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Records of The Tower of London Bayley (J. Whitcomb) The History
and Antiquities of the Tower of London, with Memoirs of Royal and
Distinguished Persons, 2 vols. 4to London 1825, First Edn. plates in Vol.
1 (some repairs). Also Arthur Henry Cook, Prisoners of the Tower, one
of 45 copies of a MS history compiled by a Chief Yeoman Warder prior
to his retirement in 1954. Comprises biographical sketches of prisoners
from 1101 (Bishop Flambard) to 1941 (Rudolf Hess), in chronological
order. (There are very few entries after 1820). Also lists of executions,
escapes and deaths from natural causes, and an alphabetical index of
all prisoners. All uniform cloth. Many of the most illustrious names
in British and Irish history feature. The Irish entries include the 8th,
9th, 10th and 11th Earls of Kildare (1494 - 1582), Arthur and Roger
O’Connor (1798), and Sir Roger Casement (1916), besides several other
well known national figures and a few rogues. These volumes were
acquired by Dennis H.N. Sellers in 1991-2 to be used in his proposed
biographical dictionary of all prisoners in the Tower. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
Estimate €180 - €250