Macaulay, T.B., History of England,
Mears, Kenneth J., The Tower of London, 900 Years of English History, Phaidon, Oxford, 1988
Minney, R.J., The Tower of London, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1970
Parnell, Geoffrey, English Heritage Book of the Tower of London, Batsford, London, 1993
Rowse, A.L., The Tower of London in the History of the Nation, Book Club Associates, London, 1972
Shuttleworth, Dorothy, The Tower of London, Bailey Bros and Swinfen, Folkestone, 1972
Treasures of the Tower: Inscriptions, no author listed, HMSO, London, 1976
Wilson, Derek, The Tower – 1078–1978, Book Club Associates, London, 1978
Wilson, Mary, Stories of the Tower, Cassell, London, 1896
CHAPTER SOURCES
The Axe, the Arrow and the Wailing Monk: William the Conqueror
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Everyman Press, London, 1912
Douglas, David C., William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964
Heworth, David, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, Penguin, New York, 1981
McLynn, Frank, 1066: The Year of Three Battles, Random House, London, 1999
Dangerous Liaisons: Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt
Dean, James M. (ed.), Literature of Richard II’s Reign and the Peasants’ Revolt,
Froissart, Jean, The Chronicles, Viking, New York, 1978
Oman, C. (tr.), The Great Revolt of 1381, Stackpole, Harrisburg, PA, 1989
Account of the Insurrection of Walter Tyler and of his death at the hands of William Walworth, the Mayor, Geoffrey Chaucer, < http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/varia/life_of_Ch/wattyler.html>
Conflagration: The Peasants’ Revolt (parts 1, 2, 3 & 4),
Medieval Source book; Anonimalle Chronicle: English Peasants’ Revolt 1381,
VillageNet Local History (Peasants’ Revolt 1381)
A Family Affair: The Princes in the Tower
Clive, Mary, The Sun of York: A Biography of Edward IV, Sphere, London, 1975
Dockray, Keith, Richard III: A Sourcebook, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1997
Hallam, Elizabeth (ed.), Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses, Markham, Penguin Books Canada, 1988
Weir, Alison, The Princes in the Tower, Pimlico, London, 1993
The Warder, the Wolf and the Woman: John Wolfe and Alice Tankerville.
All the notes have been taken from the general reference books listed above.
Treason in the Bedroom: Katherine Howard
Erikson, Carolly, Great Harry, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1997
Fraser, Antonia, The Wives of Henry VIII, Vintage Books, Vancouver & Washington, USA, 1994
Weir, Alison, Six Wives of Henry VIII, Grove Press, Berkeley, California, 2000
Nine Days a Queen: Lady Jane Grey
Plowden, Alison, Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk, Franklin Watts, New York, 1986
Correspondence of Lady Jane Grey,
Lady Jane Grey The Nine Days Queen,
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Lady Jane Grey, Marriage, Early Life,
Lady Jane Grey, The Nine Days Queen,
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The Devil’s Dancing Bear: Bishop Edmund Bonner
Alexander, Gina, Bonner and the Marian Persecutions, Kidbrooke School, London, 1975
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Foxe, John, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Whitaker House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1985
Foxe, John, Acts & Monuments of John Foxe, Vol. VIII, Seeley, Burnside & Seeley, London, 1843–9
The Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and Anthony Babington
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Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Great, Coward-McCann, New York, 1959
Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot,
Queen Mary’s Letters to Babington/Babington’s Letter to Mary Queen of Scots,
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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: Guy ‘Guido’ Fawkes
Caraman, Fr Philip (tr.), The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, Fr. John Gerard, Four Faces Press, Springfield, Virginia, 2000
Fraser, Antonia, Faith and Treason – the Story of the Gunpowder Plot, Doubleday, New York, 1996
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, What the Gunpowder Plot Was, London, 1897
Jardine, David, A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, London, 1857
Simons, Eric N., The Devil of the Vault, Frederick Muller, London, 1963
A Right Royal Heist: Colonel Thomas Blood
Thomas Blood, Generally Called Colonel Blood, G. Smeeton, London, 1817
Strong, Roy, Lost Treasures of Britain: Five Centuries of Creation and Destruction, Guild Publishing, London, 1990
The Bloody Assizes: The Duke of Monmouth and Judge Jeffreys
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The King Over the Water: William, Lord Maxwell
Bland, Elizabeth (ed.), Exciting Escape Stories, Octopus, London, 1980
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Fraser, Paul, Book of Caerlareroch, Edinburgh, 1873
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The Scots Peerage, Edinburgh, 1909
The American (P)Resident: Henry Laurens
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American Revolutionary War in the South, Pt II, by Paul R. Sarrett, Jr, 1991,
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A Narrative of the Capture of Henry Laurens, of his Confinement in the Tower of London, Henry Laurens, South Carolina Historical Society, 1857
Papers of Henry Laurens,
Papers of Henry Laurens, Model Editions Partnerships, 1999,
The Black Book: Sir Roger Casement
Inglis, Brian, Roger Casement, Coronet, London, 1974
The Crime Against Europe, Roger Casement, C.J. Fallon, Dublin, 1958
‘Outcry as secret gay life of Irish hero is “proved”‘, Guardian, 25 July 1999
Rebellion in Mexico, China and Ireland,
Sir Roger Casement,
The Weatherman: Josef Jakobs
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Sellers, Leonard, Shot in the Tower, Leo Cooper, London, 1997
Wasserstein, Bernard, ‘Hitler’s Jewish Agents’, Jerusalem Post, 9 April 1999
Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the authors and publisher will be pleased to make any necessary amendments at the first opportunity.
1. Richard II, aged fourteen, leaves the Tower to meet Wat Tyler and his rebels during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. (Authors’ collection)
2. Murder of the two young princes – Edward V and his brother Richard (original painted by James Northcote in 1790). (Authors’ collection)
3. This fifteenth-century image from Froissart’s Chronicles incorrectly shows the murders of Archbishop Simon Sudbury and his companions taking place in St John’s Chapel, when, in fact, they took place on Tower Hill. (Authors’ collection)
4. The headsman’s block and axe displayed at the Tower of London. (Authors’ collection)
5. Woodcut dated 1497 depicting the Tower of London. (Authors’ collection)
6. The doorway to Little Ease from an 1883 painted postcard. (Authors’ collection)
7. Queen Katherine Howard. (Authors’ collection)
8. Woodcut from a pamphlet of 1662 showing traitors being hanged, drawn and quartered. (Authors’ collection)
9. Seventeenth-century regicides are hanged, drawn and quartered on Tower Hill shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy. (Authors’ collection)
10. Nineteenth-century representation of heads displayed on Bridge Gate, Tower Bridge. (Authors’ collection)
11. Near contemporary portrayal of the trial of the Babington conspirators. (Authors’ collection)
12. The Tower of London at night as viewed from the Thames, and engraved by H. Winkler in 1834. (Author’s collection)
13. Portrait of Colonel Thomas Blood taken from a near contemporary account of his life. (Authors’ collection)
14. A Dutch broadsheet depicting the execution of the Duke of Monmouth. (Authors’ collection)
15. The escape of Lord Nithsdale from the Tower, 1716 (engraving by F. Fraenkel from the picture by E.M. Osborn). (Authors’ collection)
16. An eighteenth-century engraving of Henry ‘Tower’ Laurens, the only American citizen to have been imprisoned in the Tower. (Authors’ collection)
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