INDEX
Reading edition
Abel, Dr, execution of, i. 159
Abergavenny, Lord, i. 131
Albert, Prince, i. 58, 59, 60; ii. 171
Alençon, Duke d’, i. 63
Allen, Cardinal, i. 213
Andrews, Colonel Eusebius, execution of, ii. 49
Anne Boleyn, i. 35, 39;
State visit to the Tower, 131;
coronation, 132;
arrest, 143, 144;
trial, 146;
execution, 149
Anne of Cleves, i. 157
Apsley, Sir Allen, i. 41 and n., 42, 112
Arden, John, i. 50
Armagh, Archbishop of, murder of, i. 34
Armour in the White Tower, i. 64–73
Armoury, the, destroyed by fire, ii. 142–144
Arnold’s Chronicles, quoted, i. 117
Arques Castle, i. 61
Artillery at the Tower, i. 73
Arundel, Sir Thomas, execution of, i. 179, 180
Arundel, Philip Howard, Earl of, i. 31, 32, 214
Arundel, Richard Fitzalan, Earl of, arrest of, i. 95;
execution of, 96
Arundel, Earl of, quarrel with Lord Spencer, ii. 27
Arundel, Humphrey, i. 180
Aske, Robert, i. 151
Askew, Anne, story of, i. 162–164
Athol, Earl of, i. 85, 86
Atterbury, Bishop, ii. 112
Audley, Mervin, Lord, execution of, ii. 32
Axe, the processional, i. 12, 25, 26, 70, 73; ii. 133
Axten, Colonel, execution of, ii. 58
Babington, Anthony, i. 215
Bacon, Francis, i. 48;
imprisonment of, ii. 27
Badlesmere, Lady, i. 87
Bagot, Sir Francis, execution of, i. 151
Bailly, Charles, i. 33, 209
Balfour, Sir William, ii. 33, 37, 38
Baliol, King, i. 85
Ballard, trial and execution of, i. 215
Ballium Wall, the, i. 13, 14, 43, 44, 46, 51;
restoration of, ii. 169
Balmerino, Lord, i. 40; ii. 116, 117;
trial of, 118–120;
execution of, 121–125
Banqueting Hall, i. 57;
explosion in, ii. 145
Barkstead, Colonel, execution of, ii. 61
Barlow, Lucy, ii. 51, 52
Barnes, Dr Robert, execution of, i. 159
Barracks, the, ii. 145
Bathurst, Earl, i. 42
Battista, Giovanni, i. 46, 47
Beauchamp Tower, the, i. 14, 29–34, 44; ii. 94;
restoration of, 169
Becket, Thomas à, i. 81, 83
Bedingfield, Sir Henry, i. 200
Bedingfield, Sir Thomas, ii. 42
Bell, Mr Doyne, i. 35, 36, 39
Bell, Dr, i. 127
Bell Tower, the, i. 14, 28, 29
Berkeley, Sir Maurice, i. 197
Besant, Sir Walter, quoted, i. 2, 6
Birch, Mr G. H., i. 2 n., 44 n., 61; ii. 93, 114 n.
Birds at the Tower, i. 74
Biron, Duke de, i. 228
Bishops, the Seven, ii. 86, 87
Block, the, i. 70; ii. 133
Blood, Colonel, i. 19, 42, 45; ii. 67–71
Bloody Tower, the, i. 12, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22; ii. 94;
restoration of, 169, 175, 176
Blount, Sir Michael, i. 41, 217
Blount, Sir Richard, i. 41
Blunt, Sir Christopher, execution of, i. 229
Board of Ordinance, the, i. 68
Bonner, Bishop, i. 163, 201
Bowyer Tower, the, i. 45;
part destroyed by fire, ii. 144
Brackenbury, Sir Robert, i. 116
Brass Mount Battery, i. 52
Brick Tower, the, i. 45
Bridges, the four, i. 9
Bridges, Sir John, i. 192, 193
Britton and Brayley, quoted, i. 44, 46, 64, 67
Broad Arrow Tower, the, i. 6, 46;
restoration of, ii. 169
Brooke, Duke, ii. 6, 7
Brooke, George, ii. 2;
execution of, 5
Brooke, William, ii. 7
Brown, Sir Anthony, i. 169, 177, 192
Brown, Horatio F., ii. 1 n.
