Asgill, John, an eccentric Englishman, wrote a book to prove that death was due to want of faith, and to express his belief that he would be translated, and translated he was, to spend 30 years, apparently quite happily, writing pamphlets, and end his days in the debtors' prison.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
As`gard * Ash, John