Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-31

lower was CroWueu WIN persons suspected OF
favoring the cause of Charles IL. After his
restoration, many who had been concerned in
the death of Charles T., suffered Imprisonment
and death. In the reign of Charles II, the
Duke of Monmouth laid claim to the throne,
and was defeated in battle, taken captive, and
in few days after beheaded at the Tower
Seven Bishops were here imprisoned in his
reign for opposing his attempt to restore Popery,
and here the notorious Judge Jeferies, on the
King s abdication, was brought, and ended his
daysin captivity. Two more convulsve efforts
were made by the rejected race in Ills and l745.
This last struggle caused Tower Hill once more
to be stained with blood and in l146 manv
were beheaded for favoring the pretensions of
the descendants Of James. But as these were
the last, so let us trust they may ever be, and
that the names of Balmerino, Kilmarnock and
Lovat may receive no addition from those here
furnished, save for crimes which are more
violation of the laws of God than those were OF
the laws of enlightened men.
Having now noticed some Of the more prom
inent imprisonments and as whole, let us look
at the prisons, and some of the characters, of
which there are many, on the walls, which
these doomed captives have from time to time
carved, as pin, bone from their fish, or
scrap from some dish came in their reach
The Bell Tower is said to have been the prison
lodging of Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and
also of Queen Elizabeth. The Devereaux Tower
derives its name from favorite of Queen Eliz-
abeth's by that name, who, after a brilliant ca
reer, was arragned, charged with plotting
against her life. He was condemned and exc
cuted. Thc walls of this Tower are eleven feet
thick, and the interior diameter Is nineteen feet
Secret passages seem to have led from this to
the vaults of st. Peters Chapel and Beauchamp
Tower. The Flint Tower, of which only the
foundations remain, was, from its dark, narrow
dungeons, called the Little He'll. In gloomy
chamber of the Bowycr Tower. George, Duke
of Clarence, brother of Edward ", was drown
cd. The Brick Tower, tradition says, was the
prison lodging Of Lady Jane Grey. In the
Jewel Tower the name of Anne Boleyn is in
scribcd on the walls. On the walls of the
Salt Tower is II curious astrological device, the
work of person imprisoned in Elizabeth s
reign for using enchantments. The Record
Tower, like the Salt Tower, is very ancient, and
they probably have their date as early as
William Rufas, in 1887. This is the largest in
the fortress, except the White Tower. The
Apartments are ootagonal, and the lower one is
twenty-eight feet in diameter, and the walls are
thirteen feet in thickness. 1t is said there can
be no doubt but the records of the Nation were
kept in this Tower in the earliest Norman
times, and they are known to have been since.
The earliest records now remaining in the Tow.
er, are forty one rolls known as the &C Cdrtd
Antique,' being collection of grants extend
ing from the time of Edward the Confessor, in
the eleventh, to the beginning of the thirteenth
century. These rolls are generally perfect, and
, are ranged in presses in chronological order
and with the grand series of the rolls of Chan
Gerry to the time of Edward ", 1882, forms a
collection of some two thousand two hundred
| and while they form great ancient curiosity
they are no less grand store-house of usefu
| knowledge Tor one who wishes to peruse them
: for among other useful information there to b'
found, are negotiations, and alliances with for
eign powers from the earliest periods, grants o
liberties and privileges to corporations and pri
vate individuals, statements relative to tn
royal prerogative, revenue, and courts of judi
cature, mandates relative to coin. salaries of tn
4 royal household, accounts Of proceedings of cor
= onations, letters to the Pope and cardinals rel
atve to the ecclesiastical affairs of thekingdom
= records of the court of admiralty, and a larg
q quantity of other unimportant documents.
q Beauchamp Tower is supposed to have re
j, ceved its name from Thomas de Beauchamp
q who was immured here in the reign of Richar
. H. 1t occupies the western part of the wester
- side, and projects from the wall IN halt circle
1t consists of two stories, to which access is ha
q by narrow staircase and narrow passage
through the wall, which are fifteen feet thic
# in the eastern or wall part, and eight iii tn
80 circular. The large apartments are a5ou
10 twenty feet square, the angles being cut off an
! used for the prison cells, near the entrance
Ia Westward is the name of Marmaduke Nevts
/ who is supposed to have been one who, wit
r fifty others, was outlawed for taking part
re the rebellion of Mary Queen of Scots Nea
be this name is large piece of scpulture contain
nj ing three wheat shcaves, the arms of ii
I'd Peycrcts; also, a crucilx, a bleeding heart,
nj skeleton and the word 60 Peverets," supposed
be one of the Pcverets Of Devonshre. In IL
nd Southern recess is found an inscription in O
be Italian, signed Wilim Turrell, l54l -
n Over the fire place is an autograph of Phil
.tc Howard, who was beheaded in 1872 for aspi
he ing to the hand Of Mary Queen of Scots. Il
TO account of which you will remember is oui
interesting On the right-hand side of the fir
,se place is large, well executed piece of sepu
Ia ture by joan Dudley This device is thirte
.he inches square, with lion and bear graspil
rts the rugged staff, the family badge. These a
MS represented on u shield, surrounded by bord
.ha Of oak-eaves, acorns and roses, in which n
these words
rst
g. You that these beasts do well behold md see.
VA May deme with ease wherefore made here they he
ICE With borders exc wherin
9TH brothers nanea who list to serchc the grounde
in Ambrose, Robert, Guilford, and Henry Dude
with their father, were here imprisoned for
the attempt to make Lady Jane Grey Queen
md In the Western recess are these words "
ent Tor Pdfentla, VincitOr. G.G4ford, Argra,
in 1886" In another place are the arms of
nh. Gyffords in scul ptor, by the same person