{137} An old lady friend of mine, recently deceased, remembered in her childhood seeing the children following a woman in the streets of Peterborough, and singing, “Wind or storm, hail or snow, To the Barracks she will go,” a doggerel which had been fastened on to her when she carried over goods for sale at the market, and was supposed to smuggle in cut straw and to bring back concealed about her person straw plait, which she disposed of to the bonnet makers.—T. J. W. {138} _Chambers’ Journal_, xxiii. 327. In the same journal (issue of September 1908) is an article by A. F. Morris upon straw marquetry, in which the introduction of that art into this country is ascribed to the French. {144} _Historical Sketch of the Old Depot_, _Perth_, William Sievwright, 1894. {146a} Vol. ix., chap. lxiv., par. 127. {146b} This information Alison gave from his own personal recollection. I can confirm his account from what I have been told by my father, who in his sixteenth and seventeenth years was living in Perth, and was in the habit of going to the prison to take lessons in French and in fencing from one of the officers confined there.—T. J. W. {147} Curiously this article does not appear in Poole’s original Index, but in the second supplement under “Banker’s Notes.” {156} These were a part of the troops who in 1797 landed at Fishguard to invade England through Wales. This long-planned invasion ended in a fiasco. {157a} Laws, _Little England Beyond Wales_, pp. 373–4. {157b} _Legends of Huntingdonshire_, W. B. Saunders. {158} W. H. Bernard Saunders, _loc. cit._, 1888. {160a} _Archæologia Cantiana_, ix.–xciii. {160b} _Chambers’ Miscellany_, No. 92, vol. vi., p. 32, New Edition. _Story of a French Prisoner of War in England_. {161} _Story of Dartmoor Prison_, pp. 32, 33. {166} _Aperçu du Traitement qu’éprouvent les Prisonniers de Guerre français en Angleterre_: Paris, 1813. {167a} Appendix E. {167b} _Naval Chronicle_, xxviii., 282. {168} The expense of the prisoners’ clothing, provision, and supervision was £1,000 a day exclusive of buildings.—_Naval Chronicle_, xxxiv., 460. {169} Appendix F. Full return, with names, etc., of the hospital staff. {171} The following, copied from a loose paper lying between the pages of Reg. 628 at the Record Office, is evidently an answer to the inquiries of a prisoner’s friends, made ten years after his death. It gives a chance insight into one of the duties of the agent, and is evidence that the French were at least treated with courtesy: