❧ 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 than we were able to bear; our Supplications and Commissions, which were the remedies used by us for our relief, were after many delays and repulses, answered at last with the terrors of an Army coming 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 entreated; 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, & hopeless; 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 ourselves & our country, 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 war, but for seeking our relief and preservation.  
duty obligeth us to love England as ourselves: Your grievances are ours; The preservation or ruin of Religion & Liberties, is common to both Nations: We must now stand or fall together. Suffer not therefore malice & calumny to prevail so far as to persuade, that we come to make war, we call Heaven and Earth to witness, 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 enjoying of our Religion & Liberties in peace against invasion: and that the authors of all our grievances & yours being tried in Parliament, & our wrongs redressed, the two kingdoms may live in greater love & unity then ever before, which to our common rejoicing, we may confidently expect from the goodness of God, if the wicked counsels of Papists, prelates and other firebrands their adherents be not more hearkened unto, than our true and honest Declarations.  
And where it may be conceived, that an Army cannot come into England but they will waste & spoil; We declare, that no soldiers shall be allowed to commit any outrage, or do the smallest wrong, but shall be punished with severity: That we shall take neither meat nor drink, nor any thing else, but for our moneys: & when our moneys are spent, for sufficient surety, which by public order shall be given to all such as shall furnish us things necessary. We neither have spared, nor will we spare our pains, fortunes, & lives in this cause of our assurance & your deliverance: & therefore cannot look from any well-affected to truth & peace, to be either opposed by force & unjust violence in our peaceable passage, or to be discouraged by wilful or uncharitable withholding of means 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 years lived in love: we have common desires of the purity of Religion and quietness of both kingdoms: our hopes are to see better days in this island: our Enemies also are common: Let us not upon their suggestions or our own apprehensions, be friends to them, & enemies to ourselves: We desire nothing but what in the like extremity (which we pray God your Nation never find) we would most gladly upon the like Declaration grant unto you, coming with your Supplications to the King's majesty, were he living amongst us: and what ye would we should do unto you, we trust ye will be moved to do even so unto us, that the blessing of GOD may rest upon both.