Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London (76 page)

Brave man or spy? German Naval officer Carl Hans Lody, shot by firing squad in November 1914, was the first person executed inside the Tower since the Earl of Essex in 1601. Lody asked the officer in charge, ‘I suppose you will not shake the hand of a German spy?’ The man gallantly replied: ‘No, but I will shake the hand of a brave man’. Lody’s compatriot, and fellow spy Josef Jacobs, was the last person (to date) executed in the Tower when he was shot there in the Second World War.

Hero or traitor? Ireland’s Sir Roger Casement on trial for his life in May 1916. Arrested after landing from a U-boat, Casement twice tried to commit suicide while detained in the Tower. He survived to be hanged in August 1916.

Bad boys: twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray began their notorious criminal careers by absconding from the Tower where they were detained in the garrison’s guard room in the Wellington Barracks for repeatedly deserting from National Service in the Army. The Army finally tired of their antics, and discharged them.

INDEX

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Acton, Lord 277

Adam of Usk 78, 87

Addison, Joseph 28

Ainsworth, William Harrison 420

Alford, Richard 119, 120

Alleyn, Edward 24, 276

America 31, 386, 391, 403, 404, 418

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
10

Anne of Denmark, Queen 270, 275, 278, 288, 299, 360, 409

Anne of Bohemia, Queen 23, 76, 78

Anne Stuart, Queen 352, 413, 415

antelopes 32

apes 28, 30

Appleton, William 72

Aragon, Katherine of 161, 163, 166, 168, 175, 179, 181

architect of the Tower 7

Arden, John 328, 329, 330

Argentine, Dr John 149, 152

armoury 60, 83, 87, 104, 108, 112, 121, 156, 183, 379, 420, 421

Arthur, Prince 158, 161, 163

artists 30

Arundel, Earl of
see
FitzAlan; Howard, Philip

Arundel, Thomas (Archbishop of Canterbury) 83, 84, 317, 318, 320

Ashley, Kat 219, 253

Ashton, Revd. Abdy 259

Aske, Robert 189–9

Askew, Anne 202, 206, 207–8

Asquith, HH 424

Astronomer Royal 29

Atholl, Earl of 56

Atkinson, Katharine 40

Aubrey, John 253, 393, 401

Babington, Anthony 266–70, 322

baboons 32

Bacon, Anthony 254

Bacon, Sir Francis 184, 257, 284, 285, 325

Baillie-Stewart, Norman 425–6

Bailly, Charles 264

Baker, Sir John 207

Balfour, Sir William 387, 388, 389, 390, 391

Ball, John 64–7, 71, 74

Ballard, John 269

Balliol, Edward 54, 59

Balliol, John 54–5

Bank of England 39, 42, 419

Barkstead, Sir John 376, 377

Barwise, Robert 325

Bates, Thomas 279, 284, 285

Baynard’s Castle 16, 73, 232, 380

Beauchamp, Thomas (Earl of Warwick) 66, 77, 78, 101–4, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120–21, 122, 123, 125

Beauchamp Tower 52, 78, 182, 234, 238, 243, 246, 264, 265, 318, 342, 348

Beaufort, Edmund (2nd Duke of Somerset) 100, 101, 102, 103

Beaufort, Edmund (4th Duke of Somerset) 111, 119, 126

Beaufort, Henry 92, 93

Beaufort, Henry (3rd Duke of Somerset) 103, 104, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112

Beaufort, Joan 86–7

Beaufort, John (1st Duke of Somerset) 93

Beaufort, Sir John (Earl of Devon) 126

Beaufort, Lady Margaret 93–4, 153, 171

bears 31, 431

Beckett, Thomas 13, 83, 429

Beckman, Captain Marcus 368, 369, 371

Bell Tower 14, 169, 171, 182, 245, 246, 251, 340, 377

Bereford, Simon 316

Berkeley, Lady Henrietta 350

Berkeley, Lord 310

Berkeley, Sir Richard 325, 326, 327

Billingsby, Captain 388

birds 31, 32
see also
eagles; owls; ravens; vultures

births in the Tower 58, 164, 251, 295, 310

Bishop of London 11, 49

Black Prince’s ruby 361–2, 368

Blaine, Jenny 366

Blake, William 29

Blood, ‘Colonel’ Thomas 364–71, 375, 382, 430

Bloody Tower 19, 52, 58, 145, 172, 178, 234, 236, 264, 273, 276, 290, 291, 295, 296, 335, 368, 383, 384, 387, 392, 419, 430

