UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 23 



In sovereignty. 



In the relative thereof, which is subjection. 



In religion. 



In continent. 



In language. 



And now lastly, by the peace by your majesty 

 concluded with Spain, in leagues and confederacies : 

 for now both nations have the same friends and the 

 same enemies. 



Yet notwithstanding there is none of the six 

 points, wherein the union is perfect and consum 

 mate ; but every of them hath some scruple or 

 rather grain of separation inwrapped and included in 

 them. 



For the sovereignty, the union is absolute in your 

 majesty and your generation ; but if it should so be, 

 which God of his infinite mercy defend, that your 

 issue should fail, then the descent of both realms doth 

 resort to the several lines of the several bloods royal. 



For subjection, I take the law of England to be 

 clear, what the law of Scotland is I know not, that all 

 Scotsmen from the very instant of your majesty s 

 reign begun are become denizens, and the &quot; post- 

 &quot; nati&quot; are naturalized subjects of England for the time 

 forwards : for by our laws none can be an alien but 

 he that is of another allegiance than our sovereign 

 lord the king s : for there be but two sorts of aliens, 

 whereof we find mention in our law, an alien 

 ami, and an alien enemy ; whereof the former is 

 a subject of a state in amity with the king, and 

 the latter a subject of a state in hostility : but 



