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
- Författare
- William Prynne
- (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.)
- Språk
- Engelska
Förlag | År | Ort | Om boken | ISBN |
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Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour | 1656 | England, London | [6], 16 sidor., 17-24 leaves, 25-32 sidor. |