Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Frontispiece
Plait Merchants trading with the French Prisoners of War at Norman Cross
From a painting by A. C. Cooke in the Town Hall, Luton

PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN
1756 TO 1815
A RECORD OF THEIR LIVES, THEIR ROMANCE AND THEIR SUFFERINGS

FRANCIS ABELL

HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW

NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

1914

OXFORD: HORACE HART

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN1756 TO 1815A RECORD OF THEIR LIVES, THEIR ROMANCE AND THEIR SUFFERINGS