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GREAT FIRE IN TILE
TOWER OF LONDON.

seen, of sanguinary .triumph. Even bigotry herself,
in the heart of Mary, had hitherto respected the
youth and virtues of • Lady Jane Grey, but she
was now devoted to death, together with her hus-
band, Lord Guildford Dudley ; and both of them
were beheaded on the 12th of February, 1554, the
former on the green before the chapel within the Tower,
and the latter on Tower-hill. Eleven days afterwards
the Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane's father, was decapitated
on the same scaffold. Numerous other victims of re-
venge and intolerance became inmates of the Tower
during this sanguinary reign, among whom, passing over
many persons of inferior rank, were the Bishops Ridley
and Latimer, and Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
(all of whom were burnt at Oxford in 1554 and 1555),
the Earl of Warwick, the Marquis of Northampton,
Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, Lord Cobham, and Sir

OFFICIAL REPORT OF MR. BRAIDWOOD.

Major Elrington, being desirous to obtain all the ac-
curate information in his power, in order to furnish it
to his Grace, states that he made application to Mr.
Braidwood, the superintendent of the London Fire Bri-
gade, and obtained from him the following statement,
which he with great courtesy handed to our reporter :
"London'Fire Establishment Station,

6S, Watling-street, Sunday Morning, Oct. 31.,_
" Sir—According to your request I beg to state that
the alarm of the fire in the Tower was given at three-
quarters past 10 o'clock P. 31., of the 30th inst. On
arriving there I found the circular building behind the
grand staircase, leading to the small gun armoury, com-
pletely on fire, and the flames were extending along the
main building on both sides. The height which the
flames had gained, and the construction of the building,
with the very scanty supply of water, prevented any
hope of saving the building itself. Every exertion was,
therefore, made to save those adjoining, which wore
happily preserved.
" The Map-office was at one time in very great danger,
which was averted by the exertions of the firemen, with
the very efficient assistance of the troops.
" The White Tower was also at one time in extreme
danger, and the arrangements of the officers and exertions
of the soldiers alone prevented its destruction.
" The fire appear .teve. eornmeneed in the work-
-shops behind, the large 7krnatinry, but I have not been
able to ascertain the cause.
" The engines present at the fire were :—Nine be
longing to the Tower of various sizes, eight large en-
gines belonging to the London Fire Establishment, two
powerful floating engines, also of the Fire Establishment,
one belonging to the West of England Insurance Com-
pany, one from the County-office, one from the Custom-
house, and four parish engines.
"In conclusion, I beg to say that the danger of the fire
further extending now no longer exists, but, notwith-
standing, several of the Fire Establishment engines will
remain on the spot.
" Sir, I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
"JAMES BRAIDWOOD,
. .

John Ch eke.
At no period of our history was it more " constantly
thronged with delinquents" than in the reign of Eliza-
beth. The Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Win-
chester, Lincoln, Ely, Worcester, Exeter, and Bath, and
the Abbot of Westminster, were very early imprisoned
here for denying the Queen's supremacy. The more
illustrious captives in the same reign were Thomas
Howard, Duke of Norfolk (beheaded on Tower-hill on
the 2d of June, 1571) ; Philip, Earl of Arundel ;
Henry, Earl of Northumberland (who shot himself in
confinement in June, 1585) ; Sir John Perrot (the
Queen's natural brother) ; Robert Devereux, Earl of
Essex (Elizabeth's great favourite, yet consigned by her
to the scaffold, and beheaded within the Tower :vu Ali
Wednesday, February 25,1601).
" James I. kept his Court at the Tower for a short
time after his accession and arrival in London ; and, on
two or three different occasions, that Monarch and his
Queen gratified their curiosity by witnessing combats
of wild beasts, which were kept there. In this reign the
unfortunate Lady Arabella Stuart, was imprisoned in
the Tower, to. which also was committed the gallant Sir
Walter Raleigh, Lord Cobham, Lord Grey, of Wilton,
and others, on a charge of plotting to raise that Lady to
the throne. Raleigh, on the 29th of October, 1618, fell
beneath the axe of the headsman in Old Palace-yard.
" In the same reign, anno 1605, the gunpowder con-
spirators were imprisoned in this fortress, which also in
1614 became the scene of the murder of Sir Thomas
Overbury. Gervase, Lord Clinton ; Sir Thomas Lake ;
the Earls of Suffolk, Arundel, and Oxford ; the Lord
Chancellor Bacon, and Sir Edward Coke were also con-

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Superintendent of the London Fire Establishment.

