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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

twi-light never goeth fully down till the Sun be 16 degrees under the Horizon whereas all that time at Aberdeen he is not so low at midnight the Suns depression below the Horizon in the longest day being onely 9 degrees 20 minuts at midnight and his Meridian-hight in the shortest day just as much His Meridian-Altitude in the Equinoctial-Line is here 32 degrees 50 minuts and the greatest hight the Sun ever comes to at Aberdeen in the longest day at 12 hours is onely 56 degrees and 20 minuts near a degree less then the hight of the Pole on the North-side 560 Myles be-North Aberdeen the Frozen-Zone begins where on the longest day the Sun doth not set at all nor ryseth in the shortest The Fixt-Stars within 57 degrees 10 minuts of the north-North-Pole do here never set and these within as much of the South do here never rise nor appear It lyeth almost directly under the middlemost Star of the great Boar's tail and under the Constellation of Cassiopeia A degree of Latitude is as over all the Earth sixty Scots Miles from South to North and a degree of Longitude in this Parallell is onely 32 Miles answering to a degree of Latitude by ●eason the Circles of Longitude grow allwayes ●esser the nearer to the Pole It flowes at Aberdeen South and by West and North and by East and consequently is Full-Sea at the Change and Full-Moon at 12 hours and 45 minuts The Sun at his greatest hight wants 33 degrees 40 minuts from being Verticall at Aberdeen This much for the Longitude and Latitude and the Appendixes thereof CHAP. II. Concerning the Description of ABERDEEN ABERDEEN is pleasantly seated upon three Hills which are all joyned together by easie descents so as in the middle of the Streets they are scarcely discernable It is of Circuit about 2141 double spaces through which six Gates enter being built as it presently stands it is difficult to be fortified in the ordinary and regular way of fortifications though it hath been diverse times attempted in this our Age since the late Troubles began In the beginning of the late Troubles it was able to set forth Eight hundred men in good array and Military Furniture to the Fields well trained for service when called thereto It being seated between the Rivers of Dee and Don is said by George Buchannan our Scots-Historiographer to be piscatu Salmonum nobilis that is Excellent or Famous for Salmond-Fishing As for the Accommodations and Ornaments of our City we have an indifferent good entrie to our Harbour for Ships especially since that great Ston called Craig Metellan was raised up out of the mouth of the River of Dee and transported out of the Current thereof so that now Ships can incurr no damnage which was done by the renowned Art and Industrie of that Ingenious and Vertuous Citizen David Anderson As also by that considerable Bulwark the Magistrats of late years caused erect at the Mouth of the South-side of the River extending up the Shoar such a great length so that very great Ships may enter and be safely preserved when they are in without hazard It will not be impropper here to insert this following Information for the benefit of Seamen or Strangers who may have occasion to come by Sea to Aberdeen which skillfull Mariners have observed and been at pains to sett about at the Magistrats desire which is as followeth A Ship coming from the South bound for the Road and Harbour of Aberdeen a mile to the Southward of the Road ye will see a Bay with a Countrey Church standing in the middle thereof called the Kirk of Nigg to the North-ward lyeth the Girdle-ness or Aberdeen-ness which when ye come by come no nearer the same then a long Cable length and so soon as ye come by it ye will see two sharp spire Steeples which Steeples ye must run to the North-ward untill ye open the West-most Steeple a sailesbreadth to the North-ward of the East-most there ye may Anchor on nine or ten fathom water where ye may ride with Southerly Northerly or Westerly Winds As for the Harbour in the entrie thereof is a Barr whereon at low water there is scarce on it two foot water on the South-side of the Barr there stands a Beackon which in the incoming ye must leave on your Larboard-side a Ships breadth free thereof where commonly the best of the Channell doth run From the Beackon to the East-ward even to the Girdleness is all Rocks At Spring-tydes there will be thereon about 15 foot water at