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A40385	Northern memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland wherein most or all of the cities, citadels, seaports, castles, forts, fortresses, rivers and rivulets are compendiously described : together with choice collections of various discoveries, remarkable observations, theological notions ... : to which is added the contemplative & practical angler ... / writ in the year 1658, but not till now made publick, by Richard Franck ...	Franck, Richard, 1624?-1708.	1694 (1694)	Wing F2064; ESTC R20592	173,699	348

Why those signal Interruptions so oft invade you that seemingly discover some odd Apprehensions Ar. If they do what then is it more than the Consideration of distracted Times Th. Sooner may the Tides forget their natural Course than I forget to sigh a Penance for my Native Country Ar. But then have you considered the Passion of such corrumpant Grandees that think whole Kingdoms Gobbets not great enough to gobble down to satiate their Appetites till compleatly made victorious over Life and Fortune Th. The only way then to stop the Glut of such furious Drivers is to interpose our selves whilst others more innocent escape their Fury Ar. You almost perswade me into a kind of Pity Th. Or rather it may be into a Passion Ar. That 's a Sin entail'd on Posterity as naturally as Wax subjects it self to the Impression of a Seal So that should I call Affection Passion it but represents a Moral Glass wherein every Man may read his own Face by Reflection Th. And no sooner to retrieve or withdraw when immediately he forgets both Form and Features Ar. Then let all Suspicions suspend themselves so steer your Course to some other Point and call Agrippa from behind that Sycomore Th. I 'll step and call him So ho Agrippa Agrippa What Voice do I hear in these unfrequented Woods and solitary Streams Diana's Fountain nor was Dodona's Grove otherwise than an Emblem of such mortal Contents what Rivers are enrich'd with Trout and Salmon and Trees burdened with the Harmony of Birds for such a Life who would not covet Banishment Ar. What News Agrippa from the Coast of Albion Agrip. We have a Generation of People that can make as good Papists to Morrow as themselves are Protestants to Day that if Popery were but turn'd up Trump would produce you their Charter in Queen Mary's days they 'll walk to Church with you and lie in her Bosom so long till they sting both her and you to Death which makes all Mankind stand a tiptoe to see a tottering Government sink and press down it self under its own Weight Ar. What! have the Grandees no Influence on the People are they grown void of natural Affections to themselves Agrip. What Charity they have for themselves I know not but this I know they have none for one another nor will they contribute one single Sigh for the Kingdom 's Calamity but rather shove the Burden upon the Peoples Shoulders Ar. This is Forty One all over O the Miserie 's that Forty One brought upon the Nation thus some cry out but not a word of the Wickedness of the preceding Years that brought the Misery upon Forty One Those barbarous Stigmatizings Brandings Gaggings Pillorings Whippings cutting off Ears like lopping of Trees oppressive Judgments unheard-of Proceeds by the High-Commission and Star-Chamber-Courts Judicatories fitter for the Spanish Inquisition than free-born English-men and Christians by which means Liberty and Property were invaded at pleasure Th. I remember what King Ahab said to Elijah the Prophet Art thou the Troubler of Israel And I remember what the Prophet replied to the King No but thou and thy Father's House are in that ye have forsaken the Commandments of the Lord and followed after Balaam Here we see the King charges the Prophet and the Prophet he charges the King but the Prophet proves the Charge upon him Ar. This was the Case in Forty One the King demands some of the Members of the House and they return'd the King for Answer It was a Breach of Privilege of the House but if his Majesty pleased to order a Charge against them they would proceed to speedy Justice Th. Was it in Forty or Forty One when the King with an Army invaded the Scots and spent his Money to little purpose Ar. Yes truly it was about that time for then was the Massacre calculated for Ireland and Archbishop Laud's Publication of his Book of Sports for the Profanation of the Sabbath in England here you see Prelacy and Policy went hand in hand together to murder Religion and Property which brought them under the Severities of Justice Th. Ay but how came the King to be made a Publick Example Ar. Not because he