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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

more unruly deboist injurious imperious over them in all kindes then in Peace 5. By inviting inducing or necessitating the Enemies Forces to besiege and inflict upon them the saddest Calamities and Plagues of War from which ungarrisoned Towns and places far from Garrisons are usually exempted or not so liable to especially in civil Wars To enumerate some particular miseries accompanying Seiges 1. Burning wasting destroying their own Suburbs Neighboring Houses Villages Orchards Gardens Trees in or near their Garrisons Walls or Works and that frequently by their own Officers and Garrison Soldiers to prevent the Enemies quartering in them or some annoyances from them or to contract their Works for their better and easier defence of what remaiins unburnt or unwasted to the undoing of hundreds and thousands left houslesse and harborless by this inhumane Policy as bad or worse then any Enemies rage as the sad late presidents of the firing the Suburbs of Bristol Excester Taunton Lincoln York Colchester and other Garrisons experiment with some stately Houses and whole Villages adjoyning to them To which may be added the like frequent furious devastations of them by the Enemies if spared by themselves Secondly Losse of all Trading Commerce and Markets during the Leaguers about them when they need them most of all Thirdly Perpetual Fears Alarms Disturbances Watchings Frights day and night continual hard military duties and skirmishes with the Enemy even by the Inhabitants themselves at their free cost notwithstanding their hired dear-waged Guardian Soldiers to secure them Fourthly Forcible seisures of the Inhabitants Houshold-Provisions of all sorts with their Beds Bedding Arms Money Plate to feed lodge arm pay their Mercenary Servants then in all things their most absolute Lording Masters who extort and will take from them and theirs all they have of purpose forsooth to protect them though those their protected Pay-masters and their whole Families starve lye cold or naked on the boards want money to buy them bread necessaries or lie sick in greatest distress Fifthly The losse of many of the Inhabitants lives by Assaults Granadoes Fire-works Sallies Shots wounds Famines Plagues Feavers and other Sicknesses usually accompanying Sieges and Wars by invented false accusations suspitions of holding intelligence with the Enemies or plotting to betray the Garrison to them by suddain fears frights discontents firing or beating down Houses springing of Mines and the like during their Seiges in many whereof if sharp or long or accompanyed with Plagues and Sicknesses above half the Inhabitants or more have frequently been quite consumed and the rest utterly undone though the Enemies left the Seige at last Sixthly The Wounding Maiming loss of Limbs of many of the Inhabitants multiplying of their poor Widows desolate Orphans by Seiges and their new charge to relieve them Seventhly The total Banishment Captivity Slaughter and extirpation of all the Inhabitants and mercenary Soldiers too in Garrisons if taken by storm or assault by putting them all to the Sword Man Woman and Childe without distinction or the greatest number of them and carrying the rest Captives thence whereof there are hundreds of sad presidents in * Sacred and Prophane History The famous Protestant Town of Magdeburgh in Germany of late years was by bloody General Tilly put totally to the Sword and then burnt to ashes And Tredagh in Ireland though for the most part Protestants always constant to the Parliament enduring many long and sharp Seiges by the Irish Popish Rebels yet submitting to Marquesse Ormond a sincere Protestant formerly General for the Parliament in Ireland and then for the King and receiving a Garrison from him at the last when their Governor entred into an offensive and defensive League with Owen Roe-Oneal the General of the Popish Rebels their greatest Enemy and chief Contriver Fomenter of the Irish Massacre and Rebellion upon the late taking of it by storm most of the Inhabitants were thereupon put to the sword without distinction together with all the Garrison Soldiers by Gen. Cromwell himself and his Forces to the great grief of many good Protestants there which fatal desolation and total destruction they had all escaped had they not been a Garrison Eightly The total demolition and burning to the very ground of sundry private Garrisons Castles strong magnificent Houses of ancient Nobles and Gentlemen and of some fair Churches too when taken whereof our late Wars have produced many sad Spectacles as Rag land Castle Basing House Rowden House Cambden House Litchfield Clos● Banbury Pomfret Castles with sundry more And which is yet more grievous the burning to the ground and total desolation depopulation ruine of many great famous