"To a certain other valet, sent from London, by direction of the king's
council, to Pontfreyt Castle for the protection and safe custody of the
body of Richard II., late king of England, In money paid to his own
hands for his wages and expenses, 6s. 8d."

This seems to be decisive of the question; but there are several other
interesting entries bearing on the same point.

D.P.R.

_Scottish Prisoners sold to Plantations_ (Vol. ii., pp. 297. 350. 379.).--

"The judgements of heaven were never so visible upon any people as
those which have fallen upon the Scots since [the sale of Charles I.];
for, besides the sweeping furious plague that reigned in Edinburgh, and
the incredible number of witches which have increased, and have been
executed there since; besides the sundry shameful defeats they have
received by the English, who carried away more of them prisoners than
they were themselves in number; _besides that many of them died of mere
hunger; besides that they were sold away slaves, at half a crown a
dozen, for foreign plantations among savages_; I say besides all this
chain of judgements, with diverse others, they have quite lost their
reputation among all mankind; some jeer them, some hate them, and none
pity them."--Howell's _German Dict._, p. 65., 1653.

Echard, in _Hist. Eng._, vol. ii. p. 727., speaking of the prisoners taken
at Worcester, says that Cromwell

"marched up triumphantly to London, driving four or five thousand
prisoners like sheep before him; making presents of them, as occasion