had married with a Popish Princess that gave great Encouragement to the Papists in England Not for sending a Congratulatory Letter to the Pope Not for abdicating himself from his Parliament Nor for advancing his Standard Royal at Nottingham and proclaiming open War against his Subjects There was something under his own Hand appear'd against him besides countenancing Papists and protecting Delinquents from Justice Th. The Scots betray'd him I have been told so every body says they sold their King Ar. As much as you sold him it 's true the King threw himself upon the Scots and the Scots threw him back again upon the English this is Matter of Fact but few understand it and fewer will believe it Th. For the love of Friends let us have the Truth whate're it cost Ar. The naked Truth is The Parliament of England about that time when the King at Newark threw himself upon the Scots owed or was in Arrear to them 200000 l. Sterlin for Service done for which they had for Hostage Newcastle Carlisle and Berwick upon Tweed But upon paying them one Moiety down they resigned their Hostage and withdrew into Scotland tendring the King to the English Commissioners who at that time had no Instructions concerning him till they sent to the Parliament to know their further Intentions who ordered the Commissioners to apply themselves to the King to know his Royal Pleasure Th. And what was his Answer Ar. He desired to be removed to one of his Southern Palaces in order to which they removed him to Holmby But the Jest lay here the English without Instructions could not take him and the Scots by Instructions would not take him this was the critical time when no body would have him and the Reason the Scots gave for it was this That he had made such Breaches in the Bowels of England they were unwilling to take him into the Bowels of Scotland This is the Truth on 't and this is the Scots selling their King But where 's Agrippa what have you done with him And I would as gladly know what our proud Superiors intend to do with us except to spin out our Lives with the Wealth of the Nation Th. Agrippa Shall I ask you one single Question Whether is best a Petty King in every County or a Parochial Bishop in every Classis to ride the People but half way to Heaven Agrip. I approve of neither though some oppose a single Person to an Eye-sore in the Kingdom and at the same time conclude a Heptarchy more than enough totally to devour them Th. Such a Government would enervate the People and such Superiors live upon the Spoil of the Country Ar. Is this the present State of Things and the Project that prevails in every Man's Head What is there

so are her well-built Houses and Palaces corresponding very much to compleat it their Metropolis Th. What Fabrick is that on the East of Edinburgh Ar. Hallirood House the Regal Court of Scotland Th. But there 's yet another great Fabrick that presents Westward Ar. That 's Edinburgh-Castle elevated in the Air on an impregnable Precipice of rocky Earth perpendicular in some Parts rampir'd and barrocadoed with thick Walls of Stone and Graffs proportionable to contribute an additional Strength So that you are to consisider this inaccessible Castle shines from a natural as well as an artificial Product because part of it you see contiguous with the Rock but the other part because affixed by cemented Stone which inoculates and incorporates them so firmly together that the whole mass of Building is of such incredible Strength that it 's almost fabulous for any Man to report it or sum up the impregnable Lustre and Beauty of this fair Fortress that defies all Attempts except Famine Disease or Treachery be conduct so that Culverins and Cannons signify but little without Bombs and Carcasses On the other hand the Defendants must not be too liberal lest their Water forsake them sooner than their Ammunition so inevitably draw upon them the foregoing Consequence and incommode them with a thousand Inconveniences True it is many Arguments of Art and Artillery have been sent to examine this impregnable Castle but none were ever found more successful than Hunger and Disease or the golden Apples of the Hesperides Such kind of Magnets muzzle Mercenaries and make them a golden Bridg to pass over Th. Is this fair Fabrick the Parliament-House where the Grandees sit on National Affairs Ar. Yes this is their Palace where the Parliament sits to accommodate the Kingdom whose famous Ports we now relinquish to take a review of the Bars of Musselburg But that on our right Hand is delicate Dalkeith surrounded with a Park and that on our left Hand is Preston-pans where the Natives make Salt from