[Forton Prison, Portsmouth]
[1777] July the 30th four more broke out at 12 oClock in the day one got off clear and the [other] three was re-taken and brought back and put into the Black hole viz Christr Cleark, William Tryon, John Cockren Boatswain of the Yankey from Boston there [they] was kept for 40 days half starved allow'd neither bed nor beding to lie on but the soft side of a good Plank