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Scotch Prisoners at Worcester
By C. F. S.
In Mr. Walcott's *History of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster*, I find the following extract from church wardens' accounts:— "1652. P'd to Thos. Wright for 67 loads of soyle laid on the graves in Tothill Fields, wherein 1200 Scotch prisoners, taken at the fight at Worcester, were buried; and for other pains taken with his teeme of horses, about mending the Sanctuary Highway, when Gen. Ireton was buried." I have taken the pains to verify this extract, and find the figures quite correctly given. I wish to put the Query: Is this abominable massacre in cold blood mentioned by any of our historia…
Topics: Historical Events, Military History, Genealogy
Locations: St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, Tothill Fields, Worcester