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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	king_n	parliament_n	treaty_n	2,836	5	9.4232	5	false

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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

Par●iament concerning the Commission of Array all former Statutes concerning Arrays Arms Musters and the old long continued practice of our ●rain'●-Bard in each County and Corporation formerly reputed the Nations chief ●●curity in intestine and invasive Wars with the late Militia'● 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 fafety 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 a y Mercenaries how trusty and valiant soever they be And as every true S●epherd and owner of Sheep is more careful to defend and preserve them from Thieves and Robbers with the hazard of his own ●●fe then any Stranger or Hireling whose the Shee● are no● who will s●ie and desert or else he●p to prey upon them and play the ●hief 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 Uup on which grounds our A●cestors 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 Inva●ive De●ensive Forraign Wars in Fr●nce 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 Priviledg● and B●r●hr●gh 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 ●t he Houses Studies of the emminentest Parliament Member● Patrons and Freemen Sufferers for our publike Libe●tie● 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 Cour● of Ward for ●nfants 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 S. Mawdits Castles at the mouth of Falmouth Haven Harwich and others of that nature are altogether useless unnecessary expensive charges to the Republike unable to hinder the ingress egress or regress of any warlike ship ships or Navy into the Harbors much less to sinck them with all their Cannon-shot which I shall thus demonstrat● 1. In dark nights and misty days mornings evenings which take up neer halfe the space every yeere they can neither clearly see nor discern any ship or vessel passing into or out of their harbo●s muchlesse then hinder their free ingress or egr●ss by shot or otherwise when they cannot so much as see them 2. In clear sunshine dayes and moon-shine nights any small vessels much more then resolute men of War and whole Squadrons Navies may safely pass and repass into or out of these harbors or anchor in them without any great danger harm or sinking by their Cannons which standing for the most part high upon the Land especially at new Flood half Tide or Ebbe and not levell with the Sea at full tide an● being likewise not halfe so many in number nor so large in boar as most Men of Warre now carry in one tire or side discharged for the most part at rovers by unskilfull Gunners and Matrosses one after another and fixed upon one Platform whence they cannot easily or speedily bee removed can hardly in several shoots so much as hit any one single vessell much lesse hurt or sink it in its passage under saile by these forts and blockhouses being past their levell and danger at the first discharge of their Cannons over against them and quite out of it ere they can be recharged much lesse then can they stopp sinke or mischiefe an whole Navy or Squadron of Men of Warre which I shall demonstrate by several instances old and new beyond contradiction 1. Sir Francis Drake in his famous voyage to the West-Indies with a small squadron of ships entred five of the chiefe Ports the Spaniards there held took and fired their ships there riding under their Castles Forts Blockhouses and pillaged their Towns themselves notwithstanding all their Cannons and Artiliry playing upon his ships both from their Forts Castles Blockhouses and Ships there riding and that without the losse sinking or spoyling of any one of his Vessels And some other English Sea Captains then and since did the like as Mr. Harkluit in his printed Voyages at large relates 2. Our English Navy in Queen Elizabeths reign in their expedition against Cadez tooke the whole Iland and City in one day burnt and tooke all their ships treasure magazine and ordnance there notwithstanding all their forts