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is sworn to his lord, he cannot be sworn over again : 

 he hath but one conscience, and the obligation 

 of this oath trencheth between the natural person of 

 the tenant and the natural person of the lord. And 

 certainly the case of homage and tenure, and of 

 homage leige, which is one case, are things of a near 

 nature, save that the one is much inferior to the 

 other ; but it is good to behold these great matters 

 of state in cases of lower element, as the eclipse of 

 the sun is used to be in a pail of water. 



The third main argument containeth certain 

 supposed inconveniences, which may ensue of a 

 general naturalization &quot;ipso jure,&quot; of which kind 

 three have been specially remembered. 



The first is the loss of profit to the king upon 

 letters of denization and purchases of aliens. 



The second is the concourse of Scotsmen into this 

 kingdom, to the enfeebling of that realm of Scotland 

 in people, and the impoverishing of this realm of 

 England in wealth. 



The third is, that the reason of this case stayeth 

 not within the compass of the present case ; for 

 although it were some reason that Scotsmen were 

 naturalized, being people of the same island and 

 language, yet the reason which we urge, which is, 

 that they are subject to the same king, may be 

 applied to persons every way more estranged from 

 us than they are ; as if in future time, in the king s 

 descendents, there should be a match with Spain, 

 and the dominions of Spain should be united with 

 the crown of England, by one reason, say they, all 



