noon
Two rioters were to die before the prison , who had been concerned in the attack upon it ; and one directly afterwards in Bloomsbury Square . At nine o'clock , a strong body of military marched into the street , and formed and lined a narrow passage into Holborn , which had been indifferently kept all night by constables . Through this , another cart was brought -LRB- the one already mentioned had been employed in the construction of the scaffold -RRB- , and wheeled up to the prison-gate . These preparations made , the soldiers stood at ease ; the officers lounged to and fro , in the alley they had made , or talked together at the scaffold 's foot ; and the concourse , which had been rapidly augmenting for some hours , and still received additions every minute , waited with an impatience which increased with every chime of St Sepulchre 's clock , for twelve at noon . Up to this time they had been very quiet , comparatively silent , save when the arrival of some new party at a window , hitherto unoccupied , gave them something new to look at or to talk of . But , as the hour approached , a buzz and hum arose , which , deepening every moment , soon swelled into a roar , and seemed to fill the air . No words or even voices could be distinguished in this clamour , nor did they speak much to each other ; though such as were better informed upon the topic than the rest , would tell their neighbours , perhaps , that they might know the hangman when he came out , by his being the shorter one : and that the man who was to suffer with him was named Hugh : and that it was Barnaby Rudge who would be hanged in Bloomsbury Square .