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so patiently received that Minesters were encouraged to grant the King by act of Parliament a standing Army of 16,000-- Men, and though in the time of profound peace it was carried through three Years after the Peace of Utrecht had been concluded England was again involved in a rupture with Spain and Sweden--In concequence Spain equipped and very powerful armament which Sailed from Barcelona towards Italy the beginning of June-- but to the great mortification of his Catholic Majesty his fleet near the point of Faro was met by a-- strong squadron of English Ships under the command of Sir George Bying an engagement ensued and the Spanish fleet was totally routed and distroyed-- The death of the King of Sweden in the Year 1717- who was killed before Federeckstadz accelerated to the King of England the undesturbed possession of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden-- When his Majesty the following Year was at Hanover he concluded a treaty with Ulrica the Queen of Sweden by which he obliged himself
