Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-11

| the Next" Arundel was Pnlllp I1oM
ard. son of Thomas, Duke of SuffolK,
who was beheaded in 1887. He was a
staunch Roman Catholic and as such
was under suspicion by the govern
ment which attempted to repress the
faith in England. Arundel renamed
in the Tower ten years and died, nav
ing refused release on CONDITION tnaC
he forsake his religion. The nscrlp-
lions include many quaint designs, one
| rebus or monogram put there by one
| Thomas Abel, a faithful servant TO
Queen Katharine of Aragon. By his
determined advocacy of the Queens
cause during her trial for divorce,
forced by King Henry VIII, he offend
ed the monarch. He was beheaded In
1910. So runs the story of a brutal
period in English history.
The "BlOOdy Tower
The Bloody Tower is perhaps the
most interesting of all the Towers,
even though the stay is brief. Here
Edward V. and his brother, the Duke
of York, were slain by King Richard
| in his climb to the throne. Here SIT
Walter Raleigh, great Elizabethan
courtier, quondam favorite OF the
Queen, explorer and historian sclen-
| fist was confined for years. he is al
so remembered as the man who miro
| duced American tobacco into ENG
| land. His History of the World, an
ambitious if ingenious means OF en-
ploying his idle time, is exhibited I'M
der glass. 1t is huge book, richly
decorated with flying dolphlns, etc.
You imagine it would be interesting
reading.
! Crown Jewels Blaze Under Lights
| The Crown Jewels blaze under cleo
trio lights beneath glass cases and
behind a steel cage in Wakeheld
Tower. Chief among them is the ia
nous Cullinan diamond cut into many
smaller stones and called the stars
of Africa" The weight OF the largest
stone is 800 3-16 carats. The Jewels
include crowns, coronets, brooches,
rings, maces, orbs, Sceptres, cutlery,
richly ornamented salt shakers, sugar
bowls. pitchers, tankards, bapt1smal
font and so on. Diamonds, rabies,
emeralds, sapphires, opals and other
precious gems shine serenely under
the Tungstens. Their value combined
is incalulable-probably running into
the millions of pounds.
Plot to Steal Crown Jewels
In the time of King Charles H.,
known as "The. Merry Monarch" an
English colonel planned and almost
carried out plot to steal the Crown
| Jewels. The collection was then kept
in the Salt Tower, in another part OF
the grounds and SO arranged that 1t
could be seen only through a peep
hole. The colonel and two assistants
| lnUG
and rifled the jewel room They fled
with their valuable booty but were
pursued and captured at London
Bridge by the keepers son.
Instead of executing the colonel,
King Charles gave him life pension
of 500 pounds year on the grounds
that a man who the nerve and in
genuity to carry out a high crime like
this deserved an award. King Charles
was a man of piquant humor and of
parts.a The whimsical appealed to him
strongly and he never failed to r1dl-
cule the pompous, including himself.
You could say what you liked to him
providing it was witty and he gener-
ally had, what we would call, a snap
Ply comeback. When someone wrote
couplet to the effect that King
Charles never said foolish thing and
never did a wise one," he retorted
that he alone was responsible for his
utterances whereas his ministers
were to be blamed for the acts of
state.
Through Ancient DOniOn Keeps
Finally you leave the Tower and
it's ancient setting and drift back to
busy London. You step out of the
medieval and into the modern in a
few minutes. Not, however, until you
are conducted along the walls leading
from one tower to another and catch
a glimpse of the old dungeons. Your
trip to the Tower, designed for an
hour, has lasted four.
The Tower is visited by thousands,
perhaps millions of people a year.
The guards, known better as the
"Beef Eaters" are typically English,
courteous, not too learned as fits their
class and attentive to their duties.
One of the best parts of visit is the
lecture given by each guard as you
visit his particular section. He has a
queer combination of illiteracy and
historical knowledge with some witt
cisms of his own strung in. But you
can see he has learned a piece and
once disconnected has to start all over
again One of the pet diversions of
the humor-loving Americans is to get
a Beef Eater or other guide off his
beaten track by injecting few sly
questions and then see him founder
around to get started again. How
ever, this is dangerous stuff as the
guard is dignifed fellow and not to
be trifled with.
So we pass back over our track
the Thames embankment on the left
and busy London on the right. We
take the bus to st. Paul's cathedral
begun by Sir Christopher Wrenn fol-
lowing the Great Fire of London in