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condemned, while another shows the gar
den in which Sir Walter Raleigh used to
walk while writing his History of the
World. To the south of this garden is
Traitors Gate 1t is approached by the
Thames. Up these steps went the Duke of
Buckingham Sir Thomas Moore, Queen
Anne Boleyn, Queen Katherine Howard,
Lady Jane Gray, ''the nine days queen
landed there in 1853 as did her father, the
Duke of Suffolk. Tnrning our back we
see Bloody Tower from which the old draw
bridge was raised Its name is supposed
! to have originated from the fact that the
| Eighth Earl of Northumberland was MUIR
dered in one of the chambers; that it was
the scene of the murder of King Edward
| V. and the Duke of York or because Henry
VI. was killed there. Another prisoner
held here was Thomas, Duke of Norfo k,
| beheaded in 1872. Nearby is Wakefield
Tower. Here the records of the London
courts were at one time filed, it was here
also that many of the Yorkists were i'm
prisoned during the wars of the Roses, but
it is now used as a repository for the
Crown jewels. Most of these date from
the time of Charles H. as the Jewels of his
| fathers coronation were either broken up
or lost after the great crime of 1649 An
| attempt was made to steal the Jewels in
1871 and the crown was actually removed
but Was almost Immediately recovered
A 81, 81.
service is the amounting spoon which is said
to have decended from Edward the Con-
fessor. The crown of Victoria consists of
golden band surrounded by a crimson
velvet cap, bordered with ermine. The
band supports four golden branches, which
meeting in the centre form two arches
from which rises an orb of diamonds, over
| which is a cross, also of diamonds, with a
magnificent sapphire as centre piece
Round the circ!et. and alternating with the
arches, rise four feurs de lis composed of
brilliants. These arches support four
crosses, the first of IS brilliants surround
ing the ancient and peerless ruby which is
said to have been given Edward, Prince of
Wales, by Peter, King of CASTLE, in 1866
The three other crosses are each set with
an emerald centre surrounded by 1872, 124,
and 13O diamonds respectively. The band
which forms the base of the crown is
edged above and below with pearls, 129
being in the upper and 112 in the neither
row. Immediately below the great ruby is
a very fine sapphire, bought for the crown
by George w.. set in the circlet which is
further ornamented by seven smaller sap
| phires alternating with eight emeralds all
surrounded by small brilliants and other
| precious stones. The whole number of
diamonds in the crown is 2, 1888; pearls. 277;
rubies, 5; sapphires, II, and II emeralds
| The crown made for Mary of Modena, sec
ond wife of King James the second, and
mother of The Pretender is probably next
| in magnificence among the royal Jewels
The crown made for Mary II. for her coro-
nation with William I'LL, and which is said
to have been worn by Queen Anne is also
| very handsomely ornamented. The alleg-
| ed crowns of Alfred the Great and Edward
the Confessor are also shown. The Prince
| of Wales coronet is of gold set with jewels
and cross of diamonds surmounting the
orb, which was originally made for the
coronation of Charles II. The royal scep-
tire is of gold feet 8 iuches in length Or
namented about the pommel with rubies,
diamonds and emeralds, The sceptre sur
mounted by dove, emblematic of mercy,
is of gold studded with diamonds. The
Queens sceptre, made for the Prince con-
sort, the ivory sceptre of Mary, wife of
James H.; the golden bracelets worn by
George ". and the gold spurs, symbolic of
knighthood, are all of historic interest
apart from their intrinsic value. The am
pulla, from which is poured the oil for an
ointng at the coronation is in the form of
bird, the oil flowing from the beak into
the amounting spoon. For state banquets
there is richly jeweled salt-celler, with
twelve smaller ones, two golden tankards,
and silver-go'd fountain in which the
sovereign cleanses his hands in rose-wa-
ter There is also fount in which the
of Mercy representing the sword of King
| Edward in whose day a knight always gave
his sword a name The sword of Richard
| I. was named 'Caliburn" which fable tells
us was the one worn by King Arthur and
celebrated in poetry rs the "Sword EX-cal-
ibur" Then there is the sword of State
borne before thes overeig gn on his cornation
and the swords of Justice, civil and eccle-
siastical, and other objects seen are mod
ell of koh-i-noor with the many insignia of
the different British OF ders of knighthood
among them the order of the Garter with
its motto: Honi soft qui nal pense the
badge of St. George, and the orders of the
Thistle, Scotch; ST. Michael, the Star of In
da and the Victoria Cross.
Emerging from the Wakefield Tower and
the Jewel house we ascend a gentle slope
toward Il guardhouse near which there
once stood Cold Harbor Tower. Behind
it was the royal treasure house forming
with the domestic apartments, once used
by the sovereigns, a small courtyard ill
which formerly stood Kings Hall, where
Anne Boeyn was tried and condemned in
1886 The visitor next entered the White
Tower, around the base of which are nu-
merous vestiges of the older building
erected by the Romans and Saxons, This
tower the most famous castle in Eagland,
begun in the reign of William |. had So far
progressed thirteen years later that it was
thought sufficiently strong for the incarcc-
ration of the first state prisoner placed
theren-Flambert, Bishop of Denham.
The presumption was unwarranted how
ever as the Bisht p soon escaped by tying
a rope from olc of hi; wind >ws and low
ering himself to the ground, not though
without a fall which caused a severe in
jury When Richard l. Joined the Crusa-
ders the Tower was placed in charge of the
Pope's Legate who added considerably to
| its size, but in 1I9l he was captured inside