Neep-tydes there will be no more then about nine or ten foot But I shall not advise a Stranger to seek that Harbour without a Pilot because it is a Pilots fair way and as soon as ye come to the Road ye can allwayes have a Boat for putting out a Vaiffe at all occasions for Piloting you into the Harbour The nearest rake of the said Harbour is North-East and South-West and when ye are within the said Harbour ye lye land locked for all winds but at low water your Ships lye dry on very good ground If ye be bound for the Harbour coming from the North-ward ye may borrow into the Land or upon the Shoar four or five fathom and with Westerly-Winds into three fathom The flowings of the said Harbour within are South and be West and in the road South-South-West ABERDEEN hath ever had since the time of Poperie a great and fair Fabrick containing two great and spacious Churches for Publick Worship the Greatest towards the West is called the Old-Church the lesser towards the East is called the New-Church with a stately Spire or Steeple the Churches and Steeple are covered beautifully with Lead and within plenished neatly with good Dasks and Galries of excellent Workmanship of Wainscot and great and large Lights and Windowes In the Steeple are three great and harmonious Bells in sound each descending below another but by one Musicall Note as upon a Bimull-Clieff and these three Bells strick 24 stroaks at every half hour in a sweet and pleasant Concord the great Clock having four fair Horologes with conspicuous Figures clearly guilded one to every Airth viz. South North East and West for use to every part of the City and Suburbs These Bells being rung for conveening to Publick Worship on the Sabbath Dayes there is but one Bell rung first at the second two Bells and at the third three Bells which make a grave and melodious Melodie Also there is another Fabrick in the midst of the City of a large length called the Gray-Friars-Church with a little Spire or Steeple and a Bell which is alwayes rung for conveening to all publick Lessons in the Colledge and a publick Clock Also another Fabrick called the Trinity-Church with a little Steeple lately repaired by the Trades There is a Chappell at the Castle-hill called St. Ninians it had wont to be employed for the Comissar Court and the rest of it for the common Use of the

recollect what I knew or had read concerning it at least since the fatall Overthrow thereof in the dayes of King David Bruce about the year 1330 by the totall burning of it and the universall slaughter of those that did not escape And finding that Sir Robert Sibbald Dr. of Phisick the Kings Geographer by a warrant from Authority had emitted an Advertisement for a true information of the several Shyres Burghs Universities c of this Kingdom I looked on it as a fit Opportunity to communicat what I knew unto ●ou that ye might dispose thereof ●s ye should see meet I have there●ore set down a Survey of Aberdeen at some length that all may see ●nd perceive what a City it is and ●ath been not onely for conside●able Buildings but also as to the ●enown of its Inhabitants If there ●e ought judged worthy of Praise ●r Remark ye may look upon that ●s an incitement for imitation and ● quickning motive for your Pos●erity to endeavour a studious Pro●ress in the commendable wayes of Vertue for here may be seen the ●minent Evidences of that Loyaltie which was conspicuous in your Ancestors Also the Princely Rewards and Royall Marks our ●overaignes did bestow upon your City and Magistrats Here also may be seen the assiduous care and diligence our Magistrats have at all occasions evidenced for advanceing Vertue and what might tend to the Honour and Reputation of the City If Rome had matter to glory of her Heroes in severall Generations Aberdeen hath not wanted occasion to speak well of many of her Rulers in diverse Ages I love not to be guilty of giving the least appearance of evil or what may savour of flatterie or ostentation One thing I aim at is that ye may out-vye all that have gone before you in Vertue Wisdom Fidelity and care of the Wellfare of your Common-Wealth And in a word that I may say as the Wise-man said of the Vertuous Woman That your own works may praise you in the gates which is the earnest desire of Right Honorable A cordiall Well-wisher to the prosperity true Honour and Wellfare of ABERDEEN and all its Rulers PHILOPOLITEIUS Epistle to the Reader COURTEOUS READER IT may be lookt upon by some that this Survey of Aberdeen