INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.

Adam of Lambourne, 24 Adams, John Quincy, 195 Albemarle, Duke of, 90 Allhallows Barking by the Tower, 42, 74, 96, 109, 155, 169-213 Andrewes, Bishop, 193 Anne, Queen, 83 Anne of Geierstein, 40 Apsley, Sir William, 194 Arden, John, 149 Argyle, Marquis of, 78 Arundel, Earl of, 33 Arx Palatina, 21 Askew, Anne, 55 Audley, Lord, 72 Axe, processional, 93 Badlesmere, Lady, 27 Bailly, Charles, 129, 130 Baliol, 112 Ballium Wall, 94, 125, 135, 137 Balmerino, Earl of, 164-167 Banqueting Hall, 113 Barlow, Lucy, 76 Bastion, North, 136 Beauchamp Tower, 33, 58, 61, 66, 83, 125, 131 Beefeaters, 93 Beer Lane, 23 Beggars, 155 Bell Tower, 48, 94-97 Bishops, Seven, 82, 99, 143, 144 Black Dwarf, The, 84 Block, the (see Tower Hill, and Tower Green) Blood, Colonel, 138-143 Bloody Tower, 5, 73, 82, 83, 99-106 Blount tomb, 133 Boleyn, Anne, 50, 99, 107, 113, 132 Bowyer Tower, 41, 136, 137 Brackenbury, Sir Robert, 100 Brasses (Allhallows Barking), 187, 201, 203, 209 Brass Mount Battery, 138 Brick Tower, 103, 137 Broad Arrow Tower, 145 Buckingham, Edward, Duke of, 48, 49 Buckingham, Duke of (see Villiers) Bulwark Gate, 87 Burdett, Sir Francis, 85 Burley, Sir Simon, 33 Byward Tower, 88, 90-93 Cade rebellion, 37, 38 Campion, Father, 67 Capel, Lord Arthur, 76, 106 Capel, Lord, 91 Carew, Sir Alexander, 75 Casemates, 135 Cato Street conspiracy, 85 Cells, secret, 119, 145 Chaderton, Dean, 175 Chantry chapels, 173, 178 Chaplain’s house, 131 Charles I., 73-78, 105 Charles II., 78-81, 126, 127, 143 Charles Edward, Prince, 84 Charles, Duke of Orleans, 37, 112 Cholmondeley tomb, 133 Civil War, 75, 198 Clarence, Duke of, 41, 136 Cobham, Lord (see Oldcastle) Cobham, Lord, 72 Coldharbour Tower (site of), 13 Coleby, 6, 127 Collins, Bishop (quoted), 74 Communion plate (St Peter’s), 133 Conqueror, William the, 21 Constable Tower, 145 Constable’s Garden, 99, 102, 121 Constable of France, 29 Coronation festivities, 30, 34, 40, 42, 47, 58, 65, 79 Council Chamber (White Tower), 32, 45, 113 Count d’Eu, 29 Count of Tankerville, 29 Court of Common Pleas, 108-109 Court of King’s Bench, 108-109 Coventry, Sir William, 137 Cradle Tower, 149 Croke, Sir John, 174, 188 Cromwell, Oliver, 76, 182 Cromwell, Thomas, 53, 54, 133 Crown Jewels (see Jewels) Crusades, 24 Crypt (St. John’s Chapel), 116, 117 Culloden (battle), 85 Curfew bell, 177, 178 Czar’s Head Inn, 159 D’Arcy, Sir John, 29 David Bruce (King of Scotland), 29, 112 Deaths in Tower cells, 67, 68, 76, 100, 106 Derwentwater, Earl of, 83 Develin Tower, 135 Devereux Tower, 135 Devereux (Earl of Essex), 99, 135 Dighton, John, 101 Dudley, Lord Guildford, 60, 61, 130 Dudley, John, 129 Dungeon, great (White Tower), 119 Edward I., 26, 27, 173, 177 Edward II., 27-28 Edward III., 28-30 Edward IV., 40 Edward V., 41 Edward VI., 57-60 Edward, Earl of Warwick, 44 Edwards, Talbot, 133, 139, 140, 141 Eleanor, Queen, 25 Eliot, Sir John, 105, 133 Elizabeth, Queen, 64, 65-69, 90, 99, 113 Elizabeth of York, 46 Entrance to Tower, 88 Erkenwald, Bishop, 171 Escapes from Tower, 22, 26, 71, 77, 78, 90-92, 121-125, 149-150 Evyngar brass, 209 Executions (Tower Green), 48, 49, 52, 54, 64, 116 (Tower Hill), 20, 33, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 64, 65, 67, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 81, 82, 83, 164-168, 199 Fair Maid of Perth, 34 Fawkes, Guy, 72, 97, 118 Felton, John, 72, 106 Fenwick, Sir William, 82 Fire, Great, 80, 156, 189 Fisher, Bishop, 94-96, 133, 196 Flambard, Ralph, Bishop of Durham, 22 Flint Tower, 136 Forrest, Miles, 101 Fortunes of Nigel, 127, 128 Froissart (quoted), 29, 31, 114 Galleyman Tower, 151 Gaoler, Yeoman, 93 Gardiner, S. R. (quoted), 33 Gaskarth, Dr., 192 Gateway, postern, 92 George I., 83 George III., 85 Gerard, Father, 146 Gibbons, Grinling, 201 Gloucester, Duke of (see Richard III.) Gosse, Edmund (quoted), 57 Green, J. R. (quoted), 36 Grey, Lady Jane, 60-64, 