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A60373	Theatrum Scotiæ containing the prospects of Their Majesties castles and palaces : together with those of the most considerable towns and colleges, the ruins of many ancient abbeys, churches, monasteries and convents, within the said kingdom : all curiously engraven on copper plates, with a short description of each place / by John Slezer ...	Slezer, John, d. 1714.; Sibbald, Robert, Sir, 1641-1722.; Trenchard, John, Sir, 1640-1695.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3993; ESTC R19602	30,193	141

Hic nemus umbriferum Phoebi Nymphaeque sorores Candida quas inter praenitet Vrania Quae me longinquis redeuntem Teutonis oris Suscipit excelso collocat inque gradu Vrbs nimium faelix Musarum si bona nosset Munera aetherei regna beata Dei. Pelle malas pestes Vrbe quae noxia Musis Alme Deus coeant pax pietasque simul To the Right Honourable JAMES Viscount of Stairs Lord Dalrimple Glenluce and Strenrare President of the College of Justice and One of the Lords of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council GLASGOW GLASGOW is the most famous Empory of all the West of Scotland Nothwithstanding that it is inferiour to many in Antiquity yet if we respect the Largeness of the City the Number and Stateliness of its publick and private Buildings its Commerce with Foreign Nations and the Opulency of its Inhabitants it is the Chief of all the Cities in the Kingdom next to Edinburgh The City stands most pleasantly upon the East Bank of Clyde which is navigable up to the very Tower by Ships of small Burden but New Glasgow which stands on the Mouth of Clyde is a Haven for Vessels of the greatest Size The City it self is joined to the Suburbs which stand on the West Brink by a beautiful Bridge of Eight Arches built of square hewen Stone The most part of the City stands on a Plain and is in a Manner four-square In the very middle of the City is the Tolbooth magnificently built of hewen Stone with a very high Tower and Bells which sound melodiously at every Hour's end At the Tolbooth Four principal Streets crossing each other do divide the City as it were into Four equal Parts every one of which is adorned with several publick Buildings In the higher Part of the City the Cathedral Church stands commonly called St. Mungo's It amazes the Eyes of the Beholders for its stupendious Bigness and Artifice of its Structure It consists of two Churches of which the one is over the other The several Rows of Pillars and exceeding high Towers do show a wonderful piece of Architecture Near to the Church is the Archbishop's Castle fenced with an exceeding high Wall of hewen Stone and looks down to the City but the chief Ornament of the City is the College which was founded by King James the II. Pope Nicholas the V. granting an Indulgence and confirming it by his Bull to have the Rights and Liberties of a College where general Learning should be taught It was erected by the great Labour and Expences of that Reverend Prelate William Turnbull Archbishop of Glasgow The Words of the Bull for the founding of it are That general Study should flourish in the same as well in Theology and the Canon and Civil Law as in all other Arts and Faculties and that the Masters and Teachers there should enjoy all and sundry the Privileges Liberties Honours Immunities and Exemptions which have been granted by the Apostolick See or others any other way to the Masters Teachers or Students of our College at Bononia The Fabrick of the College is remarkable consisting of divers Courts The fore-part of it towards the City is of an excellent Structure being of hewen Stone The Precincts of the College are enlarged by some Acres of Ground purchased by some Money granted to it of late by the King and Estates of the Kingdom It is separated from the rest of the Town by an exceeding high Wall De GLASGUA Carmen ARCTURI JONSTONI GLASGUA tu socias inter caput exeris urbes Et te nil ingens pulchrius Orbis habet Sole sub occiduo Zephyri te temperat aura Frigora nec brumae nec canis ora times Glotta latus cingens electro purior omni est Hic regis imperio lintea mille tuo Pons jugat adversas operoso marmore ripas Et tibi securum per vada praebet iter Aemula Phoeacum tua sunt pomaria Sylvae Ruraque Poestanis sunt tibi plena rosis Farra Ceres armenta Pales Thetis