The merchant distressed : his observations, vvhen he was a prisoner for debt in London, in the yeare of our Lord 1637. In which the reader may take notice of I. His observations of many passages in the prison during his being there. II. The severall humours and conditions of his fellow prisoners and others. III. His advice to them, and to some of his and their kinde and unkinde friends. IV. Gods singular care and providence over all distressed prisoners and others who put their trust in him, and depend wholly upon him in their afflictions. VVritten in plane verse, by William Bagwell