[Mill Prison, Plymouth, 1778]
24th. of July Friday those in the L.P. this Morning Discover’d their Articles were Defaced,1 & the Comttee. Order’d three of those people who threatened to do the same Should be tied up to a post & Effectually washed down with cold Water for the Space of ½ hour— One who Continued to be Obstinate was Complained of [to] the Agent, who put him in Irons & put him in a Separate Apartment Viz. the Itchy Prison—2
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. On these “Articles,” see the Journal of Charles Herbert, entry of 17 July, above. By “L.P.,” Haskins means Long Prison.
2. The “Itchy” prison was a separate building in the Mill Prison complex. The name came from the fact that it was where prisoners suffering from mange, which was caused by a parasitic mite, were sent. Cohen, Yankee Sailors, p. 63.
