Buſineſs before, and now he would keep an Army up in ſpite of them: So he prorogued them, and called no other Parliament during his reign; but to frighten the City of London, kept his Army encamped at Hounſlowbeath, when the Seaſon would permit, which put not only them but the whole Nation into the utmoſt Terror and Confuſion. Towards the latter End of his Reign he had increaſed his Army in England to above twenty thouſand Men, and in Ireland to eight thouſand ſeven hundred and odd.
This King committed two fatal Errors in his Politicks. The firſt was his falling out wtth his old Cronies the Prieſts, who brought him to the Crown in ſpite of his Religion, and would have ſupported him in Arbitrary Government to the utmoſt; nay, Popery (eſpecially the worſt Part of it, viz. the Domination of the Church) was not ſo formidable a Thing to them, but with a little Cookery it might have been rendered palatable. But he had Prieſts of another ſort that were to riſe upon their Ruins; and he thought to play an eaſier Game by careſſing the Diſſenters, employing them, and giving them Liberty of Conſcience: Which Kindneſs looked ſo prepoſterous, that the wiſe and ſober Men among them could never heartily believe it, and when the Prince of Orange landed, turned againſt him.
His ſecond Error was the diſobliging his own Army, by bring over Regiments from Ireland, and ordering every Company to take in ſo many Iriſh Papiſts; by which they plainly ſaw he was reforming his Army, and would caſhire them all as faſt as he could get Papiſts to ſupply their room. So that he violated the Rights of the People, fell out with the Church of England, made uncertain Friends of the Diſſenters, and diſobliged his own Army; by which means they all united againſt him, and invited the Prince of Orange to aſſiſt them: Which Invitation he accepted, and landed at Torbay the 5th of November, 1688, publiſhing a Declaration, which ſet forth all the Oppreſſions of the laſt Reign [but the keeping up a Standing Army] declared for a free Parliament, in which things were to be ſo ſettled that there ſhould be no danger of falling again into Slavery, and promiſed to
