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driven him from his throne. The next College in order 

 of time was that of St. Leonard, founded by the youth- 

 ful Archbishop of St. Andrews, Alexander Stewart, and 

 by John Hepburn, prior of the monastery. One of the 

 charters of the foundation was signed by the young arch- 

 bishop, and confirmed by his father James IV., the year 



re they two, father and son, fell together on the field 



iodden. The foundation of St. Salvator's College by 

 Bishop Kennedy, was one of the many efforts made by 

 thai relate to counterwork the corruptions of his 



Church, and to reform those abuses which he saw were 



:i out its life. In the original charter he states the 

 aim of his foundation to be 'the strengthening of the 

 orthodox faith, the increase of the Christian religion, 

 and the removing the pestiferous schisms of heretiks.' 

 And in conclusion he requires and exhorts * in the 

 bowels of Jesus Christ our Saviour, who is the Patron 

 of the College/ that there be appointed pastors and 



nders, who shall conserve the said College for the 

 purpose to which it was devoted. Again, Archbishop 

 art in his charter states that his object in founding 

 St. Leonard's was his desire to preserve 'the tempest- 

 tossed Lark of St. Peter, and to uphold the declining 

 state of the Church.' 



This last College was scarcely founded when it became 

 the mining-mother of many of those ardent spirits who 

 bon- l part in working that Church's overthrow. 



T<> have drunk of St. Leonard's Well, was another expres- 

 sion for haviii'!' adopted the principles of the Kefonna- 

 When tin- IJi-Ini-niatinn had i:<>t itself established, 

 George JJuchanan lieeame Principal of St. Leonard's, 

 which he adorned by his scholarship more than l>y his 

 character. He received one pension from Queen Mary, 

 nn<l a second iVoni (Juecn Kli/aKeth, lor slandering his 

 first !"! 14 ; so thai, as has U-eii said, though he did 



not serve two queens, he at least took wa^vs from two. 



With the Kclnnnation these two Colleges, which 



l.een founded mainly for the rearing of cl- 

 . the teaching of theology, were so far secularised that 



