152 CASE OF THE POST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



blood did rise to hear that opinion, that subjection is 

 owing to the crown rather than to the person of the 

 king. 



The second act of parliament which determined 

 this case, is the act of recognition in the first year of 

 his majesty, wherein you shall find, that in two 

 several places, the one in the preamble, the other in 

 the body of the act, the parliament doth recognise 

 that these two realms of England and Scotland are 

 under one imperial crown. The parliament doth not 

 say under one monarchy or king, which might refer 

 to the person, but under one imperial crown, which 

 cannot be applied but to the sovereign power of 

 regiment comprehending both kingdoms. And the 

 third act of parliament is the act made in the fourth 

 year of his majesty s reign, for the abolition of hostile 

 laws : wherein your lordships shall find likewise in 

 two places, that the parliament doth acknowledge, 

 that there is an union of these two kingdoms already 

 begun in his majesty s person : so as by the declara 

 tion of that act, they have not only one king, but 

 there is an union in inception in the kingdoms them 

 selves. 



These two are judgments in parliament by way 

 of declaration of law, against which no man can 

 speak. And certainly these are righteous and true 

 judgments to be relied upon ; not only for the au 

 thority of them, but for the verity of them ; for to 

 any that shall well and deeply weigh the effects of 

 law upon this conjunction, it cannot but appear, that 

 although &quot; partes integrates&quot; of the kingdom, as the 



