sir thomas burnett had co-operated with bishop patrick forbes in removing 'abuses' in king's college, aberdeen, and amending its discipline, although there is no trace of his having had a hand in its "purgation" in 1640. his continued love of his "alma mater", notwithstanding its prelatic leanings, is shown by his endowment, in october 1648, of three bursaries of philosophy in king's college. the parliamentary records of 1649 record sir thomas again as one of a proposed commission to visit aberdeen university.