They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.
As for those in the citadel at Jerusalem, they were so tightly confined that they could neither leave nor enter the countryside, nor buy nor sell, so that they suffered greatly from lack of food, and many of them died of starvation.