TOWER OF LONDON

an stronghold on the R. Thames in the of London, England. Underneath been found traces of Roman fortifications. The keep, or White Tower, begun in 1078 under the direction Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, all the other historic. towers including Wake field Tower, where the jewels are kept, Beauchamp the place of confinement for so unhappy and illustrious prisoners, the Bloody Tower, where the Duke Clarence and Edward IV.’s sons murdered, are all of later date. Tower is still a fortre , and contains barracks within its precincts. It @ palace until Stuart times, when royalty came to see the lions (which were DE of the menagerie) fight dogs and bears. But it is most notorious as a prison to at which Sir Thomas More, Cranmer, d’ Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Lady attacks Jane Grey, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sidney, deand Ru ell were conveyed through the | La ominous Traitor’s Gate. Smyrna