“As Geoffrey was more devil than man, so his hordes became monstrous in their cruelty and appearance. They were beasts of the Fens, poised between man and animal, land and water. They ravaged the land so that not an ox could plough, a man dig, or a woman spin her wool in safety for thirty miles around. The people cried out for help, but no army could make its way through the watery Fens to defeat Geoffrey’s evil. “At last the King decreed that a great castle should be raised at Burwell, and garrisoned against Geoffrey’s monstrous horde. Geoffrey in his pride attacked the castle, holding that
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