13. GREAT MARLBORODGH STREET. 



MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT'S 

 NEW WORKS Continued. 



VOLS. I. & II. OF HER MAJESTY'S TOWER. 



By W. HEPWORTH DIXON. DEDICATED BY EXPRESS 

 PERMISSION TO THE QUEEN. Sixth Edition. 8vo. 30s. 



CONTENTS : The Pile Inner Ward and Outer Ward The Wharf River Rights 

 The White Tower Charles of Orleans Uncle Gloucester Prison Rules Beau- 

 champ Tower The good Lord Cobham King and Cardinal The Pilgrimage 

 of Grace Madge Cheyne Heirs to the Crown The Nine Days' Queen De- 

 thronedThe Men of Kent Courtney No Cross no Crown Cranmer, Lati- 

 mer, Ridley White Roses Princess Margaret Plot and Counterplot Mon- 

 sieur Charles Bishop of Ross Murder of Northumberland Philip the Con- 

 fessor Mass in the Tower Sir Walter Raleigh The Arabella Plot 

 Raleigh's Walk The Villain Waad The Garden House The Brick Tower 

 The Anglo-Spanish Plot Factious at Court Lord Grey of Wilton 

 Old English Catholics The English Jesuits White Webbs The Priests' Plot 

 Wilton Court Last of a Noble Lino Powder-Plot Room Guy Fawkes 

 Origin of the Plot Vinegar House Conspiracy at Large The Jesuit's Move 

 In London November, 1(J05 Hunted Down In the Tower Search for Gar- 

 net End of the English Jesuits The Catholic Lords Harry Percy The 

 Wizard Earl A Real Arabella Plot William Seymour The Escape Pursuit 

 Dead in the Tower Lady Frances Howard Robert Carr Powder Poisoning. 



FROM THE TIMES: "All the civilized world English, Continental, and Ame- 

 rican takes an interest in the Tower of London. The Tower is the stage 

 upon which has been enacted some of the grandest dramas and saddest tragedies 

 )n our national annals. If, in imagination, we take our stand on those time-worn 

 walls, and let century after century (lit past us, we shall see in duo succession the 

 majority of the most famous men and lovely women of England in the olden time. 

 Wo shall see them jesting, jousting, love-making, plotting, and then anon, per- 

 haps, commending their souls to God in the presence of a hideous masked Hguro, 

 bearing an axe in his hands. It is such pictures as these that Mr. Dixon, with 

 Considerable skill as an historical limner, has set before us in these volumes. Mr. 

 Dixon dashes off the scenes of Tower history with great spirit. His description!) 

 are given with such terseness and vigour that we should spoil them by any attempt 

 at condensation. As favourable examples of his narrative powers wo may call at- 

 tention to the story of the beautiful but unpopular Elinor, Queen of Henry III., and 

 the^description of Anne Uoleyn's first and second arrivals at the Tower. Then we 

 have the story of the bold Bishop of Durham, who escapes by the aid of a cord 

 hidden in a wine jar; and the tale of Mauil Fitzwalter, imprisoned and murdered 

 by the caitiff John. Passing onwards, we meet Charles of Orleans, the poetic 

 French Prince, captured at Agincourt, and detained for llve-and-twenty years a 

 prisoner in the Tower. Next we encounter the baleful form of Richard of Gloucester, 

 and are filled with indignation at the blackest of the black Tower deeds. As wo 

 draw nearer to modern times, wo have the sorrowful story of the Nine Days' 

 Queen, poor little Lady Jane Grey. The chapter entitled "No Cross, no Crown" 

 Is one of the most affecting in the book. A mature man can scarcely read it with- 

 out feeling the tears ready to trickle from his eyes. No part of the first volume 

 yields in intercut to the chapters wbich are devoted to the story of Sir Walter 

 Raleigh. The greater part of the second volume is occupied with the story of the 

 Gunpowder Plot. The narrative is extremely interesting, and will repay perusal. 

 Another atnse celfbre possessed of a perennial interest, is the murder of Sir Thomas 

 Ovorbury by Lord and Lady Somerset. Mr. Dixon tells the tale skilfully. In con- 

 clusion, wo may congratulate the author on this work. Both volumes are decided- 

 ly attractive, and throw much light on our national history." 



" From first to last this work overflows with new information and original 

 thought, with poetry and picture. In these fascinating pages Mr. Dixou dis- 

 charges alternately the functions of the historian, and the historic biographer, with 

 tho insight, art, humour and accurate knowledge which never fail him when he 

 undertakes to illumiuo tho darksome recesses of our national story." Aforniny Post. 



"Wo earnestly recommend this remarkable work to those in quest of amuso- 

 mont and Instruction, at onco solid and refined.." Duily Tdeyraph. 



