A LETTER FROM The Bishops of Scotland, to the Bishops of England.  
May it please Your GRACE and Your LORDSHIPS,  
SInce the lamentable Suppression of the Apostolical Order of Bishops in this Kingdom, some hundreds of the inferior Clergy, have been turned out of their Cures and benefice, and thereby reduced with their poor Children and Familles to such deplorable Misery, as it does extort Compassion from their bitterest Enemies, and as hitherto they have been almost altogether supported, by the pious Bounty of good People, amongst ourselves, so now the Scarcity of Money here, and the Poverty of this Nation is such, that it is not able to afford them what may be necessary to preserve them from the last extremities, and unless they be assisted from abroad, we don't see by what other human Means they can be preserved from starving.  
Wherefore as it is our indispensible Duty, and that with the greatest fervour, to recommend them to Your Grace's and Your Lordships Care, so hereby we most earnestly beseech You, in the Bowels of our common and most adorable Saviour, to commiserate their sad and desolate Condition, and to contribute to their Relief, not only by Your own Christian and fraternal Charity, but also by exciting the Clergy in Your respective Provinces and dioceses, to do the like, as God shall enable them, and open their Hearts and Hands in so pious and necessary a Work.  
Your Lordships well know, that in the Apostolical Age, not only did the flaming Love to God possess the Souls of the Primitive Christians, but that a sympathising Charity, warmed them to all their fellow Christians, which vigorously exerted itself in liberal Contributions, for the Relief even of Lay-Professors in their Sister Churches, who were in Want; And it may be easily conjectured, how much more warm and enlarged it would have proved, towards an entire Body of Persons consecrated to Christ at his Altars, reduced to such inexpressible Straits as ours are now. Wherefore as Almighty God, who in the Depths of his Wisdom and Justice has so Sadly visited us, has been pleased to preserve Your Church in a prosperous and plentiful State; So we doubt not but Your Lordships will be ready on this extraordinary and crying Occasion, to follow so glorious and charitable an Example and will not fail to maintain the Character of Your Church, so famous over the World( besides many other excellent things) for its liberal and extended Charity.  
What shall be collected may be trusted to Such as your Lordships think fittest to transmit it to us, who shall be careful to apply it to the Relief of our Presbyters, and their desolate Widows, according to their several Sad Circumstances, and to sand back an Account of the Distribution thereof according to the Ends and Purposes of the pious Donors.  
There are no more of these few now surviving of our Order here in this City of Edinburgh, Save we, who by reason of that circumstance, are not only best acquainted with our clergies condition, but have also the burden of this concern of theirs immediately devolved upon us; Wherefore we hope, seeing our Colleagues live at a great distance, and their Subscriptions cannot be conveniently got, your Lordships, will take no exception, that this most Serious and passionate application comes only from us who are  
One directed to his Grace of Canterbury, and the Bishops of his Province, with another of the same Tenor to his Grace of York, and the Bishops of his Province, and both to the Care of the Reverend Dr. Scott.  
May it please your Grace and your Lordships, Your most Affectionate Brethren and most Humble Servants, 

Jo. Glascow  
Alex. Edenburgen.     

Credentials to the Reverend Doctor Scott.  
THE infinitely wise God, having in his unsearchable Providence, permitted some hundreds of our Episcopal Clergy in Scotland, to be violently rabbl'd out of their Cures and benefice, by armed Companies of furious Men, acting without Commission, contrary to the known Right of the Lieges, and established Laws of the Nation, by which they and their Families are reduced to extreme Wants and Necessities, and have continued under this grievous Affliction, now, for many Years, which the present impoverished Condition of our Country is not able any longer to relieve in any tolerable Measure. Therefore to prevent the utter starving of so many good Ministers, with their Children and Families, which cannot now be otherwise relieved, than by the pious Charity of good Christians from abroad whose Hearts God shall open and incline to so good a Work which will be graciously accepted and rewarded by God.  
These are humbly and earnestly to recommend their sad and deplorable Conditon, to the Compassion and Charity of all good Christians, very fervently beseeching them in the Bowels of Jesus Christ to extend their pious Charity on this bleeding and crying Occasion. And because our Reverend Brother Dr. Robert Scott Dean of Glasgow and person of Hamilton, hath consented to collect what the Bounty of the well-disposed and Charitable-affected shall allow, for the Relief and subsistence of the said suffering indigent Clergy: We whose Names are subscribed do recommend him, as a Person of such Piety, and Integrity, as none may in the least scruple to trust him with their Bounty and Beneficence, as he shall have Occasion to apply himself for the same; He being to sand his Collections to us, and to the other Administrators of the Charities which devout Christians contribute for the Relief of our said suffering Clergy. In Testimony whereof,( written by the Hand of the Arch-Bishop of Glasgow) these Presents are subscribed by us, to which we affix our little manual Seals,  


Jo. Glasgow.  
Geo. Aberdon.  
Will. Moravien.