Afterwards, a prisoner dying in the gaol of the
plague, the gaoler's wife, her husband being absent, gave leave to
Isaac Penington to remove to another house, where he was shut up for
six weeks; after which, by the procurement of the Earl of Ancram, a
release was sent from the said Philip Palmer, by which he was
discharged, after he had suffered imprisonment three-quarters of a
year, with apparent hazard of his life, and that for no offence."
This was not the end of the troubles of Ellwood's patron and friend.
He had been home only three weeks when "the said Philip Palmer"
seized him again, dragged him out of bed, sent him, without any
cause shown, to Aylesbury gaol, and kept him a year and a half
prisoner "in rooms so cold, damp, and unhealthy, that it went very
near to cost him his life, and procured him so great a distemper
that he lay weak of it several months. At length a relation of his
wife, by an habeas corpus, removed him to the King's Bench bar,
where (with the wonder of the court that a man should he so long
imprisoned for nothing) he was at last released in the year 1668.
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