He lived to repay the debt, and to save Milton's life when "Charles enjoyed his own again." Lovelace, the poet and cavalier, was also imprisoned by the Roundheads, and was only liberated from the Gatehouse on giving an enormous bail.

Though he suffered and lost all for the Stuarts, he was forgotten by them at the Restoration, and died in extreme poverty.
Besides Wither and Bunyan, Charles II.

imprisoned Baxter, Harrington [21the author of 'Oceana'], Penn, and many more.

All these men solaced their prison hours with writing.

Baxter wrote some of the most remarkable passages of his 'Life and Times' while lying in the King's Bench Prison; and Penn wrote his 'No Cross no Crown' while imprisoned in the Tower.