 On his return to England in 1660, Charles took measures to support his recently restored throne on the fidelity of his soldiers; he moreover endeavoured to fix the hitherto unstable basis of a military government.As no system is improvised, a precedent for the innovation was to be found in the history of England.Two regiments created in the reign of Henry VIII, still subsist, the "Gentlemen Pensioners" and the "Yeomen of the Guard" formed in those days a sort of transition between the system of accidental armies and permanent armies.