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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36008	Englands defence, a treatise concerning invasion, or, A brief discourse of what orders were best for repulsing of foreign forces if at any time they should invade us by sea in Kent, or elsewhere exhibited in writing to the Right Honourable Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a little before the Spanish Invasion, in the year 1588 / by Thomas Diggs ... to which is now added, an account of such stores of war and other materials as are requisite for the defence of a fort, a train of artillery, and for a magazine belonging to a field army ; and also a list of the ships of war, and the charge of them, and the land-forces designed by the Parliament against France anno 1678 ; also a list of the present governors of the garisons of England, and of all the lord lieutenants and high sheriffs of all those counties adjacent to the coasts ; lastly the wages of officers and seamen serving in His Majesty's fleet at sea per month collected by Thomas Adamson ...	Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.; Adamson, Thomas, fl. 1680. Account of such stores of war, and other materials as are requisite for the defense of a fort, a train of artillery, and for a magazine belonging to a field army.	1680 (1680)	Wing D1471; ESTC R7897	16,642	22

is certainly a great Rogue that would endeavour in the least to take away any part of the King 's just Prerogative so he is in the same quality who would in the least give away and betray the Property and Liberty of the Subject But thanks be to God we live under a most gracious and good Prince for the preservation of whose Life we ought constantly to pray who hath by his Promises Proclamations and his late most approved choice of some Members of his Privy-Council as a Committee for the further examination of the Plot given us sufficient and satisfactory assurance of his great care for the Protestant Religion and our preservation But notwithstanding all his Neighbour being Great Powerful Ambitious and Designing may also be False and of a sudden pour those Forces upon us that will otherwise pull him out of ' his own Throne if he hath no employment for them and therefore this Treatise is only given you as a Remedy or Medicament towards half your Cure and that if his Majesty's Life should be taken away by any violent means which God of Heaven forbid and an Enemy should take that opportunity of our Sadness and Divisions to invade us you know how to receive them both by Land and Sea and what Materials are useful towards either offending our Enemy or defending our Selves But that which will be most necessary of all is a Union of Hearts and Affections which that God would make upon such an occasion more especially is no doubt the hearty and constant Prayers of those who have often fought and will still to the last drop of their Blood for their King and Country A Treatise concerning INVASION OR A brief Discourse what Orders were best for repulsing of Foreign Forces if at any time they should invade us by Sea in Kent or elsewhere Exhibited in Writing to the Right Honourable Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester a little before the Spanish Invasion in 88 by Thomas Diggs Esq Muster-Master General of all her Majesty's Forces in the Low Countries THe accustomed Order hath bin by Firing of Beacons to put the Shire in Arms and presently all Forces to repair to the Landing-place there without delay to give them Battel But because there are other Opinions I think it first convenient to set down the Reasons of each Opinion and then a Resolution what I find best Such as maintain this old accustomed Order alleage besides the good success that many times it hath taken that in Reason also it is best dealing with the Enemy at Landing before he hath firm footing and before he shall have leasure to range his Men in due Order or Battel and before he shall be able to Land his Ordnance Horse and Carriages and that a very few Men thus in time shall be able to give greater annoyance and do greater Service upon the Enemy than ten times so many when the Enemy is Landed and setled in strength of Order with all his Horse Ordnance and Carriages They also add these Reasons ensuing for confirmation of their custom The Reasons First The fury of the Country upon the first firing of the Beacons is great every Man pro Aris Focis violently running down to the Sea-side to repel the disordered Enemy at the first confused landing which fury if we suffer to grow cold we shall not so easily enflame again Secondly Every Man knoweth how great advantage they have that have firm footing on Land to encounter an Enemy that must land out of Boats in a confused stragling manner and therefore more willingly and speedily will go to enjoy the Benefit of this Advantage whereas if you suffer the Enemy to land