Thieves and Murderers ; which accordingly he did. A Filthy, Na-
sty Place it was, where Men and Women were put together in a very
uncivil manner ; and never a House of Office to it.: And the Prisoners
so lousy, that one Woman was almost eaten to death with Lice. Yet as
bad as the Place was, the Prisoners were all made very loving and
subject to me ; and some of them were Convinced of the Truth, as
the Publicans and Harlots were of old ; so that they were able to
confound a Priest, that might come to the Grates to dispute. But the
Jailer was very Cruel, and the Under-Jailer very abusive both to me,
and to Friends, that came to see me : For he would beat Friends
with a great Cudgel, that did but come to the Window to look in upon
me. I could get up to the Grate, where sometimes I took in my
Meat ; at which the Jailer was often offended. One Time he came
in a great Rage, and fell a beating me with his great Cudgel, though I
was not at the Grate at that time: and as he beat me, he cried, Come
out of the Window, though I was then far enough from it. Now,
while he struck me, I was made to sing in the Lord’s Power ; and
that made him Rage the more. Then he went, and fetched a Fiddler,
and brought him in where I was, and set him to play ; thinking to
vex me thereby : But while he played, I was moved in the everlast-
ing Power of the Lord God to sing ; and my Voice drowned the Noise
of the Fiddle, and struck and confounded them : and made them give
over Fiddling, and go their ways.

Justice Benson’s Wife was moved of the Lord to come to visit me,
and to Eat no Meat, but what she Eat with me at the Bars of the
Dungeon-Window. She was afterwards herself Imprisoned at York,
when she was great with Child, for speaking to a Priest ; and was
kept in Prison, and not suffered to go out, when the time of her Tra-
vail was come : so she was delivered of her Child in the Prison. She
was an honest, tender Woman, and continued faithful to the Truth,
until she died.

Whilst I was in the Dungeon at Carlisle, one James Parnel, a little
Lad of about Sixteen Years of Age, came to see me ; and was Con-
vinced : And the Lord quickly made him a powerful Minister of the
Word of Life, and many were turned to Christ by him ; though he
lived not long. For travelling into Essex in the Work of the Ministry,
in the Year 1655, he was Committed to Colchester-Castle, where he
endured very great Hardships and Sufferings ; being put by the Cruel
Jailer into a Hole in the Castle-wall, called the Oven, so high from
the Ground, that he went up to it by a Ladder : which being six
Foot too short, he was fain to climb from the Ladder to the Hole by a
Rope that was fastned above. And when Friends would have given
him a Cord and a Basket, to have drawn up is Victuals in, the Inhu-
man Jailer would not suffer them ; but he forced him to go down and
up by that short Ladder and Rope, to fetch his Victuals (which for a
long time he did) or else he might have famished in the Hole. At
length, his Limbs being much benummed with lying in that Place, yet
being constrained to go down to take up some Victuals ; as he came
up the Ladder again with his Victuals in one hand, and catched at the
Rope with the other, he missed the Rope; and fell down from a ve-
ry great height upon the Stones : by which Fall he was exceedingly

wounded