A COPY OF A LETTER, FROM THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES Assembled at OXFORD, To the EARL OF ESSEX: Dated the 27 of January, 1643.  
WITH The names of those who Signed it, desiring a Treaty of PEACE.  

Printed by Order, to be published to the whole Kingdom.  
EDW. NORGATE,   
Printed at OXFORD, january 30. By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1643.   

My Lord,  
HIS Majesty having by His Proclamation of the 22. of December (upon the occasion of the Invasion threatened, and in part begun by some of His Subjects of Scotland) summoned all the Members of both Houses of Parliament to attend Him here at Oxford: We whose names are under written are here met and assembled in obedience to those His Majesty's commands. His Majesty was pleased to invite us in the said Proclamation by these gracious expressions; [That His Subjects should see how willing he was to receive advice for the preservation of the Religion, Laws and safety of the Kingdom, and as fare as in Him lay to restore it to it's former Peace and security, (His chief and only end) from those whom they had trusted, though he could not receive it, in the place where He appointed.] This most gracious invitation hath not only been made good unto us, but seconded and heightened by such unquestionable demonstrations of the deep and Princely sense which possesses His Royal heart of the miseries and calamities of His poor Subject in this unnatural War, and of His most entire and passionate affections, to redeem them from that sad and deplorable condition, by all ways possibly consistent either with His Honour, or with the future safety of the Kingdom, that, as it were impiety to question the sincerity of them, so were it great want of duty and faithfulness in us, (His Majesty having vouchsafed to declare, that He did call us to be witnesses of His actions, and privy to His intentions) should we not testify and witness to all the world, the assurance we have of the piety and sincerity of Both; We being most entirely satisfied of this truth, We cannot but confess, that, amidst Our highest afflictions in the deep and piercing sense of the presents miseries and desolations of our Country, and those further dangers threatened from Scotland, We are at length errected to some cheerful and comfortable thoughts, that possibly we may yet (by God's mercy, if his justice have not determined this Nation for its sins, to total ruin and desolation) hope to be happy Instruments of our Country's redemption, from the miseries of War, and restitution to the blessings of peace, And We being desirous to believe your Lordsships' (howsoever engaged) a person likely to be sensibly touched with these considerations, have thought fit to invite you that part in this blessed work, which is only capable to repair all our misfortunes, and to boy up the Kingdom from rune; That is, by coujuring you, by all the obligations that have power upon Honour, Conscience, or public Piety, that laying to heart, as we do the inwardly bleeding condition of your Country, and the outward more menacing destruction by a foreign Nation, upon the very point of invading it, you will cooperate with us to its preservation, by truly representina too, an● faithfully and industriously promoving with those by whom you are trusted, this following most sincere and most earnest desire of ours; That they joining with us in a right sense of the past, present, and more threatening calamities of this deplorable Kingdom, some persons be appointed on either part, and a place agreed on, to treat of such a Peace, as may yet redeem it from the brink of desolation.  
This address we should not have made, but that His Majesty's summons by which we are met, most graciously proclaiming pardon to all without exception, is evidence enough, that his mercy and clemency can transcend all former provocations, and that He hath not only made us witnesses of his Princely Intentions, but honoured us also with the name of being security for them.  
God Almighty direct your Lordship, and those to whom you shall present these our most royal desires, in such a course as may produce that happy Peace and settlement of the present distractions, which is so hearty desired and prayed for by us, and which may make us.  
From Oxford the 27. January, 1643. Your affectionate Friends.   

A List of the Lords and others who signed the Letter to the Earl of Essex, dated at Oxford 27. January. 1643.  

Charles' P.  
York.  
Cumberland.  
Ed. Littleton C. S.  
Fra. Cottington.  
D. Richmond.  
M. Hertford.  
E. Lindsey.  
E. Dorset.  
E. Shrewsbury.  
E. Bath.  
E. Southampton.  
E. Leicester.  
E. Northampton.  
E. Devonshire.  
E. Carlisle.  
E. Bristol.  
E. Berkshire.  
E. Cleveland.  
E. Rivers.  
E. Dover.  
E. Peterborough.  
E. Kingston.  
E. Newport.  
E. Portland.  
V Coway.  
L. Digby.  
L. Mowbray and Mattravers.  
L. Wentworth.  
L. Cromwell.  
L. Rich.  
L. Paget.  
L. Chandoys.  
L. Howard of Charleton.  
L. Lovelace.  
L. Savile.  
L. Mohun.  
L. Dunsmore.  
L. Seymour.  
L. Percy.  
L. Wilmott.  
L. Leigh.  
L. Hatton.  
L. Iermin.  
L. Carrington.  
JOhn Fettiplace.  
Alex. Denton.  
john Packingtom.  
Tho. Smith.  
F. Gamul.  
Io. Harris.  
josepb jane.  
Rich. Edgcombe.  
Jonathan Rashleigh.  
G. Fane.  
P. Edgcombe.  
Will. Glanvill.  
Ro. Holborn.  
Ra. Sydenham.  
Fr. Godolphin.  
Geo. Parry.  
Amb. Manaton.  
R. Vyvyan.  
Io. Polewheile.  
john Arundel.  
Tho. Lower.  
Edw. Hid.  
Will. Allesttree.  
Geo. Stonehouse.  
Ed. Seymour.  
Peter Sainthill.  
Will. Poole.  
Roger Matthew.  
Rich. Arundel.  
Robert Walker.  
Giles Strangwaies.  
john Strangwaies.  
Tho. Hele.  
Ger. Naper.  
Sam. Turner.  
Wil Constantine.  
Hen. Killigrew.  
Rich. King.  
John Dutton.  
Hen. Bret.  
Wil Chadwell.  
Theobald Gorges.  
john George.  
Tho. Fanshaw.  
Humf. Conningesby.  
Rich. Seaborn.  
Arth. Ranelaugh.  
Thomas Tomkins.  
Samson Evers.  
John Culpeper.  
Jeffrey Palmer.  
john Harrison.  
Tho. Fanshaw.  
Rog. Palmer.  
Orlando Bridgman.  
Wil Watkins.  
john Smith.  
Tho. Bludder.  
Ed. Littleton.  
Harvie Bagot.  
Rich. Leveson.  
Rich. Cave.  
Rich. Weston.  
Rich. Lee.  
Tho. Whitmore.  
Ed. Acton.  
C. Baldwin.  
R. Goodwin.  
Tho. Howard.  
Tho. Littleton.  
Ro. Howard.  
john Meux.  
Matthew Davis.  
F. Cornwallis.  
Tho. jermyn.  
john Tailor.  
William Basset.  
William Portman.  
Edw. Rodney.  
Tho. Hanham.  
Ed. Phelipps.  
john Digby.  
Ed. Kirton.  
Cham Leuknor.  
Edw. Alford.  
john White.  
john Ashburnham.  
Will. Smith.  
Tho. Leedes.  
john Thynn.  
Will. Pleydell.  
Ro. Hid.  
Ed. Griffin.  
Walter Smith.  
Geo. Lowe.  
Ric. Harding.  
Hen. Herbert.  
End. Porter.  
Sam. Sandys.  
john Bodvill.  
Will. Morgan.  
Will. Thomas.  
Io. Mostyn.  
Hen. Bellasis.  
Geo. Wentworth.  
Will. Mallory.  
Ri. Alburgh.  
john Salisbury.  
Will. Herbert.  
Will. Price.  
john Price.  
R. Herbert.  
Cham Price.  
Phil. Warwick.  
Tho. Cook.  
Rob. Crook.  
Herb. Price.  
john. Whistler.   
FJNJS.