him wherein the Strength of England consists and it lies in these three things their Cause their Courage and their Numbers Now our Cause against an Invader is such as no Country in the World has we have such valuable Rights and Liberties of our own and so entire a Propriety in our selves and all that we have that would make any Man in earnest to preserve them Perhaps this may look like Vanity and magnifying our own Country and some Neighbours of ours may think much at it who have called their Country Gremium Libertatis the Lap of Liberty and now represent England by a Milch-Ewe but I am satisfied that the English Liberties are the most substantial that are left in these parts of the World tho indeed they are due to all Mankind Such as the making of our own Laws in Parliament the applying these general Laws to a particular Case by our Juries the entire Property and Dominion we have in our Estates so that as Mr. Selden used to say he that has but two Pence in England is a King of that two Pence And the Air that we breath in is so free from Slavery that no Man can be a Slave in England but his very coming hither is a Manumission These as I said before are the Birth-right of Mankind and for certain they did not enter into Society to be losers by it nor establish Government to unman themselves and to destroy the Rights that are essential to their Being but did it only for the better Security of them and to preserve and protect them by a united Strength Now to have a due value for these Liberties is half in half towards the keeping them so this Fetter-maker himself acknowledges in these words p. 16. And whensoever the Nation has lost that noble Sense of Liberty by which it has been so long preserved it will soon make Fetters for it self tho it should find none at hand ready made Either there is no coherence in the whole Letter or the Fetters ready made to our hands are a Land Force and the Consequences of it and who then sent for him to force these Fetters upon us by no less than an absolute and indispensible Necessity and to enslave us before the time For the City of London has not yet lost the noble Sense of Liberty for in the last Speech the Recorder made to wellcome home the King after the Peace he says in the Name of the City that their Liberties were dearer to them than their Lives and I am sure the Country is of the same mind They that have these Liberties and this opinion of them cannot chuse but venture freely for them whereas they that live under an Arbitrary Government have nothing of their own to defend they can but secure their present Masters claim to them and only fight not to be turn'd over Slaves they are already and an Invasion can make them no worse and therefore they can have but small Heart or Encouragement to oppose it And if they did not fight as blindly as they believe but seriously reflected that they venture their Lives to support an unnatural and wicked Power of Oppression as good Soldiers as many of them be it would make their Swords drop out of their Hands On the other side when Men fight for a Country and Constitution that there is no out-living and Death it self is the less damage of the two they are ready to sacrifice themselves for it Especially when what they defend are the just Rights of Mankind and to preserve their Posterity from being Puppy-Dogs when they follow the eternal Connsel of God as Zuinglius calls it If thou mayest be free use it rather and seek only to continue his Servants and their own Men this entitles them to a higher Assistance For omnibus Honestam Libertatem quaerentibus and which is better propugnantibus Deus praesto est and God himself will own such a Cause as this Besides the goodness of the English Cause the Courage of the English is a part of our Strength in which it is enough to say that they are not inferior to any Nation only this seems to be the advantage of a free Government that whereas in other Countries there is as true Valour to be found as any here yet it is not national if it be in some of the Nobless yet the Peasantry is abject and quite out of Heart It is true the Nation is not so well exercised in Arms as they were when Bows and Arrows were the Artillery of the World tho it is easy to apply the old Laws about them to the use of Fire-Arms But in the mean time where there is sheer Courage in a Nation Men are Soldiers by instinct and as soon as they see an Enemy know how to kill him and tho they cannot do it in manner and form and with address yet if they do it any how it will serve turn for if they are to seek after the first firing and are forced to use the But-end of the Musket as it was at Philips Norton an Invader brain'd is well kill'd and such undisciplined Hands will do the work But this is an invidious Subject and the Courage of any People appears best by being tried The last thing is the Numbers of England which tho it be the Arm of Flesh and not proudly to be relied upon yet it may be put into the Scale and weighed against the Terrours of an Invasion Upon such an occasion as this when the Late King's Ministers were endeavouring to establish a Standing Army by a side Wind only by getting a supply of Money for them for a Year this was Sir Thomas Clarges's Argument against it in Parliament That we had a native Strength of seven Millions of Men in England and therefore had no occasion for a Standing Army either against an Insurâ—â—ction or an Invasion for both of them were pretended at that time And it is such an Argument as makes all