A peasant would kill a cow merely in order to get a pair of brogues.

Often a whole flock of sheep, often a herd of fifty or sixty kine, was slaughtered: the beasts were flayed; the fleeces and hides were carried away; and the bodies were left to poison the air.
The French ambassador reported to his master that, in six weeks, fifty thousand horned cattle had been slain in this manner, and were rotting on the ground all over the country.

The number of sheep that were butchered during the same time was popularly said to have been three or four hundred thousand, [155] Any estimate which can now be framed of the value of the property destroyed during this fearful conflict of races must necessarily be very inexact.

We are not however absolutely without materials for such an estimate.

The Quakers were neither a very numerous nor a very opulent class.