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Windsor two years after, he founded a 
chantry here for three priests. 
DUCK LANE. 
From a passage in one of Oldham’s 
satires, Duck Lape seems to have been 
famous for refuse book-shops : 
** Andso may’st thou perchance pass up and 
down, 
And please while th’ admiring court and 
town, 
Who after shall in Duck Lane shops be 
thrown.” 
TOWER OF LONDON. 
A particular of the names of towers 
and prison Jodgings in his Mayesty’s 
Yower of London, taken out of a paper 
of Mr. William Francklyn’s, sometime 
Yeoman Warder, dated the 16th of 
March, 1641, as follows : 
“ White Tower.—TheWhite Tower, or 
Casar’s tower, belonging to the office of 
the Ordnance. 
* Martin Tower—Martin Tower with- 
out the Byward Gate, belonging to the 
porter of the Mint. 
“ Ro Tower.—The Byward or Round 
Tower,aver the Byward Gate att Warder’s 
lodgings. 
“ Water Gate Towers.—Water Gate 
Towers, over the water gate, Warder’s 
lodgings, formerly belonging to the king’s 
fletcher. 
“ Cradle Tower.—A_ prison lodging in 
the low gardens, where the draw-bridge 
‘was in former times. 
“ Well Tower.—A prison lodging in 
the corner of the low garden towards the 
iron gate. 
““ The tower gate, leading to iron gate, 
a warder’s lodging. 
“ Tron Gate Tower.—An old ruinous 
place toward St. Katherine’s. 
“ Sal Tower.—At the end of the long 
gallery, a prison lodging. 
“ Broad Arrow Tower.—Upon the 
wall by the king’s garden. 
“ Constable Tower.—Betwixt captain 
Coningsby’s and Mr. Marsh’s, a prison 
lodging. 
“ Martin Tower.—Over against Mr. 
Sherborn’s house near the green mount, 
a prison lodging. 
“ Brick Tower.—By the armoury,The 
Master of the Ordnance lodgings. 
“< Office of the Ordnance Tower by the 
chapel. 
“ Beauchamp Tower.—Cobham Tower 
betwixt the chapel and the lieutenants’ 
lodgings, a prison tower. 
“& Bell Tower.—Adjoyning to the lieu- 
tenants’ Louse, a prisen tower. 
Londiniana.—No. IX. 
[July 15 
“< Wakefield Tower.—Or Bloody Tower, 
against the gate, a prison lodging. 
“ Artillery Tower.—Or Record Tower, 
adjoyning to the bloody tower. 
“¢ Nuns Tower.—The prison over Cole 
Harbour gate. 
“ Lanthorne Tower.—Part of the 
kino’s lodgings, under which is a prison 
lodgiig with a door next the low gar- 
dens.” 
MANUSCRIPT CHRONICLE OF LONDON. 
In a curious old manuscript, entitled 
“ Miscellanea HistoricaCivitatis London,” 
preserved in the public library at Ox- 
ford, is a list of the mayors and sherifis 
from the 15th of Henry IIT. to the last 
year of Henry VI. accompanied by mis- 
cellaneous particulars. The following 
are selected from it. It formerly be- 
longed to Mr, Upton, the editor of 
Spenser. 
“ Edward I. anno 24.. In isto anno 
Rex Edwardus cepit castellum de Edyng- 
borgh, in quo.invenit regalia Regis Sco- 
torum videl’t sedem regium, coronam 
auream et ceptrum que ofa oblata sunt 
Sancto Edwardo per dictum regem apud 
Westmonasterium in Crastino Sancti 
Botulphi. 
. “ Edward III. anno 34. In isto anno 
xij? die April. s. m crastino Pasche, 
Rex Edwardus cum suis fuit ante Civi- 
tatem de Parys quo die tanta fuit frigi- 
ditas et nebulz densitas quod quamplures 
sedentes super equos moriebantur. Unde 
usque in hodiernum diem vocatur le blals 
Monday. . 
“« Richard JI.anno 3. Inisto annocirca 
nativitatem heate Marie quatuor galee 
inimicorum A ngliz venerunt ad Gravesend 
et combusserunt magnam partent Ville 
ibidem. 
“ Henry IV. anno 7°. In isto anno 
quidam vocatus Travers, valettus regius, 
arestatus in camera regis et suspensus 
apud Tyburne pro intoxicatione sue 
uxoris. 
“ Henry IV. anno15. Isto anno morie- 
bant omnes Leones infra Turrim Lond. 
existentes. 
“Henry VI. anno 18. In isto anno in 
die Sancti Botulphi ante festum Nativi- 
tatis Baptiste quidam dominus Ricardus 
Wyche, vicarins de Hermettisworthe, fuit 
degradatus apud Sanctum Paulum et 
combustus apud Turrim Londini propter 
suam heresin. In quo loco homines et 
mulieres de London in maxima multitu- 
dine, reputantesipsum vicarium sanctum, 
erexerunt crucei et ceperant offerre-1bi 
argentum et ymagines de ere, quousque, 
per mandatum regiuin, Major Civitatis 
cum 
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