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PG-P.747.005
27 Jan 1747:11 (946)
[Report of expedition landing at Quimperley Bay, on coast of
Britanny, France] . . . Sunday, September 21. The army
marched in two columns towards Plymieur; the Highlanders and
Royal to the right; Frampton's, Richbell's, Harrison's and
Bragg's, to the left. . . [3 lines] the town agreed to
surrender, and suffered the troops to come to the entrance
thereof, but then fired upon them. The General for such
usage, suffer'd the town to be plunder'd for five hours, and
such use was made of that time, that no valuable commodity
was left therein. The churches they stripped of their
ornaments, in images and plate; their golden Gods were lost,
even the bells were thrown down from the steeples, and many
granaries destroyed.
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