The petition also claimed that 7,000-8,000 Scots taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester in 1651 were sold to the British plantations in the New World,??? and that ???200 Frenchmen had been kidnapped, concealed and sold in Barbados for 900 pounds of cotton each.Subsequently some 52,000 Irish, mostly women and sturdy boys and girls, were sold to Barbados and Virginia alone.