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A60328	Memorialls for the government of the royal-burghs in Scotland with some overtures laid before the nobility and gentry of several shyres in this kingdom : as also, a survey of the city of Aberdeen with the epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon some of our chief burghs translated into English by I.B. / by Philopoliteious (or,) a lover of the publick well-fare.	Skene, Alexander.; Johnstoun, Arthur, 1587-1641.; Barclay, John, 1582-1621.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3935; ESTC R38926	112,307	290

Peace of the Kingdom 1411. where the Provest and many of the best Citizens did assist to gain the Victory of that day with the loss of their lives Also that fatall Battell of Pinkie where there were lost and killed many brave Towns-Men of Aberdeen that went thither though at so far a distance for the Honour of their Soveraign and of the Nation King CHARLES the first in the year 1633 at his Coronation in this Kingdom confirmed and ratified all our above written Priviledges and Liberties of new given and granted by his Royall Father and Progenitors with this addition making and constituting the Provest and Bailies Sheriffs within their Burgh and Freedom-Lands and the Priviledge of having an unground Malt-Market and honored PAUL MENZIES of Kinmundie then present Provest with the Honour of Knight-hood In the year 1649 when the Parliament of Scotland out of their dutifull Respects and Loyaltie to their undoubted Soveraign King CHARLES the second had proclaimed Him King of Great Britain France and Ireland and immediatly did choose Commissioners of all the three Estates of this Kingdom to invite their King to this his Ancient Kingdom to receive the Crown which had now of right descended to him from 108 Kings The Parliament made choise of ALEXANDER JAFFRAY of Kingswells Commissioner for Aberdeen to be one of the two Burrowes to go over to Holland to the King who was a Wise Pious and Discreet Man all his time And he to be faithfull to the City he had his Commission from intreated the Parliament to consider the most important Article in his Commission that so he might undertake that weighty Employment with the greater Alacrity which was to visit the counts of the extraordinary losses of Aberdeen relating to the Publick The Parliament had that respect to him and was so desirous to grant his so just demand that forthwith they did Deput some fit Members who after hearing and considering made their report and thereupon the Parliament by an Act did acknowledge themselves as the Representative of the Nation to be justly resting to the City of Aberdeen the summ of nine hundreth threescore and nine thousand Merks and did grant the Cess of the City to be allowed to them for as many Moneths as drew to eighteen thousand Merks because this great summ that was due to them had exhausted the summs of Money that was Mortified to Hospitals Schools the Colledge and the Common-Poor of that City and had ruined almost the Common Thesaurie thereof but this was all they could spare at that time till an opportunity might fall out to make them more full payment which hitherto hath ever failed and hath been the cause of the severall heavy burdensom Taxations that have of late years been laid on and of procuring that relief which hath been obtained thir five or six years bygone by the Magistrats who withall have made themselves lyable to the grudge of such as are so selfiish that before their particular suffer but a little they could let the Publick come to utter ruine and perish without remedy and unavoidably but of two evils the least is to be chosen But to return Our abovenamed Commissioner obtained also an Act of Parliament that no Souldiers should be quartered in Aberdeen for three years thereafter such was the great respect the Parliament had to him whereupon he went to the King with the rest of the Commissioners of the three Estates And after his return being Commissioner to the Convention of Burrowes at Queensferrie obtained half a merk down of Aberdeens proportion of the 100 Pound of Stent-Roll which was a great advantage to the City He being chosen that year Provest of Aberdeen went with the rest of the Commissioners the next year 1650 to the Hague in Holland where it pleased GOD so to prosper their endeavours as to bring the King home with them Aberdeen being the first City of the Kingdom he came to there he was received with all the Demonstrations of joy and cheerfullness that the Magistrats and Inhabitants could evidence as also the Silver-Keyes of the City