January 1799.

"in the manner following, two slices of Bread and
"Butter and a pint of very bad Tea for Breakfast
"served out of a Watering Pot - a Plate of Meat
"and one pint of Porter at one two or three Clock
"sometimes stinking and often very bad in
"quality a Complaint was followed with locking
"up - no knife fork or other utensal was allowed
"to eat with, and as the Yard where some of the
"persons used to walk was at a distance from
"their Cells they were obliged when it rained
"to eat their Dinner in the Privy - one pint
"of the same sort of Tea and Bread and Butter
"in the afternoon - on the 14th. July Oxlade who
"had been Confined two terms without Commit-
"ment was admitted to Bail and being taken to
"Whitehall informed the Council of the Situation
"of his fellow Prisoners but no steps were taken
"to better their Condition things continued in this
"state till 4th. of August when crank, Cowle and
"Campbell of the Committee of the L. C. S. were
"liberated on Bail, Frushard was admitted to
"Bail on the 17th.. and Humphries taken in Blow
"Court and day, Purnell, Dight, Edwards, Seek or
"Goodluck, and Neigle taken at the George those
"that remained in Custody. Vizt. D. B. C. E. R. W. K.
"were then put together in a Yard on the Northwest
"of the Prison (where in the Winter Season the Sun
"never shines) where they continued and were
"locked up sooner as the Day shortened till in
"the Month of November in the midst of Frost and