The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 15, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
THE TOW*EH OF I&XDON.
Description of Famous Building
Where Kaiser May Await Trial.
The Tower of London, suggested as
a place where William Hohenzollern
might be held pending his trial, is
described .'n the following bulletin
from the National Geographic society:
"Palace and prison, once noted also
for its menagerie and it pageantry,
birthplace and death house of monarchs,
scene of hairbreadth escapes
and reputed hidden treasure, ghastly
in its memories of tortures and killings
and sacred for its martyrs, the
Tower of London amply warrants description
as the 'mos^ ancient and
most poetic pile in England.'
"William the Conqueror gave London
a charter but built the White
Tower to show the Deoole how little
that charter might mean. Like the
- ~ English constitution the rambling
London Tower of today is a product
of centuries, and not one, but many
towers, now are scattered over some
13 acres. The site had been a fort^
ress since Roman times.
"To the Middle Tower Elizabeth
came back queen five years after her
jealous half-sister, Mary, had kept
> her there in prison. The hump-backed
Richard III hired three assassins to
murder his nephew in Bloody Tower.
Not until years later were their bones
found and taken to Westminster Abbey.
"Lady Jane Gray, she who had the
birth of a princess, the life of a saint,
and the death of a malefactor,' was
beheaded in London Tower. Henry
VIII waited to hear a gun fired from
>v , White Tower, signal of the execution
/ of Anne Boleyn, so he might marry
9 Jane Seymour next day. Henry's
minister, Thomas Cromwell, sent
hosts of enemies to London Tower
to be butchered until he helped pick
Anne of Cleves for his much married
monarch, but when Henry saw his
prospe t've bride he pronounced her
> 'a Flanders mare' and off went Cromwell's
head with the rest.
"Relieving such stories of royal
cruelty are the immortal 'last words'
of the brave men and women who
l^id heads on the axeman's block.
" 'God forbid the king shall use
; any such mercy to my friends',
laughed Sir Thomas Moore when
told that Henry VIII had 'mercifully'
consented to let him be beheaded in*
stead of hanged, and, to the execu?
tioner, as he moved his beard aside,
'Pity that should be cut that has not
committed treiason/
"The countess of Salisbury proudly
refused to lay her head on the block
because she had committed no wrong,
. so that, says an observer, apologizing
for the executioner, 'he was constrain,
to fetch it off slovenly.'
" 'If you strike me twice I cannot
promise you not to stir,' warned Monmouth.
Asked to raise his head a bit
Algernon Sidney retorted, 'Not until
.^-the general resurrection, strike on.'
'Peter,' inquired S'r Walter Raleigh,
to keep up the spirits of his attendant,
'Dost thou know of any plaister
to set a man's head on again when it
was cut on r
"Consigned to the tower for some
13 years Sir Walter set a fashion
which made a salon out of the palaceprison.
While he was not attending
his garden, and distilling essence
from plants, he wrote his quaint 'His.
tory of the World,' and there, too,
William Penn wrote 'No Cross, No
Crown,' not to mention the writings
of the Duke of Orleans and Sir John
Eliot.
"About the main entrance to the
tower was a managerie until a hundred
years or so ago because Frederick
II of Germany sent Henry III of
England several panthers and Henry
did not know what else to do w'fh
them. Later James I, who liked bear
bait'ng, added those animals to the
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zoo.
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"The wardens, known as 'beef eaters,'
probably because they on e were
fed on rations of meat, frqfo one of
the curiosities for London visitors.
They wear tudor costumes and like
the Swiss body-guard of the pope,
they keep their ancient costumes,
undisturbed by current fashion.
"Just before midnight the board
warden and the porter, carrying a
bunch of huge keys, go to the guard
room, summon 'the escort of the
keys,' made up of 'beef eaters' and
then proceed to ceremoniously lock
the great outer gate. The pass word
is given formally to sentries as the
procession passes, and in conclusion
the detail salutes the keys as the
porter cries, 'God preserve the King.
Every three months the reigning king
or queen sends the password of the
tower to the constable, signed and
sealed, and the mayor of London is
the only other outside person supposed
to know it. Thus custom is a
relic of the time when the tower was
primar ly a fortress.
"Like the Bastile, London tower
has been stormed. Desperate efforts j
have teen made to steal the royal
relics kept there, which include the
ane'ent 'anointing spoon' and Queen
Elizabeth's salt cellar. One famous
effort, in which a Col. Blood, disguised
as a clergyman, nearly made
v.?Si
! away with the bejewelled crown, is
I thought by some to have been in!
spired by Charles 11 because he needj
ed the money the rare gems would
j bring.
! "One of the less well known, but I
I
j most spectacular in idents, was the
j escape of two priests by a ruse that
would have done credit to Monte
CristQ. One of them having been
strung up by the hands for days, and
then put in a rack while his wrists
still were " swolen, without making
him betray his faith, wrote in orange
juice to friends outside, for a light
rope with a weight at one end. He
also asked that a boat be brought to
the river below Cradle tower on a
certain night. On that night he
made his way to his fellow prisoner's
room. The two flung the weighted
end of the rope to their friends in
the boat, pulled by a heavier rope,
climbed from the steel walls to the
boat safely, and made their escape."
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