Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London (79 page)

Queen’s House 355, 430

rack, the 95, 118, 154, 207–8, 264, 265, 266, 282, 283, 340, 384

racoons 28, 31

Ralegh, Carew 274

Ralegh, Sir Walter 252–7, 260–65, 271–8, 281, 287–90, 295–301, 335, 386, 430

Ralegh, Wat 274, 297, 298

Ratcliffe, Sir Richard 140, 141, 147

ravens 29, 426

Record Tower 19

Rempstone, Sir Thomas 86

Renard, Simon 235

rhinoceros 30

Rich, Sir Richard 172–3, 202, 205, 207, 208, 217

Richard I 13, 14, 15, 53

Richard II 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70–71, 73, 75–80, 85, 360

Richard III 131, 146, 149, 151–62, 36
see also
Gloucester, Richard Duke of

Ridley, Nicholas (Bishop of London) 246, 248

Ridolfi, Roberto 263

Rivers, Lord 116, 118, 120

Rivers, Lord Anthony 122, 127, 129, 138, 139, 141

Robinson, Sir John 378

Robert III of Scotland 85

Robert the Bruce 56, 59

Rodney, Edward 338, 339

Roettier, John 37

Rookwood, Ambrose 284, 285

Ross, Charles 110

Rotherham, Thomas (Archbishop of York) 140, 142, 143, 146, 150

Rowlandson, Thomas 30

Royal Mint 34–46, 155, 215, 237, 248, 361, 391

Royal Ordnance Factory 36, 215

royal palace 9, 11, 13, 57, 166, 178, 261, 263

apartments 19, 76, 86, 115, 121, 123, 125, 163

great hall 8, 157, 163, 179, 216, 229, 249

royal residents 11, 18, 109, 114, 145, 248, 249, 399

Russell, Lord (Earl of Bedford) 222, 223–4

Russell, Lord William 348, 407

Rutland, Edmund Earl of 106, 107

Rye house Plot 348, 404

St John’s chapel 8, 13, 71, 83, 149, 151, 166, 215, 235

St Paul’s Cathedral 26, 49, 88, 123, 124, 130, 217, 284

St Peter ad Vincula 20, 34, 143, 172, 183, 187, 197, 215, 216, 235, 237, 251, 265, 266, 293, 385, 407, 411, 430

St Thomas’s Tower 19, 52, 57, 211, 331, 335, 336, 337, 345, 400, 419

Salisbury, Earl of 66, 70

Salisbury, Earl of (Richard Neville) 101–107

Sally Port passage 351

Salt Tower 19, 55, 264, 325, 327, 328, 419

Salvin, Anthony 421

Sanford, William 412

Saye, Lord 96–7

Scales, Lord Thomas 97, 104–6

School of Night 256, 286

Schwartz, Martin 159

scientists 29–30, 274–5, 287

Scott, James 382

Scrope, Lady 260

‘serpentines’ 156

Sexby, Edward 398, 399

Seymour, Edward (Earl of Hertford, Protector, Duke of Somerset) 205, 207, 210, 216–19, 221–7, 335

Seymour, Edward ‘Ned’ 250–52, 335

Seymour, Francis 338, 339

Seymour, Jane 175, 180, 187, 188, 217

Seymour, Thomas 205, 206, 217–20

Seymour, William 252, 334–41

Shaftesbury, Earl of 348, 382

Shakespeare, William 6, 87, 117, 134, 136, 148, 257, 258, 316

Shaw, Edmund 145, 146

Shaw, Dr Ralph 145, 146

Shelley, William 265

Shirley, Laurence (4th Earl Ferrers) 416, 417

Shore, Jane 141, 142, 143–4

Sidney, Sir Philip 256

Simnel, Lambert 159, 162

Simon, Thomas 37

Sindercombe, Miles 398, 399

Skip, John 184

Slingsby, Guildford 388

Smeaton, Mark 176–9, 181–3

Smith, Sir Thomas 224

Smith, William 367, 369

Smollett, Tobias 28

snakes 32

Somerset, Duke of
see
Beaufort; Seymour, Edward

Southwell, Sir Richard 173, 222, 266, 267

Spanish coins 36, 248

Spencer, Robert (Earl of Sunderland) 406

Sprat (Bishop of Rochester) 412, 413

Stacey, John 133

Stafford, Sir Edward 254

Stafford, Sir Humphrey (Duke of Buckingham) 96, 134, 137–40, 142–4, 146, 149, 150, 153–5

