. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Traitors Gate, from the River. The following engraving is a view of the Bloody Tower, so called frombeing inaccurately thought the scene of the supposed murder of tlic youngsonsof Edward IV. It was the place of imprisonment of Thomas Howard, Dukeof Noifolk, who, for aspiring to the hand of Mary, Queen of Scots, thencein 1572 went to his execution on Tower Hill, and was buried in the Chapelof St. Peter. Notices of Recent PrBLicATioNS. 171. The Bloody Tower. The Bloody Tower, together with the Chapel of St.
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Traitors Gate, from the River. The following engraving is a view of the Bloody Tower, so called frombeing inaccurately thought the scene of the supposed murder of tlic youngsonsof Edward IV. It was the place of imprisonment of Thomas Howard, Dukeof Noifolk, who, for aspiring to the hand of Mary, Queen of Scots, thencein 1572 went to his execution on Tower Hill, and was buried in the Chapelof St. Peter. Notices of Recent PrBLicATioNS. 171. The Bloody Tower. The Bloody Tower, together with the Chapel of St. John in the WhiteTower, and the Council Chamber over it—in which the Council sat whenIlichard, Duke of Gloucester, then Protector of the Kingdom, striking hisfist upon the table, ordered Lord Hastings to instant execution—Avere, formany years, a depository for a large portion of the Public Records, nowremoved to the Kew Building in Fetter Lane. Of all the noble personages, however, who have suffered for theircrimes, or for their political offences, real or supposed, no one has excitedso much universal sympathy and compassion as the young, innocent,gentle, learned, and unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, who, as the tool of theambition of others, for thirteen days exercised regal authority as Queen
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