30 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



distance of territory considered, I suppose will be of 

 necessity. 



Secondly, how the standards, if it be not already 

 done, as I hear some doubt made of it in popular 

 rumour, may be reduced into an exact proportion for 

 the time to come ; and likewise the computation, 

 tale, or valuation to be made exact for the moneys 

 already beaten ? 



That done, the last question is, which is only 

 proper to this place, whether the stamp or the image 

 and superscription of Britain for the time forwards 

 should not be made the self-same in both places, 

 without any difference at all ? A matter also which 

 may be done, as our law is, by your majesty s prero 

 gative without act of parliament. 



These points are points of demonstration, &amp;lt;( ad 

 &quot; faciendum populum,&quot; but so much the more they go 

 to the root of your majesty s intention, which is to 

 imprint and inculcate into the hearts and heads 

 of the people, that they are one people and one 

 nation. 



In this kind also 1 have heard it pass abroad 

 in speech of the erection of some new order of 

 knighthood, with a reference to the union, and an 

 oath appropriate thereunto, which is a point likewise 

 deserves a consideration. So much for the external 

 points. 



The internal points of separation are as fol- 

 loweth. 



1. Several parliaments. 



