The Martin Tower
This is of Henry III's time though it has been much cut about and modernised. It had originally a single room on each floor and remains of embrasures and the large stone fireplace can be seen.
Tower Hill
Within the space of Trinity Square the first permanent scaffold on Tower Hill was set up in the reign of Edward IV., 1465, but the first execution recorded here was that of Sir Simon Burley in 1388. Here also were beheaded, among others, Dudley, the minister of Henry VII. (1510), his son the Duke of Northumberland (1553), his grandson, Lord Guildford Dudley (1554), Cromwell Earl of Essex (1540), More and Fisher (1535), Surrey (1547), and his son Norfolk (1572), Strafford (1641), and Archbishop Laud (1645), and the Scotch Lords in 1716, 1746, and 1747, the last being Simon, Lord Lovat.
The Martin Tower
There are a number of prisoners' inscriptions, mostly of early 17th century, about the time of the Gunpowder Plot. This tower was formerly inhabited by the Keeper of the Crown Jewels and was the scene of the attempt by Colonel Blood in 1673 to steal the Crown and other regalia.
This is of Henry III's time though it has been much cut about and modernised. It had originally a single room on each floor and remains of embrasures and the large stone fireplace can be seen.
Within the space of Trinity Square the first permanent scaffold on Tower Hill was set up in the reign of Edward IV., 1465, but the first execution recorded here was that of Sir Simon Burley in 1388. Here also were beheaded, among others, Dudley, the minister of Henry VII. (1510), his son the Duke of Northumberland (1553), his grandson, Lord Guildford Dudley (1554), Cromwell Earl of Essex (1540), More and Fisher (1535), Surrey (1547), and his son Norfolk (1572), Strafford (1641), and Archbishop Laud (1645), and the Scotch Lords in 1716, 1746, and 1747, the last being Simon, Lord Lovat.
There are a number of prisoners' inscriptions, mostly of early 17th century, about the time of the Gunpowder Plot. This tower was formerly inhabited by the Keeper of the Crown Jewels and was the scene of the attempt by Colonel Blood in 1673 to steal the Crown and other regalia.