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[Illustration:

  _Frontispiece_

  PLAIT MERCHANTS TRADING WITH THE FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR AT NORMAN
    CROSS

  _From a painting by A. C. Cooke in the Town Hall, Luton_
]




                      PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN
                              1756 TO 1815
      A RECORD OF THEIR LIVES, THEIR ROMANCE AND THEIR SUFFERINGS


                                   BY

                             FRANCIS ABELL


                            HUMPHREY MILFORD
                        OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
                        LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW
                   NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

                                  1914




                          OXFORD: HORACE HART
                       PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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