[July 24, 1775, cont.] was not permitted for a long time after.
25. [July 1775] Our
confinement continues with the usual
Salutations of impious and debauched language
in our ears. Mr. John Hunt and the
Dutchman
Hyter discharged.
26.[July 1775] Dorrington, his son and maid discharged.
27. [July 1775] Very close confin'd.
29. [July 1775] Very
close confin'd; a continued Series of
Swearing
and debauch'd conversation under our
windows,
which we have reason to think is done on pur-
pose to insult us.
30.[July 1775]
Mr. Walter Cruise was brought in
prisoner
from
Charlestown. He was corporal among the
riflemen, and was taken in the night in en-
deavoring to take a centinal of the advanced
guard
of
Bunker Hill. The latter half of the day
we
were close confin'd.
31. [July 1775] Close confin'd.
Aug. 1.
[1775] Close confin'd;
the rifle corporal Cruise close
confin'd,
and allow'd nothing but bread and water.
2. [August 1775] Close confin'd, and the weather very hot.
3. [August 1775] A poor
labouring man, and an Inhabitant of
the town was brought to gaol, cruelly beat, and
put in the dungeon. The language of the
gaol is infernal, and our treatment like Turks.