Winchester Prison the 21th day of the 1 month, 59 If the measure of my sufferings under the creuel hands of unreasonale men, be finished in this noysome prison by the laying down of my life, ...
Mellidge, Anthony.
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Winchester Prison the 21th day of the 1 month, 59 If the measure of my sufferings under the creuel hands of unreasonale men, be finished in this noysome prison by the laying down of my life, ...
Mellidge, Anthony.
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1659]
Signed at end: Anthony Melledg.
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A50566 R221878 (Wing M1647B). civilwar no Winchester Prison the 21th day of the 1 month, 59. If the measure of my sufferings under the creuel hands of unreasonale men, be finished in Mellidge, Anthony 1659 1248 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 C The rate of 16 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
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Winchester
Prison
the
21th
day
of
the
1
month
,
59.
IF
the
measure
of
my
sufferings
under
the
creuel
hands
of
unreasonable
men
,
be
finished
in
this
noysome
prison
by
the
laying
down
of
my
life
,
(
in
obedience
to
the
Lord
that
hath
called
me
out
of
the
way
of
sinners
)
by
reason
of
my
tedious
,
unwholsome
,
and
cruel
sufferings
this
12.
months
in
this
little
filthy
hole
,
which
if
at
large
were
declared
it
might
appear
to
be
much
,
that
my
life
,
(
and
others
)
hath
been
preserved
to
this
day
,
but
if
not
much
longer
;
this
I
declare
for
truths
sake
,
&
desire
to
have
laid
before
the
eies
of
the
chief
Rulers
of
this
Nation
,
that
none
hereafter
may
say
,
that
lb
ought
these
cruel
sufferings
upon
my self
,
or
that
by
negligence
or
wilfulness
I
was
the
occasion
of
my
own
death
as
it
was
said
of
Iames
Parnel
;
for
I
was
travelling
towards
London
with
goods
upon
lawful
occasions
,
and
forth
of
an
Inn
about
the
10th
.
hower
of
the
night
,
was
I
taken
with
a
Warrant
,
and
no
man
charged
any
thing
against
me
but
Iohn
Bunkly
in
his
Mittimus
falsely
writ
several
misdemeanors
,
but
never
proved
in
the
least
:
and
at
an
Assises
after
,
by
Judge
Windham
was
I
committed
to
the
house
of
Correction
,
until
I
engage
to
go
home
,
whose
business
then
lay
from
home
at
London
.
And
a
free
man
born
in
the
Nation
I
am
,
and
also
for
my
liberty
in
it
from
such
cruel
tyranny
,
have
served
8.
years
in
the
late
war
at
Sea
,
who
sometime
was
a
Captain
of
a
Friggot
at
Sea
;
and
since
I
was
a
Prisoner
thus
unjustly
here
,
I
have
with
the
rest
of
my
dear
brethren
with
me
,
declared
in
Print
,
in
a
book
tituled
,
The
fruits
of
unrighteousness
,
brought
forth
by
Ioh.
Bunkly
,
who
unjustly
committed
3.
of
us
into
prison
,
when
he
was
in
a
passion
as
he
confest
:
that
we
are
ready
to
submit
to
all
the
lawes
of
the
Nation
either
actively
or
passively
,
&
desire
to
know
by
what
law
I
am
kept
here
,
and
have
not
been
wanting
to
use
any
means
lawful
in
the
sight
of
God
,
for
my
liberty
out
of
this
stinking
place
,
but
nothing
hath
prevailed
upon
the
hardned
hearts
of
the
sons
of
men
;
who
though
they
keep
us
in
close
prison
,
to
have
us
engage
to
go
home
,
or
out
of
the
County
,
yet
Wil.
Bayly
born
in
the
county
,
(
committed
in
one
Mittimus
with
me
&
also
Hum.
Smith
)
could
not
obtain
liberty
from
Justice
nor
Jayler
to
go
home
,
which
is
out
of
the
County
,
when
his
Father
dyed
,
&
one
of
his
own
three
small
motherless
children
not
well
.
