The Holy War – John Bunyan

FOREMAN. Guilty my Lord.
CLERK. Look to your prisoners, jailer.
This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the
sentence of death according to the law.
The jailer therefore having received such a charge, put them all in the
inward prison, to preserve them there till the day of execution, which was to
be the next day in the morning.
But now to see how it happened, one of the prisoners, Incredulity by
name, in the interim betwixt the sentence and the time of execution, brake
prison and made his escape, and gets him away quite out of the town of
Mansoul, and lay lurking in such places and holes as he might, until he
should again have opportunity to do the town of Mansoul a mischief for their
thus handling of him as they did.[12]
Now when Mr. True-man the jailer perceived that he had lost his
prisoner, he was in a heavy taking, because he, that prisoner was, to speak
on, the very worst of all the gang; wherefore first, he goes and acquaints my
Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and my Lord Will-bewill with the matter, and to
get of them an order to make search for him throughout the town of
Mansoul. So an order he got, and search was made, but no such man could
now be found in all the town of Mansoul.[13]
All that could be gathered was that he had lurked a while about the
outside of the town, and that here and there one or other had a glimpse of
him as he did make his escape out of Mansoul; one or two also did affirm
that they saw him without the town, going a-pace quite over the plain.[14]
Now when he was quite gone, it was affirmed by one Mr. Didsee, that he
ranged all over dry places, till he met with Diabolus his friend; and where
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