Transcribed from the 1913 Constable & Company Ltd edition,
THE DEPOT FOR PRISONERS
OF WAR AT NORMAN CROSS
HUNTINGDONSHIRE. 1796 to 1816
BY
THOMAS JAMES WALKER, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Fellow (Member of Council1908–9) of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Associate of the British Archæological Association. Past President of
the Peterborough Natural History Antiquarian and ScientificSociety.
“Ipray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.”Shakespeare’s “Othello.”
LONDON
CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD
1913
p. ivPRINTEDBY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.
p.vCONTENTS
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Forewords | |
CHAPTER I | |
The Urgent Need for PrisonAccommodation, Norman Cross,Hunts, selected asthe Site, and the Prisonbuilt | |
CHAPTER II | |
The Prison and itsEstablishment | |
CHAPTER III | |
Arrival and Registration of thePrisoners | |
CHAPTER IV | |
Administration andDiscipline | |
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