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Animadversions on Co: 4 [Institute?].
A Military power arrayed & disciplined at a time when there is neither war nor expectation of war, and a code of laws adapted to the government of such an army, have not very long subsisted in any part of Europe. In England Henry the 7th was, I believe, the first King that had any guard for his palace or person; and for several reigns after his, the yeomen of the guard, first raised by him, and a small band of Gentlemen Pensioners, added by Hen: 8th, composed the whole standing force of the Kings of England.
In later times the standing army raised by James the 2d with an evident intention to over turn the
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