Read Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London Online
Authors: Nigel Jones
Queen’s House 355, 430
rack, the 95, 118, 154, 207–8, 264, 265, 266, 282, 283, 340, 384
racoons 28, 31
Ralegh, Carew 274
Ralegh, Sir Walter 252–7, 260–65, 271–8, 281, 287–90, 295–301, 335, 386, 430
Ralegh, Wat 274, 297, 298
Ratcliffe, Sir Richard 140, 141, 147
ravens 29, 426
Record Tower 19
Rempstone, Sir Thomas 86
Renard, Simon 235
rhinoceros 30
Rich, Sir Richard 172–3, 202, 205, 207, 208, 217
Richard I 13, 14, 15, 53
Richard II 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70–71, 73, 75–80, 85, 360
Richard III 131, 146, 149, 151–62, 36
see also
Gloucester, Richard Duke of
Ridley, Nicholas (Bishop of London) 246, 248
Ridolfi, Roberto 263
Rivers, Lord 116, 118, 120
Rivers, Lord Anthony 122, 127, 129, 138, 139, 141
Robinson, Sir John 378
Robert III of Scotland 85
Robert the Bruce 56, 59
Rodney, Edward 338, 339
Roettier, John 37
Rookwood, Ambrose 284, 285
Ross, Charles 110
Rotherham, Thomas (Archbishop of York) 140, 142, 143, 146, 150
Rowlandson, Thomas 30
Royal Mint 34–46, 155, 215, 237, 248, 361, 391
Royal Ordnance Factory 36, 215
royal palace 9, 11, 13, 57, 166, 178, 261, 263
apartments 19, 76, 86, 115, 121, 123, 125, 163
great hall 8, 157, 163, 179, 216, 229, 249
royal residents 11, 18, 109, 114, 145, 248, 249, 399
Russell, Lord (Earl of Bedford) 222, 223–4
Russell, Lord William 348, 407
Rutland, Edmund Earl of 106, 107
Rye house Plot 348, 404
St John’s chapel 8, 13, 71, 83, 149, 151, 166, 215, 235
St Paul’s Cathedral 26, 49, 88, 123, 124, 130, 217, 284
St Peter ad Vincula 20, 34, 143, 172, 183, 187, 197, 215, 216, 235, 237, 251, 265, 266, 293, 385, 407, 411, 430
St Thomas’s Tower 19, 52, 57, 211, 331, 335, 336, 337, 345, 400, 419
Salisbury, Earl of 66, 70
Salisbury, Earl of (Richard Neville) 101–107
Sally Port passage 351
Salt Tower 19, 55, 264, 325, 327, 328, 419
Salvin, Anthony 421
Sanford, William 412
Saye, Lord 96–7
Scales, Lord Thomas 97, 104–6
School of Night 256, 286
Schwartz, Martin 159
scientists 29–30, 274–5, 287
Scott, James 382
Scrope, Lady 260
‘serpentines’ 156
Sexby, Edward 398, 399
Seymour, Edward (Earl of Hertford, Protector, Duke of Somerset) 205, 207, 210, 216–19, 221–7, 335
Seymour, Edward ‘Ned’ 250–52, 335
Seymour, Francis 338, 339
Seymour, Jane 175, 180, 187, 188, 217
Seymour, Thomas 205, 206, 217–20
Seymour, William 252, 334–41
Shaftesbury, Earl of 348, 382
Shakespeare, William 6, 87, 117, 134, 136, 148, 257, 258, 316
Shaw, Edmund 145, 146
Shaw, Dr Ralph 145, 146
Shelley, William 265
Shirley, Laurence (4th Earl Ferrers) 416, 417
Shore, Jane 141, 142, 143–4
Sidney, Sir Philip 256
Simnel, Lambert 159, 162
Simon, Thomas 37
Sindercombe, Miles 398, 399
Skip, John 184
Slingsby, Guildford 388
Smeaton, Mark 176–9, 181–3
Smith, Sir Thomas 224
Smith, William 367, 369
Smollett, Tobias 28
snakes 32
Somerset, Duke of
see
Beaufort; Seymour, Edward
Southwell, Sir Richard 173, 222, 266, 267
Spanish coins 36, 248
Spencer, Robert (Earl of Sunderland) 406
Sprat (Bishop of Rochester) 412, 413
Stacey, John 133
Stafford, Sir Edward 254
Stafford, Sir Humphrey (Duke of Buckingham) 96, 134, 137–40, 142–4, 146, 149, 150, 153–5
stained glass 76
Standish, Sir Ralph 75
Stanhope, Anne 225, 234
Stanley, Lord 156, 362
Stanley, Sir Thomas 142
Stanley, Sir William 156, 161
Steele, Richard 28
Steeres, Richard 120
Stephen of Blois, King 10–12
Stewart, Frances 38
Stewart, Robert (Duke of Albany) 85
Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury 5, 7
Stokton, John 127
Stow, John 27
Straw, Jack 65, 71
Stuart, Arbella 270, 334–41
Stuart, James 252
Stubbs, George 30
Stukeley, Sir Lewis 298, 299
Sudbury, Simon 65, 66, 67, 71, 72
Suffolk, Earl of 66
suicides 54, 265, 349
superstitions 28, 30, 83, 107, 130, 426
Surrey, Earl of 185, 209–13, 262–3
Swifte, Sir Edmund Lenthal 430–31
Swynford, Katherine 92, 153
Symonds, Richard 159
Talbot, Anna (Countess of Shrewsbury) 375
Talbot, Elizabeth (‘Bess of Hardwick’, Countess of Shrewsbury) 335, 336
Talbot, Francis (11th Earl of Shrewsbury) 375
Talbot, Gilbert 363
Talbot, John 274, 297
Talbot, Mary (Countess of Shrewsbury) 336, 340
