The Tower of London, (Vol. 2 of 2)Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord
History
The Tower of London, (Vol. 2 of 2)
Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord
Tower of London (London, England)
Tower, the, first used as State prison, i. 79;
besieged by citizens of London, 81, 82;
besieged by King John, 82;
handed over to Prince Louis of France, 82;
seized by the Barons, 84;
first woman prisoner, 87;
seized by Mortimer, 87;
survey of, in 1336, 88;
Tyler’s Rebellion, 90–93;
imprisonment and deposition of Richard II., 97–98;
Cade’s insurrection, 105;
murder of the two Princes, 112–118;
attacked for the last time, 196;
Tower guards appointed, ii. 37;
plot by Charles I. to seize, 36, 37;
in the hands of the Parliament, 38, 41;
constant escape of prisoners, 50;
seized by the Royalists, 53;
repairs in, 61;
danger from the Fire, 61, 62;
Pepys’ story of hidden treasure, 64, 65;
ceased to be a royal residence, 81;
the mint, 95–99;
Jacobite plot to seize, 112;
Spanish treasure brought to, 135;
last peer imprisoned in, 139;
ceased to be a prison of State, 141;
the Fire of 1841, 142–144;
area of, 145;
Fenian attempt to blow up, 145–147;
rights and privileges of, 151;
dates of restorations at, 169;
new buildings, 169;
recent discoveries, 171–174;
stained glass in, 177, 178
Tower Green, i. 24, 25
Tower Hill, i. 75;
last execution on, ii. 128
Tower Wharf, i. 10
Traitor’s Gate, i. 12, 14, 16, 20
Trevelyan, Mr G. M., quoted, i. 91–93
Tudenham, Sir Thomas, execution of, i. 109
Tullibardine, Marquis of, ii. 116, 117
Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, i. 188
Turnbull, James, ii. 99
Turner, Mrs, ii. 17;
execution of, 18
Tyler’s Rebellion, i. 90
Tyrell, James, i. 116; execution of, 123
Tyrell, Sir William, execution of, i. 109
Vane, Sir Harry, execution of, ii. 57, 58
Vane, Sir Ralph, execution of, i. 179, 180
Vaux, Sir Nicholas, i. 130
Victoria, Queen, visit to the Tower, i. 150
Waad (or Wade), Sir William, i. 27, 37, 48, 49, 50; ii. 10, 16
Wakefield Tower, the, i. 6, 17
Wallace, William, i. 86
Walpole, Sir Robert, imprisonment of, ii. 95
Walpole, Jesuit priest, i. 221
Walsingham, Sir Edmund, i. 146;
epitaph of, ii. 2 _n._
Walsingham, Secretary of State, i. 207, 215, 216
Walworth, William, Lord Mayor, i. 90, 91
Warbeck, Perkin, insurrection of, i. 122;
hanged, 123
Warders of the Tower, the, i. 11, 12
Warders’ Parlour, the, i. 11
Warding Gate, the, i. 11
Wardrobe Gallery and Tower, the, i. 6, 46, 47; ii. 171
Warner, Sir Edward, i. 205
Wars of the Roses, the, i. 107, _et seq._
Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of, i. 32, 33
Warwick, Edward Plantagenet, Earl of, i. 120;
execution of, 121
Warwick, John Dudley, Earl of, i. 32, 33;
death of, 200
Warwick, Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of, i. 30, 95
Waterford, Lord, i. 71
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