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And again, your proclamation altereth no law, and so 

 the scruple of a tacit or implied alteration of laws 

 likewise satisfied. But then it may be considered, 

 whether it were not a form of the greatest honour, if 

 the parliament, though they did not enact it, yet 

 should become suitors and petitioners to your ma 

 jesty to assume it ? 



For the seals, that there should be but one great 

 seal of Britain, and one chancellor, and that there 

 should only be a seal in Scotland for processes and 

 ordinary justice ; and that all patents of grants of 

 lands or otherwise, as well in Scotland as in Eng 

 land, should pass under the great seal here, kept 

 about your person ; it is an alteration internal, 

 whereof I do not now speak. 



But the question in this place is, whether the 

 great seals of England and Scotland should not be 

 changed into one and the same form of image and 

 superscription of Britain, which, nevertheless, is 

 requisite should be with some one plain or manifest 

 alteration, lest there be a buz, and suspect, that 

 grants of things in England may be passed by 

 the seal of Scotland, or &quot; e converso t&quot; 



Also, whether this alteration of form may not be 

 done without act of parliament, as the great seals 

 have used to be heretofore changed as to their 

 impressions ? 



For the moneys, as to the real and internal con 

 sideration thereof, the question will be, whether your 

 majesty shall not continue two mints ? which, the 



