Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland)/Appendix A

by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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APPENDIX A.

(Pages 18 and 117.)

Dr. Johnson's Burgess Ticket of Aberdeen.

BERDONIÆ vigesimo tertio Die mensis Augusti 1773 pnt [in præsentia] magistratuum. Quo Die vir generosus ac Doctrina Clarus Samuel Johnson LL.D. receptus et admissus fuit in municipes et fratres Guildæ præfati Burgi de Aberdeen in deditissimi affectus et amoris ac eximiæ observantiæ tesseram quibus dicti magistratus illum amplectuntur."