To the Tower [?] next - went through the Armoury
Department, saw Leicester’s suit worn 1560
marked with his initials & said to be without
doubt the genuine tilting outfit which
the elegant Dudley protected himself.
Those old fellows could afford to do a good
deal of fighting behind those great suit
walls - wars grew scarcer as the armor
grew lighter, and gallant knights won
fair ladies by milder means. We saw some
horrid instruments of torture - collars of iron,
thumb screws, a block, & the axe which
beheaded the unfortunate Anne of Boleyn -
perhaps she flirted a little poor thing and
kings had a summary mode of getting rid
of their jealousies & their wives at the same
time! husbands now a days have a harder
time of it. We saw where Walter Raleigh was
ten years confined, the dark cell adjoining
where he was locked at night - the window
of the bloody tower was pointed out to us
where the children of Edward 4th were
murdered in 1483 - .