the Brine of the Ocean That other Town before us is the Corporation of Haddington and this is the Brill but the Bass you may see is a prodigious Rock that makes an Island on the Skirts of the Ocean Th. Is this the Place where the Solon Geese breed that are Flesh in Hand but Fish in the Mouth a Mystery I fancy not inferiour to the Barnicle Ar. You say true it 's a great Mystery if seriously to consider the Footsteps of Nature which I shall explain without a Paradox Do but observe that elevated Rock that breaks the Air in that seeming solitary floating Island it 's upon that Rock and only there that she hatches and initiates her young Ones into the World by exposing her Egg to the open Air and the utmost extremity of stormy Winds and those Eggs or the Squirts with other Fowls are so fix'd by contact of a glutinous Specimen to the remote Points of the Rocks that they seem conglutinated and so intirely inoculated as that no extremity of Weather can separate them asunder and where the Female never hatches more than one single Egg at once and that Egg she plants so evenly in the Web of her Foot by placing her Body exactly over it that when she relinquisheth the Rock for Relief with admirable Circumspection she raises her self by cautiously dilating her Web as the Aspry does to circulate the Air who after the same Method as when she leaves her Egg so she falls by circulating the Air and dilating her Web in the same order and decorum as above with such an exact poize and evenness of Body to cover her Egg that no Art nor Industry can imitate or accomplish So that the Egg no sooner sprits but it tumbles down into the brinish Ocean for Nature to nourish it After this manner she hatcheth her young Ones and after this manner I am authorized to publish it Th. So much for Geese this was a Rarity indeed but not so eminently remarkable as the six great Patriots of the English Nation Ar. You push too hard upon me however I 'll name them and no more there were four great Harries viz. Ireton Vane Nevill and Martin and one marvelous Andrew or Andrew Marvel Th. Still here is but Five what 's become of the Sixth Ar. You will find him at Dunbar swadling the Scots Th. What! England's great General the most renowned valorous and victorious Conqueror Oliver Cromwel Ar. Yes that was he that swing'd off the Scots in those solitary Planes and swelling Hills near the Ports of Dunbar there it was that Cromwel and Lesly disputed by dint of Sword and the formidable Terror of Gun-shot in which fatal Engagement the Scots were routed and fled the Field whilst the Conqueror's Army sprinkled the Earth with bloody Sacrifices converting the green Meadows into purple Planes Th. And did not that great General then take in Tamtallon-Castle Ar. Presently after he did and that 's the Place how do you like it Th. Not at all I fancy it a Place but of little Strength Ar. However it covers the Pass of Copperspeth that we now pass through to ascend these dirty miry Moors which direct to the beautiful Battlements of Berwick an English Town upon Scotish Ground whose Banks are bath'd with the sturdy Torrents of Tweed that descend from a mountainous Elevation in or near to Erricksteen distant about some eight or nine Miles from the famous Tintaw whose eminent Ascents face the English Frontiers standing on the Borders or South Marshes of Scotland So that from Erricksteen though some alledg from Tintaw runs the glittering and resolute Streams of Tweed However Tintaw is a prodigious Mountain whose lofty Broaches break the burdned Clouds And such is Errick if Fame be a true Oracle that spouts forth three large and spacious Rivers that wash the pleasant Banks of Scotland one of them is Tweed as above express'd that runs East directly to the Town of Berwick and espouseth her self with the Ocean there gliding along the English Promontories and is the Original of Tweed's Dale Another River is Annon that bathes the fertil and florid Banks of England and creates a Dale called Annon's Dale so glides along towards the quaking Sands and not far from Carlisle lancheth forth into the Ocean But the third is Cloyd and is the last mentioned yet is it nothing inferior to any of the former This River directs her Course North and by West towards the lofty and domineering Turrets of Dumbarton near unto those famous Elevations she mingles her Streams with the profound Depths of the Ocean and is the Author of Cloyd's Dale Now all these spacious and peremptory Rivers are derived from the Springs in the Mountain of Errick but some alledg from Tintaw on whose Top stands a Capsula on the Front of the Hill directing Southward from whence those smaller Streams separate themselves through craggy Passages and Cavities in Rocks so trickling down they sprinkle the moorish Meadows admitting of many