Bruce, David, i. 87, 88
Buckingham, Edward Bohun, Duke of, i. 127,
trial and execution of, 128–130
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, bribed by Raleigh, ii. 8, 20;
assassinated, 31
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of, five times imprisoned in the Tower, ii. 62
Bulwark, the, i. 9, 112
Bulwer, Sir John, execution of, i. 151
Bulwer, Lady, burnt at Smithfield, i. 151
Burchet, Peter, i. 212
Burdett, Sir Francis, ii. 139, 140
Burgoyne, Sir John, i. 25, 42
Burley, Sir Simon, execution of, i. 94
Burnet, Bishop, ii. 74, 77, 78, 79
Byron, Sir John, ii. 37, 38
Byward Tower, the, i. 10, 11, 21, 44
Cade’s Insurrection, i. 104, 105
Campion, hanged at Tyburn, i. 213
Cannon in the Tower, i. 73
Capel, Lord, escape and recapture of, ii. 46, 47;
execution of, 47
Carew, Sir Alexander, execution of, ii. 44
Carew, Sir George, i. 218
Carew, Sir Nicholas, execution of, i. 152
Carew, Sir Peter, i. 194
Carr, Robert, see Earl of Somerset, ii. 17
Catherine of Arragon, i. 121, 123, 125
Catherine Howard, i. 35, 39;
execution of, 160, 161
Catherine Parr, i. 162, 165, 170
Cato Street Conspiracy, the, ii. 140
Cecil, Sir Robert, i. 218, 219, 223; ii. 4
Chaplain’s House, the, i. 34
Charles I., journey to Spain, i. 19;
armour of, 72;
treatment of Lord Loudon, ii. 33, 34;
betrayal of Stafford, 34, 35;
plot to seize the Tower, 36, 37
Charles II. and Colonel Blood, i. 42; ii. 70, 71;
executions of regicides, 56;
death of Sir Harry Vane, 59;
visit to the Tower, 59;
coronation, 59;
courage during the Fire, 62;
Papistical tendencies, 73;
visit to the Tower on the day of Essex’s death, 76, 77
Chelmsford, Lord, ii. 146
Cholmondeley, Sir Richard and Lady, i. 40, 41, 127
Clarence, George, Duke of, i. 44, 108, 111, 112
Clarke, Mr G. J., quoted, i. 6, 44, 53, 57, 61
Clement, Gregory, execution of, ii. 56
Clifford, Gervase, Lord, imprisonment and suicide of, ii. 26
Cobham Tower, i. 30
Cobham, Thomas, i. 34
Cobham, Henry, Lord, i. 30; ii. 2, 3, 5;
his career and death, 5, 6;
his writings, 7
Cobham Family, history of the, ii. 5, 6, 7
Coke, Sir Edward, i. 27, 48; ii. 18, 27
Cold Harbour, i. 6, 23, 24
Combermere, Lord, i. 25
Commines, Philip de, quoted, i. 112, 117
Constable of the Tower, office of, i. 25
Constable Tower, the, i. 46
Constable, Sir Robert, execution of, i. 151
Conyers, Sir John, ii. 37, 38, 43
Cooke, Lawrence, execution of, i. 159, 160
Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley, ii. 53
Corbet, Miles, execution of, ii. 61
Cornwallis, Sir Thomas, i. 198
Council Chamber, the, i. 26, 27, 57
Courtenay, Edward, Earl of Devonshire, i. 188
Courtenay, Henry, Marquis of Exeter, execution of, i. 152, 153
Coventry, Sir William, ii. 65, 66
Cowdray, paintings formerly at, i. 169, 170
Coxe, Dr, Bishop of Ely, i. 177
Cradle Tower, the, i. 50, 52,;
restoration of, ii. 169, 172, 173;
recent discoveries, 173
Cranmer, Archbishop, i. 21, 144, 147, 158, 187, 189
Cromarty, Earl of, ii. 116, 117, 118, 120, 133
Cromwell, Oliver, Constable of the Tower, ii. 38;
plots to assassinate, 51, 52
Cromwell, Thomas, i. 19, 133, 143, 144, 148, 150, 151, 152;
made Earl of Essex, 155;
compared with Robespierre, 155;
his career, 155–157;
his fall, 157;
execution of, 158
Cruikshank, G., ii. 143
Cuffe, Henry, execution of, i. 230
Cumberland, Earl of, i. 72
Dacre, Lord, execution of, i. 159
Daniell, John, i. 46, 47
Danvers, Sir Charles, execution of, i. 229
Darcey, Lord, execution of, i. 151, 153
Darcy, Sir John, i. 88
Darnley, Lord, i. 181, 206
Dartmouth, William Legge, Lord, i. 67
David, King of Scotland, i. 58
Davison, Elizabeth’s secretary, i. 216
de la Motte, Henry Francis, hanged at Tyburn, ii. 137
de Ros, Lord, quoted, i. 13, 37, 42, 56, 59, 149, 163; ii. 111, 112
Derwentwater, Earl of, ii. 102, 103;
execution of, 104, 126
Desborough, Nathaniel, ii. 67
Desmond, Earl of, ii. 12
Develin Tower, the, i. 43, 52, 53
de Vere, Aubrey, Earl of Oxford, i. 109
Devereux Tower, the, i. 43
Dick, Rev. R., quoted, i. 33
Digby, Sir Everard, execution of, ii. 9
Dighton, one of the murderers of the two Princes, i. 116, 117
Dillon, Viscount, i. 65, 69, 71, 211 n.
