Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815 a Record of Their Lives Their Romance
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Maberley Phillips, F. S. A. , from whose pamphlet on prisoners of war in the North I shall quote later (pp. 388-9) a description of an escape of paroled prisoners from Jedburgh, says : ' Jedburgh had its share of French prisoners. They were for the most part kindly treated, and many of them were permitted a great amount of liberty. One of these had a taste for archaeology and visited all the ruins within the precincts of 346 PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN his radius, namely, a mile from the Cross.... There is a tradition that on one of his excursions, he was directed to a ruin about a quarter of a mile beyond his appointed mark, which happened to be a milestone. He asked the Provost for permission to go beyond ; that worthy, however, refused, but he quietly added : " If iMr. Combat did walk a short distance beyond the mile and nobody said anything, nothing would come of it. " But the Frenchman had given his word of honour, and he could not break it. A happy thought struck him. He borrowed a barrow one afternoon, and with it and the necessary imple- ments proceeded out to the obnoxious milestone.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Maberley Phillips, F. S. A. , from whose pamphlet on prisoners of war in the North I shall quote later (pp. 388-9) a description of an escape of paroled prisoners from Jedburgh, says : ' Jedburgh had its share of French prisoners. They were for the most part kindly treated, and many of them were permitted a great amount of liberty. One of these had a taste for archaeology and visited all the ruins within the precincts of 346 PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN his radius, namely, a mile from the Cross.... There is a tradition that on one of his excursions, he was directed to a ruin about a quarter of a mile beyond his appointed mark, which happened to be a milestone. He asked the Provost for permission to go beyond ; that worthy, however, refused, but he quietly added : " If iMr. Combat did walk a short distance beyond the mile and nobody said anything, nothing would come of it. " But the Frenchman had given his word of honour, and he could not break it. A happy thought struck him. He borrowed a barrow one afternoon, and with it and the necessary imple- ments proceeded out to the obnoxious milestone.
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