“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.
“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.