Draper, Hugh, i. 48
Dudley, Edmund, execution of, i. 124
Dudley, Lord Guildford, i. 34, 182, 185, 189;
execution of, 192;
buried in the Tower, 194
Dudley, Lord Harry, i. 187
Dudley family, the, i. 31, 32
Dungeons, in the Wakefield Tower, i. 18;
White Tower, 26;
Flint Tower, 44;
Salt Tower, 47;
St John’s Chapel, 55
Edward I., i. 83;
the Tower under, 85, 86
Edward II., the Tower under, i. 86, 87
Edward III., i. 36, 44;
the Tower under, 88, 89
Edward IV., murder of sons of, i. 20, 21, 22, 55, 112, 114–118;
defeats the Lancastrians, 107;
coronation of, 108, 109;
battle of Tewkesbury, 110;
his additions to the Tower, 112;
death, 112
Edward VI., coronation of, i. 169, 170;
execution of Somerset, 176, 178;
further executions, 179, 180
Edwards, Talbot, i. 42; ii. 68, 69, 70
Eliot, Sir John, imprisonment of, ii. 28, 29;
death, 29, 30
Elizabeth, Queen, i. 10;
figure of, on a wooden horse, 56;
and the Countess of Lennox, 28, 206;
birth, 132;
relations with Lord Seymour, 170, 171;
and Bishop Coxe, 177;
visit to the Tower with Queen Mary, 188;
imprisoned in the Tower, 198;
released, 200;
visit to the Tower before her coronation, 202;
her treatment of Catherine Grey, 203;
her struggle with Mary Stuart, 206;
the Ridolfi plot, 208;
proceedings against the Jesuits, 212, 213;
State prisoners, 214;
the Babington plot, 215;
imprisonment of Raleigh, 218;
fall of Essex, 221;
her last days, 230
Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII., i. 60;
coronation of, 121
Elizabeth Woodville, i. 109, 114
Empson, Sir Richard, execution of, i. 124
Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, ii. 74;
death in the Tower, 75, 76, 77
Essex, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of, i. 65, 80, 81
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, i. 35, 43;
armour of, 72;
an enemy of Raleigh, 221;
his person and position, 221;
failure of his Irish expedition, 222, 223;
imprisonment and trial of, 223;
execution of, 224
Essex, Robert, Earl of, 229
Eu, Counts of, i. 88, 103
Evelyn, John, ii. 71, 83
Fabyan, quoted, i. 112–117
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, ii. 38
Fawkes, Guy, i. 26, 55; ii. 9
Feckenham, i. 191, 193
Felton, John, assassination of Buckingham, i. 29, 76; ii. 31;
execution of, 32
Fenwick, Sir John, execution of, ii. 91
Ferrers, Lawrence Shirley, Earl, hanged at Tyburn, ii. 133–135
Fire of 1841, the, i. 27; ii. 142–144
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, i. 29, 132, 133;
imprisonment, 134;
trial and execution, 135–138;
buried in the Tower, 142
Fitz, Colonel, ii. 53
Fitzgerald, Gerald, Earl of Kildare, i. 142
Fitzgerald, Thomas, siege of Dublin Castle by, i. 142;
hanged, 143
Flambard, Astronomer-Royal, i. 60
Flambard, Bishop, i. 54, 57, 79, 80
Flete, John de, i. 65
Flint Tower, the, i. 43
Forde, Thomas, i. 47
Forrest, one of the murderers of the two Princes, i. 116
Fraser, Sir Simon, i. 86
Freeman, Professor, i. 53, 54, 80
Gage, J., i. 47
Gage, Sir Thomas, i. 200
Galligman’s Tower, i. 53
Garden Tower, the, i. 20
Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, i. 185, 188, 199
Gardiner, Mr S. R., quoted, i. 95, 97, 110, 113, ii. 114
Gardner, Sir James, ii. 42
Garnet, Father, i. 48;
execution of, ii. 8, 9
Gates, Sir John, execution of, i. 187
“Gentleman-gaoler,” the, i. 12
