02222nam 2200385 n 450 99639216020331620200824121757.0(CKB)4940000000108366(EEBO)2248543138(UnM)99863277e(UnM)99863277(EXLCZ)99494000000010836619930406d1656 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes[electronic resource] 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 nationLondon, Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour1657 [i.e. 1656][6], 15, [1] p., 17-24 leaves, 25-32 pThe page after p. 15 is numbered 8.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Dec: 5"; the 7 in the imprint date has been crossed out and replaced with a "6".Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018Standing armyEarly works to 1800Military basesGreat BritainEarly works to 1800Standing armyMilitary basesPrynne William1600-1669.198500Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996392160203316Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes2309827UNISA