_Scotch Prisoners at Worcester._--In Mr. Walcott's _History of St.
Margaret's Church, Westminster_, I find the following extract from
church wardens' accounts:--
"1652. P'd to Thos. Wright for 67 loads of soyle laid on the
graves in Tothill Fields, wherein 1200 Scotch prisoners, taken
at the fight at Worcester, were buried; and for other pains
taken with his teeme of horses, about mending the Sanctuary
Highway, when Gen. Ireton was buried."
I have taken the pains to verify this extract, and find the figures
quite correctly given. I wish to put the Query: Is this abominable
massacre in cold blood mentioned by any of our historians? But for such
unexceptionable evidence, it would appear incredible.