[Mill Prison, Plymouth, June 1778]
14th. Munday The Revd. Mr. Heath1 has Return’d from London, & Yesterday was here to see us, he gave in a few Books, but sayes he Learns that we pay but Little Regard to the Sabbath which is too true; For Many spend their time in Bawdry Obsene Discourse profanely Cursing & Damning their Eyes & Odd Joints, & Blaspheming their Maker Continually, a most Desagreeable place for a Religious Person to be Confined in
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. Deacon Robert Heath, a Calvinist Methodist, who with his assistant Miles Saurey provided spiritual solace and relief for the prisoners at Mill Prison. Cohen, Yankee Sailors, pp. 79–83, 116–17.
