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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

Garrisons as they do to those to live in Peace being thus made a double prey to both sides under colour of Protection by and from both An intolerable double Pressure and Imposition of which our late Wars afforded many experimental Presidents in most places next to Garrisons who if the pillaging Enemies be strong at any time neither will dare nor ought as they hold by the Laws of War to stir out of their Garrisons to encounter or protect their country neighboring contributors from their Plunder even under their Walls and view for fear of being cut off and losing the Garrison to them Such notable useful Protectors are they to the adjacent Countrey as not to stir one foot to help them at their greatest needs but expose them to their Enemies spoil without resistance if unato protect themselves Thirdly They are more frequently then any others of the Country further of oppressed vexed hindred impoverished with the seising impresting of their Servants Children Ploughs Carts Horses and sometimes taking them quite away by both sides alike either for publick services or private occasions to their vexation or undoing Fourthly They are more oppressed by laboring in and contributing to these Garrisons Fortifications carrying in their Ammunition and other Provisions cost-free or for little pay that long ere received constant Contributions to their Garrisons quartering Free-quartering insolences outrages abuses of the Garrison Soldiers of marching Parties of the Field Army it self when drawn into Quarters then any parties more remote from Garrisons and their persons more oft Imprisoned Beaten Wounded their Wives Children Servants more abused their houses more ransacked Goods Monies more frequently seised and taken away upon malice jealousies pretences by crafty Knaves Officers and pillaging Soldiers then others farther off them Fifthly When these Garrisons are besieged as usually and frequently they are their Pressures and Miseries are beyond expression The Men if well affected to the Garrisons are all forced by fear or otherwise from their Houses into the Garrisons Woods or other Counties if not their Wives Children and whole Families likewise to avoid the Fury Pressures Troubles Insolencies of the besieging Enemies who fill all their houses with their free-quartering rude abusive Soldiers eating drinking up all their Beer and other Provisions whatsoever for man or beast both within without not leaving them or their Families bread to eat or beer to drink nor yet any Bed Bolster Cushion or ought else to rest their heads on or Straw to lie in Tread and eat out all their Grasse Hay Corn standing or cut with their Horses kill devour drive away all their Stock Cattel which the Garrisons have left them as good booty burn up all their Pales Houses Wood Timber-Trees fruit-Trees for firing soon make them all as poor as Job himself 6. They are more frequently then any others of the Countrey further off oppressed vexed hindred impoverished as aforesaid and every new Siege by either party reiterates the same or worse effects as the first to their reiterated beggerie as many late experiments fresh in peoples minds about Plimouth Excester Lime Taunton Bristol Glocester Worcester Oxford York Hull whose first Siege produced the drowning of all the Countrey round it in the beginning of our Wars and most besieged Garrisons evidence beyond contradiction which miseries Countries void of Garrisons or remoter from them doe not sustain the quarterings on them being neither so frequent thick long-lasting or oppressive as in places next to Garrisons especially in Sieges 7. In these Garrisond Leaguers their Gardens Grounds Orchards Houses are frequentlie destroyed digged up or pulled down their Trees and Timber felled their Men Women Children Ploughs Carts Horses forced day after day to toile and labour in making Trenches Sconces Batteries Approacees Mines Redoubts or carry Timber Provisions Artillery Armes and other Baggage which remoter Parishes are free from and themselves would be so too but for these Garrisons which occasion and enforce these Sieges 8. If the Opposites Field Armie or strong Parties from them during the Sieges approach to raise them or to victual or relieve the Garrisons the oppressions of the adjoyning Parts ate then doubled trebled and spread wider round about these Garrisons till the whole Country ten twenty or thirty miles about by the long quartering and lying of so many Armies Parties upon them and Marches to and fro to take or relieve the Garrisons be quite undone and eaten out and so one or both Armies necessitated to seek out fresh quarters or the Garrisons taken or relieved After this the necessitated neer-starved Garrisons requiring new supplies of all sorts if not taken extort them from the adjacent Countries if they be to be had above ground which addes much to all their former afflictions And then again some other new Sieges or occasions drawing one or both Armies thither afresh so soon as the miserable Country People have gotten any thing about them they are to their endlesse vexation exposed afresh to all the fformer miseries of Wars Sieges and never eased of them till the Garrisons either be demolished or disbanded From all which experimentall Arguments and real Demonstrations of undoubted verity all rational men whatsoever and no doubt the whole Nation Country Inhabitants of Garrisons with all consciencious self-denying Statesmen and Souldiers who really intend or affect the peoples true weal ease or safety the Supream Law the principal end of War Peace Garrisons