Their vengefulness and their severe exactions caused them to lose the fruits of their victory. |
Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates. |
They however addressed their governor to obtain, if possible, a disallowance of the exactions of Wilmot. |
He was in the moneylender's hands, and to comply with his exactions would not end them. |
After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate. |
Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted. |