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William Morison. Andrew Melville
Andrew Melville
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
BIRTH—EDUCATION—YEARS ABROAD
CHAPTER III
SERVICES TO SCOTTISH EDUCATION—PRINCIPALSHIP OF GLASGOW AND ST. ANDREWS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
THE 'DINGING DOWN' OF THE BISHOPS—MELVILLE AND MORTON
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
THE 'BIGGING UP' OF THE BISHOPS UNDER LENNOX AND ARRAN—MELVILLE'S FLIGHT TO ENGLAND
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
THE KING'S SURRENDER TO THE CHURCH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
THE POPISH LORDS—MELVILLE AND THE KING AT FALKLAND PALACE
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII
THE KING'S GREEK GIFT TO THE CHURCH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
MELVILLE AT HAMPTON COURT
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER X
THE KING'S ASSEMBLIES
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
THE TOWER: SEDAN
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
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William Morison
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Melville continued in the Principalship of St. Mary's for upwards of a quarter of a century—from the close of 1580 to 1606, when he was summoned by the King to London, never to return to his native land.
In St. Andrews and Glasgow he had not only teaching duties, he presided over the government of the University as well; and the same resolute respect for law, which set him so stoutly against the King's tyranny in the realm, made him a determined upholder of order in the University. He was at once a fearless subject and a born ruler of men. When he entered on his office in St. Andrews, some of the professors, chafed by the reforms which he introduced, became insubordinate, but soon succumbed to his authority; and more than once in Glasgow he quelled riots among the students at the risk of his life. On one occasion, when his friends urged him to condone an offence of a student of noble family from fear of revenge, he answered, 'Giff they wald haiff forgiffness let them crave it humblie and they sall haiff it; but or that preparative pass, that we dar nocht correct our scholars for fear of bangstars and clanned gentlemen, they sall haiff all the blud of my body first.'
