The civil power was unable to deal with this frightful evil.

It was necessary that, during some time, cavalry should patrol every evening on the roads near the boundary between Middlesex and Essex.
The state of those roads, however, though contemporaries described it as dangerous beyond all example, did not deter men of rank and fashion from making the joyous pilgrimages to Newmarket.

Half the Dukes in the kingdom were there.

Most of the chief ministers of state swelled the crowd; nor was the opposition unrepresented.

Montague stole two or three days from the Treasury, and Orford from the Admiralty.