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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	edward_n	king_n	york_n	2,635	5	9.7459	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25777	The argument against a standing army, discuss'd by a true lover of his country.; Argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government	Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.; Moyle, Walter, 1672-1721.	1698 (1698)	Wing A3631; ESTC R15603	27,307	44

Claudian yet their stiffness herein puts me in mind of the Happiness which he describes as peculiar to the Man that never went beyond his Parish-Bounds These are their Sentiments and so you must look out for other Methods to supply the Militia to have them useful One Project is That out of the Disbanded Forces Men may be procured to enter your Service But let me ask you a plain Question What Reason have I to venture my Arms in the Hands of a Man you dare not trust Or what better Security can I have that one who proffers me his Service and is a Stranger will be more for my dear Property than if he were Listed in a Standing Force And so to use his own Words this Constitution must either ruin the Army or the Army ruin the Constitution which is offering a violence to Nature He goes on to tell us That where-ever the Militia is there is or will be the Government in a short time I will not be so Dogmatical as to prescribe to my Betters but if you wou'd procure an Interest to bring in a Bill to make the Militia useful those who send Men to it wou'd be pleased with the Project to have the Gentlemen of the Country without the addition of Inferior Officers to be appointed by the King And the Reason for it is plain which is this it is commonly a Trust which divers Lieutenants of Counties have to serve as Representatives in Parliament either for the County or some Burrough-Town to which they may be Neighbours Now it must be granted That a Gentleman has a greater Regard to the County of his Nativity than a Stranger can be presumed to have and those whom they Muster in order to make useful will with greater Alacrity undergo the Fatigue of Learning the Military Art when many of those under whom they serve had their Votes and their Interest to send them to Parliament They will then have more Patience to Learn what a Stranger might by Blows endeavour to Insinuate So that upon the whole it appears plain That those who fear Arbitrary Power ought to find out Means to put this Project in Practice But perhaps a Man may object against this Proposition tho' I might think it fair He may perhaps say it gives too much Authority to the People and may prove detrimental to future Princes shou'd the Commons not approve of a Prince's Administration Liberty is a Popular Argument and they will be apt to say that we have no Cause to Mistrust and therefore may banish our Fears If there be any thing in the Argument so good an Historian is capable of Answering it But alas you fear a small Number may awe Elections The next time you Print furnish your self with better Arguments or else most People will be apt to conclude That a small Number of Standing Forces may be convenient in our present Circumstances That the Number intended or proposed is to be small 't is plain for Orders are given to Disband divers Regiments already No notice is taken of the Wounds of such who suffered on so Publick an Occasion but it were well if at the Head of their Regiments when they are Disbanded some Speech were made in Acknowledgement of their former Service and to tell them That the Necessity of the Crown did not longer require their Aid This Custom wou'd not deviate from those Commonwealths which you admire for their Prudence But now having proved my Point I must endeavour to be Friends with the Inn-keepers who by this time will begin to Pray for me backwards Why then Gentlemen I have this to say That the Number can never oppress you It is proposed to be but a Few and your Representatives in Parliament will give but what is necessary So pray be content and thank God you are rid of some and in time I hope your Arrears will be Paid And now having sufficiently proved that our Author has started Chimaera's which enter not into other Peoples Heads and therein proved that if he shot at the White he is far beyond the Mark I come now to his Gothick Ballance which I think is sufficiently observed by the Laws of England and the Constitution in all Matters so exactly adjusted that he might have acquiesced in that Confidence but since he goes on to assert a new Proposition viz. That no Nation can preserve its Liberties which maintains an Army otherwise established I hope he will give me liberty to make some material Objections to his Hypothesis Pray what was the Occasion of the 23 Pitcht Battels betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster but their confiding too much on the fickle Populace and we find that sometimes one House succeeded and then another but these many Revolutions were always owing to the want of a sufficient Power at home to suppress the strength of Foreiners which made it often end to the Advantage of the Invader By which we may see that Military Discipline is an excellent thing and that the want of Standing Forces has been the Cause of sundry Revolutions An English Army will always be for Property Sure that which wou'd make our Enemies dread us abroad ought not to be a Bugbear to our selves Let us pause a while and consider and then we shall find that Richard the Third a King of admirable Prowess wanting Strength at Bosworth-Field proportionable to encounter his invading Antagonist lost his Life and Crown in the Cause And a few Years before Edward the Fourth put that pusillanimous Prince King Henry the Sixth to the Expence of his Life for want of an Equality in Power This is certain that York and Lancaster cou'd not be both in the Right and yet Success favoured both their Pretensions and those frequent Changes are attributed by Historians to the Misfortune of Princes that wanted a Land-Army in number sufficient to quell such un happy Tumults By these Examples and more I could add were I not stinted in Time it plainly appears That a small Number is for the Security of the Kingdom And now I shall Methodically follow him He talks of some Men who in the late Reigns asserted Liberty so vigorously that they denied Royal Prerogatives and so very zealously that they would scarce allow of the King 's ordinary Guards but since he names not who they are we may believe it or not as we please But if such there were perhaps they sooner pried into the Court-Designs than other Men and so took care to prevent what might be Destructive by ill Management to the whole Constitution Here he forgets to make a Distinction betwixt Circumstances that happened at that time and how the Case is now We had then successively two Princes on the Throne that had no pretenders to their Title and tho' the last had a Perkin started upto give a defiance yet the Ridiculous Power he brought made him a Scoff among his Friends but when his present Majesty arrived the Cause he came to maintain was so