 There were riots and plague in London in 1592, and then in 1596 an armed uprising in Oxfordshire.The Queen's fears and apprehensions were exaggerated by the enclosure acts that drove sheep onto the land, and peasants off it, as described to her by John Manwood in his treatise "A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest" (1592); they circumscribed the royal prerogative.The Midland counties of thick afforested areas, such as the Forest of Arden were more disorderly, unruly and more likely to have livestock than the lowland arable areas.