were delivered to him by the Provest who tame sometime before to prepare for the Kings reception with an Eloquent and Pertinent Harrangue therewith made by Mr. James Sandilands of Cotton the Cities Recorder or Clerk In the end of February and beginning of March 1651 the King came to Aberdeen where he stayed a week at which time Mr. Robert Farquhar of Munie was Provest Alexander Jaffray who had been Provest the former year having been taken Prisoner at Dumbar-fight which was on the third of September 1650. the King was pleased to honour our then present Provest with the Honor of Knighthood together with Patrick Leslie of Eden who had been Provest some years before with the like Honor. As also in the Year 1681 GEORGE SKEN● of Fintray was Honoured with the Title of Knighthood at EDINBURGH by JAMES Duke of Albany and York then Commissioner to the Parliament of SCOTLAMD for the late KING CHARLES the Second His ROYALL-BROTHER CHAP. VI. Concerning the STATE of ABERDEEN AS for the State of ABERDEEN if it be taken for the Yearly Revenue of their Thesaurie it is not so considerable as some lesser Towns in the Kingdom It is mostly exhausted in paying Stipendiaries and other incidencies especially since the time of Queen Mary at which time our Freedom-Lands and Salmon-Fishings were all fewed out to particular men which though it brought in considerable summs at first yet now the Fewes both of Lands and Waters are but very inconsiderable all of them extending but to seven hundreth sixteen Pounds ten shillings Scots money Yet that it may appear how considerable this City is in reference to the Kings Exchequer if we consider the Customs and Excyse of Merchant-Goods one with another as also the Excyse of Ale Beer and Aquavitae or Strong-Waters with the Yearly Supplie given to the King by Act of Parliament this City one Year with another will be of in-come to the Exchequer about thirty thousand Pounds of Scots money If this were duely considered it might easily be perceived that the Prosperity and Flowrishing of this City is of speciall concernment to the King and the Publick Interests of the Nation and incaice of its decay the prejudice of both will be no less considerable We acknowledge we have severall of the Chiefest Staple Commodities in the Kingdom as Plaiding Fingrams Stockings Salmond Stuffs Serges Sheep-skins and Lamb-skins When Plading was giving good price in Holland the old Conservator SIR PATRICK DRUMMOND frequenty reported that the Kingdom of SCOTLAND was more obliedged to the City of ABERDEEN for the abundance of money the Merchants thereof brought to the Nation then to all the Towns of this Kingdom besides but the Trade of this so profitable a Commodity is greatly decayed and become very low The Rivers of Dee and Don besides what is brought from Ythan and Ugie which two last Rivers belong to the Earle MARISCHALL and

Plenty and Prospe●●ty upon us according to Isa. 62.4 Thou ●●alt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy ●●nd any more be termed desolate but thou shalt be ●●lled Hephzibah and thy land Benlah for the ●ORD delyteth in thee and thy land shall be ●arried It is well worth the noticeing what Bodin 〈◊〉 his third book of his Republick Chap. 7. Pag. ●2 writs of the Province of Languedock in France at the Nobility and Gentry of that Countrey in their conventions had ordered 1200 Livers or an hundred pound sterling yearly for training up the Youth of that whole Countrey in the City of Nimes besides what was done by other Societies and that they builded brave Fortresses or Forts in the Kingdom That they caused execute Buzac who was the most noble and notable Volens or Robber in that Age whom neither Judge nor Magistrat no nor the Parliament of Tholouse it self could get any order taken with Also they appointed other great sums for other brave uses and ends of publick concernment And so goeth on to shew the great profit which accrues to a Nation or Countrey by such conventions and societies and showes that these were better governed in the Cantons of the Switzers then in any other part of the World for every Canton yea every rank of men as Merchants and Trades had their common and general Meetings there for the good of the Publick Also that the ten Circuits of the Empire of Germany have their distinct Meetings a part all which are in such order and correspondence one with another that the Empyre sayes he would have long agoe been brought to ruine had not this Policy and Government prevented it It were much to be wished that there were appointed dyers of Meeting from that Love and Friendship which ought to be amongst