34 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



The second, admitting the duplicity of officers 

 should be continued, yet whether there should not 

 be a difference, that one should be the principal 

 officer, and the other to be but special and subaltern ? 

 As for example, one to be chancellor of Britain, and 

 the other to be chancellor with some special addition, 

 as here of the duchy, &c. 



The third, if no such specialty or inferiority be 

 thought fit, then whether both officers should not 

 have the title and the name of the whole island and 

 precincts ? as the lord Chancellor of England to be 

 lord Chancellor of Britain, and the lord Chancellor 

 of Scotland to be lord Chancellor of Britain, but 

 with several provisos that they shall not intromit 

 themselves but within their several precincts. 



For the nobilities, the consideration thereof will 

 fall into these questions. 



The first, of their votes in parliament, which was 

 touched before, what proportion they shall bear to 

 the nobility of England ? wherein if the proportion 

 which shall be thought fit be not full, yet your 

 majesty may, out of your prerogative, supply it ; for 

 although you cannot make fewer of Scotland, yet 

 you may make more of England. 



The second is touching the place and precedence 

 wherein to marshal them according to the precedence 

 of England in your majesty s stile, and according to 

 the nobility of Ireland ; that is, all English earls first, 

 and then Scotish, will be thought unequal for Scot 

 land. To marshal them according to antiquity, will 

 be thought unequal for England. Because I hear 



