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A91238	Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes, demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness, and prodigall expensivenes of all standing English forts and garrisons, to the people of England: their inability to protect them from invasions, depredations of enemies or pyrates by sea or land: the great mischiefs, pressures, inconveniences they draw upon the inhabitants, country, and adjacent places in times of open wars, when pretended most usefull: and the grand oversight, mistake, injury in continuing them for the present or furure [sic] reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the only ends pretended for them. / Penned by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire, during his close imprisonment in Pendennis Castle. And now published for the common benefit, ease, information of the whole nation.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4028; Thomason E896_5; ESTC R203277	28,770	45

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 t●e sword without distinction together with all the Garrison Soldiers by Gen. Cromwel 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 Litchfiel● 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 garrison d 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 taking in the Wars by Seige as Gloces●er Hull and L●me did in our late Wars but scarce any else yet as it was more through Gods mercy and the valor vigilancie and strength of their own Inhabitants and other Volunteers then of their hired mercenaries so the length of Losses and damages by their very Leaguers did more indammage impoverish them then an honorable composition with the Enemy at first or the leaving their Towns quite ungarrison'd would have done besides their exemption from all those fears hardships and other miseries accompanying their Leaguers There was no Garrison in the late Wars throu ghout the Nation but if left ungarrison'd by either side might with the quarter or half quarter of its unnecessary expences to make and keep it a Garrison have avoided all the Miseries Losses Devastations Plunders Pressures it suffered as a Garrison on both or either side without an● great danger or Pillage to the Inhabitants persons or Estates by either side And half the charges of our Garrisons on both sides would have defrayed the whole charges of both the Field Armies and ended the Wars in far lesse then half the time they were protracted by means of Garrisons In brief our small Castles and Garrisons even in times of wars are can be no defence at all but great Oppressions and Grievances to the people and Countrey our great Garrisons are then but small defences and greater burdens and grievances to the people then smaller yea all of them after all their fortifications costs expences are or may be taken by * forc● stratagem Famine or Treachery at the last by any Enemy who is but Master of the Field Witnesse the strongest of Cities ●yrus Ezek. 26. and Ierusalem Gods own most fortified City of which the Prophet thus writes Lam. 4. 12. The Kings of the earth and all the Inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the Adversary and the Enemy should have entred into the Gates of Jerusalem yet was it often taken pillaged dismantled and burnt by the enemies 2 Chron 12. 4. c. 2 Chron. 36. 7 10 17 to 21. Yea our own Garrisons were the principal seats theaters of all our former and late Wars epsecially when besieged by either party Whence a Siege is usually termed Le-Guerre from the F●ench that is to say THE WAR because there is no War to speak of till then Battels in the Field being fought and ended usually in half a day or lesse and oft within one hour or two at most when as Sieges accompanied alwaies with frequent Skirmishes constant Batteries sundry Assaults Sallies Stormings on all hands or in some quarter or other continue many dayes weeks months and yeers sometimes with far greater danger and

Par●iament concerning the Commission of Array all former Statutes concerning Arrays Arms Musters and the old long continued practice of our ●rain'●-Bard in each County and Corporation formerly reputed the Nations chief ●●curity in intestine and invasive Wars with the late Militia'● raised on and by each County at their own vast expence to defend it and the nation as the best safestguard when all sorts were commanded to serve in person notwithstanding all Garrisons Mercenary Field-Forces and the Army then and since continued as our fafety And indeed common reason proves that as every man loves and prefers his own person family estate before a strangers or any others so he will more vigilantly sincerely effectually defend and protect them from Enemies or Dangers then a y Mercenaries how trusty and valiant soever they be And as every true S●epherd and owner of Sheep is more careful to defend and preserve them from Thieves and Robbers with the hazard of his own ●●fe then any Stranger or Hireling whose the Shee● are no● who will s●ie and desert or else he●p to prey upon them and play the ●hief himself in times of danger or advantage as Christ himself resolves John 10. So every able private person Family Parish Town County Association and by like consequence the whole Nation will better cheaper and with lesse inconveniences by far defend and secure themselves by their own unmercenary persons Arms voluntarily united according to their respective abilities without any general forced Taxes and illegal Excises imposed and continued on them against their wills then any Mercenary Officers and Soldiers whatsoever who making onely a Trade and Gain of War wil therefore spin it out as long as the Nation or People have any moneys or Estates to pay and inrich them and will sooner conclude and settle Peace upon their own terms upon all overtures and occasions then Mercenaries who neither desire nor intend our publike Peace in reality but