The Tower of London by William Harrison Ainsworth

JAILORS, WARDERS, AND OTHER OFFICERS ITS PRISONERS, EXECUTIONS, AND SECRET MURDERS. IV.-OF THE TOWER OF LONDON ITS ANTIQUITY AND FOUNDATION ITS MAGNITUDE AND EXTENT ITS KEEP, PALACE, GARDENS, FORTIFICATIONS, DUNGEONS, AND CHAPELS ITS WALLS, BULWARKS, AND MOAT ITS ROYAL INMATES ITS CONSTABLES, III.-HOW SIMON RENARD ASCENDED TO THE ROOF OF THE WHITE TOWER AND OF THE GOODLY PROSPECT HE BEHELD THEREFROM. II.-HOW JANE WAS IMPRISONED IN THE BRICK TOWER. I.-OF THE ARRIVAL OF QUEEN MARY IN LONDON OF HER ENTRANCE INTO THE TOWER AND OF HER RECEPTION OF THE PRISONERS ON THE GREEN.

THUS FAR THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLE OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. XVII.-IN WHAT MANNER JANE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE TOWER OF LONDON. XVI.-HOW THE COUNCIL DEPOSED QUEEN JANE AND HOW SHE FLED FROM THE TOWER. XV.-HOW GUNNORA BRAOSE SOUGHT AN AUDIENCE OF QUEEN JANE. XIV.-HOW SIMON RENARD AND THE LORDS OF THE COUNCIL WERE ARRESTED BY LORD GUILFORD DUDLEY. XIII.-OF THE STRATAGEM PRACTISED BY CUTHBERT CHOLMONDELEY ON THE JAILOR. XII.-HOW MAGOG BECAME ENAMOURED OF A BUXOM WIDOW, YCLEPED DAME PLACIDA PASTON HOW HE WENT A WOOING AND HOW HE PROSPERED IN HIS SUIT. XI.-HOW THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND WAS PREVAILED UPON TO UNDERTAKE THE ENTERPRISE AGAINST THE LADY MARY. X.-HOW THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND MENACED SIMON RENARD IN SAINT PETER’S CHAPEL ON THE TOWER-GREEN AND HOW QUEEN JANE INTERPOSED BETWEEN THEM. IX.-OF THE MYSTERIOUS MANNER IN WHICH GUNNORA BRAOSE WAS BROUGHT TO THE TOWER. VIII.-HOW GILBERT ESCAPED FROM THE BY-WARD TOWER, AND SWAM ACROSS THE MOAT HOW OG HUNG XIT UPON A HOOK AND HOW LAWRENCE NIGHTGALL BROUGHT THE TOKEN TO CICELY.

VII.-HOW CUTHBERT CHOLMONDELEY WAS THROWN INTO A DUNGEON NEAR THE DEVILIN TOWER AND HOW A MYSTERIOUS FEMALE FIGURE APPEARED TO HIM THERE. VI.-OF THE SOLEMN EXHORTATION PRONOUNCED TO THE GIANTS BY MASTER EDWARD UNDERHILL, THE HOT-GOSPELLER, AT THEIR LODGING IN THE BY-WARD TOWER AND OF THE EFFECT PRODUCED THEREBY. V.-OF THE MISUNDERSTANDING THAT AROSE BETWEEN QUEEN JANE AND HER HUSBAND, LORD GUILFORD DUDLEY. IV.-OF THE MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE THAT HAPPENED TO QUEEN JANE IN SAINT JOHN’S CHAPEL IN THE WHITE TOWER. NIGHTGALL THE JAILOR: AND OF THE PLEASANT PASTIME HELD IN THE STONE KITCHEN. III.-OF THE THREE GIANTS OF THE TOWER, OG, GOG, AND MAGOG OF XIT, THE DWARF OF THE FAIR CICELY OF PETER TRUSBUT, THE PANTLER, AND POTENTIA HIS WIFE OF HAIRUN THE REARWARD, RIBALD THE WARDER, MAUGER THE HEADSMAN, AND

II.-OF THE INDIGNITY SHOWN TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL BY THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND OF THE RESOLUTION TAKEN BY SIMON RENARD TO AVENGE THEM. I.-OF THE MANNER IN WHICH QUEEN JANE ENTERED THE TOWER OF LONDON. Published by Good Press, 4057664574879 Table of Contents William Harrison Ainsworth The Tower of London A Historical Romance, Illustrated

The Tower of London by William Harrison Ainsworth