UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 2 1 



time, considering it is one of the greatest points and 

 marks of the division of the kingdoms. And because 

 reason doth dictate, that where the principal so 

 lution of continuity was, there the healing and con 

 solidating plaster should be chiefly applied ; there 

 would be some farther device for the utter and per 

 petual confounding of those imaginary bounds, 

 as your majesty termeth them : and therefore it 

 would be considered, whether it were not convenient 

 to plant and erect at Carlisle or Berwick some 

 council or court of justice, the jurisdiction whereof 

 might extend part into England and part into 

 Scotland, with a commission not to proceed precisely, 

 or merely according to the laws and customs either 

 of England or Scotland, but mixtly, according to in 

 structions by your majesty to be set down, after the 

 imitation and precedent of the council of the marches 

 here in England, erected upon the union of Wales ? 



The third question is that which many will make 

 a great question of, though perhaps your majesty 

 will make no question of it ; and that is, whether 

 your majesty should not make a stop or stand 

 here, and not to proceed to any farther union, 

 contenting yourself with the two former articles 

 or points. 



For it will be said, that we are now well, thanks 

 be to God and your majesty, and the state of neither 

 kingdom is to be repented of ; and that it is true 

 which Hippocrates saith, that &amp;lt;( Sana corpora difficile 

 l&amp;lt; medicationes ferunt,&quot; it is better to make alterations 

 in sick bodies than in sound. The consideration 



