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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

so are her well-built Houses and Palaces corresponding very much to compleat it their Metropolis Th. What Fabrick is that on the East of Edinburgh Ar. Hallirood House the Regal Court of Scotland Th. But there 's yet another great Fabrick that presents Westward Ar. That 's Edinburgh-Castle elevated in the Air on an impregnable Precipice of rocky Earth perpendicular in some Parts rampir'd and barrocadoed with thick Walls of Stone and Graffs proportionable to contribute an additional Strength So that you are to consisider this inaccessible Castle shines from a natural as well as an artificial Product because part of it you see contiguous with the Rock but the other part because affixed by cemented Stone which inoculates and incorporates them so firmly together that the whole mass of Building is of such incredible Strength that it 's almost fabulous for any Man to report it or sum up the impregnable Lustre and Beauty of this fair Fortress that defies all Attempts except Famine Disease or Treachery be conduct so that Culverins and Cannons signify but little without Bombs and Carcasses On the other hand the Defendants must not be too liberal lest their Water forsake them sooner than their Ammunition so inevitably draw upon them the foregoing Consequence and incommode them with a thousand Inconveniences True it is many Arguments of Art and Artillery have been sent to examine this impregnable Castle but none were ever found more successful than Hunger and Disease or the golden Apples of the Hesperides Such kind of Magnets muzzle Mercenaries and make them a golden Bridg to pass over Th. Is this fair Fabrick the Parliament-House where the Grandees sit on National Affairs Ar. Yes this is their Palace where the Parliament sits to accommodate the Kingdom whose famous Ports we now relinquish to take a review of the Bars of Musselburg But that on our right Hand is delicate Dalkeith surrounded with a Park and that on our left Hand is Preston-pans where the Natives make Salt from the Brine of the Ocean That other Town before us is the Corporation of Haddington and this is the Brill but the Bass you may see is a prodigious Rock that makes an Island on the Skirts of the Ocean Th. Is this the Place where the Solon Geese breed that are Flesh in Hand but Fish in the Mouth a Mystery I fancy not inferiour to the Barnicle Ar. You say true it 's a great Mystery if seriously to consider the Footsteps of Nature which I shall explain without a Paradox Do but observe that elevated Rock that breaks the Air in that seeming solitary floating Island it 's upon that Rock and only there that she hatches and initiates her young Ones into the World by exposing her Egg to the open Air and the utmost extremity of stormy Winds and those Eggs or the Squirts with other Fowls are so fix'd by contact of a glutinous Specimen to the remote Points of the Rocks that they seem conglutinated and so intirely inoculated as that no extremity of Weather can separate them asunder and where the Female never hatches more than one single Egg at once and that Egg she plants so evenly in the Web of her Foot by placing her Body exactly over it that when she relinquisheth the Rock for Relief with admirable Circumspection she raises her self by cautiously dilating her Web as the Aspry does to circulate the Air who after the same Method as when she leaves her Egg so she falls by circulating the Air and dilating her Web in the same order and decorum as above with such an exact poize and evenness of Body to cover her Egg that no Art nor Industry can imitate or accomplish So that the Egg no sooner sprits but it tumbles down into the brinish Ocean for Nature to nourish it After this manner she hatcheth her young Ones and after this manner I am authorized to publish it Th. So much for Geese this was a Rarity indeed but not so eminently remarkable as the six great Patriots of the English Nation Ar. You push too hard upon me however I 'll name them and no more there were four great Harries viz. Ireton Vane Nevill and Martin and one marvelous Andrew or Andrew Marvel Th. Still here is but Five what 's become of the Sixth Ar. You will find him at Dunbar swadling the Scots Th. What! England's great General the most renowned valorous and victorious Conqueror Oliver Cromwel Ar. Yes that was he that swing'd off the Scots in those solitary Planes and swelling Hills near the Ports of Dunbar there it was that Cromwel and Lesly disputed by dint of Sword and the