ABSTRACT
The map of England includes 'A Lady', 'A Gentleman', 'A Citizens wife', 'A Countryman'; the map of Ireland includes 'The Gentleman of Ireland', 'The Civil Irish woman', 'The Wild Irish man'. With its royal figures the map of Scotland is somewhat anomalous. In fact, much of the literature on a potential union between the kingdoms of England and Scotland produced in the wake of King James's accession to the English throne invoked Wales as an ideal model of political, legal, economic and cultural incorporation. In the early seventeenth-century literature on Anglo-Scottish union, Brian Levack writes, the Welsh were frequently referred to as having become one people with the English. Like many Englishmen, Cornwallis imagines England's incorporation of Wales as an event that did both the English and the Welsh a favour. One of the results of the so-called Acts of 'Union' was that the 'border between Wales and England was clearly drawn for the first time'.
