PART THE FIRST. HISTORY OF LIBRARIES. (CONTINUED.) BOOK III. CHAPTER XIX. THE LIBRARIES OF THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES, AND OF THE WRITERS TO THE SIGNET, AT EDINBURGH. Vol. II. 1 MEMOIRS OF LIBRARIES. CHAPTER XIX. THE LIBRARIES OF THE FACULTY OF ADVO- The Legal Profession in Scotland has every recom- 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 accomplished 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. |