THE LIBRARIES OF THE FACULTY OF ADVO-
CATES, AND OF THE WRITERS TO THE SIGNET,
AT EDINBURGH.
The Legal Profession in Scotland has every recom
mendation to a person resolved or compelled to remain
in this country.
.... It is the highest Profession that
the country knows; its emoluments, and prizes are not
inadequate to the wants and habits of the upper classes;
it has always been adorned by men of ability and
learning. Its higher practice has always been
combined with literature, which, indeed, is the here-
ditary fashion of the Profession. Its cultivation is
encouraged by the best and most accessible Library
in this country, which belongs to the Bar.
COCKBURN, Life of Jeffrey, i, 84, 85.
THE Library of the FACULTY OF ADVOCATES dates
from the
year 1680. Its chief founder was Sir George
Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, an eminent jurist, an accom-
plished scholar, and, to the end of his days, so thorough
a student, that when the changes of the Revolution
led him to abandon public life, he betook himself to
Oxford, that he might enjoy at leisure the stores of the
Bodleian.1
1 Sir George Mackenzie was admitted as a Student at the Bodleian by a Grace, passed on the 2nd June 1690. He died in 1691.
BOOK III.
Chapter XIX.
The Law
Libraries at
Edinburgh.