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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

JONSTONI NObilis urbs Rosei jam gaudet nomine Montis Quae prius a Coelo dicta Coelurca fuit Proximus huic mons est quem praeterlabitur amnis Ambrosias populo praebet uterque dapes Mons lectas pecudes Salmones sufficit unda Lautius si quid stagna Neronis habent Quae recreent oculos incingunt lilia ripas Ipsaque puniceis sunt juga picta rosis Ad latus Eoum se vectigale profundum Explicat velis mille teguntur aquae Propter aquas populo praebet spectacula campus Flumine quem Boreas hinc lavat inde Notus Hic Juvenum pars flectit equos pars utitur arcu Pars rotat Herculea grandia saxa manu Sunt quos lucta juvat pars gaudet ludere disco Vel volucres curvo pellere fuste pilas Vrbs celebris te si spectet Capitolia Romae Jupiter Idalium deseret alma Venus De eadem Carmen J. JONSTONI AVreolis urbs picta rosis Mons molliter urbi Imminet Hinc urbi nomina facta canunt At veteres perhibent quondam dixisse Coelurcam Nomine sic prisco nobilitata novo est Et prisca atque nova insignis virtute Virumque Ingeniis patriae qui peperere decus To the Right Honourable JOHN Marquess of Athol Earl of Tullibardin Viscount of Balquhidder Lord Murray Balvenie and Gask c. Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle DUNKELL A Town in the Sheriffdom of Perth on the North of Tay at the Foot of the Grampian Hills being surrounded with pleasant Woods It is the chief Market-Town of the Highlands and the Bishop's Seat The Ruins of the Cathedral Church are yet to be seen but that which chiefly adorns it are the stately Buildings lately erected by the Marquess of Athol To the Right Honourable THOMAS Marquess of Carmarthen Earl of Danby Viscount of Dumblane and Latimer Baron Osborne of Kiveton c. Lord President of their Majesties Council in England and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter c. DUMBLANE DVMBLANE is a pleasant little Town on the Bank of the River Allan where the Ruines of the Bishops and Regular Canons Houses are to be seen Here the Lord William Drummond Viscount of Strathallan hath very fine Dwellings and considerable Revenues in the Circumjacent Country Here also was a Church of excellent Workman-ship a part of which remains yet intire In the Ruines whereof is an ancient Picture representing the Countess of Stratherne with her Children kneeling asking a Blessing from St. Blanus cloathed in his Pontifical Habit. Not long ago Robert Lighton was Bishop of this Place a Man of an Exemplary Life and Conversation He was afterwards translated to the See of Glasgow which he willingly resigned and gave himself wholly up to the Exercises of a pious and contemplative Life At his Death he left all his Books both Manuscripts and others to the Use of the Diocess of Dumblane and mortified a Summ of Money for erecting a Library A Salary was mortified also to the Bibliothecarius by the same Bishop's Sister 's Son It gives the Title of Viscount of Dumblane to the Family of Carmarthen in England To the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of Arran Eldest Son to the Duke of Hamilton and Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle HAMILTON HAMILTON is a Town of Lower Clidsdale situated in a most pleasant Plain upon the Western Bank of Clyde It s Chief Ornament is the Palace of the Duke of Hamilton the Court whereof is on all Quarters adorned with most noble Buildings Especially the Frontispiece looking toward the East is of excellent Workman-ship and has a magnificent Avenue Upon the One Hand of this Avenue there is a Hedge and on the other fair large Gardens abundantly furnished with Fruit-Trees and pleasant Flowers of all Sorts Upon the West side of the Town there is a large Park surrounded with a very high Stone Wall which is about Seven Miles in Circuit the Brook Aven running through it This Park is also famous for its Forest of Tall Oaks and for the great Number of Harts and Buffles it abounds with There is a Church adjacent to the Palace in the Vaults whereof is the Burial Place of the Dukes of Hamilton To the Right Honourable JOHN Maister of Stairs One of the Lords of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council and Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland AIRE or AIRTH AIRE an ancient Town and the Chief Market-Place of the West of Scotland In it the Sheriff Courts are kept it being the head Town of that Sheriffdom which bears the same Name It was of old called St. John's Town but now that Name is antiquated This Town though it be situated in a sandy Plain yet it hath pleasant and fruitful Fields and Greens equally pleasant both Summer and Winter It hath a stately Church and a Bridge with Four Arches joins it to the New Town which is situated on the North side the Water where is to be seen the Castle of the Laird of Craigwallace A Mile North of the Town not