The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-26

according 10 custom, would forbid his guard
ei her TO close the gates or to keep watch over
the m. while the citizen we're coming and going;
il beng wrong in itself and against their Tree
dom, they alleged, Tor any one TO Keep guard
over the gates and doors OF the Tower, save
such OF their own people as they should appoint
to that DUTY. On this request being granted by
the king. the sIx messengers would return to
their fellows in Barking Church, report what
they had done, and send the citizen guard to
their posts. Then would the Commons elect
from their body three men OF mature age
moderate opinions, aud cautious speech, to aci
as prosecutors. The roles by which they acted
were rather strict. Tue sheriffs and bqades
were to oe deceutly clothed and shod, since 1t
was laid down that no man should come before
the king either in dIty rags or without ms
shoes. Their followers were to be trim and
spruce; their Capes aud Cloaks laid aside; their
coats and overcoate put on. No man was to 60
with them into the pre- ence who had sore eyes;
no man was to Join them who had weak legs.
Mayor, alderman, sheriff, crier, every one golug
into the Tower on public duty, was to have his
hair cut short and his ace newly shaved.
The object of these Iules was to guard the
right of access to the courts of justice; the
Court OF Kings Bench and the Court OF Common
Pleas.
Many Gark scene in the history
of our public liberies and our pri-
vate manners grows suddenly luminous
when we bear these facts in mind; that
the Tower consisted OF two partisan inuer
court and an ou'er court; that the Court OF
Kings Bench was held in the royal qaarter, the
that the people had free access to the outer
court, and only 10 the outer court.
The Hall tower, in which Henry the Third
had built a chapel tor his private use being an
| outer work, with doors and windows opening
! on the rampant and Water Lane, could not be
| used as prison for men of dangerous class.
| A feeble prince, ike Henry the sixth, VINO
| shrank from state and power may have enjoyed
| mild detention in the hall now sparkling with
the crown jewels; ior he was softly kept and
| this tower was In his day part OF the royal
| h1a
| cage; the scene OF his pIous meditatons; and
| OF his de elibeIate murder by the Duke OF Glou-
Cester. After Henry's death, IT not before. this
| tower was used as paper office; Tor which
| purpose, as a hall adjoining the Court OF Com
| mon Pleas, and opening into the folks quarter,
| it was well adapted. Hence 1t came to be kno Rn
as the Record tower.
On the wall above Water Lane stood the two
signal towers, the BelCrY and the Lantern; each
suImounted by turret; OF use to vessels coming
up the Thames. On he first swung bell; on
the second burned hight.
ANNE BoLEYN.
II is London in the reign OF Bluff King Hal
the husband of two Ialr wives. The river is
alive with boats; the air is white with smoke;
the sun overhead is burning with golden May.
Thousands on thousands OF spectators dot the
banks; for to-day BRIDE is coming home to the
King, the beauty OF whose lace SETS old mems
taLcIes and young ems eyes agog. On the
wharf near the Queens stair, stands burly
figure; tall beyond common men; broad in
CneSJ al u suODg III HNO; uTSSseu III uOuDIeL
OF gold and crimson, cap and plume
shoes with rosPties aud diamonds,
a hanger by his side, a George upon
his breast. 1t is the King, surrounded by dukes
and earls, awaiting the arrival of barge, in
the midst OF blaring trumpets and exploding
sakers. procession sweeps along; stealing up
from Greenwich, with piashing oars and merry
strains: fifty great boats, with host OF wher-
ries on their flank ks; u vessel firing gunsin 'front.'
and long arrear Of craft behind.
From the first barge lands the Lord Mayor;
from the second trips the bride; from the rest
stream out the picturesque city companies.
CaLnons roar, and Dells fling out welcome to
the Queen; for this is not simply great day in
the story of one lovely woman, but great day
in the story of English life. Now is the morning
time of new era; for On this bright May
The gospel light first suInts from Boleyh's eyes"
and men go mad with hope of things which are
| yet to come.
The King catches that fair young BRIDE in his
arms kisses her soft cheek, and bears her in,
| through the Bye ward Tower.
The picture fades from view, and presently
reappears. Is 1T the same? The Queen the
stair-the barge the crowd of men-all these
are here. Yet the picgure is not the same. No
burly Henry stands By the stair; no guns dis
turb the sky; no blast of trumpets greets the
royal barge; no tram OF aldermen and masters
waits upon the Queen. The lovely face looks
older by dozen years yet scarcely three have
passed since that fair form was clas ped in the
Kings arms kissed, and carried by the bridge.
This time she is pTlsoaer, charged with having
uODe SuCn lnlDPS Us pen CaDhOJ Wrlte: tnlugS
which would be treason, not TO her lord only,
but 10 her womanhood, and to the King of
KINGS.
When she aights on the Queens stair she
turns to Sir William ngston, Constable OF the
Tower, and asks, "Muss go into dnngeon?"
mo, madam" says the Constable; "you will
lie in the same room which you occupied be-
fore" She falls on her knees. at is too good
for me-" she cries; and then weers for long
time lying on the cold stones, with all the
people standing by in tears. She bees to have
the sacrament in her own room, that she NAV
pray with pure heart, saying she is free from
sin, and that she is, aud always has been, the
Kings true welded wife.
"Shall die without iustice?" she inquiries.
"Madam," says Kingston, ''the poorest subject
whOuld have justice" The lady only laughs a
feeble laugh.
ELIZABETH.
On these steps, too, beneath this Water.gate,
Elizabeth, then young tair girl, with gentle
feminine face and gol'en hair, was landed by
her Jealous sRter's lervants The day was
Sunday-Palm Sunday-with cold March RAIN
coming down, and sTlashing the stones with
mud. She could not land without sOIng her
feet and clothes, and tGr moment she refused
to leave her barge. Sr John Gage, the Con-
stable, and his guards, stood by to receive her,
''Are all these haIn". Ied men for me? She
asked. mo, MADAM said Sir John. "Yea"
she replied, az know IL is so.' Then she stood
up in her boat and leaped on shore As
she set foot on the slone steps, she exclaimed,
In spirit prOuder Ian her looks-tor in her
youth she had none of that leonine beauty of
her later years-"HrIe lambeth as true sub
iect, being q prisoner, as ever landed at these
stairs; and before Iure, . God, speak ~
Perhaps she was THUS ng OF her mother, who
had landed on the ErghOoring wharf. Anne
had fallen on her kl res on these cold stones,
and here h&1 called ON God to help her, as she
was not guilty of the IhiDgs of which she stood
accused. In those two attitudes OF appeal one