Tower of London

Hawkeye's like, "I was gonna load them into my bow and arrow."

What if I go and use my powers at the Tower of London? No, that's ravens.

That's r-

[laughs] Yeah.

... a- absolutely no one learn until someone like Trump comes about and uses power to the nth degree, and people go, "Oh my God, I didn't know you could do that." Um, you know, and, and that's fun to write about as well.

So I've got a book coming out in November, it's called The Patriot, which is about, uh, three historians who decide to steal the Koh-i-Noor diamond from the Tower of London-

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... uh, and return it to India.

It was a political chessboard that could tilt England toward foreign hands.

The crux of the issue lies in the mysterious disappearance of Edward V and his brother Richard at the Tower of London in fourteen eighty-three.

Without concrete evidence of their fates, Tudor claimants had an opening to suggest that either the princes were murdered or alternatively somehow survived.

And so when Perkin Warbeck arrived in Bruges and then Paris, he could tap into the existing ambiguity about Richard's fate.

Now, here's where the legend kicks in.

Contemporary chronicles describe the Duke's execution as a clandestine affair in Bowyer Tower, part of the Tower of London complex.

He was apparently taken into custody and then secretly buried, perhaps after a mock trial or no trial at all.

Later chroniclers, like Monstrelet in fifteen fifty-four, mentioned that Clarence died in an execution involving a barrel of wine.

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let us begin with the word treasury in the fourteenth century treasury meant simply a storehouse or at its narrowest a storehouse of valuables to us the treasury is the government department of finance but under edward i the state office of finance was the exchequer which as we saw was located normally at westminster but since twelve ninety eight at york when at westminster the exchequer had a treasury or storehouse there also yet in its absence it is not likely that it kept either valuables or money at westminster but side by side with the state office was the household office of finance the wardrobe and though the wardrobe office was itinerating with the king it still kept a treasury or storehouse at westminster and this for the sake of greater safety had been placed for some years at least within the precincts of the abbey from the monastic point of view it was doubtless an inconvenience that nearness to the royal dwelling compelled them to offer their premises for the royal service accordingly kings not infrequently made demands upon the abbey to use its buildings thus the chapter house became a frequent place for meetings of parliament and at a later time it was used and continued to be used till the nineteenth century for the storage of official records in the same way edward secured the crypt underneath the chapter house as one of the storehouses of his wardrobe when the crypt was first used for this purpose i do not know but records show us that it was already in use in twelve ninety one at which date it was newly paved it was not the only storehouse of the wardrobe there was another treasury of the wardrobe in the tower of london but this was mainly used for bulky articles arms and armour cloth furs furniture and the like most of what we should call treasure was deposited in the westminster crypt and we are fortunate in having still extant a list of the jewels preserved there in twelve ninety eight the time when the court began to establish itself for its five years of sojourn in the north in thirteen o three jewels and plate were still the chief treasures preserved there some money was there also notably a store of gold florins of florence the only gold coins currently used in england at a time when the national mints limited themselves to the coinage of silver but i do not think there could have been much money for edward's needs were too pressing his financial policy too much from hand to mouth for the crypt at westminster to be a hoard of coined money like the famous prussian kriegsgeschatz at spandau which we now rejoice to learn is becoming rapidly depleted whatever its contents edward estimated that their value was a hundred thousand pounds a sum equivalent to a year's revenue of the english state in ordinary times unluckily mediaeval statistics are largely mere guesswork but the amount of the guess at least suggests the feeling that the value of the treasure stored in the crypt was very considerable the crypt under the chapter house is one of the most interesting portions of the abbey buildings at westminster it is little known because it is not i think generally shown to visitors i am indebted to the kindness of my friend bishop the present dean for an opportunity of making a special inspection of it it is delightfully complete and delightfully unrestored the chief new thing about it seems the pavement but the dean's well-informed verger told me that it was within living memory that this pavement had replaced the flooring of twelve ninety one numerous windows give a fair amount of light to the apartment though the enormous thickness of the walls some thirteen feet it was said prevent the light being very abundant even on a bright day the central column the lower part of the great pillar from which radiates the high soaring vaults of the chapter-house above alone breaks the present emptiness of the crypt considerable portions of the column are cut away to form a series of neatly made recesses and there are recesses within these recesses which suggest in themselves careful devices for secreting valuables for it would be easy to conceal them by the simple expedient of inserting a stone here and there where the masonry had been cut away and so suggesting to the unwary an unbroken column

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should not like to say that these curious store places already existed in thirteen o three but there is no reason why they should not certainly they fit in admirably with the use of the crypt as a treasury one other point we must also remember about the dispositions of this crypt there is only one access to it and that is neither from the chapter-house above nor from the adjacent cloister but from the church itself You know what? It sucks

Many famous London landmarks were damaged but not destroyed.

Buckingham Palace, the Imperial War Museum, the Tower of London, the London Zoo, St Paul's Cathedral, and the Houses of Parliament were all hit but survived, in no small part thanks to the heroic work of firefighters in the city.

While many famous buildings were saved, thousands of ordinary homes and workplaces were not.

The Docklands area of London, home to many working-class families, was particularly badly hit.

They're the things that...

The yeoman in the Tower of London, the beefeaters hold.

And there are three lions that are not rampant.

And then there's something which has been worn away.

but the pride of de burgh would not permit him to embark in the train of the lord justice wogan who had also been summoned he sailed with his own forces in a separate fleet having conferred the honour of knighthood on thirty of his younger followers before embarking at dublin whether these forces arrived in time to take part in the bloody siege of berwick and the panic rout at Dunbar does not appear.

They were in time, however, to see the strongest places in Scotland yielded up, and John Balliol a prisoner on his way to the Tower of London.

They were sumptuously entertained by the conqueror in the castle of Roxborough, and returned to their western homes deeply impressed with the power of England, and the puissance of her warrior-king.

But the independence of Scotland was not to be trodden out in a single campaign.