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A60328	Memorialls for the government of the royal-burghs in Scotland with some overtures laid before the nobility and gentry of several shyres in this kingdom : as also, a survey of the city of Aberdeen with the epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon some of our chief burghs translated into English by I.B. / by Philopoliteious (or,) a lover of the publick well-fare.	Skene, Alexander.; Johnstoun, Arthur, 1587-1641.; Barclay, John, 1582-1621.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3935; ESTC R38926	112,307	290

others and that so far as they know all the Goods pertain to Free-men As also that before the loadning of the Ship for her return they swear that the Goods pertain to themselves and not to Strangers otherwise the Conservator may arreast the Ship and Goods at least all the Goods of the refuser Ja. 6. P. 15. c. 257. The Conservator should put the Acts against Usurie in execution upon all Scots Merchants Skippers and Factors in the Low-countries and compt thereupon to the Thesaurer Ibid. c. 259. Acts anent the Staple THat an Incorporation be made of Scots in the Low-countries and their Priviledges ordaining the Scots residing there and pretending to the saids Priviledges to give their Oath of obedience to the KING and his Laws as if they were dwelling in Scotland and that they pay for their entries ten Pounds Fleemish and the persons refusers to be deprived of all benefite or commerce with his HIGHNES Liedges Ja. 6. P. 6. c. 96. That no Ships passing to the Low-countries land any mans Goods but at Campvere or the ordinary Staple and that no person go on land or take any thing out of the Ship untill her arrivall there under the pain of ten pound Fleemish and the Conservator should take the Merchants and Skippers Oathes thereanent Ja. 6. P. 15. c. 258. That Merchants coming from the Low-countries give to the Conservator an account of the quantity and quality of the Goods under the pain of confiscation thereof and that a subscribed Cocket thereof be sent home to the Thesaurer Ibid. c. 260. CHAP. XIII Concerning some Means in generall by which a Burgh may flowrish IT ought to be the care of a faithfull Senate and vigilant Rulers over a City and Common-wealth seriously to consider by what means a Town may most flowrish grow in Greatness prosper in Riches and increase in Numerous and Vertuous Inhabitants I shall name some of these 1. Religion was a mean whereby Jerusalem was not onely made head of that Kingdom but also greatest in all Asia because all the Males behooved to appear there thrise a Year There was the Temple of the LORD there the High Priest and all solemn Oblations and Sacrifices hence it was called the Holy City but now there are no places that have any Holiness in them under the Gospel Joh. 4.21 22. For GOD may be Worshiped every where and any where if it be in Spirit and in Truth I know not any Religious Concernment that might more greaten a City nor be a more attractive motive for Strangers that had any Principle ruling in them of the fear of GOD then a Holy People Isa. 4.3 and 60.21 When the Inhabitants of a City generally did walk so Christianly and so Sweetly together according to Gospell Rules that they might give evidence of the fullfilling these blessed Promises Isa. 1.25 26. upon which account a Town might be justly termed a City of Righteousness the Faithfull City this was a sure foundation of all true Prosperity and Greatness therefore let all profane and ungodly persons be esteemed the chiefest enemies to a Cities wellfare and the Pious and truely Godly the chiefest Jewells and Blessing thereof A 2 d. mean of making a Town flowrish is a dilligent care to have Trade and Merchandise thriving by all due encouragement thereunto and to endeavour if possible to have some distinct and particular Commoditie to be exported or imported that no other neighbour Town hath or some usefull Manufacture that is not in any other place of the Nati●● or at least not so good or cheap It we●● a desireable thing in Scotland to see every Town to improve their Situation● and soyle their Rivers Lochs Trades Arts and Engines and in a word their particular properties and advantages by industrie that each of them might be found to have some special and distinct commodity to vent for their own great benefit and their Countries service A 3 d. mean is to cherish Industry and Arts and Handy-crafts See Botero on the greatness of Cities Pag. 84. and to procure excellent Wits and Persons of eminent Qualifications for that end 4 ly The erecting and maintaining Schools of Learning and Professors of all usefull and commendable Sciences which may draw the Youth of the Countrey to be bred in Cities and Towns in doing whereof speciall care would be had that strict Laws and Orders might be set down for the good and quiet behaviour of the Students and these duly execute by faithful Masters and carefull Magistrats that Parents and Relations may send their Children thither in a measure of confidence and security and so the Inhabitants be preserved in Peace 5 ly Inviting by immunities from Taxes and Tolls all that have any commodities to sell to frequent Mercats and great Faires within Burgh which would need to be procured from the KING and Parliament for that end by which a Town may have severall advantages though the Taxes were quited at least very low As Monethly Mercats in every great Town for Horse and Oxen by which the Countrey may be served at all seasons and the Burgh be benifited by the change that the Countrey People should make 6 ly That all the Judicatories that may be had be set up within Burgh whereby the Subjects may have occasion to make frequent resort to the Town 7 ly To endeavour to order well all necessaries for Food and Fireing and for keeping and mantaining Families within Burgh that all Persons of Quality may be encouraged to buy and build Houses in Towns which would undoubtedly contribute much for the Prospering of Trades and Arts in a Town by their change and greatly enlarge the City 8 ly If there be any speciall Blessing of Nature in or near to the Town that may be for pleasure or profit to Strangers that the same may be published and set forth with the best advantages for inviting the concurse of Strangers to the place as the Waters of Bath in England the Medicinall Wells and Fountaine at Spa in Germany and Orges in France and that health giving Spring for Gravel Gout Hydropsie and Collick at Aberdeen being drunk according to Dr. William Barclay his printed prescriptions in the Summer-Moneths Or if there be any notable or curious device invented or illustrated by Art which may adorn or ennoble a Town the same will influence and not a little concur to advance it All these former means have been drawn from profit it is to be considered that pleasure hath been a special mean to draw Strangers to a City And for this 9 ly Curious Gardens fruitfull Orchards in or about a City especially when so so placed as may most beautify the Town which may be no less profitable then pleasant according to the saying Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. I shall in the next place enlarge upon some of these in particular in the fourth-Chapter I did treat of Religion at some length and shall not therefore insist now but regrate

