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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

THE UNION OF THE TWO KINGDOMS OF SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND OR The elaborate Papers of Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam Viscount of St. Alban sometime High Chancellor of England The greatest Sates-man of his Nation and Schollar of his Age concerning that Affair Published in this form for publick satisfaction Nullum numen abest Edinburgh Printed in the year 1670. FOR The Right HONOURABLE Sir ANDREW RAMSAY KNIGHT Barron of Abbots-hall c. Lord Provost of Edinburgh and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord OF the Union of the two Kingdoms now happily intended these being the Elaborate and most Learned Thoughts and Resolutions of that great States-man yet more great Lawyer but most of all the far greatest Schollar of his Age and Nation Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam Viscount of St. Alban presented to our sometimes Great SOVERAIGN King James the most Wise and Learned I have advised them again to the Press for the satisfaction of divers Noble and Worthy Persons the Book in which they first came to light being too voluminous for ordinary use and rarely to be found in this Kingdom And now my Lord I have made bold to give you the trouble of this Address and present these few Papers though small in bulk yet vast in matter to your hands both upon my own and the Authors account Upon mine own who have ever been your most humble Client and have had your noble Friendship and Favour to countenance me in all my private concerns And moreover you do as Chief Magistrate govern that City in which I was first educate in the Peripatetickwalks and under and in which I have for divers years profest Letters or practised Chyrurgery and Physick and with the rest of my fellow Citizens have found such refreshment under your Shade and Care that I thought it my duty to signifie it by this small testimony of my thankfulness And I am sure that upon the Authors account there is not a fitter Person to whom these Papers could be committed The great prudence and knowledge he had in State Affairs made him very acceptable to the Kings and People of his own Nation and the great moderation watchfulness and wisdom you have used in governing this City one of the greatest Interests of this Kingdom hath endeared you to all the Princes and Chiefs of this People What labour and trouble you put upon your self to preserve it under the late Usurpers your very enemies do acknowledge and praise How your care and resolution preserved it from ruine when the VVest Male-contents came marching to its very Gates all that were faithful to His Majesties Service are ready to witness And with what sweetness and calmness you have keeped together the Union of the Burgesses who were ready through heat and unadvisedness to divide themselves your late appearance before the Right Honourable Committee of Trade and your oppose to those that were ready to violate the old Sett of the Good-Town is a testimony above exception I could add many more evidences of your great Prudence and Moderation but I will rather forbear them then give the least blush or trouble to your modesty Only this I must add that as your Lordship hath been a great Preserver of the Union of this Burgh So I do not doubt but you who are the most eminent Member of a Party not least concerned in this Affair I mean the Burroughs will with your good advices endeavour such an Union of the two Kingdoms as shall most advance the Glory and Prerogative of our Gracious King and promove most the Honour Trade and Safety of both People This and your Preservation shall ever be the sincere Devotion of My Lord Your most humble Servant C. Irvin A Speech used by Sir Francis Bacon in the Lower House of Parliament 50. Jacobi concerning the Article of general Naturalization of the Scots Nation IT may please you Mr. Speaker Preface I will use none but put my self upon your good Opinions to which I have been accustomed beyond my deservings Neither will I hold you in suspence what way I will choose but now at the first declare my self that I mean to counsel the House to Naturalize this Nation Wherein nevertheless I have a request to make unto you which is of more efficacy to the purpose I have in hand then all that I shall say afterwards And it is the same which Demosthenes did more then once in great Causes of Estate to the people of Athens Ut cum calcul● Suffragiorum sumant Magnanimitatem Reip. That when they took into their hands the Balls whereby to give their Voices according as the manner of them was They would raise their thoughts and lay aside those considerations which their private Vocations and Degrees mought minister and represent unto them And would take upon them cogitations and minds agreeable to the Dignity and Honour of the Estate For Mr. Speaker as it was aptly and sharply said by Alexander to Parmenio when upon the Recital of the great offers which Darius made Parmenio said unto him I would accept these offers were I as Alexander He turned it upon him again So would I saith he were I as Parmenio So in this cause if an honest English Merchant I do not single out that State in disgrace for this Island ever held it Honourable but only for an instance of a private profession If an English Merchant should say Surely I would proceed no further in the Union were I as the King It mought be reasonably answered No more would the King were He as an English Merchant And the like may be said of a Gentleman of the Countrey be he never so worthy and sufficient Or of a Lawyer be he never so wise and learned Or of any other particular condition in this Kingdom For certainly Mr. Speaker if a man shall be only or chiefly sensible of those respects which his particular Vocation and Degree shall suggest and infuse into him and not enter into true and worthy considerations of Estate he shall never be able aright to give counsel or to take counsel in this matter So that it this request be granted I account the cause obtained But to proceed to the matter it self All Consultations do rest upon Questions comparative For when a question is de Vero it is simple for there is but one Truth But when a question is de Bono it is for the most part comparative For there be differing degrees of Good and Evil and the best of the Good is to be preferred and chosen and the worst of the Evil is to be declined and avoided And therefore in a Question of this nature you may not look for Answers proper to every inconvenience alledged For somewhat that cannot be specially answered may nevertheless be encountred and overweighed by matter of greater moment And therefore the matter which I shall set forth unto you will naturally receive this distribution of three parts First an Answer unto those inconveniences which

