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A60180	An account of the Scotish atlas, or, The description of Scotland ancient & modern by His Sacred Majestie's special command to be published presently by Sir Robert Sibbald D.M. His Majestie's physician in ordinary, and geographer for his ancient kingdom of Scotland.	Sibbald, Robert, Sir, 1641-1722.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3720; ESTC R9801	10,503	13

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCOTISH ATLAS OR THE DESCRIPTION OF SCOTLAND ANCIENT MODERN BY His Sacred MAJESTIE' 's special Command To be published presently BY Sir ROBERT SIBBALD D. M. His MAJESTIE' 's Physician in Ordinary and Geographer for His Ancient Kingdom of SCOTLAND EDINBURGH Printed by DAVID LINDSAY Mr. JAMES KNIBLO JOSUA van SOLINGEN and JOHN COLMAR M.DC.LXXXIII Mark ALEXANDER BOYDS Verses in commendation of Scotland translated out of Latine by J. B. A Noble place near the Pole Artick lies Which on each side the Sea with Waters plies Yet is it not sore pinch'd with Winter-Frost Nor do the Sun 's hot fiery Beams it rost To which both Name and Honour Scota brings A Noble Branch of the Egyptian Kings Their Granaries she fill'd with store of Corn Laws and Religion stablish'd them t' adorn Their Vales with Corns Pastures with Flocks abound Store of rich Metals in their Mines are found Nor doth this Plenty make them idle sit Artificers they have of skill and wit Though gentle-natur'd soon they fly to Arms Not more devout than causing hot Alarms AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK Designed OR THE SCOTISH ATLAS To be Published AMongst the many Sciences which perfite and adorn the mind of man Geography is worthy of all praise because it both affordeth matter of much delight and likewise is of much use for the life of man This World being a Theater whereupon each act their Part and by the several Personages which they represent very much demonstrate the marvellous Wisdom Power and Goodness of GOD who hath contrived all for the perfection of the Universe his great Work and by his never erring Providence bringeth all about to the accomplishment of his good will and pleasure Man who is the lesser World and Abridgement of the Greater cannot but find the advantages of Geography by which we see all the parts of this great Machine even which are most remote from us and look upon these who are absent as if they were present with us What delight must it give us when we learn by it the Situation of Countreys Towns and Rivers as well as if we had viewed them with our eyes It is certain that most of men have a great desire to travell and it is certainly an inexcusable fault to be ignorant of what concerneth our own Countrey Yet many because of their poverty or want of health are deprived of these Advantages And therefore we are much beholden to Geography by which all the face of the World is exposed to us and we can even sitting at home view the whole Earth and Seas and much sooner pass through them in our studies than Travellers can do by their Voyages and so may without the hazard of being infected by the vices of Forreiners improve our minds and reap all other Advantages from them Not to mention here how the Policy of each place the studies of Theology of Natural Philosophy History and several Arts may be improved by this knowledge I shall only instance in Merchandising Navigation and the Pactice of Medicine And for Merchandising which with Navigation is the great support of corporations it can hardly be entertained without the knowledge of the Countreys and their Products of the nature and manners of the Inhabitants and Rodes that lead to them which the Maps and descriptions joyned to them inform us of and by the Maps the Mariners come to know the situation of the Countreys they intend for the Rout they are to follow and the Dangers they are to be aware of As for the Practice of Medicine Hippocrates hath abundantly proven that a Physician who would practise aright must first know the place Now considering these great uses of Geographical Descriptions many complained that there was so little done as to the Description of our Countrey For the Theater of Scotland published by Bleau for all its Bulk except it be the Description of some few shires by the learned Gordon of Straloch and some sheets of his of the Scotia Antiqua containeth little more than what Buchanan wrote and some few Scrapes out of Cambden who is no friend to us in what he writeth And in respect that there are many Islands around this Ancient Kingdom of Scotland and many impetuous and contrary Currents and Tides and in several places the Coast is full of Rocks or Banks of sand which ought to be exactly described for the security