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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

for what you Gulls Suspect After this their sequell answere being mortified and I set at liberty by a just favour of the Privy Councell my formalists durst never attempt any further dispute with me neither any passing countenance in our rancounters But what shall I say concerning my grievances Sed qui Patitur vincit Since there is no helpe or Redresse to bee had for wrongs past no neither alasse for any present in either meane or mighty falls for when the Starres of great states decline under the selfe-same constellation of my sorrowes and made the deplored for spectacles of the inconstancy of fortune what shall I then in a priuate life and publicke pilgrimage expect but the common calamity of this age and the irrevocable redresse of my miseries sustained for this Crowne and Kingdom of England which shall be presently cleared yet would to God I might do as Xerxes the Persian King did that when the Greekes had taken Sardis the Metropole of Lydia he commanded one of his servants to stand before him every day at dinner and cry aloud saying the Grecians have taken Sardis whereby he was never at quiet till it was recovered So would I oppressed I by mighty powers though not a King yet the faythfull subiect of a King cry dayly from the heart broken sorrow of my incompatible injuries O barbarous and inhumane Malaga when shall my soule be revenged on thy cruell murther and when shall mine eyes see thy mercilesse destruction but tush what dreame I now a dayes griefe can finde no reliefe far lesse compassion and meaner revenge and so farewell satisfaction when flattering feare dare challeng obsequiousnesse to the alteration of any thing But afterward when death Heavens fatal messenger and enemy to nature had darted King Iames of matchlesse memory who somtimes besides my soveraigne in some respects and for the former cause was a father to me then was I forcibly I say constrayned to preferre a bill of grievance to the upper house of Parliament Anno 1626. which I dayly followed 17. weekes well my grievances were heard and considered and thereupon an order granted me bearing the Lords reference pleasure concerning my suite vnto Sir Thomas Coventrey Lord keeper of Englands great Seale and through whose office my businesse should have passed which order was delivered unto him by Mr. Iames Maxwell Knight of the blacke Rod and one of his Majesties Bed chamber in behalfe of the Lords of the upper house the order thus being reserved then with the Lord Keeper for a moneth he appointed me to fetch him because of a Warrant to his State office the Certificats of Sir Walter Aston Sir Robert Maunsell and Sir Thomas Button to cleare my sufferings and the causes wherefore which I gladly obeyed and brought all their three Certificates unto him yea and Sir Walter Aston besides his hand writ spoke seriously face to face with him there anent Meane while the house breaking up abruptly because of soveraigne disliking their order for my suite could take none effect as then nor yet since in regard it was no Session of Parliament and so my order and relief lyeth suspended till some happy time But now to confound the calumnious and vituperious Papists the miscreant and miserable Atheists the Peevish and selfe opinionating Puritans the faithles misbeleeving Mungrells of true Religion and of this trueth And the very obiections have beene sayd sometimes in my face by irreligious and disdainfull Nullifidians who have said and thought that I could neither be so constant nor they so cruell I thinke it not amisse to set downe verbally one of their Certificates here being all o● one stile and to one purpose and thus it followeth To the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Coventry Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England c. MAy it please your Honour I have taken boldnesse to certifie your good Lordship of the trueth concerning the grievous sufferings of this heavily injured man William Lithgow true it is that this bearer being bound for Alexandria in Egypt having with him Letters of safe conduct under the Hand and Seale of his late Majesty King James of blessed memory rancountred with us and our Fleete at Malaga Whereof I was imployed as Vice-Admirall against the Pyrats of Algier where he repayring a Boord of us and frequenting our Company ashoore was presently after we had set Sayle apprehended by command of the Governor and Magistrates there as a Spie whom they suspected had of purpose beene left behind by our Generall and us of the Counsell of Warre for the Discovery of that place and other adjacent parts Whereupon being secretly imprisoned in the Governours Palace and after serious examination of our intention he was without any cause done or offered by him most uniustly put to the cruell Racke and tortures besides all other