May 08, 1766
but about the break of day, he begg'd to be loosed
and go to bed; which they granted him, he
then went up stairs, and threw from
thence all his best clothes, and got out
at the chamber window, but they soon over-
-took him, and brought him back, and that
day took him to jail; and the next day,
when he had been in but one night, he made
a doleful confession Viz: That all he had
done was only in jest, that he put on
the garb of an hypocrite, and feign'd it all.
Oh! what a heart is there in man, what
swear revenge against the persons of
the innocent, and that in his right mind
only to please the devil, and satisfy his
own sordid lusts. O! blessed God, leave
me not to myself & the temptations of the Devil.