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live by the light of reason, that \ve were in first 

 place to begin with the remotion and abolition of all 

 manner of hostile, envious, or malign laws on either 

 side, being in themselves mere temporary, and now 

 by time become directly contrary to our present 

 most happy estate ; which laws, as they are already 

 dead in force and vigour, so we thought fit now 

 to wish them buried in oblivion ; that by the utter 

 extinguishment of the memory of discords past, 

 we may avoid all seeds of relapse into discords 

 to come. 



Secondly, as matter of nature not unlike the 

 former, we entered into consideration of such limit- 

 any constitutions as served but for to obtain a form 

 of justice between subjects under several monarchs, 

 and did in the very grounds and motives of them 

 presuppose incursions, and intermixture of hostility : 

 all which occasions, as they are in themselves now 

 vanished and done away, so we wish the abolition 

 and cessation thereof to be declared. 



Thirdly, for so much as the principal degree to 

 union is communion and participation of mutual 

 commodities and benefits, it appeared to us to follow 

 next in order, that the commerce between both 

 nations be set open and free, so as the commodities 

 and provisions of either may pass and flow to and 

 fro, without any stops or obstructions, into the veins 

 of the whole body, for the better sustentation and 

 comfort of all the parts : with caution nevertheless, 

 that the vital nourishment be not so drawn into one 