Neighbours and Relations in the bounds of every Presbitry or Parish and it were expedient that some Justice of Peace might be present where conveniently they may be had to confer what might tend to the good of the bounds within their precincts and accordingly ●o put such things in practice and to prepare Overtures at every such meeting for the good of ●he whole This questionless would greatly ●end to the good of the Land and would ●ypen matters not onely for more publick conventions but also for a Parliament when ●uch occasion offered or for any other meet●ngs which the Kings Councill appoints as they ●id lately for repairing Hye-Wayes and Bridges Every Parish might have their Heritors with ●uch others of the discreetest of their Yeomanrie ●o meet once or twise every Moneth in a con●enient House unless it be in Winter which ●ere a mean to preserve freedom and friendship ●n the Parish where they might confer at large ●nent the general Concernments thereof as the ●roportioning of the Cess or other Subsidies ●nd laying down a way for a publick Purse ●r defraying publick Charges of the Parish ●roviding for the Poor mending Hye-Wayes Bridges and Calsies within their bounds and ●●king course with idle persons Numa Pompilius King and Law-giver to the ●omans Solon and Lycurgus these Graecian-Law●●vers were much for such Meetings and Fraternities and all such means as might tend to beget and confirm Friendship and Love and advance the common interest see Plutarch on Solon and Lycurgus lives These are but a few hints of such Vertuous Employments and Improvments as our Great Men might lay themselves out in which is humbly conceived might tend much to the Honour of GOD Good of the Countrey and profit of Posterity if effectually prosecuted But because many great Wits are ready to reject every motion which flowes not from themselves or from some of a higher station then they are and for●this end raise objections against such things I shall answere this with one singular observation of the forementioned French Author Bodinus in his fourth book Pag. 593. There are sayes he two remarkable faults which oftentimes men of sharpest spirits fall into concerning the Government of Societies c. One is that they look narrowly to the inconvenients of a Law or of a good motion without considering the good that may flow from it The other is they run from one extream to another So I shall wish the Benefits which may flow from this may be laid in the ballance against any inconvenients which men can imagin can follow upon this Next I wish such may not run from the diligent and carefull observation of such good Overtures and profitable Motions to a supine and totall neglect of all that may tend to the Glory of GOD good of the Countrey and of their Posterity but rather as I hinted in the beginning may improve their accutest Parts and more noble Enduements to fall upon a way of prosecuting these Honorable Ends ●o the compleatest period In which caice I have attained all I ever aimed at being a true Zelot of the Publick Good and in soberness ●hall close with one that was a good Countrey-man in his time who said Vive vale si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum Englished thus Live and farewell if better things thou knows Impairt them freely if not make use of those PHILOPOLITEIUS A Succinct SURVEY Of the famous CITY OF ABERDEEN With its Situation Description Antiquity Fidelity and Loyalty to their SOVERAIGNES AS ALSO The gracious Rewards conferred thereon and the signall Evidences of Honour put upon many chief MAGISTRATS thereof With a Catalogue of THEM since the CITY was burn'd for LOYALTY about the Year 1330. TOGETHER WITH The Epigrams of ARTHUR JOHNSTOUN Doctor of Medicin upon the said CITY and severall other of the Principall ROYALL-BURGHS in this Ancient Kingdom of SCOTLAND Translated into English by I B. By a Zealous Lover of BON-ACCORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aberdeen Printed by Iohn Forbes 1685. BON ACCORD Insignia Vrbis abredonie Psal. 87 4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me behold Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia this man was born there vers 6. The LORD shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there Prov. 17.6 The glory of children are their fathers Philip. 4.8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Unto the Right Honorable SIR GEORGE SKENE of Fintray Lord Provest ALEXR. ALEXANDER Bailie WALTER ROBERTSON Bailie ALEXANDER GORDON Bailie ANDREW MITCHELL Bailie PATRICK GELLIE Dean of Gild JOHN GORDON Thesaurer And to the rest of the Honorable Councill of the City of ABERDEEN RIGHT HONORABLE It hath been the ●avourable Advantage and signall Providence that hath attended Aberdeen for many Ages that it hath had a honorable Character among the Burghs of Scotland which I wish may never declyne the sense whereof made me

