about noon
_ My first visit to England was about the beginning of the present king 's reign . I had occasion to go down to Wapping , to see some goods shipped , which I was sending to some friends at Hamburgh ; after that business was over , I took the Tower Wharf in my way back . Here I found the sun very powerful , and I was so much fatigued that I stepped into one of the cannon to compose me , where I fell fast asleep . This was about noon : it was the fourth of June ; exactly at one o'clock these cannon were all discharged in memory of the day . They had been all charged that morning , and having no suspicion of my situation , I was shot over the houses on the opposite side of the river , into a farmer 's yard , between Bermondsey and Deptford , where I fell upon a large hay-stack , without waking , and continued there in a sound sleep till hay became so extravagantly dear -LRB- which was about three months after -RRB- , that the farmer found it his interest to send his whole stock to market : the stack I was reposing upon was the largest in the yard , containing above five hundred load ; they began to cut that first . I woke with the voices of the people who had ascended the ladders to begin at the top , and got up , totally ignorant of my situation : in attempting to run away I fell upon the farmer to whom the hay belonged , and broke his neck , yet received no injury myself . I afterwards found , to my great consolation , that this fellow was a most detestable character , always keeping the produce of his grounds for extravagant markets .