formidable Terror of Gun-shot in which fatal Engagement the Scots were routed and fled the Field whilst the Conqueror's Army sprinkled the Earth with bloody Sacrifices converting the green Meadows into purple Planes Th. And did not that great General then take in Tamtallon-Castle Ar. Presently after he did and that 's the Place how do you like it Th. Not at all I fancy it a Place but of little Strength Ar. However it covers the Pass of Copperspeth that we now pass through to ascend these dirty miry Moors which direct to the beautiful Battlements of Berwick an English Town upon Scotish Ground whose Banks are bath'd with the sturdy Torrents of Tweed that descend from a mountainous Elevation in or near to Erricksteen distant about some eight or nine Miles from the famous Tintaw whose eminent Ascents face the English Frontiers standing on the Borders or South Marshes of Scotland So that from Erricksteen though some alledg from Tintaw runs the glittering and resolute Streams of Tweed However Tintaw is a prodigious Mountain whose lofty Broaches break the burdned Clouds And such is Errick if Fame be a true Oracle that spouts forth three large and spacious Rivers that wash the pleasant Banks of Scotland one of them is Tweed as above express'd that runs East directly to the Town of Berwick and espouseth her self with the Ocean there gliding along the English Promontories and is the Original of Tweed's Dale Another River is Annon that bathes the fertil and florid Banks of England and creates a Dale called Annon's Dale so glides along towards the quaking Sands and not far from Carlisle lancheth forth into the Ocean But the third is Cloyd and is the last mentioned yet is it nothing inferior to any of the former This River directs her Course North and by West towards the lofty and domineering Turrets of Dumbarton near unto those famous Elevations she mingles her Streams with the profound Depths of the Ocean and is the Author of Cloyd's Dale Now all these spacious and peremptory Rivers are derived from the Springs in the Mountain of Errick but some alledg from Tintaw on whose Top stands a Capsula on the Front of the Hill directing Southward from whence those smaller Streams separate themselves through craggy Passages and Cavities in Rocks so trickling down they sprinkle the moorish Meadows admitting of many

climbs up a Rocky and Mountanous Elevation facing the North and the delectable Shades of the Forest of Sherwood whose beautiful Banks and delightful Shores are celebrated to the pleasant Amours of Trent defended on the South by the Vale of Belvoir and guarded from the North by the shady Trees of the Forest but her East is refresh'd by fragrant Meadows cultivated Fields and delightful Pastures adorned with most excellent Rills Rivulets and Fountains This is our inamouring Northern Prospect the Anglers Arcadia the greatest Aviary and the most mellifluous Consort in Nottingham-Shire Nay it 's England's Elizium if Elizium be any where Of which if any doubt to trace or find out it 's here to be found if any where in England otherwise he may conclude that Elizium's but a fiction for if not understood in these fragrant Fields pardon me to think nay I dare to assert it 's no where else Th. Indeed it 's a sweet place I have never seen the like before but what Town is that Ar. This Town we call Knieton it stands yet more West elevated on a Rocky Precipice of Albaster and red Marly Earth hovering over the Streams of Trent and borders on the skirts of the Vale of Belvoir facing the Forest and Bridgeford lies much on the same Level West South-West guarded with Rocks and stately Mountains opposite as I take it to the Inundations of Trent But the Town of Gunthorp stands directly North blest with flourishing and florid Meadows whose Fragrancy oftimes perfumes the Shores as Trent's proud Waves besprinkle her Sands Shelford you may see inclines yet more Westward whose Foundations I have considered lie so low and flat that they level the very Surface of Trent but Burton and Bulcoat stand North of her Ruins and are shaded by the flourishing Trees of the Forest. Th. What have we here Ar. Gedlin and Carleton these lie yet more West and incline if I mistake not two Points to the Northward but the Palace of Holm-peirpoint adorns the South From whose beautiful Elevations we discover the Battlements and some part of the Situations of famous Nottingham whose odoriferous Gardens perfume the Air and whose florid Fields and fragrant Meadows glut the Scickle and satiate the Sithe Th. Grant my Allowances and I 'll give you my