Berties, and laws of the kingdom; as also to the mutual defen

Ught to be by posterity, nor any way prejudicial to the cause of God,
and the covenanted work of reformation in this
Church, nor to the beeing,
liberty, and freedom

of Parliaments, according to the laudable and antient

pratique of this kingdom, the which we do not only for ourselves, but
also in the name
of all such as shall join or concurr with us in this our protestation,
and therefore we

Protest. In regard, That the said Union is a
visible and plain subversion of the fundamental
antient constitutions, laws and liberties of this kingdom,
which we as a free people have enjoyed for the space of

about two thousand years, without ever being fully conquered, and we
have had singular and remarkable stepts of Providence preventing our
utter sinking,

and preserving us from such a deludge

and overthrow, which some other nations more
mighty and opulent than we, have felt, and whose memory is much extinct:
while by this incorporating Union
with England in their sinful terms, this nation is debased and enslaved,
its antient independency lost and gone, the parliamentary power
dissolved which was the very strength,
bulwork
and basis of all liberties and priviledges of persons

of all ranks, of all manner of courts and judicatories, corporations and
societies within