the Pretences for a Land Force look very ridiculously Is the Nation defenceless with seven Millions and is it safe with twenty Thousand part of that seven Millions I have heard of one Man chaceing a Thousand but I never heard of one Man guarding a Thousand So that it is here as Polybius says it is in Declarations of War one Reason is given out but that which is concealed is the true Reason But to return in seven Millions we have so great choice that if one Million will not fight to defend their native Country another will and a third may see fair play and a fourth is a good Reserve and so are all the rest So that under God we defy all the Invasions of the World beside and especially if an Invasion should come from one quarter I am satisfied that the Nation is ready for them they are so ill beloved at an hours warning And there are many Thousands in England that would rather see them on Shore to have the fighting of them
for a Year first and then we are like to have them for ever for they ought not to cease while the Reason of them continues And Lastly This Annual Army is to depend upon the Regulation of an Annual Parliament but our Act is Triennial and not overeasily obtained However in a Parliament when it sits the Land Force will come into consideration in order to be either encreased lessened or quite laid aside as they shall see cause There never will be cause to the end of the World to lay it aside if not now for now we are farthest off from an Invasion having just struck up a firm and fast League and made a sincere and lasting Peace which if it be not the best at first is worse than a new Broom and differs from all other things in the World which are always the worse for wearing We were lately told that once there appeared but one speck of Blue in the whole Horizon whereas now it is all Blue and there is not one speck of a Cloud This Preface likewise says England is now the wonder of the World and it would be a greater wonder if it should just now be invaded and I challenge any Man to name any imaginable State of Affairs when it shall be fitter and safer and more necessary to lay aside an Army than now And therefore to say it is now indispensibly necessary to our Preservation and that it is present and certain ruin to be without it and yet talk of laying it aside hereafter shews that he neither means good Faith nor vvrites good Sense His next words are these I will not argue with you so unfairly as to urge much the Reasons that we have of trusting the King for how much soever may be said on this Head either from his Temper his Circumstances his Interest and the course of his past Life either with relation to the United Provinces or to us here in England and with how much reason soever this might be prosecuted yet I will not lay much weight on it for it is not just to press an Argument that puts another Man in Pain when he goes to answer it I know it may be said That Men are but Men so that we make a dangerous Experiment of their Virtue when we put too much in their Power and that what is done to one King who deserves it and will manage it faithfully will be made an Argument to do the same for another King that has neither Merit nor Capacity to entitle him to so entire a Confidence To say all in one word if we were in the same Condition in which we and our Neighbours were an Age ago I should reject the Proposition with horrour But the case is alter'd the whole World c. We will talk of Plowden's Saying and the Alteration of the Case by and by in the mean time we will dispatch the former Paragraph He says with a seeming Candour that he will not urge much the Reasons we have of trusting the King The Nation has already trusted the King with all that ever they had to trust him with all the Rights of an English King and the Imperial Crown of this Realm with all the Dominions Jurisdictions Prerogatives and Preeminences belonging thereto And when the Parliament invested His Majesty with this Regality he was pleased to accept of it as the greatest Trust they could repose in him But the new Trust this Letter insists upon is an Army which can overpower and conquer the Nation For it is to be such a Force as can withstand an Invasion which all the Nation besides is not able to do that is to say it can beat those that can beat us and therefore it can much more beat us So that it is a Force which commands all our Lives Liberties and Estates and this Power is to be put into the King's Hands and consequently the whole Nation is to beat his Discretion This is the Trust. Now never trouble your Head more about it nor about extolling the King nor be in pain for your Answerer how he will get over the Argument of the King's Merit to have this Trust and entire Confidence put in him For we have higher thoughts of the King than you have and particularly this honourable Notion of him which you have not that he despises and scorns all your little Flatteries and yet we believe that he does not deserve this Trust nor can manage it faithfully that he has neither Merit nor Capacity to entitle him to so entire a Confidence No not if he had all the Perfections upon Earth as he has a great many nay if he were an Angel he were not fit for this Trust. For such an absolute Resignation of our selves is only proper to be made to God Thus the great Coligny rendered up himself to God when the treacherous Guards broke in upon him Here I am do with me as thou pleasest It is an Act of Worship to commit our selves and all that we have to a