ASSAULT ON A FORTRESS. From a _MS. of Boccaccio de Casibus Virorum et Fœminarum Illustrium_. (British Museum, 35321) 26 ARTILLERY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. From a _MS. of the Chronicles of England_. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.) 34 A TOURNAMENT. From a _MS. of the Romance of the Sire Jehan de Saintré_. (British Museum, Nero D. ix.) 42 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS 1. SOUTH AISLE OF ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL. From a _Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_. (British Museum) 8 2. BUILDING A GATEWAY. From a _MS. of Le Trésor des Histoires_. (British Museum, Aug. A. v.) 8 3. MEN-AT-ARMS CROSSING A DRAWBRIDGE. From a MS. of _Les Chroniques d’Angleterre_. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.) 8 4. STAIRCASE OF THE WHITE TOWER. From a _Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_. (British Museum) 8 5. INDIAN ELEPHANT AND RHINOCEROS BROUGHT OVER IN 1686. From a _Mezzotint by P. Vander Berge_. (Gardner Collection) 8 6. LIONS’ DENS IN THE TOWER. From a _Drawing made in_ 1779. (Gardner Collection) 8 7. THE TOWER, SHOWING THE EAST OUTER BALLIUM. From a _Drawing by H. Hodge_. (Gardner Collection) 16 8. THE SALT TOWER, AND PART OF THE ANCIENT BALLIUM. From a _Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_. (British Museum) 16 9. THE PRISONERS’ WALK. From a _Drawing by C. J. Richardson_. (Gardner Collection) 16 10. THE WAKEFIELD TOWER. From a _Drawing by C. Tomkins_. (British Museum) 16 11. TRAITORS’ GATE, FROM WITHOUT. From a _Drawing by C. Tomkins_. (Gardner Collection) 16 12. TRAITORS’ GATE, FROM WITHIN. From an _old Engraving_ 16 13. BANQUET GIVEN BY RICHARD II. From a _MS. of the Chronicles of England_. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.) 24 14. AN ACT OF ARMS BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN. From a _MS. of the Romance of Sire Jehan de Saintré_. (British Museum, Nero D. ix.) 24 15. GATEWAY OF THE BLOODY TOWER. From an _Engraving by F. Nash_, 1821 24 16. QUEEN IN A HORSE LITTER, ATTENDED BY HER LADIES ON HORSEBACK. From a _MS. of Froissart’s Chronicles_. (British Museum, 18 E. ii.) 24 17. VAULTED ROOM IN THE CRYPT OF THE WHITE TOWER, IN WHICH THE RACK STOOD. From a _Drawing in the Gardner Collection_ 40