[Footnote 16: In the year 1431, Germany raised 40,000 horse,
men-at-arms, against the Hussites of Bohemia, (Lenfant,
Hist. du Concile de Basle, tom. i. p. 318.) At the siege of
Nuys, on the Rhine, in 1474, the princes, prelates, and
cities, sent their respective quotas; and the bishop of
Munster (qui n'est pas des plus grands) furnished 1400
horse, 6000 foot, all in green, with 1200 wagons. The
united armies of the king of England and the duke of
Burgundy scarcely equalled one third of this German host,
(Memoires de Philippe de Comines, l. iv. c. 2.) At present,
six or seven hundred thousand men are maintained in constant
pay and admirable discipline by the powers of Germany.]