interrupt it all they may when neer concluded as in the late Treaty with armed violence both against King and Parliament Uup on which grounds our A●cestors never usually entrusted any Mercenary Armies but themselves alone with their own and the Kingdoms defence scarce ever imposed any Taxes on the people by publike Parliamentary Authority in any civil Wars and very rarely except a Subsidy or fifteen now and then for the Kingdoms defence against forraign Invasion but onely for their Inva●ive De●ensive Forraign Wars in Fr●nce or elsewhere Why then the whole Nation Nobility Gentry and People of all sorts should not now again be trusted with their own arms and self-defence as well as in former Ages being their native Priviledg● and B●r●hr●gh their onely best security and prevention against all publike Enemies and Invaders but are forced to pur their Armes Lives Estates Protection into the hands of Mercenary Officers Soldiers Garrisons who notwithstanding ● their vast endlesse expences for their Pay have so often abused violated their Trusts lengthned our old engaged us since in successive new Wars against our Protestant Brethren and Confederates themselves and have almost eaten up all our real personal private Estates with the whole publike ancient Inheritance and standing Revenues of the Nation let all prudent Statesmen and Patrons of their Countreys Rights and Priviledges resolve the rather because our Mercenary Soldiers Garrisons Forts are so far perverted from their primitive use to preserve our Persons and Estates from Enemies and Violence that they are now made the only Janazaries Goalers Goa●s Prisons forcibly to seise imprison close imprison the persons ransack ●t he Houses Studies of the emminentest Parliament Member● Patrons and Freemen Sufferers for our publike Libe●tie● Laws Propertiesr Religion and the onely Instruments under the New Guardians of our Libertye to bring the whole Nation and all English Freemen of full age into perpetual Wardship to these new Seigniours since the old Cour● of Ward for ●nfants only till they came of full age is quite voted down as a Grievance though not comparable unto this of men of full age yea Parliament Members new strictest Wardships and close restraints under armed Garrisons and Centinels of meanest quality in these Garrison'd new Courts of Wards 8. That Maritine Garrisons Forts Blockhouses at the entrance of our Harbors as Pendennis and S. Mawdits Castles at the mouth of Falmouth Haven Harwich and others of that nature are altogether useless unnecessary expensive charges to the Republike unable to hinder the ingress egress or regress of any warlike ship ships or Navy into the Harbors much less to sinck them with all their Cannon-shot which I shall thus demonstrat● 1. In dark nights and misty days mornings evenings which take up neer halfe the space every yeere they can neither clearly see nor discern any ship or vessel passing into or out of their harbo●s muchlesse then hinder their free ingress or egr●ss by shot or otherwise when they cannot so much as see them 2. In clear sunshine dayes and moon-shine nights any small vessels much more then resolute men of War and whole Squadrons Navies may safely pass and repass into or out of these harbors or anchor in them without any great danger harm or sinking by their Cannons which standing for the most part high upon the Land especially at new Flood half Tide or Ebbe and not levell with the Sea at full tide an● being likewise not halfe so many in number nor so large in boar as most Men of Warre now carry in one tire or side discharged for the most part at rovers by unskilfull Gunners and Matrosses one after another and fixed upon one Platform whence they cannot easily or speedily bee removed can hardly in several shoots so much as hit any one single vessell much lesse hurt or sink it in its passage under saile by these forts and blockhouses being past their levell and danger at the first discharge of their Cannons over against them and quite out of it ere they can be recharged much lesse then can they stopp sinke or mischiefe an whole Navy or Squadron of Men of Warre which I shall demonstrate by several instances old and new beyond contradiction 1. Sir Francis Drake in his famous voyage to the West-Indies with a small squadron of ships entred five of the chiefe Ports the Spaniards there held took and fired their ships there riding under their Castles Forts Blockhouses and pillaged their Towns themselves notwithstanding all their Cannons and Artiliry playing upon his ships both from their Forts Castles Blockhouses and Ships there riding and that without the losse sinking or spoyling of any one of his Vessels And some other English Sea Captains then and since did the like as Mr. Harkluit in his printed Voyages at large relates 2. Our English Navy in Queen Elizabeths reign in their expedition against Cadez tooke the whole Iland and City in one day burnt and tooke all their ships treasure magazine and ordnance there notwithstanding all their forts

surprise them if they come and should they not then intrust the peoples persons estates to Gods Protection and their owne at this present without any mercenary Garrisons or Forces to guard them against their wills or desires to their superfluous vast expence when there is farr lesse probability or feare of danger to them in generall from armed Enemies then to their owne private persons Houses or moneys from Theeves and Robbers If they be thus continued on them onely to enrich the Officers Souldiers and secure their own Usurpations Intrusions or over ruling powers preferred before the peoples ease or weal under a pretext of danger from some Enemies that may or will infest plunder destroy the people so soone as the Army and Garrisons are disbanded we shall then desire that all officers Souldiers unwilling to disband upon this pretence of great imminent danger for the peoples more certaine security from Enemies