Discretionary Power and therefore it ought to be paid to nothing but a being of infinite Goodness which is also under the Conduct of unerring Wisdom This Trust is too big for the Port and Capacity of a Man or of any thing that is finite and fallible This Author says p. 4. in an arbitrary Government all depends upon the Will of the Prince How could he have otherwise described the State and Condition of Creatures in reference to their great Creator That all should depend upon that Sovereign Will which brought us into Being is highly reasonable but that a Nation 's All should depend upon the Will and Pleasure of a Man of their own setting up is flat Idolatry and beneath the Popish Worship of Saints and Angels For what is this Will of the Prince that All depends upon Is it essential Goodness and Righteousness No it is nothing less it is Arbitrariness it is Self-will we will because such is our Will and Pleasure the most arrogant and senseless Will in the World God never assumed this to himself but he always acts by eternal Right and Reason and his Throne is established in Righteousness And therefore when Princes affect to be Arbitrary they affect a proud monstrous blind and brutish Power which is neither fit for Heaven nor Earth The first rude and unexperienced Age of the World fell into the admiration of some great Personages whom they chose for their Kings and were governed by them at discretion for they idolized and worshipped them both alive and dead But they soon found their Errour they saw that to live by one Man's Will became the cause of all Mens Misery and this constrained them to come to Laws as Hooker's words are Now to relapse into this Folly and Idolatry would be unpardonable after the World for so long time has known better Neither could Mankind after such Wrecks on the Shore and such Warnings of Mischief ever fall into the like again
might justly make the Realm so very cautious about the next King the Confessor's Norman Retinue which for all their care laid the Foundation of the Norman Invasion For as soon as Duke William heard both at once of the Death of Edward and the Coronation of Harold he assembles the States of Normandy and lays before them his Pretensions to England and sollicites their assistance to recover it shewing them apparent probability of success by infallible Intelligence he had from the State his strong Party therein with the debility and distraction of the People Daniel p. 34. These were Friend-Indians got into the Bowels of the Realm who thus betrayed it to a foreign Invasion In short the Wisdom of the Nation in former Ages by which we subsist at this Day was against the admitting of any Aliens into the Kingdom unless it were Merchants-Strangers for the sake of Commerce and they too were restrained in these two Points besides divers others not to take a House nor stay above 40 days as we find by the London Petition reciting the ancient Usages and the Act made upon it 50 E. 3. Tener hostiel de fair leur demeure outre 40 jours la ou en temps passe nul estranges Marchants nul des cestes points solint user But this is a Subject that deserves a just discourse because the very great care our Ancestors took and the weighty Reasons upon which they proceeded in this Affair cannot be fully seen at a glance nor be truly represented in a few words by the by The empairing of the Natives the discovering the Secrets of the Realm to our Enemies abroad the ill Offices they always did at Court witness the Count of St. Paul's advice to R. 2. which put him upon all the outragious Tyranny of the latter part of his Reign their being the constant Implements of Arbitrary Princes when they could not confide in their own Subjects that is when they would not serve them in their arbitrary Designs nor be made the Instruments of enslaving their native Country these were some of the most obvious and most frequently avowed Reasons against the admission of Strangers or suffering them to be here But then there were others which lay much deeper at the very bottom of the Constitution For every Hundred in a County being subdivided into Decennaries or Tythings and these consisting of Men that were all bound for one another and were mutual Pledges for the good behaviour of each other and every Master of a House answerable for his whole Family it was impossible there should be any room left in England either for Strangers or Vagabonds And this was the Perfection of the English Constitution both in the Saxon and Norman Times which rendered it the most united Nation under Heaven and they were all of them in strictness of Speech conjurati fratres in defensionem regis regni and as much sworn Brothers as if they had been one Mothers Children Now in such a Constitution it was impossible for a Stranger to thrust in his Nose for where could nine Men together be found to answer for Monsieur Whatchum who had neither Friends by Father's side nor Mother's side to be his Hostages with whom they must converse by an Interpreter of whom they could have no hold nor security having no knowledg and who might go and leave his Pledges in the lurch as lightly as he came And therefore the Strangers and Aliens that were so often evacuated could not have made their abode here if they had not crept in as Inmates into great Cities or at Court or in the Church and there it was they swarmed and lived upon the spoils of the Nation Our most judicious Antiquaries cannot mention these Decennaries or associated Neighbourhoods without bewailing the