of Trade And because the face of the Country by the peace and quiet we enjoy under his Majestie 's happy Government is quite changed from what it was of old and now for Stately Buildings Parks fertile Fields we begin to contend with the happiest of our Neighbours therefore a new and full description was much desired by all ingenious persons For these considerations His Sacred Majesty the Father of his Countrey and gracious and wise provisor of all that may be for the profite and honour of it hath commanded and ordained by His Letters patent under the Seal Sir Robert Sibbald one of His Phisicians in ordinary and His Geographer for His Ancient Kingdom of Scotland to publish an exact description of Scotland Ancient and Modern with the Maps And that the Maps may be exact and just the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council in Scotland gave Commission to John Adair Mathematician and skilfull Mechanick to survey the Shires And the said John Adair by taking the distances of the several Angles from the adjacent Hills hath designed most exact Maps and hath lately made an Hydrographical Map of the River of Forth Geometrically surveyed Wherein after a new and exact way are set down all the Isles blind Rocks Shelves and Sands with an exact Draught of the Coasts with all its Bayes Head lands Ports Havens Towns and other things remarkeable the Depths of the Watters through the whole Firth with the Courses from each Point the prospect and view of the remarkable Islands Head-lands and other considerable land-marks And he is next to survey the Shire of Perth and to make two Maps thereof one of the south-side and another of the North. He will likewise be ready to design the maps of the other Shires that were not done before providing he may have sufficient allowance therefore And that these who are concerned may be the better perswaded thereto there is joyned with this Account the Map of Clackmanan-Shire taken off the Copper-Plate done for it where may be seen not only the Towns Hills Rivers and Lochs but also the different face of the grounds which are Arable and which Moorish and by convenient Marks you may know the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry the Churches Mills woods and Parks c In obedience to His Majesties command the said Sir Robert Sibbald printed Queries for obtaining the Information that was necessary for the Description of each Shire and hath been at the pains to collect several Manuscripts Ancient and Modern which may illustrate the said work and hath recovered several Ancient Inscriptions

Gentrey There is ane Account likewise of the Temperature of each Countrey the Ancient Inhabitants of it And for illustration of the Work the Dignities and Priviledges of several Noble Families and the Rise and Branches of them are shewed The Constitution of the Royal Burghs their Priviledges and their Longitude and Latitude is shewed The Constitution of the Universities their Priviledges their Foundations Bibliothecs and rare Instruments are recorded And whatsoever of these occurreth in the Islands is shewed in the Description of them Printed Books and Manuscripts not yet come to my hand which I entreat may be sent to me and after I have made use of them for the Work they shall be restored 1. The Navigation of King Iames the fifth around his Kingdom with the Maps whatever Language it be in and Whether Manuscript or Printed 2. Cornelius Hibernicus 3. Veremundus 4. Joannes à Campo bello or Cambell 5. Turgot 6. Liber Sconae 7. Liber Pasletensis 8. Liber Pluscartensis 9. William Elphinhstoun Bishop of Aberdeen his Treatise of the Scotish Antiquities 10. The History of Scotland done by Dempster and mentioned in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam 11. Andersonus de Sanctis Scotis 12. The History of the family of the Gordons 13. The Government of Scotland written by Straloch 14. Remarques done by one who travelled through most of the West-Isles 15. The new Map of Shetland with the exact Description thereof And what else in Manuscript or Print may be for the further advancement and embellishment of the Work is humbly desired And there shall be an honourable acknowledgment of these persons who transmit the Manuscripts or Printed Books with assurance that they shall be returned to them again The Work being a publick Work and so much for the honour of the Nation it is hoped that all ingenious persons will contribute the necessary Information in Answer to the General Queries conjoined with the Proposal and there shall be a due commendation of them set down in the Work It is earnestly desired that the Informations anent the several Countreys Towns and Universities may be sent to the Author betwixt and Martimass ensuing for that