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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95749	Ekskybalauron: or, The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, more precious then diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen in any age; found in the kennel of Worcester-streets, the day after the fight, and six before the autumnal æquinox, anno 1651. Serving in this place, to frontal a vindication of the honour of Scotland, from that infamy, whereinto the rigid Presbyterian party of that nation, out of their coveteousness and ambition, most dissembledly hath involved it.	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1652 (1652)	Wing U134; Thomason E1506_1; ESTC R203867	122,679	328

Laws I do consent to the full A little after he sayes that this union of Laws should not precede the naturalization nor go along with it paripassu but altogether succeed it and that not in the precedence of an instant but in distance of time because the union of Laws will ask a great time to be perfected both for the compiling and for the passing of them during all which time if this mark of strangeness should be denied to be taken away I fear it may induce such a habit of strangeness as will rather be an impediment then a preparation to further proceeding And albeit in the conclusion of his speech he saith that he holdeth this motion of union of Laws very worthy and arising from very good minds but not proper for that time yet do I think that for this time and as the juncture of affaires is for the present it is very proper and expedient Therefore although in some parcels of the foresaid discourse not here recited many pregnant reasons to those that opposed the naturalization of the Scots because that Nation was annexed to England by inheritance and not conquest be exhibited to shew that the grant of the benefit thereof should not be obstructed for that Scotland was not a conquered Country as also why the Scots unwilligness to receive the English Laws should be no impediment to their Naturalization and that in Calvin's Case which is extant to be seen in the seventh book of Sir Cook 's Reports many excellent things are deduced in favour of the post●ati of that Realm notwithstanding the diversity of Laws and Scotland's then unacknowledged subordination to the meer Authority of this Land Yet seeing the face of affairs is quite altered from what it was then and that the English civility and good carriage may gain so much upon the affections of the people there as to make them in a very short space to be of the same Customs Manners and Language with them I do really believe if Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Edward Cook were now living that both of them would unanimously advise the State and Soverainty of this Island to allow unto Scotland which neither is nor never was a Kingdom more then Wales was of old the same priviledges and immunities in every thing that Wales now hath and which the Scots have in France a transmarine Country to enjoy everywhere in all things the emoluments and benefit competent to the free-born subjects of England and to this effect to impower that Nation with liberty to chuse their representattves to be sen hither to this their soveraigne Parliament that the publick trustees of England Scotland and Wales may at Westminster jointly concur for the weal of the whole Isle as members of one and the same incorporation These two Knights one whereof was Lord high Chancellor of England the other Atturny General and Lord chief Justice of the Common pleas were good and wise men full of honour free from prevarication and by-respects learned Lawyers excellent Scholars fluent Orators and above all worthy loving and sincere patriots of England for which cause I hope so many exquisite qualities meeting as it were in one constellation by vertue of a powerfull influence upon the mindes of the supreame Senate of the Land will incline the hearts of every one not to dissent from the Judgement and approbation of these two so eminent Judges and zealous English men and that so much the rather that to the accomplishment of so commendable a work we are conducted by nature it self which having made us divisos orbe Britannos sheweth by the antiperistatick faculty of a fountain or spring-well in the Summer season whose nature is to be the colder within it self the greater circumobresistence of heat be in the aire which surrounds it that we should cordially close to one another unite our Forces and the more vigourously improve the internal strength we have of our selves the greater that the outward opposition and hostility appear against us of the circumjacent outlandish Nations which inviron us on all sides This was not heeded in ancient times by reason of the surquedry of the old English who looked on the Scots with a malignant aspect and the profound policie of the French in casting for their own ends the spirit of division betwixt the two Nations to widen the breach But now that the English have attained to a greater dexterity in encompassing their facienda's of State and deeper reach in considering what for the future may prove most honourable and lucrative will like an expert Physician to a patient sick of a Consumption in his noble parts who applieth cordials and not corosives and lenitives rather then cauters strive more as I imagine to gain the love and affection of the Scots thereby to save the expence of any more blood or mony then for overthrowing them quite in both their bodies and fortunes to maintain the charge of an everlasting war against the storms of the climate the fierceness of discontented People inaccessibility of the hills and sometimes universal penury the mother of plague and famine all which inconveniences may be easily prevented without any charge at all by the sole gaining of the hearts of the country By which means patching up old rents cementing what formerly was broken and by making of ancient foes new friends we will strengthen our selves and weaken our enemies and raise the Isle of Britain to that height of glory that it will become formidable to all the world besides In the mean while the better to incorporate the three Dominions of England Scotland and Wales and more firmely to consolidate their union it were not amiss in my opinion that as little rivers which use to lose their names when they run along into the current of a great flood they have their own peculiar titles laid aside and totally dischaged into the vast gulph of that of Great Britain But if upon any emergent occasion it be thought fit to make mention of Ireland and the several Dominions of Brttain in an orderly enumeration to place Ireland as I conceive it before Scotland is very preposterous not but that Ireland is a far more fertil Country and that the Irish may be as good as any men that the Scots in these latter yeers may be much degenerated from the magnanimity of their fore-Fathers and that the succeeding progeny may perhaps prove little better or as you will for be the soile or climate never so good or bad with a permanence or rather immutability in either of those qualities the respective natives and inhabitants thereof will nevertheless according to the change of times be subject to a vicissitude of vice and vertue as may appear by the inclinations of the Greeks and Romans now compared with those of their Ancestors in the days of Xerxes and Hannibal but onely that I conceive priority to be more due to Scotland although I should speak nothing of its more immaculate reputation both