28 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



and North-Britons ? And so in the example afore 

 said, the tenour of the like clause to run t( secundura 

 ** consuetudinem Britannise ausf.ralis.&quot; 



Also, if the former of these shall be thought con 

 venient, whether it were not better for your majesty 

 to take that alteration of stile upon you by procla 

 mation, as Edward the third did the stile of France, 

 than to have it enacted by parliament ? 



Also, in the alteration of the stile, whether it 

 were not better to transpose the kingdom of Ireland, 

 and put it immediately after Britain, and so place 

 the islands together ; and the kingdom of France, 

 being upon the continent, last ; in regard that these 

 islands of the western ocean seem by nature and 

 providence an entire empire in themselves ; and also, 

 that there was never king of England so entirely 

 possest of Ireland, as your majesty is : so as your 

 stile to run king of Britain, Ireland, and the islands 

 adjacent, and of France, &c. 



The difficulties in this have been already, throughly 

 beaten over ; but they gather but to two heads. 



The one, point of honour and love to the former 

 names. 



The other, doubt, lest the alteration of the name 

 may induce and involve an alteration of the laws and 

 policies of the kingdom ; both which, if your ma 

 jesty shall assume the stile by proclamation, and not 

 by parliament, are in themselves satisfied : for then 

 the usual names must needs remain in writs and re 

 cords, the forms whereof cannot be altered but by act 

 of parliament, and so the point of honour satisfied. 



