CHAPTER XII. 



LIFE IN ST. ANDREWS. 



THE University over whose oldest and largest College 

 Principal Forbes was now called to preside, is one of the 

 few fragments which survived the wreck of the Scottish 

 mediaeval Church. Whatever the shortcomings and cor- 

 ruptions of that Church for two centuries before the 

 Reformation may have been, it ought not to be forgotten 

 that it is to her that we are indebted for our Univer- 

 sities, Three out of the four Universities of Scotland had 

 Catholic Bishops for their founders. This was pre-emi- 

 nently true of St. Andrews, the most ancient of them all. 

 A Bishop it was Henry Wardlaw who, near the open- 

 ing of the fifteenth century, founded that University, and 

 the accomplished First James smiled upon its infancy. 

 Each of the three Colleges which were successively 

 incorporated into it, owed their origin to a separate 

 prelate. The oldest of the three Colleges, that of St. 

 Salvator, was founded and endowed by the successor 

 of Wardlaw, Bishop James Kennedy, kinsman of the 

 king, and the wisest man of his time, both in Church 

 and State ; a prelate of such pure and beneficent cha- 

 racter that even George Buchanan, prelate-hater though 

 he was, has no word but praise to speak of him. To 

 him, in the old sea- tower at St. Andrews, his cousin, the 

 Second James, turned for counsel when the violence of 

 the three banded earls, each almost a 'king, had all but 



