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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28517	The union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, or, The elaborate papers of Sir Francis Bacon ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Irvine, Christopher, fl. 1638-1685.	1670 (1670)	Wing B340; ESTC R338	40,143	72

ancient Separation or Divorce The lot of Spain was to have the several Kingdoms of that Continent Portugal only except to be united in an Age not long past and now in our Age that of Portugal also which was the last that held out to be incorporate with the rest The lot of France hath been much about the same time likewise to have re-annexed unto that Crown the several Dutchies and Portions which were in former times dismembred The lot of this Island is the last reserved for your Majesties happy times by the special Providence and Favour of God who hath brought your Majesty to this happy conjunction with great consent of Hearts and in the strength of your Years and in the maturity of your Experience It resteth but that as I promised I set before your Majesties Princely consideration the grounds of Nature touching the Union and Commixture of Bodies and the correspondence which they have with the grounds of Policy in the conjunction of States and Kingdoms First therefore that Position Vis unita fortior being one of the common notions of the Mind needeth not much to be induced or illustrate We see the Sun when he entereth and while he continueth under the Sign of Leo causeth more vehement heats then when he is in Cancer what time his Beams are nevertheless more perpendicular The reason whereof in great part hath been truly ascribed to the conjunction and corradiation in that place of Heaven of the Sun with the four Stars of the first magnitude Syrius Canicula Cor Leonis and Cauda Leonis So the Moon likewise by ancient tradition while she is in the same Sign of Leo is said to be at the Heart which is not for any affinity which that place of Heaven can have with that part of mans Body but only because the Moon is then by reason of the conjunction and nearness with the Stars aforenamed in the greatest strength of influence and so worketh upon that part in inferiour Bodies which is most Vital and Principal So we see Waters and Liquors in small quantity do easily putrifie and corrupt but in large quantity subsist long by reason of the strength they receive by union So in Earthquakes the more general do little hurt by reason of the united weight which they offer to subvert but narrow and particular Earthquakes have many times overturned whole Towns and Cities So then this point touching the force of Union is evident And therefore it is more fit to speak of the manner of Union wherein again it will not be pertinent to handle one kind of Union which is Union by Victory when one Body doth meerly subdue another and converteth the same into his own nature extinguishing and expulsing what part soever of it it cannot overcome As when the Fire converteth the Wood into Fire purging away the smoak and the ashes as unapt Matter to enflame Or when the Body of a Living Creature doth convert and assimilate Food and Nourishment purging and expelling whatsoever it cannot convert For these Representations do answer in matter of Policy to Union of Countries by conquest where the conquering State doth extinguish extirpate and expulse any part of the State conquered which it findeth so contrary as it cannot alter and convert it And therefore leaving violent Unions we will consider only of natural Unions The difference is excellent which the best Observers in Nature do take between Compositio and Mistio putting together and mingling the one being but a conjunction of Bodies in place the other in quality and consent the one the Mother of Sedition and Alteration the other of Peace and Continuance the one rather a Confusion then an Union the other properly an Union Therefore we see those Bodies which they call imperfectè mista last not but are speedily dissolved For take for example Snow or Froath which are compositions of Air and Water and in them you may behold how easily they severe and dissolve the Water closing together and excluding the Air. So those three Bodies which the Alchymists do so much celebrate as the three Principles of things that is to say Earth Water and Oyl which it pleaseth them to term Salt Mercury and Sulphur we see if they be united only by composition or putting together how weakly and rudely they do incorporate For Water and Earth maketh but an unperfect slime and if they be forced together by agitation yet by a little settling the Earth resideth in the bottom So Water and Oyl though by agitation it be brought into an Oyntment yet after a little settling the Oyl will float on the top So as such imperfect mistures continue no longer then they are forced and still in the end the worthiest getteth above But otherwise it is of perfect mistures For we see these three Bodies of Earth Water and Oyl when they are joined in a Vegetable or Mineral they are so united as without great subtilty of Art and force of Extraction they cannot be separated and reduced into the same simple Bodies again So as the difference between Compositio and Mistio clearly set down is this That Compositio is the joining or putting together of Bodies without a new Form and Mistio is the joining or putting together of Bodies under a new Form For the new form is commune Vinculum and without that the old Form will be at strife and discord Now to reflect this Light of Nature upon matter of Estate There hath been put in practice these two several kinds of Policy in uniting and conjoining of States and Kingdoms The one to retain the ancient Form still severed and only conjoined in Soveraignty The other to superinduce a new Form agreeable and convenient to the entire State The former of these hath been more usual and is more easie but the latter is more happy For if a man do attentively revolve Histories of all Nations and judge truly thereupon he will make this conclusion That there was never any States that were good commixtures but the Romans Which because it was the best State of the World and is the best Example of this Point we will chiefly insist thereupon In the Antiquities of Rome Virgil bringeth in Jupiter by way of Oracle or Prediction speaking of the mixture of the Trojans and the Italians Sermonem Ausonii Patrum moresque tenebant Utque est nomen erit Commixti Corpore tantum Subsident Teucri Morem Ritusque Sacrorum Adjiciam faciamque omnes uno ore Latinos Hinc genus Ausonio mistum quod sanguine surget Supra Homines supra ira Deos pietate videbis Wherein Jupiter maketh a kind of partition or distribution That Italy should give the Language and the Laws Troy should give a mixture of Men and some Religious Rites and both people should meet in one name of Latines Soon after the foundation of the City of Rome the people of the Romans and the Sabines mingled upon equal terms Wherein the interchange went so even that as Livy

