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 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 : and that if any Scotish men shal be 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 shal be 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 shal be 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 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 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 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 .