agmina gentis Squammigerae Nemorum dat tibi diva feras Tecta nitent ipsas tangunt vertice nubes Quo commendentur plus tamen intus habent Templa domos superant radiant haec marmore puro Marmoris praetium nobile vincit opus Non procul hinc Themidos se tollunt atria patres Hic ubi purpureos dicere jura vides In medio residens sua pandit limina Phoebus Hic cum Parnass o Pegasis unda fluit Civibus ingentes animos deus armiger artes Nata Jovis stabiles Juno ministrat opes Moenia Dardanidum posuit Grynaeus Apollo Et deus aequoreis qui dominatur aquis Glasgua te fausto struxerunt sydere divi Quot mare Quot tellus Quotquot aequor habet ROBERTI MAGNI M.D. Carmen in insignia Civitatis GLASGUAE SAlmo Quercus cui insidet Rubecula avis Campana Annulus aureus salmonis ore exertus Salmo maris terraeque arbor avis aeris urbi Promittunt quicquid trina elementa ferunt Et campana frequens celebret quod numinis aras Vrbs superesse polo non peritura docet Neve quis indubitet sociari aeterna caducis Annulus id pignus conjugiale notat De GLASGUA Carmen JO ANNIS JONSTONI NON te pontificum luxus non infula tantum Ornavit diri quae tibi causa mali Glottiadae quantum decorant te Glasgua musae Quae celsum attollunt clara sub astra caput Glotta decus rerum piscosis nobilis undis Finitimis recreat jugera laeta soli Ast Glottae decus vicinis gloria terris Glasgua foecundat flumine cuncta suo To the Right Honourable GEORGE Earl of Aberdeen Viscount of Trumartin Lord Haddo Mechlick Tarvis and Kellie c. Old ABERDEEN ABERDEEN the Old is situated a Mile to the North of the New Town commonly called Bon-accord it hath its Name from its Situation being placed at the Mouth of the Water of Don. The Name of the River sufficiently shews that the Picts who inhabited this part of the Country were of a Scythian Descent for the River which by the Latins is called Danubius by the Germans is called Dunave by the Polonians Dunaum by the Turks Tuna being of the very same Name with our Don. The River is remarkable for the Multitude of Salmon and Perches which are taken in it About half a Mile from Old Aberdeen it hath a Bridge of one single Arch which is both large and stately it is made up for the most part of square hewen Stone both the Ends of it being fixed on Rocks By its crooked winding it breaks the force of the Stream so that Nature it self seems to have made way for its Situation A little below it Don enters into the Sea Above the Bridge two Miles is a heap of Stone artificially cast in the Mouth of the Chanal for the easier catching of the Salmon It is the Bishops Seat and hath a Cathedral Church commonly called St. Machars

Largeness of its Precincts the Number and Opulency of its Inhabitants and Dignity of its Rulers By the most ancient Inhabitants it was called Dun Eden by the Latins Edinodunum and by the Germans Edinburghen all which signifie the same thing Dun Eden signifies a Town upon a Hill or rather a City of the Edeni situated on a Hill The Edeni are those who by Ptolemy are termed Ottodeni which Word as some Learned Men think was mistaken for Scottodeni the two first Letters Sc being worn out with Time For near to this City is Curia Ottodenorum whose Name remains to this Day in a Village Four Miles West from the City called Currie And two Miles West from the Town is Corstopitum which also was among the Ottodeni which is a Village commonly called Corstorfin Ptolomy calls this Place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Castrum alatum the Winged Castle which is not so called from that kind of Wings which the Greek Builders as says Vitruvius call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which are double Walls so rising to the Height that they resemble Wings For it is likely there was no regular building in that Place at that time but that they were such as by the Poet Juvenal are called Castella Brigantum which sort of Castles we may see described by Tacitus Annal. Lib. XII where he says That upon high Mountains and other Places of difficult Access he built up Stones in Form of a Fence where the River did run on a slippery Ford. Now these Fences of Stone were nothing else but Stones cast together without Mortar which is also clear from the same Author in the fore-cited Place where he says The Souldiers holding their Bucklers over their Heads for a Defence pulled down the unwrought