New-York tribune., 1902-02-23

with cannon, which he could see from his nal
ace. as signal that Anne Boleyn had ceasa5
to live" The tradition is certainly in character
We may take from this chapter a passage de-
scribing the unhappy ladys end:
In all. about thirty persons gathered M Nh.
Tower that bright May morning to behold a
sight that had never been witnessed in England
before-the execution of queen Henry haJ
given orders that the execution should he as
private possible. fearing the effect of the
public sympathy with his victim if many per-
sons We're admitted To see her die. To tbs. verv
last Anne showed steadfast courage and NAV
be said have looked death feaFlessIv ana
without faItering in the face After a few y,orjs
full of resignation To her fate and of forgiveness
for those who had brought about her death
even for the chief of these. she said And thus
1 take my leave of the world. and of YOU all and
l heartily desire YOU all To pray for me-' After
she had finished speaking her ladies came to
her and placed bandaSe over her eyes, and
LETT her. all weeping bitterly knre-lug but
keeping her upright position of body for on
this occasion no block was used-aud the heads
man, who had been specially br0Vsh, over from
Calais. did his work with SW0Id-Sne received
the stroke OF death with resolution" writes a
contemporary and eye witness. and Sa Sedately
as herself to cover her feet with her earments"
And thus. and without more 10 say "r do,
her head stricken off. she making confessOn
of fault, and only saying. 20 Lord God. have
pity my soul When all over. one OF
the ladies took up her head. and others the
body, and, covering them with sheet. placed
them in a chest which was ready for the TlIr-
pose, and carried the remains TO -. Peters
Chapel where they say she lieth buried"
When Queen Victoria was shown where this
execution took place, she ordered a brass tablet
to be placed on the spot-on which, tradition
said. the grass never grew-the tablet reading:
site Of the Ancient ScafoId- ON This spot
Queen Anne BOleyn was behead-d cu the 19th
May. 1-:;6.' Lord Ronald Cover has. naturally.
4 good deal to say about the architectural his
tory of the Tower. but il is for its human in
terest that this book will u- most att-utiyely
studied. We may be grateful for information
about a particular building or dungeon, Tor the
statement in regard % one Of the stone cham
bers. that it is ocrago1al in FORM Jventy-Jhree
feet in width by ten feet high. with walls Jhir-
teen feet in thickness and a beautiful vaulted
stone roof But what really ~rirs Us is To read
that The government of George II behaved 10
the Do1r HfgnIauders brought here after Cul.oden
much as did the Indian perpetrators of the
Black Hole of Calcutta trasedy, FOR between
sixty ana seventy prisoners We're crammed INTO
this single chamber. II is little wonder that
half Of them speedily died; the survivors were
transported as slaves to the West Indies 1t is.
bv the way in a room above this dungeon that
the RasaIia is kept Lord Ronald Cover notes
that If the crowns and other state ornaments
here preserved. one or two articles only date
back earlier than the days of Charles H. The
Coronation spoon one of these older treas
ures lis of pure gold. and has four pearls
placed in the broadest part OF the handle, on
which also are remains Of some enamelIns- An
arabesque is engraved on the bowl; a ridge runs
down the centre. forming two d-presSiauS in the
metal and into these hoIIoWs The Archbishop
dipped his finger before anointinS the SOW -reisn
The author goes on To aIlude To THE Imperial
Crown. a terrible thing in form" and To- dis
course further on the jewels, but he cannot long
neglect the more characteristic material IN
which the Tower is 50 rich He turns from
the Jewels 10 the room in which Richard ILL.,
finding Henry VI his knees, stabbed him TO
death punching his auOnJed body full OF
deadly holes" As Shakespeare has IT, That is
the kind of occurrence that coufrours the reader
on every page of a history of the Tower Of
London.