A LETTER FROM THE LORDS AT OXFORD and other LORDS whose names are SUBSCRIBED, TO THE LORDS OF THE PRIVY-COUNCELL and the Conservators of the Peace of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND.  
OXFORD March 1. Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the University 1643.   

Our very good Lords,  
IF for no other Reason, yet that Posterity may know We have done our duties, and not sat still while our brethren of Scotland were transported with a dangerous and fatal misunderstanding, that the Resolution now taken amongst them for an expedition into England, is agreeable to their obligation by the late Treaty, and to the Wishes and Desires of this Kingdom, expressed by the two Houses of Parliament; We have thought it necessary to let your Lordships know, That if We had dissented from that Act, it could never have been made a Law; And when you have examined and considered t●● names of us who subscribe this Letter (who, We 〈◊〉 are too well known to your Lordships, and to both Kingdoms, to be suspected to want Affectione to Religion, 〈◊〉 to the Laws and Liberties o● 〈◊〉 C●●●●● or the Defence and maintenance of which we shall always hold our Lives a cheap sacrifice;) And when you are informed, That the Earls of Arundel and Thanet, and the Lords, Stafford, Stanhope, Coventry, Goring, and Craven, are in the parts beyond the Seas, and the Earl of Chesterfield, Westmoreland, and the Lord Montague of Boughton, under restraint at London, for their Loyalty and Duty to His Majesty and the Kingdom; your Lordships will easily conclude, how very few now make up the Peers at Westminster, there being in Truth, not above five & Twenty Lords present or privy to those Counsels, or being absent, consenting or concurring with them: Whereas the House of Peers consists of above one hundred, besides Minors and Recusant Lords, neither of which keep us company in this Address to your Lordships. How We and the Major part of the House of Commons come to be absent from thence, is so notorious to all the World, that we believe your Lordships, cannot be strangers to it; How several times during our sitting there, Multitudes of the meanest sort of People, with weapon's not agreeing with their Condition or custom, in a manner very contrary and destructive to the Privilege of Parliament, filled up the way between both Houses, offering injuries both by words and Actions too, and laying violent hands upon several Members, and crying out many hou●●● together against the established Laws, in a most tumultuous and menacing way; How no remedy would be submitted to for preventing those Tumults; After 〈…〉, and other unlawful, and unparliamentary ●●tions, many many things rejected and settled upon solemn debate in the House of Peers, were again after many Threats, and Menaces resumed, altered and determined contrary to the Custom, and Laws of Parliaments, and so, many of us withdrew ourselves from thence, where We could not Sat, Speak and Vote, with Honour, freedom and safety, and are now kept from thence for our duty and Loyalty to our Sovereign. And we must therefore protest against any Invitation, which hath been made to our Brethren of Scotland, to enter this Kingdom with an Army, the same being as much against the desires, as against the duty of the Lords and Commons of England. And we do conjure your Lordships by our common Allegiance, and Subjection on under one gracious Sovereign, by the Amity and Affection between the two Nations, by the Treaty of Pacification, which by any such Act is absolutely dissolved, and by all Obligations both Divine and Humane which can preserve Peace upon earth, to use your utmost endeavours to prevent the effusion of so much Christian blood, and the confusion and Desolation which must follow the unjust Invasion of this Kingdom, Which we, and, we are confident, all true English men must interpret as a Design of Conquest, and to impose new Laws upon us. And therefore your Lordships may be assured we shall not so fare forget our own interests, and the Honour of our Nation, as not to expose our Lives and Fortunes in the just and necessary …ence of the Kingdom: But if your Lordships in t … have any doubts or apprehensions, that there now is, or hereafter may be, a purpose to infringe your Laws or Liberties from any Attempt of this Kingdom; We do engage our Honours to your Lordships, to be ourselves most religious observers of the Act of Pacification, and if the Breach and violation do not first begin within that Kingdom, We are most confident you shall never have cause to complain of this. And having thus fare expressed ourselves to your Lordships, we hope to receive such an Answer from you, as may be a means to preserve a Right understanding between the two Nations, and lay an Obligation upon us to continue,  
Your LORDSHIPS, most affectionate humble servants, 

Ed. Littleton C. S.  
L. Cottington.  
D. Richmond.  
M. Hertford.  
M. Newcastle.  
E. Huntingdon.  
E. Bathon.  
E. Southampton.  
E. Dorset.  
E. Northampton.  
E. Devonshire.  
E. Bristol.  
E. Berkshire.  
E. Cleveland.  
E. Marlburgh.  
E. Rivers.  
E. Lindsey.  
E. Dover.  
E. Peterburgh.  
E. Kingston.  
E. Newport.  
E. Portland.  
E. Carbery.  
V Conway.  
V Fauconbridge.  
V Wilmot.  
V Savile.  
L. Mowbray & Maltravers.  
L. Darcy & Coniers.  
L. Wentworth.  
L. Cromwell.  
L. Rich,  
L. Paget.  
L. Digby.  
L. Howard of Charleton.  
L. Deincourt.  
L. Lovelace.  
L. Poulet.  
L. Mohun.  
L. Dunsmore.  
L. Seymour.  
L. Herbert.  
L. Cobham.  
L. Capell.  
L. Percy.  
L. Leigh.  
L. Hatton.  
L. Hopton.  
L. jermyn.  
L. Loughborough.  
L. Byron.  
L. Withrington.