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A61362 The statutes of George Heriot's Hospital; Statutes. George Heriot's Hospital. 1696 (1696) Wing S5339; ESTC R221894 17,026 59

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whatsoever belonging to the Hospital nor shall the praeelection or Election of any Officer or Schollar before the place unto which he is praeelected or elected be actually void stand good but it shal be void ipso facto and therefore before the Hospital Building be finished and fit to receive these who are appointed to inhabit in it there shal be made no Election nor Praeelection of any Officer or Schollar belonging to the Hospital excepting only such as must of necessity attend the Fabrick of the said Building or the present Revenue Moneys or Estate presently belonging or intended for the said Hospital and these after the Building is finished or before to leave their places unless they be then again de novo chosen by the Electors but after the house is fitted for the receiving of those who are to live in it then all Elections shal go as is expressed in the Statutes before-mentioned The Compiler of these Statutes Walter Balcanqual Dean of Rochester doeth reserve unto himself during his own natural life all power for adding unto or diminishing from or altering of these present Statutes accordingly as upon emergent occasions he shal be thereunto induced be his own Conscience or Consultations with the Lord Provost Magistrats Ministry and Council of Edinburgh or by the Advice of those who are Learned in the Laws of the Realm of Scotland Otherways if from the said Dean of Rochester in his Life-time these Statutes shal receive no Addition Diminution nor Alteration then these Statutes being subscribed with his Hand and sealed with his Seal at any time before his Death shal have the Strength Validity and Force to all Purposes whatsoever of the Statutes mentioned in the Will of the Founder by which and no otherways the said Hospital shal be perpetually Governed Ordered and Directed for Ever hereafter unto the End of the World And if there shal arise any Controversie concerning the Interpretation of the said Statutes or of any Part Sentence or Word in the same It is Ordained That those five mentioned in the Founders Will viz. The Lord Chancellour the two Arch-Bishops the Lord President of the Colledge of Justice the Lord Advocat to His Majesty of this Realm of Scotland for the time being shal have sole and whole Power to Interpret the same and to Determine all Controversies arising about the Interpretation of the same So that whatsoever any three of these five met together and all Parties Interessed being Conveened shal Judicially or Extra-Judicially declare in their Consciences to come nearest the true Meaning of these Statutes That and nothing but That shal be taken for the true Meaning of the same and in all Points without further Scruple be observed and followed And that these Statutes may never be concealed there shal be one true Copy of them for ever kept and Registrated in the Books of Session one in the Register of the Council of Edinburgh one in the Register Office of the said Hospital and more in other Places needful if any shal be thought upon that so any Party Interessed in them may have open and free Recourse unto them CHAP. XXIII CONCLVSIO AND now finally I the Unworthy Servant of GOD Walter Balcanqual the Composer of these Statutes do Onerate and Charge the Consciences of you the Lord Provost the Magistrats the Ministry and Council of the City of Edinburgh and of all those who shal be your Successors unto the second coming of the Son of GOD and that by the Bowels of our Lord JESUS CHRIST who one day will come to Judge the Quick and the Dead and take a particular account of every one of you for this particular Stewardship wherewith you are trusted by the Zeal and Honour of our Reformed Religion which by this Pious Work of the Founder is Illustrated and Vindicated from the Calumnies of the Adversaries to our Holy Profession by that Pious Respect which you his Fellow-Citizens ought to carry to the Pious Memory and last Will of of the Religious Founder your Worthy Citizen George Heriot And lastly For the Clearing of your own Consciences and your own particular Accounts in that great Day of the LORD let none of you who Read these Presents nor your Successors who in after Ages shal come to Read them offer to Frustrat the Pious Founder of his Holy Intention either by taking directly or indirectly from this Hospital any thing which he in his Piety hath Doted unto it or by altering of it or bestowing it upon any other use though you shal conceive it to be far more Pious or Profitable Or to go about to alter any of these Statutes and Ordinances after they shal be once delivered up unto you compleatly Subscribed and Sealed as you will answer the contrary at the uttermost of your Perrils in the Day of the Lord JESUS to whom being fully assured of your Godly Care and Zealous Conscience in these particulars with His Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons but One undivided Essence of the Godhead as for all other Their Blessings so in particular for the great Charity of this most Pious and Religious Founder be Ascribed as is most due all Praise Honour and Glory from Age to Age. AMEN EGO Gualterus Balcanqual S. S. Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Roffensis Decanus Civis Edinburgenus natus juratus Pientissimi viri Gualteri Balcanqual Civitatis Edinburgenae circiter quadraginta tres annos Pastoris vigilantissimi filius potestate ad id mihi facta ex Testamento Codicillo clarissimi optimique Viri Georgii Heriot Gemmarii Regii Trado Clarissimis Reverendissimis Spectetissimis viris D. D. Praefecto Balivis Pastoribus reliquisque Senatoribus Edinburgenis Ordinariis Statuta haec viginti tribus capitibus comprehensa observanda habendaque in perpetuum pro Statutis seu Ordinationibis illis in Testamento Codicillo Georgii Heriot commemoratis reservatis mihi-met semper cunctis singulis qua per Statuta haec reservantur Ita est quod Syngrapha Sigillo meo ratum esse jubeo Gualterus Balcanqual Locus Sigilli Edinburgi 13 Julii anno post Incarnatum Redemptorem 1627. annoque regni Domini nostri Caroli primi tertio A List of the CHAPTERS Chap. 1. OF the Name of the Hospital Page 5 Chap. 2. Of the Foundator of the Hospital Page 6 Chap. 3. Of the Governours of the Hospital Page 8 Chap. 4. Of those things which generally concerns the Elections and the Affairs of the Hospital Page 10 Chap. 5. Of the Election and Office of the Thesaurer Page 12 Chap. 6. Of the Election and Office of the Auditors Page 15 Chap. 7. Of the Election and Office of the Clerk Page 19 Chap. 8. Of the Seal of the Hospital Page 20 Chap. 9. Of the Election and Office of the Master Page 22 Chap. 10. Of what follows the Election of the Master Page 25 Chap. 11. Of the Removal or Chastisement of the Master where it 's needful Page 27 Chap. 12. Of the Election and Office of the School-Master Page 30 Chap. 13. Of the Election of the Schollars Page 31 Chap. 14. Of the Election and Office of the Butler Page 35 Chap. 15. Of the Election and Office of the Cook Page 36 Chap. 16. Of the Election and Office of the Caterer Page 36 Chap. 17. Of the Election and Office of the Porter Page 37 Chap. 18. Of the Election and Office of the Gardiner Page 38 Chap. 19. Of the Election and Office of the Women Page 39 Chap. 20. Of the Election and Offices of the Physitian Apothecary and Chyrurgian Barber Page 41 Chap. 21. Of such things as concerns the Hospital in General Page 42 Chap. 22. Of such things as was reserved to the Compiler Page 46 Chap. 23. The Conclusion Page 51 FINIS