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 23, 2025.
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To the Author of these MEMORIALLS.
WEll may thou own to have a Pub∣lick Sp'rit,And Philopoliteius nam'd for it;And for this Book, the Royal-Burrows allMay ratifie thy Name, and thus thee call:Thy wholsome Counsells if practised be,Our Nation happy we shall shortly see.Our Burrows prosperous by Forraign-Trade,Our Countrey to make Famous: all made gladeTo see our Kingdoms-Glory every wayEncrease by Vertue: and what ever mayIts Praise advance, which surely will not miss,If all our Rulers shall account of this.Then these Memorialls shall esteemed be,And by our Cities keept in Memorie.
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