that Superstition hath served to greaten more Towns in many Kingdoms of the World then the true fear of GOD and that love that should be amongst Christians Witness Rome which is so much frequented upon the imagination of her pretended holy places and false relicts of Saints departed and the supream Authority of her Ecclesiastical Affairs and her Judaick Jubilies by which and many more such like Impostures she hath made many Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornications and Whoredomes and thereby keeps her self in such greatness till the LORD by powring out the vialls Rev. 16. burn and consume that seat of the Beast Many other Cities and Towns are also greatly frequented upon superstitious Accounts by Strangers as Loretto in Italy S Michael in France Compostella in Spain and many other places altho rough and almost inaccessible But now when Light hath discovered these Antichristian-Delusions I think we should study upon more Christian Accounts to invite Strangers as was said in the beginning of this Chapter by being through divine Grace a holy People living in the true fear of GOD and in love to his holy Image where ever it is to be seen by an holy and blameless Conversation Though there be a difference in Judgement in most Cities now in Brittain let it be our care to love all Men and seek thee good of every one if so be the LORD may bring them to the knowledge of Himself and the acknowledgement of the Truth and walk according to that rule Phillip 3.15 16. This as it is very sutable to Christian Charity and that meekness and moderation that becometh the Gospell so it is very conducible to the greatning of a City and Common-wealth CHAP. XIV Concerning Merchandising HAving touched some Generalls necessary for the prosperity of a Town in the last Chapter I come now to speak of some of them more particularly at some more length and the first is Merchandising Rulers ought to have a speciall care to give all due encouragement to Trading that can be thought upon for by it a Burgh is mostly distinguished from a Countrey-Village rather then by strong Walls or Fortifications as some distinguish without Trade a Town were little better so that Traffick is the very essence and by it the Being and Vitalls of a Burgh or City is mantained First It therefore concerneth Magistrats and Councill to assist yea to own as their propper Concernment all the Intetests that may impare or prejudge the Traffick in all Staple-Commodities when the Supream Authority makes any Act or are like to do any thing that may damnify the same as in highting Customs or Bulzeon These things would be adverted to and all opportunities carefully attended when matters of that nature may be best helped especially at Parliaments for this there is a great necessity to make choise of understanding able and active men to be Commissioners at such times otherwayes it may fall out to be done at such a time that possibly cannot be gotten helped in an Age. Secondly It were good to look well upon all these wayes whereby Trade is prejudiced amongst our selves as to take condign order with Fore●allers of Mercats and such raisers and highters of the prices of common Commodities and these that studie to enhance one particular Commoditie in their hands that they may sell and oppress others at their pleasure and many more wayes which others can more easily fall upon that are better acquainted nor I am with the like Thirdly It were very commendable for all that have charge in a City not onely to look to these particulars above mentioned but to be carefull that the Dean of Gild and his Councill of Assessors to whom it would be very propper may set themselves to fall upon the best Overtures for removing of impediments and advancing all means that may make every Trade whether of Scottish Commodities outward or such Forraign Commodities as are brought homeward to prosper and flowrish and then the Councill after mature deliberation had that the means be propper and may be practised without the breach of any duty to the setled Laws of the Kingdom may put to their Authority and so effectually prosecute the samen that no covetous or selfish stickler that may possibly find himself hem'd in from his avaricious and greedy way may be able to gainstand what the Councill hath enacted for the Good and Prosperity of the whole Merchants in common Hobbs in his 2 d. part of his Rudiments of Dominion sayes to this purpose That every Society of men that live in a Corporation together intending the Publick Good of the whole would not rest upon a bare consent to prosecute that and unless there be restraints for fear of punishments on those that out of selfish ends c would obstruct the Wee ll of the Publick so that all mens particular Wills must run in the Will of the Councill or such as are the Governours viz. the major part thereof Fourthly I will not take upon me to mention any particular ways how Traffick may be advanced in Towns it being more propper for a Dean of Gild Court which would be needfull to be alwayes of the ablest and most judicious of the Merchants and such as are of most publick Spirits yet it may not be amiss to offer these things to consideration Consider to what good improvement one man as I have seen in my time did bring the Manufacture of Stockings viz. G. P. in Aberdeen whereby there was a Trade in some measure keeped up not onely with Merchants at the South and West but also with severals that carie them both to England and Ireland and if one man by his own private Industrie did bring the Countrey People to such a perfection in good Stockings what may a Corporation do if a serious care were had for such improvements in this and many other things Secondly Seeing we have Commodities of our own Nation sufficient to bring us home all necessaries from France Holland and the Nations on the Baltick-Sea to serve our Towns and Countries about us onely we have little of our own to send to London and our Neighbour-Nation of England wherefore such of our Nation as travel thither are constrained to ca●ry in Money to their great expense and hazard ●or to draw Money upon Bill at a dear rate To prevent this if it shall please the LORD who hath in his good Providence united both Nations under one KING as well as in one Protestant Religion and Language to take off these Acts which are made to obstruct the mutuall Freedom and Trade betwixt the Kingdoms or to make up a compleat Union which were rather to be wished it were most expedient to consider what Commodities we have in our Countrey that would go best off there as our Linning-Cloath Linning-Yairne Stockings of all sorts and syzes Furrs Feathers c and such like things as active Merchants might easily find out and would need to keep a good Correspondence at