The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-16
TIE TOWER OF LONDON

When Edmund aud Arthur Pole (nepneWs Oh
CARDINAL POle) heard of this prophecy, tney
fhoue ht it would beseem them, as members OF
the royal family, to prepare Tor the cou,ng-lu
OF Mary by raising body OF troops ana throw
ipg them into Wales. Mary wasyoung, ana
widow: and some one whispered to these poor
BOYS that she might marry h lmund. VINO "onld
then become king, and make his brother Arthur
Duke OF Clarence. 49,, u-..
on Bankside, near the Globe playhouse, as they
were going to take boat for Flanders. Carried
before the Council, they protested that they had
never sought their soyereign's lite; that they
had never dreamt OF laying hands upon her
crown; that their aim, however wrong, had been
confined to bringing in the true heir when her
throne was vacant. But their name was against
them: Jury found them guilty OF hlgh treas
con; aud q judge condemned them to die a trais
tors death.
Edmund was barely twenty, Arthur about
ShIrty when they were captured at Bankside.
Their youth, and perhaps their folly, pleaded
for them with the Queen, who had never yet.
death. She LETT the two brothers the consola-
tion of each others society in the Beauchamp
tower; Edmund sleeping in the upper, and
Arthur in the lower room. Each has left
tracings on the wall; the sadder, as | think,
those OF the younger and more innocent boy.
In the frst year of his Imprisonment the
young Plantagenet wrote In the stone:-
IN LACHRIMlS IN
CIVILIZATIONS MEIER.
AZ. 21. e. POOLE,
1862.
Six years later there IS second inscription,
now illegi ole, from his hands. Half way down
the winding stair, in narrow slit through the
masonry, he must have sat very often, with the
gay lite OF the river spread out before him, the
ships coming up and going down, the horsemen
with their swor Is and plumes, the children play
ing on the bank, the country folks staring at
the lions, aad little farther off the process
stairs he could the fatal spot near st.
Mary's Church, where tempted by the lying
astrologer, he was taking boat for Flanders
When selZe" ~" 6nrghley,s men. Unhappy
youth Yet he was less unhappy in tue Tower
than he might have been else where, he might
have been married to Mary; he might have
perished as his cousin Darnley pelished, in some
KIRK or Field. Even in the Beauchamp tower he
was luckIer than many other princes of his race.
His great grandsre, the Duke of Clarence, had
been drowned in the Boyer tower; his grand.
mother, Margaret OF Salisbury, had been hacked
to pieces on Tower Green; his father had been
executed on Tower Hill, Compared with the
most OF his race-Wno inherited the curse othis
royal blood his fate mild; since he fell into
trouble in that golden time of Elizabeth's
reign, when the land was free from any stain
OF blood. AS in the. upper room, SO on
the staircase, he has left two records
OF his long Imprisonment. In the
slit' through when he could see
the ships, the river, and the bridge, the
church Of st. Mary's and the playhouse at
Bsnkside, he has twice inscribed his name.
Arthur also lett Inscriptions ou the wall; in
his
70 A PASSAGE PERILLUs
NAKFTH a PORCG
PLEASANT
AD 1868
ARTHUR POOLE
IL SUE 81
AP.
The two princes pined and died In the Tower,
when their ashes were laid in st. Peters Church.
The Princess Margaret.
Margaret's career as princess living at the
English court may be divided into two parts:-
The first parts records her love affairs until her
marriage with her kinsman, Matthew, Earl OF
LenuoX; the second part records the intrigues
which led her son, Lord Darnley, to the consort
crown OF Scotland, and ended with MS murder
at the Kirk of Field.
, When Margaret came to London, at the age
OF fourteen, she lived with her aunt Mary Tudor,
Queen OF France, who, like her own mother,
the Queen OF Scots, had married again for love.
Thence she went TO Beaul!eu, the house OF her
cousin Mary, until the birth of Elizabeth, when
the King, her uncle, gave her regular place at
court as first lady OF honor to his infant child.
She was then eighteen. Like all the ladies OF her
kin, she was apt to fall in love. While she was
yet girl, some passages between her and Murray
had alarmed her friends; and when she met IN the
house OF Anne Boleyn the young and handsome
a1 aoia Tnomas Howard, she set the court in
nHtieI .h OS her open preference for this k,nsman
OF tne queen. Seward was encouraged by
Anne TO press his suit and Margaret, in her
x,ESnh,Se nES,nh,;n moo. was very soon tempted into
pnehu"ss ner troth to the man she loved.
mat act of devotion cost Lord Thomas How
ard has liberty and life. The young lady stood
too near the throne for any man to dream of
asking her hand, unless with the Kings consent
to WOO and wed. Henry was much perplexed
about his crown. His daughter Mary had been
tainted in her birth. In no long time his second
daughter was to fall under the same dark stain.
He had no son; and, in the absence OF heirs,
his crown would go to the children of his elder
nf
children were James the Fifth and this
Princess Margaret. ia mes was barred by
the Allen act, so that Margaret was
an fact the Kings lawful heir. Had Henry died
before his son was born, Margaret would have
been called to the throne.
The tettlement in lite OF such lady was
state affair OF hardly less moment than the mar
riage OF Henry himself. When, therefore, the
KING heard of a contract having been made by
Lord Thomas with the young princess, he gave
instant order to have the offender quickly
seized and safely lodged. Short work was made
with him. bill of attainder passed; and
Howard, condemned to die for his love, was letl
TO lnger out his lite in the Tower, where he
slowly pined to deathdyinP, If his noble kins
man, the poet Surrey, may be credited, Tor the
love OF his betrothed.
The Princess Margaret was sent to the con
vent at Sion on the Thames, where she was
placed under the special care OF the LADY aooess
with Instructions that she should be allowed tS
walk In the garden by the river side, thougt
in other things she was still to be considered a.
the Kings prisoner rather than his niece.
To this affair OF Howard and Princess Marga
ret we owe the first royal Marriage Act, which
made It treason for any man to marry, unles
with the kings consent, given under the grea
seal, any daughter, slater, aunt or niece OF tn
TegDing prince.
Bysnd by the Princess found a fresh adore
IN Charles, a son Of Lord William Howard; bu