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kingdom_n	england_n	king_n	rebellion_n	2,837	5	9.3314	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12568	[Certen] instruct[ions, obseruati]ons and orders militarie, requisit for all chieftaines, captaines [and?] higher and lower men of charge, [and officers] to vnderstand, [knowe and obserue] / Composed by Sir Iohn Smythe, knight, 1591. And now first imprinted. 1594.	Smythe, John, Sir, ca. 1534-1607.	1594 (1594)	STC 22884; ESTC S111035	176,497	220

Therevnto I say that it is not the keeping or placing of the armour and weapons of a shire or diuers shires heere or there out of the souldiors handes as aforesaid that can keepe them or a people disposed to rebell from rebelling if the souldiors oathes of fidelitie at their first election and inrolments will not restraine and conteine them by reason that rebellions doo begin so diuerslie and vpon so many prepensed or accidentall opportunities as they cannot be any waies preuented by such poore deuises For as rebellions in diuers Empires kingdomes and Common wealthes haue begun vppon the ambition or discontentation of some Noble man or Noblemen for wronges and iniustices at their princes handes receiued that doo confederate togither or otherwise resolue to take Armes against the Prince Vpon such conspiracies or resolutions I say it is not the placing of armor or weapons heere or there in shires that can ●eepe the same out of the handes of them and the people that follow them the reuoult and rebllion being once begun but the armor being placed in great Townes vnfortefied as all our Townes of England are those armors and weapons being in such Townes vnfortefied kepte are a great deale the more readie to arme and weapon a great multitude reuolted all at one time then if they were dispearsed in the soldiors custodies and houses to whome they belong to serue withall throughout such a whole Shire or diuers Shires So somtimes also rebellions do happen through the discontentation of the Ignobile vulgus or common people and those most commonly do begin in great Townes vpon the assemblie of many people as of faires markets and other such assemblies of people so as great quantitie of armor and weapons being kepte in such great Townes they are the more readie for the people reuolting to possesse themselues of them And so likewise armors weapons being placed either in the Captaines or Corporalls houses they are a great deale more readie vpon a rebellion by the commō people begon to be by them taken to arme themselues withal then if they were dispersed into al the soldiors houses vnto whome they belong to serue withall for defence of the Realme according to their oathes throughout a whole shire But incase that the rebellion be vniuersall througout one or diuers whole shires then it cannot be avoided but that wheresoeuer the armor and weapons of such shires are placed they will presentlie possesse themselues of them And incase that all the armor and weapons not only of a few shires but of all the kingdome were taken out of all the shires throughout and were placed in some place or places well fortified and vnder great garrison to be the more safelie and surelie kept I say that the same out of the handes of the people without other preuention can no waies hinder nor keepe a common people from rebellion that are disposed to rebell considering that according to Virgill Furor arma ministrat as it may be apparant by the Bellum seruile that hapned against the Romaines in all their greatnesse which consisted most of slaues and bondmen hauing one Spartacus a Fenser and other Fensers for their Chief●aines who at y e beginning of their reuoult had but verie few or no armors and weapons of warre but such as their rage and furie taught them to inuent take and vse and so likewise the common people of the kingdome of Hongarie and the peasants termed in the French Cronicles the Iaccarie of Fraunce when they first reuolted and ●ooke Armes against the Nobilite of those kingdoms were vtterly disarmed and all the Nobilitie of those Kingdomes verie notablie armed both for on horsbacke and on foote and yet after the rebellion was once begun those common people presentlie inuented forged both armor and weapons of warre in great numbers both offensiue and defensiue and in short time reduced themselues into so great strength as before that they could be vtterlie suppressed it cost the liues of a great parte of the Nobiltie and gentlemen of those kingdomes Notwithstanding that both those kingdomes I meane Fraunce and Hongarie had many Cities and Townes so well fortified for the Kinges and Nobilitie to make their retraites into as the pesantes hadde neuer the skill nor power to possesse themselues of which the Realme of England hath not And so likewise if we list to looke vpon the Rebellions of the common people that happened in diuers partes of England in one s●mer in kinge Edward the sixthes time and chiefelie the Rebellion vnder Kette in Norffolke it is most apparant that at the first begining of the Rebellion they had verie little or no armor and verie few weapons of warre but that in a verie short time after that they had begun their rebellion they did inuent forge make manie weapons of warre in the which for a time vntil they were suppressed they behaued themselues in terrible sort And of later time within these 24. or 25. years the Moores of the kingdome of Granada in Spaine that was a people vtterlie disarmed and without weapons and exercises of warre did in al the greatnesse of king Philip of Spaine that nowe is reuolt and ma●ing of necessitie vertue did first betake themselues to fight with stones and a few weapons that they had long before got by stealth and hidde in their houses But after that their rebellion was begun they in a very short time did inuent and forge and winne by force of the Spaniards Christians great numbers of armors and weapons both offensiue and defensiue and did so resist preuaile and defend themselues against the king of Spains powers sent against them that it was more then two years after the first beginning of the Rebellion ere it could bee suppressed in which space it cost y e liues of aboue 50000. Spaniardes Amongst which number there were manie principall Gentlemen and Captaines of good account slaine By all which examples before rehearsed with many others as all men that haue read and obserued many histories doo well knowe it is most apparant that it is not the placing of the armor and weapons here or there or the disarming of the cōmon people as the peasants in France and Hongarie and the Moores in Spaine were disarmed that can preuent Rebellions that doo happen and are begun vpon diuers occasions and chieflie for lack of iustice dulie and equallie ministred Howbeit Iustice duly with great equalitie and order ministred throughout a whole Empire kingdome or common wealth with great care had to protect preserue maintaine increase and continue the Common wealth of the subiectes in al prosperitie and by aduancing and fauouring the good and by reproching and punishing the bad the same I say how wel armed soeuer the subiects and people are dooth take awaie all occasions and intentions of rebellion as it is most apparant by the notable Cittie and state of Venice and their