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REPLY1850

Scotch Prisoners

By GEO. ORMEROD (Sedbury Park, Clepstow)

Heath's *Chronicle* (p. 301. edit. 1676) briefly notices these unhappy men, "driven like a herd of swine, through Westminster to Tuthill Fields, and there *sold* to several merchants, and sent in to the Barbadoes." The most graphic account, however, is given in *Another Victory in Lancashire*, &c., 4to. 1651, from which the parts possessing *local* interest were extracted by me in the *Civil War Tracts of Lancashire*, printed by the Chetham Society, with references to the *other matters* noticed, namely, Cromwell's entry into London, and the arrival of the four thousand "*Scots, Highlands, or…

Topics: Civil War, Scottish Prisoners, Historical Customs

Locations: Westminster, Tuthill Fields, Barbadoes, Lancashire, London, Hampstead Heath, Highgate, Islington, Kingsland, Mile End Green, Aldgate, Cheapside, Fleetstreet, Strand, Tuttle Fields