far from the Sea-Shoar there is a Lazer-House commonly called the King's Chapel which King Robert de Bruce set apart for maintaining Lepers This Town by the King's Patent is the Sheriff's Seat and hath Thirty and Two Miles to the South and North within its Jurisdiction De Aira Carmen ARCTURI JONSTONI URBS coeli contenta bonis vel ab aere puro Vel quo forte cluis nomen ab aere trahis Mole quidem parva es sed molem dotibus auges Vrbibus magnis nobilitate praeis Grandia saxa vides exili corpore gemmas Plus tamen exilis gemma nitoris habet Et Jovis exiguo surgit de semine Quercus Et septemgemini fluminis or a latent Macte animis terras sibi quae subjecit undas Tibridis urbs olim nil nisi villa fuit De eadem Carmen J. JONSTONI PArva urbs ast ingens animus in fortibus haeret Inferior nulli nobilitate Virum Aeris e campis haurit purissima coelum Incubat miti mollior aura solo Aeria hinc non Aera prius credo illa vocata est Cum duris quid enim mollia juris habent Infera cum superis quod si componere fas est Aurea fo rs dici debuit illa prius To the Right Honourable GEORGE Earl of Marischal Lord Keith and Allrie c. Hereditary Mareschal of Scotland DUNOTTER IT lies in the Shire of the Mairnes and is situated upon a high and inaccessible Rock stretcht out into the Sea and fortified with strong Walls It is one of the Dwellings of the Earls Mareschal the Chief of the Keiths who for the Warlike Valour of their Predecessors in defending their Country from Foreign Enemies were made Hereditary Mareschals of Scotland To the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of Arroll Lord Hay and Slains c. Lord High Constable of Scotland DRYBRUGH

THEATRUM SCOTIAE 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 IN DEFENCE NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET By JOHN SLEZER Captain of the Artillery Company and Surveyor of Their MAJESTIES Stores and Magazines in the Kingdom of SCOTLAND LONDON Printed by John Leake for ABELL SWALLE at the Vnicorn at the West-End of St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIII MARIE R. WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith c. To all our Loving Subjects of what Degree Condition and Quality soever within Our Kingdoms and Dominions Greeting Whereas Our Trusty and Well-beloved John Slezer Gent. hath represented unto Us That he hath been at considerable Charge and great Pains in finishing the First Volume of a Book Entituled Theatrum Scotiae and that he intends to Publish Two other Volumes upon the same Subject and hath humbly besought Us That in Consideration of the great Charge he will be at in perfecting the same We would be pleased to Grant him Our Royal License for the sole Printing and Publishing the said Book wherein We are pleased to Gratifie him We do therefore hereby Grant unto him the said John Slezer Our Royal License for the sole Printing and Publishing the said Three Volumes of the said Book Entituled Theatrum Scotiae or any of them and do strictly Charge Prohibit and Forbid all Our Subjects to Reprint within Our Kingdoms the said Books or any of them or any Abridgment or any part of any of them or to Import Buy Vend Utter or Distribute any Copies or Exemplaries of the same or any Part thereof Reprinted beyond the Seas for the Term of Fourteen Years next Ensuing the Publishing hereof without the Consent and Approbation of the said John Slezer his Heirs Executors or Assigns as they and every of them so Offending will answer the contrary not only by the Forfeiture of the said Books Copies or Exemplaries but at their utmost Peril whereof as well the Wardens and Company of STATIONERS of Our City of London as all and singular Our Officers of the Customs in this Port of London or any other Place within Our Dominions and all other Officers and Ministers whom it may concern are to take particular Notice That due Observance be given to this Our Royal Command Given at Our Court at White-Hall the 6th Day of June 1693. In the Fifth Year of Our Reign By Her MAJESTY's Command J. TRENCHARD TO THE KING and QUEEN May it please Your MAJESTIES THE Kingdom of SCOTLAND containing so many great and remarkable Monuments of Antiquity and nothing of this Nature being yet Published I do in all humility present this short Account of so many considerable Places to Your Majesties most gracious View May God Almighty grant unto Your Majesties a long and prosperous Reign over This and Your Other Dominions and that Your Majesties will vouchfafe Your Royal Pardon for the boldness of this Dedication is the humble Petition of Your MAJESTIES Most Loyal and Obedient Subject and Servant JOHN SLEZER TO THE READER IT 's a Matter worthy of ones enquiry how a Nation as SCOTLAND so much addicted to Military Arts and so constantly ingaged in both Foreign and Domestick Wars should have been in a Capacity to erect such superb Edifices as that Kingdom abounds with There is