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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E.

CHAPTER LIII
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The officers had orders to be ready on the first summons: the soldiers were warned not to think the nation secure from an English invasion: and the religious zeal which animated all ranks of men, made them immediately fly to their standards as soon as the trumpet was sounded by their spiritual and temporal leaders.

The credit which in their last expedition they had acquired, by obliging their sovereign to depart from all his pretensions, gave courage to every one in undertaking this new enterprise.[**] * Rush vol.iii.p.

955.
** Clarendon, vol.i.p.

125.

Rush vol.iii.p.


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