210, 256.
v* Monson, p.196.The English navy at present carries about fourteen thousand guns.
v** See note NN, at the end of the volume.
Monson, p.300.

Spaniards; and the queen equipped a fleet and levied an army in a fortnight to oppose them.
Nothing gave foreigners a higher idea of the power of England than this sudden armament.
In the year 1575, all the militia in the kingdom were computed at a hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.[*] A distribution was made, in the year 1595, of a hundred and forty thousand men, besides those which Wales could supply.[**] These armies were formidable by their numbers; but their discipline and experience were not proportionate.

Small bodies from Dunkirk and Newport frequently ran over and plundered the east coast: so unfit was the militia, as it was then constituted, for the defence of the kingdom.

The lord lieutenants were first appointed to the counties in this reign.
Mr.Murden[***] has published, from the Salisbury collections, a paper which contains the military force of the nation at the time of the Spanish armada, and which is somewhat different from the account given by our ordinary historians.

It makes all the able-bodied men of the kingdom amount to a hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and thirteen; those armed, to eighty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; of whom forty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven were trained.