Note 519 — Chapter XVI
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Ibid. 1653, Aug. 28th, Sept. 19th. Calendar, 408.
A large mass of correspondence respecting Barbadoes may be found in the Record Office. Barbadoes had been a place of banishment for the Irish taken at Drogheda, and thither were also sent the Royalists who were made prisoners at Exeter and Ilchester. In a Royalist pamphlet entitled, England's Slavery, or Barbadoes Merchandize, (1659,) a melancholy account is given of the barbarous treatment of seventy-two freeborn Englishmen who uncondemned had been sold into slavery.