" To Major Elrington,
Officer in Command in the Tower."
Major Elrington also states that the workshops in
question were closed about the same time as the gates of
the armoury, five o'clock, and from inquiries he had
caused to be made of the persons who were the last to
leave, the buildings appeared perfectly safe. With re-
spect to the origin of the fire, he thought it was caused
from the flues of the stoves.

fined here in the same reign.
During the disastrous contention between Charles I.
and the Parliament, many of the leading partisans in the
transactions of that period were imprisoned here.
Among those of the greatest distinction were Lord Lou-
don ; Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, beheaded May 12,
1641 ; Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded JD.

unary 10, 1644 ; the Earl of Pembroke, &c.
Under the Government of Oliver Cromwell, and in the
reigns of CharleS 11. and James 11., the Tower was oc-
casionally thronged with prisoners, the victims of State
policy. The late King's judges were particularly the
objects of vengeance ; and with them, between the
Tower and the scaffold, there was but little space. Al-
gernon Sydney, and William, Lord Russell, were among
the last imprisoned here in King Charles's reign ; the
former was beheaded in Lincoln's. Inn-fields, on the
21st of July, 1684, and the latter on Tower-hill on th 6
7th of December, in the same year.
In King Jam es ll.'s reign, the King's unfortunate nephew,
the Duke of Monmouth, after a confinement in the Tower
of two days only, was beheaded on the adjacent scaffold
on July 15, 1685. On the eve of the glorious revolution,
of 1688, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops
were committed to the Tower, by a warrant signed by
Lord Chancellor Jefferies, and others of the Council.
During the reign of William 111., numerous Jacobites
and other conspirators against the King and State were
confined here, and several executed on Tower-hill. In
the succeeding reign few persons were committed to this
fortress, but in that of George 1., when the Stuart in-
terest had gained strength, it was again more fully
tenanted.
In the summer of 1715 the Earls of Oxford and Scars-
dale, Lord Powis, and Sir William Wyndham, were com-
mitted to the Tower; and on the quelling of the Scotch
rebellion in the latter part of the same year the Earls of
Derwentwater, Nithsdale, Viscount Kenmure, and others
were also sent thither as traitors. Derwentwater and
Kenmure were decapitated on Tower-hill on February
the 24th, 1716; but the Lord Nithsdale, who was to
have suffered with them, made his escape on the 'preced-
ing night in female apparel, which had been conveyed to
him by his own mother. At a subsequent period the
celebrated Bishop Atterbury was committed to the
Tower, and thence banished the kingdom on June the
17th, 1723.
In the-year 1745 a fresh rebelli,on_loa-Sedatland, -Leaded
try the St. George, eldest son to the Pretender,
furnished the Tower with new inmates. Of these the
Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino were beheaded
on Tower-hill, August the 18th, 1746; Ratcliffe under-
went a similar fate on the Bth of December following;
and Lord Lovat was decapitated on April the 7th, 1747.
Lord Lovat was in his 80th year, and although from old
age and infirmity obliged to be supported to the scaffold
by two warders, he met his fate with a dignified jocose-
ness. He expressed surprise that so vast a concourse
of people should assemble to witness the taking off of an
old grey head.'
" On the 13th of February, 1760, Earl Ferrers was
committed to the Tower for shooting his steward, for
which crime he was hanged at Tyburn on the sth of May
following. During George lll.'s reign many persons
were imprisoned here on charges of high treason and
other political offences. Among others was the patriot
Wilkes, for a libel, 1762 ; Lord George Gordon, in 1780,
as the presumed instigator of the great riots in London in
that year ; Francis Henry de la Motte, the French spy,
who was executed at Tyburn on the 27th of July, 1781 ;
John Horne Tooke, Thomas Hardy, John Thelwall,
• Wm. Holcroft, and several others, in 1794 ; Arthur
O'Connor and James O'Coigly, in 1768 j and Sir Fran-
cis Burdett, Bart., in April, 1 10. Sir Faseis was im-
prisoned by order of the House of Commons, for an
alleged libel on the House, in a letter to his constituents,
the electors of Westminster.
" On the 3d of March, 1820, the following persons who
had engaged in an atrocious plot to subvert the Govern-
ment by assassinating his Majesty's Ministers whilst at
a Cabinet dinner at Lord Harrowby's, in Grosvenor-
square, were committed to the Tower, viz. :—Arthur
Thistlewood, James Ings, John Harrison, William Da-
vidson, James Wilson, John T. Brunt, Richard Tidd, and
Juhn Monument; and several others were sent to different
prisons. Thistlewood, Ings, Davidson,Brunt, and Tidd,
were executed in front of Newgate on the Ist of May.
Thus close the annals of this fortress as a State prison.
" It has been customary from a very early period
after the conquest, for all our Sovereigns, at the times
of their coronation, to go in great state and procession
from the Tower, through the City to Westminster.
with crafts and companies in their richest liveries,
with music and banners. This custom *as discontinued
by Charles 1., in consequence of the plague, which was
then raging, but at the coronation of his successor, on
the 23d of April, 1661, it was again observed with in-
creased splendour, and four triumphal arches were
erected in different parts of the city. Since that period
the ceremony has never been revived, in consequence
of the enormous expense which it always occasioned the
city, as well as Government.' All the domestic apart-
ments of the ancient Palace within the Tower were taken
down during the reigns of James 11. and William and
Mary."

