"3. The enemy pulled down a house which the Diggers had built upon
George Hill, and cut their spades and hoes to pieces.
"4. Two Troops of Horse were sent from the General to fetch us
before the Council of War, to give account of our Digging.
"5. We had another House pulled down, and our Spades cut to pieces.
"6. One of the Diggers had his head sore wounded, and a Boy beaten,
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.
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