Freedom In Service - Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government

Project Gutenberg's Freedom In Service, by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government Author: Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw Release Date: May 19, 2008 [EBook #25522] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREEDOM IN SERVICE *** Produced by Nick Wall, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg iii] FREEDOM IN SERVICE SIX ESSAYS ON MATTERS CONCERNING BRITAIN'S SAFETY AND GOOD GOVERNMENT By F. J. C. HEARNSHAW, M.A., LL.D. PROFESSOR OF MEDIÆVAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1916 [Pg v] To the Glorious and Immortal Memory of Lord Roberts [Pg vii]CONTENTS PREFACE I.—THE ANCIENT DEFENCE OF ENGLAND I. UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION TO SERVE II. THE OLD ENGLISH MILITIA III. MEDIÆVAL REGULATIONS IV. TUDOR AND STUART DEVELOPMENTS V. THE LAST TWO CENTURIES VI. CONCLUSION II.—COMPULSORY SERVICE AND LIBERTY I. THE PLEA OF FREEDOM II. THE TERM "LIBERTY" III. LIBERTY AS FREEDOM FROM FOREIGN CONTROL IV. LIBERTY AS SYNONYMOUS WITH RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT V. LIBERTY AS ABSENCE OF RESTRAINT VI.