HISTORY OF THE TOWER OF

LONDON.
The .following historical account 'of the events con-
nected with the Tower, and of the curiosities it con-
tained, prior to the fire, together with the deaths and
burials of the 'illustrious persons who resided within its
walls, will doubtless be perused with more than ordinary
interest at the present moment :
THE TOWER OF LONDON.
The celebrated fortress of the Tower of London stands
on the northern bank of the Thames, at the eastern ex-

tremity of the city. It at first consisted of no snore than
what at present is called the White Tower, and, without
any authority; has been reported to have been built by
Julius Cmsar, although there is the strongest evidence of
its having been marked out, and a part of it first erected
1?),,. William the Conqueror, in the year 1078; doubtless
with a view to secure himself and followers a safe re-
treat, in case the natives of Britain should ever have re-

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course to arms. That this was the Conqueror's design,
evidently appears fidm its situation and its communica.
tion with the Thames, whence it might be supplied with

men, provisions, and military stores, and it even still
seems formed for a place of defence rather than of offence.
The detith of the Conqueror, in 1087, about eight years
after he had begun the fortress, however, for some time
prevented its progress, and left it to. be completed by his
son, William-Rufus,. who, in 1098, surrounded it with
walls and a broad and deep ditch, which is in some places
about 120 feet wide, into which water from the river

