Civility, whereby the inhabitants of those places in their lives and whole demeanour are little different from the most savage heathens,” and ending with instructions that L1200 a year, or double the sum formerly proposed, should be set apart out of still recoverable rents and revenues of alienated Chaplaincies, Deaneries, &c. of the old Popish and Episcopal Church of Scotland, and applied to the purposes of preaching and education in the Highlands.  The sum, in the Scotland of that time, might go as far as L7000 or L8000 a year now, though in England it would have been worth only about L4200 of present value.  Spent on an effective Gaelic mission of travelling pastors, and on a few well-planted schools, it might have accomplished a good deal.[2]—­Since the beginning of the Protectorate there had been some care in finding new funds for the Scottish Universities as well as for the English.  Principal Gillespie of Glasgow had procured a grant for the University of that city (Vol.  IV. p. 565), and something had been done for University-reform in Aberdeen.  Accordingly, that Edinburgh might not complain, it was now agreed, at a meeting of Council, July 15, 1658, his Highness himself present; to issue an order beginning, “Know ye that We, taking into our consideration the condition of the University of Edinburgh, and that (being but of late foundation, viz. since the Reformation of Religion in Scotland) the rents thereof are exceedingly small,” and concluding by putting L200 a year at the disposal of the Town Council of Edinburgh, “being the founders and undoubted patrons of the said University,” to be applied for University purposes with the advice and consent of the Masters and Regents.  The gift, it appears, had been promised to Principal Leighton, when he had been in London, some time before, on one of his yearly journeys for his own bookish purposes, and certainly neither as Resolutioner nor Protester.  “Mr. Leighton does nought to count of, but looks about him in his chamber,” is Baillie’s characteristic fancy-sketch of Leighton when he was back in Edinburgh and the L200 a year had become a certainty; but he adds that the saint had shown more temper than usual at finding that Mr. Sharp had contrived that L100 of the sum should go to Mr. Alexander Dickson (son of the Resolutioner David Dickson) who had been recently appointed to the Hebrew Professorship, and whom Leighton did not like.  Indeed Baillie makes merry over the possibility that the poor L200 a year for Edinburgh might never be forthcoming, any more than the richer “flim-flams” Mr. Gillespie had obtained for Glasgow, though in them he confessed a more lively interest.[3]—­Whether Scotland should ever actually handle the new endowments for her Universities, or the more important L1200 a year for the civilization of the Highlands, depended on the energy and ability of his Highness’s Scottish Council in finding out ways and means.  Broghill being still absent in England, but on the