the Second's) and this without any other Ceremony or qualification of Time (with which his Majeſty was pleaſed to expreſs himſelf to his Engliſh and Scotch Parliaments) we may be convinced that they are not in a Condition to diſpute this matter; eſpecially at a time when they apprehend Hardſhips will be put upon them in relation to their Trade: And therefore we may be ſure they will gratify the Court to the utmoſt of their Power, in hopes, in they cannot prevent the paſſing a Law againſt them, to obtain a connivance in the execution. We may add; by this means they will keep their Money in their own Country, a great part whereof came formerly to England, and have an opportunity of returning the Compliment we deſigned them laſt Year, if we don't prevent it by diſbanding the Army there, as Strafford's Army in Ireland was formerly in the 15th of Charles the firſt, and lately another in 1678 by our Engliſh Parliaments.
I cannot avoid taking notice here, how different the modiſh Sentiments are in Ireland and England: For there the Language is, We muſt comply with the Court, in keeping up the Army, or otherwiſe the Woollen Manufacture is gone; and here the Men in faſhion tell us, that an Army muſt be kept in Ireland to deſtroy the Woollen Manufacture, and execute the Laws we make againſt them; and in order to it the People of Ireland are to pay them.
This project of ſending Men to Ireland was ſo tranſparent, that they durſt not rely upon it; and therefore they told us, that as faſt as Money could be got, they would diſband more Regiments. The People were in great Expectation when it would be done, and ſeveral times it was taken notice of in Parliament; and the Courtiers always aſſured them that nothing hindred it but the want of Money to pay them off. 'Twas confidently ſaid in all publick places, that eighteen Regiments more would be diſbanded, and the Regiments were named; and I have heard it with great Aſſurance affirmed by the Agents and Officers themſelves, that the King had ſigned it in Council. Thus the Seſſion was worn out, till the Houſe of Commons, tired with Expectation, addreſſed his Majeſty, That he would be pleaſed to give order that a Liſt be laid before the Houſe of the Army diſbanded, and intended to be
