Authorised Guide to the Tower of LondonH.M. Stationery Office, 1888 - 152 pages |
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... block , on the parade ground below . The records are almost silent as to the reception of prisoners in the White Tower ; but the two Mortimers were here in 1324 ; and from the inscriptions in the crypt of St. John's Chapel , formerly ...
... block , on the parade ground below . The records are almost silent as to the reception of prisoners in the White Tower ; but the two Mortimers were here in 1324 ; and from the inscriptions in the crypt of St. John's Chapel , formerly ...
Page 45
... block on which Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino were beheaded in 1746 , and Lord Fraser of Lovat in 1747. See also a beheading axe . The rest of the figures , as far as the end of the room , show the armour of the sixteenth century ...
... block on which Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino were beheaded in 1746 , and Lord Fraser of Lovat in 1747. See also a beheading axe . The rest of the figures , as far as the end of the room , show the armour of the sixteenth century ...
Page 57
... block in 1553 he and his brothers remained in prison here , the Lieutenant of the Tower being allowed 6s . 8d . a day each for their diet . In 1555 he was liberated with his elder brother Ambrose , afterwards created Earl of Warwick ...
... block in 1553 he and his brothers remained in prison here , the Lieutenant of the Tower being allowed 6s . 8d . a day each for their diet . In 1555 he was liberated with his elder brother Ambrose , afterwards created Earl of Warwick ...
Page 76
... block , and viewed it closely , and finding in it a rough place that might hurt his neck , he bid the executioner chip it off . " This being done he prepared himself for the blow , by taking off his coat and waistcoat and laying down ...
... block , and viewed it closely , and finding in it a rough place that might hurt his neck , he bid the executioner chip it off . " This being done he prepared himself for the blow , by taking off his coat and waistcoat and laying down ...
Page 88
... block . Here he prayed for himself , forgave his executioner , and repeated the creed after Doctor Montford . So opening and pulling off his doublet , he was in a scarlet waistcoate , and then readie to lye downe he said he would only ...
... block . Here he prayed for himself , forgave his executioner , and repeated the creed after Doctor Montford . So opening and pulling off his doublet , he was in a scarlet waistcoate , and then readie to lye downe he said he would only ...
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Page 120 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone.
Page 120 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 100 - But Laud's influence was really derived from this oneness of purpose. He directed all the power of a clear, narrow mind and a dogged will to the realization of a single aim. His resolve was to raise the Church of England to what he conceived to be its real position as a branch, though a reformed branch, of the great Catholic Church throughout the world...
Page 122 - I have suffered a great deal of misery and cruel sickness. And I thank God that my fever hath not taken me at this time, as I prayed God it might not, that I might clear myself of some accusations unjustly laid to my.
Page 94 - Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact against the queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me : but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me, or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency before God. and the face of you, good Christian people, this day:" and therewith she wrung her hands, wherein she had her book.
Page 95 - What shall I do ? where is it ? One of the bystanders guiding her thereunto, she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body, and said, Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
Page 82 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, O God, I speak it.
Page 127 - The duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o'clock in the morning.
Page 96 - Shore's wife, with their affinity, have by their sorcery and witchcraft wasted my body.' " And therewith he plucked up his doublet sleeve to his elbow upon his left arm, where he showed a werish withered arm and small, as it was never other.
Page 55 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.