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the laws of England ordained in that case ; and 

 therefore had need to be bridled with as severe a law 

 in Scotland as it is here in England. 



Of this kind there are many laws. 



The law of the 5th of Richard II. of going over 

 without licence, if there be not the like law in Scot 

 land, will be frustrated and evaded : for any subject 

 of England may go first into Scotland, and thence 

 into foreign parts. 



So the laws prohibiting transportation of sundry 

 commodities, as gold, and silver, ordnance, artillery, 

 corn, &c. if there be not a correspondence of laws in 

 Scotland, will in like manner be deluded and 

 frustrate; for any English merchant or subject may 

 carry such commodities first into Scotland, as well as 

 he may carry them from port to port in England; 

 and out of Scotland into foreign parts, without any 

 peril of law. 



So libels may be devised and written in Scotland, 

 and published and scattered in England. 



Treasons may be plotted in Scotland and exe 

 cuted in England. 



And so in many other cases, if there be not the 

 like severity of law in Scotland to restrain offences 

 that there is in England, whereof we are here igno 

 rant whether there be or no, it will be a gap or stop 

 even for English subjects to escape and avoid the 

 laws of England. 



But for treasons, the best is that by the statute 

 of 26 K. Henry VIII. cap. 13, any treason committed 

 in Scotland may be proceeded with in England, as 



