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Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A. M: The Keeper, for Almost Fifty Years, of the Library Belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh; To Which Are Subjoined New Anecdotes of Buchanan
Grammarian, which was painted by De Nunc, who has preferved a {triking like nefs, though he is not mentioned by Mr. Walpole; and which was engraved by the greate¿: artift, among the great, in the pre fent day. The original piéture is in the koufe of Ruddiman's {on-in-law, James Steuart, efquire, in'saint randrew's Square, Edinburgh. There is fubjoined to this Advertikment a far fimz'le of the hand-wrin ing, and fignature, of Ruddiman, at a late period of his age, from his manufcript notes on his Vindication qf Bzzcbamm. In the Appendix, No. 3, will be found sr fimi/cr of the fubfcriptions,of the eminent lawyers, who, in 1710, bore teftimony to the merits of their librarian. And, there is added, as a tail-piece, the rider, which afcertained Ruddiman's books and which the late Lord Hailes recommended to my attention as a very ingenious devie.
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