his vnspeakable miseries which for a long time he sustained thereafter whereof I was credibly and infallibly informed by Mr Richard Wilds to whom he was first discovered and by other English Factors of good note then resid●nt there In my repayring diverse times to the Roade of that towne with my Squadron of shippes during the time of his long imprisonment and after his deliverance And afterward the Governour there beeing better informed of our loyall proceedings in those parts and to colour their former cruelties and suspition had of us hee did wrest the Inquisition vpon him where being condemned to Death he had doubtlesse vndergone as I was likewise truely informed by the afore-said Merchants the finall Sentence of their Inquisition if it had not beene for the Religious care and speedy prevention of Sir Walter Aston then Leiger Ambassadour there By whose earnest mediation he being delivered and afterwards sent home by direction of Sir Robert Maunsell Generall I now commend his grieuous and lamentable cause vnto your Lordshipps tender and Religious Consideration Resting From Fulham this tenth of Iuly 1626. Your Lordships Command to serve You Thomas Button Knight and Vice-Admirall And now to conclude this Tragical discourse the Religious eye may perceive Gods compassionate love foure wayes here extended First his powerfull providence in my long and admirable preservation in Prison hunger Vermine and Tortures being my comfortlesse Companions Secondly the pittifull kindnes of his All●seeing Eye in the miraculous Wonder of my Discovery when the perverted policy of subtile Serpents had sceleratly suggested my concealement Thirdly his vnspeakable mercy in my vnlooked-for deliverance beeing by hopelesse me not thought nor sought and yet by his munificence was wrought And lastly his gracious goodnesse in the recovery after some large measure of my health and vse of my body againe all praise and glory be to his infinite Majesty therefore ANd finally merit beeing masked with the darkenesse of ingratitude and the morning Spring-tide of 1627 come I set face from Court for Scotland suiting my discontents with a pedestriall Progresse and my feete with the palludiat way where fixing mine eyes

not bin redeemed certainely their friends and followers who were thicke flocking together would have cut us all off before we could have attained to Ierusalem At last wee beheld the prospect of Ierusalem which was not onely a contentment to my weary body but also being ravished with a kinde of unwonted rejoycing the teares gushed from my eyes for too much ioy In this time the Armenians began to sing in their owne fashion Psalmes to praise the Lord and I also sung the 103 Psalme all the way till we arrived neere the wals of the City where wee ceased from our singing for feare of the Turkes The Sunne being passed to his nightly Repose before our arrivall we found the Gates locked and the Keyes carried up to the Bashaw in the Castle which bred a common sorrow in the company being all both hungry and weary yet the Caravan intreated earnestly the Turkes within to give us over the Wals some victuals for our money shewing heavily the necessity wee had thereof but they would not neither durst attempt such a thing In this time the Guardian of the Monastery of Cordeleirs who remayneth there to receive Travailers of Christendome who having got newes of our late arrivall came and demanded of the Caravan if any Frankes of Europe were in his Society and hee said onely one Then the Guardian called me and asked of what nation I was of and when I told him hee seemed to be exceeding glad yet very sorrowfull for our misfortune Hee having knowne my distresse returned and sent two Friers to me with Bread Wine and Fishes which they let over the Wall as they thought in a secret place but they were espied and on the morrow the Guardiano payed to the Subbashaw or Sanzacke a great fine being a hundred Piasters thirty pounds sterling otherwise both hee and I had bin beheaded which I confesse was a deare bought supper to the gray Friers and no lesse almost to me being both in danger of my Life for starving and then for receivi●g of food therefore suspected for a traytor for the Turkes alleadged he had taken in munition from me and the other Christians to betray the City this they doe oft for a lesser fault then that was onely to get Bribes and money from the Grey Friers which daily stand in fear of their lives Anno 1612 upon Palme-Sunday in the morning wee entered into Ierusalem and at the Gate wee were particularly searched to the effect wee carried in no Furniture of Armes nor powder with us and the poore Armenians notwithstanding they are slaves to Turkes behoved to render their weapons to the Keepers such is the fear they have of Christians And my name was written up in the Clarkes Booke at the Port that my tribute for the Gate and my seeing of the Sepulchre might be payed