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“Tn like manner passed the other company of all the three 
battells in good and seemly order. The formost captain at nine 
of the clock in the morning by the little conduit came and 
entered into Paules churchyard and from thence directly to 
Westminster and so thro’ the sanctuary and round about the park 
of St. James and up into the field coming home thro’ Holborn, 
and as the first captaine entered again to the little conduit the 
last of the muster entered Paules churchyard, which was then 
about four of the Clock in the afternoon. The number besides 
the wiflers and of other waiters was fifteen thousand.” 
In Henry VIII.’s reign Coat money and conduct money were 
_ given, the first, perhaps, to exclude private liveries, which had 
been already condemned, afd to substitute a national uniform, 
white with a red cross of St. George. 
A similar review was held at Greenwich by Edward VI. 
Both of these payments were made in advance, and deducted 
from any further pay, hence the origin of stoppages. 
, - The Scottish border, on account of the intimate relations 
_ between the French and Scots, was always obliged to be guarded 
_ through fear of invasion, but after the death of Mary there was 
- little reason for its continuance, and the English army became 
- Jamentably deficient. 
The office of Master of Ordnance for the custody of stores 
existed from the time of Edward II., and the appointment of 
Master General, in 1483, raised it to a position of importance. 
Both Marlborough and Wellington were Masters General of 
Ordnance. 
_ The slighting remark of some Spanish Nobles on the deficiency 
_ of proper armour in England directed public attention once more 
‘to the question of defence, and just as the petition of the French 
Colonels to Napoleon III., resulted in 1859 in the creation of 
the Volunteer forces, so it then produced a levy throughout the 
Kingdom, and the country was soon furn'shed with armour and 
Ammunition of war, which in every town was kept in a suitable 