most cases principally regarded In Nature the time of planting and setting is chiefly observed And we see the Astrologers pretend to judge of the fortune of the party by the time of the Nativity In Laws we may not unfitly apply the case of Legitimation to the case of Naturalization For it is true that the common Canon Law doth put the Ante-natos and the Post-natos in one degree But when it was moved to the Parliament of England Barones unâ voce responderunt Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare And though it must be confessed that the Ante-nati and Post-nati are in the same degree in Dignities yet were they never so in Abilities For no man doubts but the Son of an Earl or Baron before his Creation or Call shall inherite the Dignity as well as the Son born after But the Son of an Attainted Person born before the Attainder shall not inherite as the after-born shall notwithstanding Charter of Pardon The Reason of Estate is That any restriction of the Ante-nati is temporary and expireth with this Generation But if you make it in the Post-nati also you do but in substance pen a perpetuity of Separation Mr. Speaker in this point I have been short because I little expected this doubt as to point of Convenience and therefore will not much labour where I suppose there is no greater opposition A BRIEF DISCOURSE Of the happy UNION OF THE KINGDOMES OF ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Dedicated in private to His MAJESTY I Do not find it strange excellent King that when Heraclitus he that was surnamed the Obscure had set forth a certain Book which is not now extant many men took it for a Discourse of Nature and many others took it for a Treatise of Policy For there is a great affinity and consent between the Rules of Nature and the true Rules of Policy The one being nothing else but an Order in the Government of the World And the other an Order in the Government of an Estate And therefore the education and erudition of the Kings of Persia was in a Science which was termed by a Name then of great Reverence but now degenerate and taken in the ill part For the Perasin Magick which was the secret Literature of their Kings was an application of the Contemplations and Observations of Nature unto a sense Politick taking the fundamental Laws of Nature and the Branches and Passages of them as an Original or first Model whence to take and describe a Copy and Imitation for Government After this manner the foresaid Instructers set before their Kings the examples of the Celestial Bodies the Sun the Moon and the rest which have great glory and veneration but no rest or intromission being in a perpetual office of motion for the cherishing in turn and in course of inferiour Bodies Expressing likewise the true manner of the motions of Government which though they ought to be swift and rapide in respect of dispatch and occasions yet are they to be constant and regular without wavering or confusion So did they represent unto them how the Heavens do not enrich themselves by the Earth and the Sea nor keep no dead Stock nor untouched Treasures of that they draw to them from below But whatsoever moisture they do levy and take from both Elements in vapours they do spend and turn back again in showers only holding and storing them up for a time to the end to issue and distribute them in season But chiefly they did expresse and expound unto them that fundamental Law of Nature whereby all things do subsist and are preserved which is that every thing in Nature although it hath his private and particular affection and appetite and doth follow and pursue the same in small moments and when it is free and delivered from more general and common respects yet neverthelesse when there is question or case for sustaining of the more general they for sake their own particularities and attend and conspire to uphold the publick So we see the Iron in small quantity will ascend and approach to the Load-stone upon a particular sympathy But if it be any quantity of moment it leaveth his appetite of amity to the Load-stone and like a good Patriot falleth to the Earth which is the Place and Region of massy Bodies So again the Water and other like Bodies do fall towards the Center of the Earth which is as was said their Region or Countrey And yet we see nothing more usual in all Water-works and Engines then that the Water rather then to suffer any distraction or dis-union in Nature will ascend for saking the love to his own Region or Countrey and applying it self to the Body next adjoyning But it were too long a digression to proceed to more examples of this kind Your Majesty your self did fall upon a passage of this nature in your gracious Speech of thanks unto your Council when acknowledging Princely their vigilancies and well-deservings it pleased you to note that it was a success and event above the course of nature to have so great Change with so great a Quiet Forasmuch as suddain mutations as well in State as in Nature are rarely without violence and perturbation So as still I conclude there is as was said a congruity between the principles of Nature and Policy And lest that instance may seem to oppone to this Assertion I may even in that particular with your Majesties favour offer unto you a Type or Pattern in Nature much resembling this event in your State Namely Earthquakes which many of them bring ever much terrour and wonder but no actual hurt the Earth trembling for a moment and suddenly stablishing in perfect quiet as it was before This knowledge then of making the Government of the World a mirrour for the Government of a State being a Wisdom almost lost whereof the reason I take to be because of the difficulty for one man to imbrace both Philosophies I have thought good to make some proof as far as my weakness and the straights of my time will suffer to revive in the handling of one particular wherewith now I most humbly present your Majesty For surely as hath been said it is a form of Discourse anciently used towards Kings And to what King should it be more proper then to a King that is studious to conjoin contemplative Vertue and active Vertue together Your Majesty is the first King that had the Honour to be Lapis Angularis to unite these two mighty and warlike Nations of England and Scotland under one Soveraignty and Monarchy It doth not appear by the Records and Memories of any true History or scarcely by the fiction and pleasure of any fabulous Narration or Tradition That ever of any Antiquity this Island of Great Britain was united under one King before this day And yet there be no Mountains or races of Hills there be no Seas nor great Rivers there is no diversity of Tongue or Language that hath invited or provoked this