at one time together before my finall departure thence The Gates of the City are of iron outwardly and above each Gate are brazen Ordnance planted for their defence Having taken my leave of the Caravan and the Company who went to lodge with their own Patriarch I was met and received with the Guardian and twelve Friers upon the streets each of them carrying in their hands a burning wax Candle and one for mee also who received me joyfully and singing all the way to their Monastery Te Deum Laudamus they mightily rejoyced that a Christian had come from such a far Countrey as Scotia to visit Ierusalem Where being arrived they forth-with brought me to a Roome and there the Guardian washed my right foot with water and his Vicar my left and done they kissed my feet so did also all the twelve Friers that stood by But when they knew afterward that I was no Popish Catholicke it sore repented them of their labour I found here ten Frankes newly come the neerest way from Venice hither sixe of them were Germans noble Gentlemen and they also good Protestants who were wonderfull glad to heare mee tell the Gardian flatly in his face I was no Roman Catholicke nor never thought to be The other foure Frankes were Frenchmen two of them Parisians old men the other two of Provance all foure being Papists with nine other Commercing Frankes also that dwelt in Syria and Cyprus most of them being Venetians who were all glad of mee shewing themselves so kind so carefull so loving and so honourable in all respects that they were as kind Gentlemen as ever I met withall especially the Germains Such is the love of strangers when they meete in forraine and remote places They had also in high respect the adventures of my halfe yeares travaile East and beyond Ierusalem troubling mee all the while wee were together to shew them the rare Discourses of my long two yeares survey of Turkey but especially of my furthest sights in the East of Asia and were a●wayes in admiration that I had no fellow Pilgrime in my long Perigrination The Sixt Part. NOw come my swift pac'd feete to Syons seat And faire Jerusalem here to relate Her sacred Monuments and those sweet places Were fil'd with Prophets and Apostles faces Christs Crib at Bethleem and Maries Cave Calver and Golgotha the Holy Grave Deep Adraes valley Hebrons Patriarch'd Tombe Sunke Lazars pit whence he rose from earths wombe Judeas bounds and Desarts that smoaking Lake Which orient folkes doe still for Sodome take Thence view'd I Jordan and his mooddy streames Whence I a Rod did bring to Royall James The lumpe faln Jericho and th' Olive Mount With Gethesamaine where Christ to pray was wont The Arabian Desarts then Egypt land I toyling saw with Nylus swelling strand Where for discourse the seuenth Part shall thee show What thou mayst learn and what by sight I know Of matchlesse Egypt and her unmatch'd bounds That twice a yeere in growth of grain abounds IErusalem is now called by the Turks Kuddish which is in their Language a Holy Citie It was first called Moriah of Moria one of the seven heads of Syon where Abraham would have sacrificed Isaac Gen. 22. 2. and upon his offering it was called Ierusalem Genes 14. 18. It was also named Salem where Sem or Melchisedeck dwelt and Ierusalem was also called Iebus 2 sam 24. 16. And it is the place where Salomon was commanded to build the Temple 2 Chron. 3. 1. which afterward was termed Hieron Salomonis whence came by corruption that word Hieros●lyma David also in the Psalmes gave it divers names And Ierusalem in the Arabick Tongue is also called Beyt almo kadas Beyt signifieth the House almo kadas viz. of Saints Ierusalem standeth in the same place where old Ierusalem stood but not so populous neither in each respect of breadth or length so spacious for on the South side of Ierusalem a great part of Mount Syon is left without which was anciently the heart of the old City and they have taken on the North side now both Mount Calvary and the holy Grave within the

also the Tree to the which our Saviour was bound whiles Annas was making himselfe ready to leade him to Caiphas but that I will not believe for that Tree groweth yet being an Olive Tree They shewed us also the house where Saint Peter was imprisoned when his fetters were shaken off his legs and the prison doores cast open and hee relieved And where Zebedeus the Father of Iames and Iohn dwelt which are nothing but a lump of Ruines Thence we came to the decayed Lodging of Caiphas without the City upon the Mount Syon whereupon there is a Chappell builded and at the entry of that little Domo wee saw the stone on which the Cock crew when Peter denied Christ. Within the same place is the stone that was rolled to the Sepulcher doore of our Saviour being now made an Altar to the Abasines These Abasines are naturally born black and of them silly Religious men who stay at Ierusalem in two places to 〈◊〉 heer at Caiphas House on