'38 A Defence of the Scots 



(land our doing any thing that may advance a 

 Trade by our felves. 



If they objeQ: that what we did in all thofe 

 cafes was no more than onr duty, and what we 

 ow'd to our own Pref^rvation as well as to 

 theiis: iciseafyto reply, that admitting it to 

 be fb, yet by the Laws of God and Men People 

 are incourag'd to perform their Duties by Re- 

 wards ; and their Anceftors were fo fenfible of 

 this, that tho they knew we were equally con- 

 cern'd to defend the Ifland againft foreign In- 

 vaders as well as they, yet they thought them- 

 felves oblig'd in Policy as well as Gratitude, to 

 reward us ; which they not only did by that Ho- 

 norary Prewtum of allowing us to beDenifons.of 

 f^ngland^ as above-mention'd, but fometimes 

 gave to us, and at other times confirmM to us the 

 three Northern Counties of NonhumberUnd^ 

 WefimorUnd, and Cumber Imd^ to be held in Fee 

 of the Crown of England, 



It is iikewife very well known with how 

 much Honour the Parliament of England treated 

 us, when they courted our Afliftance againft 

 K. Charles I. and what large Promifes that 

 Prince made us, if we would have but flood 

 Neuter ^ which tho w^e had reafon to think ma- 

 ny of thofe that oppofed him had no great kind- 

 nefs neither for our Civil nor Ecclefiaftical 

 Conftitution, yet the fenfe that we had of the 

 common Danger that our Religion and Liber- 

 ties were in at that time, made us proof a- 

 gainft all thofe Tentations; (o that after all 



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