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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56158	Eight military aphorismes demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigall expensiveness of all standing English forts and garrisons ... by William Prynne of Swanswick, Esquire ...; Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing P3948; ESTC R22224	27,110	44

more unruly deboist injurious imperious over them in all kindes then in Peace 5. By inviting inducing or necessitating the Enemies Forces to besiege and inflict upon them the saddest Calamities and Plagues of War from which ungarrisoned Towns and places far from Garrisons are usually exempted or not so liable to especially in civil Wars To enumerate some particular miseries accompanying Seiges 1. Burning wasting destroying their own Suburbs Neighboring Houses Villages Orchards Gardens Trees in or near their Garrisons Walls or Works and that frequently by their own Officers and Garrison Soldiers to prevent the Enemies quartering in them or some annoyances from them or to contract their Works for their better and easier defence of what remaiins unburnt or unwasted to the undoing of hundreds and thousands left houslesse and harborless by this inhumane Policy as bad or worse then any Enemies rage as the sad late presidents of the firing the Suburbs of Bristol Excester Taunton Lincoln York Colchester and other Garrisons experiment with some stately Houses and whole Villages adjoyning to them To which may be added the like frequent furious devastations of them by the Enemies if spared by themselves Secondly Losse of all Trading Commerce and Markets during the Leaguers about them when they need them most of all Thirdly Perpetual Fears Alarms Disturbances Watchings Frights day and night continual hard military duties and skirmishes with the Enemy even by the Inhabitants themselves at their free cost notwithstanding their hired dear-waged Guardian Soldiers to secure them Fourthly Forcible seisures of the Inhabitants Houshold-Provisions of all sorts with their Beds Bedding Arms Money Plate to feed lodge arm pay their Mercenary Servants then in all things their most absolute Lording Masters who extort and will take from them and theirs all they have of purpose forsooth to protect them though those their protected Pay-masters and their whole Families starve lye cold or naked on the boards want money to buy them bread necessaries or lie sick in greatest distress Fifthly The losse of many of the Inhabitants lives by Assaults Granadoes Fire-works Sallies Shots wounds Famines Plagues Feavers and other Sicknesses usually accompanying Sieges and Wars by invented false accusations suspitions of holding intelligence with the Enemies or plotting to betray the Garrison to them by suddain fears frights discontents firing or beating down Houses springing of Mines and the like during their Seiges in many whereof if sharp or long or accompanyed with Plagues and Sicknesses above half the Inhabitants or more have frequently been quite consumed and the rest utterly undone though the Enemies left the Seige at last Sixthly The Wounding Maiming loss of Limbs of many of the Inhabitants multiplying of their poor Widows desolate Orphans by Seiges and their new charge to relieve them Seventhly The total Banishment Captivity Slaughter and extirpation of all the Inhabitants and mercenary Soldiers too in Garrisons if taken by storm or assault by putting them all to the Sword Man Woman and Childe without distinction or the greatest number of them and carrying the rest Captives thence whereof there are hundreds of sad presidents in * Sacred and Prophane History The famous Protestant Town of Magdeburgh in Germany of late years was by bloody General Tilly put totally to the Sword and then burnt to ashes And Tredagh in Ireland though for the most part Protestants always constant to the Parliament enduring many long and sharp Seiges by the Irish Popish Rebels yet submitting to Marquesse Ormond a sincere Protestant formerly General for the Parliament in Ireland and then for the King and receiving a Garrison from him at the last when their Governor entred into an offensive and defensive League with Owen Roe-Oneal the General of the Popish Rebels their greatest Enemy and chief Contriver Fomenter of the Irish Massacre and Rebellion upon the late taking of it by storm most of the Inhabitants were thereupon put to the sword without distinction together with all the Garrison Soldiers by Gen. Cromwell himself and his Forces to the great grief of many good Protestants there which fatal desolation and total destruction they had all escaped had they not been a Garrison Eightly The total demolition and burning to the very ground of sundry private Garrisons Castles strong magnificent Houses of ancient Nobles and Gentlemen and of some fair Churches too when taken whereof our late Wars have produced many sad Spectacles as Rag land Castle Basing House Rowden House Cambden House Litchfield Clos● Banbury Pomfret Castles with sundry more And which is yet more grievous the burning to the ground and total desolation depopulation ruine of many great famous Garrisons Cities and Towns as Troy Jerusalem Tyrus Athens with hundreds more and of the best and greatest part of other stately Cities never since repaired re-peopled whereof * Sacred and Prophane Stories of former ages our own Annals and late experience can furnish us with multitudes of sad Presidents Which fatal Subversions Devastations they had all escaped had they not been Garrisoned and stood out a Siege Ninthly the total Spoil Plunder Confiscation of all the Inhabitants Goods and Estates if not their Lives to the Enemy if taken by Assault or Stratagem to their universal undoing and yet putting them to future Fines Ransoms and heavy Taxes afterward to buy their Peace or save them from the general subsequent Plunder of all not formerly spoiled by the Soldiers All which they had escaped if un-Garrisoned Tenthly The unavoidable reception of greater and usually worse domineering new Garrisons from the conquering Enemies oft spoiling plundering firing ransoming executing the wealthiest of the Inhabitants notwithstanding all Articles of agreement for their Indempnity and Security though taken by surrender onely not by storm which Articles are usually much violated and very seldome kept by faithlesse greedy rude plundering Officers or Soldiers who add affliction to affliction and a new undoing to the old to whose new Lording Lawlesse power Orders Pleasures Government the Inhabitants must all submit or else they their Families must be forthwith banished out of their native Habitations as enemies stript naked of all they have and forced to wander cold naked about the Countrey like vagrants for bread clothes relief houseroom which they plentifully enjoyed before to the breaking of their hearts and shortning of their lives Eleventhly These Garrisons are oft taken re-taken over and over and so as oft plundered re plundered spoiled ransomed and new garrisond by both sides yea those of them who were protected as friends and favorites to the one side are sure to be most spoiled plundered oppressed persecuted by the other and to suffer thus in their successive turns till they be quite undone and ruined by their frequent takings and re-takings on both sides as Bristol Exeter with other places have found by late sad experience the vicissitudes and miseries of these Garrisons never ceasing till their Wars and Garrisons cease and they became no Garrisons Twelfly If any besieged Garrisons escape