mount Syon and the other Convent on mount Moriah where Abraham would haue sacrificed Isaac They wear on their heads flat round Caps of a blackish colour and on their bodies long gownes of white Dimmety or linnen cloath representing Ephods the condition of themselves being more devout than understanding the true grounds of their devotion blind zeale and ignorance overswaying their best light of knowledge They being a kinde of people which came from Prester Iehans dominions And within that Chappel they shewed us 〈…〉 wherein say they Christ was 〈◊〉 the night before he was brought to the Judgement Hall Upon the same side of Syon we saw the place where Christ did institute the Sacraments and not far hence a decayed House where say they the Holy Ghost discended vppon the Apostles and also the Sepultures of David and his sonne Salomon Over the which their is a Moskie wherein no Christian may enter to see these monuments For the Turkes doe great Reverence to most of all the ancient Prophets of the old Testament From thence wee returned and entred in via dolorosa the dolorous way by which our Lord and Saviour passed when hee went to be crucified carrying the Crosse upon his Back And at the end of the same street say they the Souldiers met Simon of Cyrene and compelled him to helpe Christ to beare his Crosse when hee fainted Pilats Judgement Hall is altogether ruinated having but onely betweene the two sides of the Lane an old Arch of stone under the which I passed standing full in the high Way Here they shewed us the place where Christ first took up his Crosse and on the top of that Arch wee saw that place called Gabbatha where Jesus stood when Pilat said to the Iews Ecce homo A little below this they brought us to the Church of Saint Anna where say they the Virgin Mary was born And going down another narrow Lane they pointed into a House and said hee Dives the rich Glutton dwelt who would not give to Lazarus the Crums of Bread that fell from his Table this I suspend amongst many other things for all hold it to be a Parable and not a History And although it were a History who can demonstrate the particular place Ierusalem having been so often transformed by alterations Th●s I must need say with such lying Wonders these flattering Friers bring Strangers into a wonderfull admiration and although I rehearse all I saw there yet I wil not believe al onely publishing them as things in different some whereof are frivolous and others some what more credible But as I said before I will make no or very small distinction in the Relation From thence we came without the Eastern gate standing on a low Banke called the daughter of Syon that over-toppeth the valley of Iehosaphat unto an immoveable stone upon the which they said St. Stephen was stoned to death the first Martyr of the Christian faith and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers As we returned to our own Convent they brought us to Mount Moriah and shewed us the place where Abraham offered up Isaac which is in the custody of Nigroes or Aethiopians to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Brasse the common coine of Ierusalem for our going in to that place And the other monastry that these Abasines detaine is on mount Sinay in the Desarts where the body of S. Katherine lyeth buried which is richly maintained and strongly kept by the Aethiopian Emperor There are 200. Religious Abasines in it and 100 souldiers to guard them from the incursions of Arabs who continually molest them because Mount Sinay standeth in the midst of that desolate Arabian wildernesse and far from any civill or inhabited place being distant from Ierusalem above 70 English miles Next they shewed us the place where Iesus sayd Daughters of Ierusalem mourne not for me c. And neer unto this where the Virgin Mary fell into an agony when Iesus passed by carrying his Crosse Also not farre hence we beheld the place where as they say Iesus said to his mother woman behold thy Sonne and to S. Iohn behold thy mother Ascending more upward they shewed us the House of Veronica Sancta and said that our Saviour going by her door all in a sweat to Mount Calvary shee brought him a Napkin to wipe his face which he received and gave it to her again in which say they the print of his face remaineth to this day and is to be seen at Rome It is also said to be in a Town in Spain and another of them at Palermo in Sicilia wherefore I believe the one as well as the rest So out of one if Papists can make three By it they would denote Heavens Deitie But O! not so these three revolv'd in one Points forth the Pope from him his tripled Crown He weav'd these Napkins lying rear'd his seat For which this number makes his number great As concerning the Temple of the most High built by Salomon the description of which edifice yee may read in the 3 of Kings it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar at the taking