decay of that part of our Constitution as if the Nation had thereby lost all its compacted Strength and were become like a great Wall of loose Stones without Morter and only a multitude of Individuals I am sorry too but do not think the loss of them so fatal For whether the English Temper and Inclination led them to these Guilds and Fraternities or whether the living so long under them produced that Temper or both I am sure it runs in a blood and all Englishmen still retain a reservedness and shyness towards Strangers and cannot be suddainly acquainted they also will engage very far for one another and they take an injury done to another as done to themselves These fruits and advantages of the Decennaries still remain as if they were yet standing And tho the English have now Squabbles and Differences amongst themselves so they had then and a Headborough to compose â—hem yet a common Cause and a common Enemy always reconciles and unites them and as loose as the Stones may seem to be let but an Invasion come and that will find Morter This was the old English Conduct heretofore towards Foreigners but the modern Policy is for the direct contrary a general Naturalization Whenever I hear that word I cannot forbear thinking What is old England now to be planted and peopled Or are we to begin a new Commonwealth with an Asylum in Romulus's way The Nation never yet wanted People to keep the Plough going notwithstanding the great encrease of Tillage and we have more hands for Manufactures than we can find in Employment Our Merchants and Retailers are innumerable and most of our Professions are overstock'd And this glut of Men continues tho one would have expected that the vast Colonies we have sent into America should long since have drained us We have shoals of Seamen to maintain our Dominion there and to enlarge Commerce and tho England be an open Country yet it is so well man'd that it scorns all other Fortifications What then do we want Strangers for unless it be to make a dearth of Provision which is always a greater Tax upon our own People than a Capitation and more unequally laid or else to beat out our own substantial Manufactures with Outlandish frippery and foreign Knacks I have heard indeed that it will raise the price of Land but is the Nation going to sell However raising the price of it will make it only so much the worse for an English Purchaser Others would have a General Naturalization for the sake of the French Refugees who being shut out of their own Country for being Protestants ought by all means to be encouraged to make this their home I think all the World endeavours to make earnings of that poor People and to serve their own little ends upon them Their own Monarch gained several Points by expelling them out of France for thereby he shewed the plenitude of Arbitrary Power which will have all its Slaves believe as they are bidden as well as they do every thing else and can at pleasure make out casts of vast numbers of Natives who had as much right to stay in their own Country as any of those whom they left
most perfection in it is this That he can do no wrong for to be able to do that is but Impotency as Fortescue has wisely observed So again this Monarchy you may call Hereditary if you will because it often goes that way unless the State think fit to order it otherwise And yet this Hereditary Monarch is solemnly adjured not to meddle with the Crown unless he mean to keep his Oath and govern according to Law and the consent of the People to have him for their King is as absolutely requisite at his Coronation as if he were chosen in the Field And the Succession is so far from being unalterable that it was laid down as a first Principle by Sir Thomas More and Sir Richard Rich Attorney General That an Act of Parliament could make him Richard Rich King in their Argument about the Supremacy of H. 8. And this is so fundamental a Point in the English Government of such undoubted Right and such weighty Consequence that the denial of it was made High Treason during Q. Eliz. Reign and it is still a Premunire to this day And yet I trow we are no elective Kingdom neither but a wiser Constitution than that comes to We have no Interrex in a Vacancy to play his Rex nor Cardinal Primate to make a false return of an Election and to elude the Peoples choice but the Crown rests and remains with the People of England who had always the disposal of it till they invest a new King with it and during that time the Pleas of the Crown are theirs and the Offences committed against the Peace are done against the Realm and must be so prosecuted The Rights likewise of the English Subjects are as little understood by Foreigners which occasioned that Speech of one of them not long ago The English take themselves to be all Kings but ' ere long they will find their mistake No the English don't take themselves to be all Constables much less Kings they know their distance and their duty to that high Office no People more And if they have a good Prince they know how to value him if they have a Tyrant or an Oppressor that 's their own fault and not his but if they have a good one they think themselves happy to live under him they love honour and obey him they reverence and admire him and all but worship him And this they do freely and chearfully not with a forced Subjection but as Freemen and not Slaves nor with made cringes and inward hate But when that is done in all their English Rights and Liberties they are as free as the