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 Buines before, and now he would keep an Army up in pite of them: So he prorogued them, and called no other Parliament during his reign; but to frighten the City of London, kept his Army encamped at  Hounlowbeath, when the Seaon would permit, which put not only them but the whole Nation into the utmot Terror and Confuion. Towards the latter End of his Reign he had increaed his Army in England to above twenty thouand Men, and in Ireland to eight thouand even hundred and odd.

This King committed two fatal Errors in his Politicks. The firt was his falling out wtth his old Cronies the Priets, who brought him to the Crown in pite of his Religion, and would have upported him in Arbitrary Government to the utmot; nay, Popery (epecially the wort Part of it, viz. the Domination of the Church) was not o formidable a Thing to them, but with a little Cookery it might have been rendered palatable. But he had Priets of another ort that were to rie upon their Ruins; and he thought to play an eaier Game by careing the Dienters, employing them, and giving them Liberty of Concience: Which Kindnes looked o prepoterous, that the wie and ober Men among them could never heartily believe it, and when the Prince of Orange landed, turned againt him.

His econd Error was the diobliging his own Army, by bring over Regiments from Ireland, and ordering every Company to take in o many Irih Papits; by which they plainly aw he was reforming his Army, and would cahire them all as fat as he could get Papits to upply their room. So that he violated the Rights of the People, fell out with the Church of England, made uncertain Friends of the Dienters, and diobliged his own Army; by which means they all united againt him, and invited the Prince of Orange to ait them: Which Invitation he accepted, and landed at Torbay the 5th of November, 1688, publihing a Declaration, which et forth all the Oppreions of the lat Reign [but the keeping up a Standing Army] declared for a free Parliament, in which things were to be o ettled that there hould be no danger of falling again into Slavery, and promied to