7 AUGUST 1920, Page 15

- EX-SERVICE MEN IN 1660.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") the History of the British Army, by the Hon. J. W. Fortesaue, Vol. i., Book iv., Chap. i., I find the following passage dealing with the disbandment of the New Model Army at the Restoration in 1660 :— " In Act copied from an Ordinance of the Commonwealth was passed to enable discharged soldiers to engage in trades without preliminary apprenticeship, and thus to facilitate their return to civil life:" Why should not the Act of 1660 be put into force or re-enacted mutatis mutandis in 1920 ?—I am, Sir. &c., E. Muntagui Lime.

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