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<FIGDESC>royal blazon of the House of Stuart</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_AS often as We call to minde the mo&s;t ioyfull and</HI> iu&s;t Recognition made by the whole body of our Realme, in the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of our High Court of Parliament, of that ble&s;&s;ing which it hath plea&s;ed God to re&s;erue many yeeres in his Prouidence to our Per&s;on, and now in the fulne&s;&s;e of the time of his Di&s;po&s;ition, to be&s;tow vpon Vs; Namely the ble&s;&s;ed Vnion, or rather Reuniting of the&s;e two mightie, fa|mous, and ancient Kingdomes of England and Scotland, vnder one Imperiall Crowne: So often doe We thinke, that it is our duetie, to doe our vttermo&s;t endeuour, for the aduancement and perfection of that woorke, which is of his beginning, and whereof hee hath giuen &s;o many palpable &s;ignes and Arguments, as hee that &s;eeth them not, is blinde, and hee that impugneth them, doeth but endeuour to &s;eparate that, which God hath put together. For, to omit tho&s;e things which are euident to &s;en&s;e, That the I&s;le within it &s;elfe hath almo&s;t none but imaginarie bounds of &s;eparation without, but one common limit or rather Gard of the Ocean Sea, making the whole a little world within it &s;elfe, the Nations an vniformitie of con&s;titutions both of body and minde, e&s;pecially in Martiall prowe&s;&s;es, A communitie of Language, the princi|pall meanes of Ciuil &s;ocietie, An vnitie of Religion, the chiefe&s;t band of heartie Vnion, and the &s;ure&s;t knot of la&s;ting Peace: What can be a more expre&s;&s;e Te&s;timonie of Gods authoritie of this worke, then that two mightie Nations, hauing bene euer from their fir&s;t &s;eparation continually in blood each again&s;t other, &s;hould for &s;o many yeres immediatly before our Succe&s;&s;ion, be at peace together, as it were to this end, That their memory being free from &s;ence of the &s;mart of former iniuries, their minds might, in the time of Gods appointment, more willingly come together, That it hath plea&s;ed him &s;o to di&s;po&s;e, that this Vnion is not inforced by Conque&s;t and violence, nor contracted by doubt|full and deceiuable points of tran&s;action, but naturally deriued from the Right and Title of the pre|cedent Princes of both Kingdomes, concurring in our Per&s;on, alike lineally de&s;cended from the blood of both through the Sacred coniunction of Wedlocke, An Vnion which is the worke of God and Nature, and whereunto the workes of Force or Policie cannot attaine? Wee may addehere|unto that which We haue receiued from tho&s;e that be &s;kilfull in the Lawes of this Land, That im|mediatly
<PB REF="2" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 38 -->vpon our Succe&s;&s;ion, diuers of the ancient Lawes of this Realme are <HI>Ip&s;o facto</HI> expired, As namely, that of E&s;cuage, and of the Naturalization of the Subiects, And that there is a greater affinitie and concurrence betweene mo&s;t of the ancient Lawes of both Kingdomes, then is to be found betweene tho&s;e of any other two Nations, As namely, in &s;tates of Inheritance and Free|hold, as Fee-&s;imple, Fee-taile, Tenant for life, by Courte&s;ie, Dower, and &s;uch like, In Ca&s;es of de&s;|cents of Inheritance, In Tenures of Lands, as of Knights &s;eruice, Socage, Franke Almoigne, Burgage, Villenage, and &s;uch like, In Writts and formes of Proce&s;&s;e, In ca&s;es of Triall by Iu|ries, Grand Iuries; And la&s;tly in Officers and Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice, As Sheriffes, Coroners, and &s;uch like, which We leaue to be further con&s;idered by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Realmes.</P>
<P>All which being matter prepared onely by the Prouidence of Almightie God, and which by hu|mane Indu&s;trie could not haue bene &s;o ordered; Wee, and all our Subiects ought fir&s;t with reue|rence to acknowledge his Handie-worke therein, and to giue him our mo&s;t humble thankes for the &s;ame, and then to further by our endeuours that, which his Wi&s;edome doth by &s;o many &s;ignes point out to be his Will: Whereof many particularities depending vpon the determinations of the States and Parliaments of both Realmes, We leaue them there to be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed, according to the Commi&s;|&s;ions graunted by the &s;euerall Actes of both Parliaments. And &s;ome other things re&s;ting in Our owne Imperiall Power, as the Head of both, We are purpo&s;ed towards the building of this excel|lent worke, to