4'7!8 of oblivion; he sayd he knew that well enough, and bad him sue out his remedie; then in fury and rage turn'd out the collonell's ser_- vant out of his chamber, who had bene lockt up with him all the time of his imprisonment, and left him altogether unattended, which having never bene before in his whole life, put him into a cold and a flux, with a feaverish distemper: but the greatnesse of his mind was not broken by the feebleness of his con>titution, nor the barbarous inhumanity of his iaylors, which he receiv'd with disdaine· and !aught at them, but lost not anger on them. After these things, Mrs. I-Iutchinson comming out of the country was, by the lieftenant's order denied to see her husband, but at her lodgings found letters from him convey'd to her every day, spite of all his guards; and thereupon she writt to Robinson to desire to know whither the secretary had countermanded her first order to see her husband, or whither he denied obedience to it: whereupon Robinson sent to her to come to him the next day, but when she came he was gone forth, and she was not admitted within the gates, and thereupon she went back to her lodgings and writt him a smart letter, and sent him with it a copie of her husband's letter, which she told him she would publish, and not suffer him to be murther'd to extort undue mony fi·om him. The next day, being the Lord's clay, he sent one of the warders to entreate her to come to her busto persons of low education and sordid mind; it is here strongly exempH6ed, and doubly painful must it have been to :Mrs. Hutchinson to witness the unworthy treatment her hnsband now rece ived, and to compare it with thftt which the persons confined in this same place had experienced from her father, a man of liberal and noble mind. Considering the prejudice which reigns against p1isons and prisoners, and therefore how few visit them, and how few prisoners dare make observations or remonstrances, it is to be feared many abuses pass unknown and uncorrected; it is but once, in ages, that .there appears a Howard ! These considerations ought to render the guardians of the public welfare extremely tender of the liberty of individuals: but if such things as state prisons be at all necessary, then careful to provide for their being superintended by gentlemen, and men of liberal and benevolent minds.
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