{6a} It will be seen in a later chapter what class of men the prisoners were to whom these words would come home. {6b} July 1797—_Reports House of Commons_, “18th Report of Committee of Finance.” {7} Schomberg, _Naval Chronology_, chap. v., p. 213. {9} In 1803 the Earl of Carysfort of the Irish Peerage took the title of Lord Carysfort of Norman Cross, as a Peer of the United Kingdom. {12} The price of timber had risen in December 1806 to £8 8_s._ a load; at one date the contractor complained that even by paying £12 a load he could not obtain fifty loads in Plymouth. _The Story of Dartmoor Prison_, Basil Thomson. (London: William Heinemann, 1907.) {14} The sum of £14,800 was paid to Adams between the 1st January 1797 and 29th November 1797 in the following instalments: Jan. 1797 £1,500 April 12th 1797 £1,000 ,, 2nd 1797 1,000 May 5th 1797 500 ,, 6th 1797 1,000 Aug. 5th 1797 150 ,, 13th 1797 1,000 „ 15th 1797 400 ,, 17th 1797 500 Sept. 28th 1797 500 ,, 31st 1797 1,000 Oct. 6th 1797 370 Feb. 9th 1797 500 ,, 9th 1797 500 ,, 21st 1797 600 ,, 13th 1797 500 Mar. 5th 1797 500 Nov. 23rd 1797 1,000 ,, 19th 1797 500 ,, 28th 1797 500 ,, 26th 1797 450 „ 29th 1797 500 ,, 30th 1797 330 The total amount paid to 19th November 1797 for the Norman Cross Prison was £34,518 11_s._ 3_d._, for Hull £22,600, for Lewes £12,400, and for Colchester £15,620.