Winstanley, true to his convictions, remains, however,…

Winstanley, true to his convictions, remains, however, and complains about the treatment they had received.

The harassment from the Lord of the Manor, Francis Drake (not the famous Francis Drake, who had died more than fifty years before), is both deliberate and systematic: he organizes gangs in an attack on the Diggers, including numerous beatings and an arson attack on one of the communal houses.