it is resolved if so be there be a sufficient number of Subscribers to encourage the Work they shall begin God willing to print the Atlas of Scotland in English once in January next 1684. Relations given in for the WORK 1. ANe Account of the Governement and the Laws done by Sir George Mackenzie his Majesties Advocate 2. Ane account of Rona and Hirta by the Lord Register Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat 3. Observations by the same Noble Person 4. Account of the Metals and Minerals in Scotland by Collonel Borthwick 5. The Honours and Priviledges of the High Constable of Scotland 6. Answers to the General Queries concerning Caithness given by Mr. William Dundass of Wester Kincavile Advocate 7. Some Account of Sutherland and of the Family of Suther land given in by Mr. Douglas 8. A Relation of the most considerable things observable in Orknay by Mr. Mathew Mackaile who stayed several years there 9. Ane account of the Current of the Tydes there by the same 10. Observations of several remarkable things in Caithness by the same 11. Memorandum of the Minerals in Scotland containing the places where they are found by Collonel Borthwick 12. Ane description of Shetland and of the fishing there made upon the place 13. Ane account of the Burgh Royal of Hadingtoun from the Magistrates thereof 14. Ane account of the Miraculous cure of mad people at Saint Mackassac well in Stratherne Extracted from the Tryal the Presbitery of Sterling made thereanent 15. A description of the North East part of Aberdeen Shire by the Right Honourable the present Countess of Erroll 16. Ane account of the Leakies in the River of Forth by the Reverend Mr. Wright Minister at Alloway The PROPOSALS FOR The PRINTING the SCOTISH ATLAS WHereas DAVID LINDSAY is to undertake the printing of this Description of Scotland Ancient and Moderne in the English and Latine Languages and is with all possible diligence to proceed thereto And for many considerations is to make use of the Paper the Acts of Parliament were lately printed on for the Description the Lumbard paper amounting to a Greater expence then most of the Curious will be at the charge of The said DAVID LINDSAY will find sufficient Security to deliver to the Subscribers for the English Copy which will consist of upwards of one hundred sheets Folio in a greater letter then that the Acts of Parliament are done upon one Copy in sheets against the middle of January 1685. Which is to contain the Description without the Mapps each Subscriber paying for the said Copy twenty Shillings Sterling whereof ten is to be advanced presently and the other ten to be payed at the delivery of the said Copy in English And he likewise will find sufficient Security at the same time of January 1685. to deliver 69 Mapps General and particular of Scotland to each Subscriber who shall pay twenty five Shillings Sterling more whereof twelve shillings and six pence is to be advanced at the subscribing and the other half at the delivery of the said Book of Mapps which is to be in the Ordinary Lumbard paper without Descriptions He likewise will find sufficient security to deliver against the middle of January 1686. a Copy of the Scotish ATLAS in Latine which will contain the Scotia Antiqua and Moderna in upwards of six score of sheets and is without Mapps Folio in the Paper the Acts of Parliament were lately done upon but a greater letter to each Subscriber therefor who shall pay twenty five Shillings Sterling whereof twelve shillings and six pence is to be advanced at the subscribing and the other half at the delivery of the Book And he will find security to deliver against the same terme of January 1686 a Copy of the 69 Mapps Lumbard paper as before to each Subscriber who shall pay twenty five Shillings Sterling whereof twelve shillings and six pence at the subscribing and the other Moyetie at the delivery of the Book that is to be without Descriptions These Volumes will be dearer to these who subscribe not and the Subscribers will be first furnished with the Books they calling timely for them And because that this work will be very costly to the said DAVID LINDSAY There being many Mapps to be graven new such as were never done before or not right done He will find sufficient security to dedicate the said Maps to be insert in this ATLAS Scoticus to such who shall advance five pounds Sterling and their name and Coat of Armes shall be Graven upon the Map condescended upon The money is to be payed in to John Melvill Merchant in Edinburgh who will find security for the performance of what is undertaken The said John Melvill will be found at his Shop over against the Crosse upon the North-side of the Street and he will depute some to receive the money and give