ABSTRACT
Finally, while royal and lay interest in the universities contributed to the development of Scottish higher education in very different ways in the final years of the reign of James VI and I, both trends resulted in a stepping away from the aims and methods that Melville had utilised in his reform programme. The extensive range of teaching evidence for this period confirms that the intellectual conservatism and entrenched Aristotelianism visible in earlier sources became fully embedded across the Scottish universities in the years after Melville’s removal.