Thames was introduced.
Henry I. strengthened this fortress with additional
works, and King Stephen, in 1140, kept his Court here
with great magnificence during the festival of Whitsun-
tide. That monarch conferred the custody of the Tower
upon Geoffrey de Magnaville, Earl of Essex, who proved
faithless to his trust, and kept it for the Empress Ma-
tilda until he was made prisoner at St. Albans in 1143;
and constrained to assent to its surrender—
Abbilt the year 1100 it, 1.,1)**r.1.!*.14 th,..),Tenverivere
considerably extended by William Longcliamps, Bishop
of Ely, and Chancellor of England, who, having been
left at the head of the Regency by Richard Cmur de
Lion during his absence in the Holy Land, thought pro-
per to surround this fortress with an embattled wall of
stone, and " a broade and deepe ditch," by which he
greatly encroached upon the adjoining lands, and had
part of the city wall " broken down for the enlarging of
the Tower, to wit, from the posterne gate towards the
river Thames." For this proceeding Prince John besieged
him in the Tower. After one night the affrighted pre-
late agreed to surrender, and to give up all his castles for
permission to retire to the continent.
King John frequently held his court at the Tower, and
both repaired and added to the buildings.
Henry the Third, in 1240, ordered a stone gate, bul-
warks, and other additions to be made to this fortress,
and the original Tower to be whitened, and from thence
it was called the White Tower. During Henry's reign
the Tower was the scene of many important events, and
was alternately held by the King, and by the united
Barons whom his conduct had goaded into insurrection.
Edward 1., soon after his accession to the throne, con-
siderably improved this fortress, by greatly enlarging the
ditch, or moat, that surrounds the whole ; he also
strengthened the principal entrance towards the west by
fresh outworks. These may be regarded as the
last additions of any military importance that were
ever made to the Tower prior to the invention of
cannon. Of succeeding events relating to this fortress
a very brief account must suffice. Edward 11.
occasionally retired into it as a place of security against
his subjects, and still further strengthened the works.
His Queen was here delivered of her eldest daughter,
called, from her birth-plaoe, Joan of the Tower. In Ed-
ward the Third's reign this fortress, which had been
used as a state prison from the early Norman times, be-
came the place of confinement of many illustrious per-
sons; among whom, at different periods, were David,
King of Scotland, and John, King of France, with Philip,
his son.
During the insurrection of Wat Tyler, King Richard
11. took refuge here with all his Court, to the number
of 600 persons. Being compelled, however, to attend a
conference with the insurgents at Mile-end, when the
gates were opened another party rushed into • the
Tower, and seizing Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Chancellor, and Sir Robert Hales,
Lord Prior of St. John's, the Treasurer, together
with the King's Confessor, and one of his Sergeants-at-
Arms, they put them to the sword upon Tower-hill
Stow, speaking of the Archbishop, says, There lay his
body unburied all that Friday, and the morrow, till after-
noons, none daring to deliver his body to the sepulture;
his head these wiced tooke, and nayling thereon his
hood., they fixed it on a pole, and set it on London-
bridge, in place where before stood the head of Sir John
Minstarworth. After the quelling of this rebellion, by
the death of Wat Tyler and its subsequent consequences,
' the Archbishop's head was taken down off the bridge,
and Wet. Tyler's head was set in that .place.'
" During the long and sanguinary contest be een the
houses of York and Lancaster the Tower was be scene
elf many memorable events. In 1460 Lord les was
besieged here by the Yorkists, but in endeavouring to
escape by water, was taken and slain. Edward IV. fre-
quently kept his court in the Tower with greet magni-
ficence ; and in 1470, during the temporary subversion
of his power, it formed the chief residence of his queen.
Henry VI. was twice imprisoned in this fortress;
and it was also the scene of his 'death in 1471,
still a mystery. In 1478 George, Duke of Clarence, was,
according to tradition, secretly drowned here in a butt of
malmsey wine.
" The death of Lord Hastings, who was beheaded on
the 13th of June, 1483, by order of the Protector Glo-
cester (on a log of timber in front of the chapel), the sei-
zure of the Crown by Richard, and the sudden and mys-
terious disappearance, and supposed murder of his
nephews, Edward V. and the Duke of York, are all cir-
cumstances of interest in the annals of this fortress.
" In the reien. of Henry VII. the Tower was
frequently used as a Royal residence, but par-
ticularly by the Queen, who sought refuge here
from the society of her sullen and cold-hearted
husband.' Henry held his Court here in 1494, when
Sir William Stanley, Lord 'Chamberlain, was consigned
to an unmerited death on Tower-hill, for an expression
which was construed to favour Perkin Warbeck. In
1501, the King held a splendid tournament in the Tower.
" Henry VIII. frequently held his Court in this for-
tress, and here many of the victims of his tyranny suf-
fered imprisonment and death. Among them were two
Queens, the beauteous but ill-fated Anne Boleyne, and
the infamous Catherine Howard ; the former was be-
headed in front of the chapel, on the 19th of May, :536;
abnrudartyh,ellsaitt2e.r near the same spot, on the 11th of Fe-
" Edward VI. held his Ceurt here for nearly a month
prior to his coronation, and here his unfortunate uncle,
the Protector Somerset., was twice imprisoned before his
decapitation, on Tower-hill, on the 22d of January 1552.
On his decease Lady Jane Grey, Nyho fell a victim to the
ambitious views of her father-in-lasi, John Dudley, Earl
of Northumberland, entered this fortress as Queen of
England ; but in the short space of three weeks she was,
committed to it as a captive, together with her youthful
husband, the Lord Guildford Dudley. The Duke of
Northumberland, with many of his partisans, had been
previously consigned to these gloomy towers, before he
was decapitated on Tower-hill. During the early part
of these proceedings, Queen Mary held her Court in the
Tower ; " and it was there that she formed her council,
and first openly showed her determination to subvert
the religion of the Reformed Church," by celebrating
the funeral exequies of her brother according to the
Ronaish ritual, although the Prince was buried at West-
minster, according to the Protestant 'faith. The rising
of Sir Thomas Wyatt furnished the Tower with fresh
captives. His insurrection was followed by a dreadful

