[Forton Prison, Portsmouth]
June the 23d Woodard [James Woodward] and [Benjamin] Lambert was brought back to Forton again and left the Capt and Fritz,2 the Night before very much fatigued. Woodard and Lambert was put into the Black hole on Six ounces of beef, half a pound of bread one pint of small beer for 24 hours there they was to have continued for 40 days in a few days after I was taken out of my bed at eleven o'Clock at Night on suspision of going to break out by some secret intelligence and was kept there till the next Day when nothing being proved against me I was released The Black hole is a place where you are by yourselves and not allowed to come out or even to speak to us
