[Mill Prison, Plymouth, 1778]
2d. of July Thursday this Day Seventy-four French Prisoners Committed to a Prison here (by themselves)1 they are all foremastmen, for the Officers all as low as a Boatswain Mate are upon their parole in the Country.2
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. These were French seamen taken in one or more of the French warships captured by the British on 17 and 18 June. For those captures, see note at Louis XVI to Comte D’Orvilliers, 28 June, above.
2. In contrast, the British denied parole to all American naval officers. In his journal, Charles Herbert gives the number of newly arrived French prisoners as 47. Herbert, Relic of the Revolution, p. 141.