of Ierusalem Anno Mundi 4450. Secondly it was rebuilded again by the commandement of Cyrus King of Persia after the Iews returned from the Captivity of Babylon but not answerable to the state and magnificence of the former For besides the poverty and smalnesse of it there wanted five things which were in the other First the Ark of the Covenant Secondly the pot of Manna Thirdly the rod of Aaron Fourthly the two Tables of the Law written by the finger of God And fifthly the fire of the Sacrifice which came down from Heaven which were the Symbols and ●adges of Gods favour and mercy shown to them and their forefathers in his covenant of Love This Temple afterward growing in decay Herod the Great that killed the young Infants for Christs sake who suffered for him before he suffered for them built another much

they were the Lord knoweth from thence a Gentleman brought us to a Chappell within a vinyard called the Chappell of miracles the originall whereof was thus Upon a Festivall day being Vintage time there came a Peasant to the Towne and passing by the Vines as there is a number within the walls did eat his belly full of the Grapes and thereafter hearing a Masse was confessed and received the Sacrament And returning the same way hee came and just where hee had eaten the Grapes hee fell a vomiting and casting up with what hee had eaten the Holy Sacrament it straight turned in the likenesse of a new borne Babe being bright and glorious Well the amazed fellow ran back and told his Confessour what was done and his offence who had eaten Grapes before the Reception of the Eucharist The Confessour told the Bishop where hee and other Prelats comming to the place and beholding as it were an Angel grew astonished In the end they wrapped up their little dead god in a cambrick veile there buried it building this Chappell above the place where ever since there is a world of lying miracles done Loe these are the novelties of Cullen Thence ascending the Rhine and coasting Heidleberg I saluted the Princesse Palatine with certaine rare Relicks of the Holy Land And leaving Monsieur Bruce there till my returne I went for Norrenberg to discover the fixe Germans deaths whom I had buried in the Desarts and Grand Caire of Aegypt for the two Barons were subject to the Marquesse of Hanspauch Where having met with some of their Brethren Sisters and Kinsmen and declared to them their deaths I was presently carried to their Prince the Marquesse to whom I related the whole Circumstances Whereupon a brother of the one Baron and a sister of the other were instantly invested in their Land and I likewise by them all greatly regarded and rewarded And after ten dayes feasting reviewing Heidleberg mine associate and I set forward for Helvetia or Switzerland This countrey is divided in thirteene Cantons sixe whereof are Protestants and six Papists the odde Canton being likewise halfe and halfe The most puissant whereof is Biern whose Territory lying along the lake reacheth within a leagve of Geneve The people and their service to most Christian Princes are well knowne being Manly Martiall and trusty faithfull Here in the Canton of Bierne neere to Vrbs wee went and saw a young woman who then had neyther eate nor drunke nor yet excremented for thirteene yeares being truely qualified by her Parents friends Physitians and other Visitors She was alwayes Bed-fast and so extenuated that her Anatomized body carried nought but Sinew skin and bones yet was shee alwayes mindefull of God And the yeare after this time her body returned againe to the naturall vigour in appetite and all things and married a husband bearing two children dyed in the fifth yeare thereafter The day following we entred Geneve where viewing the Towne the chiefe Burgo-masters the seven Ministers and the foure Captaines were all familiarly acquainted with mee The Ministers one night propining mee with a Bible newly Translated in the Italian tongue by one of themselues borne in Milane told me there was a Masse-Priest sixe Leagues off a curate of a Village in Madame du longeviles Country who had gotten in his owne Parish three Widdowes and their three severall Daughters with child and all about one time and for this his Luxurious Cullions was brought to Dijon to be Executed Desiring me to go see the manner the next day leaving Master Bruce with them I went hither and upon the sequell day I saw him hanged upon a new Gallowes as high as a house The three mothers their three Daughters were set before him being Gravidato whose sorrowfull hearts and eye gushing teares for their sinne and shame were lamentable to behold the incestuous Bugerono begging still mercy and pardon for dividing their legges opening their wretched Wombs Lo there is the chastity of the Romish Priests who forsooth may not marry and yet may miscarry themselves in all abomination especially in Sodomy which is their continuall pleasure