Evening journal., 1904-08-13
ENGLAND'S BLOODY STORY
TOLD BY LONDON TOWER
IMPRESSIONS OF A WILMINGTON MAN
UPON HIS VISIT TO THE FAMOUS
STRUCTURE

The Rev. O. f. Flppo, formerly al
wen-known Baptist clergyman Of Phil
adelphia, who now resides with his
daughter at Tenth and Washington
streets. is touring England at present
He writes the following very interest,"
ing letter to The Evening Journal de-
scrlptive Of his visit to the Tower of
London:
1t is wonderful how history, taught
us in early childhood, leaps to MEM
ory when. after intervening years, one
comes in touch with places and relics,
towers, prisons and dungeons that gave
birth to such history I'm visiting the
Tower OF London, that terror of a trag-
ic past, memory, ever true 20 the count
less objects OF her trust. revives the
long forgotten history of the men and
women who made the Tower of London
famous and infamous, and invests the
horrible events that occurred within
that fortress with grim and sad real
ity. ] fancy that not many readers Of
The Evening Journal have formed a
correct idea of what the Tower of Lon
don is I'm itself / confess my ignorance
until ] had visited the place and spent
several hours within its walled inclos-
ure.
We are accustomed to think OF the
Tower as one great stone refuge where
as Il is many towers IL forms, with its
surrounding fortifications, a precinct I'm
itself. and covers an area Of nearly
twenty acres within the high walls.
There are Lion Tower, Middle Tower,
Byward Tower, Bell Tower, the Bloody
Tower, the White Tower, Beauchamp
Tower and many others. The White
Tower Is 90 feet high, with walls vary-
ing in thickness from Q to 10 feet and
each of its four floors is divided into
three apartments, without counting the
numerous little rooms, staircases and
passage ways built i'm the thickness OF
the walls. A range of dungeons, floor
/ for the garrison; overhead a banquet
/ ing hall and a chapel, and above that
/ the state floor, where councils were
held and the judges Of the King S
Bench sat This is the internal ar
rangcment Of the White Tower when
/ Norman and plantagenet soveregns
/ lived, a dark abode, worthy Of those
dark ages. Here, too. is the bloody
tower which is said to derive its name
from the suicide In 1t of Henry Percy
eighth Earl of northumberland, In
1886 The murder OF the princess in the
tower Is supposed TO have taken place
here, and Henry VI is believed by
many to have been assassinated I'm the
upper chamber. Each tower has tale
OF horror. all It's own, to tell.
The visitor TO the Tower OF Londor
is very sure to linger at the Traitors
Gate, and study the massive masonry
which supports the wide span of arch
Fun of memories is the arch of th'
Traitors Gate for under this arcl
passed successfully Edward Duke o
buckingham. 1921 Sir Thomas More
Queen Anne Boleyn. Cromwell, Earl o
J Essex. Queen Katharine Howard, 1912
5 Seymour, Duke of Somerset, 1851: Lar
e Jane Grey the Princess, afterwar
Queen. Elizabeth; Devereux, Earl O
q Essex. 1901; and James Duke of Mon
T mouth These and other illustriou
b prisoners passed under this arch o
their way to a prison or a scaffold.
Condemned prisoners were usually be
b headed on Tower HILL in Trinit
Square. Here IS where the first perma
nent scamold was set mp ia the reign o
; Edward Ill, and the first execution
! recorded here was that Of Sir Simoi
b Burley in 1885, Here also were behead
T ed among others Dudley. the mniste
d OF Henry VII. 1870 his son, the Duk
of Northumberland. 1885, his grandson
e Lord Gulford Dudley, 1854; Cromwell
b 1910: More and Fisher 1885, and his sor
r. Norfolk, 1872, Stafford, 1871; Archbisho