The Ekalaka eagle., 1916-01-28
LONDON TOWER AND FEW GUARDS WITH THEIR s7R,k
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trained. Go where we may, that grim
old editice on the pool goes with US,
a part Of all we know and Of all we
are. Put seas between US and the
Thames. this Tower will cling to us
like thing of life. 1t colors Shake
speare's page. 1t casts a momentary
gloom over Bacon's story. Many Of
our books We're written in its vaults
the Duke of Orleans poesies, Ra
leigh's Historic of the World Eliot's
Monarchy of Man and PENIS No
Cross, No Crown"
Built by William the Conqueror.
In normal times you can go to the
Tower any day, save Sunday, and
prowl about there to your hearts con-
tent, furnishing your memories Of Eng
lish history. On holidays the people
Went there in crowds. All summer
long there We're contingents Of Ameri-
cans browsing on this historical pas
turage. Westminster abbey and the
Tower OF London were the first places
that our cOuntrymen visit on their
first journeys to London. But now ey-
erything is closed to the visitor and
heavy guards surround the Tower.
We know that the Tower was built
at William the Conqueror's orders a
few years after the battle of Hastings.
1t is on record that the works We're in
progress in 1918. 1t was just by the
eastward end of the Roman WALL with
in which the city of London was built.
The site commanded the approach
from the sea by the river. If the Ro-
mans-if gossip be true-were every
bit as good military men as William
and his Norman adventurers 1t is rea-
sonable to suppose that they did not
leave this corner undefended during
| their 500 years Of occupancy. The
SaXons and Danes who succeeded
them We're not likely to neglect their
own opportunities, and there ure rea-
sons for supposing that long before
| Dane or Saxon or Roman ever dream
| ed of sending expeditions to England
the ancient Briton had encampments
on this riverside site. So that for over
1000 years the history of our race has
probably been amakins on this very
spot.
List Of Distinguished Prisoners.
| From the time Of the Conqueror Will
liam to the time Of Charles H., a pc
Rod Of 600 years, the Tower was used
as a royal palace. 1t is stil known as
a royal palace, although it is no longer
used for the lodgmcnt of royalty.
Cromwell pulled down most of the
royal dwellings, within the precincts.
Most, II not all, of the sovereigns Of
England since Norman Williams time,
queen Victoria included, have proceed
ed from the Tower to Westminster alb
pev on their coronation day From
llol. When the first Henry was king,
untll the early part Of our own century
the Tower was seldom long without a
dlstlneulshed prisoner Of state within
its gray walls. AS for executions. 1.-The
soil here is richer in blood than MANY
a great battlefield, for upon it has
poured. from generation to generation.
a stream of the noblcst blood in the
land" Here is list of prisoners be-
headed on Tower hill. It comnr;ses
only the most eminent:
1i62-John, twelfth earl of Oxford. hia
eldest son. Aubrey de We're: Sir Thomas
Tadenham and Sir William Tyrrel.
1409-Edward earl of Warwick, last NJ
the male line of the SO called 'Plantaee-
| net" family.
l510-Edmund Dudley and Richard FINN.
son. or EPSON. the rapacious ministers nr
Henry VII.