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REPLY1850

Scotch Prisoners at Worcester

By C. H. COOPER.

I cannot think that the extract from the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, at all justifies C.F.S. in supposing that the Scotch prisoners were massacred in cold blood. The total number of these prisoners was 10,000. Of the 1,200 who were buried, the greater part most probably died of their wounds; and though this number is large, yet we must bear in mind that in those days the sick and wounded were not tended with the care and attention which are now displayed in such cases. We learn from the *Parliamentary History* (xx. 58.), that on the 17th Sep. 1651, "the Scots…

Topics: Scotch Prisoners, Historical Accounts, 17th Century Warfare, Slavery

Locations: Westminster, London, Tothill-fields, English Plantations, Guiney, Fens, Bedford Level