A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French, upon the English prisoners of war. Being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and back again. With a description of the situation, and fortifications of all the eminent towns upon the road, and their distance; of their prisons and hospitals, and the number of the men that died under their cruelty; with the names of many of them, and the places of their deaths and burials; with an account of the poor Protestants of France; and other material things that hapned upon the way
A 1690 London account by Richard Strutton, printed for R. Baldwin, recording an English prisoner-of-war journey from Dinan to Toulon and back, with notes on towns, prisons and hospitals for a general readership. The picture is a historiated initial: a square panel with a letter S framed by stylised leaves, flowers and buds in dense woodcut hatching, which suggests a designer might borrow its symmetrical corner-ornament layout for a decorative monogram or border.