and ill-built Stones which could not have been so easily done if they had not been cast together without Mortar And certainly our Ancestors chose out this as a very fit Place for a Fort of that Nature For the Hill where the Castle stands is exceeding steep and craggy and the Ascent very difficult except where it looks to the East which Part they fortified with Stones cast together as before The Ascent on which the City now stands had and yet hath upon the North-side a standing Pool which is commonly called the North-Loch Upon the South-side of the Hill there was likewise another standing-Pool called the South-Loch The Verity of which the Rights and Leases of some Houses of St. Ninian's Row do testifie which are let with the Privilege of a Boat annexed and these two Lochs or Lakes bounded the City upon these two Sides as the North-Loch does it at this Day upon the North-side but the South-Loch was drained a Hundred Years ago and upon the Banks thereof are built two several Tracts of Houses between which in the Place where the Loch it self stood is a Street called the Cowgate And so the Breadth of the City toward the South is far extended beyond its former Limits as likewise the Length thereof toward the West is much enlarged for the Grass Market and Horse Market are now within the City-Wall The Reason why this Place is called Castrum Alatum or The winged Castle is to be taken from the very Nature of the Place For besides the Lakes on both sides there are two Hills near the Rock on which the Castle stands viz. Sarisbury and Neils Craigs so named from the sometime Owners thereof which in a manner resemble Wings as is easily perceived Coming to the City from the South-East by the Sea Side for then these Rocks appear like Wings stretched forth and the Rock on which the Castle stands like the Head of a Bird with a Tuft And this is the genuine Derivation of the Word I know there are some learned Persons who will have Ptolomy's Castrum Alatum to be in another part of the Country and not to be Edinodunum seeing he makes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be amongst the Vacomagi but Ptolomy must be born with in all his Mistakes of the Situation of Places here for being an Egyptian living in Alexandria and forced to take things upon Trust and follow the Relation of others it is no Wonder if he be sometimes mistaken The greater Part of the City is built upon the Ascent and it is very probable that the Castle has been the Cause of Building the City For first the Neighbours have built a few Houses near the Castle that under the Reach thereof they might be defended from the Injuries of their Enemies The Number of the People growing apace the Number of the Houses likewise encreased and stretched forth to the very Foot of the Ascent toward the East by which the City together with the Suburbs of the Canon-gate and King's Palace is become one entire Scotch Mile in length but in breadth it is less by the half notwithstanding the Suburbs be included The High Street from the Castle to the Abbey is adorned with stately Buildings which are of late made of hewen Stone since that by an Act of the Town-Council it hath been prohibited for the frequent burnings which happened to build any more Timber-Houses either in the City or Suburbs The great Breadth of the High Street and of the many Lanes which lie on each side the same from the North to the South which send up the Air as it were in Pipes into the High Street and the Nearness of the two Hills called Neils Craigs on the North and Sarisbury Craigs on the South do always refresh the Town with Air which conduces not a little to the Wholesomeness hereof and it was never heard that the Plague raged in it except brought in thither by infected Wares Which Purity of the Air is daily encreased since the Time that excellent fresh Water was brought into the City from a Fountain three Miles distant from the same and that by a most wise Act of the Council all Nastiness is removed The City is enclosed with a kind of an Old Roman Wall on every side except towards the North where the North-Loch does secure it instead of a Wall The City is entered by six Gates or Ports Two of which are to the East two to the South one to the West and one lately made to the North. One of the Gates to the East is called the Netherbow which in the Year 1616 was magnificently rebuilt being the chief Gate of the City adorned with Towers on both sides The other Gate to the East is called the Cowgate Port through which there is an Entry into the Nether Street of the length of the whole City and is called the Cowgate The Eastmost of these Gates to the South through which is an Entry into the City is called the Potter-Row Port from the Suburb called the Potter-Row The Westmost of these is called the Society Port properly the Brewer's Port. They have a great square Court in that Place with Buildings and brave Houses round about it to the very Walls of the

