A LETTER OF THE OFFICERS of the ARMY in SCOTLAND, under the Commander in Chief there, To the OFFICERS of the Army in ENGLAND.  
Dear Brethren and Friends,  
THis is, of all the dayes of Trouble God hath brought upon Us, the saddest that ever our Eyes saw in these poor Nations; We have had to do often with the Common Enemy, but never before Engaged against Our Friends, the very thoughts of which is a wound, deeper in our Spirits than the Sword can make in our Bowels.  
Above all things therefore it is our earnest prayer, and shall be our Endeavour, to Reconcile the Differences in that which to our Consciences seems the most equitable and just Medium for us to agree in, namely, To entreat you( as we have interposed with the superior Officers of the Army) to labour a due understanding between yourselves and the Parliament, the Necessity and Equity of which Request, we cannot but believe you must subscribe to, if you seriously consider a few Proposals.  
1. Whether the asserting of a Free Parliament, duly qualified, of faithful Men to GOD, and his People in these Nations, to be the supreme Legislative Authority of these Nations, was not the Good Old Cause we fought for, as that onely which vindicated in Spirituals our Consciences from Imposition upon them, contrary to the Liberty of the Subjects of JESUS CHRIST, and our Persons, and Estates, and Posterity in Civils, from the Usurpations of the late King upon the Liberties and ancient Rights of the Free-born People of England.  
2. Whether it be not the only vindication of your late laying aside the Son and Successor of our old General, because you did verily believe, as you have protested to the world, That the Government of any single person might in time, ruin the afore mentioned Liberties, purchased by our blood, and the vast Treasures of this Commonwealth; Monarchy, however bounded, necessary requiring Uniformity as to Religion, and Prerogative as to Civil, both which must needs be oppressive and destructive to our Consciences and Rights.  
3. Whether, when you set up again this Famous Old Parliament, you did not believe in your Consciences that it was a Return to the Good Old Cause, from which you had apostatised, and the best Expedient to heal the sad Breaches of this poor Commonwealth, which the Lusts of men have made; witness your Declaration presented by the Lord Lambert, and the rest( the sixth of May) to the Speaker, as the Representee of the House.  
4. Whether, this Parliament hath ever yet endangered or disowned you, or the Nation in these Great Ends( which can only acquit all the bloodshed from murder) your Liberties as English-men, and your privileges as Christians, but rather have given Security for both, in such Votes as they had time to pass, by such Promises as they are too honest to forget, and by a Progress large enough, considering the Confusions and difficulties they found the Government in, by our setting up the things, of which we are now ashamed.  
5. Whether, if your Consciences be better informed, it can satisfy ours, or any Christian Consciences in the Nation, to act according to your particular apprehensions, when we see them across so much the plain Rule of the Word; which, as it requires obedience to all Authority, So, much more to that which is asserted and settled upon the surest Foundation of the Peoples Rights, and to which you are so solemnly engaged by Protestations, as in the presence of God, who will not hold them guiltless that take His Name in vain.  
6. Whether, if upon this occasion of our Dissentings, the Common Enemy should arise with a stronger party, and make use of our Divisions to yoke us in bondage worse than ever: That their little finger should be heavier than the loins of those preceded them, the people of these Nations would not have sad Cause to leave at your Doors the blood of those Innocents they must sacrifice to their Cruelty, Considering especially that the Redemption of these old Usurpations, must be by the Heads of Gods People, and bring worse upon us, the blood of Saints, whose death is precious in the sight of the Lord. We beg you therefore, to lay to heart the premises, and believe we are Men of such Consciences, as cannot close with this Action and Acquiesce in it, But would cordially Desire, that God may humble us for the evil of our ways, That in making Peace with Him, we may Unite in love to each other: And we shall also assure you, that though the present Emergencie hath made Our Commander in Chief, to put some of the Officers from their Commands, whose Actings have not been such as might promise they can cordially join in this business, yet he hath continued to them their salaries out of the Contingencies of the Army, till the Parliaments pleasure be further known: And we shall also assure you, That whatever endeavours may be for the settling of this Parliament again in a free capacity to Act for us in these Nations, we hall be as ready as you to bear a Testimony against them suitable to our station, if they should violate the so often promised and engaged-for Liberties of these Nations, whether Spiritual or Civil, There being a witness against them in their late Votes, that the Representative of the People, is entrusted not for the ruin, but the Safety of the Commonwealth.  
Linlithgow, Octob. 22. 1659. To the Right Honourable the Lord Fleetwoed, to be Commun●cated to the Officers of the Army in a●d about London. Signed in the Name, and by the Appointment of the Officers of the Army in Scotland. WILLIAM clerk, SECRETARY.   

EDINBURGH, print by Christopher Higgins, in Harts Close, over against the Trone-Church, And Re-printed at London, 1659.