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 of France with 25000 Men, and that the raiing 500 Hore by Philip of Burgundy, irnamed the Good, was the Ruin of thoe Provinces.
 * Fourthly, Ludlow's Memoirs, where he will find that an Army raied to defend our Liberties, made Footballs of that Parliament, at whoe Actions all Europe tood, and in a few Years et up ten everal Sorts of Government contrary to the Genius of the whole , and the Opinion of Half their own Body: Such is the Influence of a General over an Army, that he can make them act like a Piece of Mechanim, whatever their private Opinions are.
 * Latly, Let him read the Arguments against a Army, the Dicourse concerning Militias, the Militia Reform'd, and the Anwers to them: But left all this hould not atisfy him, I will here give a Short Hitory of Standing Armies in England, I will trace this  of Iniquity from the Beginning, and how the everal Steps by which it has crept upon us.

The firt Footteps I find of a Standing Army in  ince the Romans left the Iland, were in Richard the Second's Time, who raied four thouand Archers in Chehire, and uffered them to plunder, live upon Free Quarter, beat, wound, ravih and kill wherever they went; and afterwards he called a Parliament, them with his Archers, forced them to give up the whole Power of Parliaments, and make it Treaon to endeavour to repeal any of the Arbitrary Contitutions that were then made; but being afterwards obliged to go to Ireland to uppres a Rebellion there, the People took Advantage of it, and dethron'd him.

The Nation had uch a Specimen in this Reign of a Standing Army, that I do not find any King from him to Charles the Firt, that attempted keeping up any Forces in Time of Peace, except the Yeomen of the Guard, who were contituted by Henry the Seventh; and though there were everal Armies raied in that Time for French, Scotch, Irih, other foreign and Wars; yet they were contantly dibanded as oon as the Occaion was over. And in all the Wars of York and Lancater, whatever Party prevailed, we do not find