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.

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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.
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Skene, Alexander.
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Aberdeen :: Printed by John Forbes ...,
1685.
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Municipal government -- Scotland.
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
Aberdeen (Scotland) -- History.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60328.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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THE CONCLUSION Containing some few Lines, Com∣posed by MR. WILLIAM DOWGLAS Advocat in EDINBURGH, upon the CITY of ABERDEEN.

APELLES stareing long, did look upon The Learning, Policy and Generous Mind Of that brave CITY, plac'd 'twixt DEE and DONE; But how to Paint IT, HE could never find: For still HE stood, in judging which of Three, A COURT, A COLLEDGE, Or, A BURGH, IT be.
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