thought in a Man's mind and no Emperor can be more So King Alfred and his Parliament declared them and I never read of their being enslaved since Knute swore fealty to them and the other reputed Conquerour took the present Coronation Oath I cannot but say that several of his Successors did their true endeavour to enslave the Nation but they perished in the attempt and it ended in their own destruction And it was all their own For it was impossible for English-men not to know and maintain their Rights and Liberties it being in those days made a matter of Conscience so to do All Confessors were required to be perfect in Magna Charta on purpose to inform and direct the Consciences of the People in keeping it And Magna Charta was likewise ordered by several Statutes first to be publickly read in all Cathedrals twice a Year and then the Breakers of it to be excommunicated and their Excommunication denounced in all Parish Churches in order to which every Cathedral was furnished with an authentick Copy under the Great Seal But in latter Reigns instead of inculcating and enforcing the English Rights and Liberties the Cathedrals and Confessors have untaught them the People and have sacrificed them up to Sir Wynstan Churchill's Divi Britannici I will not go about to reckon up all the Worthies that have signalized themselves in this Service but leave that to the Historiographer Royal of Passive Obedience nor instance in Bancroft Sibthorp and Manwaring the first of whom transforms several of the English Principles into dangerous Positions and fetches them from Geneva whereas the Confessors in Q. Maries time carried them from hence and the other two by their arbitrary Doctrine so far prophaned preaching that they did not make it the foolishness St. Paul speaks of but quite the other thing But I will confine my self to the late A. B. Laud as being a Representative and Head of that Party which the late K. Iames termed the Laudean Church of England men and which that he might the more confirm to himself he assured by Dr. Parker in 83. That as they had been always for him he would always be for them About 3 or 4 Years ago came out his own History written by himself whereby it appears that his great design of establishing Arbitrary Government was admirably well laid For he goes orderly to work removendo prohibens promovendo adjuvans first by throwing down Magna Charta and then by setting up his own Arbitrary Cannons A Writing of his which was brought in evidence against him to prove his endeavouring to subvert the Laws began with these words Magna Charta had an obscure Birth and was fostered by an ill Nurse Upon this he says the manager of the House of Commons spake loud and asked what Laws he would spare that spake thus of Magna Charta After some little shuffling of an answer to keep his hand in ure he justifies those opprobrious words and intimates likewise that another Manager afterwards was conscious of the faultiness of Magna Charta and indefensibleness of it against that Paper by omitting the mentioning of it upon two very just occasions of mentioning it else he would never have denied a Vindication to Magna Charta Here says the Publisher is a void space left in the Margin with design as I suppose to insert therein some Passages out of Law-Books concerning the obscure Birth of Magna Charta which space was not filled up H. W. I am very certain that Magna Charta had never done him nor any other English-man any wrong but because it stood in his way and hindred him from making his Court with his Passive Obedience and from making himself and his Master great he thus vilifies it and endeavours to bring it into hatred and contempt It is the same Aspersion which is expressed more plainly and less slyly by others of the same stamp That it was at first extorted and afterwards maintained by Rebellion who have likewise made the House of Commons to be of the same extraction and alike born in Sin being founded in Rebellion 49 H. 3. There is no honest English-man but if there was occasion would spend his blood for Magna Charta that sacred Repository of all the English Liberties and therefore I shall not grudg to spend a few Lines in vindication of it tho it be here represented as if it had been some spurious Birth and been suckled by a Wolf But this must be the work of a second Part. FINIS P. 15. P. 16. Ninus Belus c. Knox Hist. Ceilon p. 38 105. P. 8. P. 15. P. 16. P. 14. P. 15. P. 2. P. 6. P. 5. L d. Herb. H. 8. Testam Alfred apud Asser Menev. Pupilla oculi f. 59. Land's Hist. P. 409.
a Security but that we must help them to be true to their word by shewing them they are not like to get much by breaking it In this third Paragraph he is at a deal of complemental Pains with our Neighbours to get leave of them for his supposal of a treacherous Invasion Or else he has no pretence for a Standing Army to help them to be true to their word He does not suspect but only supposes in order to get a Land Force established and then they may come at their Peril But does not this kind of Discourse very much disparage our new Peace that the next Day we must stand in fear of an Invasion which p. 15. he calls our present Danger as if their Invasion were to come first and their Embassadors after and to have our Peace so false built as to want propping and shoreing already with a Land Force and that we must have our Peace clad in Armour and look so like a War that we cannot know them asunder unless it be by this difference that then our Army was abroad