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

Chapter 22: INDEX
By Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
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A comprehensive history of the London fortress covering its evolving role as royal residence, prison, armory, and ceremonial stage, with chaptered accounts of successive reigns, notable incarcerations and executions, structural changes, restorations, fires, and security incidents. The narrative interleaves architectural description, portraiture and prints, eyewitness anecdotes, and documentary evidence, and is supplemented by plans, illustrations, and appendices detailing disputes, discoveries, and lists of officials, offering both chronological narrative and thematic studies of the site's institutions and uses.

INDEX

  • 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