doe by Our &s;elfe that, which iu&s;tly and &s;afely Wee may by Our ab&s;olute power doe. And for a fir&s;t &s;tone of this worke, whereupon the re&s;t may be layed, &s;eeing there is vndoubtedly but one Head to both Peoples, which is Our &s;elfe; And that vnfainedly We haue but one Heart and Minde to communicate equally to both States, as Lines i&s;&s;uing from one Center, Our Iu&s;tice, our Fauours, and what&s;oeuer el&s;e dependeth vpon the Vnitie of Our Supreme power ouer both, (God hauing mini&s;tred to Vs &s;o iu&s;t cau&s;e to imbrace them both with equall and indifferent Loue, in as much as Our Birth, and the fir&s;t part of Our life hath been in the one, and the later part there|of is like to be for the mo&s;t part in the other:) Wee thinke it vnrea&s;onable, that the thing, which is by the worke of God and Nature &s;o much in effect one, &s;hould not be one in name; Vnitie in name being &s;o fit a meanes to imprint in the hearts of people, a Character and memoriall of that Vnitie, which ought to be among&s;t them indeede.</P>
<P>Wherefore Wee haue thought good to di&s;continue the diuided names of England and Scot|land out of our Regall Stile, and doe intend and re&s;olue to take and a&s;&s;ume vnto Vs in maner and forme hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, The Name and Stile of <HI>KING OF GREAT BRITTAINE,</HI> including therein according to the trueth, the whole I&s;land. Wherein no man can imagine Vs to be led by an humour of Vaineglory or Ambition, becau&s;e wee &s;hould in that ca&s;e, rather delight in a long enumeration of many Kingdomes and Seigniories, (whereof in Our Inheritance We haue plentie enough, if Wee thought there were glory in that kind of Stile) but onely that Wee v&s;e it as a &s;ignification of that, which in part is already done, and a &s;ignificant Prefiguration of that, which is to be done hereafter; Nor that We couet any new affected Name deui&s;ed at Our plea&s;ure, but out of vndoubted knowledge doe v&s;e the true and ancient Name, which God and Time haue impo&s;ed vpon this I&s;le, extant, and receiued in Hi&s;tories, in all Mappes and Cartes, wherein this I&s;le is de&s;cribed, and in ordinary Letters to Our &s;elfe from diuers Forraine Princes, warranted al&s;o by Authenticall Charters, Exemplifications vnder Seales, and other Records of great Antiquitie, gi|uing
<PB REF="3" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 39 -->Vs pre&s;ident for our doing, not borowed out of Forraine Nations, but from the Actes of our Progenitors, Kings of this Realme of England, both before and &s;ince the Conque&s;t, hauing not had &s;o iu&s;t and great cau&s;e as We haue.</P>
<P>Vpon all which con&s;iderations We doe by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, by force of our Kingly Power and Prerogatiue, a&s;&s;ume to Our &s;elfe by the cleerene&s;&s;e of our Right, The Name and Stile of <HI>KING OF GREAT BRITTAINE, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &amp;c.</HI> as followeth in Our iu&s;t and lawfull Stile, And doe hereby pub|li&s;h, promulge and declare the &s;ame, to the ende that in all Proclamations, Mi&s;&s;iues forreine, and Dome&s;ticall, Treaties, Leagues, Dedicatories, Impre&s;&s;ions, and in all other ca&s;es of like nature, the &s;ame may be v&s;ed and ob&s;erued. And to the ende the &s;ame may be the &s;ooner and more vniuer|&s;ally diuulged both at Home and abroad: Our will and plea&s;ure is, That the &s;ame Stile be from hencefoorth v&s;ed vpon all In&s;criptions vpon our currant Moneys and Coynes of Gold and Siluer hereafter to be Minted. And for that Wee doe not Innouate or a&s;&s;ume to Vs any new thing, but declare that which is and hath bene euident to all; Our will and plea&s;ure is, That in &s;uch Appel|lations or Nominations, as &s;hall be hereafter made by force of the&s;e pre&s;ents, the &s;ame &s;hall bee ex|pre&s;&s;ed in &s;uch and the &s;ame maner and forme, and after &s;uch computation, as if we had a&s;&s;umed and declared the &s;ame the fir&s;t day of our Raigne of our Realme of England; Forbearing onely for the pre&s;ent that any thing herein conteined doe extend to any Legall proceeding, In&s;trument, or A&s;&s;u|rance, vntill further Order be taken in that behalfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at our Pallace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the twentieth day of October, in the &s;econd yeere of our Raigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent <HI>Maie&s;tie.</HI></P>
<P>ANNO DOM. 1604.</P>
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