Plan of the Tower of London
(From a Drawing made between 1681 and 1689 by order of
Ld. Dartmouth, Maj. Genl. of the Ordnance.)
| A Martin’s Tower | P Brick Tower | e The Great New Storehouse |
| B By Ward Tower | Q Jewell Tower | f Office of the Ordnance |
| C Legge Mount | R Constable Tower | g Constable’s Lodging |
| D Brass Mount | S Broad Arrow Tower | h Mortar Piece Storehouse |
| E Develin Tower | T Salt Tower | i Treasury house |
| F Well Tower | V Lanthorn Tower | k Little Storehouse in Cold Harbour |
| G Cradle Tower | W Record Tower | l Mint Street |
| H Traitors’ Gate | X Bloody Tower | m Place for the Lions |
| I Draw Bridge | Y The Chapel | n Cranes on the Wharfe |
| K Bell Tower | Z The Main Courtyard | o Traitors’ Bridge |
| L Beauchamp Tower | a The White Tower | p Banbury Castle |
| M Devereux Tower | b Lieutenant’s Lodgings | q Brewer’s Quay |
| N Flint Tower | c Lower Old Storehouse | r Waggon house |
| O Bowyers Tower | d Upper Old Storehouse |
Footnotes:
[1] The fine old keep at Malling, in Kent, (now like Rochester only a shell) is the work of Gundulf.
[2] Stow says that though there was a garrison of 1,200 well-armed men in the Tower, they were so panic-stricken that they offered no resistance to the rebels, many of whom rushed into the King’s chamber and wantonly rolled about upon his bed, and insisted on kissing his mother. Mr. Trevelyan, in his England in the Age of Wycliffe, evidently thinks that Richard betrayed this fortress to the rebels as Louis XVI did the Tuileries in 1792, and sent orders that the mob were to be admitted.
[3] In the wardrobe accounts in the British Museum (Lansdowne MSS., No. V., Art. 41), the furniture of Lady Catherine’s prison-room is catalogued. “There were five pieces of tapestry for hanging the chamber; three window-pieces of the like stuff; a sparver for a bed, of changeable silk damask; a silk quilt of red striped with gold; a bed and bolster of down with two pillows of down; one white linen quilt stuffed with wool; four pairs of fustians; two Turkey carpets; one small window carpet; one chair of cloth of gold raised with crimson velvet, with two pannels of copper gilt and the Queen’s arms on the back; one cushion of purple velvet; two footstools covered with green velvet; one cupboard joined; one bed, one bolster and a counterpane for her woman.” But some marginal notes in the handwriting of Sir Edward Warner, the Lieutenant of the Tower, state that it was all old, worn, broken and decayed, and another letter of his to Cecil in the same collection of MSS. says that the Lady Catherine did further injury to this furniture with her monkeys and her dogs.