Gerard, Father, i. 44, 48–51; ii. 8, 9
Gerard, Thomas, execution of, i. 159
Gerrard, John, execution of, ii. 51
Ghosts in the Tower, i. 26, 27
Gibbons, Grinling, i. 46
Gladstone and Sir Thomas More compared, i. 139
Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of, i. 84
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, i. 103
Gloucester, Richard, Duke of, i. 108, 110;
made Protector, 112;
his portrait, 113;
imprisons his nephews, and declares them bastards, 114, 115;
crowned 115.
See Richard III.
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of, revolt of, i. 94;
arrest of, 95
Gloucester, Duchess of, i. 104
Glendower, Owen, i. 100
Gordon, Lord George, ii. 137
Gorges, Sir Arthur, i. 218
Gough, Sir Mathew, i. 105
Governor’s House, see King’s House
Green, one of the murderers of the two Princes, i. 116
Grey, Lady Catherine, i. 191;
marriage with Lord Hertford, 203;
imprisonment of, 204;
death of, 205
Grey, Lady Jane, i. 33, 34, 35;
marriage with Guildford Dudley, 182;
enters the Tower in state, 182;
imprisonment of, 185;
trial of, 189;
letters to her father, 190, 191;
execution of, 192–4;
buried in the Tower, 194
Grey, Lord John, i. 194
Grey, Lord Leonard, i. 143;
execution of, 143, 159
Grey, Sir Richard, execution of, i. 114
Grey de Wilton, Lord, imprisonment and death of, ii. 2, 5, 7
Griffin, Edward, ii. 92, 93
Grillot, i. 45
Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, i. 6, 54, 62
Gunpowder Plot, the, ii. 8
Gurney, Sir Richard, ii. 42
Hacker, Colonel, execution of, ii. 58
Haiward and Gascoigne’s plan of the Tower, i. 6, 7, 23, 43, 75
Hales, Sir Robert, murder of, i. 90, 91, 92
Hamilton, James, Duke of, ii. 45;
execution of, 46
Hamilton, Sir Stephen, execution of, i. 151
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, imprisonment of, ii. 100
Harrington, James, ii. 56, 57
Harrison, Major-General Thomas, execution of, ii. 56
Harvey, Sir George, ii. 9, 10
Hastings, Sir Edward, i, 198
Hastings, Lord, i. 35, 57;
execution of, 114
Hengham, Ralph de, i. 86
Henry I., i. 6, 7, 81;
imprisonment of Flambard by, 79
Henry III., i. 17, 36, 45, 51, 59, 76;
buildings in the Tower due to, 82;
obliged to take shelter in the Tower, 83
Henry IV., i. 98, 100
Henry V., i. 101, 102
Henry VI., his minority, i. 103;
Cade’s insurrection, 104, 105;
deposition and imprisonment of, 108, 110;
murder of, 19, 110
Henry VII., i. 120–123
Henry VIII., i. 16, 37;
armour of, 71;
marriage with Catherine of Arragon, 125;
his executions, 126;
marriage with Anne Boleyn, 131;
execution of More and Fisher, 132 _et seq._;
execution of Anne Boleyn, 143 _et seq._;
marriage with Jane Seymour, 150;
marriage with Anne of Cleves, 157;
execution of Cromwell, 158;
execution of Catherine Howard, 160;
increasing cruelty, 166;
imprisonment of Norfolk and Surrey, 166;
death, 168
Henry, Duke of Normandy, i. 81
Henry, Prince of Wales, armour of, i. 72;
friendship with Raleigh, ii. 12;
death of, 16, 18
Hentzner, Paul, i. 8, 58, 66, 67, 69
Hertford, Lord, i. 203, 204, 205;
marriage with Lady Catherine Grey, 203;
imprisonment of, 204, 205
Hewet, Dr, execution of, ii. 52
Hocking, W. J., quoted, ii. 97, 99
Hogarth, his portrait of Lord Lovat, ii. 127
Holland, Earl of, execution of, ii. 46
Hopton, Sir Owen, i. 24, 213, 217
Hopton, Sir Ralph (afterwards Lord), ii. 41, 42.
