Do we not yet remember, that this Kingdom [England] was divided into seven little Kingdoms, besides Wales, and is it not now the stronger by their Union? And has not the Union of Wales to England added a greater strength thereto?
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I desire a perfect Union of Laws and Persons, and such a Naturalising as may make one Body of both Kingdoms under me your King. That I and my Posterity (if it so please God) may rule over you to the World's End; Such a Union as was of the Scots and Picts in Scotland, and of the Heptarchy here in England.