Perhaps Lewis might be induced to take them into his service.

They would in that case be removed from a country where they were exposed to the corrupting influence of a republican government and a Calvinistic worship, and would be placed in a country where none ventured to dispute the mandates of the sovereign or the doctrines of the true Church.

The soldiers would soon unlearn every political and religious heresy.

Their native prince might always, at short notice, command their help, and would, on any emergency, be able to rely on their fidelity.
A negotiation on this subject was opened between Whitehall and Versailles.

Lewis had as many soldiers as he wanted; and, had it been otherwise, he would not have been disposed to take Englishmen into his service; for the pay of England, low as it must seem to our generation, was much higher than the pay of France.