The Tower of London, (Vol. 1 of 2)

by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower

VOL. I.

LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1901

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
	[INTRODUCTION]
I.	[THE BUILDINGS]
II.	[THE TOWER UNDER THE NORMAN AND PLANTAGENET KINGS]
III.	[THE EDWARDS]
IV.	[RICHARD II.]
V.	[THE LANCASTRIANS]
VI.	[THE WARS OF THE ROSES]
VII.	[THE TUDOR KINGS—HENRY VII.]
VIII.	[HENRY VIII.]
IX.	[EDWARD VI.]
X.	[MARY TUDOR]
XI.	[QUEEN ELIZABETH]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COLOURED PLATE

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

PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES

• [The Tower. (From a sketch by H. Colls)]
• [Plan of the Tower in 1597, by Haiward and Gascoyne]
• [The Byward Tower]
• [Postern Gate in the Byward Tower]
• [Yeoman Porter of the Tower, bearing his emblem of office]
• [The Wakefield and Bloody Towers]
• [Traitor’s Gate, time of George III.]
• [The Bloody Tower, looking towards Traitor’s Gate]
• [Groining in Ceiling of the Bloody Tower]
• [The Council Chamber in the Governor’s House]
• [Prison in the Governor’s House]
• [The Beauchamp Tower]
• [Prison in the Beauchamp Tower]
• [Prison Chamber in the Beauchamp Tower]
• [Interior of St Peter’s Chapel]
• [Monument of Sir Richard Cholmondeley and his Wife, in St Peter’s Chapel]
• [Tomb of the Blunt Family in St Peter’s Chapel]
• [Stone Staircase in the White Tower]
• [Interior of St John’s Chapel]
• [Horse and Foot Armour (XVIth Century)]
• [German Armour (XVIth Century)]
• [Nuremberg Armour (XVIth Century)]
• [ Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century)]
• [Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century)]
• [Horse and Foot Armour (XVIIth Century)]
• [Site of the Scaffold on Tower Hill]
• [The Wakefield Tower, time of George III.]
• [Prison beneath the Wakefield Tower]
• [Queen Anne Boleyn. (From an engraving after a contemporary portrait)]
• [John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. (From the drawing by Holbein at Windsor)]
• [Sir Thomas More. (From the drawing by Holbein at Windsor)]
• [A Daughter of Sir Thomas More, supposed to be Mrs Roper. (From the drawing by Holbein at Hammerfield)]
• [Queen Mary Tudor. (From a portrait at Latimer)]
• [Lady Jane Grey. (From the portrait at Madresfield Court by Lucas van Heere)]
• [Lord Guildford Dudley. (From the portrait at Madresfield Court by Lucas van Heere)]
• [Lady Jane Grey. (From an engraving by Wijngaerde, after the portrait by Holbein)]
• [Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk. (From the portrait by Joannes Corvus in the National Portrait Gallery)]
• [Robert, Earl of Essex. (From a contemporary engraving)]