^^6 A Defence of the Scots 



tersby ftruggling with them, and exposM all 

 the Patriots of her Religion and Liberty to But- 

 chery and Deftruftion. 



Thefe muft certainly have been the Confe- 

 quences of our adhering to the late King, and 

 the English would have thought they had had a 

 very good Bargain if they could have bought 

 us off in that cafe^di uniting both the King- 

 doms intoone,^ and granting us a joint Trade to 

 their own Plantations ; wheras now they will 

 not allow us to fettle a foreign Colony of our 

 own, and treat us as Foreigners in theirs. 



To fhew that this is not a mere Conjefture, 

 that has no other ground but a Vifion of the 

 Brain, they may be pleasM to confider the ho- 

 norable Privileges granted us by their Anceftors^ 

 and fome of the greatefl: Princes that ever fway- 

 ed their Scepter, viz. KmgEdtvard 2iX\dlVilHam 

 the Conqueror, who by the Confent of the 

 States in Parliament alTembled, enaded, That 

 the Scots Jhould he accounted Denizons of En^;- 

 land, and enjoy the fame Privileges with them- 

 f elves ^becatife of their frequent Intermarriages with 

 the Englifb, and that they did everjland (loutly as 

 one Man with them for the common Vtility of the 

 Crown and Kjngdom^ againjl the Danes and Nor- 

 wegians, fought it mofi valiantly and unanl- 

 tnoujly againjl the common Enemy^ and bore the 

 burden of mo (I fierce Wars in the Kingdom. This 

 they will find in a Book calld, Archaionomia, tranf- 

 lated from the Saxon by William Lambard, and 

 printed at London bj John Day /;; 1 568. 



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