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Scotland / Re: Jacobite prisoners from 1745
« on: Monday 26 July 10 18:17 BST (UK)  »
Also ... Tilbury Fort was surrounded by water - the Thames and a moat. How would they have escaped?

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Scotland / Tilbury Fort
« on: Monday 26 July 10 14:33 BST (UK)  »
I'm writing a novel based in 1746 Scotland, and my Jacobite prisoners are currently spending time in Tilbury Fort. I am wondering if you might be able to answer a question or two... or more ...

1) I read that it was suggested the men be stripped of their plaids and washed, and also to have their hair cut because of the filth and lice. Do you know if that actually happened? Would they have been supplied breeks & tunics to replace that, since tartan was outlawed?

2) Did they keep the prisoners doing anything during their stay, or were they forced to stay in that dark ammunitions room all the time?

3) The 17 who were lotted to go to trial - how many were executed, and where did this take place? At the fort? Would the others have been forced to watch? Were they hung?

4) I have noticed that some of the men escaped - was it ever said how they got out?

Thanks SO SO SO much!
- Genevieve Graham
(Nova Scotia)

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