On different occasions he was mobbed, struck, fastened to a pillory, imprisoned, threatened with death, and left to die in the mud at the bottom of an empty cistern.
Tuli ette olukordi, kus teda ründasid rahvajõugud, kus teda peksti, pandi kaelaraudu, vangistati, ähvardati surmaga ning jäeti tühja kaevu põhja mudasse surema.