Note 510 — Chapter VI
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Commons' Journals, 366.
The journals are full of notes of these long discussions about the union in 1604, 1606, 1607, and even 1610. It is easy to perceive a jealousy that the prerogative by some means or other would be the gainer. The very change of name to Great Britain was objected to. One said, we cannot legislate for Great Britain. P. 186. Another, with more astonishing sagacity, feared that the king might succeed, by what the lawyers call remitter, to the prerogatives of the British kings before Julius Cæsar, which would supersede Magna Charta. P. 185.
James took the title of King of Great Britain in the second year of his reign. Lord Bacon drew a well-written proclamation on that occasion. Bacon, i. 621; Rymer, xvi. 603. But it was, not long afterwards, abandoned.