It is a most sad deplorable place; Hell itself, in comparison cannot be such a place; there is neither bench, stool nor stick for any person there; they lie like swine upon the ground, one upon another, howling and roaring ... I would humbly beg that the Hole may be provided with some kind of boards like a court of guard, that men may lie down upon them in ease. JACKSON (the gaoler)--Seventeen out of nineteen made their escapes out of that Hole, they having only a form there. SIR R. FORD--If I did think there were a reprieve to come for you I would be contented to spin out the time thus; but in good earnest I expect none; unless you had an apprehension you were not to die you would not spin out the time thus, not thus run to many impertinences. Turner then finished his speech, and after he had prayed a little the executioner fitted the rope round his neck-- TURNER--What, dost thou mean to choke me? pray fellow, give me more rope; what a simple fellow is this! How long have you been executioner that you know not yet how to put the knot? In the midst of his private ejaculations, offering to pull down the cap, he espied a gentlewoman at a window nigh, kissed his hand, said 'Your servant, Mistress.'... His cap being pulled down he gave the sign and the executioner turned him off. The confluence of people from the gaol to the place of execution was very great, beyond the memory of any upon the like occasion. During his imprisonment, and to the last breath of life, his carriage was very undaunted. FOOTNOTES: [42] See _ante_, p. 126. [43] See _ante_, p. 125. [44] 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, regulating bail so as to prevent justices admitting prisoners to bail collusively. This statute 'was, in fact, the origin of the preliminary inquiry, which has come to be in practice one of the most important and characteristic parts of our whole system of procedure, but it was originally intended to guard against collusion between the justices and the prisoners brought before them.'--Stephen's _History_, vol. i. p. 237. [45] These statements were probably made as answers to questions; but the fact does not appear in the report. [46] At this point either Turner got into a wild confusion as to time, and nobody noticed it, or the report is wrong. Turner's story as it now stands is quite irreconcilable with the obviously true part of the evidence. [47] Turner must have said, or intended to say, that he had agreed to pay Wild the £500 that White had given him the night before, as black-mail for the rest of the money and the jewels; but nothing of this appears in the report. It does not appear from the report how much money Tryon lost in all, nor how much was found at Fry's. It does not follow that evidence on the subject was not given at the trial. [48] Turner was arrested by Cole about 3 P.M. Sir T. Aleyn does not say when he parted from him in the morning.