security in other places That the Work may be the sooner finished it is humbly desired that the Subscribers may presently pay the money above-specified FINIS The forme of the subscription for the Copies We whose names are underwritten well approving and Highly commending the Design of DAVID LINDSAY do for his encouragement Subscribe our selves for one or more Copies of the said Book and do recommend so noble and useful a Design to all ingenious persons throughout his Majesties Dominions APPENDIX To the former Account of the SCOTISH ATLAS 1. THE Shires of Selkirk Kinrosshire Innerness Nairn Cromartie Elgin Bamf Ross and the Shire of Tayne were done joyntly with other Mapps But if the Sheriffs and others concerned in these several Shires desire that they may be done apart they may be so drawn they paying for each Shire five pounds Sterling to JOHN ADAIR who is commissionat by the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council for surveying the several Shires and five pounds Sterling more to DAVID LINDSAY for the graving of them upon Copper Plates with their Coat of Arms and the Dedication to them 2. The Right Worshipful Sir GEORGE MACKENZIE His Majestie 's Advocate is pleased to grant his Manuscript-Treatise done by himself wherein all the most considerable Families of the Nobility and Gentry in Scotland are digested in the order of the Alphabet and the Stock of each Family its Rise and the Branches of it are set down from the Original Records the Registers of the Abbacies and the Charters of the said Families the Coat of Arms they bear as it is blazoned by the Lyon Herauld and likewise the Plates with the Coats graven upon them 3. The several Coins in Gold and Silver coined in Scotland done from the Copper-Plates which Sir JOHN FALCONER Master of the Mint caused to be made for them 4. As likewise the Plans of the ancient Monasteries done by direction of Master SLETCHER His Majestie 's Engineer for the Kingdom of Scotland All which are to be joined with the Description of Scotland in English 5. In the Ancient Scotland in Latine are done the Plans of several ancient Camps the Altars Sepulchres and other ancient Monuments of the Copper-Plates made for them 6. There is an Account of the Constitution of the Session by the Right Worshipful the Lord PITMEDDEN 7. An Account of the Admiralty-Court by Sir PATRICK LYON Judge of the said Court of Admiralty 8. A Manuscript and large Account of the noble and ancient Family of Seton 9. A full Account of all that is observable in the Town of Aberdeen given by Mr. SKEEN late Bailie there and delivered to me by Bailie WALTER ROBERTSON Lib. de Aëre Aquis Locis

Lords of the Articles What the Parliament cognosceth The Convention of Estates the Nature of it The Privy Council the power of it The Session the number of the Lords and Clerks their Habits The Outerhouse Inner-house Matters that come before them The Law of Scotland The time the Session sits The Justice-Court the Constitution of it The Court of Exchequer the Nature of it The Court of Admirality the Priviledges of the High Admiral The High Constables Court its Nature The Court of Regality its constitution The Sherif-Court the Constitution of it The Stewart's Court the Nature of it The Baron's Court the Nature of it The Commissary Court the Nature of it The Lyon's Court its Nature The Royal-Burroughs their Constitution The Burrough-Courts their constitution Where of the Convention of Burroughs its Nature Of the Burghs of Regality their Nature Of Burghs of Baronie their Nature Of the Justices of Peace their power The Forces where of the Military Government Of the Mint where of the Money of Scotland The Government of the Church Where of the several Ecclesiastick courts of their Nature Of the Kirk Session The Presbyteries their Number The Synods The Highest court the Convocation The number of the Parishes in Scotland Of the Commission for Teynds and Plantation of Churches Of the Commission for the Fishery These make up the first Part viz. the General Description of Scotland The Second part of the Scotia Moderna is the special wherein the Shires and Counties and the Islands are particularly described Scotland is divided into the Continent and the Isles The Continent most conveniently is divided into three Penninsulae by the three Isthmi or narrow Necks of Land The first is the South-part which towards the South is divided from England by the River of Tweed and Where it faileth by a Line drawn from Solway-Firth towards the North from the rest of the continent by the Firth and River of Forth and a short Line from thence to Clide by which and its Firth it is divided from the North-west-part of Scotland Of this part there is a new Map the Counties contained in this