CHAPTER XXIX.
Dulcibel's Life in Prison.
Dulcibel's life in prison was of course a very monotonous one.

She did not suffer however as did many other women of equally gentle nature.

In the jails of Ipswich, Boston and Cambridge, there were keepers who conformed in most cases strictly to the law.

In many instances delicate and weakly women, often of advanced years, were chained, hands and feet, with heavy irons, night and day.
But Robert Foster and his son, who assisted him as under-keeper, while indulging before the marshal and the constables in the utmost violence and severity of language, and who were supposed to be strict enforcers of all the instructions received from the magistrates, were as we have seen, at heart, very liberal and kind-hearted men.

And the only fear the prisoners had, was that they would throw up their positions some day in disgust.