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.
| Author/creator | Prynne, William |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour, 1657 [i.e. 1656] |
| Description | [6], 15, [1] p., 17-24 leaves, 25-32 p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248543138 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled |
| Variant title | Eight military aphorismes |
| Running title | Eight military aphorisms |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | The page after p. 15 is numbered 8. |
| General note | Annotation on Thomason copy: "Dec: 5"; the 7 in the imprint date has been crossed out and replaced with a "6". |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) P4028. |
| References | Thomason E.896[5]. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 135:E896[5]) |
| Stock number | CL0051000004 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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