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would certainly drarw the Court of England to 

 Paris, This the Scots were fb far from being 

 ignorant of, that many of the Nobility and 

 Gentry did exprefs their diflike of the Union 

 of the Crowns, as well knowing that it would 

 reduce our Kingdom into a Subjedion and De- 

 pendance upon Englan^^ and drain us of what 

 Subftance we had ', and therefore fome of them 

 exprefs'd themfelves on that occafion, that 

 Scotland was never conquered till then : yet fuch 

 was our Zeal for the common V/elfare of the 

 Iflandjthe Interefl: of theProteftant Religion,and 

 of £^r(9/?^ in general, v/nich were then alraoft 

 in as much danger by Spai^y as they have been 

 fince by France^ that we quietly and freely 

 parted with our King, anc^fuffer'd bim to ac- 

 cept the Engliih Crown, rather than that Nari-* 

 on fhould be involved in War and Confufion, 

 and the Proteftant Religion indangec'd by ano- 

 ther Succeflbr, as it muft neceffarily have bin, 

 had the Infanta of SfaWj whofe Title was then 

 promoted by the Popifh Intsreft, fucceeded. 

 And all the reward we had for this Condefcen- 

 fion and Kindnefs, was a contemptuous and dif- 

 dainful refufal, on the part of EngUnA^ of an 

 Union of the Nations when propofed, tho the 

 fame would vifibly have tended to the benefit of 

 the whole Idand, the general advantage of Ew 

 rofe^ and the fecurity and increafe of the Prote- 

 ftant Interefl:. And our King was fo little thank- 

 ful on his'part, that tho he promised fblemnly 

 in the Great Church oi Edinburgh before his de- 

 parture^ 



