H. BURTON. 53 " or other chief officer of the said castle of Lancaster, and to " his deputy, and the goaler aforesaid.". Though this order might seem to make some atonement for the numerous severities inflicted upon them, and be intended to blind the eyes of the people ; instead of receiving his majesty's favour, not one of them, through the influence of the reverend prelates, received one penny of the royal bounty ; and if their friends and keepers had not been more charitable than their lordships, they would soon have perished in their prisons. Great numbers of persons, who pitied these unhappy sufferers, having resorted to the places where they were con- fined, the relentless archbishop, to add afflictions to the afflicted, and to deprive them of all possibility of receiving comfort or relief from their wives , relations, or friends, pro- cured an order for their perpetual banishment and close im- prisonment, in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Scilly. This order, now before me, is much the same as that which followed them, to their other places of confinement, only it contains this additional severity : "That no letters or writings " be permitted to be brought to the said prisoners, nor from " them, to any person or place whatsoever. And that the " wives of the said Burton and Bastwick (Prynne not being "married) shall not be permitted to land on any of the said " islands ; and if they or either of them shall be found so " offending, such offender or offenders shall forthwith be " committed to prison. And that in conveying the said prisoners to the said islands, no person whatsoever, besides "those who have the care and charge of them, shall be per- " mitted to speak with them." What greater cruelty ever appeared in the Spanish Inquisition, or among the barbarities of the Algiereans ? According to the above order, Mr. Burton, contrary to his sentence in the star-chamber, and without any cause shewn, was removed from the castle of Lancaster to Castle-cornet in the island of Guernsey; where he arrived December 15, 1637, and was shut up in a low, narrow, dark room, almost suffocated for want of air, and no one allowed to see or speak to him. Dr. Bastwick was also removed from the castle of Launceston to the castle on the island of Scilly ;- and Mr. Prynne from Carnarvon to the castle of Montorguiel in Jersey, where they were shut up close pri- soners./ These oppressive and illegal proceedings, however gratify. Prynne's Prelates' Tyranny, p. 84. t Ibid. p. 61-98.
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