Theatrum Scotiæ containing the prospects of Their Majesties castles and palaces : together with those of the most considerable towns and colleges, the ruins of many ancient abbeys, churches, monasteries and convents, within the said kingdom : all curiously engraven on copper plates, with a short description of each place / by John Slezer ...

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To the Right Honourable JOHN Earl of Twed∣dale, Lord Hay of Yester, &c. Lord High Chan∣cellour of Scotland.

HADDINGTON.

HADDINGTON is situate on a pleasant Plain, on the brink of the River Tyne, surrounded with several No∣blemens dwellings. The most remarkable whereof is the House of Yester, the ordinary Mansion House of the Earl of Tweddale. It is one of the pleasantest Seats, and hath the finest and greatest planting about it in all Scotland. Of old this Town was Forti∣fied by the English, several Vestigies whereof are yet to be seen.

Here is a Church excellently built of hewen Stone, the Ruins whereof do testifie its former splendor. In a Chapel belonging to this Church there is an excellent Burial-place for the Chiefs of the Family of Mait∣land. Chancellour Maitland and his Lady, several others of the said Fa∣mily, and the Duke of Lawderdale, are Interr'd in this place.

It gives the Title of Earl of Haddington to a branch of the House of Hamilton, who hath large Possessions and fine Seats hard by it.

Henry Prince of Scotland, Son to St. David, and Ada his Countess, Founded a Nunnery in this place.

Within Four Miles of Edinburgh, the Earl of Tweddale hath another most pleasant House and Gardens, called Pinkie. No Place in Scotland is surrounded with more little Towns and Houses of the Nobility and Gentry than this is, which appears chiefly from the House of Stony∣hill, where the Variety of so many Towns and Buildings, so great a Part of the Court of Lothian, the River of Forth, and the Court of Fyfe, give a most delightful Prospect.

Carmen ARCTURI JONSTONI de HADINA.

PRoxima Bervico caput Hadingtona periclis Obtulit, & Scotis aggeris instar erat. Saepe Caledoniam defendit fortibus armis, Nec semel hostiles est populata greges. Viribus interdum, nunquam virtute subacta est, Et cum multa tulit vulnera, plura dedit. Grampigenas ne crede duces, Floremve Juventae Sed tutelares hic habitasse deos.

J. JONSTONI, Carmen de Eadem

PLanities praetensa jacet prope flumina Tinae Fluminis. Arguti clauditur ista sinu Vulcani & Martis quae passa incendia, fati Ingemit alterno vulnere fracta vires. Nunc tandem sapit icta, Dei praecepta sequuta Praesidio gaudet jam potiore poli.