part of all which there are Maps are these Mers Lauderdale West-Lothian Teviotdale Mid-Lothian East-Lothian Twadale Lids-dale Eus-dale and Esk-dale Adnandale Nides-dale All Galloway Sherifdome of Wigtoun The countrey betwixt the Water of Dee and Cree The Stewartrie of Kircudbright South part of Carrick North part of Carrick Kyle Cuninghame The upper ward of Clids-dale The Nether ward of Clids-dale Renfrew Sterling-Shire The Middle part of the continent hath to the South the Firth and River of Forth and the Line betwixt it and the River and Firth of Clide to the west and East the Sea and towards the North it is parted from the rest of the continent of Scotland by the water and Loch of Lochty in Lochaber and a line from the foresaid Loch through a short Neck of Land to the Rise of the Loch and River of Ness You may see it in a new Map thereof It containeth these following Counties and Shires whereof there are particular Maps All Fife The West part of it The East part of it Angus The south part of Perth-Shire where are Strathearn Bequhider Strathallan and Menteith The water of Earn is done in the Map of Tay and with it there is a plan of the Roman camp at Airdoch The North-part of Perth-Shire where are Braid-Albin Athole the Rannoch Glen-Lyon the Over and Lower Gourie Calckmanan Shire Lennox The Sherifdome of Argyle or Innerara where are Knapdale Kintyre Cewal Lorn Knapdale Lorn Kintyre Aberdeen and Bamf-Shire Braid-Albin Athol Brae of Mar Badenoch Spey and Lochaber Lochaber Mernes Murray The Northern part of the Continent hath to the South the Water and Loch of Lochty and a short Line from thence to Loch-Ness and the Water of Ness to the West and East it hath the Sea and to the North the Sea It may be seen in the Map intituled Extima Scotiae Septentrionalis Ora and containeth these Countreys Ross Sutherland Strathnavern Caithness that part of Lochaber on the North side of Lochty Water and Loch Edir Chilis and Assin The Countreys of which there are Maps are these Ross Sutherland Strathnavern Caithness And this is for the Continent of Scotland The Isles are divided into the West Isles the North-Isles and the Isles lying to the East The Islands lying to the East are these which ly in the Firth of Forth and may be seen in the Map of Forth and are described with it The West-Isles are these called Hebrides and Aebudae and of them there are these following Maps Aebudae or the West-Isles Aran. Boot Lews and Harris Lews Harris and SKY in a Map together Ila Jura Viste Mulla The lesser Islands Rumm Canna Egg Muck. The North-Islands as these of Orckney and Schetland and the Maps of them are these A Map of Orkney and Schetland A new Map of Orkney with the Roads and Harbours A most exact new Map of Orkney with the Forelands Rocks and dangerous places marked done Mr. by James Wallace Minister of Kirckwall in Orkney A new Map of Schetland Besides these there is a Hydrographic Map of the Sea-Coast from the Island of Cocket to Orkney THE SECOND PART OF The SCOTIA Moderna IN this second Part which containeth the Descriptions of each Shire and the Countries in it and of the Islands There is also an Account given of the names situation bounds of each Countrey the nature of the Countrey and these Products Nature hath formed in it are shewed The Forrests Woods Parks the Springs Rivers Lochs with their various Properties What Mountains Valleys Caves most remarbable that it may be known what in every place abounds and may be communicate to other Countreys and what is wanting that it may be carried in to them in order to Trade The Plants Animals Metals Substances cast up by the Sea As to Rivers the Rise of them and their Emboucheurs are shewed and in the adjacent Sea the Roads Bays Ports and Harbours are described the Roks and Sholes on the Coast and the time of the Moon that causeth High Water is marked The Ancient Monuments Forts and Camps Inscriptions graved and figured Stones the Singularites of Nature or Arte that are there or have been found there The great Battels that have been there fought and the memorable Actions or Accidents there The Towns of Note in each Shire especially Burroughs Royal their Magistracy the Trade of the Town Their publick Buildings their Iurisdiction their Hospitals and Work-houses The Market-Towns in each Shire The Monasteries Cathedral Churches Ancient Churches Colledges and Publick Schools The Manners and Customes of the Inhabitants in each Shire their Manufactures The Government of each Shire and Countrey in what Diocese it is who is Sherif Stewart or Bailie there Who commands the Militia there The Castles Forts Woods Forrests Parks belonging to his Majesty there What places give Title to Noblemen there and the Seats of the Noblemen and most considerable