+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FOOTNOTES: | | | | [1] Mr G. H. Birch, F.S.A., the Curator of the Soane Museum, | | says of the extent of the Roman city, that it was “originally | | of smaller extent, and did not include the space now marked out | | by the line of apparently Roman walls, the proof being that | | interments have been found in the extended space, notably at | | the Union Bank of London and at Bow Churchyard, Cheapside. The | | first Roman city extended from the Tower to Aldgate, then along | | Leadenhall Street to Cornhill, returning by Wallbrook to Dowgate, | | and thence along Thames Street. Several of the bastions, notably | | the one in Camomile Street, are composed of destroyed Roman | | buildings and sculpture, and the work, although built in the | | Roman manner—that is, with courses of Roman tiles or bricks—is | | coarser in execution than the portion of the real Roman wall at | | Postern Row and Aldgate.” | | | | [2] “As to the date of the extension,” writes Mr Birch, “it is | | difficult to say, but it was probably after the withdrawal of the | | Romans, but I hardly think as late as Alfred. The building points | | to the work of partly Romanised inhabitants, who would have been | | able to build only in the manner taught them by the Romans.” | | | | [3] The wax effigies of the Kings and Queens covered with tawdry | | robes and gilt pasteboard crowns are far more attractive to the | | holiday crowd of visitors in the Abbey of Westminster than the | | tombs and shrines of the dead; and Madame Tussaud’s show attracts | | the public more than the National Gallery. | | | | [4] This is the King’s or Queen’s House, according to the sex of | | the reigning Sovereign. | | | | [5] He was the youngest son of John Apsley of Pulborough, Sussex. | | He purchased the office of Lieutenant of the Tower from his | | predecessor Sir George Moore, for £2500, and was sworn into | | office, March 3rd, 1617, which he held until his death, May 24th, | | 1630; he was also Surveyor of Victuals for the Navy. Whilst | | Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Walter Raleigh was in his custody. | | He was thrice married. His second wife was Anne, daughter and | | heiress of Sir Peter Carew, by whom he had issue two sons and | | a daughter, Jocosa or Joyce, who married Lyster, second son of | | Sir Richard Blount, of Mapledurham, whose ancestors were also | | Lieutenants of the Tower. His third wife was Lucy, youngest | | daughter of Sir John St John, Knight of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, | | to whom he was married at St Anne’s, Blackfriars, on the 23rd | | December 1615, at which time he was of the age of forty-eight, | | whilst the lady was but sixteen. By this marriage he became | | brother-in-law of Sir Edward Villiers, Viscount Grandison, | | half-brother of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. His | | eldest son by this marriage, who also became Sir Allen Apsley, | | was a zealous Royalist, and was successively Governor of Exeter | | and Barnstaple Castles, and, after the Restoration, Falconer to | | King Charles II., and Treasurer of the Household to James, Duke | | of York, afterwards James II. His daughter Frances married Sir | | Benjamin Bathurst, Knight, Governor of the Royal African and East | | India Companies and Cofferer to Queen Anne, and ancestor of Lord | | Chancellor Bathurst. Sir Allen Apsley, the Lieutenant of the | | Tower, had also four other sons and two daughters; of the latter, | | Barbara married Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, and Lucy became | | the celebrated wife of his brother, Colonel John Hutchinson, | | Governor of Nottingham Castle, an earnest Parliamentarian. The | | life of the latter was written by his wife, who also left behind | | her her own autobiography, printed in 1808. | | | | [6] Mr Birch thinks this improbable, and that the depth and clay | | bottom of the river would have rendered such a work impossible. | | | | [7] Thomas of Woodstock, seventh son of Edward III., Duke of | | Gloucester and Aumarle, was born in 1355. He had held many | | important offices in the State. Froissart says he was “orguilleux | | et présomptueux de maniére.” At the time of his death he was | | fifty-two years of age. | | | | [8] | | “When he was brought again to the bar, to hear | | His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr’d | | With such an agony, he sweat extremely, | | And some thing spoke in choler, ill, and hasty: | | But he fell to himself again, and sweetly | | In all the rest show’d a most noble patience—” | | | | _Henry VIII._, Act i. scene 4.