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hospital, a square stone building, having a large turret 

 at each corner. It hath very spacious and beautiful 

 gardens, and is well endowed. There is a cloister on 

 both sides of the court, on each hand as one goeth in, 

 and a well in the middle thereof. At our being there it 

 maintained threescore boys, who wore blue gowns ; but 

 they told us it was designed for other purposes. It 

 would make a very handsome college, comparable to the 

 best in our universities. Over the gate, within side, 

 stands the figure of G. Heriot, the founder thereof, and 

 under him this verse, 



" Corporis hsec, animi est hoc opus effigies." 



3. The college, for the building of it but mean, and of 

 no very great capacity, in both comparable to Caius 

 College in Cambridge. Most of the students here live 

 after the fashion of Leyden, in the town ; and wear no 

 gowns till they be laureat, as they caU it, that is, com- 

 mence. At our being there (being the time of the 

 vacancy) there w^as not a student in town ; the premier 

 also, as they call him, was absent at London. In the 

 hall of this college, the king's commissioner, Middleton, 

 was entertained by the citizens of Edinburgh. 4. The 

 parliament house, which is but of small content, as far as 

 we could judge, not capable of holding 200 persons. 

 The lords and commons sit both in the same room to- 

 gether. There is also a place which they call the inner 

 house, in which sit fifteen lords, chosen out of the house, 

 as it were a grand committee. There is an outer room 

 like the lobby, which they call the waiting room ; and 

 two other rooms above stairs, where commissioners sit. 

 We saw Argyle and Guthry, their heads standing on the 

 gates and toll-booth. At the time we were in Scotland, 

 divers women were burnt for witches, they reported, to 

 the number of about 120. 



August the 21st, we went on northward as far as 

 Sterling, twenty-four miles. By the way we saw the 

 king's palace at Lithgow, bailt in the manner of a castle, 



