The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816Walker, Thomas (Thomas James)
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The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816
Walker, Thomas (Thomas James)
France -- History -- 1789-1815; Norman Cross depot; Prisoners of war
Wilberforce 11,806
Milton 11,177
Lascelles 10,988
Fowkes 2
Smith, _Parliaments of England_, ii. 136, 140. _The Times_, 26th, 28th,
30th May, 2nd, 4th, 6th June 1807.
Wm. Wilberforce, Esq.; Rt. Hon. Chas. Wm. Wentworth, commonly called
Viscount Milton; Hon. Henry Lascelles.
{185} “Ces jeunes captifs furent instruits par les soins de M. l’Évêque
de Moulins.”
{186} As these pages are passing through the press, the opportunity
offers of seeing through the observant eyes of Mrs. Larpent the Bishop as
he was when she met him in London, about 1804, and for the “man with a
fine presence” we must substitute the “little deformed lively man,”
described in that lady’s diary, “Nineteenth Century and After,” No. 438,
August 1913, p. 318.
{187} Appendix G.
{188a} _Mémoire des Évêques français résidant à Londres qui n’ont pas
donné leur démission_, Londres, May 1802; _Biographie des Hommes vivant_,
1818, Paris; _Biographie des Contemporains_, Paris.
{188b} _Mémoire des Évêques français résidant à Londres_, pp. 108, 217,
284.
{188c} The only reference by his French biographer to his work at Norman
Cross, which looms so large in this book, is that “he is said to have
visited the prisoners of war when in England.”
{191a} Supplement to Appendix 59, _Report of the Transport Board to the
House of Commons_, 1798. Issued from Downing Street 6th January 1801.
{191b} If the commander of a privateer before lowering his flag threw
overboard as many of his guns as he could, in order to prevent their
falling into the hands of the enemy, and thus reduced their number below
fourteen, he was no longer eligible for parole, but remained in prison.
{192} List of places where French prisoners of war were allowed on
parole at different periods of the war.
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