and meriting of their future pay may be strictly enjoyned to put on all their Armes and draw up all their forces in battalio where they most feare the Enemies in the field and all their Garrisons likewise kept in a constant standing Posture to receive the Enemy in their respective Forts and there to stand night and day in their compleat armes in a perpetuall readinesse and posture of defence till the next sommer and our fears be ended without putting off their Arms as our * King Richard the first kept the Bishop of Bev●ies taken Prisoner by his forces in the field harnessed from head to foot in his iron Armes night and day above two months space without suffering him all that time to put them off lest some Enemies should surprise them our Island Garrisons on a sudden ere they could arme or put themselves in an actuall posture to receive them if permitted once to retire into their Winter quarters for their ease and then we suppose these pretenders of imminent danger only to get pay when and where they neither do nor can do the people the least reall Publick service but greatest prejudice as the premises evince will soone become as humble and earnest petitioners to our present swaying Powers who continue them and to the People who desire it to be forthwith disbanded and sent home again to their friends further imployments as this Harnessed Bishop was to our King Richard himselfe the Pope and his Brother Prelates to be disrobed disarmed of his heavy iron Rochet so long keept on his back and body to his little ease and lesse content it being altogether as just equitable and reasonable for them to keep the Army and Garrison Soldiers in this unreasonable hard constant duty and armed Posture day and night till they be disbanded as to lay unsupportable endlesse Taxes Excises on the oppressed peoples backs to maintain them in constant pay to their intolerable oppression till the next Sommer or longer upon the premised pretences If any now demand as many Officers and Souldiers oft do being their chief plea against disbanding how shall the Officers and Souldiers live after all their good Service in the Wars if they shall be now at last disbanded to ease and pleasure the people The Answer is very obvious just and equall 1. How shall the poor people live or maintain themselves and families if these Garrisons and Mercinary Forces be still continued being already like to starve 2. How do the poor people live who are still enforced to give them full pay and maintain them in idlenesse without any labour to do very little duty that wholly useless in Field or Garrisons wherein their onely necessary uselesse present dutie is to stand Centinell once or twice a week one houre or two to take Tobacco play sleep drink and cry stand or who goes there to one another in the night as they passe by the Centinels to as much purpose in relation to the peoples safety as one night Owles crying hallowing is to another or to demand of those that enter into the Garrisons in the day time Whence come you what are you what is your name businesse whom would you speak with Have you taken the new Engagement else you must not enter the Fort or Garrison no not alone in these times of no danger as if one disarmed Non Engager might surprise an whole lasie fortified Garrison in the day time aswell as a sleeping one in the night how much more then an armed Enemy Which learned questions standing the Nation in very many thousand pounds every year in Garisons now kept up as much concern the peoples security from Enemies as the Ministers interrogating of children formerly in the Church What is your name Who gave you this name And to maintain near a thousand Block-headed slothfull-Gunners in Blockhouses and Garrisons only to shoot away above six or seaven thousand pounds worth of powder in Courtship and Frolicks to ships and Visitors every year who deserve rather cashiering for this their prodigal and onely Dutie for which they receive great constant pay Certainly their Country pay-Masters live not by such idle uselesse fruitlesse rare duties but by hard studying sweating labouring night and day in their honest lawfull callings usefull for the publick the whole profits whereof these idle Lurdanes must still monthly devoure for such ridiculous services and new kinde of Catechising the people ex officio like our cashiered unpreaching Curates and so must these Officers and Souldiers too if they cannot otherwise live aswell as they 3. How did they live and maintain themselves before they were listed Souldiers Surely not as now but like other christian people by labouring daily in their lawfull callings living frugally soberly obediently like others of their equals not in such idlenesse luxury pride state as since And is it not possible that they may yea just equal that they should thus live and maintain themselves now and not still live like idle Drones in great sloath pompe state and honour upon the honey of the poore painfull Bees 4. How do many hundreds of formerly disbanded Officers Souldiers now live and maintain themselves who did as much and good service as those now in pay Doubtlesse by returning to the diligent exercise of their former callings or some other good imployments or going to some lawfull forraign Wars 5. If any old Officers and Souldiers in present service be so poor that they know not yet how to live if they be now disbanded certainly it is through their own ill husbandry pride or prodigality never Officers or Souldiers in the world being more royally duly justly paid and rewarded especially in a Civill War than they have been whereby thou●●●●● of them especially Generals Colonells Captains and Superiour Officers with many inferiour ones likewise are grown exceeding rich and wealthy over what they were before the Wars which have undone most others and are lately beyond expectation become the greatest Purchasers in the Nation of the richest publick and Private Mannors