THE MOST HUMBLE 



CERTIFICATE OR RETURN 



OF THE 



COMMISSIONERS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, 



AUTHORISED TO TREAT OF 



AN UNION FOR THE WEAL OF BOTH REALMS. 



2 Jac. I. [Prepared, but Altered.] 



WE the commissioners for England and Scotland 

 respectively named and appointed, in all humbleness 

 do signify to his most excellent majesty, and to the 

 most honourable high courts of parliament of both 

 realms, that we have assembled ourselves, consulted 

 and treated according to the nature and limits of 

 our commission ; and forasmuch as we do find that 

 hardly within the memory of all times, or within the 

 compass of the universal world, there can be shewed 

 forth a fit example or precedent of the work we 

 have in hand concurring in all points material, we 

 thought ourselves so much the more bound to resort 

 to the infallible and original grounds of nature and 

 common reason, and freeing ourselves from the lead 

 ing or misleading of examples, to insist and fix our 

 considerations upon the individual business in hand, 

 without wandering or discourses. 



It seemed therefore unto us a matter demonstra- 



