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A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the English prisoners of war being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and back again ... / faithfully and impartially performed by Richard Strutton, being an eye-witness, and a fellow sufferer.
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Strutton, Richard.
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Wing S6018; ESTC R17656
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small brown Loaf and one Egg per Man with a Cup of sad sorry Wine Sunday 27. After our Guards and Provo had been at Mass they gave us our Dinner which was such as our Supper a small brown Loaf and one Egg with a Cup of sad stuff of Wine After we had eat and drank away we march'd four Leagues to a Town call'd Egreville the Way being very good but the Day very calm and hot When we came into this Village we were quarter'd at the same House we were quarter'd at in our passage to Rochfort at the Sign of the three Kings our Lodging was in a Stable our Supper was a small Loaf and one Egg per Man with a Cup of poor Wine Munday 28. About eleven in the Morning we were all served our Dinner a small Loaf with one Egg and a Cup of sowre thick Wine that done away we march'd four long Leagues to the City of Nantes when we came into Town we were put into a close strong Prison where we were most desperately throng'd and our Supper was Bread and Eggs as before with the like Drink as before We heard that the Captain of the Portsmouth was kept here close Prisoner Tuesday 29. About eight in the Morning we were served our Dinner and Breakfast all under one as they used but now they gave each Man two Eggs and a small Loaf with a Cup of Wine the Morning was rainy and so it continued until about three in the Afternoon yet notwithstanding we march'd seven Leagues through all the Rain so that we were the most part of us as wet as well we could be and at the end of seven Leagues we came to alone Inn where we had very cold entertainment nothing but Bread and Water and very bad Lodging Wednesday 30. About six in the Morning we march'd four Leagues to a Town call'd Nosce where we remain'd all Day we lodged in the very same House we did when we went for Rochfort the Afternoon proving very rainy They gave us here a piece of Bread and a little bit of Butter so we remained in two Stables At Night they gave us the Flesh that they had long promised about a pound for ten Men and that was the most yet Meat was very reasonably cheap in this place they gave us to drink some nasty foul Cyder I should chuse rather to drink Water than it May Thursday the First The Mornin being Rainy we continued here until about ten of the Clock about which time the Weather began to clear up then were we served our Dinner just such a quantity of Meat as before as near as could be guest at with the same sort of Drink From hence we march'd seven Miles to a Town call'd Dervall and there we stopt an Hour or thereabouts and from thence we march'd five Miles to a Town call'd Fushgecea Here was a great Fair of Cattle in this Town and this Day we were carried through the Fair and so put into two Stables our Supper being a small Loaf and one Egg with Water our Lodging on the cold Ground Friday 2. About eight in the Morning we were served our Dinner a Loaf and one Egg per Man with a Cup of foul nasty Cyder so away we march'd three Leagues to a Town call'd Beant and from thence to a poor Village call'd Polonia one League and a half further the Weather was showry to Day but the Road indifferent good the Land very hilly but all the Hills very fertile our Lodging in this place was very hard lying in an open Barn on the bare Ground the covering of the Barn was quite gone on the one side our Supper was a small Loaf and one Egg and Water for Drink Saturday 3. About eight in the Morning we were served our Dinner which was a small Loaf and one Egg per Man with Water so away we march'd six Leagues to the City of Reens where we lodged some in an empty Barn and some in Stables Our supper was a piece of Bread and one Egg per Man and Water to drink so we lay many of us like so many Pigs in a Stye Sunday 4. About eight we were served our Dinner viz. a small Loaf and one Egg per Man so away we march'd four Leagues and half to a Village call'd St. Chapell but by the way Three of our Men deserted us After they had given us our Supper which was a small bit of old Irish salt Beef with a Loaf and a little sowr Syder they began to miss those Men by this means we were all call'd out into the Close to be counted and after many times counting they mist Three of their number but good lack what a toss was Jack Provo in and his Hounds swearing and cursing These Men were Two of them Guernsey or Gersey and the other an English Man that they mist after this we went to sleep in the Stables Munday Five About Nine in the Morning they gave each Man about an Ounce of old Irish Beef with about half a Souse worth of Bread From hence we marched six long Leagues to the Town of Denan about Four in the Afternoon we came into the Town where we saw many Dutch Prisoners and this day they cleared Thirty six English Prisoners After we were rang'd in the Praid and counted we were call'd over by our names that done we were put into two close Prisons 100 in a Prison where we got neither bit nor sup for Supper in the Prison we found several small heaps of Straw on which we slept our hopes of getting clear was our greatest comfort In this Prison of Dinan were we kept for twenty days a hundred of us in one Prison and the other hundred in another Prison In the one of these Prisons we had the benefit of a little fresh Air but in the other none at all both of them being miserable stinking places under Ground in old Castles whose Walls were fifteen Foot thick and the Windows treble barr'd yet for all this place was so strong they kept Centinels within the Prisons night and day for fear we should break Prison and every day the Officers came and counted us for fear lest they should lose some of us The Wall of this Place was so thick that the Prison was very cold considering the time of the Year For our Lodging they gave us Straw and as for our Food it was very well considering the place we were in being far better than any we met with yet in France and our Liquor was only Water Those People that guarded us here were very civil not abusing any of us as they had done in other places Our greatest Annoyance in this place was the horrid stink of the Prison which did not only offend the Nose but make the Eyes smart also May the 24th Mr. John White Commander of the Betty being employed by the King to fetch and carry Prisoners of War came here to day and with a great deal of Prudence and Exactness