99 Grey, Lord Thomas, 196 Griffen, son of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, 26 Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, 21, 22 Guns, old (Tower Green), 120 Hales, Treasurer, 31, 32 Hamilton, Duke of, 76 Harvey, Lieut. Sir George, 102 Hastings, Lord, 115 Henry I., 22 Henry III., 24-26, 94, 106, 131, 135, 138, 152 Henry IV., 33, 34, 35, 114 Henry V., 35-37 Henry VI., 37-40, 107 Henry VII., 17, 44-46, 93 Henry VIII., 47-57 Hertford, Lord and Lady, 66 Hewitt, Dr. John, 76 Hexham, battle of, 39 Hickes, Dr., 161, 183, 207 Highlanders shot, 84 Holland, Earl of, 75 Hotham, Sir John, 75, 198, 199 Howard, Lady Frances, 104 Howard, Queen Katherine, 54, 99, 132 Howard, Thomas, 66 Inglesant, John, 74 Inscriptions on walls, 128-130, 145, 146 Isabella, Queen of Edward II., 28 Isabella of Valois, Queen of Richard II., 33 James I., 70-72, 97, 103 James II., 81-82, 143 James I. of Scotland, 34 Jeffreys, Judge, 82, 106, 195 Jewels, Crown, 17, 107, 138 Jews imprisoned, 27 Joan of the Tower, 27 John, King, 24 John II., King of France, 29, 112 Keep, the (see White Tower) Ken, Bishop, 200 Kenmure, Lord, 83 Ketch, Jack, 82 Kettlewell, the Non-juror, 200 King’s House, 121 King’s Justiciars, 176 Knighthood, order of, conferred in St. John’s Chapel, 34, 40, 47, 79 Knyvett, Lieutenant, 55 Lancaster, Henry of (see Henry IV.) Lansdowne, Earl of, 83 Lanthorn Tower, 152 Lambert, Colonel, 77 Laud, Archbishop, 5, 73, 106, 197 Layfield, Edward, 206 Legend of Montrose, 137 Legge’s Mount, 135 Leiburn, Sir Roger de, 176 Lennox, Countess of, 66 Lion Gate, and Tower, 88 Lisle, Viscount, 55 “Little Ease,” 118 Lollards, the, 35, 36 London Tavern (Fenchurch Street), 64 London Wall, 21 Longchamp, Chancellor, 24 Louis VIII. of France, 24 Lovat, Lord, 167 Love, Christopher, 76 Macguire, Lord, 90 MacMahon, Colonel, 90 Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 23 Margaret, Queen of Henry VI., 39 Martin Tower, 82, 138 Mary, Queen, 60-65, 111, 196 Mason, Dr. A. J., 208 Menagerie, Tower, 23, 88, 89 Middle Tower, 89-91 Mint, the Royal, 162 Mission College of Allhallows Barking, 205, 207, 208 Mitre Tavern (Fenchurch Street), 164 Moat, the, 26, 40, 88, 90-92 Models of the Tower, 112 Modernisation of the Tower, 15-16, 120 Monk, General, 77 Monmouth, Duke of, 76, 82, 97, 99, 132 More, Sir Thomas, 95, 96, 99, 133 Mortimer, Lord, 28 Nithsdale, Lord and Lady, 121-125 Norman Chapel (see St. John’s Chapel) Northumberland, Duke of, John Dudley, 60, 111 Oates, Titus, 81 O’Connor, Arthur, 85 Oldcastle, Sir John, 35 Oratory, 17, 99, 107 Organ (Allhallows Barking), 179, 211, 212 Otway, Thomas, 158 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 104 Owen, Sir John, 76 Palace, royal, in Tower, 23, 108 Parish dinners, 157, 181 Parr, Samuel, 194 Passages, underground, 119, 136 Penn, William, 81, 158, 194 Pepys, Samuel (quoted), 77, 78, 79, 80, 97, 137, 182, 189 Pepys, Samuel, in Tower, 80, 81 Percy, Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 100 Perrot, Deputy, 68 Peter the Great, 159 Peveril of the Peak, 4-6, 126, 127 “Pilgrimage of Grace,” 51 Plague years, 195 Popish plot, 81 Portcullis (Bloody Tower), 106 Prince of Wales, H.R.H. the, 164 Prince Consort, 111 Princes in the Tower (Edward V. and his brother), 41, 100, 110 Privy Garden, 151 Prothero, Mr. (quoted), 96 Prynne, 74 Pulpit, Jacobean, 210 “Queen Elizabeth’s Walk,” 64 Queen’s Garden, 146 Rack, the, 117 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 101, 113, 137 Raleigh, Lady, 158 “Raleigh’s Cell,” 116 Registers, parish (Allhallows Barking), 193-199 Restoration, the, 78 Richard I., 24, 135, 173, 174 Richard II., 30-34, 114 Richard III., 39, 41, 42-44, 100, 107, 114-116, 175 Richard de Lucy, 23 Rising, Jacobite (1745), 107 Robinson, Dr. A. W., 208 Rochester, Earl of, 160 Rochford, Lady, 54 Roman Catholic prisoners, 67 Roman London, 172 Roman remains, 21, 22 Ros, Lord de, 133 Russell, William, Lord, 