Tanner, Dr Lawrence 152
taxes 63, 64, 306
Tempest, John 113
Thistlewood, Arthur 419
Thomas of Woodstock (Earl of Buckingham, Duke of Gloucester) 65, 77, 78, 78, 79
Throckmorton/Ralegh, Elizabeth ‘Bess’ 254–6, 273, 274, 278, 298, 299, 300
Throckmorton, Francis 264–5
throne room 77
Thurloe, John 399
Thursby, John 133
Thynne, Francis 299
Tichborne, Chideock 269
tigers 26, 27, 28, 30, 31
Tiptoft, John (Earl of Worcester) 113, 122
Topcliffe, Richard 267, 324, 325
torture 8, 95, 117, 118, 120, 162, 202, 207–8, 225, 281–2, 324, 326, 331
Tounson, Dr Robert 300
tourism 21, 27, 28, 32, 33, 363, 420, 421, 422, 428
Tower Hill 70, 77, 233, 234, 274, 275, 287, 368, 379, 399
executions on 72, 78, 79, 120, 122, 155, 160, 161, 166, 172, 174, 182, 190, 192, 196, 213, 220, 226–7, 236, 243, 246, 264, 294, 358, 390, 393, 395, 407, 415
‘Tower liberties’ 55
see also
‘Libertie of the Tower’
Traitor’s Gate 19, 52, 57, 79, 145, 203, 245, 258, 331, 405
treasure 376
Tresham, Francis 279, 280, 283
Tresilian, Sir Robert 77
Trollope, Sir Andrew 108
Tudor, Edmund (Earl of Richmond) 99, 100, 153
Tudor, Henry 153–7
see also
Henry VII
Tudor, Jasper (Earl of Pembroke) 99, 100, 107, 121, 153
Tudor, Owen 99–100, 107, 153
Tunstall, Sir Richard 113
Turner, Anne 290–92, 294
Tyler, Wat/Walter 64–6, 71, 73, 74, 75
Tyrell, Sir James 150, 151, 162, 165
unicorns 27
Vane, Sir Henry 388
Vergil, Polydore 130, 148
Villiers, Barbara (Duchess of Cleveland) 348, 404
Villiers, George (1st Duke of Buckingham) 294, 371, 383, 384
Villiers, George (2nd Duke of Buckingham) 371–6, 382
vultures 28
Vyner, Sir Robert 362
Wade/Waad, Sir William 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290, 294, 325, 335, 339
Waite, Elizabeth 115
Wakefield Tower 19, 360, 422, 429
Wallace, William 55–6
Waller, Edmund 395
Walpole, Henry 325, 418
Walpole, Horace 415
Walpole, Sir Robert 414, 415
Walsingham, Edward 172, 174
Walsingham, Francis 256, 262, 263, 264, 266, 270
Walter, Hubert 15
Walters, Lucy 404
Walworth, William 66, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75
Walwyn, William 397, 398
Warbeck, Perkin 159–61
Warden of the Mint 40
Wardrobe Tower 9, 400
Warkworth, John 123, 129, 130
Warner, Edward 251
Warner, Walter 287
Warwick, Edmund Earl of 157, 159–61
Warwick, Richard Earl of 120, 124, 126, 137
Webster, John 28
Weir, Alison 148
Wellington, Duke of 32–4, 419–21
Wellington barracks 423, 425, 427
Wenlock, Lord John 118, 126
Wentworth, Lady Henrietta 406, 407
Wentworth, Thomas (Earl of Strafford) 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390
Wesley, John 29, 418
Westminster Abbey 5, 20, 22, 58, 74, 81, 106, 110, 116, 122, 124, 139, 144, 152, 164, 299, 341, 360, 361, 396
Westminster Hall 9, 58, 173, 225, 235, 284, 306, 309, 316, 343
Weston, Francis 176–7, 179, 182, 183
Weston, Richard 291–4
Whethamstede, Abbot 102
White, Thomas 43, 55
White Tower 8–9, 20, 53, 80, 89, 148, 166, 207, 251, 260, 369, 378, 430
‘wildfire’ 105, 108
Wilkes MP, John 417
William I (The Conqueror, Duke of Normandy) 3–9, 10, 305–6
William II (Rufus) 8, 9, 10, 306
William III and Mary II of Orange 39, 352, 405, 406, 409–12
William IV 33
Wilson, Edward 299
Wilson, Dr Nicholas 170–71
Wingfield, Sir Anthony 194, 210, 223, 224
Wintour, Robert 283, 284, 285
Winwood, Ralph 294, 296, 298
Wiseman, Mrs 323–4
witchcraft 92, 133, 142, 175, 176, 180, 271, 294, 296
Wolsey, Thomas 167
wolves 31, 33
Woodville, Elizabeth 115–16, 119, 121, 125, 127, 129, 135, 139, 144–5
Wren, Christopher 26, 152
Wright, Professor W 152
Wriothesley, Sir Henry (1st Earl of Southampton) 200, 201, 205, 207–10, 223
Wriothesley, Sir Henry (3rd Earl of Southampton) 257–9, 261
Wyatt, Henry 154, 155, 239
Wyatt, Thomas (poet) 155, 167, 176, 177, 182, 196, 197, 205, 239
Wyatt, Thomas 239, 240, 244, 246
Yelverton, Sir Henry 299
Yeomen Warders 163, 185, 253, 260, 421
Yevele, Henry 58
York, Richard Duke of (Protector of the Realm) 96 100–107
York, Richard Duke of 135, 144–5, 149
see also
Princes in the Tower
York, Elizabeth of 156, 157, 158, 164
Young, Nicholas 99
Young, Robert 412–13
zebras 32
zoos 21, 28, 33, 34
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