Garrisons Cities and Towns as Troy Jerusalem Tyrus Athens with hundreds more and of the best and greatest part of other stately Cities never since repaired re-peopled whereof * Sacred and Prophane Stories of former ages our own Annals and late experience can furnish us with multitudes of sad Presidents Which fatal Subversions Devastations they had all escaped had they not been Garrisoned and stood out a Siege Ninthly the total Spoil Plunder Confiscation of all the Inhabitants Goods and Estates if not their Lives to the Enemy if taken by Assault or Stratagem to their universal undoing and yet putting them to future Fines Ransoms and heavy Taxes afterward to buy their Peace or save them from the general subsequent Plunder of all not formerly spoiled by the Soldiers All which they had escaped if un-Garrisoned Tenthly The unavoidable reception of greater and usually worse domineering new Garrisons from the conquering Enemies oft spoiling plundering firing ransoming executing the wealthiest of the Inhabitants notwithstanding all Articles of agreement for their Indempnity and Security though taken by surrender onely not by storm which Articles are usually much violated and very seldome kept by faithlesse greedy rude plundering Officers or Soldiers who add affliction to affliction and a new undoing to the old to whose new Lording Lawlesse power Orders Pleasures Government the Inhabitants must all submit or else they their Families must be forthwith banished out of their native Habitations as enemies stript naked of all they have and forced to wander cold naked about the Countrey like vagrants for bread clothes relief houseroom which they plentifully enjoyed before to the breaking of their hearts and shortning of their lives Eleventhly These Garrisons are oft taken re-taken over and over and so as oft plundered re plundered spoiled ransomed and new garrisond by both sides yea those of them who were protected as friends and favorites to the one side are sure to be most spoiled plundered oppressed persecuted by the other and to suffer thus in their successive turns till they be quite undone and ruined by their frequent takings and re-takings on both sides as Bristol Exeter with other places have found by late sad experience the vicissitudes and miseries of these Garrisons never ceasing till their Wars and Garrisons cease and they became no Garrisons Twelfly If any besieged Garrisons escape

be still extreamly prejudicial They much impoverish grieve oppress discontent the People by endless Taxes Excises to maintain them by Billeting Quartering and oft-times Free-quartering the Garrison Soldiers on them by the frequent Mutinies Misdemeanors Abuses Outrages of Garrison Soldiers and Lordly imperiousnesse of their Governors and Officers over-topping over-ruling and sometimes abusing in many places the Nobility Gentry Ministry and civil Magistracy as well as common People and interrupting the course of Justice by protecting both themselves and their Soldiers from Arrests and Executions for just Debts Duties Trespasses to the People by entertaining listing and detaining children against their Parents Servants and Apprentices against their Masters Husbands against their Wives and Families good wills to their great grief and prejudice by keeping of many thousands of able young lusty men in meer idlenesse spending their time in eating drinking gaming whoring sleeping lewdnesse or easie uselesse duties day and night onely to gaze about them to call to one another Stand c. and to spend much Match and Powder to no purpose but to waste them and our Treasure in complements and in the mean time robbing the Nation of the benefit of their honest painful Labors in their Callings by their frequent running away upon discontents or misdemeanors leaving their Wives Children and not a few great Bellies and Bastards on the Inhabitants and Countries charge running into their scores and debts for Quarters and Necessaries and then departing without payment of them by infecting the Inhabitants and Country with the Vices Errors Blasphemies Sins Corruptions diseases of the worst and deboysest Soldiers by occasioning many Murders Men-slaughters Blood-sheds quarrels Brawls Robberies Thefts Burglaries Disorders Oppressions Drunkennesse Idlenesse Gaming Whoring Swearing neglect contempt of Magistracie Ministry Gods publike Ordinances Sacraments Sabbaths Disturbances of our Ministers and publike Assemblies in and near the Garrisons by dangerous Practices to undoe or vex many innocent Persons which else would be prevented by hindring peoples free ingresse into and egresse out of Garrisons about their urgent occasions concerning which their Centinels Corporals Governors strictlie interrogate them ex officio and force them to dance attendance on them sometimes many hours space to extort Beer or Money from them before they can passe or repasse about