IF for no other Reason, yet that Posterity may know Wee have done our duties, and not sate still while our brethren of Scotland were transported with a dangerous and fatall 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 Kingdome, 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, Wee [...] are too well known to your Lord­ships, and to both Kingdoms, to be suspected to want Affectione to R [...]ligion, [...] to the Lawes and Liberties o [...] [...] C [...] or the Defence and maintenance of [Page] which we shall alwaies hold our Lives a cheap sacri­fice;) And when you are informed, That the Earles of Arundell and Thanet, and the Lords, Stafford, Stanhope, Coventry, Goring, and Craven, are in the parts beyond the Seas, and the Earle of Chesterfield, Westmerland, and the Lord Mountague of Boughton, under restraint at London, for their Loyalty and Duty to His Majesty and the Kingdome; your Lordships will easily con­clude, how very few now make up the Peeres at West­minster, there being in Truth, not above five & Twen­ty Lords present or privy to those Counsells, or be­ing absent, consenting or concurring with them: Whereas the House of Peeres consists of above one hundred, besides Minors and Recusant Lords, neither of which keep us company in this Addresse 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 severall times du­ring our sitting there, Multitudes of the meanest sort of People, with weapons not agreeing with their Condi­tion or custome, in a manner very contrary and destru­ctive to the Priviledge of Parliament, fill'd up the way between both Houses, offering injuries both by words and Actions too, and laying violent hands upon seve­rall Members, and crying out many hou [...] together a­gainst the established Lawes, in a most tumultuous and menacing way; How no remedy would be submitted to for preventing those Tumults; After [...], and o­ther unlawfull, and Vnparliamentary [...]tions, many [Page] many things rejected and setled upon solemne debate in the House of Peeres, were again after many Threats, and Menaces resumed, altered and determined contrary to the Custome, and Lawes of Parliaments, and so, many of us withdrew our selves from thence, where We could not Sit, Speake and Vote, with Honour, free­dome and safety, and are now kept from thence for our duty and Loyalty to our Soveraigne. And we must therefore protest against any Invitation, which hath been made to our Brethren of Scotland, to enter this Kingdome with an Army, the same being as much against the desires, as against the duty of the Lords and Commons of England. And wee doe conjure your Lordships by our common Allegiance, and Subjecti­on on under one gratious Soveraigne, 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 Kingdome, Which we, and, wee are confident, all true English men must interpret as a Designe of Conquest, and to impose new Lawes upon us. And therefore your Lordships may be assured wee shall not so farre forget our own interests, and the Honour of our Nation, as not to expose our Lives and Fortunes in the just and necess [...]ry [...]ence of the Kingdome: But if your Lord­ships in t [...] have any doubts or apprehensions, that [Page] there now is, or hereafter may be, a purpose to infringe your Lawes or Liberties from any Attempt of this Kingdom; We doe engage our Honours to your Lord­ships, to be our selves most religious observers of the Act of Pacification, and if the Breach and violation doe not first beginne within that Kingdome, We are most confident you shall never have cause to complain of this. And having thus farre expressed our selves 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,