Juris civilis haud vulgariter peritus ejusdemque in causis publice agendis consultus, civitatis hujus amplae assessor, postquam Academiam suis studiis ornaverat hune librum cum octo fratribus Bibliothecae donavit.  Anno Domini 1675.

Upon the forsaid bargain with Thomas Broun anent Favinacius (because he had
great benefit) he gave me in
Protegredivibus or the art of wheedling and insinuation, worth 2 and
6 pence or 3 shillings sterling. 
  Item, Despauter’s grammer worth, 12 pence. 
  For the Governement of the tongue, by the author
    of the Gentleman’s calling, 12 pence. 
  The Causes of the decay of Christian Piety, by
    the same author. 
  Item, his Wholle duety of man. 
  Item, his Art of contentment 12 pence. 
  New jests or witty Reparties. 
  Joannes Voet de Jure Militari, 18 pence. 
  The thrid tome of the Corpus Canonicum
    Glossatum, containing the 6’tus Decretalium
    Clementines et extravagantes communes, 8 shillings sterling.
    and which 3’d volume I still before wanted,
    having only the 2 first tomes of it. 
  For Joannis Tesmari exercitationes Rhetoricae, 4 marks. 
  De Prades Histoire de France from Pharamond
    till 1669 in 3 small 8’vos with pictures, 2 dollars. 
  Hermannus Vulteius de Feudis, 4 shill. 8. ster.

[Sidenote:  I have now got the rest of his works, which see infra folio 7’t after this.]

  Nicolai Abbatis Siculi Panor mi tani, his great glosse upon the
    Decretales Gregorii from the 25’t title of the 2’d book, viz., de
    exceptionibus to the end of the haill 5 books of the Decretales, so
    that I want the volume before containing his glosse on the 1 book of
    the Decretals and the 2’d till the said 25 title, and the volume after
    myne upon the 6’tus Decretalium Clementines et extravagants; his
    wholle glosse consisting of 3 great folios; for he hes written nothing
    on the Decretum Gratiani:  this broken tome m’a ete donne par
    Pitmedden.

Upon a review I made of my wholle library in Octobre 1675 I found sundrie books ware nather in this catalogue which containes all them I bought or acquired since my returne to Scotland from my travells, nor yet in that other Catalogue and list in the litle black-skinned book containing all them I had bought or got formerly ather at home or abroad:  and theirfor I gathered their names togither so many of them as I could remember on and wrot them upon 4 or 5 sydes of paper and shewed[714] it in at the end of my Inventar and Catalogue in the forsaid black-skinned writ book; ubi illud vide.

    [714] Sewed.  Sew is still pronounced like ‘shoe’ in Lowland Scots.

Receaved from Pitmedden,
  Dynus ad Regulas Juris Canonici et Decius ad Regulas Juris Civilis, in
  exchange for my Ludovicus Gomez Commentarij ad Regulas Cancellariae
  Apostolicae et utriusque signaturae [of which I have bought another in
  October 1679.][715]