Eight Military Aphorisms, Title page
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 onelyonly ends pretended for them.
By William Prynne of Swanſwick, Eſquire; for the common benefit, eaſe and Information of the whole Nation.
Habak. 1.10.
They ſhall deride every ſtrong hold, for they ſhall heap duſt, and take it.
Hoſea 3 14
Iudah hath multiplied fenced Cities, but I will ſend a fire upon his Cities, which ſhall devoure the palaces thereof.
2 Chron. 12 4.
And he took the fenced Cities which appertained to Judah.
Dan. 11.…5.
The King of the North ſhall come, and caſt up a mount, and take the moſt fenced Cities; neither ſhall there he any ſtrenght to withſtand.
Ezeck. 26. 11, 12.
He ſhall ſtay thy people by the ſword, and thy ſtrong garriſons ſhall go down to the ground; and they ſhall make a ſpoile of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandiſe; and they ſhall break down thy wals, and deſtroy thy pleaſant houſes, and they ſhall lay thy ſtones and thy timber, and thy duſt in the middeſt of the water.
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.