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The room where only state prisoners were
confined, Anne Boleyn for a few days &
Lady Jane Grey - “Jane” is carved in the
stone wall beneath the window by her
husband when confined in the same room -
we stood on what was once the lower green
where we are told the Earl of Grey - the
brilliant young soldier & courtier had sacri
-ficed to the side slanders of his enemies -
and beheaded by order of that [illegible deletion] un-
grateful monster Elizabeth - Theres not
only brave men but brave women laid down
their young lives, then forced innocent
blood that stains England to this day.
The History of that old louse - what can equal
it! The noble captures who suffered long
years of martyrdom within those dreary
walls - Welsh & Scottish chiefs, James son of
King Robert 3d, Lord Hastings, the young
Earl of Warwick, Friar Thomas More [sic] the
old bishop of Rochester, poor Katherine
Howard, the Countess of Salisbury, Princess
Elizabeth herself even was imprisoned here.