Armies Parliaments Councils Magistrates Government and higher Powers as the Army-Officers themselves remonstrated in the very worst of their Remonstrances Nov. 20 1648. making it the Basis of all their exorbitant unparalleled Demands therein of their violent Proceedings in pursuit of them ever since will and must henceforth confesse conclude against all Erroneous Opinions and Practises to the contrary That the raising fortifying and holding up of Garrisons kept by Mercenary Soldiers even in times of Civil or other Wars is so farre from being a Protection Advantage Security to the Nation in General the Garison Inhabitants Owners of Garrison'd Castles or Houses themselves or the Country adjoyning to and contributing towards them that they are their Greatest Oppressions Grievances Calamities Plagues Burdens Vexations Damages Tortures Heart-breakings and usually the chief occasions of their oppression utter ruine desolation devastation in War and Peace and so in Reason Justice Conscience Prudence ought to be eternally exploded dismantled disgarrison'd as well as sundry heretofore and of late there being the selfe same Reason for all as for any for the Nations Inhabitants Countries Ease Peace Weal and future exemption from all the forementioned evils and miseries attending them both in Peace and War without delay or further dispute by all in present Power or by the Supream Authority of the people themselves in their wilful neglect or delay out of any Sinister or self seeking ends or designs whatsoever which their publike ease and benefit should outvie 7. That in all times of civil or other Wars

within the Nation the true interest safety preservation and protection of the Island and Peoples Persons Estates Laws Liberties Inheritances Rights consist not in our Garrisons or any Mercenary Officers and Soldiers English or Forraigners modelled or new modelled into a Field Army since Mercenaries as well Domestick as forraign in all ages have ever sought nought else but their own private Lucre Honor Power Advancement to places of greatest Authority Gain Trust and frequently after good Successe in Wars presuming on their strength and merits have supplanted subverted suppressed destroyed those very Powers and 〈…〉 who first raised paid and confided in them 〈…〉 their preservation and preferred their own mercenary Officers and Generals by Treachery Murther Perjury and open Violence to the Imperial and Royal Thrones of their Lawful Soveraigns and Superiors murdered and deposed by them as the * Roman Histories and others the practice of the Mamalukes in Egypt of Alexander the Great his own Captains who notwithstanding their extraordinary pretences of honor and respect unto him and his not only poysoned himself as some Authors write but murdered his own Son Heir to his Empires Conquests together with his mother wife all his remotest k●n●e● that might lay claim to his Dominions by Hereditary Right then divided his Territories between themselves made crowned styled themselves Kings and then by Gods avenging Iustice out of covetous ambitious spirits warred upon each other so long till they had all murdered and slain each other as Arrianus Plutarch Justin Curtius Diodorus Siculus and Dr. Usher in his Ecclesiastical Annals of the old Testament record at large with † other innumerable presidents abroad and the practice of Vortigerr Heng●st Horsa and divers others at Home sufficiently manifest in all times with Scripture presidents likewise But our real Interest Protection Safety resides next under God in the Nobilities Gentries and Peoples united voluntary unmercenary defence and protection of themselves in and by their own persons with their own Arms Servants Sons Tenants Retainers according to their respective abilities as appears by the Politique original Institution of ancient * Tenures in Knights-Service Escuage Castle-Guards and the like the old Charters of our Corporations and Cinque-Ports obliging them to finde a certain number of men and ships at their own costs to defend the Realm in times of War with all ancient Writs Commissions Precepts for arraying the people of the Realm in times of War and danger according to their Tenures Estates Customs to defend the Realm and themselves from invading Enemies at all times cited in the printed Arguments concerning Ship-money and the * Declarations both of the King and Parliament concerning the Commission of Array all former Statutes concerning Arrays Arms Musters and the old long continued practice of our Train's-Band in each County and Corporation formerly reputed the Nations chief Security in intestine and invasive Wars with the late Militia's 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 safety 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 any Mercenaries how trusty and valiant soever they be And as every true Shepherd and owner of Sheep is more careful to defend and preserve them from Thieves and Robbers with the hazard of his own life then any Stranger or Hireling whose the Sheep are not who will slie and desert or else help to prey upon them and play the thief 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 Uupon which grounds our Ancestors 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 Invasive Defensive Forraign Wars in France 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 Priviledge and Birthright 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 the Houses Studies of the emminentest Parliament Members Patrons and Freemen Sufferers for our publike Liberties 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 Court of Wards for Infants 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