no Country in Europe that can brag either of greater Piles of Buildings or a more regular Architecture in its Ancient Churches and Religious Fabricks than Scotland was Mistress of about an Age or Two ago To instance One for all the Metropolitan Church of St. Andrews was probably the bigest in Christendom being Seven Foot longer and Two Foot broader than that of St. Peter at Rome and for the Heighth and Embellishing of its Pillars and Roof the Beauty of its Stones and Simetry of its parts was one of the best of the Gothick kind in the World READER You may receive this Impartial Account from me as a Foreigner who am now settled in this Nation and having met with the usual Civility and Kindness Strangers are treated with amongst them it is no wonder if I am tempted to leave some little Marks of Gratitude behind me in transmitting to Posterity those Venerable Remains of former Ages and oblige other Nations with the Prospects of so many considerable Places which I presume will be very acceptable to them It is a Work of so great Charge and will require so many Volumes that I cannot satisfy the Publick but from Time to Time in it And according to the Reception these first Endeavours shall meet with it will encourage me to go on with the rest In the mean time I hope no Person will take Exceptions though the Towns and such of the Nobility whose Arms are here inserted are not always placed conform to the Rank they keep in Parliament it being a Thing which cannot be adjusted in a Work of this Nature till the whole Design is compleated THE CONTENTS Particular Dedications The Prospects of Plates marked Number DUke of Hamilton Edinburgh 1 2. Duke of Lennox Dumbritton 3 4 5. Earl of Marr. Stirling 6 7 8. Earl of Linlithgow Linlithgow 9 10. Viscount of Falkland Falkland 11 12. Lord Secretary Johnston St. Andrews 13 14 15. Viscount of Stairs Glasgow 16 17 18. Earl of Aberdene Aberdene 19 20. Earl of Tweddale Haddington 21 22. Marquess of Montross Montross 23. Marquess of Atholl Dunkell 24 25. Marquess of Caermarthen Dumblane 26 27. Earl of Arran Hamilton 28. Lord Secretary Stairs Aire 29 30. Earl Marshal Dunotter 31. Earl of Errol Drybrugh 32 33. Lord Stranaiver Invernesse 34. Viscount of Stormont Scoon 35. Earl of Elgin Elgin 36 37. Earl of Strathmore Dundee 38 39. Earl of Southesk Aberbrothock 40 41. Earl of Cassillis Corsregal 42. Viscount of Tarbat Channerie 43. Viscount of Strathallan Perth 44. Earl of Levin Dumfermelin 45 46. Earl of Kincardin Culrosse 47 48. Earl of Roxburgh Kelso 49 50. Earl of Farfor Bothwell 51. Earl of Haddington Melrosse 52. Earl of Panmure Brechen 53. Earl of Cathnesse Roslin 54. Earl of Dundonald Pasley 55.   The Basse 56 57. Theatrum SCOTIAE To His Grace WILLIAM Duke of Hamilton Marquess of Cliddesdale Earl of Arran and Lannerick Lord Aven Machlanshire and Pomont c. Lord High Commissioner for the Kingdom of Scotland President of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter c. EDINBURGH EDINBVRGH is situated in Mid-Lothian a Shire of Scotland It is the Chief City of the Kingdom and Royal Seat It far surpasseth all the other Cities of the Kingdom in the Stateliness of its Churches the Beauty and Neatness of its publick and private Buildings the Pleasantness of its Site the

William King John of England granted the same Privileges and Liberties through all the Kingdom of England except London which the Natives did enjoy The Patent is yet to be seen among the Records of Arbroth To the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of Cassillis Lord Kennedy and Dunnur c. CORSREGAL THIS Monastery an Ancient but Stately Edifice lies in the Shire of Carrick and was founded by Donkan Earl of Carrick for the Use and Conveniency of the Cistercian Monks To the Right Honourable GEORGE Viscount of Tarbat Lord M ccloed of Castlehaven c. Lord Register and One of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council CHANNERIE A Town in the Shire of Ross so called from the College of Canons Regular that flourished there lies on the Sea side and is surrounded with pleasant Hills It had a large Cathedral Church a part of which doth yet remain and is a Bishop's Seat Here is to be seen a stately Dwelling of the Earl of Seaforth who hath considerable Revenues in that County To the Right Honourable WILLIAM Viscount of Strathallan Lord Drommond of Cromlix c. PERTH THE Head Town of the Sheriffdom of Perth and the Sheriff's Seat where he keeps his Courts For Dignity it is the second Town in Scotland and is commonly called St. John's Town from a Church built there and dedicated to St. John It is a pretty Town placed between Two Greens on the South Bank of Tay. At a full Tide small Vessels may come up to the Town Of old it had a Bridge of Stone which was carried away by an Inundation Here was also a Famous Monastery founded by King James the I. Anno Dom. 1430 for the Carthusians It gives the Title