SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 
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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 bot 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 
humble 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 grammer 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, 
