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Since the writing of this I am informed, that Brudenalls Regiment is in Being, and that Eppingers Dragoons are in Englih Pay, which if true, will make the whole Army ixty odd thouand Men; but in this as well as many other Parts of the Lit I may be mitaken, for which I hope I hall be excued, when I acquaint the Reader that I was forced to pick it out from accidental Dicoures with Officers, having applied to my Lord R&mdash;'s office without Succes, though I made uch Interet for it as upon another Occaion would not have been refued.

If the Prince of Orange in his Declaration, intead of telling us that we hould be ettled upon uch a Foundation that there hould be no Danger of our falling again into Slavery, and that he would end back all his Forces as oon as that was done, had promis'd us that after an eight Years War (which hould leave us in Debt near twenty Millions) we hould have a Standing Army etablihed, a great many of which hould be Foreigners, I believe few Men would have thought uch a Revolution worth the Hazard of their Lives and Etates; but his