_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
offered, as of so many slaves, and selling the rest for that purpose
into the English plantations abroad."