UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 19 



seller, I have thought good to lay before you all the 

 branches, lineaments, and degrees of this union, that 

 upon the view and consideration of them and their 

 circumstances, your majesty may the more clearly 

 discern, and more readily call to mind which of 

 them is to be embraced, and which to be rejected : 

 and of these, which are to be accepted, which of 

 them is presently to be proceeded in, and which 

 to be put over to farther time. And again, which of 

 them shall require authority of parliament, and 

 which are fitter to be effected by your majesty s 

 royal power and prerogative, or by other policies or 

 means ; and lastly, which of them is liker to pass 

 with difficulty and contradiction, and which with 

 more facility and smoothness. 



First, therefore, to begin with that question, that, 

 I suppose, will be out of question. 



Whether it be not meet, that the statutes, which 

 were made touching Scotland or the Scotish nation, 

 while the kingdoms stood severed, be repealed ? 



It is true, there is a diversity in these ; for some 

 of these laws consider Scotland as an enemy s 

 country ; other laws consider it as a foreign country 

 only : as for example ; the law of Rich. II. anno 7. 

 which prohibiteth all armour or victual to be carried 

 to Scotland ; and the law of 7 of K. Henry VII. 

 that enacteth all the Scotish men to depart the 

 realm within a time prefixed. Both these laws, 

 and some others, respect Scotland as a country of 

 hostility : but the law of 22 of Edward IV. that en- 

 dueth Berwick with the liberty of a staple, where all 



