A Short History of the Tower of London: Including a Particular Detail of Its Interesting Curiosities; with a Brief Account of Many of Its Most Celebrated Kings of England, Noblemen and Others, Whose Figures, in Armour and Sitting on Horseback, are Exhibited in the Horse ArmouryJ. Wheeler, 1839 - 28 стор. |
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Сторінка 10 - It is difficult to give a just summary of this prince's qualities : he was so different from himself in different p.arts of his reign, that, as is well remarked by lord Herbert, his history is his best character and description.
Сторінка 43 - O Father! O Creator! thou who art the way, the truth, and the life, thou knowest that I have not deserved this fate;" and then turning to the judges, made the most pathetic declarations of her innocence.
Сторінка 11 - Fox, in his Book of Martyrs, states that Lady Jane traced with a pin on the wall of the room in which she was immured these words in Latin : " To mortals' common fate thy mind resign, My lot to-day to-morrow may be thine.
Сторінка 8 - Since fortune hath chosen that my hope should go to the wind to complain, I wish the time were destroyed; my planet being ever sad and unpropitious.
Сторінка 43 - she had the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age — and all at eighteen — the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor for her parents
Сторінка 6 - Traitor's-gate, through which it was customary, for the greater 'privacy, to convey traitors and other state prisoners by water to and from the Tower, the water of the ditch having here a communication with the Thames, under a stone bridge on the wharf. Over this water-gate is a regular building, terminated at each end by a round tower, on which are embrazures for pointing cannon ; the...
Сторінка 14 - Cannon were originally made of iron — bars of iron welded together with iron hoops over them. Stones were shot from these cannon. In 1418 Henry V ordered the clerk of the works of his ordnance, to procure labourers for making 7000 stones for guns in the quarries of Maidstone, Kent. The piece No. 15, is a gun of this description. The earliest brass gun in the Tower collection is No. 10, time of Henry VII., I486 — 1509.
Сторінка 1 - ST. THOMAS'S TOWER.—' This is a large square building built over the moat| the outer line of which is protected by two circular towers. These towers exhibit in the interior interesting specimens of the early pointed architecture of Henry Ill's reign.
Сторінка 17 - The Pope had suffered so great a loss in his revenue, by the utter separation of England from his authority, when Queen Elizabeth confirmed and established the Reformation, begun and continued by her father and brother, that he tried all means to take her out of the way ; and working more especially with the potent King Philip, of Spain, they both determined to cut her off by private artifices, or if these should fail, to subdue the nation by open force.
Сторінка 12 - No account can be found of this prisoner. The tradition that this prison lodging was inhabited by Anna Boleyn, is proved to be a mistake by history. The letter addressed to the Secretary Cromwell by the Governor of the Tower, Sir William Kyngston, proves that this unhappy Lady's last earthly abode was the Eoyal Palace.