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Identifier: bostoncookingsch19hill_7 (find matches)
Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ngone stronghold. The Thames Riverguards one side, and it has, upon theother three sides, a deep moat. Thewhole area occupied is twenty-six acres. The most ancient portion is the fa-mous White Tower, the squarestructure seen in middle distance. Ofbuildings not ruined, this is the oldestpalace-prison in the world. It wasbuilt in the days of William the Con-queror, upon the foundations of aRoman fortress, which preceded it. Itis one hundred feet square and onehundred feet high. Its exterior wallsare from twelve to fifteen feet thick,and ten-foot walls, rising from foun-dation to roof-tree, separate the apart-ments from one another. It is ap-parently as strong today as it waseight hundred years ago, and seemslikely to show no weakness, when an-other eight hundred years shall haveelapsed. For six hundred years, the Towerwas the home of English royalty. Weforget that it was a palace, and re-member only that it was a prison.dyed deeply with the blood of Eng-lands best and noblest. Here per-
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Saixt Pauls 120 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE ished the two little princes, Edward Vand his brother Richard, and here wasput to death the Duke of Clarence,brother of Edward IV, some say bybeing drowned in a cask of wine. Heredied the Lady Arabella Stuart, andher lover, the last lord of Wilton.Tower Hill can count a long roll ofmartyrs, but not the least of them wasthe gallant and accomplished SirWalter Raleigh, adventurer, no doubt;but everv inch a man. tears. The daughter was torn fromher fathers arms, and the good grayhead of the benevolent old man, afterbeing stricken off upon Tower Hill, wasexposed to the elements upon LondonBridge; whereupon the good daughterMargaret made haste to steal it, toembalm it, and lay it away in a silvercase. In the meantime the ghastly relicwas missed from its place upon Lon-don Bridge. The daughter was sus- mm ::*¥*NfS ■.irk- Tower of London The Traitors Gate was the old en-trance to the Tower from the river.As a boat approached, bearing someh

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