IT is desired that it may be entred in th [...]s present Parliament, that no Scotish men, Scotish Ships or Vessels, or Passengers belonging to the Kingdome of Scotland be pressed by land or sea, in any part of England or Ireland, Sea-Ports or harbours thereof, seeing these are free from any Presse by the Law and practice of our Kingdome.

2. For a better commerce and intercourse betwixt the Kingdomes of Scotland, England and Ireland, and that it may be now declared [Page 3] lawfull to transport all goods and commodi­ties from Scotland, to England or Ireland, or from thence to Scotland in the same case, and as free from Customes and Taxations what­soever, as if they were transported from one Port of Scotland to another, or from one Port of England or Ireland to another, with these Declarations alwayes, that the said mu­tuall liberty insomuch as concernes goods prohibited by the Lawes of either of the Kingdomes to be transported to forraigne Nations, shall onely serve for the inward use of the said three Kingdomes.

Alenially and the manner of the restraint and punishment of the contraveners to be considered upon.

And that all Native and Forraigne com­modities not prohibited in the Kingdomes from whence they are transported, may by the Scotish men as freely be imported, as by any of His Majesties Subjects of England or Ireland, and so reciprocally in Scotland by the English and Irish.

3. That the Scottish Ships coming from Forraine places, and arriving in any Roads, Havens, or Ports of England or Ireland, through tempests of weather, or for refresh­ment, or upon whatsoever other occasions, and not disclosed, may be free to passe and repasse without searching, or any other impe­diment: [Page 2] and that if any Scotish men shalbe loaden with moneys or whatsoever Forraign Commodities in any Forraign part, or in any Forraigne Bottome, or in any English or Irish Bottome; That it shalbe free to the Owners thereof and their Factors to unload their mo­neyes, goods, and commodities aforesaid, at any Port of England or Ireland, and to trans­port the same from thence to Scotland with­out any impediment to be made to them, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scotland.

4. If any Scotish ships or any other ves­sels loaden with Scotish mens goods, going or coming from any Forraigne Nation per­taining to Scotish men, as aforesaid, shall ar­rive in any part of England or Ireland, and having necessity to sell a parcell of their said goods, that it shalbe lawfull for them to doe the same, and to transport the remnant to Scotland or elswhere, without the payment of any Custome, but for so much as they shall happed to sell, and the English and Irish to have the like liberty reciprocally in Scot­land.

5. In respect of the great detriment su­stained by His Majesties Subjects, and by the Dunkirks and other Pirats, by robbing them of their goods, taking the ships, and spoyling their men: That some solid course may be [Page 4] taken for the preventing the like in time to come; so that His Majesties Subjects may have free trade hereafter, and the Scotish ships passing to France, Holland, or any other part, may have a safe convoy of His Maje­sties ships, as the English and the Irish ships have.

6. There can be no greater mark of mu­tuall unity betwixt the Kingdomes, then a free and peaceable conversing at home and abroad, therefore we crave from the Parlia­ment of England, that where the En [...]lish have any out-trade or dealing in Forraigne places, that it may be free to Scotish men to out-trade and deale in the same places, without any impediment to be made to them by the English or Irish; and the English or Irish to have the like liberty in out-trade or dealing of Scotish men in any Forraigne places.

7. That the Scots men be not debarred from being associated in companies within the Kingdomes of England and Ireland, upon such conditions as the English and Irish are admitted; and this to be reciproc [...]lly for England and Ireland in companies and all as­sociations in Scotland; and because there are not such manufactories as yet erected in Scot­land as are necessary, and that the trade of fishing (which is one of the greatest benefits [Page 5] within His Majesties Dominions) is not yet brought to perfection; it is fit that by mu­tuall concourse of both Kingdomes, such a course may be taken, as may best bring the trade of manufactories in Scotland, and fish­ing within His Majesties seas to perfection, and that Commissioners may be directed by the King and Parliament of the Kingdomes to treat upon such meanes and conditions as may subsist with the freedome and liberties, and may conduce best to the good and bene­fit of His Majesties Dominions.

8. That the House of Parliament would be pleased to take into their considerations the exorbitant customs and taxations, and o­ther rigorous dealings, whereof the parti­culars are set downe in a note herewith, gi­ven in, taken and used by the King of Den­marke both of the Scotish and English: and whereas His Majesties Subjects have already felt the smart thereof, that now some good course may be taken for reducing the said a­ctions to some reasonable, knowne and con­stant measure, and for the liberty of His Ma­jesties subjects from the like rigorous dealing in time to come.

Wherefore let all those who love Religi­on and their Liberty, joyne against the com­mon enemy, and let them be accursed who shall not seek the preservation of their neigh­bour [Page 6] nation, both in Religion and Lawes, as their owne, as knowing that the ruine of one will prove the utter ruine of both. And knowing well, as having from their owne Councels discovered it, that the ruine of both was intended, and that it was ever their plot and purpose, that if they could not in­gage our dearest Brethren and Neighbour-Nation in a warre for our destruction, then to give us some ill assured peace, which might binde our hands and hold us quiet, un­till the yoke of bondage were more heavily and unremoveably laid upon our Brethren in England, by the help of such an Army as was pretended to be gathered against us. And as we attest the God of Heaven, that the main­tenance of Religion and Laws, and no other, is our aime, for the atchieving of which, we shall neither spare our paines, fortunes nor lives, which we know cannot be more pro­fitably and honourably spent.