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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| UNIVERSITY [Glasgow] | University | 006.11 | "In 1451, Pope Nicholas V was pleased to issue a Papal Edict, or Bull, establishing a Studium generale or university in the City of Glasgow. The university at first had received no endowments and was for years possessed of no property except the University purse into which were put some small (----) on the confirming of degrees, and the patronage of two or three small chaplainsies. At first the University had no building of its own. It held its meetings in the Chapterhouse of the Blackfriars or in the Cathedral. But these defects were in some measure supplied by the liberality of James first Lord Hamilton, an ancestor of the noble house of Hamilton, who in the year 1459 gave to the Principal and other Regents of the College of Arts, for their use and accommodation, a tenement with its pertinents in the High Street of Glasgow, to the north of the Blackfriars, together with (---) of land in Pro-hill" - New Stat Acct Page 171 and 172 |
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