Opinion and not stick to tell you that Trent surpasseth Tagus notwithstanding the boast of her Golden Sands whose transparent and translucid Streams strike deep Impressions and ravishing refreshing Resentments inviting the Contemplative Angler to consider the plenty and the great variety that are daily drag'd forth out of her bountiful and well furnished Streams enough one would think to cause Admiration which formerly I could never believe But now I 'm convinced beyond opposition Ar. Nay 't is true and I can tell you more that Speed and Cambden both of Authentick Authority will also tell you that the swelling breasts of admired Trent hourly relieve thirty sorts of Fish and that her Arms embrace as many Market-Towns and as many Castles are implanted on her cultivated Suburbs and that thirty Rivers also mingle themselves with Trent's more resolute and sturdy Streams and with the loss only of their Virgin Names Which report if any one question it you shall find recorded in Voluminous History But had they practically and experimentally consulted Trent as my self and some others have done they had without dispute met with more variety of Fish than they inserted or modestly included in their publick Impressions Th. That 's strange pray untie the knot Ar. What great difficulty is it think you to prove that that every Angler frequently experiments if he but take pains to examine her Fords or seriously peruses this Catalogue of Fish where he shall find twenty two sorts of edible Fish that daily accost the Silver Streams of Trent Now the rest you are to consider especially some of them are never to be dealt with by the trembling Rod nor the feeble force of a slender Line Such Fish I must confess as are more than ordinarily resolute are doom'd to die by the Law of the noosy Net Th. You have the Catalogue I presume pray accommodate me with it Ar. That I 'll freely do Here Hold forth your hand and take this little Book And when you fish on your Directions look Till Theory speak you Master then you may Compleat your self in Practicks day by day So understand the various change and season How to catch Fish and after give your reason There 's few that fish these Streams know all the Fish The Trent affords to Anglers and their Dish Here 's Pickrel Barbel Burbolt Rud and Roach Graylin Flounder Cheven Perch and Loach Bream and Tench Carp and Gudgeon Dace and Ruff Eel Lampre Bleak Minue some Silk some Stuff Twenty in number I have here exprest Some daily taken season for the rest There yet remain two nobler sorts behind To make them twenty two but then their kind Are Trout and Salmon those are Fish that waste In time of Travel besides they lose their Taste And sweet Complexion chiefly at such time When out of Season what remains in prime Summer and Winter Spring and Autumn flees The blooming Leaf drops from the fading Trees Nature appropriates each thing to its kind As well in Fish as Flesh this Truth we find By daily Observation provide we Search but the Records and the Mysterie Of Mother Art by Nature first instructed From whence all finite beings are producted Th. Now I 'm convinced Ar. Then it 's your duty to labour to convince others Th. So I will if the Anglers Catalogue can do it Ar. And if that won't do it let it be undone However it may serve some Iuniors for Diversion Th. Ay and Seniors too had we but your Additional Supplement of the residue of Fish which being wanting will in my Opinion render the residue of your Discoveries imperfect Ar. That I resolve against though we drag them forth from their holds and fastnesses by violence And first I 'll begin with the Sturgeon then the Shad the Porposs the Congar Lampern Fluke the Aromatick Smelt Sandeel Craw-Fish Bulhead and that little supernumerary the Bant or Stittlebag which needs no Net to drag him out Th. Nor an Arithmetician to sum them up for my Calculation compleats them to thirty three besides some Foreigners to most unintelligible Now as we trace the beautiful Banks and the amorous Shores of famous Trent that invites to Solitudes and Experience we may mingle Rewards among our Recreations and sweeten our Labours and Industry with Divine Contemplation a Study the indigent World is ignorant of What are these the stupendous Fabricks of Nottingham whose Foundations are laid in Rocky Sand and so firmly rivited into the Bowels of the Earth that neither Age nor Time can hardly decay them And was this that impregnable Castle elevated on a Rock and lifted up so high as to storm the Air and supervise the bordering Inhabitants that dwell in the florid Vale