Chapter I: The Buildings 1

II. THE TOWER UNDER THE NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET KINGS 79

III. THE EDWARDS 85

IV. RICHARD II. 90

V. THE LANCASTRIANS 100

VI. THE WARS OF THE ROSES 107

VII. THE TUDOR KINGS—HENRY VII. 120

VIII. HENRY VIII. 124

IX. EDWARD VI. 169

X. MARY TUDOR 181

XI. QUEEN ELIZABETH 202

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COLOURED PLATE

The Duke of Orleans a Prisoner in the Tower. (From a MS.
in the British Museum) _Frontispiece_

PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES

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The Tower. (From a sketch by H. Colls) 1

Plan of the Tower in 1597, by Haiward and Gascoyne 6

The Byward Tower 8

Postern Gate in the Byward Tower 10

Yeoman Porter of the Tower, bearing his emblem of office 12

The Wakefield and Bloody Towers 14

Traitor’s Gate, time of George III. 16

The Bloody Tower, looking towards Traitor’s Gate 20

Groining in Ceiling of the Bloody Tower 22

The Council Chamber in the Governor’s House 26

Prison in the Governor’s House 28

The Beauchamp Tower 30

Prison in the Beauchamp Tower 32

Prison Chamber in the Beauchamp Tower 34

Interior of St Peter’s Chapel 36

Monument of Sir Richard Cholmondeley and his Wife, in St
Peter’s Chapel 40

Tomb of the Blunt Family in St Peter’s Chapel 42

Stone Staircase in the White Tower 54

Interior of St John’s Chapel 58

Horse and Foot Armour (XVIth Century) 64

German Armour (XVIth Century) 66

Nuremberg Armour (XVIth Century) 68

Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century) 70

Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century) 72

Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century) 74

Site of the Scaffold on Tower Hill 96

The Wakefield Tower, time of George III. 116

Prison beneath the Wakefield Tower 118

Queen Anne Boleyn. (From an engraving after a contemporary
portrait) 130

John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. (From the drawing by Holbein
at Windsor) 134

Sir Thomas More. (From the drawing by Holbein at Windsor) 138

A Daughter of Sir Thomas More, supposed to be Mrs Roper.
(From the drawing by Holbein at Hammerfield) 140

Queen Mary Tudor. (From a portrait at Latimer) 182

Lady Jane Grey. (From the portrait at Madresfield Court by
Lucas van Heere) 184

Lord Guildford Dudley. (From the portrait at Madresfield Court
by Lucas van Heere) 186

Lady Jane Grey. (From an engraving by Wijngaerde, after the
portrait by Holbein) 190

Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk. (From the portrait by Joannes
Corvus in the National Portrait Gallery) 197

Robert, Earl of Essex. (From a contemporary engraving) 222

BLOCKS

The Jewel House 18

Doorway of the Jewel House 18

St Thomas’s Tower from the Wharf 104

View in the Inner Ballium 112

All Hallows, Barking 120

The Curfew Tower from the Moat 144

Traitor’s Gate 148

Heading Block and Axe 150

St Peter’s Chapel and Place of Execution 154

St Thomas’s and Curfew Towers 158

Traitor’s Gate from the Bloody Tower 164

Back of the Byward Tower 168

The King’s House 174

Middle Tower 198

Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, from the Curfew Tower to the
Beauchamp Tower 208

Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, from the Beauchamp Tower to the
Curfew Tower 210

PLAN OF THE TOWER _at End_