e would have had a trundle bed to have kept him
off the stones, they would not suffer friends to bring him one, but
forced him to lie on the stones, which sometimes would run down with
water in a wet season. And when he was in a room for which he paid 4d.
a night, he was threatened, if he did but walk to and fro in it, by
the jaylor's wife. Then they put him in a hole in the wall, very high,
where the ladder was too short by about six foot, and when friends
would have given him a cord and basket to have taken up his victuals,
he was denied thereof and could not be suffered to have it, though it
was much desired, but he must either come up and down by that rope, or
else famish in the hole, which he did a long time, before God suffered
them to see their desires in which time much means was used about it,
but their wills were unalterably set in cruelty towards him. But after
long suffering in this hole, where there was nought but misery as to
the outward man, being no hole either for air or for smoke, being much
benumbed in the naturals, as he was climbing up the ladder with his
victuals in one hand, and coming to the top of the ladder, catching at
the rope with the other hand, missed the rope, and fell a very great
height upon stones, by which fall he was exceedingly wounded in the
head and arms, and his body much bruised, and taken up for dead, but
did recover again that time.

'Then they put him in a low hole called the oven, and much like an
oven, and some have said who have been in it that they have seen a
baker's oven much bigger, except for the height of the roof, without
the least airhole or window for smoke and air, nor would they suffer
him to have a little charcoal brought in by friends to prevent the
noisome smoke. Nor would they suffer him, after he was a little
recovered, to take a little air upon the castle wall, which was but
once desired by the prisoner, feeling himself spent for want of
breath. All which he bore with much patience and still kept his
suffering much from friends there, seeing they was much sorrowful to
see it. Yea, others who were no friends were wounded at the sight of
his usage in many other particulars, which we forbear here to mention.

'And divers came to see him, who heard of his usage from far, not
being friends, had liberty to see him, who was astonished at his
usage, and some of them would say "IF THIS BE THE USAGE OF THE
PROTECTOR'S PRISONERS IT WERE BETTER TO BE ANYBODY'S PRISON