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

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