Memoirs of the Tower of London; Comprising Historical and Descriptive Accounts of That National Fortress and Palace Anecdotes of State Prisoners--Of the Armouries--Jewels--Regalia--Records--Menagerie, &C Volume 7-8
Memoirs of the Tower of London; Comprising Historical and Descriptive Accounts of That National Fortress and Palace Anecdotes of State Prisoners--Of the Armouries--Jewels--Regalia--Records--Menagerie, &C Volume 7-8
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...residing within the fortress, and to make an estimate of the expense of the necessary repairs. Three months afterwards, a report was made to the Council, by which it appeared that the sum necessary for putting the fortress into a thorough state of repair, was 6697: 2: Jd; an order was therefore issued to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...residing within the fortress, and to make an estimate of the expense of the necessary repairs. Three months afterwards, a report was made to the Council, by which it appeared that the sum necessary for putting the fortress into a thorough state of repair, was 6697: 2: Jd; an order was therefore issued to the Lords of the Treasury to provide the required sum, so soon as the state of his Majesty's affairs would permit. In the same year, Sir Robert Peyton was committed to the Tower for challenging the Speaker of the House of Commons; as were also Edward Fitz-Harris, Esquire; John Rouz, Edward Whitaker, John Wilmore, William, Lord Howard, Baron of Escrick, and Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury, for " imagining, devising, and compassing the deposing and killing the King." The Lieutenant was particularly commanded to keep the two latter, close prisoners and apart from each other, and to suffer none to have access to them but their wives and children.39fi The only persons of rank sent to the Tower in 1683, with the exception of Thomas Pilkington and Samuel Shute, the Sheriffs of London, who were charged with having encouraged " an enormous riot" within the City, Bayley's History of the Tower, Vol. ii. pp. 630, et seq. Ibid. Vol. ii. p. 031. were the Earl of Essex, and William, Lord Russel. These noblemen had been accused by Howard, whom Sir John Hawles styles, a thorough paced evidence, of various treasonable offences. On the very morning when Lord Russel was undergoing his trial, Essex was ibund dead in his bed, with his throat cut, a circumstance which excited a strong suspicion that he had been murdered; that suspicion was much increased when it became known that his Majesty and the Duke of York were at the time of his death, in the Tower, where...
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