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Standing on Tower Hill, looking down on the dark lines of wall picking out keep and turret, bastion and ballium, chapel and belfry the jewel-house, armory, the mounts, the casemates, the open leads, the Bye-ward-gate, the Belfry, the Bloody tower the whole edifice seems alive with story the story of a nation's highest splendor, its deepest misery, and its darkest shame.
When your father was gone on this errand, I stayed in our house in Portugal Row, and at Christmas I received the New Year's gifts belonging to his places, which is the custom, of two tuns of wine at the Custom-house, for Master of Requests, and fifteen ounces of gilt plate at the Jewel-house, as Secretary of the Latin Tongue.
The 1st of January 1664, New Year's day, my husband, as Privy Counsellor, presented his Majesty with ten pieces of gold in a purse; and the person that carries it hath a ticket given him of the receipt thereof, from the cupboard of Privy Chamber, where it is delivered to the Master of the Jewel-house, who is thereupon to give him twenty shillings for his pains, out of which he is to give to the servant of the Master of the Jewel-house eighteen-pence.
The Bloody Tower, so called because within it was committed the murder of the princes, Edward V. and Duke of York, sons of Edward IV., by order of Richard III. In this Tower is the Jewel-house containing the regalia and the Crown jewels. Among these, are St. The Crown made for the coronation of Victoria, consisting of a purple velvet cap enclosed by hoops of silver, and studded with diamonds.
Sir Thomas Cromwell was beginning to rise rapidly from a life of adventure and obscurity abroad. He had passed straight from the Cardinal's service to the King's three years before, and had since then been knighted, appointed privy-councillor, Master of the Jewel-house, and Clerk of the Hanaper in the Court of Chancery.
A list is usually given to those who come daily to see these curiosities in the Jewel-house, a copy whereof follows, viz.: A list of his Majesty's regalia, besides plate, and other rich things, at the Jewel-house in the Tower of London. The imperial crown, which all the kings of England have been crowned with, ever since Edward the Confessor's time.
'And, please, trust me this far; don't mention the loss of your ring to any one, unless it be your mother. Allow me to put it on your finger. She gave me a glance I cannot and would not describe. It lies treasured for ever, God grant! in the secret jewel-house of my heart. She lifted a trembling left hand, and doubtingly held half held it towards me.
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