ordinary suggests that he delivered to the Countess of
Devonshire in place of another. He expresses his faith in the Protestant
church, and his belief in the chief tenets of the Christian religion,
and denies that he had been drunk and abused the ordinary, swearing, and
boasting that he had L5000, and could have a pardon when he pleased. On
the contrary, he had acted as clerk in the prison chapel.

About eight or nine o'clock Justice Stringer came to me in
Chancery-Lane, and two or three knights and persons of quality,
eight or nine in all; they had one bottle of sack among them, of
which I drank one little cup ... and God forgive them that
raised the scandal.

He then complains of the Hole where he was confined the night after the
Sessions--

It is a most sad deplorable place; Hell itself, in comparison
cannot be such a place; there is neither bench, stool nor stick
for any person there; they lie like swine upon the ground, one
upon another, howling and roaring ... I would humbly beg that
the Hole may be provided with some kind of boards like a court
of guard, that men may lie down upon them in ease.

JACKSON (the gaoler)--Seventeen out of nineteen made their
escapes out of that Hole, they having only a form there.

SIR R. FORD--If I did think there were a reprieve to come for
you I would be contented to spin out the time thus; but in good
earnest I expect none; unless you had an apprehension you were
not to die you would not spin out the time thus, not thus run
to many impertinences.

Turner then finished his speech, and after he had prayed a little the
executioner fitted the rope round his neck--

TURNER--What, dost thou mean to choke me? pray fellow, give me
more rope; what a simple fellow is this! How long have you been
executioner that you know not yet how to put the knot?

In the midst of his private ejaculations, offering to pull down
the cap, he espied a gentlewoman at a window nigh, kissed his
hand, said 'Your servant, Mistress.'... His cap being pulled
down he gave the sign and the executioner turned him off.

The confluence of people from the gaol to the place of execution
was very great, beyond the memory of any upon the like occasion.

During his imprisonment, and to the last breath of life, his
carriage was very undaunted.

FOOTNOTES:

[42] See _ante_, p. 126.

[43] See _an