Excerpt from An Essay on Defensive War, and a Constitutional Militia: With an Account of Queen Elizabeth's Arrangements for Resisting the Projected Invasion in the Year 1588; Taken From Authentic Records in the British Museum, and Other Collections Abfurd and painful as this is to recount, it is but too faithful a portraiture of national prejudice. No man {lands forth and tells you he is not alarmed becaufe a fleet inured to vi lory prote ts our coafts, or that the ar rangements of the kingdom are fuch that an army a 'tually landed could not penetrate that forage would be carried off, roads dellroy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.