Northern Memoirs Calculated for the Meridian of SCOTLAND Wherein most or all of the Cities Citadels Sea-ports Castles Forts Fortresses Rivers and Rivulets are compendiously described Together with choice Collections of Various Discoveries Remarkable Observations Theological Notions Political Axioms National Intrigues Polemick Inferences Contemplations Speculations and several curious and industrious Inspections lineally drawn from Antiquaries and other noted and intelligible Persons of Honour and Eminency To which is added The Contemplative Practical Angler by way of Diversion With a Narrative of that dextrous and mysterious Art experimented in England and perfected in more remote and solitary Parts of Scotland By way of Dialogue Writ in the Year 1658 but not till now made publick By Richard Franck Philanthropus Plures necat Gula quam Gladius LONDON Printed for the Author To be sold by Henry Mortclock at the Phenix in St. Paul's Church-yard 1694. To my worthy and honoured Friend Mr. J. W. Merchant in London SIR AS this compendious Volume of my Northern Memoirs contains nothing of Obscenity whereat I may Blush so I hope no Absurdity worthy your reprehension Yet because modelized in the plain Methods of an English Dress will perhaps occasion the Sciolist to interpret me but a Junior Academian And truly so he may if when to consider my slender Education However I have endeavoured as much as in me lies to avoid all Prolixity and long Parentheses which possibly would relish unpleasant in your Ear so have I abhorred repeated Tautologies lest fearing to nauseate and surfeit your Appetite For that end Sir I 'll be brief in my Description of Scotland and as concise as possible in my Contemplative Angler so sum up both as compendiously as I can In Cambridg it 's true I had my Education but Travel having the Ascendent over me I afterwards rambled the remote Northern Tracts of Scotland where to admiration I inspected that little Artick World and every Angle of it It 's true Travel always affected me and to travel by Books when nothing else presented to transport me was a solitary kind of Satisfaction but no Fruition I must confess 't was in an ill Juncture of Time when the Nation was alarm'd by the fatal approach of an Intestine War that perplex'd my anxious Thoughts with various Inquietudes because then to see a preternatural Cloud arise that neither Men nor Counsels were prophetick enough to consult whereby to stop the Deluge of this hostile Inundation that threatned to involve the Kingdom in Blood In this Dilemma I left the University to seek Umbrage in the City of London but my Retirements contributed equal trouble for now a Smoak began to rise in every Corner and like a Meteor it blaz'd out at last into fuliginous Flames that overspread the beautiful Prospect of Peace which not only distracted the Minds but the Manners of Men because then to behold a Storm rise out of a Calm that not only threatned Prerogative and Privilege but a National Exit unhappily calculated to compel the People to see their own Ruins wrapt up in the Destiny of War Where some because never enough satisfied by being well endeavoured by inadvertency to make themselves worse and striking their Breasts with their own Weapons forced all the Kingdom to bleed at last So that now every Man runs to seek a Pleget to stanch if possible the reeking Wound yet no Man so propitious to find his own Cure by which he fancied all the rest incurable That now so generally and epidemically the Kingdom was diseased that deliriated and distracted they let one another Blood Nor stop'd it here neither for the cultivated Fields stained all over with English Blood beyond all precedent bled till the Life of that Non-such Charles expired But now since England is so happily blest under the prudent Conduct of a valorous Prince whose Heroick Vertues like a Corona surround him presents me an opportunity to step into Scotland to examine there her remoter Stars fed by the vital Flames of our Southern Orb supposing it no Riddle to fancy any Man ridiculous that holds up a Taper to illuminate the Sun for if when to consider that the beautiful Cynthia sheds her Nocturnal Beam abroad only to sprinkle the Universe with cold Influences from thence we conclude that the Major Luminary viz. the Sun adds to her Obscurity his bright Reflections since she of her self is but a borrowed Light that can neither warm the World nor cherish it with Vegetation But the Light of the Sun