4 o A Defence of the Scots 



felf in his Declaration exprefs'd it to be no part 

 of his defign to come for the Crown ; fo that 

 our Reward was as Irank and generous as his 

 Service. 



Then as to Erigland^ we were under no man- 

 ner of obligation to continue the Union with 

 them : We might have infifted upon having 

 our King obliged to refide as much amongft us 

 as amongft them : that we fhould be governed 

 without any confideration or refpefl: to their 

 Intereft, any further than it fell in with our 

 own. We might have infifted upon an Acl ^ 

 that we fhould notbeobiig' to attend his Ma- 

 jefty at any time at the Court of England^ a- 

 bout our Affairs; but that he fhould either at- 

 tend upon our Adminiftration in perfon fro re 

 nata^ as he does now upon the Affairs of Hoi- 

 knd^ or lay down Methods to have his Pleafure 

 fignified to us at home in fuch cafes as it was 

 required ; which would fave a vaft deal of Mo- 

 ney annually to the Kingdom of Scotland. 

 Then as to the Succeffion, w^e were under 

 no neceffity of fettling it in the fame man- 

 ner as they did in England : for fince they had 

 made a Breach in the Line, they could not hand- 

 fomly have biam'd us to have made an improve- 

 ment of it,and either to have limited the Reverfi- 

 on after his prefent Majefty's Death, or other wife 

 as we (liould have thought beft, for the fecurity 

 of our Civil and Religious Liberties; or we might 

 have fettled it upon the Prince of Orange and 

 his Iffue by any other Wife, there being caufe 



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