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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

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