and practise Returning to Geneve acquainting the Magistrates with his Confession for they are great Intelligencers I wrot this literall Distich Glance Glorious Geneve Gospell-Guiding Gem Great God Governe Good Geneves Ghostly Game The lake of Geneve is sixteene Leaguhs in length and two broad at the South-west end whereof standeth the Towne through whose middle runneth the River of Rhone whose Head and body beginneth from the Lake among the very houses The nature of which River is not unlike to Nylus for when all other Riuers decrease being in Summer this increaseth The reasons proceeding from the excessive Snow that lie upon the Sangalian and Grisonean Alpes which cannot melt till about our longest day that the force and face of the Sunne dissolve it And so ingorging the Lake it giveth Rhone such a body that it is the swiftest River in Europe The Towne on both sides the stood is strongly fortified with rampierd walls and counter-banding Bulwarkes the Ditch without and about being dry is mainly pallasaded with wooden stakes for preventing of suddain Scallets Many assaults have this handfull of people suffered by Land and Water from the Savoyean Duke the recitall whereof would plunge mee in prolixity and therefore committing that Light shining Sion and her Religious Israelites to the tuition of the Almighty I stept over the Alps to Torine Here is the residence of the Dukes of Savoy whose beginning sprung first from the House of Saxon For Berold or Berauld being a neer Cousin to the Emperour Otton the Third and brother to the Saxon Duke the Emperour gratified him with these Lands of Savoy and parts of Piemont where he and his Successors continued four hundred yeers under the Title of Earls untill the Emperour Sigismond at the Counsell of Constance did create Amee the eight Earle of his name Duke And so beginning with him to this present Duke now living named Charles Emanuel there have been only eight Dukes and some of them of short lives And yet of all the Christian Dukes the most Princely Court is kept here for Gallants Gentry and Knights At the same time of my being there this present Duke had wars with his own brother in Law Philp the Third about the Marquesade of Montferrat and Dutchy of Mantua the issue whereof but retorted to the Duke a redoubling disadvantage though now it bee gone from the Gonsagaes to the French Duke of Naviers This Countrey of Piemont is a marvellous fruitfull and plaine Countrey and wonderfull populous like to the River sides of Arno round about Florence Insomuch that a Venetian demanding a Piemont Cavalier what Piemont was Replyed it was a Town of three hundred miles in circuite meaning of the Habitations and populosity of the Soyle The rest of the surnames of the Italian Dukes are these viz. that of Parma is Fernese

verdict for Heauens Ode Ascribd this clause commit thy worke to God O sacred Motto Bishop Sinclairs straine Who turned ●iffes Lord on Scotlands foes agayne Loe here 's the Armes of Cathnes here 's the Stock On which branch'd●boughes relye as on a Rocke But further in I foundlike Armes more patent To kinde Sir William and his line as latent The Primier Accade of that noble race Who for his vertue may reclayme the place Whose Armes with tongue and buckle now they make Fast crosse signe ty'd for a faire Leslyes sake The Lyon hunts o're Land the Ship the Sea The ragged Crosse can scale high wals wee see The wing-layd Gally with her factious oares Both Havens and Floods command and circling shoares The featherd Griffon flees O grim limbd beast That winging Sea and Land vphold● this Creist But for the Pelicans life sprung kind Story Makes honour sing Virtute et Amore. Nay not by blood us she her selfe can do But by her paterne feeding younglings too For which this Patrones Crescent stands so stay That neither Spight nor Tempest can shake Maij Whose Cutchions cleave so fast to 〈…〉 Portends to mee his Armes shall ever bide So Murckles Armes are so except the Rose Spred on the Crosse which Bothwels Armes disclose Whose Vtetine blood he is and present Brother To Cathnes Lord all three sprung from one Mother Bothwels prime Heretrix plight to Hepburnes Race From whom Religious Murckles Rose I trace This Countries instant Shrieve whose Vertue rais'd His honour●d worth his godly life more prais'd But now to rouze their Rootes and how they Sprung See how Antiquity Times triumph Sung This Scaller worth them bl●nch'd for endeavour And Service done to Englands Conquerour With whom from France they first to Britaine came Sprung from a Towne St. Claire now turn'd their name Whose Predecessours by their Val'rous hand Wonne endlesse Fame twice in the Holy●Land Where in that Christian Warre their blood beene lost They loath'd of Gaule and sought our A●bion Coast. Themselves to Scotland came in Cammoires Raigne With good Queene M●rgret and her English traine The Ship from O●knay sayl'd now rul'd by Charles