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Spectabili Juvoni Joanni Spottiswoode Virginiensi
Alexandri Spottiswoode in Brittannicis Escorcitibus Tribuni
et Virginiensis Colonie per muctos annos Proprefecti
Filio natu maximo
Domini Roberti Spottiswoode de Ponteland Dunipace et New: abbay
Supreme Apud Scotos in Civilibbus Curus Presidis
ex suo Roberto Pronepoti
Hunc Librum in Scotici Juris Praxin
A Dicto Domino Roberto Spottiswoode Conscriptum
In tesseram Agnationis atqu Amicilie
DAT. DICAT
Joannes Spottiswoode de Spottiswoode et New abbay
Scotus dicti Domini Roberti ex Alexandro filio suo
Pronepos,
atqu hores Masculus

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The [authur] Inscription
written by George Fraser
in the Excise office Upon
Spottiswoods practiques
w^ch I sent to Virginea
by To^s Nasmith see my
letters Relative yrto—
addressed to y^e Reverend
M^r Robert Rose Minister
of the Gospell Virginia
dated 12 [Febr] 1744/5