Research Catalog

Title

The Tower of London [by] R.J. Minney.

Author

Minney, R. J. (Rubeigh James), 1895-1979.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970]

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Details

Description

230 pages illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 29 cm

Subject

• Tower of London (London, England)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 225.

Contents

The ravens never tell -- Twenty towers -- How it began -- Building the tower -- The first prisoner -- The treacherous constable -- Becket and the tower -- The tower and Magna Carta -- Henry III expands the tower -- Other improvements in the tower -- Edward I's massive concentric fortress -- The king of Scotland and the great Wallace as prisoners -- The queen's love affair in the tower -- Prisoners from the French wars -- Angry peasants march on the tower -- Richard II abdicates in the tower -- The ceremony of the bath -- Henry V imprisons 'Falstaff' -- The exalted prisoner from Agincourt -- Joan of Arc plans the Duke of Orleans's rescue from the tower -- Execution at sea -- Henry VI a prisoner in the tower -- The coronation of Elizabeth Woodville -- The princess in the tower -- The murder of the princes -- Henry VIII's queen dies in the tower -- Henry VIII's first victims -- Sir Thomas More -- Anne Boleyn -- Anne's trial and execution -- Cromwell's turn next -- Katherine Howard -- Henry VIII's changes at the tower -- The king's armoury -- Lady Jane Grey -- Princess Elizabeth a prisoner -- Queen Elizabeth's first victims -- Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Guy Fawkes -- Strafford and Archbishop Laud -- Oliver Cromwell's prisoners -- Theft of the crown jewels -- The Duke of Monmouth and Judge Jeffreys -- The most remarkable escape -- John Wilkes in the tower -- The Duke of Wellington's changes in the tower -- The two world wars -- The tower today -- Technical terms used in building.

ISBN

• 0139257683
• 9780139257681
• 0304934283
• 9780304934287

LCCN

72123084

OCLC

• ocm00114895
• 114895
• SCSB-230217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library