This warrant was written on a sheet of foolscap paper, with a black border, and bore the official seal. It was accompanied by a private note to the constable, containing instructions as to the manner in which the prisoners were to be treated.
They were accordingly received by Captain Elrington, the major of the Tower, who, after some difficulty, from the shortness of the notice which he had received, succeeded in finding them secure apartments.
Each prisoner was placed in a separate apartment; two warders armed in the usual way, with cutlasses and halberds, were placed in each room; and at each door was stationed a sentinel armed, to whose care was intrusted the key of the room, with strict orders not to permit more than one warder to be absent at a time, and that only for occasional purposes.
Thistlewood was placed in the prison known by the name of the Bloody Tower.
Davidson was in the prison over the waterworks.
Ings in a different room of the same prison.
Monument in the prison at the back of the Horse-armory.
Brunt and Harrison occupied separate apartments in the prison over the Stone-kitchen.
Tidd was secured in the Seven-gun Battery prison, and Wilson in the prison over the parade.
The prisoners were permitted to have, by the indulgence of the law, what is called state allowance, for their daily maintenance, which, to such wretched poverty as theirs, must have made even their awful situation, as compared with their confinement in Coldbath-fields, a change for the better.