Winchester Prison the 21th day of the 1 month, 59  
IF the measure of my sufferings under the crevel hands of unreasonable men, be finished in this noisome 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, unwholesome, 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 truth's sake, & desire to have laid before the eyes of the chief Rulers of this Nation, that none hereafter may say, that lb ought these cruel sufferings upon myself, or that by negligence or wilfulness I was the occasion of my own death as it was said of James Parnel; for I was travelling towards London with goods upon lawful occasions, and forth of an Inn about the 10th. hour of the night, was I taken with a Warrant, and no man charged any thing against me but John Bunkly in his Mittimus falsely writ several misdemeanours, but never proved in the least: and at an assizes 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 frigate 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 confessed: that we are ready to submit to all the laws 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 hardened 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. Baily born in the county, (committed in one Mittimus with me & also Hum. Smith) could not obtain liberty from Justice nor jailer to go home, which is out of the County, when his Father died, & 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 days (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 daily abused by them, and condemned persons, and beaten, and like to be murdered by such as one of them said he was for the King so long as he lived, & termed the state's service at Sea piracy under whose cruel hands it is most unreasonable we should be kept: & a most filthy beastly woman jailer setting them on, and hath also locked 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 friends were locked up also that they could not get more ●or me; and the noise of the madman did me much more hurt, than the want of water or nourishment; for my body which now lieth 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 noisome stinks and filthy scents have I suffered, by being shut up in it close prisoner ten months, having no place for air, but in a smoky filthy close place, where for four months I cannot see the sun, which place is as a dunghill, 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 inhuman sufferings, I do claim my right and freedom 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 spoke or done any thing worthy of death or of bonds, if I had, less than 12. months' imprisonment satisfieth the law in many things, though nothing but blood, nor that neither will satisfy the cruel wills of men, under whose tyranny upon the Lord I wait to be released, 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 myself upon a little straw, from which I have not been many days, to the truth whereof I write my name Anthony Melledg.   

James 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 husband's servants imprisoned by Rob. Reynolds (who also committed her) contrary to law and never yet brought to any trial.  

Close-Prisoners in the common jail and house of Correction at Winchester.  
Will. Baily.  
Humphrey Smith.  
Athony Melledg.  
Richard Baker.  
James Pottar.  
Will. Baker.  
Elizabeth Streeter.