| Title: | Copy? Memo On Better Defence By Augumenting The Navy, L'Amy? |
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| Dating: | Undated |
| Ref: | 64/20/1A-4B |
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England is a good Country, & hath good Comerce, but is not soe much peopled, because that many auoyd mariage, fearinge (as they say) to haue poore Children; & because the Country also is not much husbanded, for victualls & Cloathinge-trade alltogeather, as it possibly may bee, to greater publick proffitt; & particularly England hath good ports, & good roades, but that may turne to disaduantage, beinge to sustayne the encounter, of a puissent ennemye
England hath shipps, but they must haue stocks of money & ordinary meanes to mayntaine a good ordinary number, & stocks & meanes alwayes ready vpon extraordinary occasions for to sett out nauyes more then sufficiente in tyme of warr, aswell for the honnour of the [catchword: kinge]
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kinge, as of the State of England who must mayntaine their Chiefe forces, by sea/.
<left margin: The Lydians were tamed by pleasure.>
And also it is not of much concernement to make a shewe of three armyes, each of [word deleted] fower <score> thousand chosen men if there bee not some ordinary stocke for ordinarily in tyme of peace to maintayne three small bodyes of an Army of souldiers well disciplined & fitt for warr, for a foundation of greater armyes,
For Although that England hath good or able men for warr, yett they haue need to bee trayned upp in exercises & hardshipps of armes/:
Yea, it is needefull to haue a good [catchword: number] 2
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number of men who make it their ordinary trade of a souldier without that they can labour in any other Callinge, & that <they> bee entertayned from sixteene yeares of age vntill their death, and they shall bee sent turne by turne vnto outlandish warrs, for to bee made fitt for the warrs./
And in case of warr, their number should bee augmented more then sufficiente/.
And when necessity requyreth to cause the Choyce trayned bands to marche in duty vpon extraordinary occasion, there must bee a somme as extraordinary to pay them soe many dayes as they shall bee held detayned for the publick seruice/. to the end to hinder all tumultuous assemblyes & disorders, & to giue reasonable [catchword: meanes]
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meanes to those who shall bee thus imployed, to serue all such long tyme as shall bee needefull, & in furnishinge them also all Cariages, necessary for to Carry their baggage with theire victualls & ammunitions etc. Yea, it is iust, that the Country take care of the wiues & Children of ordinary Souldiers & also of the extraordinary, who haue binne hurt or maymed or slayne, because it is for the safety of the Country, & those which are able by good industry without charge to the Country/.
It is true indeed, that the Custome of the people, & their beinge possest of an inconsiderable feare of a Common report, doth begett defficultyes & deffaults in the people, where they oughte to haue none/. 4
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But Custome is a terrible yoake, though it bee incensible, & the feare also of a Common report, & as deafe doth disturbe many weake persons by frightninge them & aboue that <proud> selfe opinion doth dryue forward those who would[altered] appeare the best of vnderstandinge, & further the malignant enemyes of theire <owne> Country[altered] doe there sett themselues with most strenght, ready to heape difficultyes, & to hinder all firme resolutions & good effects, & those who thus instructe them, promise them heauen for a reward for betraing their [word deleted] natiue Countrye/
<left margin: The Lydians were ouercome by voluptuousnesse>
Now concerninge the Custome & fashion of liueinge, the english people seeinge themselues in Comodiousnes, doe please themselues in their ease & seeke it greedily, [catchword: auoydinge]
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auoydinge labour & paynes as much as they can, as though they wished againe to bee in an earthly paradice (for man also
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Consideringe, that it is the way to put themselues in a state to suffer disgrace & losse
And also that the necessary Charges for maintenance of Souldiers, is nothinge to the pryce of vayne or friuolous expences.
And Concerninge the preuention of a Causelesse feare it dryueth [marks: # #] from its roote from day to day, vpon this false pretence, that great Brittayne is very feeble of it selfe, & that therefore shee ought to depend vpon Spaine against France etc. a Spanish stratagem to maintayne her pretences.
But for a patterne of the strenght of England I offer to shewe easy & certayne wayes, by which (without any Leauy of Contribution nor imposition etc) shee may in a short tyme, by good husbandry bee able [catchword: to]
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to mayntaine regularly seauenty two sufficient tall shipps & seauenty two good barks, & twenty thousand ordinary men for their Conducte, for to serue for establishing & maintayninge of Collonyes in the Indyes for full augmentation of Land & Commerce to England & a strange nauy for the seruice & honnour of the Kinge & his State without begginge succour or assistance from Spayne, but rather to mayntayne their neare allyance with Holland and Germany by good Corrpondence & effects of brotherly Charity.
And the Colony shall prouide for the ordinary entertaynement or mayntenance of twenty fower shipps & twenty fower barks, to keepe the coastes/.