Cities-Effairs but now the Bishop hath taken back that Court to the Old-Town as being his Priviledge There is a smaller Fabrick builded by the Citizens for the Inhabitants of the Village of Futtie appointed for Catechiseing that People which since hath had a Minister to preach though not as a distinct Parish All the Citizens and that People being under one Session or Consistoriall for Discipline There is a great Towns-house in the Mercat-place called the TOLL-BOOTH which hath a fair and spacious Rowm for the Courts of Judicature to sit in such as the Head-Courts of the Shyre and City with the Sheriff and Bailie Courts above which there is a MAGAZINE or Store-house for Warlike Ammunition c. It hath also another large stately Rowm where the Magistrats and Town-Councill conveen under which is the low Councill-house where the Dean of Gild and his Assessors meet for effairs peculiar to the Brethren of Gild as also the Commissioners of the Shyre for Cess or such like common concernments together with an other Rowm called the Clerks-Chamber which hath accommodations for Clerks and Writters Upon the East end thereof there is an high-Tower with two Battlements upon which there ●s erected a high and stately Spire or Steeple ●overed with lead under which is a great Clock and Bell and under the samen are severall Rowms for Prisoners both high and low There is also a large and high House called ●he Pack-house and Weigh-house wherein are a ●reat many Rowms for Merchant-Wares of all ●orts near to the Shoar the Shoar being as ● said of late years greatly enlarged so that it ● a pleasant considerable walk from the City to go to the furthest end thereof which leads to the Fields and towards the Harbour-mouth The Mercat-place is larger then in any Town of the Kingdom being an hundreth twenty and four double space in length and about a third part thereof in breadth where it is narrowest so that two Regiments of foot Souldiers may be drawn up in rank and fyle tho in open order There is one of the stateliest Bridges in the Kingdom over the River of Dee of seven Arches of a like and equall largeness within two short myles of the City And there is another be-North the City of an high and great Arch over the River Don both which are mantained by the City upon propper Rents mortified for the same use In the middle of the City there is a Philosophie-Colledge the houses whereof were purchased by the City in consideration that George Earle Marischall Grandfather to this present Earle out of his zeal to the Publick Good and his respect to the City of ABERDEEN did mortifie publick Rents for the Principall and four Regents of the said Colledge whence it is called the Marischall Colledge and makes up an half of the Carolin-University for it hath a Principall and four Regents o● Teaching-Masters and now hath a publick Professor of School-Divinity who teacheth a publick Lesson two dayes every Week during the sitting of the Colledge Also a Professor of Mathematicks who upon other two dayes every week teacheth two Lessons There are also Lessons of Arithmetick and Geometrie taught by ●ther Masters thereunto appointed by that Renowned Famous and Learned Physician DR DUNCAN LIDDELL who mortified a con●●derable Rent to the Professor of Mathematicks and six Mathematicall and Philosophicall Bursers or six years There are many summs of mo●ey mortified to the said Colledge since the e●ection thereof whereto the Town-Councill of Aberdeen are mostly Patrons so that it appears ●here hath been more Charity extended within ●hir hundred and twenty years since the Re●ormation of Religion from Popish Idolatry and Superstition then hath been in all the Ages be●re which our Towns Counts of Mortified Mo●ies for Schools Colledge Hospitalls Gild-Box Common Poor c. can evidence This Colledge hath a copious Library which was at first plenished by the City of Aberdeen who ●ook all their books they had laid up in the ●pper rowm above their Session-house and trans●itted them to their own Library in the Col●dge for the uses of all concerned and Dr. Reid Secretary in the Latine-Tongue to King Charles the first left a Sallary to the keeper ●f the said Library which Library hath been ●ugmented in its books by severall Mortifiers ● by the said Dr. Reid the forementioned Dr. Liddell who mortified about 2000 Merks worth