their businesse by searching the Houses Studies seising the persons Letters Writings of divers persons by their own bare Authorities or others unlawful Warrants against all Law and the Peoples Native Freedom upon feigned pretences causeless jealousies idle rumors vain fears and sometimes secret conspiracies against their very lives and Estates which are made a prey to these Soldiers By sundry other abuses in seising their Arms Birding and Fowling Pieces Moneys Plate Horses Goods and impresting their Horses Ploughs Carts upon needless or wrongful publike or private occasions and pretences In all which and sundry other respects they are extraordinary Grievances to the Nation Garrison'd places and Countrey adjoining even in time of Peace Therefore not to be continued upon any vain pretence whatsoever 2. In times of War when they are pretended most necessarie they are then most chiefly prejudicial pernicious destructive both to the whole Nation in general the Places Garrison'd the adjacent Country and all contributing towards them as these experimental Demonstrations will undeniablie evidence against the erroneous Opinions and Practise of all Pseudo-Politicians and Soldiers contrary Pretences wherewith they delude yea cheat the ignorant people For in times of actual Wars especially civil when they are most pernicious they bring a general mischief on the whole Nation and that in these respects 1. By lengthning and drawing out their intestine Wars with the Plagues and Miseries attending them for many yeers space as our ancient and late Wars manifest by a tedious and successive Seige of their Garrisons till reduced to the great waste spoile destruction and impoverishing of the people the innumerable increase of fatherlesse children Widdows poor and maimed persons the slaughters deaths of thousands more then if there were no such Garrisons 2. By multiplying the Peoples Taxes Expences to furnish and maintain these Garrisons and raise pay a great Field Army besides for these Garrisons security which would be a sufficient safeguard to the Nation without them 3. By lessening the number weakning the strength substracting the Military Provisions with all other supplies and recruits of the Field Armies in whose good or bad successe strength or weaknesse the Safety or Ruine Preservation or Conquest of the Nation next under God doth alone principally consist and whose Victories or ill successes the whole Nation with all Garrisons usually do will and must of necessity follow their Garrisons being unable to defend them from Plunder total and final Conquest if their Field Armies be quite routed or destroyed which would speedily end the Wars by Pitched Battels in the Field in a few dayes weeks months at furthest were it not for besieging and taking in Garrisons which through the Artifice of Mercenary Officers and Soldiers protract the Wars for many yeers and continue the Plagues and Miseries of war upon the Nation far longer then if there were no Garrisons in it as ancient and present experience must and will attest 2. They are in times of actual War most prejudicial to the Towns and Places Garrisond in these ensuing regards 1. By doubling trebling their Taxes Contributions Payments charges to new fortifie and furnish these Garrisons with Ammunition Artillery Cannons Provisions Magazines of all sorts augmenting their mercenary Guards and Soldiers by hundreds and thousands in some places to their great impoverishing and vexation and that oft times to betray them to the Enemy at last yea to lose those Garrisons in a few dayes or howrs which they have thus to their vast expence and trouble been fortifying furnishing guarding many moneths or yeers space together as the late Presidents of Bristol Hereford with other Garrisons belonging both to the King and Parliament in England Ireland Scotland and elsewhere demonstrate and the Histories of all Ages Countries testifie 2. By continual billetting quartering and free-quartering the Garrison Soldiers and Officers on the Inhabitants within or near the Garrisons to their great oppression vexation superadded to their Taxes oft times to their utter undoing 3. By drawing the Field-Forces likewise into them and free quartering them all the Winter long or when they are out of action for their better accommodation and safety to add to their former affliction and by continual uncessant quartering of other marching Soldiers on them upon all expeditions parties sent out upon emergent occasions from which heavy Pressures ungarrison'd places and Villages remote from Garrisons are either totally exempted or ten times more free then Garrisons which would be as free as they were they not made Garrisons 4. By exposing them to all the forementioned mischiefs and inconveniences of Officers and Garrison Soldiers in times of Peace doubled and trebled in seasons of Warre when the Soldiers are farre