But the Question in this place is whether the Great Seals of England and Scotland should not be changed into one and the same form of Image and Superscription of Britain which nevertheless is requisite should be with some one plain or manifest alteration lest there be a Buz and suspect that Grants of things in England may be passed by the Seal of Scotland Or è converso Also whether this alteration of Form may not be done without Act of Parliament as the Great Seals have used to be heretofore changed as to their Impressions For the Moneys as to the Real and internal consideration thereof the question will be Whether your Majesty should not continue two Mints which the distance of Territory considered I suppose will be of necessity Secondly how the Standards if it be not already done as I hear some doubt made of it in popular rumour may be reduced into an exact proportion for the time to come and likewise the computation tale or valuation to be made exact for the Moneys already beaten That done the last Question is which is only proper to this place whether the Stamp or the Image and Superscription of Britain for the time forwards should not be made the self same in both places without any difference at all A matter also which may be done as our Law is by your Majesties Prerogative without Act of Parliament These points are points of Demonstration ad faciendum Populum But so much the more they go to the root of your Majesties intention which is to imprint and inculcate into the Hearts and Heads of the People that they are one People and one Nation In this kind also I have heard it pass abroad in speech of the erection of some new Order of Knighthood with a Reference to the Union and an Oath appropriat thereunto which is a point likewise deserveth a Consideration So much for the External Points The Internal Prints of Separation are as followeth 1. Several Parliaments 2. Several Councils of Estate 3. Several Officers of the Crown 4. Several Nobilities 5. Several Laws 6. Several Courts of Justice Trials and Processes 7. Several Receipts and Finances 8. Several Admiralties and Merchandizings 9. Several Freedoms and Liberties 10. Several Taxes and Imposts As touching the several States Ecclesiastical and the several Mints and Standards and the several Articles and Treaties of Intercourse with Forraign Nations I touched them before In these points of the straight and more inward Union there will interveen one principal difficulty and impediment growing from that root which Aristotle in his Politicks maketh to be the root of all division and diffention in Common-wealths And that is Equality and Inequality For the Realm of Scotland is now an Ancient and Noble Realm substantive of it self But when this Island shall be made Britain then Scotland is no more to be considered as Scotland but as a part of Britain no more then England is to be considered as England but as a part likewise of Britain And consequently neither of these are to be considered as things entire in themselves but in the proportion that they bear to the whole And therefore let us imagine Nam id Mente possumus quod Actu non possumus that Britain had never been divided but had ever been one Kingdom then that part of Soil or Territory which is comprehended under the name of Scotland is in quantity as I have heard it esteemed how true I know not not past a third part of Britain And that part of Soil or Territory which is comprehended under the name of England is two parts of Britain leaving to speak of any difference of Wealth or Population and speaking only of Quantity So then if for example Scotland should bring to Parliament as much Nobility as England then a third part should countervail two parts Nam si inaequalibus aequalia addas omnia erunt inaequalia And this I protest before God and your Majesty I do speak not as a man born in England but as a man born in Britain And therefore to descend to particulars 1. Parliament For the Parliaments the consideration of that Point will fall into four Questions 1. The first what proportion shall be kept between the Votes of England and the Votes of Scotland 2. The second touching the manner of Proposition or possessing of the Parliament of Causes there to be handled which in England is used to be done immediately by any Member of the Parliament or by the Prolocutor and in Scotland is used to be done immediately by the Lords of the Articles whereof the one form seemeth to have more Liberty and the other more Gravity and Maturity And therefore the Question will be whether of these shall yield to other Or whether there should not be a mixture of both by some Commissions precedent to every Parliament in the nature of Lords of the Articles and yet not excluding the Liberty of propounding in full Parliament afterwards 3. The third touching the Orders of Parliament how they may be compounded and the best of either taken 4. The fourth how those which by inheritance or otherwise have Offices of Honour and Ceremony in both the Parliaments as the Lord Steward with us c. may be satisfied and duplicitly accommodated 2. Councils of Estate For the Councils of Estate while the Kingdoms stand divided it should seem necessary to continue several Councils But if your Majesty should proceed to a strict Union then howsoever your Majesty may establish some Provincial Councils in Scotland as there is here of York and in the Marches of Wales Yet the Question will be whether it will not be more convenient for your Majesty to have but one Privy Council about your Person whereof the principal Officers of the Crown of Scotland to be for Dignity sake howsoever their abiding and remaining may be as your Majesty shall imploy their Service But this point belongeth meerly and wholly to your Majesties Royal Will and Pleasure 3. Officers of the Crown For the Officers of the Crown the consideration thereof will fall into these Questions First in regard of the latitude of your Kingdom and the distance of place whether it will not be matter of necessity to continue the several Officers because of the impossibility for the Service to be performed by one The second admitting the duplicity of Officers should be continued yet whether there should not be a difference that one should be the principal Officer and the other to be but special and subalterne As for example one to be Chancellor of Britain and the other to be Chancellor with some special addition As here of the Dutchy c. The third if no such specialty or inferiority be thought fit then whether both Officers should not have the Title and the Name of the whole Island and Precincts As the Lord Chancellor of England to be Lord Chancellor of Britain and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland to be Lord Chancellor of