Ingenuo magnaeque spei puero [blank] in classe [blank] Scholae Grammaticorum Glasguensis auditori, in probatione publica coram magistratibus honoratissimis, bonarum literarum fautoribus beneficis et benignis, Pat. Colquhon Consule, Alex. Macaul, Gualt. Neilson, Georgio Miln Praetoribus, Joan. Campbell Aedile, Rob. Auchincloss Collegii Artificum Magistro, et Henrico Ritchie Quaestore, propter insignes in literis humanioribus progressus, praemium hoc literarium, diligentiae et honoris ergô, merito ... est; in cujus rei fidem subscripsit Glasguae VIto cal. Oct. MDCCLXXXII.
Glasgow Grammar School (Glasgow, Scotland)
Barr, James,Rector of Glasgow Grammar School,associated name.StEdNL
[Glasgow : s.n.,
1782]
One word (between "merito" and "est") crossed out and illegible but probably read "consecutus". Replaced in manuscript with "traditum".
Blanks completed in pencil but not deciphered. Word after "classe" may be "quinta".
Bound into a copy of Cornelii Nepotis Excellentium imperatorum vitae (Glasgow, 1777).
ESTC
Signed at the end in manuscript by the Rector, James Barr.
Scotland Glasgow.