But they misjudged their power; he broke through their control, and threw himself on the nation; Mortimer was arrested at Nottingham and brought to the Tower, whence on November 29 he was carried to “Tyburn Elms,” hanged, drawn, and quartered—treated, in fact, as he had treated the Despensers. [Illustration: 1. SOUTH AISLE OF ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL. _From a drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1852. British Museum._] [Illustration: 2. BUILDING A GATEWAY. _From a MS. of Le Trésor des Histoires, British Museum, Aug. A. v._] [Illustration: 3. MEN-AT-ARMS CROSSING A DRAWBRIDGE. _From a MS. of Les Chroniques d’Angleterre, British Museum_, 14 _E iv._] [Illustration: 4. STAIRCASE OF THE WHITE TOWER. _From a drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1851. British Museum._] [Illustration: 5. INDIAN ELEPHANT AND RHINOCEROS BROUGHT OVER IN 1686. _From a mezzotint by P. Vander Berge. Gardner Collection._] [Illustration: 6. LIONS’ DENS IN THE TOWER. _From a drawing made in 1779. Gardner Collection._] The great but unrighteous claim of Edward III to the crown of France, resulting in the “hundred years’ war” concerns us here thus far, that he resided in the Tower whilst he was making his preparations to enforce his claim; and on his departure placed a strong garrison in it, and furnished it as a fit and secure residence for his son, Prince Edward, whom he appointed regent in his absence. In 1341 he secretly returned to England, landed at the Tower at midnight on November 30, accompanied by the Earl of Northampton, Sir Walter Manny, and other great men, and finding the fortress badly guarded, imprisoned the governor and officers and treated them with exemplary rigour. He took up his residence in the Tower, discharged the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Chancellor, Robert Bishop of Chichester, and delivered the great seal to Robert Bourchier, who afterwards fought at Crecy. All these strong measures were in consequence of the disorders and abuses which he found. From this time till 1342 King Edward kept his Court here, and here, during that period, his Queen Philippa gave birth to a princess who was named Blanche, but who died in infancy and was buried in Westminster Abbey.