Tensions and fears of plunder, loss of provision and being pressed into the warring armies had in the English Revolution caused a meeting of the generality of those effected by quartered and passing through troops. Fairfax and Colonel Massie's arrival in Wiltshire and Dorset in June of 1645 saw the beginning of the Western Campaign. Tensions already heated were ramped up by an uptake of troops in the west. Goring and Lewis Dive were both now in the sights of Parliament. A qua

It "Alienated those whose hearts were best affected to the Kings service". The Earl Clarendon wrote in his memoirs when referring to plundering by troops quartered . The inhabitants of towns, villages and parishes affected by troops through the English Revolution can be seen with the plight imposed on them by Royalist troops in South Brent ( Brent Knoll) in March 1645. Brent Knoll in Somerset, known as South Brent in 1645. Colonel Ayscough rode into South Brent with a troop o