It would indeed have been unable to suppress an insurrection in London, if the trainbands of the City had joined the insurgents.
In every county the trainbands were held ready to march; and this force cannot be estimated at less than a hundred and twenty thousand men.
Four thousand men of the trainbands were actually assembled under his command.
At every town along the road the trainbands of the neighbourhood had been mustered under the command of the principal gentry.
Of the ordinary cost no part was paid by the crown: but when the trainbands were called out against an enemy, their subsistence became a charge on the general revenue of the state, and they were subject to the utmost rigour of martial law.
Such was Monmouth's popularity among the common people of Devonshire that, if once the trainbands had caught sight of his well known face and figure, they would have probably gone over to him in a body.
The trainbands of the City volunteered to march wherever their services might be required.
Round the Cross the trainbandswere drawn up in order: a bonfire was lighted: the Exclusion Bill was burned: and the health of King James was drunk with loud acclamations.
On the east, the trainbands of Wiltshire had mustered under the command of Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.
The trainbands might rise to defend Shaftesbury as they had risen forty years before to defend Pym and Hampden.
Let the trainbandsbe disciplined; let the navy be strengthened; and the country would be secure.
It was determined that the Elector should have a chapel in the City whether he would or not, and that, if the trainbands refused to do their duty, their place should be supplied by the Guards.
Would not the trainbandsflock by thousands to the standard of the deliverer?
The trainbands were ordered to disperse the crowd: but they shared in the popular feeling; and murmurs were heard from the ranks, "We cannot in conscience fight for Popery.
It might be best to assemble the trainbands at this cursed spot if it can be found, and to await their coming in force.
The planters stayed at home and attended to their business, the trainbands were vigilant, the servant and slave laws were construed with a harshness unknown at other seasons of the year.
The sheriffs were warmly thanked by the Speaker in the name of the Commons; and orders were given that a guard selected from the trainbands of the city, should attend daily to watch over the safety of the Parliament.
Refinements of theology were quite as real and substantial to the Puritan mind as trainbands and fortifications.
The trainbands were called out by the Mayor, who was an ardent courtier, but the men of the trainbands were, for the most part, no less ardent Wilkites.
On Monday morning all thetrainbands of the City were under arms.
The trainbands of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey marched down to the coast.
From Temple Bar to Whitehall gate the trainbands of Middlesex and the Foot Guards were under arms.
The trainbands of the capital consisted of two thousand five hundred foot, two troops of horse and two troops of dragoons, all Protestants and all well armed and clad.
He even ventured to land in Northumberland, and burned many houses before the trainbands could be collected to oppose him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trainbands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
