A DRAUGHT OF A PROCLAMATION TOUCHING 

 HIS MAJESTY S STILE. 



2 DO JACOBI. [PREPARED, KOT USED.] 



As it is a manifest token, or rather a substantial 

 effect, of the wrath and indignation of God, when 

 kingdoms are rent and divided, which have formerly 

 been entire and united under one monarch and go 

 vernor ; so, on the contrary part, when it shall please 

 the Almighty, by whom kings reign as his deputies 

 and lieutenants, to enlarge his commissions of empire 

 and sovereignty., and to commit those nations to one 

 king to govern, which he hath formerly committed to 

 several kings, it is an evident argument of his great 

 favour both upon king and upon people ; upon the 

 king, inasmuch as he may with comfort conceive that 

 he is one of those servants to whom it was said, 

 &quot; Thou hast been faithful in the less, I will make 

 thee lord of more ;&quot; upon the people, because the 

 greatness of kingdoms and dominions, especially not 

 being scattered, but adjacent and compact, doth ever 

 bring with it greater security from outward enemies, 

 and greater freedom from inward burdens, unto both 

 which people under petty and weak estates are more 

 exposed ; which so happy fruit of the union of king 

 doms is chiefly to be understood, when such conjunc 

 tion or augmentation is not wrought by conquest 



