A mesme temps je empruntée l'usage de ces sept livres suivans de lui pour
les rendre quand il les demandoit.
Imprimis Rutherfuird's Lex Rex.
2. Wiseman's law of laws, etc.
3. The accomplish't Atturney.
4. Natalis comitis mythologiae.
5. Stephanus praeparative to his apologie for Herodote.
6. Imagines mortis et medicina animae.
7. Dom Huarto's triall of wits.
The 3 following French books ware about that same tyme gifted me by Rot.
Keith of Craig.
Imprimis, Mr. Wicquefort's Memoires touchant ambassadeurs et les
ministres publiques.
2. Histoire de la Reyne Christine de Suede.
3. Lettre sur la campaigne en Flandre, 1677.
For the art to make love, 12 pence.
For the countermine against the presb., 3 shils. stg.
From John Nicol bought on the 18 Dec'ris 1677
the 6 following books.
Bodinus de daemonomania majorum, 2 marks.
Hall's Cases of Conscience, 14 pence.
Walker against Socinianisme, 12 pence.
Juvenalis et Persius cum notis Farnab., 10 pence.
Sylvestri summa summarum, 2 dollars.
Scapulæ Lexicon Græco-Latinum, 2 dollars.
Drusius de tribus-sectis Judeorum, 20 pence.
Item, the book of fortune, 20 pence.
Vincent on Christ's Appearance at the Day of Judgement, ij pence.
Antonii Mornacii observationes ad pandectas et
ad Codicem, in 3 tomes in folio, at 22 shillings
sterl. the tome, 40 lb. Scots.
Gerardus Joan: Wossius de Historicis Latinis, 4 lb. Scots.
Christophori Sandii animadversiones in istum
Vosii librum, 12 pence.
For Divi Thomæ Aquinatis summa Theologica, 16 shillings stering.
For Wallis Due correction of Hobs geometrie, 8 pence.
Lipsius Notes on Tacitus, 4 pence.
Dominici Baudii epistolæ et orationes, 34 pence.
Elberti Leonini consilia, a dollar.
About the 19 of Aprill 1678, receaved from Abotshall a manuscript containing a most elegant summary and collection of sundry remarkable things from the 7 tomes of St. Augustins works.
A meme temps je emprunté de lui les livres suivans: 2 manuscripts in Latin
de Decimis, contra Erastianos, Independentes, de politia civili et
ecclesiastica, de controversiis theologicis, etc., of Mr. Andrew Ramsayes:
but now I have given him thir back:
Rosse's Pansebeia or view of all Religions.
Grotii de imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra.
Florus Historie cum Lucii Ampelii memoriali.
Catonis Disticha et Mimi Publiani by Hoole.
Bought the 15 of Aprill 1678 from Mr. Charles Lumsdean thir six books,
Imprimis,
Andrew Willet's Hexapla upon Exodus and Leviticus.
2 volumes in folio, 12 shillings sterling.
vide infra in 1679 and Aprill 1684. 6 shillings
sterling each volume.
Jermynes commentarie and meditations on the
book of Proverbs, 6 shils. stg.
Rosse's arcana microcosmi with a refutation of
Bacon, Harvey, Broun, etc., 12 pence.
The right of dominion, property, liberty, 10 pence.
Mr. R. Baillie's antidote agt Arminianisme, 4 pence.
Heraclitus Christianus, or the man of sorrow 12 pence.
Lo. Hatton on Status and acts of parlia', 12 pence.
Kirkwodi compendium Rhetorircæ, 2 pence.
Godolphin upon legacies, last wills and devises, 6 shills. ster.
Salernitana schola de conservanda bona
valetudine, 2 shillings and 6 pence.
Juvenalls Satyrca Englished by Stapylton, 2 mark and a halfe.
The Fulfilling of the Scriptures.
From Abotshall: …[720] [Greek: kaina kai palaia]: Things new and old, or a storehouse of similes, sentences, allegories, etc., by John Spencer.
[720] Word undeciphered.
Item, receaved Drummond's History of the lives of the 5 James's,
Kings of Scotland, with memorialls of state.
Item, Wilson's art of Rhetorique and art of Logick.
Item, l'Estat de l'Eglise by Jean de Hainault and Jean Crespin, they
being 4 books in number which at this tyme j'ay recu de Abotshall.
Fur a manuscript containing some law dictats of the professors at
Poictiers and Bourge en Berry annis 1611 and 1612, 12 pence.
For Masuerii practica forensis with Montis Albani
exceptiones, 12 pence.
Quintini Hedui Analecta juris ad Titul. Decretal
de verborum significatione, 12 pence.
For Jacobi de Voragine legenda aurea seu Vitæ
sanctorum, ij pence.
Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis; being a Catalogue
of all the manuscripts in thesse 2 universities, ij pence.
Mr. D. Dickson's Therapeutica sacra.
The Christian education of children, 36 pence.
Gifted me by Mr. Wm. Henderson:
Bibliothecar of Ed'r, H. Cardani arcana politica seu de prudentia civili.
Gotten from Mr. Wm. Dundas Wisseinbachii
Manuale de verborum signifcatione, item, Nota nomico-philologica in
passionem Christi.
