by the gift of the learned Gentleman Charles Gedde Esq. liuinge in the Citty of St Andrews.’
Then below in another hand:
‘Libenter tunc dabam
Id testor Carolus Gedde
Ipsis bis septenis Kalendis
mensis Octobris 1656.’
On the last leaf of the text, f. 39, there is a note in Latin made in 1651 at St. Andrews (Andreapoli) by C. Gedde at the age of seventy, with reference to the date of Henry IV’s reign. Then in English,
‘This booke pertaineth to aged Charles Gedde,’
and inserted between the lines by Fairfax,
‘but now to ffairfax of his gift, Jun. 28. 1656.’