Hotham, Sir John, and Captain, execution of, ii. 44
Hudson, Mr W. H., quoted, i. 74
Hungerford, Lord, execution of, i. 158, 159
Hussey, Lord, execution of, i. 151, 153
Hutchinson, Mrs, i. 21, 41 n., 42, 112
Inner Ward, the, i. 12, 20, 45, 51
James I., portrait of, in the Council Chamber, i. 27;
first visit to the Tower, ii. 1;
his appearance, 4;
treatment of the Cobhams, 6, 7;
treatment of Arabella Stuart, 13–15;
betrayal of Raleigh, 23, 24
James II., Roman Catholicism, ii. 73, 84;
visit to the Tower on the day of Essex’s death, 76, 77;
appointments of Roman Catholics at Oxford, 85;
trial of the Seven Bishops, 86, 87;
flight, 88, 89
James, Prince, of Scotland, imprisonment of, i. 100, 101
James, Colonel John, execution of, ii. 56
“Jane of the Tower,” birth of, i. 87
Jean de Vienne, i. 88
Jerningham, Sir Henry, i. 196
Jerome, William, execution of, i. 159
Jewel House, the, i. 18, 45; ii. 68
Jews, imprisonment of, i. 55, 85
Jeffreys, Judge, i. 21; ii. 75, 79, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90
Joan of Kent, i. 60
John, King, the Tower besieged by, i. 82
John, King of France, i. 58, 88
Julius Cæsar’s Tower, i. 47;
repairs in, 131
Kent, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of, i. 82
Kent, Thomas Holland, Earl of, i. 94, 96
Kenmure, Lord, ii. 102, 103;
execution of, 104, 105
Keys, ceremony of receiving the, i. 22
King’s House, i. 14, 20, 23, 24–28
Kildare, Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of, i. 39
Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, Earl of, i. 34
Kilmarnock, Lord, i. 40; ii. 116, 117;
trial of, 118–120;
execution of, 121–124
Knighton, Sir W., i. 144, 145, 147, 148
Knights Templars, imprisonment of the, i. 87
Knyvett, Sir A., i. 164
Lambert, John, escape of, ii. 54;
recaptured and banished, 54, 55
Lancaster, Duke of, i. 97.
See Henry IV.
