10 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



but to families and lineages ; and not only so, but to 

 whole cities and countries. So as in the end it came 

 to that, that Rome was &quot; communis patria,&quot; as some 

 of the civilians call it. 



So we read of St. Paul, after he had been beaten 

 with rods, and thereupon charged the officer with the 

 violation of the privilege of a citizen of Rome ; the 

 captain said to him, &quot; Art thou then a Roman ? That 

 &quot; privilege hath cost me dear.&quot; To whom St. Paul 

 replied, &quot; But I was so born ;&quot; and yet, in another 

 place, St. Paul professeth himself, that he was a Jew 

 by tribe : so as it is manifest that some of his ances 

 tors were naturalized ; and so it was conveyed to him 

 and their other descendents. 



So we read, that it was one of the first despites 

 thAt was done to Julius Caesar, that whereas he had 

 obtained naturalization for a city in Gaul, one of 

 the city was beaten with rods of the consul 

 Marcellus. 



So we read in Tacitus, that in the emperor 

 Claudius s time, the nation of Gaul, that part which 

 is called Comata, the wilder part, were suitors to be 

 made capable of the honour of being senators and 

 officers of Rome. His words are these ; &quot; Cum de 

 &quot; supplendo senatu agitaretur, primoresque Galliag, 

 &quot; quae Comata appellatur, foedera, et civitatem Roma- 

 &quot; nam pridem assecuti, jus adipiscendorum in urbe 

 &quot; honorum expeterent ; multus ea super re variusque 

 &quot; rumor, et studiis diversis, apud principem certaba- 

 &quot; tur.&quot; And in the end, after long debate, it was 

 ruled they should be admitted. 



