of France with 25000 Men, and that the raiſing 500 Horſe by Philip of Burgundy, ſirnamed the Good, was the Ruin of thoſe Provinces.
- Fourthly, Ludlow's Memoirs, where he will find that an Army raiſed to defend our Liberties, made Footballs of that Parliament, at whoſe Actions all Europe ſtood a-
mazed, and in a few Years ſet up ten ſeveral Sorts of Government contrary to the Genius of the whole Na-
tion, 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 Mechaniſm, whatever their private Opinions are. - Laſtly, Let him read the Arguments against a Stand-
ing Army, the Diſcourse concerning Militias, the Militia Reform'd, and the Anſwers to them: But left all this ſhould not ſatisfy him, I will here give a Short Hiſtory of Standing Armies in England, I will trace this Myſte-
ry of Iniquity from the Beginning, and ſhow the ſeveral Steps by which it has crept upon us.
The firſt Footſteps I find of a Standing Army in Eng-
land ſince the Romans left the Iſland, were in Richard the Second's Time, who raiſed four thouſand Archers in Cheſhire, and ſuffered them to plunder, live upon Free Quarter, beat, wound, raviſh and kill wherever they went; and afterwards he called a Parliament, encom-
paſſed them with his Archers, forced them to give up the whole Power of Parliaments, and make it Treaſon to endeavour to repeal any of the Arbitrary Conſtitutions that were then made; but being afterwards obliged to go to Ireland to ſuppreſs a Rebellion there, the People took Advantage of it, and dethron'd him.
The Nation had ſuch a Specimen in this Reign of a Standing Army, that I do not find any King from him to Charles the Firſt, that attempted keeping up any Forces in Time of Peace, except the Yeomen of the Guard, who were conſtituted by Henry the Seventh; and though there were ſeveral Armies raiſed in that Time for French, Scotch, Iriſh, other foreign and do-
meſtic Wars; yet they were conſtantly diſbanded as ſoon as the Occaſion was over. And in all the Wars of York and Lancaſter, whatever Party prevailed, we do not find
