Note 307 — Chapter X

Id. 294, 297, 300. She had said as much before (King's Cabinet Opened, p. 28); so that this was not a burst of passion. "Conservez vous la militia," she says in one place (p. 271), "et n'abandonnez jamais; et par cela tout reviendra." Charles, however, disclaimed all idea of violating his faith in case of a treaty (p. 273); but observes as to the militia, with some truth, that "the retaining of it is not of so much consequence—I am far from saying, none—as is thought, without the concurrence of other things; because the militia here is not, as in France and other countries, a formed powerful strength; but it serves more to hold off ill than to do much good. And certainly, if the pulpits teach not obedience (which will never be, if presbyterian government be absolutely settled), the Crown will have little comfort of the militia."—P. 296.