[Extract]
[Mill Prison, Plymouth, July 1778]
15th. Wednesday. . . this afternoon 4 Boys Attempted Making their Escape by Climbing Over Our Prison into the frenchmans Yard1 & were secreated in the frenchmen’s Hammocks, but were Detected & Comttd. to the B[lack]. hole
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. The “Frenchman’s Yard” was the yard of the adjoining prison where French prisoners of war were held.