Early in the Anarchy, Waleran of Meulan attacked Worcester, which had Angevin sympathies, and burned part of the city. The attack exemplified the lawless nature of baronial warfare during Stephen's reign — towns and monasteries suffered as magnates pursued private ambitions under cover of the dynastic dispute.
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