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The country had now begun to experience the rniferies of war, and
to fmart under them; and the cavaliers were efpecially reproached for the
cruelty with which they plundered and ill-treated people Whenever they
gained the maftery. Colonel Lunsford was efpecinlly notorious for the
barbarities committed by himfelf and his men-to fuch a degree that he
was popularly accufed of eating children, a charge which is frequently
alluded to in the popular fongs of the time. Thus one of thefe fongs
couples him with two other obnoxious royalifis
Frzm Fielding, and]? am Va-vafaur,
B0111 ill-ajfnqed men,
From Lunqfbrd eke deliver us,
W710 cater]! up clzildren.