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2 nor to ye expediency, if His Majesty should judge it to be right, & resolve to have it so. But ye later part, relating to ye separation of ye Electorate & other Dominions in Germany, from ye Kingdom of Great Britain, took up more time. Two Points seemed to require consideration 1. The Expediency of ye thing & ye advantages or disadvantages attending it, & 2. The Method of effecting it. The 1st is ye principall, & foundation of all ffor if no advantage would flow from it sufficient to overballance Ye Difficultyes & Dangers wh may stand in ye way (if any such there be) probably it might not be thought worth while to attempt so great an alteration in ye course of ye succession as this might make. And in ye other hand if ye advantages were great, all Ways ought to be considered yt it might (if possible), be effectually & securely done. But yet ye Discourse dwelt little upon that Point Because it is what is so perfectly whin his Majestye's own knowledge, yt he will be able to form ye best judgmt of it himself. So ye Discourse turned principally upon ye 2d point The Method of effecting it, & began wh ye present Law of ye Succession to ye Kingdom & to ye Electorate etc. As neither of us was sufficiently acquainted with ye Laws of ye Empire, ye discourse as to them was very lame & proceeded upon Suppositions which possibly might be mistakes. It was supposed, yt ye Electorate etc is descendible to ye Males exclusive of ye ffemales, & to ye eldest son & his male descendants preferably to ye Younger, & his descendants, That ye eldest son may after his ffather's death renounce for himself & his descendts in favour of his Younger Brother & his male descendts; That nothing can give a Younger son any right or title to ye Succession but ye renunciation of ye elder in his ffavour. And since the prest Proposall is yt ye Younger Son shall have ye Electorate etc, & yt this be established by Act of Parliamt it was supposed, of no new Law to alter ye Succession to ye Electorate can be obteined in ye Empire whout great Difficulty, ffor if there can, that would seem to be ye most naturall & ye most effectuall way.
