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TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760.
Nemini, ne quidem inimicissimis, injurias faceret:
Si quas acceperat
Oblivisceretur.
Tanta illi oris dignitas,
Ac vis orationis et ingenii
Prope singularis;
Ut facile sibi conciliaret
Principes Reipublicae viros;
Quibus cum vixit familiarissime.
Neque unquam aut amicorum conviviis,
Aut regum consiliis interfuit;
Quin maxima,
Dum sibi minimam sumebat,
Gratifi valeret et authoritate.
Uxorem duxerat GRISELDAM,
Patricii Comitis de Marchmont filiam
Natu maximum ;
Ex qua suscepit Alias duas
Griseldam et Rachaelem.
Sub regno GULIELMI immortalis Viri, •
Nec non sub felicissimo ANNiE imperio,
Amplissimis functus est procurationibus
Prospere, integerrim£,
Regnante GEORGIO primo,
In eorum ordinem cooptatus,
Qui adminstrandis rebus maritimis prsesidebant:
Deinde unus ex aerarii prefectis constitutus.
In utroque consessu,
Munus suum curavit diligenter,
Explevit, omavit.
Quum valetudine paullo infirmiore impeditus,
A negotiis publius se removisset;
Eadem magnitudine animi,
Qua laboribus suffecerat,
Otium usurpavit.
Cum aetatis annum
Quartum & septuagesimum impleverat.
Ex vitfi discessit
Inter lachymas & amplexus suorum,
VIII. Id. August. MDCCXXXVIII.
TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760.
Nemini, ne quidem inimicissimis, injurias faceret:
Si quas acceperat
Oblivisceretur.
Tanta illi oris dignitas,
Ac vis orationis et ingenii
Prope singularis;
Ut facile sibi conciliaret
Principes Reipublicae viros;
Quibus cum vixit familiarissime.
Neque unquam aut amicorum conviviis,
Aut regum consiliis interfuit;
Quin maxima,
Dum sibi minimam sumebat,
Gratifi valeret et authoritate.
Uxorem duxerat GRISELDAM,
Patricii Comitis de Marchmont filiam
Natu maximum ;
Ex qua suscepit Alias duas
Griseldam et Rachaelem.
Sub regno GULIELMI immortalis Viri, •
Nec non sub felicissimo ANNiE imperio,
Amplissimis functus est procurationibus
Prospere, integerrim£,
Regnante GEORGIO primo,
In eorum ordinem cooptatus,
Qui adminstrandis rebus maritimis prsesidebant:
Deinde unus ex aerarii prefectis constitutus.
In utroque consessu,
Munus suum curavit diligenter,
Explevit, omavit.
Quum valetudine paullo infirmiore impeditus,
A negotiis publius se removisset;
Eadem magnitudine animi,
Qua laboribus suffecerat,
Otium usurpavit.
Cum aetatis annum
Quartum & septuagesimum impleverat.
Ex vitfi discessit
Inter lachymas & amplexus suorum,
VIII. Id. August. MDCCXXXVIII.
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