81 Rye House Plot, 81 St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East, 161, 162 St. Ethelburga (Abbess of Barking), 171, 184 St. John’s Chapel (White Tower), 24, 34, 100, 110, 111 St. Olave’s (Hart Street), 160, 161 St. Peter ad Vincula, 25, 96, 105, 131-133, 143 St. Thomas’s Tower, 25, 48, 98, 99 Salisbury, Countess of, Margaret Pole, 52, 132 Salt Tower, 146 Say, Lord, 38 Scaffold, site of, Tower Hill, 153 Scott, Sir Walter, references to, 1, 3, 23, 34, 40, 126 Scottish prisoners, 27 Seething Lane, 160 Seymour, Jane, Queen, 50 Seymour, Baron Thomas, 58 Seymour, William, 71 Shakespeare, William, references to, 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 34, 36, 38, 57, 70, 101 Sidney, Algernon, 81 Simnel, Lambert, 44 Slingsley, Sir Henry, 77 Smithfield, 36, 54, 56 Snayth, George, 185 Somerset, Protector, 58, 59, 133 Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, 104 Spenser, Edmund, 159 Stafford, William, Lord, 81 Stanley, Sir William, 45 Stapledon, Walter, Bishop of Exeter, 28 State apartments, 112 Stephen, King, 23 Stocks, public, 154 Strafford, Earl of, Thomas Wentworth, 73, 133 Stuart, Lady Arabella, 70, 99 Sudbury, Simon of, 31, 32, 111 Suffolk, Earl of, Edmund de la Pole, 48 Suicides in the Tower, 67, 68, 76, 100, 106 Surrey, Earl of, Henry Howard, 57, 196 Syndercombe, Miles, 76 Talbot, Sir Gilbert, 142 Theodore, Archbishop, 172 Thomson, James, 159 Thynne, William, 201 Tiptoft, John, 174 Torture in Tower dungeons, 42, 55, 67, 117, 118, 146-149 instruments of, 113 Tower Dock, 103 Tower Green, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 64, 84, 116, 120-121 Tower Hill, 20, 33, 37, 40, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52, 57, 58, 59, 64, 65, 67, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 81, 82, 83, 87, 103, 145, 153-159, 162-168 Tower Hill, Little, 95, 162 Tower of London: foundation of, 21; beginning of its history, 21; first prisoner, 22; becomes Royal Palace, 23; besieged, 24, 40; Edward III. finds it ill guarded, 29; mobbed in Richard II.’s reign, 32; oldest picture of, 37; attacked by Cade, 38; cannon used for first time against, 40; its darkest days, 40-43; improved by Edward IV., 40; prominence in Tudor times, 44; festivities at, 46, 56; becomes notorious as State prison, 47; improvements in Henry VIII.’s reign, 47-48; fires its guns upon City, 48; attack on (Wyatt rebellion), 62; seized in reign of Charles I., 73; in keeping of Parliament during Civil War, 75; in danger during Great Fire, 80; Jacobite plot to seize, 84; fire in, 85; Fenian outrage in, 86 Tower Street, Great, 160 Towton Heath, battle of, 39 Traitor’s Gate, 25, 64, 98 Trevelyan, G. M. (quoted), 69, 105 Trinity House, 162-164 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, 84, 157, 166 Tudenham, Sir Thomas, 40 Turner, Mrs., 104 Tyler, Wat, 30, 32 Tyrrell, Sir James, 46, 101 Tyrrell, Sir William, 40 United Irishmen, 85 Vane, Sir Harry, 78 Victoria, Queen, 85, 108 Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 80 Virby, Thomas, 185, 186 Waad, Sir William, 102, 148 Wakefield Tower, 39, 106-108 Wallace, William, 27 Walpole, Sir Robert, 83 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 160 Walworth, Mayor, 31 Warbeck, Perkin, 45 Warders’ Parlour, 92 Warders, Yeomen, 93 Wars of the Roses, 37, 39 Warwick, the King-Maker, 39 Waverley, 84, 108 Welsh prisoners, 27, 34 Wharf, 25, 142, 150 White Tower, 12, 16, 22, 34, 37, 48, 86, 108, 109-120, 148 William the Conqueror, 21 William and Mary, 82-83 William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, 38 Wilton, Lord Grey de, 72, 99, 137 Worcester, battle of, 76 Wren, Sir Christopher, 83, 108, 162 Wriothesley, Chancellor, 55 Wyatt rebellion, 62, 116 Wyatt, Sir Henry, 42-44 Wycliffe’s followers imprisoned, 35 Wyndham, Sir John, 46 Yeomen of the Guard (Savoy opera), 10, 11 Yeomen of the Guard, 93

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