Chapter XVI: Appendix: C

SPECIMENS OF ENTRIES IN THE VARIOUS REGISTERS RELATING TO PRISONERS OF WAR AT NORMAN CROSS, WHICH ARE PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

(_a_) GENERAL ENTRY BOOK OF DUTCH SOLDIERS AT NORMAN CROSS

Current By what Time when. Prizes’ Regiment. Company. Prisoners’ Quality. Time when Ex. Time when. How
number. ship or names. names. received disposed
how taken. into D.D. of, and by
custody. what
D. or order.

E. S.
1 _Sirius_ 24th Oct. _Furie_ Bombardier 5th Cmp. Pieter Van Passenger 20th Nov. D. 19th Feb. Board’s
1798 3rd Batn. Dyck 1798 1800 Order
Artily.
89 _Sirius_ 24th Oct. _Furie_ Infantry Lieut. Mr. Lieut. 26th Sept. D. 5th Jan. On parole
1798 Ritmont 1799 to
1800 19th Peterboro’
Feb.
To Holland
Alkmaar
Convention

(_b_) DESCRIPTION OF PERSONS IN DUTCH REGISTER

Current number. No. on Names. Quality. Ship or corps. Age. Stature. Hair. Eyes. Visage or Person. Harks or When
complexion. wounds. discharged.
the G.E.B.
ft. in.
1 2 Hannes Lenor Sailor _Adml. De 18 5 6½ Brown Blue Oval and Fair Middle Size None
Vries_

14 24 B. Atken 2nd Cooper _Adml. De 27 5 7 Dark Brown Brown Oval and Dark Middle Size Pitted with D. 20th
Vries_ Smallpox July 1801
British
Fishery

(_c_) DEATH CERTIFICATES OF DUTCH SAILORS AND SOLDIERS

Current number. No. on the Names. Rank. Ship or Man-of-war, Place of Age. Time of Disorder or
G.E.B. corps. privateer, nativity. death. casualty.
or merchant
vessel.
109 703 Jan Sailor _De Tonge Fishing Holland 47 28th June Fever and
Vanderzwet. Leendert_ vessel 1798 bad wound
in knee
129 674 Corns. De Sailor _De Vries_ M. War Holland 22 12th Decem. Fever, &c.
Baar. 1798

(_d_) REGISTER OF DUTCH PRISONERS OF PAROLE AT PETERBOROUGH

Current number. Prizes’ names. Prisoners’ Quality. Of what Time when From whom or D.D.D. or R. Time when. How disposed
names. country. received. whence of if
discharged.
_Frigate_ A. Reins 3rd Lieut. 19th Nov. 1798 D. 7th February Exchanged
1801
_Waakzaamheyo_ M. Van Meirop Captain 1798 D. 16th Oct. 1801 Permitted to
return to
Holland

(_e_) GENERAL ENTRY-BOOK OF PRISONERS OF WAR AT NORMAN CROSS—FRENCH

Current number. By what ship or how Time when. Prizes’ names. Whether Of what country. Prisoners’ names. Quality. Time when Ex. D.D.D. or Time when. How disposed of,
taken. man-of-war, received into E.S. and by what
privateer, or custody. order.
merchant vessel.
13 _Arethusa_ 21st October 1794 _Révolutionnaire_ Man-of-war Louis Robert Sailor 10th April 1797 Ex. 10th October 1797 Board’s Order

(_f_) GENERAL ENTRY-BOOK OF SOLDIERS, PRISONERS OF WAR, AT NORMAN
CROSS—FRENCH

Current By what Time when. Prizes’ Regiment. Company. Prisoners’ Quality. Time when Ex. Time when. How
number. ship or names. names. received D.D.D. or disposed
how taken. into E.S. of, and by
custody. what
order.
401 _Melampus_ 14th _La Frigate 1 Battn. Edw. André Soldier 11th D. 9th To France
October Résolue_ 81st October January Martha
1798 demi- 1799 from 1800 Cartel
brigade Edinburgh

(_g_) DEATH CERTIFICATES OF FRENCH PRISONERS WHO DIED AT NORMAN CROSS
DURING THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE WAR, 1793–1802

Current number. Number on the Prisoners’ Rank. Ship or Man-of-war, Place of Age. Where Time of Disorder or
G.E.B. names. corps. privateer, nativity. taken. death. casualty.
or merchant
vessel.
41 1411 Vincent Seaman _La France 23 3rd August Killed by a
Lydyer Suffisante_ 1797 blow in
prison by
the
following
black man.
42 2842 Jean Seaman _L’Emilie_ Dominique 40 5th August Hung
Beautemps 1797 himself in
the Black
Hole

(_h_) DEATH CERTIFICATES OF FRENCH SOLDIERS WHO DIED AT NORMAN CROSS
DURING THE SECOND PERIOD OF THE WAR, 1803–1815

Current number. Number on the Prisoners’ Rank. Ship or Man-of-war, Place of Age. Where Time of Disorder or
G.E.B. names. corps. privateer, nativity. taken. death. casualty.
or merchant
vessel.
263 2384 Vincent Soldier _La Sophie_ Transp. Veli 31 Off Port au 23rd March Phthisis
Fontaine (départ, de Prince 1808
L’Aime)
1 809 Jean Sailor _Le Hardi_ Merchant Ganzeville, 48 Off 24th Fever
Benoist vessel near Fécamp Barfleur October
(départ. 1803
dela Seine
Inférieure)

INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO APPENDIX D

Two years ago I received from Mr. W. T. Mellows, Solicitor of Peterborough, the loan of an imperfect copy of a Parliamentary paper endorsed, “Supplement 1801 to Appendix No. 59, Report of the Transport Board to the House of Commons 1798, being correspondence with the French Government relative to Prisoners of War.” The fragment contained, as far as I recollect, thirty-eight out of the fifty-eight or fifty-nine letters enumerated in the index of contents. Those missing were apparently so important that I went to the British Museum to search through the Parliamentary Reports for this appendix. Failing to find the document, I left the imperfect copy with the assistant librarian, who finally returned it to me, saying that extraordinary as it was, this supplement was not in the Museum library. A search in the library of the House of Commons, in which I was assisted by Mr. George Greenwood, M.P., gave the same result—this supplement was not to be found. I have now to acknowledge that last year this unique but imperfect copy disappeared while under my care—my own impression is that it was lost in its travels through an intermediary from my hands to those of the typist. Fortunately I had already included some of the letters in the text of this work, and Mr. W. T. Mellows, intending to present the document to the Museum when I had done with it, had made his clerk copy six of the letters and an extract from the report of Commissioner Serle; these I reproduce in this appendix, regretting deeply that I am unable to publish the whole of the thirty-eight letters which were once in my possession, but are now lost and probably destroyed.—T. J. W.