Page:History of Sir William Wallace (1).pdf/67

 ( 67 ) the crown, and other subjects, should not be obliged to go out of Scotland to do homage to swear fealty to elect or be elected to any office; or to do any service hat had usually been per- formed in Scotland. That the kingdom of Scotland should have its chancellor, officers of state courts of justice, and all other public courts as formerly: That a new great seal should be made, and kept by the chancellor, with the ordinary arms of Scotland, and the name of none but the queen of Scotland engraved upon it: That all papers and records belonging the crown and kingdom, should be lodged in a secure place within that kingdom, under the seals of the nobility: That all parlia- ments called to treat of the affairs of Scotland, should be held within that kingdom: That no duties, taxes, or levies of man should be raised in Sactians, but such as had been usual: That' the King of England should pay the Pope one hundred thousand pounds, for the use of the holy wars; and that himself and his dominions should be excommunicated, and laid under an interdict. if he did not religiously observe all these articles. These articles were agreed to and confirmed by Edward; and as this is the first plan formed for the union of Scotland and England, it is a great curiosity. Some of our historians are based to represent the Scots of those times, as an ignorant and barbarout peo- ple: but it is difficult to say what better pre- cantions could have been taken by the wisest nation in the most enlightened ages, for secur- ing