. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. editedthe Diplomata et Numismata Scotia;, a work .leftincomplete by the death of the author, Mr. JamesAnderson, to which he prefixed an admirableintroduction in Latin. In 1745 he published a RUDDIMAN, 3s 7 THOMAS. 4 Vindication of Buchanans Version of the Psalms,in opposition to an English gentleman of the nameof Benson, who had preferred the version of Johnston. During the summer of thatyear he retired from the disturbed scenes of Edin-burgh to the sequestered
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. editedthe Diplomata et Numismata Scotia;, a work .leftincomplete by the death of the author, Mr. JamesAnderson, to which he prefixed an admirableintroduction in Latin. In 1745 he published a RUDDIMAN, 3s 7 THOMAS. 4 Vindication of Buchanans Version of the Psalms,in opposition to an English gentleman of the nameof Benson, who had preferred the version of Johnston. During the summer of thatyear he retired from the disturbed scenes of Edin-burgh to the sequestered quiet of the country,where he wrote, but without any view to publica-tion, Critical Observations on Burmans Com-mentary upon Lucans Pharsalia, which thateminent seholar had published at Leyden in afterwards issued several small treatises ondisputed parts of Scottish history, to which hewas impelled by the abusive attacks of his adver-saries. He contributed his assistance to variousother works than those mentioned, and also print-ed many of the classics, which are still sought af-ter His portrait is In 1751, at the age of 77, his eyesight began tofail, a misfortune, however, which did not preventhim from continuing his correspondence with hisfriends, or pursuing his studies, with his accus-tomed ardour; and, in the course of the sameyear, he brought out at Edinbnrgh his edition ofLivy, in four volumes 12mo, which Harwood de-clares is one of the most accurate ever resigned his charge of lbrarian to the faculty of advocates, January 7, 1752, and was succeededby David Hume. Ruddiman died at EdinburghJanuary 19, 1757, aged 83, and was interred inthe Greyfriars churchyard, where a monumentwas in 1806 erected to his memory. His works are Voluseni de Animi Tranquillitate, Dialogus. To which lieprefixed a Life of Volusenus (or Wilson). Edin. 1707, 8vo. Johnstoni Cantici Soloinonis Paraphrasis Poetica Edin1709, 8vo. New edition of Virgils jEneid, by Gawin
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