Palace and of the Canons Houses Brechen likewise is famous for the memorable Slaughter of the Danes not far from it De Brechina Carmen ARCTURI JONSTONI FErtile Brechinum geminos interjacet amnes Hic Boream spectat respecit ille notum Rupibus inclusae sternuntur pontibus undae Sunt quoque securis flumina plena vadis Hanc simul Arctoi decorat victoria Regis Perfida cum socii terga dedere Duces Praesulis hic sancti domus est pyramis aedi Proxima Phydiacae forsitan artis opus Si molem spectes nihil est exilius illa Ipsa tamen coeli culmina tangit apex Est structura teres nec raro lumina fallit Eminus hanc spectans esse putabis acum Daedula compages est ventos ridet imbres Nec metuit magni tela trisulca Jovis Si fabricam conferre lubet Brechinia turris Pyramidas superat Nile superbe tuas To the Right Honourable GEORGE Earl of Caithness Lord Biridall c. ROSLIN Chapel THIS Chapel lies in Mid-Lothian Four Miles from Edinburgh and is one of the most curious Pieces of Workman-ship in Europe The Foundation of this rare Building was laid Anno 1440 by William S t Clair Prince of Orkney Duke of Holdenburgh c. A Man as considerable for the publick Works which he erected as for the Lands which he possess'd and the Honours which were conferred upon him by several of the greatest Princes of Europe It is remarkable that in all this Work there are not two Cuts of one sort The most curious Part of the Building is the Vault of the Quire and that which is called the Prince's Pillar so much talk'd of This Chapel was possess'd by a Provost and Seven Canons Regular who were endued with several considerable Revenues through the Liberality of the Lairds of Roslin Here lies buried George Earl of Caithness who lived about the Beginning of the Reformation Alexander Earl of Sutherland great Grand-Child to King Robert de Bruce Three Earls of Orkney and Nine Barons of Roslin The last lay in a Vault so dry that their Bodies have been found intire after Fourscore Years and as fresh as when they were first buried There goes a Tradition That before the Death of any of the Family of Roslin this Chapel appears all in Fire To the Right Honourable the Earl of Dundenald Lord Cochran c. PASLEY A Monastery in the Barony of Ranfrew founded by the Steward of Scotland in the Year 1160. The Monks of Clugny were the first Possessors thereof then the Cistercians and after that the Monks of Clugny a second time who were religious Persons of the Order of St. Bennet but reformed by Odo Abbot of Clugny in Burgundy from whence they had their Name The Monks of this Place wrote a History of this Nation commonly called The Black Book of Pasley At the Reformation it was bestowed on the Duke of Chatterault Sir Robert Spotswood had this Book in his Library and after his Murder General Lambert got it and brought it to England The BASSE IS a little Island within the Forth about a Mile distant from the South Shore The Prospects of it sufficiently testifie how difficult the Access to it is Upon the Top of this Island there is a Spring which sufficiently furnishes the Garrison with Water and there is Pasturage for Twenty or Thirty Sheep 'T is also famous for the great Flocks of Fowls which resort thither in the Months of May and June the Surface of it being almost covered with their Nests Eggs and young Birds The most delicious amongst these different Sorts of wild Fowl is the Soaling Goose and the Kittie Waicke There is only one Island more in the West of Scotland called Ailsey where these Geese do breed and from these two Places the Country is furnished with them during the Months of July and August This Island of the Basse was an old Possession of the Family of Lauder and in King Charles II's Reign it was bought and annexed to the Crown