Blount, Bessie 166

Blount, Sir Thomas 84

Blundeville Tower 19

Boleyn, Anne 155, 167, 168, 175–6, 177–86, 197, 429, 430

Boleyn, George (Lord Rochford) 176, 177, 179–82

Boleyn, Jane (Lady Rochford) 177, 199–202, 204

Boleyn, Thomas 167, 179

Bolingbroke, Henry (Earl of Derby, Duke of Hereford) 77, 79, 80, 81

Bolingbroke, Roger 92

bombs 422, 426

Bonner, Edmund 234, 327, 328, 330

Bonville, Lord 108

Bounde, William 23

Bourchier, Thomas 140, 144, 145, 147

bows and arrows 87, 104

Bowyer Tower 19, 133, 134, 420, 421

Brackenbury, Sir Robert 149, 150

Bradshaw, Ann 337

Brandon, Richard 343, 344, 391

Brass Mount 215

Breaks, the 202, 282

Brereton, William 176–7, 178, 182–3

Brembre, Sir Nicholas 77

Brewer, Dr Clifford 81

Brick Tower 19, 254, 299, 375

Bridges/Brydges, Sir John 243, 245, 251

Broad Arrow Tower 19

Brooke, Henry (Lord Cobham) 272, 273

Bullock, Joseph 30, 31

Bulwark Gateway 172

Burdet, Thomas 133

Burgundy, Margaret Duchess of 157–60

Bute, Lord 417

Byron, Sir John 391, 392

Byward Tower 33, 52, 229, 338, 351, 419

Cade, Jack 96–8

Caius, John 23–4

‘caltrops’ 108

camels 23

Campion, Edmund 266, 268

cannons 87, 105, 113, 121, 156, 166, 215

Canterbury, Archbishop of 7, 13, 15, 65, 83, 84, 124, 140, 169, 249, 383, 409

Capel, Lord Arthur 341–4

Capel, Arthur (Earl of Essex) 344, 348, 349

Carew, Sir Alexander 394, 395

Carew, Sir Peter 239

Carr, Robert (Viscount Rochester, Earl of Somerset) 272, 288–91, 293, 294, 296

Casement, Sir Roger 424–5

castles 5–6, 51

Catesby, Sir Robert 279–80, 282–3, 285–6

Catesby, William 140, 141

Cato Street conspiracy 419

Cecil, John 398, 399

Cecil, Robert (Lord Salisbury) 259, 261, 262, 272, 273, 278, 280, 281, 287, 288, 327

Cecil, William (Lord Burghley) 249, 253, 257, 258, 262, 263, 264, 270

Chaloner, William 40–45

chapels
see
St Peter ad Vincula; St John’s chapel

Chapuys, Eustace 175, 183, 189, 196

Charles I 36, 270, 340, 341, 360, 371, 385, 386, 388–92, 395

Charles II 29, 36, 37, 40, 151, 216, 340, 341, 344, 345, 347, 348, 362–3, 370, 377, 386, 389, 393, 395, 399, 400

Charles (Duke of Orléans) 88–90, 92, 94

Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) 415

Chaucer, Geoffrey 69, 86, 95

Cheek, Tom 348, 350

Cheke, John 241, 242

Chesterfield, Lord 25, 372

Churchill, John (Duke of Marlborough) 404, 405, 410–14

city wall 6, 19

Clarence, George Duke of 117, 120–24, 126, 132–4, 135, 157, 191, 192

Clarges, Anne 401

Clarges, Thomas 401–2

Clerk of the Kings’ Works 69

Cleves, Anne of 188, 194, 195

Cleves, Mary of 90

Clifford, Lord Thomas 103

Clifford, Lord John (‘Black-faced Clifford’) 103, 107, 109

Cobham, Eleanor of 92

Cobham Tower 318

Cockett, Griffin 340

coin-clipping 35–6, 38, 39, 40, 54

Coke, Edward 259, 273, 294, 325

Coldharbour Tower 264, 400

Conduitt, William 46

Constable Tower 19

Constables of the Tower 8, 11, 12, 13, 49, 50, 53, 59, 65, 86, 95, 101, 122, 127, 138, 149, 161, 173, 203, 259, 260, 307, 377, 389, 399, 420

Constance, Princess 11

Conyers, Sir John 392, 394

Cook, Sir Thomas 118–19

Cooke, Peter 43

Cops, Alfred 31, 32, 33, 34

Corbet, Miles 376

Cornelius, John 117, 118

Cornwallis, Lord 418

coronations 20, 53, 63, 82–3, 91, 93, 110, 116, 119, 138, 140, 146, 147, 157, 158, 166, 168, 217

cougars 26

counterfeiting 35, 40–22

Courteney, Edward (1st Earl of Devon) 192, 234, 239, 248

Courteney, Henry 120

Courteney, Henry, (Marquess of Exeter) 191–2

Coventry, Lord William 374–5

Cradle Tower 57, 58, 163, 328

Cranmer, Thomas 167–8, 171, 181, 183, 198–201, 205, 213, 215, 216, 235, 238, 239, 246, 248

Croft, Sir James 239

Crompton, Hugh 337, 340

Cromwell, Richard 169, 189

Cromwell, Thomas 167, 168, 169, 172, 176, 177, 179, 184, 185, 188, 189, 191, 193–7

Cromwell, Oliver 26, 37, 38, 54, 151, 216, 277, 343, 344, 347, 350, 361, 372, 386, 395, 397, 399, 402