Lansdowne, George Granville, Earl of, ii. 95, 101
Lanthorn Tower, i. 6, 51, 52; ii. 173, 174;
restoration of, 169
Latimer, Bishop, i. 15, 172, 187, 201
Laud, Archbishop, i. 21;
imprisonment of, ii. 34;
his room searched by Prynne, 39;
trial and execution, 40
Lee, Sir Henry, i. 211
Legge’s Mount, i. 52
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, i. 31, 66, 72
Lennox, Countess of, i. 28, 206;
imprisonment of, 206
Le Swifte, E., i. 27
Lieutenant of the Tower, office of, i. 25
Lilburne, Colonel John, ii. 48
Lion Gate and Tower, i. 7, 10
Lisle, Arthur Lisle, Viscount, death of, i. 161
Lithbury, Robert, i. 86
“Little Ease,” i. 162; ii. 9
“Little Hell,” i. 44
Llewellyn, death of, in escaping from the Tower, i. 83
Lollards, persecution of the, i. 101, 102
London, Visscher’s view of, in 1616, ii. 21, 22;
the Fire, 62, 63;
Hollar’s view of London before and after the Fire, 62
London, Lord Mayor imprisoned, ii. 136, 137
Longchamp, Bishop of Ely, i. 9, 82
Lopez, plot of, i. 220;
execution of, 221
Loudon, Lord, ii. 33, 34
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, i. 39, 40, 70; ii. 126, 127;
trial, 128, 129;
execution, 130–133
Love, Christopher, execution of, ii. 50
Lucas, Lord, ii. 88, 89, 91
Lucy, Richard de, i. 81
Luke, Sir Thomas, ii. 26
Lumley, William, execution of, i. 151
Lumsford, Sir Thomas, ii. 38
Lysons, Sir Daniel, i. 25
Macaulay, Lord, i. 35
MacMahon, Colonel, attempted escape from the Tower, ii. 45;
execution, 45
Maximilian, Emperor, armour given to Henry VIII. by, i. 68, 70, 71
Macquire, Lord, attempted escape from the Tower, ii. 44, 45;
execution, 45
Main Guard, the, i. 22
Margaret, Queen, i. 108, 109, 110
Marlborough, Duke of, imprisonment of, ii. 91, 92
Mary, Queen, i. 171, 172;
proclaimed Queen, 184;
visit to the Tower, 187;
coronation, 188;
marriage with Philip of Spain, 198;
imprisons Elizabeth, 198, 199;
her persecutions, 201;
death, 201
Mary Stuart, i. 181;
struggle with Elizabeth, 206
Martin Tower, the, i. 27, 45, 46; ii. 68
Master of the King’s Ordnance, office of, i. 67
Matilda, the Empress, i. 80, 81
Mayne, Cuthbert, i. 213
Menagerie, the, i. 7, 8
Menteith, Earl of, i. 85
Merrick, Sir Gilley, execution of, i. 229
Meyrick, Dr S. R., i. 64, 66
Middle Tower, i. 9, 10
Middlesex, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of, imprisonment of, ii. 27
Milman, General George, i. 24; ii. 146, 171
Minories, the, i. 196
Mint, the, i. 13, 14; ii. 95–99
Mint Street, i. 13
Moat, the, i. 8, 9,
Molini, Nicolo, Venetian Ambassador, ii. 1 n.
Mohun, Lord, ii. 92
Monk, George, imprisonment of, ii. 44
Monmouth, James, Duke of, i. 28, 39, 43, 70; ii. 75;
execution of, 81–83
Montague, Lord, i. 131
Montford, Simon de, i. 83
Montgomery, John de, i. 65
Mordaunt, Henry, Lord, imprisonment of, ii. 8, 9
Mordaunt, Henry, conspiracy of, ii. 52
More, Sir Thomas, i. 29, 117, 132;
compared with Gladstone, 139;
imprisonment and execution, 140, 142
Moreton, Sir William, ii. 43
Mortimers, the, i. 58, 87, 88
Morton, Bishop of Ely, i. 114, 117
Napier of Magdala, Lord, i. 25
Nevill, Sir Edward, i. 131;
execution of, 152
Neville, Lady Anne, i. 108
Neville, Sir Henry, i. 208
Neville, Marmaduke, i. 31
Newton, Sir Isaac, i. 15; ii. 98
Nithsdale, Lord, i. 28; ii. 102, 103;
escape of, 105–111
Norfolk, 2nd Duke of, i. 129
Norfolk, 3rd Duke of, i. 143, 146, 151, 161, 188, 189, 196;
sentenced to death, 166;
narrow escape, 168;
death 168
Norfolk, 4th Duke of, i. 31, 207, 208;
trial, 209;
execution, 211
North Bastion, i. 52
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of, i. 214
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of, ii. 8, 9, 11
Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of, i. 21, 39, 173, 174, 178, 179, 181, 182;
arrested and imprisoned, 184;
apostacy, 185, 186;
execution, 187
Nottingham, Earl of, i. 94, 96
Oates, Titus, ii. 72, 73
O’Connor, Arthur, ii. 138, 139
Offley, Sir Thomas, i. 192
Okey, Colonel, attempt to seize the Tower, ii. 53;
execution of, 61
Oldcastle, Sir John, i. 101, 102
Oldcorn, Father, execution of, ii. 8, 9
O’Neale, Daniel, ii. 43
Orleans, Charles of, i. 53, 57, 58, 63, 64, 103
Otho, Papal Legate, i. 84
Otway, death of, i. 76
Outer Ward, the, i. 10, 52
Overbury, Sir Thomas, i. 21;
story of the murder of, ii. 16, 17
Owen, Sir John, ii. 46, 47, 48
Owen Tudor, i. 104
Palmer, Sir Thomas, execution of, i. 187
Parade, the, i. 24
Parkhurst, Sir W., i. 15
Parry, plot and execution of, i. 214, 215
Partridge, Sir Miles, execution of, i. 179, 180
Partridge, Nathaniel, i. 185, 186
Penn, William, i. 76; ii. 71, 72
Pennington, Sir Isaac, ii. 38, 44
Pepys, Samuel, i. 37; ii. 54, 58, 59, 62, 64–67, 96
Percy, Henry, i. 109
Percy, Sir Thomas, execution of, i. 151
Perrot, Sir John, imprisonment of, i. 216;
death of, 217
Peverel, i. 31
Pierce, the Regalia saved by, ii. 143
Planché, J. R., i. 64
Pole, Arthur de la, i. 34, 206
Pole, Cardinal, i. 152, 153, 156
Pole, Edmund de la, i. 34, 206
Pole, Sir Geoffrey de la, i. 152;
death in the Tower, 153
Pole, Henry de la, Lord Montagu, execution of, i. 152
Pole, see also Suffolk
Pope, Sir Thomas, i. 141
Princes, murder of the two, i. 20, 21, 22, 112–118;
their bones found, 55
Prynne, William, visit to Laud in the Tower, ii. 38, 39
Queen’s House, see King’s House
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i. 21, 22, 27, 56;
marriage with Elizabeth Throgmorton, 218;
imprisonment, 218;
release, 220;
an enemy of Essex, 221, 223, 228;
second imprisonment, ii. 2, 3, 5, 8–12;
his “History of the World,” 10, 12, 18, 19,
released, 20;
expedition to the West Indies, 21, 23;
failure, 23, 24;
trial, 24;
execution, 25, 26
Raleigh, Lady, i. 76, 218, 219; ii. 8, 9, 10, 25
Raleigh’s Walk, ii. 175
Ratcliffe, Charles, ii. 126
Rathbone, Captain, ii. 62, 63
Record or Hall Tower, i. 17
Regalia, the, i. 18, 19, 45;
Colonel Blood’s attempt to steal, ii. 68–70;
saved by Pierce in 1841, 143
Reynardson, Sir Abraham, ii. 43, 49
Richard I., i. 43, 82
Richard II., i. 10, 11;
coronation of, 90;
seeks refuge in the Tower, 90, 94;
marriage with Isabel of France, 95;
arrest of the Duke of Gloucester and others, 95;
imprisonment in the Tower, 97;
deposition of, 98;
his character, 99
Richard III., murder of Henry VI. by, i. 19;
and Lord Hastings, 57;
coronation of, 115, 116;
murder of the young princes, 116
Ridley, Bishop, imprisonment of, i. 187
Ridolfi Plot, the, i. 208, 209
Rivers, Earl, i. 110, 114
Robinson, Sir J., i. 37; ii. 62
Roches, Peter de, Bishop of Winchester, i. 82
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, ii. 64
Rochford, Lord, execution of, i. 150
Rochford, Lady, i. 35;
execution of, 160, 161
Roettier, J., i. 15; ii. 96, 97, 98
Roman remains, i. 2, 3, 55; ii. 171, 172
Roper, Margaret, i. 140 141, 142
Ross, Bishop of, i. 29, 208, 211
Ross, Earl of, i. 85
Russell, William, Lord, i. 43, 70; ii. 73, 74;
trial, 75, 77, 78;
execution, 79
Rye House Plot, the, ii. 73, 75
Salisbury, Earl of, i. 91
Salisbury, Countess of, i. 35, 39, 152, 153;
execution of, 154
Salt Tower, the, i. 47;
restoration of, ii. 169
Salutation Battery, i. 73
Salvin, i. 14, 17, 18, 30, 38, 51, 52, 62; ii. 169, 171
Sandwich, Ralph de, i. 36
Sandys, Sir William, i. 130
Sautre, William, i. 102
Savile, Henry, ii. 66
Saye, Lord, i. 105
Scaffold, site of the, i. 35;
on Tower Hill, 75
Scales, Lord, i. 105, 109
Scaramelli, Venetian envoy, ii. 1 n.
