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beginning to be adopted, was about to take away 

 their livelihood, scoured the country in bands, w^reck- 

 ing and burning farmsteads and barns. The ' Battle 

 of Bishop Down,' on the Exeter Eoad between 

 'Winterslow Hut' and Salisbury, was fought on 



ST. ANNE S GATE, .SALISBURY. 



23rd November, and w^as caused by the collision of 

 a large body of rioters who were marching to the 

 city with the avowed object of pillaging it, and a 

 mixed force of yeomanry and special constables. All 

 the coaches, together with every other kind of traffic, 

 were brought to a standstill. Stone-throwing on the 

 part of the rioters, and bludgeoning by the special 