ERRATA PAg. 14. l. 8. read which is p. 16. l. 10. r. Steps p. 23. l. 15. for Tower r. Town p. 34. l. 6. for Court r. Coast twice p. 64. l. 1. r. Dundonald FINIS THE PROSPECTS Facies Arcis EDENBURGEENAE The Southside of the Castle of EDINBURGH Prospectus Civitatis EDINBURGENAE a proedio DEAN dicto The Prospect of EDINBRUGH from y e DEAN Arx BRITANNODUNENSIS ab Oppido Cella Patric●● dicto The Castle of DUMBRITTON from Kilpatrick Prospectus Arcis Regiae BRITANNODUNENSIS ab Occide●● Their Malies Castle of DUMBRITTON from the West Facies Arcis BRITANNODUNENSIS ab Oriente Prospect of y e Castle of DUMBRITTON from y e East The Prospect of the Town of Sterling from the East URBIS STERLINI PROSPECTUS AB ORIENTE The Prospect of their Maties Castle of Sterling ARCIS REGIAE STERLINENSIS PROSPECTUS The Prospect of the House of the Town of Alloa PROSPECTUS ARCIS ET OPPIDI DE ALLOA Prospectus Civitatis LIMNUCHI The Prospect of the Town of LINLITHGOW Prospectus Regis Palatis LIMNUCHENSIS The Prospect of Their Maj ties Palace of LINLITHGOW Prospectus FALCOLANDIAE ab Oriente The Prospect of FALKLAND from the East Palace of FALKLAND Faeics Civitatis Sancti ANDREAE The Prospect of The Town of S t. ANDREWS Ruderae Ecclesioe Cathedraelis Sancti ANDREAE The Ruins of the Cathedrall of S t. ANDREWS Rudera Arcis Sancti ANDREAE The Ruins of the Castle of S t. ANDREWS Facies Civitatis GLASCOAE ab Austro The p●●spect of the Town of GLASGOW from y e South Facies Civitatis GLASGOW ab Oriente Estevo The Prospect of y e Town of GLASGOW from y e North East The COLLEDGE of GLASGOW Facies Civitatis Novae ABREDONIAE ut a propugnaculo Blockhous 〈◊〉 aspicitur New ABERDENE from the Block house Facies Civitaetis ABERDONIAE Veteris The Prspect of Old ABERDIEN Prospectus Civitatis HADINAE The Prospect of the Town of HADDINGTOWN Prospectus Oroe maritimoe LOTHIANAE a Prcedio de Stony hill The Coast of LOTHIAN from Stony hill Prospectus Civitatis MONTIS-ROSAR● The Prospect of the town of MONTROSE Prospectus Civitatis CALIDONIAE The Prospect of the Town of DUNKELD Ecclesia Cathedralis CALIDONIAE The Cathedrall Church of DUNKELL Prospectus Oppidi DUMBLANI The Prospect of the Town of DUMBLANE Ecclesia Cathedralis DUMBLANI The Cathedrall Church of DUMBLANE Prospectus Oppidi HAMILTONIAE Th● Prospect of the Town of HAMILTON Prospectus Civitatis AERAE ab Orientale The Prospect of the Town of AIR from the East Prospectus Civitatis AERAE a Domo de Newtown● The Town of AIRE from y e House of Newtowne PROSPECTUS ARCIS DUNOTRIE The Prospect of Dunotter Castle Prospectus Oppidi de DRYBURGH 〈◊〉 Prospect of the Town of DRYBURGH Rudera Coenobij de DRYBRUGH 〈◊〉 Ruines of the Abbey of DRYBRUGH Prospectus Civitatis INNERNESS Th● prospect of y e Town of INNERNESS Prospectus Palaty et Oppidi de SKUYN Th● Prospect of the House and Town of SKUYN Prospectus Oppidi ELGINAE The Prospect of the Town of ELGINE Rudera Templi Cathedralis ELGINI The Ruins of the Cathedrall Church of ELGIN Prospectus Civitatis TAODUNI Prospect of y e Town of DUNDEE Prospectus Civitatis TAODUNI ab Oriente The Prospect of y e Town of DUNDEE from y e East Prospectus Oppidi ABERBROTHIAE Prospect of y e Town of ABERBROTHICK Prospectus Coenobij ABERBROTHIAE The Prospect of y e Abby of ABERBROTHICK Rudera Caenoby de CORSREGAL seu crucis Sti Re●●● The Ruines of y e Abby of CORSREGAL CHANONRIA Civitatis ROSSIAE The CHANNERY Town of ROSS Prospectus Civitatis PERTHI The Prospect of y e Town of PERTH Prospectus Oppidi et Caenoby FERMELODUNENS The Prospect of y e Town Abby of DUMFERMLING Prospectus Cenoby FERMELODUNEN The Prospect of the Abby of DUMFERMLING Prospectus Palatij Oppidi CULROSSIAE The Prospect of y e House Town of COLROSS Prospectus Coenobij de CULROSS Th● Prospect of the Abby of CULROSS Prospectus Oppidi CALSONIS The Prospect of the Town of KELSO Monasterium CALSONENSE The Abby of KELSO Prospectus Arcis BOTHWELIAE The prospect of BOTHWELL Castle Rudera Coenobij de MELROSS The Ruines of the Abbie of MELROSS Prospectus Oppidi BRECHINAE The Prospect of y e Towne of BRECHIN Capella de ROSSLIN The Chappell of ROSSLIN Prospectus Caenobij et Civitatis PASLETI The Prospect of the Abbey town of PAISLAY Facies Insulae BASSAE ab ora Maris Australi The Prospect of y e BASS from y e South shore Latus Insulae BASSAE Orientale The East syde of the BASS The End of the PROSPECTS