not only invigorates the Creation with Light and Warmth but is also a creational Good in the Ends of Production Come then whilst it is Day let us step into Scotland to rummage and rifle her Rivers and Rivulets and examine her flourishing Streams for entertainment there the Rocks and the Groves will be our solent Reception and the Cities and Citadels supply us with Accommodation and there I fancy our Time will be well enough spent to view the Country and give a Description of all her Curiosities which I here present you my worthy Patron in this short Narrative not doubting your Clemency to absolve my stripling Muse though not Fleg enough to elevate it self to the lowest Elevations of your generous Acceptation But I 'll do what I can in these Northern Tracts to bring you a Discovery of some of her Rarities whose solitary Shades strike a Damp to my Pen because to behold there such unexpected Landskips Meanders and Labyrinths which I frequently met with as exposed my Resolution to a farther Progress whereby to discover all her Northern Gaities that shin'd so splendidly in every Fir-wood as also in her lofty domineering Hills that over-top'd the Submissive shady Dales and over-look'd the rapid Torrents of Rivers and pretty purling gliding Rivulets where the polish'd Rocks and imbellish'd Fortifications beyond belief so surpriz'd my Genius that it puzzles me to report these remote Curiosities For you are to consider Sir that the whole Tract of Scotland is but one single Series of admirable Delights notwithstanding the prejudicate Reports of some Men that represent it otherwise For if Eye-sight be Argument convincing enough to confirm a Truth it enervates my Pen to describe Scotland's Curiosities which properly ought to fall under a more elegant Stile to range them in order for a better Discovery For Scotland is not Europe's Vmbra as fictitiously imagined by some extravagant Wits No it 's rather a legible fair Draught of the beautiful Creation drest up with polish'd Rocks pleasant Savanas flourishing Dales deep and torpid Lakes with shady Fir-Woods immerg'd with Rivers and gliding Rivulets where every Fountain o'reflows a Valley and every Ford superabounds with Fish Where also the swelling Mountains are covered with Sheep and the marish Grounds strewed with Cattle whilst every Field is fill'd with Corn and every Swamp swarms with Fowl This in my Opinion proclaims a Plenty and presents Scotland a Kingdom of Prodigies and Products too to allure Foreigners and

Inhabitant with the Blessings of Plenty and that 's enough So to sum up all in a Compendious Narrative we intitle Montrose the Mount of Roses Th. What Encomium more elegant or what Character more eminent for these sweet Situations than the Rosy Mount of our Northern Latitude Nay what expressions could be added more compendiously significant to characterize the Beautiful Elevations and Imbellishments of Montrose I know not then let this short Derivation answer all Objections whilst we enter her Ports and use Arguments of Refreshment to our hostile Appetites in regard so famous a River as the famous Ask salutes her Banks and flourishing Shores with daily supplies to relieve her Inhabitants and accomodate Strangers Ar. Now our next Advance is to the Town of Dundee but give me leave to call it Deplorable Dundee and not to be exprest without a Deluge of Tears because storm'd and spoil'd by the rash precipitancy of Mercenaries whose rapinous Hands put a fatal Period to her stately Imbellishments with the loss of many innocent lives altogether unconcern'd in that unnatural Controversy Ah poor Dundee torn-up by the Roots and thy Natives and Inhabitants pick'd out at the Port-holes Can Honour shine in such Bloody Sacrifices to lick up the lives of Inhabitants as if by a studied revenge Can nothing sweeten the Conquerours Sword but the reeking Blood of Orphans and Innocents Blush O Heavens what an Age is this There was Wealth enough to answer their Ambitions and probably that as soon as any thing betrayed her Could nothing satisfy the unsatiable Sword but the Life of Dundee to atone as a Sacrifice English Men without Mercy are like Christians without Christianity no Moderation nor Pity left but parcelling out the lives of poor Penitents in cold Blood Who must answer for this at the Bar of Heaven before the Judg of all the World but he that doom'd Dundee to die is dead himself and doom'd e're this and Dundee yet living to survive his Cruelty Th. Is this Dundee Disconsolate Dundee where the merciless Conquerour stuck down his Standard in Streams of Blood Ar. Yes this is that Unfortunate and Deplorable Dundee whose Laurels