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Extract from Buck’s 1745 South-east Prospect of Leeds.
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"The evening before we arrived, 300 French prioners marched in upon their parole of honour..."
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The evening before we arrived, 300 French prioners marched in upon their parole of honour, which the town seemed very much dissatisfied with, as their miserable appearance gave them no hopes of their leaving any thing behind them but fleas and children. Their bounds extended a mile every way round the town.
From LEEDS we came to MANCHESTER, by EALAND and ROCHDALE through which last place runs the river Roche.
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A Journal of first thoughts, observations, characters, and anecdotes, which occured in a journey from London to Scarborough, in 1781. London: printed for J. Bowen, in the Strand, and on the Steyne, Brighthelmstone, 1781, p. 119.