26 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



1. The several crowns, I mean the ceremonial 

 and material crowns. 



2. The second is the several names, stiles, or ap 

 pellations. 



3. The third is the several prints of the seals. 



4. The fourth is the several stamps or marks of 

 the coins or moneys. 



It is true, that the external are in some respect 

 and parts much mingled and interlaced with con 

 siderations internal ; and that they may be as ef 

 fectual to the true union, which must be the work of 

 time, as the internal, because they are operative upon 

 the conceits and opinions of the people ; the uniting 

 of whose hearts and affections is the life and true end 

 of this work. 



For the ceremonial crowns, the question will be, 

 whether there shall be framed one new imperial 

 crown of Britain to be used for the times to come ? 

 Also, admitting that to be thought convenient, 

 whether in the frame thereof there shall not be 

 some reference to the crowns of Ireland and France ? 



Also whether your majesty should repeat or 

 iterate your own coronation and your queen s, or 

 only ordain that such new crown shall be used 

 by your posterity hereafter ? 



The difficulties will be in the conceit of some in 

 equality, whereby the realm of Scotland may be 

 thought to be made an accession unto the realm of 

 England. But that resteth in some circumstances ; 

 for the compounding of the two crowns is equal ; the 

 calling of the new crown the crown of Britain is 



