and his clothes taken from him: divers being by.

"7. We had a Cart and Wheels cut in pieces, and a Mare cut over the
back with a Bill when we went to fetch a load of wood from Stoak
Common, to build a house upon George Hill.

"8. Divers of the Diggers were beaten upon the Hill, by William
Star and John Taylor, and by men in women's apparel, and so sore
wounded that some of them were fetched home in a Cart.

"9. We had another House pulled down, and the Wood they carried to
Walton in a Cart.

"10. They arrested some of us, and some they cast into Prison, and
from others they went about to take away their Goods, but that the
Goods proved another man's, which one of the Diggers was servant
to.

"11. And indeed at divers times besides, we had all our corn
spoiled. For the enemy were so mad that they tumbled the earth up
and down, and would suffer no Corn to grow.

"12. Another Cart and Wheels were cut to pieces, and some of our
Tools taken by force from us, which we never had again.

"13. Some of the Diggers were beaten by the Gentlemen, the Sheriff
looking on, and afterwards five of them were carried to White Lion
Prison, and kept there about five weeks, and then let out.

"14. The Sheriff, with the Lords of Manors and Soldiers standing