of Books and 20 Merks yearly to buy Mathematicall Books and Instruments and Dr. William Johnstoun Phisician and Professor of the Mathematicks here and by Dr. Patrick Dun a learned Physician and Principall of this Colledge Also there is a Grammar-School which hath a chief Master and three teaching Masters under him to whom the said Dr. Dun mortified 1200 Merks of yearly Rent by which the City is disburdened of what they payed yearly to the former Masters thereof We have a School for Musick which was taught of old by very eminent Musicians in this City There wants no opportunities in this City for Youth both Male and Female to learn any manner of good and commendable skill or knowledge in such things as may best qualifie them There are four Hospitalls in this City one for decayed Brethren of Gild. A second for indigent Widowes and Virgins of Brethren of Gild lately purchased by a sum of money mortified by Dame Marion Dowglas daughter to the somet●me Earle of Buchan and late Lady-Drum for the Honour the Magistrats and Citizens conferred on her deceased Husband at his buriall in Aberdeen 1632. The rents whereof were augmented by a considerable summ mortified to this Hospitall by James Milne Elder Merchant who also mortified 100 Pounds yearly to two Philosophicall Bursers in this Colledge with 500 Merks to this Kirk-session A third Hospitall for Trades-men founded and built by the deceast Dr. William Guild sometime Preacher in Aberdeen and lately Principall of the KINGS Colledge in the Old-Town This Hospitall hath a spacious comely Rowm where the Deacon or Conveener-Courts meet A fourth Hospitall for Litsters the Rent whereof was mortified by Archbald Beans Litster by which they have builded a goodly House with a stately entry The use of this Rent is for the benefit of decayed Litsters their Wives Children and Servants severall of whose Daughters have been provyded with sutable portions out of the said Rent and thereby honestly married There are eight Mills belonging to the City and lands thereunto pertaining whereof a new Wind-Mill is builded of stone and lyme at the South-entrie of the City which may be of excellent use if carefully keeped There are two Water-Mills within the suburbs of the City and five near by in the adjacent territories belonging to the City We have a choise Medicinall Spring called the Well of Spa at the Wool-man-hill built with hewen-ston very specifick for Gout Gravell Collick and Hydropsie as the late Famous Dr. William Barclay Physician did learnedly describe 1615 which is now re-printed when the Well was re-built 1670 the copies

Munie 1645. Mr. Thomas Gray 1646. Mr. Thomas Gray in mense Februarii 1647. Patricius Lesly electus fuit 1647. Patricius Lesly electus apud Gilchonstoun quia Pestis erat in Urbe 1648. Mr. Thomas Gray 1649. Alexander Jaffray de Kingswells 1650. Mr. Robertus Farquhar 1651. Alexander Jaffray 1652. Georgius Morison de Pitfour 1653. Georgius Morison 1654. Georgius Morison 1655. Mr. Thomas Gray 1656. Georgius Cullen qui obiit in dicto officio 1657. Ioannes Jaffray de Dilspro 1658. Ioannes Jaffray 1659. Ioannes Jaffray 1660. Gilbertus Gray 1661. Gilbertus Gray 1662. Gulielmus Gray qui vitam obiit eo anno 1663. Gilbertus Gray 1664. Mr. Robertus Patrie de Portlethin 1665. Mr. Robertus Patrie 1666. Gilbertus Gray qui vitam obiit in dicto Officio 1667. Mr. Robertus Patrie 1668. Mr. Robertus Patrie 1669. Mr. Robertus Patrie 1670. Mr. Robertus Patrie 1671. Robertus Forbes de Robslaw 1672. Robertus Forbes 1673. Robertus Forbes 1674. Robertus Patrie 1675. Robertus Forbes 1676. Georgius Skene de Fintray ad praesentem annum 1685. This City hath not been a barren Mother or Nurse in our Israell in bringing forth and breeding up many eminent men and brave Spirits whereof there might be set down a large Catalogue not onely in bypast years but even of Men eminent for abilities in their severall Professions in this same Age whom I have known by face in my own time and that both in Grammar Musick Philosophy Medicin Mathematicks Poesie the Civill and Cannon-Law School-Divinity the Art Military who have in their Times been not only Ornaments to this City but even to the whole Kingdom But lest this might favour of ostentation and upon severall other considerations I forbear and shall leave it to any other to performe this task if it be found needfull and therefor shall summ up the description of this City with the Elogies written upon some of the Ancient Citizens and Families thereof in these Epigrams made by DR ARTHUR JOHNSTOUN as followes CHAP. VIII The EPIGRAMS of DR ARTHUR IOHNSTOUN Phisitian in