubilibet
constitutis, Illique vel illis ad quem vel ad quos presentes litere
pervenerint, Salutem cum benedictione divina: Quia per fidelem
inquisitionem aliter de mandato nostro legitime receptam compertum
extitit quendam Magistrum P[atricium] H[amilton] de heresi multiplici
suspectum, quem citandum et desuper accusandum antea decrevimus, sed
medio tempore relicta patria ad alia et extera se transtulit loca, nuper
autem vagante fama ad aures nostras clamorosa insinuatione pervenit
Ipsum nuperrime in patriam reversum et quod primo statim adventu non
debite missus nec prerogativis aut privilegiis debitis munitus, sed
propria auctoritate et temeraria presumptione, predicationis officium de
heresi ei designata acceptare ausus est, et suas hereticas pravitates et
perversas Martini Lutheri heretici alias ab ecclesia damnati et suorum
fautorum ac sequacium opiniones promulgare, docens seminansve et
pertinaciter affirmans, ac populum Christianum de eisdem instruere non
erubescit, indeque simplices et illiteratos hujus regni Christi fideles
qui in se et progenitoribus per tant