of Earl to the Family of Perth chief of the Name of Drommond De Pertho Carmen ARCTURI JONSTONI BE●ta prius Perthum nunc urbs antiqua vocaris Et simul a sancto praesule nomen habes Te tua mundities commendat aura salubris Et qui foecundos irrigat amnis agros Divitias lapsi testantur fragmina pontis Et non vulgari fragmina coesa manu Hunc Jovis imperio collectis imbribus unda Subruit impositum nescia ferre jugum Hic quoque Grampigenae quam tollunt carmine vates Est tibi flumineis insula cincta vadis Insula parva quidem celebrem sed reddidit olim Monticolas inter pugna cruenta duces Hic agiles exercet equos generosa juventus Linquit alipides post sua terga notos Martius hic meruit Circus vel arena vocari Grajugenum levibus nobilitata votis Sunt tibi vicini saltus hic figere Cervos Mollibus Capreis tendere lina potes Carsia nec procul est hic redolentia poma Et pyra Crustrithis aequiparanda legis Vtile dum dulci mulces punctum omne tulisti Et tibi debetur summus honoris apex De eadem Carmen J. JONSTONI PRopter aquas tui liquidas amoena vireta Obtinet in medio regna superba solo Nobilium quondam Regum clarissima sedes Pulchra situ pingui germine dives agri Finitimis dat jura locis moremque modumque Huic dare laus illis haec meruisse dari Sola inter patrias incincta est maenibus urbes Hostibus assiduis ne vaga praeda foret Quanta Virum virtus dextrae quae praemia norunt Cimber Saxo ferox genus Hectoridum Foelix laude nova foelix quoque laude vetusta Perge recens priscum perpetuare decus To the Right Honourable DAVID Earl of Levin Lord Leslie of Balgenie Principal Governour of the Castle of Edinburgh and One of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council DUMFERMELIN A Town situated on the West end of the Sheriffdom of Fife It was of old the Kings Seat For on a little Hill near the Bridge are to be seen the Ruines of an Old Castle which is supposed to have been the Palace of Malcolm Canmois It hath a Royal Palace in it near to which are the Ruines of a stately Monastery which was founded Anno 1130 by David I. King of Scotland for the Benedictine Monks and finished by King Malcolm III. where also both he and St. Margaret his Queen are buried It is famous for the Birth of King Charles I. and gives the Title of Earl to a Branch of the Family of the Seatons To the Right Honourable ALEXANDER Earl of Kincardin Lord Bruce c. CULROSSE HATH its Name from Cul which signifies a Bank or Border and Rosse which was the ancient Name of Fife because it lies in the Western Corner of that Shire It is situated on a Descent at the side of the River of Forth its Chief Commodities being Salt and Coals That which chiefly adorns it is the stately Buildings of the Earl of Kincardin with the Gardens and Terrace Walks about it having a pleasant Prospect to the very Mouth of the River Forth Near unto these Buildings are to be seen the Ruins of an Ancient Monastery To the Right Honourable the Earl of Roxburgh Lord Kerr of Cessford and Cavertoun c. KELSO A Town in Teviotdale situated near the Mouth of the River Tweede It was lately almost wholly destroyed by Fire but is now rebuilt and adorned with most stately Buildings It is surrounded with several Noblemen's Mannors and most pleasant and fruitful Fields Here are to be seen the Ruines of an Ancient Monastery founded by King David and possess'd by the Cistercians an Order instituted about the Year 1000 under Pope Vrban the II. by Robert Abbot of the famous Monastery of Cisteaux in Burgundy whence the Observers of that Order were called Cistercians To the Right Honourable ARCHIBALD Earl of Farfor Lord Vandall and Oyd c. One of the Lords of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council The Castle of BOTHWELL IN Lower Clidsdale not far from the River of Clyde near to which is a Bridge of hewen Stone The Ruines of it only are to be seen which notwithstanding do testify its former Greatness Here of old was a Prebendary enjoy'd by a secular Priest founded by Archibald Lord Douglas To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Haddington Lord Binning and Byres c. MELROSSE IT lies in Teviotdale on the Bank of the River Tweede was founded by St. David in the Year 1136 and possess'd by the Bernardines Monks so called from St. Bernard a Burgundian who entring the Monastery of Cisteaux proved so strict an Observer of Monastick Discipline that the Regulars of the foresaid Order took their Name from him and are called at this Day promicuously Bernardines or Cistercians To the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of Panmure Lord Maule Brechen and Navarr c. BRECHEN BRECHEN is a Town situated upon the Banks of the Water of Southesk in the Shire of Angus and is a Bishop's See Here is a Stately Bridge over the River Esk consisting of Two Arches It is a considerable Market-Town for Salmon Horses Oxen and Sheep Here also are to be seen the Ruins of the Bishop's