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2. Several councils of state. 



3. Several officers of the crown. 



4. Several nobilities. 



5. Several laws. 



6. Several courts of justice, trials, and processes. 



7. Several receits and finances. 



8. Several admiralties and merchandisings. 



9. Several freedoms and liberties. 



10. Several taxes and imposts. 



As touching the several states ecclesiastical, and 

 the several mints and standards, and the several arti 

 cles and treaties of intercourse with foreign nations, I 

 touched them before. 



In these points of the strait and more inward 

 union, there will intervene one principal difficulty and 

 impediment, growing from that root, which Aristotle 

 in his Politics maketh to be the root of all division 

 and dissension in commonwealths, and that is equa 

 lity and inequality. For the realm of Scotland is 

 now an ancient and noble realm, substantive of 

 itself. 



But when this island shall be made Britain, then 

 Scotland is no more to be considered as Scotland, 

 but as a part of Britain ; no more than England is to 

 be considered as England, but as a part likewise of 

 Britain ; and consequently neither of these are to be 

 considered as things entire of themselves, but in the 

 proportion that they bear to the whole. And there 

 fore let us imagine, &quot; Nam id mente possumus, quod 

 &quot; actu non possumus,&quot; that Britain had never been 

 divided, but had ever been one kingdom ; then that 