and put himself into Military Order he becometh more terrible unto us Also while the Enemy is landing if he find any Difficulty or Danger being in Boats they are ready to retire to their Ships again but if they be once landed with their Artillery Horse Carriages c. it is not possible for them to retire to their Ships again without extreme danger of their Lives upon the Retreat and the dishonourable Loss of all their Munition c. and therefore Necessity enforcing them to fight and all hope of Escape by flight being taken away from them they become ten times more dangerous Enemies to deal withal than before Further there is in this Realm as in all States divided in Religion no small Numbers of Traiterous Minds who having time to confer and seeing an Enemy of Force already landed may and will then discover their Malice which on a sudden they dare not nor cannot Another Opinion Some others hold this old Custom of running to the Sea-side to be a barbarous Custom void of Order and Warlike Discipline very perillous to our selves not hurtful to the Enemy but rather a means to lose all and therefore with by especial Commandment that Order of Repair to the Sea-side be restrained and the Enemy suffered to land quietly and in the mean time to drive and carry away all Cattel Victual Forage Carriage c. and certain Places of Assembly appointed a good distance off the Sea from whence they may march in Warlike Order and so by driving and carrying away all Victuals and fortifying of all Streights and Passages to weary the Enemy with Time And these be the Reasons for maintenance of this second Opinion The Reasons of the second Opinion First It is said the invading Enemy bringeth a select Company of disciplin'd and well trained Souldiers whom we seek to encounter with a confused Multitude of Men untrained in which Match there is no Comparison but Loss certain Again it is said An Enemy of Force meaning to land will do it in despite of us and then the Country offering to repell him and finding themselves not able grow much more fearful than if quietly without resistance we had suffered the Enemy to land Again while we suffer the Enemy to land we may drive away all Cattel and Provision further into the Country and then maintain Streights and Passages well fenced and fortified so as the Enemy shall be forced to approach us upon our own Strengths and Fortifications to his great Peril and Danger Again they say If in this manner we keep Victuals from them by Land and her Majesty's Navy also in the mean time keeping the Seas the Enemy for want of Victuals only shall be forced to retire and glad to withdraw himself Further it is alledged how doubtful a thing Battel is and how dangerous for a King to commit his Crown upon it and therefore that temporizing Course extolled These I think be the Reasons most effectual to impugn the speedy Repair to the Sea-side and to maintain the Opinion of suffering the Enemy to land quietly and by driving and carrying away Victuals and Forage and fortisying of Streights and Passes by Time and Famine to weary the Enemy But having attentively weighed the Reasons on both sides and by experience of former Invasions examining the Success

and Sequel of the like Attempts as I am far from allowing of any confused disorderly running to the Sea-side to encounter a select trained well disciplined Enemy invading so am I also utterly against that second Opinion viz. to suffer the Enemy quietly to land all his Forces Munition c. not doubting but a mean Course far more serviceable than either of them both may be taken whereby the Benefit of that old Custom may be embraced and the Disorders of the other well noted may be reformed and no Advantage to annoy the invading Enemy omitted as by these Reasons ensuing better may be judged The Reasons First I say one of the chiefest Forces of this famous Island of England consisteth in this That it is fortified naturally with such a Trench or Ditch as the Sea is whereby it is not so subject to Invasion as other Countries lying on the Main Which singular Benefit and peculiar Advantage of this our Country is utterly lost if we suffer the Enemy quietly to land all his Forces Munition c. and to take firm footing quietly on the Main Again Whereas this noble Island hath such a Number of Mariners and good Shipping both of her Majesty's Royal Navy and also of Merchants as may hope with good Success to encounter on Sea the Force of any Foreign Enemy we lose a great part of this our chief Strength if relying on this second Opinion we should suffer the Enemy quietly to land and then temporize afterwards Again There is no Man of any mean experience but knoweth with what danger Men land out of Boats if there be but any mean Force before Landing to resist them for if therewhile any Storm arise the Sea alone fighteth for us and with any small Resistance on Land will drown great Numbers of our invading Enemies Also