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An Account of the Affairs of Scotland, In An∣swer to a Letter Written upon the occasion of the Address lately Presented to His Majesty by some Members of the Parliament of that Kingdom.
SIR,
I Will comply with your Desires, in giving you a view of the Scottish-Affairs, and before I make particular Answers to your Questions, I will lay open the whole matter of Fact which hath occurred in the Meeting of Estates, in Their Ma∣jesties Acceptance of the Crown, and the Instructions given by His Majesty to His Commissioner for holding of the Parliament, that you may be the better able to make a Judgment how far His Majesty hath made Concessions to satisfie the Minds, and ease the Grievances of that Nation, by His Offers in His Instructions, to quite voluntarily these Advantages which the Crown hath insen∣sibly got over the People ever since the Union of the two King∣doms, whereby Scotland is as much in the Power and Mercy of their Kings, as most of the Nations in Europe, by a Legal Con∣stitution, and the Consent of the People in Parliament.
It may be then Surprising if this great Opportunity hath not been Imbraced, and these offered Concessions turned into per∣petual Laws. But the Ambition of some, and the Selfish-Designs of others hath Obstructed the Happiness which that Nation could only expect from this Revolution, and have kept it under the Power of these severe Laws and stretched Prerogatives which His Majesty was willing to have parted with.