Note 245 — Chapter III · THE PEASANTRY (continued)

Hist. MSS. Com., Part VII., pp. 49–50 (1596): Some information concerning those intending the rebellion in Oxford.... “And Steer said that there was once a rising at Enscombe Hill by the commons, and they were persuaded to go down and were after hanged like dogs. ‘But,’ said he, ‘we will never yield, but will go through with it!’”