Information from the Scottish nation, to all the true English, concerning the present expedition Scotland. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A11667 of text S1706 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 21917). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A11667 STC 21917 ESTC S1706 21499703 ocm 21499703 24659 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A11667) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 24659) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1714:4) Information from the Scottish nation, to all the true English, concerning the present expedition Scotland. Parliament. 1 broadside. R. Bryson?, [Edinburgh : 1640] Imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in the University of St. Andrews. Library. eng Scotland -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649. Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1625-1649. A11667 S1706 (STC 21917). civilwar no Information from the Scottish nation, to all the true English, concerning the present expedition Scotland. Parliament 1640 754 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-08 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ❧ Information from the Scottish Nation , to all the true English , concerning the present Expedition . OUR distresses in our Religion and Liberties being of late more pressing then we were able to beare ; our Supplications and Commissions , which were the remedies used by us for our reliefe , were after many delayes and repulses , answered at last with the terrors of an Army comming to our borders ; A peace was concluded , but not observed : And when we did complain of the breach , and supplicat for the performance , our Commissioners were hardly intreated ; new and great preparations were made for war ; and many acts of hostility done against us , both by Sea and land . In this case to send new Commissioners or supplications , were against experience , & hopelesse ; To maintain an Army on the borders is above our strength , & cannot be a safety unto us by Sea : To retire homeward , were to call on our Enemies to follow us , & to make our selves & our Countrey , a prey by land , as our Ships & goods are made at Sea . We are therefore constrained at this time to come into England , not to make warre , but for seeking our relief and preservation . Duetie obligeth us to love England as our selves : Your grievances are ours ; The preservation or ruine of Religion & Liberties , is common to both Nations : We must now stand or fall together . Suffer not therefore malice & calumnie to prevaile so far as to perswade , that we come to make warre , Wee call Heaven and Earth to witnesse , that we are far from such intentions , & that we have no purpose to fight , except we be forced , & in our own defence ( as we have more fully expressed in our large Declaration ) we come to get assurance of the injoying of our Religion & Liberties in peace against invasion : and that the authors of all our grievances & yours being tryed in Parliament , & our wrongs redressed , the two Kingdomes may live in greater love & unitie then ever before , which to our common rejoycing , wee may confidently expect from the goodnes of God , if the wicked counsels of Papists , Prelats and other fire-brands their adherents be not more harkned unto , then our true and honest Declarations . And where it may be conceived , that an Army cannot come into England but they will waste & spoile ; We declare , that no Souldiours shall be allowed to commit any out-rage , or do the smallest wrong , but shal be punished with severity : That we shal take neither meat nor drink , nor any thing else , but for our moneyes : & when our moneyes are spent , for sufficient surety , which by publique order shal be given to all such as shall furnish us things necessary . We neither have spared , nor will we spare our pains , fortunes , & lyves in this cause of our assurance & your deliverance : & therefore cannot look from any well-affected to trueth & peace , to be either opposed by force & unjust violence in our peaceable passage , or to be discouraged by wilfull or uncharitable with-holding of meanes for our sustentation on our way . We are brethren : Your worthy Predecessors at the time of Reformation , vouchsafed us their help & assistance . We have for many yeares lived in love : we have common desires of the purity of Religion and quietnes of both Kingdomes : our hopes are to see better dayes in this Iland : our Enemies also are common : Let us not upon their suggestions or our own apprehensions , be friends to them , & enemies to our selves : We desire nothing but what in the like extreamity ( which we pray God your Nation never find ) we would most gladly upon the like Declaration grant unto you , comming with your Supplications to the Kings Majestie , were he living amongst us : and what ye would we should doe unto you , we trust ye will be moved to doe even so unto us , that the blessing of GOD may rest upon both .