Scott, Thomas, execution of, ii. 58
Scott, Sir Walter, i. 31
Scottish prisoners in the Tower, i. 18; ii. 114–116, 155–167
Sensenhofer, Conrad, i. 71
Seton, Sir Christopher, i. 86
Seymour of Sudley, Lord, i. 170;
arrest and death of, 171, 172
Seymour, Jane, i. 144;
marriage with Henry VIII., 150
Seymour, Lady Jane, i. 203, 204
Seymour, William, ii. 3, 13, 14, 15, 16
Shakespeare, at the Tower, ii. 2
Sherin, execution of, i. 212
Shaftesbury, Lord, ii. 63, 73
Shrewsbury, Lady, ii. 13, 15
Sidney, Algernon, i. 20; ii. 73;
execution of, 79, 80
Simnel, Lambert, i. 120, 121
Simon’s “Petition Medal,” ii. 98
Skelton, Sir Bevil, ii. 88
Slingsby, Sir Henry, execution of, ii. 52
Smeaton, Mark, i. 150
Somers, Will, i. 72
Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, ii. 17;
imprisonment of, 18
Somerset, Protector, i. 11, 39, 170, 171;
arrest, 173;
release, 174;
again arrested, 174;
trial, 175;
execution, 176, 177
Somerset, Duchess of, i. 188
Somerville, John, and family, i. 214
Southampton, Lord, i. 24, 222;
imprisonment and trial, 223;
released by James I., 229
Southwell, Sir Richard, i. 198
Spencer, Lord, quarrel with the Earl of Arundel, ii. 27
Spur-Yard, the, i. 9
St John’s Chapel, i, 36, 55, 57, 58–60;
stained glass in, 76–78; ii. 177, 178
St Ledger, Sir Anthony, i. 15
St Peter’s Chapel, plate in, i. 16, 24, 35–43;
stained glass in, 76
St Thomas’ Tower, i. 12, 13, 14;
fall of, 16, 17;
repairs in, 131
Stafford, Sir Henry, i. 124
Stafford, Thomas, Lord, execution of, i. 201
Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, execution of, ii. 72, 73
Stained glass in the Tower, i. 76; ii. 177, 178
Stanhope, Sir Michael, execution of, i. 179, 180
Stanley, Lord, i. 114
Stanley, Sir William, execution of, i. 122
Stephen, i. 17;
residence in the Tower, 80
Stevenson, R. L., description of the Duke of Orleans, i. 63
Stillingfleet, Bishop, ii. 72
Store, Dr John, i. 33
Store House, the, i. 46
Stoughton, John, i. 47
Stourton, Lord, imprisonment of, ii. 8, 9
Stowe’s “Survey,” quoted, i. 6, 40, 75, 112, 157, 202, 228
Strafford, Earl of, ii. 21;
committed to the Tower, 34;
trial, 35;
execution, 35, 36
Strafford, Edmund de, Lord Chancellor, i. 96
Stuart, Lady Arabella, ii. 2, 3, 13, 14, 15
Stubbs, Dr John, i. 212
Subterranean passages, i. 23, 44
Sudbury, Simon of, Archbishop of Canterbury, murder of, i. 90, 91, 92
Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, i. 66, 72, 127
Suffolk, Henry Grey, Duke of, i. 181, 182, 190, 194;
trial and execution of, 195;
discovery of his head, 196
Suffolk, Edmund de la Pole, Earl of, execution of, i. 126
Suffolk, John de la Pole, Duke of, i. 117, 126
Suffolk, William de la Pole, Duke of, i. 104, 105
Suffolk, Lord and Lady, imprisonment of, ii. 27
Surrey, Earl of, i. 146;
execution of, 165, 168
Sutherland, Earl of, i. 85
Syndercombe, Miles, death of, ii. 52
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, i. 19; ii. 68
Talbot, Thomas, i. 34
Tankerville, Count of, i. 88
Taylor, Sir John, i. 38
Taylor, John, ii. 169, 171
Tempest, Nicholas, execution of, i. 151
Thanet, Lord, ii. 138, 139
Thistlewood, execution of, ii. 140, 141
Throgmorton, Francis, execution of, i. 214
Throgmorton, Sir John, i. 192
Torture, instruments of, i. 69
Torture chamber, the, i. 26, 48
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
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
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