. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . d Southwark describes certain transparencies in the Small .Armoury which had been used inthe fireworks at the celebration of the Peace of 1748. Knights London, 1842, II, 263. 24 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Horse Armouries. In Hattons New View of London, published in 1708, the HorseArmoury is described as a little Ed. from the Ordnance Office. Thismay either mean that the armour was at this time kept in the SpanishArmoury, near the Ordnance Office in Cold Harbour, or it may simply bea careless way of describing the b
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . d Southwark describes certain transparencies in the Small .Armoury which had been used inthe fireworks at the celebration of the Peace of 1748. Knights London, 1842, II, 263. 24 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Horse Armouries. In Hattons New View of London, published in 1708, the HorseArmoury is described as a little Ed. from the Ordnance Office. Thismay either mean that the armour was at this time kept in the SpanishArmoury, near the Ordnance Office in Cold Harbour, or it may simply bea careless way of describing the building now known as C store, whichis used for the mobilisation stores of the Scots Guards. All the laterguide books up to 1820 mention this as the Horse Armouries, so it isprobable that Hatton refers to the same building. It is uncertain at whatdate precisely these mounted suits of armour were placed here, but it isprobable that on the completion of the Grand Storehouse in the early partof the reign of William and Mary there was a general sorting out and some. THE HORSE ARMOURIES. (By Rowlandson & Pusin. Microcosm of Loudon, !S09). attempt at systematic arrangement of the whole Collection. In none of theplans previous to the year 1717 is any locality specifically marked as theArmouries, and it is not till the year 1726, when Captain Lempriere drewup his Survey of the Tower, that we find the Horse Armouries shown inthe site above referred to. The ground floor of this building, in which naval weapons and storeswere kept, was known as the Sea Stores; the first floor was the HorseArmoury and the top floor had the comprehensive title of Petty Emptions. INTRODUCTION—HISTORY AND BUILDINGS. 25 In the Horse Armoury were set out a series of mounted figures, whichrepresented the Kings of England from WiUiam the Conqueror to George IIarrayed in a most wonderful mixture of armours of the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries. According to Meyrick, who saw the Collectionin the early years of
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