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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the London Militia at VVhite-chapp●l to Guard both Houses whiles they sate at Westminster without auy other Guardians to secure them nearer hand It being both vanity and folly to fortifie only one inconsiderable part of a Town or Garrison and so if the Island if all therest be unfortified and lie alwaies open to all enemies Invasions without defence 4. That in all times of publick Peace or when and whiles there is no Enemy near it is Peace it self alone and want or absence of Enemies that secures the Peoples Nations Persons Estates from danger Plunder not Garisons or Field Armies which cannot universally protect their Lives or Goods in all places and at all times when there is any open War or Enemie in the Field as Peace alone always doth and will do still without cost or trouble Therefore it must needs be very ill Hu●bandry and no good State-●olicy in these or other times of Inland P●ace to keep up Land-Forces and Garrisons throughout the Nation at the Peoples intolerable costs now there is no Enemie at all in Arms amongst us to protect the Peoples Persons and Estates from spoil and danger when as our very Peace it self and want of armed Enemies doth and will absolutely secure them both without any charge at all or either of these costly Lordly Superfluous Guardi●n● which could not secure the greatest part of the Nation from the late Kings Forces Power and Plunder in times of ●●r nor yet the Kings Forts his Friends or Quarters from the Parliaments Forces 5. That in Times of open War no Garrisons throughout the Nation can secure themselves and those within them against a puissant Army or any Party stronger then these Garrisons which will soon * take them by Force Stratagem Composition or for want of Provision Ammunition and ot her Necessaries or by 〈◊〉 reachery or Mutiny within themselves unless timely relieved by a ●arching Field-Army able to raise their Seiges as late experience and all Histories attest Yea oft-times a small Party far less and nothing so numerous as those Garrisons by some Stratagem of War sodain Surprize or through security or negligence of the Garrison Soldiers or by the casual death of some eminent Commander unexpected forcing of a Passe or routing of some of the Garrison Soldiers in their Sa●l●●s and entring with them in their Retreat the successful springing up of some Mine the blowing up of a Magezine the stopping of all Provisions for their Relief advantage of Ground divisions amongst the Garrisons Treachery Bribery in Officers Soldiers Centinels or Townsmen and a thousand other Casualties have in all former ages and will hereafter do the like conquered sundry strong Garrisons throughout our three Nations and in all other parts of the World Besides no Garrisons in our Nation without the assistance of a Field Army either are or ever were yet able to protect themselves by their own strength against any powerful Enemies Seige who resolved for to gain them in times of War It can be therefore little less then apparent folly or frenzy for us to perpetuate and maintain them still at so vast a charge in these times of In-land Peace throughout the Nation to protect and secure the whole Land or Country about them being thus unable to defend and secure themselves in the heat o●●War from Foreign or Intestine Enemies 6. That Garrisons both in times of Peace and War are so far from being a benefit safeguard or protection to the whole Nattor or to the Inhabitants within them the Country about them and the Contributers towards them that in truth they are commonly their greatest Grievance Oppression Loss Damage Mischief and frequent occasions of their u●ter ruine both in Peace and War as shall be evidently demonstrated for our Soldiers State●-men and Nations future in formation and speedy suppression of these grandest Grievances by these particulars 1. In all times of Peace they put the whole Nation Inhabitants Country to an excessive prodigal expence of moneys which would be better imployed in relieving and setting poor people on work advancing Trade Manufactures Merchandize improving Lands and supplying the Peoples particular occasions to all which and the better relief of maimed Soldiers their continuance is and will be still extreamly prejudicial They much impoverish grieve oppress discontent the People by endless Taxes Excises to maintain them by Billeting Quartering and oft-times Free-quartering the Garrison Soldiers on them by the frequent Mutinies Misdemeanors Abuses Outrages of Garrison Soldiers and Lordly imperiousnesse of their Governors and Officers over-topping over-ruling and sometimes abusing in many places the Nobility Gentry Ministry and civil Magistracy as well as common People and interrupting the course of Justice by protecting both themselves and their Soldiers from Arrests and Executions for just Debts Duties Trespasses to the People by entertaining listing and detaining children against their Parents Servants and Apprentices against their Masters Husbands against their Wives and Families good wills to their great grief and prejudice by keeping of many thousands of able young lusty men in meer idlenesse spending their time in eating drinking gaming whoring sleeping lewdnesse or easie uselesse duties day and night onely to gaze about them to call to one another Stand c. and to spend much Match and Powder to no purpose but to waste them and our Treasure in complements and in the mean time robbing the Nation of the benefit of their honest painful Labors in their Callings by their frequent running away upon discontents or misdemeanors● leaving their Wives Children and not a few great Bellies and Bastards on the Inhabitants and Countries charge running into their scores and debts for Quarters and Necessaries and then departing without payment of them by infecting the Inhabitants and Country with the Vices Errors Blasphemies Sins Corruptions diseases of the worst and deboysest Soldiers by occasioning many Murders Men-slaughters Blood-sheds quarrels Brawls Robberies Thefts Burglaries Dlsorders Oppressions Drunkennesse Idlenesse Gaming Whoring Swearing neglect contempt of Magistracie Ministry Cods publike Ordinances Sacraments Sabbaths Disturbances of our Ministers and publike Assemblies in and near the Garrisons by dangerous Practices to undoe or vex many innocent Persons which else would be prevented by hindring peoples free ingresse into and egresse out of Garrisons about their urgent occasions concerning which their Centinels Corporals Governors strictlie interrogate them ex officio and force them to dance attendance on them sometimes many hours space to extort Beer or Money from them before they can passe or repasse about their businesse by searching the Houses Studies seising the persons Letters Writings of divers persons by their own bare Authorities or others unlawful Warrants against all Law and the Peoples Native Freedom upon feigned pretences causeless jealousies idle rumors vain fears and sometimes secret conspiracies against their very lives and Estates which are made a prey to these Soldiers By sundry other abuses in seising their Arms Birding and Fowling Piec s Moneys Plate Horses Goods and