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"He seemed / For dignity composed, and high exploit, / But all was false and hollow; though his tongue / Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low-- / To vice industrious;--Yet he pleased the ear." / --Milton.
Throughout the winter and the early spring Herefordshire was in a state of misery and unrest. The people, frantic at the ill-treatment they received from the Royalist garrisons at Hereford, Canon Frome and other places, rose in open insurrection. The sturdy men in the Forest of Dean, seeing their country wasted with fire and sword, their sons impressed to serve in the King's army, and their wives and daughters brutally ill-used by the merciless troops of Rupert, and by such well-known tyrants as Lunsford and Langdale, would endure such doings no longer, and the rising of the Clubmen became a new and serious element in the strife.