Book Cover.

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

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CHAPTER I.
Early History 1
CHAPTER II.
General Survey of the Buildings13
CHAPTER III.
In the Days of the Later Plantagenets  24
CHAPTER IV.
In the Time of the Tudor Kings38
CHAPTER V.
The Tudor Queens52
CHAPTER VI.
The Stuarts68
CHAPTER VII.
The House of Hanover92

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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