oswald M^r Robert Wallace M^r George greir M^r andro blackhall & M^r
andro Maghye to teach.”----“At Saltprestoun July 8, 1606. The haill
parischoners being poisit how yay lyckit of y^e said M^r Alex^r w^t
vniforme consent being particularly inqwyrit schew y^r guid lycking
of him and y^r willingnes to accept and receiv him to y^e said
office Q^rupon y^e said M^r Alex^r wes admittit to y^e said
office & in token of y^e approba^one both of visitors & of y^e
parischonēs p^rnt both y^e ane and y^e vother tuik y^e said M^r
Alex^r be y^e hand & y^e haill magistratis gentlemen and remanēt
parischoners p^rnt faithfullie p^rmisit to cõcurre for y^e
furtherãce of y^e work y^t yit restis to be done to y^e said schoole
as also to keipt y^e said M^r Alex^r and his scholleris skaithlis
finallie for farther authorizing of y^e said (_sic_) it wes thought
meitt y^t y^e haill visitors & parichonēs p^rnt suld enter y^e
said M^r Alex^r into y^e said schoole & y^r heir him teache q^{lk}
also wes doone.” (Rec. of Presb. of Haddington).[2]

[Footnote 1: Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses, by Bliss, I., 217.]

[Footnote 2: M’Crie’s Life of Melville, vol. ii., p. 509.]

The school rapidly rose to distinction under Hume, but in 1615 he
relinquished his position, and accepted the Mastership of the Grammar
School of Dunbar, then in high repute, and the very same school in which
he had commenced his own education. When occupied at Dunbar, Hume had
the honour of being the first who, in a set speech, welcomed James VI.
back to his Scottish dominions, after an absence of fourteen years. The
King stopped on his way northward from Berwick on the 13th of May, 1617,
at Dunglass Castle the residence of the Earl of Home, and Hume, as the
orator of the day, delivered a Latin address.