UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. J 1 



So likewise, the authority of Nicholas Machiavel 

 seemeth not to be contemned ; who enquiring the 

 causes of the growth of the Roman empire, doth give 

 judgment ; there was not one greater than this, 

 that the state did so easily compound and incorporate 

 with strangers. 



It is true, that most estates and kingdoms have 

 taken the other course : of which this effect hath 

 followed, that the addition of further empire and 

 territory hath been rather matter of burden, than 

 matter of strength unto them : yea, and farther 

 it hath kept alive the seeds and roots of revolts and 

 rebellions for many ages ; as we may see in a fresh 

 and notable example of the kingdom of Arragon : 

 which, though it were united to Castile by marriage, 

 and not by conquest ; and so descended in hereditary 

 union by the space of more than an hundred years ; 

 yet because it was continued in a divided govern 

 ment, and not well incorporated and cemented with 

 the other crowns, entered into a rebellion upon 

 point of their &quot; fueros,&quot; or liberties, now of very late 

 years. 



Now to speak briefly of the several parts of that 

 form, whereby states and kingdoms are perfectly 

 united, they are, besides the sovereignty itself, four 

 in number ; union in name, union in language, 

 union in laws, union in employments. 



For name, though it seem but a superficial and 

 outward matter, yet it carrieth much impression and 

 enchantment : the general and common name of 

 Graecia made the Greeks always apt to unite, though 



