The Tower of London

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Author: Benham William

Title: The Tower of London

Release Date: 2018-11-11

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Date added: 27 March 2019

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The Tower of London.

From a MS. of the Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans.
British Museum, 16 F. II.

THE
TOWER OF LONDON

By
WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S.A.
Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street,
and Honorary Canon of Canterbury

LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1906

To
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
SIR GEORGE BRYAN MILMAN, K.C.B.
MAJOR OF THE TOWER,

THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE NOBLE FORTRESS,
OF WHICH HE IS SO EARNEST AND ENTHUSIASTIC A GUARDIAN,

is Dedicated

IN TOKEN OF DEEP RESPECT FOR HIS NAME AND WORK,
AS WELL AS IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF THE HELP WHICH HE HAS GIVEN ME
IN THIS LABOUR OF LOVE.

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CONTENTS

	page
CHAPTER I.
Early History	1
CHAPTER II.
General Survey of the Buildings	13
CHAPTER III.
In the Days of the Later Plantagenets	24
CHAPTER IV.
In the Time of the Tudor Kings	38
CHAPTER V.
The Tudor Queens	52
CHAPTER VI.
The Stuarts	68
CHAPTER VII.
The House of Hanover	92

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	page
PRINTED IN COLOURS FROM ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
The Tower of London. From a MS. of the Poems of Charles,
Duke of Orleans. (British Museum, 16 F. ii.)	Frontispiece
Assault on a Fortress. From a MS. of Boccaccio de Casibus
Virorum et Fœminarum Illustrium. (British Museum, 35321)	26
Artillery of the Fifteenth Century. From a MS. of the
Chronicles of England. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.)	34
A Tournament. From a MS. of the Romance of the
Sire Jehan de Saintré. (British Museum, Nero D. ix.)	42

OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
1.	South Aisle of St. John’s Chapel. From a Drawing by
	J. Wykeham Archer. (British Museum)	8
2.	Building a Gateway. From a MS. of Le Trésor des
	Histoires. (British Museum, Aug. A. v.)	8
3.	Men-at-arms Crossing a Drawbridge. From a MS. of
	Les Chroniques d’Angleterre. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.)	8
4.	Staircase of the White Tower. From a Drawing by
	J. Wykeham Archer. (British Museum)	8
5.	Indian Elephant and Rhinoceros brought over in 1686.
	From a Mezzotint by P. Vander Berge. (Gardner Collection)	8
6.	Lions’ Dens in the Tower. From a Drawing made in 1779.
	(Gardner Collection)	8
7.	The Tower, showing the East Outer Ballium. From a
	Drawing by H. Hodge. (Gardner Collection)	16
8.	The Salt Tower, and Part of the Ancient Ballium.
	From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer. (British Museum)	16
9.	The Prisoners’ Walk. From a Drawing by C. J. Richardson.
	(Gardner Collection)	16
10.	The Wakefield Tower. From a Drawing by C. Tomkins.
	(British Museum)	16
11.	Traitors’ Gate, from without. From a Drawing by C. Tomkins.
	(Gardner Collection)	16
12.	Traitors’ Gate, from within. From an old Engraving	16[Pg viii]
13.	Banquet given by Richard II. From a MS. of the
	Chronicles of England. (British Museum, 14 E. iv.)	24
14.	An Act of Arms before the King and Queen. From a MS. of the
	Romance of Sire Jehan de Saintré. (British Museum, Nero D. ix.)	24
15.	Gateway of the Bloody Tower. From an Engraving by
	F. Nash, 1821	24
16.	Queen in a Horse Litter, attended by her Ladies on Horseback.
	From a MS. of Froissart’s Chronicles. (British Museum, 18 E. ii.)	24
17.	Vaulted Room in the Crypt of the White Tower, in which the Rack stood.
	From a Drawing in the Gardner Collection	40
18.	A Cell in the Bloody Tower. From a Drawing by
	J. Wykeham Archer. (British Museum)	40
19.	The Privy Council Chamber in the Lieutenant’s Lodging.
	From a Drawing by P.