It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.

For this he was summoned before the Privy Council in February 1584 and had to flee into England in order to escape a charge of treason. 1609). He assisted in the reconstruction of the University of Aberdeen in 1575 and in order to do for St Andrews what he had done for Glasgow he was appointed Principal of St Mary's College St Andrews in 1580.

Andrew Melville (1 August 1545 – 1622) was a Scottish scholar theologian and religious reformer. His fame encouraged scholars from the European Continent to study at Glasgow and St Andrews.