stained glass 76

Standish, Sir Ralph 75

Stanhope, Anne 225, 234

Stanley, Lord 156, 362

Stanley, Sir Thomas 142

Stanley, Sir William 156, 161

Steele, Richard 28

Steeres, Richard 120

Stephen of Blois, King 10–12

Stewart, Frances 38

Stewart, Robert (Duke of Albany) 85

Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury 5, 7

Stokton, John 127

Stow, John 27

Straw, Jack 65, 71

Stuart, Arbella 270, 334–41

Stuart, James 252

Stubbs, George 30

Stukeley, Sir Lewis 298, 299

Sudbury, Simon 65, 66, 67, 71, 72

Suffolk, Earl of 66

suicides 54, 265, 349

superstitions 28, 30, 83, 107, 130, 426

Surrey, Earl of 185, 209–13, 262–3

Swifte, Sir Edmund Lenthal 430–31

Swynford, Katherine 92, 153

Symonds, Richard 159

Talbot, Anna (Countess of Shrewsbury) 375

Talbot, Elizabeth (‘Bess of Hardwick’, Countess of Shrewsbury) 335, 336

Talbot, Francis (11th Earl of Shrewsbury) 375

Talbot, Gilbert 363

Talbot, John 274, 297

Talbot, Mary (Countess of Shrewsbury) 336, 340

Tanner, Dr Lawrence 152

taxes 63, 64, 306

Tempest, John 113

Thistlewood, Arthur 419

Thomas of Woodstock (Earl of Buckingham, Duke of Gloucester) 65, 77, 78, 78, 79

Throckmorton/Ralegh, Elizabeth ‘Bess’ 254–6, 273, 274, 278, 298, 299, 300

Throckmorton, Francis 264–5

throne room 77

Thurloe, John 399

Thursby, John 133

Thynne, Francis 299

Tichborne, Chideock 269

tigers 26, 27, 28, 30, 31

Tiptoft, John (Earl of Worcester) 113, 122

Topcliffe, Richard 267, 324, 325

torture 8, 95, 117, 118, 120, 162, 202, 207–8, 225, 281–2, 324, 326, 331

Tounson, Dr Robert 300

tourism 21, 27, 28, 32, 33, 363, 420, 421, 422, 428

Tower Hill 70, 77, 233, 234, 274, 275, 287, 368, 379, 399

executions on 72, 78, 79, 120, 122, 155, 160, 161, 166, 172, 174, 182, 190, 192, 196, 213, 220, 226–7, 236, 243, 246, 264, 294, 358, 390, 393, 395, 407, 415

‘Tower liberties’ 55
see also
‘Libertie of the Tower’

Traitor’s Gate 19, 52, 57, 79, 145, 203, 245, 258, 331, 405

treasure 376

Tresham, Francis 279, 280, 283

Tresilian, Sir Robert 77

Trollope, Sir Andrew 108

Tudor, Edmund (Earl of Richmond) 99, 100, 153

Tudor, Henry 153–7
see also
Henry VII

Tudor, Jasper (Earl of Pembroke) 99, 100, 107, 121, 153

Tudor, Owen 99–100, 107, 153

Tunstall, Sir Richard 113

Turner, Anne 290–92, 294

Tyler, Wat/Walter 64–6, 71, 73, 74, 75

Tyrell, Sir James 150, 151, 162, 165

unicorns 27

Vane, Sir Henry 388

Vergil, Polydore 130, 148

Villiers, Barbara (Duchess of Cleveland) 348, 404

Villiers, George (1st Duke of Buckingham) 294, 371, 383, 384

Villiers, George (2nd Duke of Buckingham) 371–6, 382

vultures 28

Vyner, Sir Robert 362

Wade/Waad, Sir William 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290, 294, 325, 335, 339

Waite, Elizabeth 115

Wakefield Tower 19, 360, 422, 429

Wallace, William 55–6

Waller, Edmund 395

Walpole, Henry 325, 418

Walpole, Horace 415

Walpole, Sir Robert 414, 415

Walsingham, Edward 172, 174

Walsingham, Francis 256, 262, 263, 264, 266, 270

Walter, Hubert 15

Walters, Lucy 404

Walworth, William 66, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75

Walwyn, William 397, 398

Warbeck, Perkin 159–61

Warden of the Mint 40

Wardrobe Tower 9, 400

Warkworth, John 123, 129, 130

Warner, Edward 251

Warner, Walter 287

Warwick, Edmund Earl of 157, 159–61

Warwick, Richard Earl of 120, 124, 126, 137

Webster, John 28

Weir, Alison 148

Wellington, Duke of 32–4, 419–21

Wellington barracks 423, 425, 427

Wenlock, Lord John 118, 126

Wentworth, Lady Henrietta 406, 407

Wentworth, Thomas (Earl of Strafford) 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390

Wesley, John 29, 418

Westminster Abbey 5, 20, 22, 58, 74, 81, 106, 110, 116, 122, 124, 139, 144, 152, 164, 299, 341, 360, 361, 396

Westminster Hall 9, 58, 173, 225, 235, 284, 306, 309, 316, 343

Weston, Francis 176–7, 179, 182, 183

Weston, Richard 291–4

Whethamstede, Abbot 102

White, Thomas 43, 55

White Tower 8–9, 20, 53, 80, 89, 148, 166, 207, 251, 260, 369, 378, 430

‘wildfire’ 105, 108

Wilkes MP, John 417

William I (The Conqueror, Duke of Normandy) 3–9, 10, 305–6

William II (Rufus) 8, 9, 10, 306

William III and Mary II of Orange 39, 352, 405, 406, 409–12

William IV 33

Wilson, Edward 299

Wilson, Dr Nicholas 170–71

Wingfield, Sir Anthony 194, 210, 223, 224

Wintour, Robert 283, 284, 285

Winwood, Ralph 294, 296, 298

Wiseman, Mrs 323–4

witchcraft 92, 133, 142, 175, 176, 180, 271, 294, 296

Wolsey, Thomas 167

wolves 31, 33

Woodville, Elizabeth 115–16, 119, 121, 125, 127, 129, 135, 139, 144–5

Wren, Christopher 26, 152

Wright, Professor W 152

Wriothesley, Sir Henry (1st Earl of Southampton) 200, 201, 205, 207–10, 223

Wriothesley, Sir Henry (3rd Earl of Southampton) 257–9, 261

Wyatt, Henry 154, 155, 239

Wyatt, Thomas (poet) 155, 167, 176, 177, 182, 196, 197, 205, 239

Wyatt, Thomas 239, 240, 244, 246

Yelverton, Sir Henry 299

Yeomen Warders 163, 185, 253, 260, 421

Yevele, Henry 58

York, Richard Duke of (Protector of the Realm) 96 100–107

York, Richard Duke of 135, 144–5, 149
see also
Princes in the Tower

York, Elizabeth of 156, 157, 158, 164

Young, Nicholas 99

Young, Robert 412–13

zebras 32

zoos 21, 28, 33, 34

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