Waggons going into the Tower with Treasure taken from the Spaniards (temp. George II.) 134 West Front of the Tower in the time of George III. 136 Entrance to the Tower Menagerie in the time of George III. 138 The Tower from Tower Hill in the time of George III. 140 The Fire at the Tower in 1841 142 Another View of the Fire in 1841 144 Breaking into the Strong Room in the “Jewel Tower” and removal of the Regalia on the night of the Fire, Oct. 30, 1841. (From an etching by George Cruikshank) 146 The Great Court of the Tower, _circa_ 1790 151 View of St Peter’s Chapel in 1817 174 BLOCKS The Moat, looking West 6 The Byward Tower and Moat from the Wharf 8 Entrance to the Bloody Tower and Steps leading to Raleigh’s Walk 24 The Byward Tower 28 Vaulting in the Cradle Tower 54 Old Cannon and Mortars on the West Side of the White Tower 58 Gate and Portcullis in the Bloody Tower 76 The Beauchamp Tower 98 Window in the Cradle Tower 102 The Tower from Tower Hill 108 Middle Gate 112 The White Tower, showing the Exterior of St John’s Chapel and remains of the Roman Wall 172 PLAN showing Recent Discoveries in the Tower 170 THE TOWER CHAPTER XII THE STUARTS—JAMES I. In Nichols’s “Progresses,” that mine of information regarding James I., his court and times, it is related that James paid his first visit to the Tower on 3rd May 1603, “when His Majesty set forward from the Charter House and went quietly on horseback to Whitehall where he took barge. Having shot the bridge, his present landing was expected at the Tower stayres, but it pleased His Highness to passe the Towre stairs toward St Katherines, and there stayed on the water to see the ordinance on the White Tower (commonly called Julius Cæsar’s Tower) being in number twenty pieces, with the great ordinance on the Towre wharfe, being in number 100, and chalmers to the number of 130, discharged and shot off. Of which, all services were sufficiently performed by the gunners, that a peale of so good order was never heard before; which was most commendable to all sorts, and very acceptable to the King.”[1]