"His third imprisonment was in the year 1665, being taken up, with
many others, in the open street of Amersham, as they were carrying
and accompanying the body of a deceased Friend to the grave. From
hence he was sent again to Aylesbury gaol; but this commitment being
in order to banishment, was but for a month, or thereabouts.
"His fourth imprisonment was in the same year 1665, about a month
after his releasement from the former. Hitherto his commitment had
been by the civil magistrates; but now, that he might experience the
severity of each, he fell into the military hands. A rude soldier,
without any other warrant than what he carried in his scabbard, came
to his house, and told him he came to fetch him before Sir Philip
Palmer, one of the deputy-lieutenants of the county. He meekly
went, and was by him sent with a guard of soldiers to Aylesbury
gaol, with a kind of mittimus, importing 'That the gaoler should
receive and keep him in safe custody during the pleasure of the Earl
of Bridgewater,' who had, it seems, conceived so great, as well as
unjust, displeasure against this innocent man, that, although (it
being the sickness year) the plague was suspected to be in the gaol,
he would not be prevailed with only to permit Isaac Penington to be
removed to another house in the town, and there kept prisoner until
the gaol was clear.
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