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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804 



flovrne, I was uncivilly dragged to a 

 coach, having my hands bound be- 

 Jiindc nic ; and being carried to 

 ***** J ^as there kept close 

 prisoner, and debarred from the 

 Tisitte of any, but such as proved 

 miserable comforters, and who used 

 all their art to provoke my toungc 

 in my coller, to betraye myself; 

 and some, to shew their content at 

 my captivitie, caused the bells to be 

 runge, and bonfires to be made (a 

 ceremony seldom used but for more 

 noble reasons), some to entrapp me 

 to speake freely (by hearing them in 

 that vayne), used great libertie of 

 ■words towards great persons; the 

 particulars whereof in convenient 

 tyme I shall make bould to unfould. 

 After I had been close imprisoned, 

 and provoked for 15 dayes, being 

 very weake, I was ir two daycs 

 trought upp in a horse-litter to Lon- 

 don, and with such crucltic, that 

 although (through extreame payne) 

 I often cryed out to drive softly, 

 yet soe little compassion I found, 

 that the driver made the more haste, 

 that in eleven Jiours or thereaboute 

 they brought me from Grinsted to 

 London, which hasty worke did 

 more increase my paines, and en- 

 danger my legg, the slowness of the 

 cure of which my chirurgians yet 

 impute to it. 



When I came to Newgate, I was 

 placed in a roonie extreame cold 

 and little, wherein was a chimney 

 fitter to send out smoake to smoake 

 me, than kcepc fire to heate me ; a 

 feed without curtaynes, and that a 

 yard too short for me, which 1 was 

 forced to lengthen with joyned stools, 

 for my legg to lye uppon : and to 

 sweeten the roome, an offensive 

 house of office was on the one side. 

 In this manner, full of payne and 

 torment, was I forced to Jyc, and 



none suffered to comfort me, ©r 

 waite with me, to trye to ease or 

 turne me. : In this torment I have 

 sometimes layen24 hourcs together, 

 when none could heare me cry out, 

 the dorc fast lokt uppon me, when 

 neither chirurgeon, phissision, or 

 sustenance, or any reliefe, could 

 coinc to me. The keepe have beene 

 reported to have beene absent, when 

 myselfe have heard them speak ia 

 the court, and have made my throate 

 hoarse with callingc on them, but 

 without answcre. This made me 

 jealous (not without cause) that the 

 people of the house were bribed to 

 neglect me, that thus 1 might linger, 

 which made mc pray by death to 

 cud this misery : neither could it be 

 hoped for a longe tyme, when I was 

 thus left forsaken orer-night, that 

 I should have bcenc lyvingc in the 

 morninge. I lay for a fortnight to- 

 geather, nor scne nor spoken to by 

 any but the phissisions and chirur- 

 gians, scarce catinge three meales 

 in that tyme, having little fittinge 

 ineate prepared for me. Notwith- 

 standing this abstinence, I fell into 

 a burning fever, and for want of 

 sleepe, and through paine, I became 

 disfraughted, tearinge my plasters 

 and licsh, cryed out and raved like 

 a madman, bcatingc my fistes and 

 armes black and blcMC against 

 the wall, and often attempted to 

 leape forthe of my bedd, but my ( 

 wounds and weaknes did me the ' 

 service to keepe me fast; and yctdu- 

 ringc all this cxtremitie, had I none 

 to watch witli me, or hclpe to turne 

 me in my bedd. But I praise God 

 I was throuch the care of Dr. Fludd 

 recovered of the sickness, but likely 

 to loose my limbs. 



This is a true relation of my 



usage, and all this attended 



with soe many fowle circum- 



stances, 