brought over a hundred and five Englishmen into England supplying many of them with Money according to their present Occasions giving them whilst they were in their Passage the best of Food and good Drink and by God's assistance landed us May 31. at Weymouth where when we came ashore we were kindly treated by those good People June the first we got our several Passes of the Mayor so away we travelled to Dorchester where we were relieved by the People the Mayor also giving us his Charity very liberally and at night we got to Blanford where we were very charitably relieved by the good People of the Town But in all the rest of the Towns we came through our Men had so little Charity bestow'd on them that if some of us that had Money had not reliev'd them they had without doubt died on the Road. When we came to Salisbury thirty of us went directly to the Mayor and shewed him our Passes who gave amongst us all four shillings Our Men desired his Worship to consider them they having eaten nothing all day and as for this Money they knew not well what to do with it He hastily replied Give it me again and I will give you nothing So away they went with that little they had Now this Mayor of Salisbury had a Son that was taken by the French and travell'd with us up from St. Malo to Toulon in Irons and when we came back to Rochfort died in a most lamentable condition with the Small Pox. There were in our Company two Men that belonged to the Ship this Mayor's Son did whose Names were Samuel Westmore and Thomas Dicas and these men had taken care of this young man in his Sickness and when he was dead made his Grave and buried him Now they had often heard him in his Life-time say That his Father lived well and in good fashion in Salisbury and it so hapning as they came through this Town they enquired for one Mr. Phelps the People told them that Mr. Phelps was the Mayor so away they went to him expecting to be sure a Belly full of Victuals They told him they came out of France and that his Son Charles was dead He asked them what Ship he did belong to They told him the Ships Name and Commander too Well said he to them I do believe your Testimony and withal gave betwixt them two a Double Stiver and dismiss'd them now I heard the Men say that the People of that Town would take it for no more than a Peny By God's assistance the major part of us got into London the fifth day of June So here is the End of my hard Travels which as it is not the full Sum of our Sorrows so I am able to produce the Testimony of at least twenty Men in a short time if occasion required that are able to make Oath that I have not writ any thing in this whole Work that is contrary to Truth So I wish all good People good Success in their honest Employments FINIS Books Printed for Richard Baldwin THE Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the Beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added A Particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which hapned the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or The Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy The History of the Most Illustrious William Prince of Orange Deduc'd from the first Founders of the Ancient House of Nassau Together with the most considerable Actions of this present Prince The Second Edition A Collection of Fourteen Papers relating to the Affairs of Church and State in the Reign of the late King James The Character of a Trimmer His Opinion of I. The Laws and Government II. Protestant Religion III. The Papists IV. Foreign Affairs By the Honourable Sir W. Coventry The Third Edition carefully Corrected and cleared from the Errors of the First Impression An Impartial Relation of the Illegal Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon in the Year of our Lord 1687. Containing only Matters of Fact as they occurred The Second Edition To which is added the most Remarkable Passages omitted in the former Collected by a Fellow of the said Colledge The Absolute Necessity of standing vigorously by the present Government Or A View of what both Church-men and Dissenters must expect if by their unhappy Divisions Popery and Tyranny should return again The Justice of the Parliament in inflicting of Punishments subsequent to Offenders vindicated and the Lawfulness of the present Government asserted An Account of Mr. Parkinson's Expulsion from the University of Oxford in the late Times in vindication of him from the false Aspersions cast upon him in a late Pamphlet intituled The History of Passive Obedience The way to Peace among all Protestants being a Letter of Reconciliation sent by Bp. Ridley to Bp. Hooper by Mr. Samuel Johnson Purgatory prov'd by Miracles collected out of Roman-Catholick Authors With some Remarkable Histories relating to British English and Irish Saints With a Preface concerning their Miracles By Mr. Samuel Johnson A Seasonable Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness and Mischiefs of Imposition in Matters of Religion Recommended to serious Consideration By Mr. Andrew Marvel late Member of Parliament The Revolter A Tragi-Comedy acted between the Hind and Panther and Religio Laici A Collection of Poems Satyrs and Songs against Popery and Tyranny In Four Parts An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's first and second Letters c. The Intrigues of the French King at Constantinople to imbroil Christendom discover'd in several Dispatches past between him and the late Grand Signior Grand Vizier and Count Teckley all of them found among that Count's Papers With some Reflections upon them Plain English In Relation to the real and pretended Friends to the English Monarchy Humbly offered to the Consideration of his Majesty and his Great Council the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled The Second Edition With a short Preface and an Appendix concerning the Coronation Oath administred to King James the Second The New Nonconformist Or Dr. Sherlock's Case in Preaching after a Deprivation incurr'd by the Express Words of a Statute Fairly Stated and Examined With short Reflections upon Mr. Cook 's Sermon February the 2d 16 89 90. which was Licens'd by the Arch-Bishop's Chaplain The Fate of France A Discourse wherein it is shewed That by the Happy Revolution in England all the Designs of the French King for the Universal Monarchy are disappointed and the Rational Grounds to believe his Downfal near In three Dialogues betwixt Father Petre Father La Chaize and two Protestant Gentlemen The Anatomy of a Jacobite-Tory In a Dialogue between Whig and Tory occasioned by the Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary The Great Bastard Protecter of the Little One. Done out of French And for which the French King put forth a Proclamation with a Reward of Five thousand Louis d'Ors to discover the Author A True Narrative of the Murthers Cruelties and Oppressions perpetrated on the Protestants in Ireland by the Late King James's Agents since his Arrival there Published for the Information of the Jacobites that endeavour his Return again Reflections upon a Form of Prayer lately set forth by the Jacobites of the Church of England and of an Abhorrence rendred by the Late King to some of our Dissenting Bishops upon his present Majesty's Landing A Sermon preach'd before the High-Court of Parliament at Edinburgh on Sunday the 27th of April 1690. And published by their Special Command By George Meldrum a Presbyterian Minister and till of late one of the Episcopal Clergy of that Kingdom