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Disputations of Scots Attending Universities in the Netherlands 97
This gives a total number of 1460 Scottish students and of 696 law and 492 medical
students, but the figures are very rough. The matriculation lists are far from
complete, and not everybody studied for any length of time in Ley den. 6 Ten
years after Ley den university the Frisian academy of Franeker was founded. It
attracted relatively few Scots, around fifty during its whole existence, of whom
about twenty also matriculated in Leyden. 7 Groningen (1614) was not much
more popular than Franeker: sixty Scots between 1614 and 1800, of whom about
ten were also enrolled at Leyden and only one or two at Franeker. 8 The only
university that - at a respectful distance - competed to some extent with Leyden
was Utrecht (1636). According to the (incomplete) matriculation lists up to 1800
at least 101 Scotsmen studied at Utrecht; of them about thirty matriculated
simultaneously at Leyden. Although the faculty in which students matriculated
is not mentioned in these lists, we can calculate by means of other sources that
twenty students at least studied law and thirty-one at least medicine. 9 To all
appearances Utrecht found favour with foreigners only towards the end of the
seventeenth century; that favour was not always a steady one:
6 In the appendix to his article: 'Lawyers, Landowners, and the Civic Leadership of Post-Union
Scotland', Jurid. Rev. N.S., xxi (1976), 97-120, N.T. Phillipson arrives at a total of 634 Scottish law
students matriculating at the law school of Leyden, 1660-1790. As for Utrecht, for the same period
he gives 104 law students and for Groningen (from the year 1691) sixty-one. As will be shown below the
figures for Utrecht and Groningen are incorrect: Phillipson took his figures from lists which were prepared
for him 'on the instructions of the Deans of the three Law Schools'. Unfortunately Utrecht and Groningen
provided him with lists of Scottish students in all faculties (Feenstra, op. cit., 131).
1 Album studiosorum Academiae Franekerensis (1585-1811,1816-1844), I, Naamlijst der studenten,
S.J. Fockema Andreae and Th.J. Meijer, ed. (Franeker, 1968). I counted twenty-seven law
students and five medical students but point out that the matriculation lists are very deficient in the
matter of faculty designation. They seem to be reliable for the total number of matriculated students; see
J. A.H. Bots and W.Th.M. Frijhoff, 'De studentenpopulatie van de Franeker academic: een kwantitatief
onderzoek (1585-1811)', Universiteit te Franeker, 1585-1811: Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de
Friese hogeschool, G.T. Jensma et al., ed. (Leeuwarden, 1985), 56-72 at p.56. According to Feenstra
(op. cit., 132) between 1661 and 1751 thirty-two Scottish law students matriculated at the University
of Franeker; twenty of them were later admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. H. de
Ridder-Symoens, 'Buitenlandse studenten aan de Franeker universiteit, 1585-1811', Universiteit te
Franeker, 73-89, counted twenty-four law and three medical students (75, continuation of table 1).
8 Album studiosorum Academiae Groninganae (Groningen, 1915). I counted thirty-one law students
and two medical students. According to Feenstra, op. cit., 132, between 1661 and 1751 thirty-two Scottish
law students matriculated at the University of Groningen; eighteen of them were later admitted to the
Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. Franeker and Groningen's lack of popularity is also demonstrated
by the fact that more than half of their law students who were later admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
also matriculated at Leyden, see Feenstra, op. cit., 132.
9 Album studiosorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae, 1636-1886 (Utrecht, 1886). I used the excerpt
from this album and of the Album promotorum mentioned below, which was made up in 1985 by Mr. G.C.
Kaim for the Caledonian Society. For the reconstruction of the division into faculties one can use The
Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, 1532-1943, with Genealogical Notes, F.J. Grant, ed., Publications
of the Scottish Record Society, part cxlv (Edinburgh, 1944) and Album promotorum qui inde ab anno
MDCXXXVIO usque ad annum MDCCCXVwm in Academia Rheno-Traiectina gradum doctoratus
adepti sunt, F. Ketner, ed. (Utrecht, 1936). Feenstra, op. cit., 132, reaches a slightly higher figure
for law students (twenty-seven). In general, however, the Utrecht Album is notoriously incomplete
for the years after 1657; see Bots and Frijhoff, op. cit., 71, n.10.