SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 61 



other half of the price at the delivery. If this be 

 done, he will take care to provide a new letter 

 for it and good paper, and the fiftie pounds Scots 

 will goe to defray part of that charge. Arator 

 will not come out till wee see how this of Sedulius 

 is wellcomed. My part of the work of Sedulius 

 is neer done already. If yow can doe anything 

 at the Synode or with your scholars, name not 

 me hot let the undertaking be in Mr Simpson's 

 name and your owne. I shall be glad to hear 

 what may be done in this. I wish yow all 

 happieness. And I ame your assured friend and 

 bumble servant, R. SIBBALD. 



If you gett subscriptions for that number with 

 yow it is like Mr Simpson may get as many here. 

 I never saw either ane Irish ^ramm^" or dic- 

 tionarie. I ame told ther was a Grammer printed 

 abroad, but not very good. 



The exact period of Sir Robert's death is not 

 known ; but it is presumed to have occurred in 

 the year 1722, as in the latter part of that year 

 was published, " Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana ; or a 

 Catalogue of Curious and Valuable Books, con- 

 sisting of Divinity, Civil and Ecclesiastical His- 

 tory, Medicine, Natural History, Philosophy, 

 Mathematics, Belles Lettres, &c. with a curious 

 Collection of Historical and other Manuscripts, 