Therefore
let
all
people
that
fear
the
Lord
,
take
notice
how
unmercifuly
they
deal
with
him
&
the
rest
,
&
with
me
,
who
have
been
sick
many
dayes
(
or
weeks
)
&
am
now
waxed
very
weak
by
reason
of
the
cruel
sufferings
my
body
hath
here
endured
,
and
my
soul
(
with
the
rest
of
my
dear
friends
)
grieved
by
most
barbarous
wicked
common
drunken
swearing
prisoners
,
&
our
bodies
dayly
abused
by
them
,
and
condemned
persons
,
and
beaten
,
and
like
to
be
murthered
by
such
as
one
of
them
said
he
was
for
the
King
so
long
as
he
lived
,
&
termed
the
States
service
at
Sea
piracie
under
whose
cruel
hands
it
is
most
unreasonable
we
should
be
kept
:
&
a
most
filthy
beastly
woman
Jayler
setting
them
on
,
and
hath
also
lockt
a
rude
bawling
madman
into
the
hoal
where
we
are
,
on
purpose
to
do
me
what
mischief
she
could
,
which
man
soon
devoured
what
I
had
to
nourish
my
body
when
I
was
sick
and
weak
;
and
frinds
were
lockt
up
also
that
they
could
not
get
more
●or
me
;
and
the
noyse
of
the
madman
did
me
much
more
hurt
,
then
the
want
of
water
or
nourishment
;
for
my
body
which
now
lyeth
in
a
filthy
hoal
,
in
a
weak
condition
upon
the
ground
with
straw
,
where
they
were
used
to
put
condemned
persons
,
and
where
we
have
long
wanted
room
to
lie
one
by
another
,
being
a
hoal
more
fit
for
swine
,
where
the
spewing
and
piss
of
the
drunken
prisoners
that
lie
above
us
,
have
commonly
come
down
where
we
lie
,
and
on
our
faces
in
the
night
,
and
on
our
food
as
we
were
eating
:
and
most
noysome
stinks
and
filthy
scents
have
I
suffered
,
by
being
shut
up
in
it
close
prisoner
ten
months
,
having
no
place
for
ayre
,
but
in
a
smoaky
filthy
close
place
,
where
for
four
months
I
cannot
see
the
sun
,
which
place
is
as
a
dunghil
,
or
common
place
of
filth
for
all
the
prison
,
and
much
more
the
like
,
or
worse
may
be
writ
of
it
.
Out
of
which
bonds
and
inhumane
sufferings
,
I
do
claim
my
right
and
freedome
in
the
nation
,
which
I
&
the
rest
of
my
dear
suffering
friends
have
so
dearly
purchased
,
and
also
paid
tribute
,
sesements
and
taxes
,
&
yet
of
law
&
liberty
we
are
deprived
;
having
not
in
the
least
spake
or
done
any
thing
worthy
of
death
or
of
bonds
,
if
I
had
,
less
then
12.
months
imprisonment
satisfieth
the
law
in
many
things
,
though
nothing
but
blood
,
nor
that
neither
will
satisfie
the
cruel
wills
of
men
,
under
whose
tyranny
upon
the
Lord
I
wait
to
be
releast
,
with
the
rest
of
my
brethren
seven
in
number
,
who
innocently
do
suffer
,
but
if
not
,
my
life
I
give
up
into
the
will
of
him
whose
it
is
that
redeems
the
soul
out
of
bondage
,
&
let
them
by
whom
I
thus
suffer
&
them
who
may
release
me
,
&
the
rest
,
and
will
not
,
take
heed
of
innocent
blood
.
And
this
is
written
for
me
being
weak
my self
upon
a
little
straw
,
from
which
I
have
not
been
many
dayes
,
to
the
truth
whereof
I
write
my
name
Anthony
Melledg
.
Iames
Potter
imprisoned
and
nothing
proved
against
him
,
was
by
judge
Nichols
,
fined
five
pound
to
the
late
Protecto●
for
wearing
his
hat
,
and
hath
been
a
prisoner
almost
2
years
.
Elizabeth
Streeter
imprisoned
from
her
sucking
child
,
and
fined
five
pound
for
speaking
some
words
of
truth
to
a
Priest
in
the
high
way
,
and
2
of
her
husbands
servants
imprisoned
by
Rob.
Reynolds
(
who
also
committed
her
)
contrary
to
law
and
never
yet
brought
to
any
tryal
.
Close-Prisoners
in
the
common
Jayl
and
house
of
Correction
at
Winchester
.
Will.
Bayly
.
Humphery
Smith
.
Athony
Melledg
.
Richard
Baker
.
Iames
Pottar
.
Will.
Baker
.
Elizabeth
Streeter
.