UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 27 



equal. Only the place of coronation, if it shall be at 

 Westminster, which is the ancient, august, and 

 sacred place for the kings of England, may .seem to 

 make an inequality. And again, if the crow;, of 

 Scotland be discontinued, then that ceremony, which 

 I hear is used in the parliament of Scotland in the 

 absence of the kings, to have the crowns carried in 

 solemnity, must likewise cease. 



For the name, the main question is, whether 

 the contracted name of Britain shall be by your 

 majesty used, or the divided names of England and 

 Scotland ? 



Admitting there shall be an alteration, then the 

 case will require these inferior questions : 



First, whether the name of Britain shall only be 

 used in your majesty s stile, where the entire stile is 

 recited ; and in all other forms the divided names to 

 remain both of the realms and of the people ? or 

 otherwise, that the very divided names of realms and 

 people shall likewise be changed or turned into spe 

 cial or subdivided names of the general name ; that 

 is to say, for example, whether your majesty in your 

 stile shall denominate yourself king of Britain, 

 France, and Ireland, &c. and yet nevertheless, in 

 any commission, writ, or otherwise, where your 

 majesty mentions England or Scotland, you shall 

 retain the ancient names, as &quot; secundum consuetudi- 

 &quot; nem regni nostri Anglise ;&quot; or whether those divided 

 names shall be for ever lost and taken away, and 

 turned into the subdivisions of South-Britain and 

 North-Britain, and the people to be South- Britons 



