Possible Clues:

• Battered book finished off
• Battered starter of bass fully consumed
• Black-and-blue
• Suffering from a bruising defeat?
• Having dined in inn, revolutionary gets assaulted
• Mugged
• Be X not got down, even if mugged
• Assaulted, having had food in inn on journey north
• Mugged and whipped
• Might one start to be a net, perhaps, and still get mugged? (6,2)