mouries of Europe formed, until the last age of chival-
rous splendour (the sixteenth century), when Henry
VIII., Francis V., and Maximilian 1., laid four of the
best armouries in Europe. For the formation of the
armoury in the Tower of London, it appears, according
to Stowe, that Richard 111. repaired the Tower, and, in
his own inimitable manner, gave a commission to one
Thomas Daniel to seize for use within his realm as many
masons, bricklayers, and other workmen as should be
thought necessary for the expedition of the King's works
within the Tower.
TIIE GRAND STORE-lIOUSE.

The Grand Store-Rouse is north of the White Tower,
a fine building of brick and hewn stones ; it extends in
length 365 feet, and is 60 feet broad ; it was commenced
by James 11. and was finished by William 111. On the
first floor of this edifice is that magnificent room called
the Small Armoury, in which he, with Queen Mary,
his consort, dined in great state, having all the warrant
workmen and labourers to attend them, dressed in white
.gloves and aprons. On the south side of this struc-
ture, is a stately door case adorned with four columns,
an entablature, and a triangular pediment of the Doric
order. Under the pediment are the Queen's arms, with
enrichments of trophy work, by the celebrated artist,
Gibbons.
At the west-end of this building is situate the church,
founded by Edward 111., and dedicated to St. Peter in
chains, in which are deposited the remains of many
noble and some Royal personages executed within the
Tower or on the lull, and buried here in obscurity. At
the east of this building is situate the newly-erected high
Tower, in which the regalia and all the Crown jewels
are kept."
The officers to whom the government of the Tower is
committed ate the Constable of the Tower (the Duke of
Wellington), a Lieutenant, a Deputy-Lieutenant, a Fort-
Major (commonly called Governor), a chaplain, a physi-
cian, an apothecary,gentleman porter, yeoman porter, gen-
tleman gaoler, four quarter gunners,and forty warders. The
warders wear the same uniform as the Queen's Yeomen
of the Guard. They have round flat-crowned caps,
with bands of parti-coloured ribbons ; their coats, which
are of a peculiar make, but very picturesque, have large
sleeves, but very full skirts, gathered round somewhat
in the form of a petticoat. These coats are of fine scar-
let cloth, laced round the edges and seams with several
rows of gold lace, and girt round their waists with a
broad-laced girdle. Under their breasts and backs they
wear the Royal badge, an embroidered thistle and rose,
and also the initial letters V. R. in large characters. A
battalion of Foot Guards and a company of the Royal
Artillery generally have formed the garrison of the place.
Providentially all has escaped the fire that was truly
valuable to posterity. No record has been burned nor
any document injured.