may savour of Ostentation seeing there are few or perhaps no other Town in the Kingdom that is descryved or hath any of their Acts published To which I may say that such vanity in so doing far from my mind seeing there is nothing more ordinarie amongst all Nations then to set down what hath been the most remarkable Providences of GOD to their Countries and Places of their Nativity whereby Posterity may observe the Mercies of the LORD to their Ancestors the neglect or ommission of such thankfull remembrances is threatened Psal. 28.5 Because they regard not the Works of the LORD nor the operations of his hands he shall destroy them and not build them up Amongst the many sins for which the LORD is pleading a controversie with this Nation this may have its own weight that we are not thankfull that the LORD did furnish us with well Qualified and Able Men to bear rule in Cities and Shyres which when they are removed without successors sutable to fill their roomes is no small stroak on a Nation according to Isa. 3.1 2 3. For behold the LORD the LORD of Hosts will take away from Jerusalem the Mighty Men and the Man of War the Judge and the Prophet the Prudent and the Ancient the Captain of ●iftie and the Honorable Man the Counsellor and the cunning Artificer and the Eloquent Orator Wherefore I hope none will misconstruct me ●or making a respectful remembrance of these whom the LORD honoured and doth at this time honour ● be worthy Magistrats of our Town in their day and generation for it is said Prov. 17.6 The Glory of Children are their Fathers Another Reason is that it may be these who are in Authority in the Nation over us nay be induced to have a respect to some Great Persons who in their place deserve to be honored with all that respect which is due yet not to the ●rejudice of the interest of Burghs To obviat which judge it not amiss to shew forth what good sub●●cts and of what due esteem a Burgh or City ●ight to be had in that in times of greatest need ●ave been so usefull in their Soveraignes-Service ●● particularly Aberdeen hath been many times ●● History and Records can witness It were to be wished that all the most considerable Burghs in this Kingdom would set apart some of their ablest Men to collect out of their ancient Records what hath been most remarkable in their Towns in former Ages or at present that the Nation might be convinced of their usefulness and of that respect and honour that ought to be put upon them so as it might be seen they ought not to be born down or discouraged when any weighty Concernment of theirs comes in question Upon these accompts I have made this short Essay hoping at least it may be a motive to induce and stir up a more accurat Pen to be employed in this or the like not onely in reference to our City but also to the rest of the Cities and Towns of the Nation who without vanity shall subscryve my self at present according to truth PHILOPOLITEIUS A succinct SURVEY Of the Famous CITY OF ABERDEEN CHAP. I. Concerning the Situation of ABERDEEN Its Longitude and Latitude ABERDEEN is a City in the North of Scotland near the mouth of the River of Dee within the Province of MARR which is a part of the Shyre thereof It lyeth within the North Temperat Zone though much inclyning to the colder side thereof being much nigher to the Pole then to the Equinoctiall-Line for its Latitude or distance from the Equinoctiall-Line is 57 degrees and 10 minuts and its distance from the Pole is onely 32 degrees and 50 minuts It s Longitude or distance from the Meridian of the Canarie Islands is 22 degrees and 30 minuts It is a Parallell or equall Latitude and climate with the Merchant-Isles in Nova-Britannia in America the Southmost cape in Norway called the Noas of Norway Stockholme in Swedland Lavonia and the middle parts of Russia and territories of Muscovia in Europe the Cosacks and other middle Countries in Tartary in Asia In which Parallell the longest day is of length in Sun-shine 17 hours and 40 minuts being within the tenth Climate reckning the first Climate to begin where the longest day is 13 hours long and every Climat to be that space in Latitude wherein the longest day is half an hour longer and consequently the length of the shortest day at Aberdeen is 6 hours and 20 minuts viz. as much as the longest day wants of 24 hours From the first day of the moneth May to the twentytwo day of July it is constant day light the Sky all that time never fully setting even at midnight for the