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But yet the proud Scot would not bend the knee to the South, though his country was poor and ill- manned compared with the other.

In 1603 when James of Scotland became James I of England (I speak of Ireland again) a step was taken which was prophetic of the Empire yet to be ; two peoples retained their sep- arate parliaments, one not subject to the other but each paramount over its own territory.

And each people owed allegiance to the same monarch.

They were united by the tie that the same person was their Soverign and claimed fealty alike from both.

For more than a hundred years this partnership went on, the two nations in general living in harmony though having little tiffs (or perhaps big ones) from time to time till the spectre of a disputed succession arose to frighten both.