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

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

come to fee her Arbours and Aviaries so naturally dress'd up in the Shades of the Forest and perfum'd with Fragrancies from the redolent Meadows of Trent besides the pleasant Prospect it has into the cultivated Fields in the fruitful Vale of Belvoir then would you say that Nottingham is the Magazine for Cheshire and Lancashire and the daily supply of those Mountainous Parts in the Peak of Derby-shire These are those Ports where the Angler and Ingenious never yet entred without sober Accommodation let us therefore first consult the Virtuoso's of the Rod afterwards sweeten our Ears with Rhetorique from Apollo Th. As you have given us a fair and large Character of Nottingham so have you been as copious in your practical Experiments of Angling and brought to Test the undeniable Assertions of Truth not imaginary Fragments nor Romantick Fictions stoln or suggested by plundring Plagiaries Now every one knows that Ignorance emulates Art and Impiety above all things abominates Devotion Tradition also that truckles under Forms and Hypocrisy and Flattery are Time's Apostates But Science and Experience are the confirmation of Eye-sight and Truth the Standard of Divine Speculation By these we proportion the Measures of Vertue which is found by him that treads the Tracks of Wisdom and wades through the profound Depths of Patience for as he that devotes himself to a solitary Life lives a Life most congruous to Devotion so he that devotes himself to Piety lives a Life analogous to Contemplation For what signifies the Court but to remonstrate the Prince his Magnificence and the Palace but to heighten his Enjoyments On the other hand where Humility is celebrated to Piety there Content dwells every-where in an humble Breast and Humility and Penitency like Links concatinate content themselves with the garb of a Cottage Thus we may read the State of the World but that which I always approved of as the best State was to seek the Blessings of Content in every Condition Then welcome Woods Rocks Rivers Groves Rivulets nay it 's possible the very Shades of a Forest in some measure answer to the Comforts of Life and Life answers to the Ends of the great Creator Consider therefore that the Soul 's great Diadem is Christ and Christ by Wisdom and Sanctification every Christian knows is God And who but God created this stupendous Creation and drest up this imbelish'd Fabrick of Heaven and Earth when he made the Majesty of his Invisibility visible and placed Man in this sublunar Orb to conduct and manage his Fellow-creatures But Man imprudently transgressing in not answering the glorious Ends of his Divine Creation in Obedience to the Commands of the Sovereign Decrees of God the Almighty discharged him the Soveraignty of Government so exil'd him from the glorious Sun-shine of Paradise Of whom if you please let us have an account But I wonder at one thing to me it 's a Paradox Ar. What 's that Th. You writ your Book in 58 and spread the Net to 85. Ar. What if I do I lived in the Reign of five Kings and in the Time of four great Worthies Th. Was O. P. one Ar. I leave that Bone for you to pick. But this I assert that great English Hero was exemplary in Piety eminent in Policy prudent in Conduct magnanimous in Courage indefatigable in Vigilancy industriously laborious in Watchings Heroick in Enterprize constant in Resolution successful in War one that never wanted a Presence of Mind in the greatest Difficulties all the World owns him for a great General that influenced all Europe gave Laws to all neighbouring Nations and disciplined France with English Arms. Th. These are great Encomiums Was the Lord R. one Ar. That great Man of Worth and Honour was truly Vertuous the Patriot of his Country and the Glory of the Court beloved of the People and a lover of Piety who left Legacies of Love to the surviving Natives when he sealed his Death with noble English Blood Th. Was Col. A. S. one Ar. That great Soul was too great for the World whose Life in a manner was a continued Death signified by those Trophies of War he carried about him He died but to teach his Country-men the easy Methods of honourable Dying to the astonishment of Mankind and foreign Ambassadors Th. Was Alderman C. one Ar. That brave and worthy Citizen to his eternal Praise sealed London's Magna Chart a with a Christian Exit and a Voice from Heaven Therefore put no more questions for the Aenigma is explained but begin where you left off so let us conclude Th. Then I 'le only desire a Description of Man Arnoldus his Meditation Ar. Adam as an Angel in the Shades of Paradise typified his Creator then it was that this mortal State seemed Immortal and Man because a Signature of this admirable Creation was made to live by that Life that made him for it was the Will of the Supreamest that made him to shine a Ray of the Majesty upon him and generate in him the glorious beauteous Ray of Himself But this was done when the Divine Majesty made Man absolute Lord and commissioned him Conduct over all the Creatures So that Adam was now a Divine Substitute because the Divinity had divinely inspired him and stamp'd the Impress of his Royal Signet upon him the lively Emblem and Character of Himself whereby to demonstrate in him a Sovereign Power over all the Families of Creatures that God had made and by Wisdom bless'd in this stupendous Creation So that you may read Adam was made in the Likeness of his Maker but he begot in his own Likeness This was once the blessed State of Adam and a regenerate State to be born again in Spirit is the same with us now for Primitive Purity can never be blotted out by National Impiety Nor shall Age nor Time nor Death it self vacate the Lustre and Glory of Christianity for as the Donation of Purity is the Royal Act of him that 's pure and lives for ever so the Piety of Christianity shall out-live all Ages to the utmost Limit and Period of Time Where note the Primitive Times have liv'd till now and that that begot Time in the Bosom of Eternity is Christ in us the Hope of Glory Why then do Christians violate their Faith Does it become us to enslave it by Lust A proud Faith is as great a Contradiction as an humble Devil The glorious Hope we have of Paradise incites and invites Believers to the Duty of Repentance and Repentance leads on to a humble Submission to cruciate our selves and this temporal State that naturally resigns upon every Assault of Death for all complicated Elements melt into Obscurity Shall the Clay rebel against the Potter that moulds it Shall Man resist his Maker that made him Shall the Vice of the Times vote against Heaven and Impiety provoke us to mutiny against the Deity Must we learn no Language but Oaths and Imprecations and denounce no Dialect but the Rhetorick of