Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815

part in a lucrative job, introducing himself, when in liquor afterwards

at the inn, as the author of the escape of General Lefebvre-Desnouettes and wife from Cheltenham, for which he got £210, saying that while in France he engaged to get General Reynaud and his aide-de-camp away from Moreton-Hampstead for £300 or 300 guineas, which was the reason of his presence there. He added tha...