Eight military aphorismes, demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigall expensiveness 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 mischief, 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 future reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the onely ends pretended for them. By William Prynne of Swanswick, Esquire; for the common benefit, ease and information of the whole nation.

All titles

• Eight military aphorismes, demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigall expensiveness 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 mischief, 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 future reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the onely ends pretended for them. By William Prynne of Swanswick, Esquire; for the common benefit, ease and information of the whole nation.
• Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled

People / Organizations

• William Prynne (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas, at his shop at the signe of the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, 1658.

Publication year

1658-1658

ESTC No.

R22224

Grub Street ID

96264

Description

[6], 15, [1] p., 17-24 leaves, 25-32 p. ; 4⁰

Note

Page after p. 15 is numbered 8.

A reissue, with cancel title page, of: Pendennis and all other standing forts dismanted.