and now he would have it in our own Bowels That which follows is still more surprizing in these words p. 3. But mistake me not When I seem to prepare you to consider the necessity of keeping a Land Force I am far from the thought of a Standing Army Any Man who would pretend to give a jealousy of the Nation to the King and suggest that he could not be safe among them without he were environ'd with Guards and Troops as it was in the late Reigns ought to be abhorred by every true Englishman by every Man who loves Liberty and his Country The case at present is whether considering the Circumstances that we and our Neighbours are now in it may not be both prudent and necessary for us to keep up a reasonable Force from Year to Year The State of Affairs both at home and abroad being every Year to be considered in Parliament that so any such Force may be either encreased lessened or quite laid aside as they shall see cause In this Passage there are as many Fallacies and Deceits as there are Lines For first here is the christning of a Standing Army by the Name of a Land Force and then it is no longer a Standing Army no God forbid This is like the Lollards Device to keep Lent with a Pig it was but plunging it into a Tub of Water and saying down Pig up Pike and forthwith it became very good Fish I give the honour of this Invention to the Author of this Letter for it was written before the meeting of the Parliament so that he did not copy And we are beholden to them for many more such disguising Terms and Blinds to the Nation From hence came our Desertion and Abdication instead of a plain English Forfeiture which the Scotch Parliament honestly called Forefaulting hence likewise came our Convention Parliament which they might better have called a Vestry or a Wardmote Parliament for that had been an English Name Now the mischievous Design of this was to rob the Nation of two important Points first That a King could forfeit and secondly That a true Representative of the Nation might be a Parliament without the Formality of the Kings Writ Whereas if K. Iames did not forfeit I defy any Man to show how we came by this Government And if the free Parliament which they call'd the Convention was not a true Parliament as well as the free Parliament in 60 which is adjudged so particularly in the case of the Covent Garden Act how thâ—n could it make a true King capable to call a true Parliament ever after The Defects and Difficulties are incurable But allowing what they would have that neither K. Iames nor any other King can forfeit and that it is no true Parliament which meets upon the like occasion as that which they disabled by the Name of Convention you plainly see they have got two impregnable Fortresses of Arbitrary Power ready built which want nothing but to be well garisoned with Land Forces It is a known Art of Deceit to give any hated thing a new Name whereby in effect it is put out of Peoples knowledg and the old Notion and Apprehension of it is lost so coining of Dollars is unlawful but casting of them may be lawful A Papist was a Name justly hated by Protestants and always called to mind what the Nation had suffered by them and yet in the last Reign when they swarm'd most there was not one Papist left they were all Catholicks or of the Kings Religion So that if we were not perfectly reconciled to them under these new Names we must fall out both with our King and our Creed In like manner a Standing Army was always a Name of dread and horrour to an English Ear and signified the worst sort of Invasion being intestine and already got within us And therefore only the thing was to be brought upon us but the startling Name to be renounced and then Land Forces become as gentle and innocent a thing as Catholicks In the next place he would insinuate a difference betwixt a Standing Army now and the Guards and Troops of the two last Reigns as if a Standing Army werâ— not the same thing and equally destructive to the Liberties of a Nation at all times let the Pretences of keeping them up be what they will Slavery is the same by what ever fetch it is brought about and therefore whether a Standing Army then was under pretence of the Kings Safety or now for our own Safety it alters not the Case if we be alike overpowered and subdued by it and Slavery inseparable from it which is demonstrable For to live under a Force and yet to enjoy Liberty or be a Freeman at the same time is an utter impossibility and a contradiction in Terms And therefore his own words return upon himself any Man who suggests a pretence to the King for a Standing Army ought to be abhorred by every Englishman by every Man that loves Liberty and his Country for the Reason and Force of the Abhorrence does not lie in the difference of Suggestions to the King but in the Guards and Troops which are thereby raised for they it is that ruin our Liberty and Country and therefore give but a bad Character to any body that is for them The next remarkable Deceit for it would be tedious to reckon them all is the prudent and necessary Provision of a reasonable Force from Year to Year as if it were upon liking tho all the Reasons are perpetual For our Neighbours mistaken Notion of keeping up a mighty Force is like to continue and if those Forces were disbanded yet they are in being and may soon be rallied England will always be an open and I hope a plentiful Country tho not to subsist an Army our Fleets liable to be Wind-bound c. so that his business is to get Footing for an Army