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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

contracts her self by taking her Tail as suppos'd in her Teeth then like a well-tempered Spring that suddenly and smartly unbends and flies off even so doth the Salmon with a strange Dexterity mount the Air out of the Water an incredible height But because unprecautioned how to distinguish the Elements and perhaps wanting foresight of this imminent Danger she frequently encounters the boiling Water which no sooner she touches but her Life is snatch'd away by the suffocating Fumes that immediately strangle her and thus the poor Salmon becomes a Prey to the Native when only in the pursuit of Nature's Dictates whose Laws and Rules are circumscrib'd and bounded by the Soveraignty of him that made the Creation Th. This I must needs say is a barbarous Practice but a quick way of Cookery Ar. Such kind of Cookery will serve a Scots Commoner as lives on the Bray and Skirts of the Highlands But we relinquish these pleasant Streams of Errit to patrole the Fields of Cooper in Angus where Scotland's great General the Earl of Leven was born promiscously of obscure Parents In this little Corporation of Cooper in Angus the chief Magistrate is a Bayliff Master sometimes of a Brewster-house where we may refresh our selves before we trample the Sands of Ilay imbellished with Rocks and lofty Trees that shade her shining murmuring Streams and shelter her numerous Sholes of Fish especially towards her Source where you may observe the Shores shine of a golden Colour resembling the glittering Sands of Tagus And the River Dean so fam'd for Pike though unfortunate for Trout gulphs into Ilay near Mighill-bridg Th. What place is this Ar. Old Drumkelbo an ancient supernnuated Castle that adjoins to a certain Moor called Tipprosin which in my Opinion resembles the Stygean Lake rather than the Elizium Fields whose solitary Bounds are large and spacious mossy and boggy full of Pits and horrid Blackness a Resemblance to my fancy of the Courts of Death Now this Tipprofin got its Name from an unfortunate Priest that travelling those unfrequented Tracts accidentally fell into a Mossy Moorish Boggy Pit which sudden Disaster surpriz'd the Priest and the rather because when to see himself plung'd into the Arms of Death without any prospect of timely relief this made the poor Priest unlock the doors of his Lips that like double Diapazons unlock'd the Air sooner than the Ears of the obdurate Native that inhabited the Verge of this solitary Moor. So that by this time finding his Complaints insuccessful only the repetition of his dolorous Cries from reverberating Rocks and Cavities of Earth it stirr'd up a sorrowful Silence in the Priest which at last led him into a profound Contemplation fancying to himself he liv'd now in his Grave and every Object a Caput Mortuum Th. The Priest I perceive was in a very bad Pickle Ar. And so would you had you been in his Case but this Meditation no sooner expires when the Bogs and Moors ecchoe again with such hideous Shouts and dismal Cries from the terrified Priest as if some Evistre or Apparition had presented before him the horrible and terrible Apprehensions of Death but it hapned otherwise and it 's well it did for some Natives and Inhabitants of the Fields in Angus were breaking of Earth and digging for Turf who hearing a Noise and an imperfect Sound as they thought breathing from the Bowels of the Earth it dreadfully startled them at first but after some time deliberating among themselves and resolving if possible to sum up the Cause of these horrible Cries their Ears were a second time assaulted by a fresh supply of miserable Lamentations that sprung from the repeated Complaints of the poor pensive Priest who was almost come to a Period and winding up the Bottoms of his dolorous Howlings Th. But the Priest I hope got relief at last who it may be till then had forgot how to pray Ar. You cannot forbear jerking the Priest who by this time seem'd destitute of all moral Comforts and as little hopes of Relief notwithstanding his breathings forth of a formal Penance lamenting his unfortunate unlucky Mischance that threatned his Exit if no more Priests in Scotland So in a fainting Fit he faintly cries out with an articulate Voice because his Breath began now to expire which certainly had in a very short time extinguished had not the Inhabitants pursued the Ecchoes to that dismal Pit where the Priest lay bogg'd imploring the Deity with Eyes and Hands held up towards Heaven using these and the like Expressions Ex profunditatibus te inclamavi Iehova And though the People understood not his Latin yet their Lenity and common Charity with other requisite Endeavours brought him Relief and hal'd him sorth out of his formidable Confinement Since which remarkable Time to this very Day the Natives and Inhabitants that inhabit thereabouts do call this Moor by the Name of Tipprofin Th. Why then it seems he christned the Moor. Ar. And you seem here to christen the Priest for the Priest gave Name to the Moor of Tipprofin and the Witches if there be such gave name to Pitloil as if Priestcraft and Witchcraft were inseparable Companions Th. What 's amiss now at the Lough of Pitloil Ar. You shall have it when I can come at it and that won't be long first South and by East from these mountanous Elevations we discover two large and spacious Loughs the one of them is called by the Name of Loundy but the other Lough is called Pitloil divided from each other by an Isthmus of Land or the interposition of a small Mountain I frequented them both to fish for Perch because to my Experience the largest in Scotland if twenty Inches and better can be thought a large Perch and having to my Curiosity examined them apart more especially Pitloil I declare it as my Opinion from several Examinations and approved Experiments that both of them super-abound with plenty of Perch which infinitely augments the Angler's Entertainments Nor do the Waters mingle one with another when each of them find a different Passage to discharge themselves into the Streams of Tay. But in this Narrative I thought requisite to inform you that Lundy exceeds by much in plenty though Pitloil to a Miracle exceeds in largeness But Van Helmont tells you in Fol. 684. That in the Lake of Lemane a Trout doth oftentimes ascend unto an hundred pound Weight And the Natives that inhabit this solitary Part of Angus will tell you of Trouts of such vast Dimensions that I dare not report without being suspected so render my self and Relation ridiculous A Trout also was taken in the River at Ware and presented to Charles the First then King of England which Trout was of such a vast Proportion as would seem incredible for me to report which for any Man's satisfaction the Figure of it as yet remains for ought I know at the George-Inn in Ware to convince the Incredulous if any be suspicious A Pike also Van Helmont