{"id":25,"date":"2012-08-16T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2012\/08\/16\/university-mace-stolen-reward-offered\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T05:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T04:07:49","slug":"university-mace-stolen-reward-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2012\/08\/16\/university-mace-stolen-reward-offered\/","title":{"rendered":"University Mace stolen &#8211; reward offered!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On the night betwixt the 29th\/30th October 1787 the door of the Library was broken open by thieves and the University Mace was stolen from the press where it was usually deposited. The Magistrates offered a reward of ten Guineas for the discovery of the Delinquents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So reads the inset entered between the College minutes for 11th September and 3rd December 1787.<\/p>\n<p>The University would appear to have been without a mace until 1789. William Creech presented the College with a new one at the meeting of 2nd October that year. At the same meeting it was reported that the University been granted Arms by the Lord Lyon and that a new seal was to be made, the use of one of the city&#8217;s seals being &#8220;inconvenient and unsuitable to the dignity of the University&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night betwixt the 29th\/30th October 1787 the door of the Library was broken open by thieves and the University Mace was stolen from the press where it was usually deposited. The Magistrates offered a reward of ten Guineas for the discovery of the Delinquents. So reads the inset entered between the College minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}