40 UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



and Scotish. For to leave trade free in the one na 

 tion, and to have it restrained in the other, may per- 

 case breed some inconvenience. 



For freedoms and liberties, the charters of both 

 nations may be reviewed ; and of such liberties as are 

 agreeable and convenient for the subjects and people 

 of both nations, one great charter may be made and 

 confirmed to the subjects of Britain ; and those 

 liberties which are peculiar or proper to either na 

 tion, to stand in state as they do. 



But for imposts and customs, it will be a great 

 question how to accommodate them and reconcile 

 them : for if they be much easier in Scotland than 

 they be here in England, which is a thing I know 

 not, then this inconvenience will follow ; that the 

 merchants of England may unlade in the ports of 

 Scotland : and this kingdom to be served from 

 thence, and your majesty s customs abated. 



And for the question, whether the Scotish mer 

 chants should pay strangers custom in England ? 

 that resteth upon the point of naturalization, which 

 I touched before. 



Thus have I made your majesty a brief and 

 naked memorial of the articles and points of this 

 great cause, which ffiay serve only to excite and stir 

 up your majesty s royal judgment, and the judgment 

 of wiser men whom you will be pleased to call to it ; 

 wherein I will not presume to persuade or dissuade 

 any thing ; nor to interpose mine own opinion, but 

 do expect light from your majesty s royal directions ; 

 unto the which I shall ever submit my judgment, 



