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`` I myself will raise another fifty from my grooms , gardeners , and keepers , and from brave lads I can gather in the village , and I shall be proud indeed when I present to his majesty two hundred men of Furness , ready to die in his defense . '' After this there was great arrangement of details . Each tenant gave a list of the arms which he possessed and the number of horses fit for work , and as in those days , by the law of the land each man , of whatsoever his degree , was bound to keep arms in order to join the militia , should his services be required for the defense of the kingdom , the stock of arms was , with the contents of Sir Henry 's armory , found to be sufficient for the number of men who were to be raised . It was eight o'clock in the evening before all was arranged , and the party broke up and separated to their homes . For the next week there was bustle and preparation on the Furness estates , as , indeed , through all England . As yet , however , the Parliament were gathering men far more rapidly than the king . The Royalists of England were slow to perceive how far the Commons intended to press their demands , and could scarcely believe that civil war was really to break out .