Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-24

only to fall in battle before the victorious Ed
ward who, to awe the people, caused his head
to be fixed over the turret which had proved 80
fatal to his father
But while they were thus prosecuted the
names of many Welch capdses show how fixed
they were in their vain endeasors to battle with
a stronger power among which may be mon
toned Morgan Daniel, ue'sllyn Bruc, and
Madoc Vaughn. And SO late as the reign Of
Henry VIII, 1899, Owen Niendower proved
how mighty spirit still lifgered amidst the
mountains of Wales and III expiring effort
for Independence By that pespsT seems to have
been made BY Owens sen, several shid,
who were led captive to i 80 'ft by Henry
", then Prince Of lgadsriasss lgS Z. the 5attle If
us.E., l4lO; aDE ssSapers s ssp 7.
given to Naiss, 'by - bes fslElei. u
making it next to Their IA " Tho Prince
Of, might not be traced to ~ valof Of
that ancient people, md dssrly bought
victory over them. II M
But Wales suffered not al0ne IN this time.
Many mighty spirit from Scotland, suffered
within the dismal walls Of tho royal fortress
during the fourteenth centurysand just previous
to its commencement. | can only note few
King Balal, in 1906 the noble Wallace, who
suffered Il terrible death in 1905; the Earls OF
Ross, AtLol and Monteneith, ard King David
Bruce in l346. But while these men endured
these punishments because they belonged to the
weaker power, there were, in this period, six
hundred Jews incarcerated within these walls
for the adulteration of the coin of the realm
aud the ruling power finally banishel all of
that nation from England compelling them to
leave behind them their immense wealth, and
their valuable libraries, which were taken pos
session of by the monasterics. So passed the
fourteenth century, and during the fifteenth, q
gloomy shroud af most revolving deeds ensbroud-
ed the Tower Edward, the Black Prince, had
died, and the country without governor, be-
came the prey of wolflikc passions of rival
factions, and when his son took the throne,
his imbeclity allowed lawless ambition to grow
fatally it wrought in the sons. and sons
sons of Edward III. They show us the royal
cousins wrestling the crown from each other,
and booming one the other to dungeons, and to
assassination and even causing the hills and
mountains to re-echo to the voice Of war, and
the valleys and plains of all England to flow
with the blood of her brayeSt SONS and all to
glatfy the terrible lust Of power, and show
who was the most powerful of the family
What picture can b. worse? This dark period
was appropriately inaugnrated with the cree
ton, on Tower Ill., of the f1jal sealfol. The
frst victim whose blood fas syedsa. that spot
was Sir Simon Brunley' Eossart writes of
him" A noble knight, found him, sage and
I wise Being one Of the most accomplished
men of his age he had beon selected by the
7 Black Prince as companion for lis son, Rich.
ard II, and his only crime was tathfulness to
$ his young soverogn-an unpardonahle one III
n the Judgment of the Kings mcles, the Dukes
e of York and Gloucester who having wrcsted
y the government from their royal nephew &
, hands, wreaked vengeance on all who favored
d him. Queen Anne pleaded on her knees, with
tears, for Simon, but in vain he was beheaded.
T A short time only elapses, and the King is
= forced to deliver the crown to Henry, Duke Of
It Lancaster, and from the vast hall of the Tower,
II in which he delivered up the CROWN he was
}. conducted to the cells of the Tower, there to
e await, if might be, n more untimely end.
& The year l406, brought an interesting pris.
= oncr to the Tower, in the person Of James,
% eldest son of Robert Ill., King of Scotland
n who, on his way to the Court of France, was
IL driven by storm to take refuge on the shores Of
II England, and was doomed by Henry to captivi,
}. ty in the Tower which imprisonment lasted egh
|. teen years. But here we are told that Henry
e gave him princely education, which, with 6
brilliant genius, and thirst for knowledge, h,
e wisely improved, made him when restored tc
W his country and his crown, man noted for h
st wisdom and his virtue. How vast the contrast
d The next royal prisoner was Henry VII
|. weak monarch that would better deck the par
lie lor or th4 bar, than the throne. lie was sooi
1T obliged t. yield tho crown, and in l4Gl wa
ID immured in the Tower dungeons. But Iii
|, Queen, who was more d king than he, b,
to her valor and victories, y l47O again set lenr
" on the throne, and fllea the Tower with hi
ge mobiles led him to the. hedral Of 81. paekil
i, triumph; batAe on lioed his regpl aaF
ID dors to 10 shoru u lst:.Ss sI..s 40
I'd year, and IN 14gl was back 10 his prison
I. suon after to meet with Oath from the coward
III ly assassin in bis cell. His Queen pined 1
ed captivity for three years. and was then released
lis His son was killed by the Dukes Of Clarenc
n and Observation-Disclosures himself was tho mex
c, victim. Having aroused the jealousy Of b
brother, Edward ", he was imprisoned in I'll
or Bowyer Tower and murdered--traditon says
cv by beng drowned in butt of Mulberry win,
II. His youthful sons were committed to the cal
he of their uncle the Duke of Gloucester, afte
,r, wards Richard III, and they too were sent
ch the Tower, and disappeared. 1t is said the
is were murdered by Richards order in the Blood
th Tower, and were buried in the North East COZ
~ ner of the White Tower. An impenetrab
mystery hangs about their sad fate.
of Lord Hastings, who opposed tho evil cour
i'm of Richard murderous ambition, was doom,
len by him to instant death, on protenca of his a
la. proval of Jane Shores practice of magical al
I'd; to Richards injury. The wicked sentence W
les executed in front Of st. Peters Chapel. n,