e charge in this room also, yet I could not
keep out the wind and rain.... Afterwards I hired a soldier to fetch
me water and bread, and something to make a fire of, when I was in a
room where a fire could be made. Commonly a threepenny loaf served me
three weeks, and sometimes longer, and most of my drink was water,
with wormwood steeped or bruised in it.... As to friends I was as a
man buried alive, for though many came far to see me, yet few were
suffered to come to me.... The officers often threatened that I should
be hanged over the wall. Nay, the deputy governor told me once, that
the King, knowing that I had a great interest in the people, had sent
me thither, that if there should be any stirring in the nation, they
should hang me over the wall to keep the people down. A while after
they talked much of hanging me. But I told them that if that was what
they desired and it was permitted them, I was ready; for I never
feared death nor sufferings in my life, but I was known to be an
innocent, peaceable man, free from all stirrings and plottings, and
one that sought the good of all men. Afterwards, the Governor growing
kinder, I spoke to him when he was going to London, and desired him to
speak to Esquire Marsh, Sir Francis Cobb, and some others, and let
them know how long I had lain in prison, and for what, and he did so.
When he came down again, he told me that Esquire Marsh said he would
go a hundred miles barefoot for my liberty, he knew me so well; and
several others, he said, spoke well of me. From which time the
Governor was very loving to me.

'There were among the prisoners two very bad men, who often sat
drinking with the officers and soldiers; and because I would not sit
and drink with them, it made them the worse against me. One time when
these two prisoners were drunk, one of them (whose name was William
Wilkinson, who had been a captain), came in and challenged me to fight
with him. I seeing what condition he was in, got out of his way; and
next morning, when he was more sober, showed him how unmanly a thing
it was in him to challenge a man to fight, whose principle he knew it
was not to strike; but if he was stricken on one ear to turn the
other. I told him that if he had a mind to fight, he should have
challenged some of the soldiers, that could have answered him in his
own way. But, however, seeing he had challenged me, I was now come to
answer him, with my hands in my pockets: and, reaching my head