Well Tower, the, i. 52, 53; restoration of, ii. 169 Wellington, Duke of, i. 9, 25; ii. 145 Westcott, J. R., ii. 169 Weston, Sir John, i. 88 White, Thomas, Lord Mayor, i. 189 White Tower, the, i. 4, 5, 6, 45, 53–73; repairs in, 137; Fenian attempt to blow up, ii. 145–147; restoration of, 169; recent discoveries, 171, 172 Wilkes, John, ii. 136 William I., i. 5, 62 William Rufus, i. 6, 47 Williams, Sir Fenwick, i. 25 Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, ii. 32, 33 Williamson, General, ii. 120, 129, 131 Wintoun, Lord, ii. 102, 103; escape of, 112 Wolsey, Cardinal, i. 127 Woodville, Elizabeth, i. 109, 114 Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, ii. 50, 51 Worcester, Earl of, armour of, i. 72 Wren, Sir Christopher, i. 45, 54, 62; ii. 93, 94, 172 Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, i. 163, 165 Wyatt, Sir Henry, story of, i. 118, 119 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, rebellion of, i. 194; attacks the Tower, 196; capture and execution of, 197 Wyatt’s Rebellion, i. 30, 34, 56, 190, 194, 196, 197 Yeomen of the Guard, i. 12 Yeomen porter, the, i. 22 Yeomen Warders, i. 11, 12 Yorke, Sir Charles, i. 38 Yorke, Sir John, i. 15 THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FOOTNOTES: | | | | [1] The Venetian envoy Scaramelli, writing to the Doge from | | London on the 15th May 1603, says, “Et fra tanto non entrera sua | | Maestà in Londra, ma solamente prenderá il possesso della Torre | | ad uso antico, come del Trono et fondomento regale, essendovi in | | essa il Tresoro, et le Armi, ciò è tutte le forze del regno,” | | which translated is, “Meantime his Majesty will not enter London, | | but will only take possession of the Tower, according to ancient | | custom, as the Throne and the foundation of the royal power, for | | in the Tower are the treasury and the armoury—that is, all the | | strength of the realm.” Two years later (on December 8th, 1605) | | Nicolo Molini, the Venetian Ambassador in England, writes to | | Venice about the Tower, “It is a most remarkable fact in this | | country, that if a nobleman is put in the Tower, he either loses | | his life or ends his days there.” I am indebted to my friend, | | Mr Horatio F. Brown, for these two interesting notices which he | | found in the Venetian State Paper Records. | | | | [2] Among the contemporary dramatists of Shakespeare, reference | | to the Tower is made by Peele, Decker, Webster, and Heywood. | | Peele, in his play of “Edward I.,” where Llewellyn, Prince of |