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Simons,
Eric N.,
The Devil of the Vault
, Frederick Muller, London, 1963 <
http://www.armitstead.com/gunpowder/considerations_6.html
>

 

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

<
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgate/blood.html
>

 

The Bloody Assizes: The Duke of Monmouth and Judge Jeffreys

Historical Account of the Life and Magnanimous Acts of the Most Illustrious Protestant Prince James, Duke of Monmouth, 1683 (from the collection of York Minster Library)

Macaulay, T.B.,
History of England
, Ch V, online at <
http://www.mindspring.com/~strecorsoc/macaulay/m05a.html
> <
http://shepton.mallet.ukonline.co.uk/history/history_jeffreys_bio.html
>

 

The King Over the Water: William, Lord Maxwell

Bland, Elizabeth (ed.),
Exciting Escape Stories
, Octopus, London, 1980

Burke’s Peerage
, Scotland online at <
http://www.burkes-scotland.com/sites/scotland/esnews/es0202b2.asp
>

Fraser, Paul,
Book of Caerlareroch
, Edinburgh, 1873

The Highlander: Magazine of Scottish Heritage
, September/October 1992, pp. 52–5

Scott, Maxwell,
The Making of Abbotsford and Incidents in Scottish History
, London, 1897

The Scots Peerage
, Edinburgh, 1909

 

The American (P)Resident: Henry Laurens

Age of Revolution, Henry Laurens, <
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/age/laurens.html
>

American Revolutionary War in the South, Pt II, by Paul R. Sarrett, Jr, 1991, <
http://members.aol.com/esarrett/sc/arw_hst2.html
>

‘Capture of Henry Laurens’, from
The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year 1781
, Pall-Mall, London, 1782 <
http://home.ptd.net/~revwar/Laurens1.html
>

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, <
http://mep.cla.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/hl/@Generic_Book TextView/35
>

Papers of Henry Laurens, Model Editions Partnerships, 1999, <
http://mep.cla.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/hl@Generic_BookTextView/35
>

 

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, <
http://www.eurekanet.com/~fesmitha/h2/ch06.html
>

Sir Roger Casement, <
http://www.ulst.ac.uk/thisisland/modules/ww1/caseintro.html
>

 

The Weatherman: Josef Jakobs

Josef Jakobs file, Public Record Office

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
)

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