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Show ~ ~o Articlu, t()ucbing the Vnion, ofEngland, and Scotland. Grettt chttrter, may be made, and confirmedJ to the subje&t~, of Britain; And thofe Liberties, which are peculiar, or proper, to either Nation:J to fiand in State, as they de. · 10. Taxes and But for Impojh, and C~omet, it will be a great ff2.._ueftion, how Jmpolls. to accommodate them, and reconcile them: For, if they be much eaGer in Scotland, then they be here.in England, (which is ' a Thing, I know not,) then this Inconvenience will follow; That the lllercbants of England, may unlade, in the Portr of Scotland; And this King dome, to be ferved, from thence~ and your Majeflies Cujiomes abated. And for theQuefiion, whether the Scottifh Merchants,fhould pay Strangers Cuflome, in England, that refteth, upon the ro»nt, ' of Natnralization, which I touched before. Thus have I made your Majefly, a brief, and naked, Memo~ riall, of the·Articler, .and Points, of this great catfe; which mJy ferve, onely, tq excite,and ftir up,your Majeflies Royafl}'l~dgemeut, · . and the judgement of Wifer Men, whom you wilf be pl~a ~ed to call to it: Wherein, I will not prefume1 to perf wade, or dtfi wad~ any thing; Nor to interpofe mine own Opinion; But ~o expefr hght, from your Majeflies Royall Dire&ions;Unto the whtcb, I iliaH ever fubmit my Judgement, and apply my Travailes:. And I mofi humbly pray your Maje.fty, in this which is done, to pardon my Errours, and to cover them, with my gvod Intention, and Meaning, and Defir~ I have, to do your Majefty Service~ And to acquite the Trufr, that was repofed in me; And chiefly) in your Majefties benign:> and gracious Acceptation~ F lNlS. THE BEGINNING OF THE I 0 OF B R I 1"' A I N. · Y the De_ceafe, .. of Elizabeth, f!2.!!een of Engla'! d, the l~{ues, of 1\ing Henry the 8rh, failed; Betng fpent, in one Generation and three Succejfions. For that Ki11g' though he were one, of the goodliefr P~r[on~, of~is time,yet he left, onely by hts Six fJ7zvcs, three Children · who Raigning jltccejji·ve!y, and Dying ~hi! de, lefle, ?lade place, to the Line, of Marga- . _ ret, Ius eldeit) Sifrer, Manied, to James the 4th, Kmg ofscetl:znd. There fuccecd~d there fore to the K: d onte o [E"'1 1gl a nc1,, J.-._1a mes t h e 6 J ~ .. ' zng- rh, then ring of scotland, defcended of_the fame ~argaret; both by Fa.ther, .and Mother: So that, by a rare Event, In thePedeRreesof Kmgs It feemed ast.fthe v· · ·d · · < ' ' • tvzne Provz ence, to extt!lgmfb,and t~ke.away,all Note of a str~nger,had doubled, upon hts Perfon, wnhtn the Circle of one Age, the RoyallB!o~d of England, by both Parenti. Thisfoccejfiofl, drew toward.s tt, the Eyes of all Men; Being one, of the molt memorable Accidents, ~?at bad h:~pned, a long time; in the chriftian lVorld. For the 1\t~zgdome, ofFra~ce, havin~ been re-united, in the Age before, In all the Provincu thereof formerly difmembr~ d: And the K ingdo'_!te, of Spain, being,of:nore frelh memory, .united, and ~ade enure J by the Annexing of Portugal!; in the Perf on, of Phd~p the fecond; There remained but this Third d lafi: Vnion, for the counterpoizing, of the P~wer, of thefe th~~e great |