Annibal Trabrotus his enarrationes ad Cuiacij paratitla
in libros tres prinres Codicis, a mark.
For A.S. Boetius de Consolatione philosophiæ
et disciplina scholastica, 6 pence.
Gifted to me by Mr. John Craig of Ramorney, advocat, on the
16 of November 1678, Davila's Historie of the civill wars
of France.
Leidington's practiques and some other papers bound togither by me
at this time.
Tbe Christians Patterne or A Kempis Imitation
of Christ, 12 pence.
For tuo volumes of Panormitans commentary upon the
decretales, which compleits what I had of him before.
Item, for Giuidonis Papae decisiones parlamenti
Grationapolitanæ and Lipsius de constantia,
in all 4 books, 6 shillings sterling.
For Lucas de Penna ad tres posteriores libros codicis, 40 pence.
For Joannis Amos Comenii janua linguarum in
Greek; Latin and English, 18 pence.
I have another in Latin, French, and Dutch.
Poemata Niniani Patersoni gifted me by the said Mr. Ninian the author.
Code Lowis ou ordannances pour les matieres criminelles.
Georgii Macropedii methodus de conscribendis
epistolis, etc., 6 pence.
Jer. Taylor's liberty of prophecieng.
Lubbertus contra Socinum de Christo mediatore.
Aurengzebe and the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
Vespasian, 2 comedies.
The Life of K. Charles the I. the pseudomartyr.
Ane Accompt of the Scots greevances anno 1674.
Mother Gregs Jests.
Raphaell Holinsched's Chronicle of England from
William the Conqueror till 1587, 9 shillings sterl.
An Abridgement and written collection drawen furth of the Register
of the commission for plantation of kirks and valuation of teynds,
from 1661 till November 1673.
Catalogus Librorum D. Jacobi Narnij, gifted by him to the Colledge
of Edenbrugh.
For Mr. Dods and Cleavers commentary on the
wholle proverbs of Solomon, 4 shills. stg.
For Mr. Cleaver's Commentar on some of the chapters of the Proverbs,
more amply then in the præceeding commentary, their
being only 5 chapters explained in this volume, viz., the 1, 2, 15,
16, and 17 chapters theirof, enriched with many discourses and
doctrines from thesse chapters, not in the former commentarie.
Gullielmi Cocci revelatio revelata, or expositio
Apocalypse[Greek: o]s, 12 pence.
Ludovici Cælii Rhodigini Antiqutæ lectiones, Parisiis 1517.
The Apology for and vindication of the persecuted ministers in
Scotland, gifted me by Abotshall.
For the Differences of the tymes, written by Mr.
David Foster, minister at Lauder, a mark.
Erasmi Chiliades Adagiorum in folio, gifted me by
Mr. John Wood's brother, Mr. Wood having lost some
books lent by me to him, as Harprecht, etc.
Cartwright's commentar upon the Proverbs in
Latin, 3 shillings and 6 pence.
Rudimenta Rhetorica Ro'ti Brunii, 8 pence.
Academie Francoise pour l'institution des Moeurs, in 8vo, 6 pence.
On the 10 of June 1679 bought 7 old books, some of them but pamphlets,
viz., une recueill des gazettes nouvelles et relations de l'annee
1640, Cujacii ad tres postremos libros Codicis, des ordonnances de
Lowis 13 en assemblée de notables, directions for health, naturall and
artificiall, Resolution de Question prouvant qu'il est permis a sujets
a resister la cruauté de leur Prince, a discourse touching the
distractions of the tymes and the Causes theirof, the canons and
constitutions made by the Quakers: for which I payed, 30 pence.
The fyre upon the altar, or divine meditations
and essayes, 28 pence.
The Lively Oracles, or use of the holy scriptures, 30 pence.
Atcheson's militarie garden.
A Picktooth for the pope, Item, the apple of his left eye, item the
greevances of the Scots ministers in 1633, etc.
Regii Sanguinis clamor per Morum contra Miltonum Anglicum, 6 pence.
Botero des gouvernements des estats in Italian and French, 8 pence.
Mr. Traps commentar ou the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
and Song of Solomon, 3 lb. 7 shill.
Bought on the ij of September 1679 from Mistris
Forrest in Fyffe the ten following books.
1. Erasmi concio de misericordia Domini
and other tracts, 10 pence.
2. Erasmi encomion Moriæ et de Lingua
and other tracts, a mark.
3. Bezæ Responsio ad Castellionem de
versione Novi testamenti, 10 pence.
4. Flores Doctorum pene Omnium per Thomam Hibernicum, 18 pence.
5. Sylva locorum communiuni per
Ludovicum Granatensem, 30 pence.
6. Poetarum omnium flores, a mark.
7. Refutatio Cujusdam libelli de Jure
magistratuum per Beccariam, 8 pence.
8. Chrysostomes Homilies and morals on the Ephesians, 24 pence.
9. Virgil in English verse by John Ogilbie, 24 pence.
10. Simon Patrick's Reflections on the
devotions of the Roman Church, 24 pence.
Having in September 1679 casten up the accompt of the wholle manuscript books I have besyde me, I find they are 94 in number of which see more in my other more full Catalogues of my books.