Is there any evidence that a Parliamentary threat before the Colchester campaign to enslave captured Royalists, mentioned in several secondary resources, was ever carried out? Barbara Donagan claims to be "drawing extensively on primary sources" for *War in England 1642-1649" (2008). She uses the Siege of Colchester as a case history in her research into the actual experience of living through the War, trying to answer such questions as "What were the rules that were supposed to govern conduct in war, and how were they enforced?" She seems to have drawn on a Royalist source for the Parliamentary threat at the outset of the Colchester campaign to "transport and sell them [captured royalists] beyond Sea for slaves" and a Parliamentary one for her statement that the plan was later dropped (the minutes of the Essex Committee?) I have read only extracts from Donagan's book,so must apologise for the absence of page references, but would be very grateful if someone with access to her book would check to see if she quotes her primary sources in each case.