Tower of London: foundation of, 21; beginning of its history, 21; first prisoner, 22; becomes Royal Palace, 23; besieged, 24, 40; Edward III. finds it ill guarded, 29; mobbed in Richard II.’s reign, 32; oldest picture of, 37; attacked by Cade, 38; cannon used for first time against, 40; its darkest days, 40-43; improved by Edward IV., 40; prominence in Tudor times, 44; festivities at, 46, 56; becomes notorious as State prison, 47; improvements in Henry VIII.’s reign, 47-48; fires its guns upon City, 48; attack on (Wyatt rebellion), 62; seized in reign of Charles I., 73; in keeping of Parliament during Civil War, 75; in danger during Great Fire, 80; Jacobite plot to seize, 84; fire in, 85; Fenian outrage in, 86 Tower Street, Great, 160 Towton Heath, battle of, 39 Traitor’s Gate, 25, 64, 98 Trevelyan, G. M. (quoted), 69, 105 Trinity House, 162-164 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, 84, 157, 166 Tudenham, Sir Thomas, 40 Turner, Mrs., 104 Tyler, Wat, 30, 32 Tyrrell, Sir James, 46, 101 Tyrrell, Sir William, 40 United Irishmen, 85 Vane, Sir Harry, 78 Victoria, Queen, 85, 108 Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 80 Virby, Thomas, 185, 186 Waad, Sir William, 102, 148 Wakefield Tower, 39, 106-108 Wallace, William, 27 Walpole, Sir Robert, 83 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 160 Walworth, Mayor, 31 Warbeck, Perkin, 45 Warders’ Parlour, 92 Warders, Yeomen, 93 Wars of the Roses, 37, 39 Warwick, the King-Maker, 39 _Waverley_, 84, 108 Welsh prisoners, 27, 34 Wharf, 25, 142, 150 White Tower, 12, 16, 22, 34, 37, 48, 86, 108, 109-120, 148 William the Conqueror, 21 William and Mary, 82-83 William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, 38 Wilton, Lord Grey de, 72, 99, 137 Worcester, battle of, 76 Wren, Sir Christopher, 83, 108, 162 Wriothesley, Chancellor, 55 Wyatt rebellion, 62, 116 Wyatt, Sir Henry, 42-44 Wycliffe’s followers imprisoned, 35 Wyndham, Sir John, 46 _Yeomen of the Guard_ (Savoy opera), 10, 11 Yeomen of the Guard, 93 THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. [Illustration: THE TOWER OF LONDON ACCOMPANYING “THE TOWER OF LONDON,” PAINTED BY JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I., DESCRIBED BY ARTHUR POYSER] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tower of London, by Arthur Poyser