were stript from the Brow of her Senators to adorn the Conquering Tyrant's Head Here it was that every Arbour flourished with a Fruitful Vine and here every Border was beautified with fragrant Flowers Yet her Situation seems to me none of the best for if bordering too near the brinks of the Ocean proves Insalubrious or stooping too low to salute the Earth incommodes Health by unwholsom Vapours then to stand elevated a pitch too high suffocates with Fumes that equally offend and infect the Air by blotting out Sanity with the Soveraignty of Life Th. This somewhat answers my former Opinion that neither Honour nor Riches nor the Ambitions of Men stand in competition with the Mediocrity of Health nor is there any Blessing under the Sun adequate to the Soveraign Sanctions of Sanity on this side Eternity but the Radies of Sanctification from the Sun of Righteousness The World 's a Fool and none but Fools admire it Yet not that I prophane the Beautiful Creation when only censuring that fictitious and imaginary World in Man Go on with Dundee I overflow with Pity and could wish my Reluctancy Penitency enough to weep her into a Religious Repentance but not with Rachel never to be comforted Hark Arnoldus Don't you hear the Bells Ar. Yes I hear them and what of that Bells and Bonfires are two Catholick Drumsticks with which the Church beats up for Volunteers only to debauch them For what end were Bells hung up if not to Jangle and Bonfires kindled if not to Blaze like an Ignis fatuus Thus People uncultivated are like Land untill'd and Arts unimprov'd print the footsteps of Penury But Arts are improv'd by industrious Ingenuity when through want of Ingenious Industry they slide into a Non-entity As no Man can be truly Religious without good Morals so no Man without good Morals can be in any measure Religious Not that I assert Religion is Morality but Morality is the Porch that lets into the Temple Th. You paraphrase upon Bells I wonder how you miss'd Bag-pipes since the one has as much the root of the matter in 't as the other By these mystical Metaphors if I hit the Mark you present England an Emblem of Canaan and Scotland but a piece of English Imitation Ar. You don't hit the Key right but I perceive England lies close siege in your Bosom however there ought to be some charity for Scotland that so generously entertained you withall sorts of Varieties Th. Scotland'tis true has variety enough to confuse and confound all the Cooks in England Ar. All this I 'll grant Th. Then you must grant their Butter but little better then Grease we usually grease Cart-wheels withal which nauseates my Palat if but to think on 't or remember the Hand that made it up I know there are Men that have Maws like Muck-hills that can feed as freely upon tainted Flesh as you and I upon Pheasant and Partridge Ar. What then Th. Why then you argue as if you had lost your English Appetitie and I would not for all the Varieties in Scotland that the resentments of England should expire in my Palat. Ar. Does Hunger make any distinction in Dainties if not then why should Scotish Kale blot out the Character of English Colliflowers Th. I shan't dispute the point but the very thoughts of England sweetens my apprehensions that possibly e're long I may taste of a Southern Sallad However this I 'll say in the Honour of Scotland that Cold and Hunger are inseparable Companions but their Linens are fresh and were not their Beds so short they would serve well enough for weary Travellers Ar. Then I fancy they will serve well enough for us whilst we trace the fragrant Levels of Fife For now we relinquish the beautiful Ports of Dundee to transport in Boats that are steer'd with a Compass of Straw by reason of the embodied Mists to which Dundee is as incident as any part because standing in a bottom that 's besieged with mucky miry Earth from whence there insurrect such pernicious Vapours as nauseate the Air whereby it becomes almost infectious Th. Why so Ar. Because it debilitates both the Native and Inhabitant and would certainly incapacitate them of Health and long Life did not Custom and a Country-Habit plead a prescription both as to Physick and Diet Insomuch that neither Gass nor Blass nor any nauseating suffocating Fumes nor hardly Death it self can snatch them from Scotland where some Natives have lived to a prodigious Age. Th. But to the Country of Fife I fear you 'l forget it Ar. No no doubt it not nor would I have you startle the Mariner who because destitute of a Card to pilot us over by is compell'd to make use of a Compass of Straw Th. A very ingenious Invention pray tell us the manner on 't Ar. Don't