ordinary to King CHARLES the first upon the City of ABERDEEN Arthuri Johnstoni Epigrammata De ABERDONIA Urbe Cune populo quisquis Romanam suspicis urbem Et mundi dominam deliciasque vocas Confer Aberdoniam Thytis hanc servilibus undis Alluit Urbs famulo nec procul illa mari est Utraque fulta jugis subjectos despicit amnes Utraque fulminea spirat ab arce minas Illa suos Fabios invictaque Fulmina belli Scipiadas jactat Caesariamque domum Mennesios Urbs haec proceres Gentemque Culenam Et Collissonios Lausoniosque patres Urbe Quirinali minor est Urbs Grampica Caves Sunt tamen HIG Animis Ingeniisque pares Englished thus by I. B Who e're thou art that Rome do'st magnifie And her extoll as people fondly do Entitling her the Earths delight and Queen Compare with her the City ABERDEEN A City which doth neighbour with the Sea To which the Oceans waves do constantlie Flow up at Handmaids yet ere they approach They stoop as fearing too far to encroach From lofty hills both Cities view with pryd The little Brooks which through the Vallayes glyd Both from their stately and their thundering Tower Defye with threatnings all unfriendly power Rome of her Tabii and unconquer'd Hosts Of Scipios and of great Caesars boasts This CITY of her Menzeises great worth Of Cullens and of Lawsons here brought forth And Collisons all men of great esteem Of these she boasts these doth her Glory deem I● Bigness may 'mongst Praises reckned be Rome is indeed of greater bulk then She But in all Gifts and Ornaments of mind Rome may her Equalls in this CITY find ABERDONIA-NOVA URBS-NOVA piscosi quam dictant ostia DEVAE Urbibus Antiquis praeripit omne decus Hanc DELUBRA A beant totum Cantata per Orbem Templaque mortali non fabricata manu Haec prope Romuleis Aedes Sacrata Camaenis Surgit Athenaeum non procul Inde vides Ardua sideriis rutilant Praetoria primis Hic ubi planities panditur ampla fori Adspicis hic Procerum vicina palatia Coelo Et Populi pictos Aureolosque Lares Quid memorem ternos trita propugnacula colles Qualibus Urbs surgit qua caput Orbis erat Hanc quoque Lanaris Mons ornat amaenior illis Hinc ferrugineis SPADA colorat aquis Inde Suburbanum JAMESONI despicis Hortum Qu●● Domini pictum suspicor esse manu Salmonum dat DEVA greges maris equora gazas Memphi tuas quas India jactat opes Pons septem gemino cameratus fornice DEVAM Integit AUTHOREM juncta Tiara notat Haec celebret Vulgus solos Ego prae●ico Cives His collata nihil caetera laudis habent Martia mens illos commendat aurea virtus Rebus ●● in dubiis saepe probata Fides Hospita Gens haec est Comis annula Divum Quaeque regnunt alios huic famulantur opes Si locus est meritis Urbs haec Regina vocari Et Dominae titulum sumere jure potest Caetera Mortales producunt Oppida solos Urbs haec Haeroas Semi-Deosque parit Englished thus NEW-ABERDEEN enrich'd by Dees clear streams All praise from Ancient Cities justly claims It 's bless'd with Churches famous in all lands And Temples framed by no mortall hands Muses alse famous as once Rome did grace Have hallowed a House into this place A Colledge may be seen not far from thence Where Learning fixed hath its residence The Mercat-place where men resort for gain Is stretched out into a spacious Plain There you the stately Judgement-House may view Whose Battlements are of a Starry-Hew There Palaces of Peers you may espy Whose Lofty-Tops approach unto the Sky And Towns-Mens-Houses there you may behold Which garnish'd are and shining like the Gold What need I further the three Hills to name Which as three-Bulwarks fortifie the Same Like these on which that City doeth stand Which once as Head did all the Earth cōmand The Wool-man-hill which all the rest out-vyes In pleasantness this City beautifies There is the Well of Spa that healthfull Font Whose Yr'ne-hew'd-Water colloureth the Mount Not far from thence a Garden 's to be seen Which unto Jameson did appertain Wherein a little pleasant House doth stand Painted as I guess with its Masters hand Dee doth afford of Salmon wondrous store The Neighbour-Sea brings up into the Shore The Riches whereof Egypt makes her boast And Indian-Treasures come into this Coast. A Bridge doth reach along the River Dee Wherein seven double stately Arches be Who built this sumptuous-Work if ye would know The Myter which is carv'd thereon doth show But let the Vulgar sort these things commend The Citizens to praise I do intend If all these things with them compared be They do deserve no praise no memorie That Martiall-mind which oft appeared hath That golden Vertue and unstained Faith Which lodges in them all these joyntly doe Concur to raise