Whereof they Sinclairs long time had beene Earles Whose Lord then William was by Scotlands King Call'd Robert Second First whence Stewarts Spring Sent with his second Sonne to France cross'd Iames Who eighteene yeares liu'd Captivate at Thames This Prisner last turn'd King call'd Iames the First Who Sinclairs Credit kept in Honours thirst The Galley was the Badge of Cathnes Lords As Malcome Cammoirs raigne at lenght Records Which was to Magnus given for Service done Against Mackbaith vsurper of his Crowne The Lyon came by an Heretrix to passe By Marriage whose Sire was surnam'd Dowglas Where after him the Sinclair now Record Was Shriefe of Dumfreis ' and Nidsdales Lord Whose wife was Neece to good King Iames the Third Who for exchange twixt Wicke and Southerne Nidde Did Lands incambiat whence this Cathnes Soile Stands fast for them the rest their Friends recoile Then Circle-bounded Cathnes Cinclairs ground Which Pentland Firth invirones Orknayes sound Whose top is Dunkanes Bay the Root the Ord Long may it long stand fast for their true Lord And as long too Heavens grant what I require The Race of Maij may in that Stocke aspire Till any Age may last Times glasse be runne For Earths last darke Ecclipse of no more Sunne Forsaking Cathnes I imbraced the trembling Surges at Dungsby of strugling Neptune which ingorgeth Pentland or Pictland Firth with nine contrarious Tides eath Tide over-thwarting another with repugnant courses have such violent streames and combustious waves that if these dangerous Births be not rightly taken in passing over the Passengers shall quickely loose sight of life and land for ever yea and one of these tides so forci●le at the backe of Stromaij that it will carry any Vessell back ward in despight of the winds the length of its rapinous current This dreadfull Firth is in breadth betweene the Continent of Cathnes and the I le of South Rannaldshaw in Orknay twelve miles And I devote this credibly in a part of the Northwest end of this Gulfe there is a certaine place of sea where these destracted tydes make their rancountering Randevouze that whirleth ever about cutting in the middle circle a devalling hole with which if either Ship or Boat shall happen to encroach they must quickly either throw over some thing into it as a Barrell a peice of timber and such like or that fatall Euripus shall then suddenly become their swallowing Sepulcher A custome which these bordering Cathenians and Orcadians have ever heretofore observed Arriv'd at South Rannaldshaw an Ile of five miles long and thwarting the I le of Burray I sighted Kirkwall the Metrop●le of Pomonia the mayne Land of Orknay and the onely Mistresse of all the circumjacent Iles being thirty in number The chiefest whereof besides this tract of ground in length twenty sixe and broad five sixe and seven miles are the Iles of Sanda Westra and Stronza Kirkwall it selfe is adorned with the stately and magnifick Church of St. Magnus built by the Danes whose Signiory with the Iles lately it was but indeed for the time present more beautified with the godly life of a most venerable and religious Bishop Mr. George Grahame whom now I may tearme Soveraignity excepted to be the Father of the Countries government then an Ecclesiasticke Prelat The Inhabitants being left void of a Governour or solid Patron are just become like to a broken battell a scattered people without a head hauing but a Burges-Shreiue to administer Iustice and he also an Aliene to them and a Resider in Edenburgh So that in most differences and questions of importance the Plaintiues are inforced to implore the Bishop for their Iudge and hee the aduerse Party for redresse But the more remote p●rts of this auncient little Kingdome as Zetland and the adiacent Iles there haue found such a sting of de●ccular gouerment within these few yeares that these once happy Iles Which long agoe my feet traded ouer are Metamorphosed in the Anatomy of succourlesse oppression and the felicity of the Inhabitants reinuolued within the closet of a Cittadinean cluster But now referring the whole particulars and diuidual descriptions of these Septentrion Iles the mayne continent and the Gigantick Hebridian Iles to my aforesayd worke to be published intitulated Lithgows surueigh of Scotland I send this generall verdict to the world Now having seene most part of thy selfe glore Great Kingdomes Ilands stately Courts rich Townes Most gorgeous showes pomp-glory deckt renownes Hearbagious fields the Pelage-beating shoare Propitious Princes Prelats potent Crownes Smoake shadow'd times curst Churles Misers Clownes Impregnate Forts devalling floods and more Earth-gazing heights Vayle curling Plaines in store Court-rasing honours throwne on envies frownes Worme-vestur'd workes Enamild Arts wits lore Masse-marbled Mansions Mineralls coynd Ore State-superficiall showes swift-glyding Moones I ●oath thy sight pale streames staine watry