any small Trench on Land shall lodge Shot in safety to spoil as many of our Enemies as in Boats shall offer to land before they can approach the Shore Also in landing before they can have time to put themselves in Order what an Execution may a far less Number of Bills or Swords and Targets do on them before they shall have time to unite their Forces Again After the Remnant shall land if they be not all drowned slain or repelled in or before their Landing how easy a matter shall it be for a few Lances joined with the Weapons aforesaid to put such a confused dispersed scattered Sea-beaten Company to the Sword before they shall ever be able to advance Standard or put themselves in Order of Battel Besides all this if her Majesty's Forces by Sea should not in time be assembled of such Strength as to be able before landing to give them Battel yet any mean Force assailing their Ships while their Men are in landing cannot but greatly annoy them if not utterly defeat them Also in most places except the Enemy bring his Tide justly with him he cannot land and then if part land and any mean resistance made to give Impediment to the rest till the Tide pass their divided Forces may more easily be defeated Again It is no small time that is requisite to land an Army with Horse Carriages Ordnance Munition and Victuals without which an Invader shall never be able to prevail and then if any mean resistance be made at the landing it much prolongeth the same time so as any Storm happening the Winds Tides Shelves Rocks Bars and Seas fight for us wholly in our favour and to the ruin of our Enemy And therefore I utterly disallow that Opinion to give the Enemy leave quietly to land and then by device to temporize afterward Further If such a Resolution by the Prince and State be taken that the invading Enemy should be suffered to land quietly to spoil and burn at their pleasure and the inward Forces of the Country not permitted even at their first landing to come to their rescue it would cause no doubt all the Inhabitants of the Coast to abandon their Towns and leave the Frontiers naked and desolate which the wise Kings and grave Counsellors of this Land have ever fought to make populous by granting many Privileges and Immunities to allure Inhabitants on the Frontiers But touching driving or carrying away of Victuals and leaving the Country waste and thereby to famish our landed Enemy it is a thing more easily wished than performed I confess in Ireland where most of their Substance consisteth of Kine it is easily done but in this rich and wealthy Country of England it is not possible but that the Enemy if he be once landed with all his Forces shall find Houses full of Provision and Barns full of all kind of Forage and Corn all the Country over unless our Prince should command all to be wasted with Fire which Precedent we see seldom or never put in ure neither in these late Wars of France and Flanders nor in any former Invasions that we read of for it would make the Prince odious and alienate extremely the Subjects Minds and therefore not to be used but upon great extremities when all other Means fail And here in England above all other Countries it may worst be done for our Towns are poor weak unprovided and unfortified the Country full of Habitation populous rich and abundant of all Commodities In the Low-Countries by reason of the great store of their strong well-fortified Towns they might much more easily drive and carry to their Cities at hand all Victual and Forage c. And yet when the last great Armies of the States and Don Iohn were in the Field notwithstanding all the Boors and Country-People were fled and retired to the next walled Towns and had knowledg long before of the approaching of the Armies yet were they not able so to drive and carry away the Victuals and Forage but that the Enemy found Barns full in every place in such sort as we never were forced at any time to forage four Miles from our Camp So difficult and impossible a thing it is to carry away Victuals and Forage or to leave the Enemy a waste Country But if here in England we should drive or carry away our Victuals or Forage to the next walled Towns the Enemy being quietly landed with his Munition should have his chief desire knowing not only how weak and unfortified our Towns are but also how unprovided for all Necessaries to abide a Siege if Fortification on sudden could be made Wherefore I could wish all provident Means used to give the Enemy annoyance before and at the Landing and by no means to suffer him to land quietly or to trust to that temporizing Course which is rather to be practised when all other Means fail than to be relied upon at the beginning I grant it perillous for a Defendent Prince to hazard his Crown on a Battel and more dangerous for Men untrained to encounter expert disciplin'd Souldiers and most perillous to us that have no strong Towns to make head