Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 140

HE. OLP> TOWER OF LoNDON PLAYED A CONSPICUOUS PART IN ENGLISH MISTORY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. WITHIN 1TS GRIM WALLS REBELLIOUS NOBLES -ANC> OFTEN DEPOSED IUNGS AND QUEENS — WERE CONFINED, IT WAS THE SCENE OF MANY FAMOUS EXECUTIONS. BELOW GROUND> WERE THE DLUNGEONS AND TORTURE CHAMBERS. HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY HE REIGN OF HENRY YIL OF ENGLAND WAS DISTURBED BY TWO REMARKABLE ATTEMPTS TO DETHRONE NIM. THE FIRST OF THESE BEG-AN IN 1486 WHEN CERTAIN OF THE KINGS ENEMIES HATCHED A PLOT TO PLACE THE YOUNG EARL OF WARWICK ON THE THRONE . AT THAT TIME WARWICK WAS A PRISONER (N TRETOWER OF LONDON. AFTER SPREADING THE REPORT THAT WARWICK HAD ESCAPED, THE CONSPIRATORS TRAINED A BOY, ONE LAMBERT SIMNEL., SON OFAN OxfoRD> CARPENTER, TO IMPERSONATE THE YOUNG EARL AND SENT HIMTo TRELAND: THEIR INTENTION WAS To CROWN THE REAL EARL WHEN THE REVOLT SUCCEEDED. LOYAL 70 KING HENRY AND RALLIEDTO HIS SUPPORT, IN A BATTLE AT SYOKE THE REBEL ARMY WAS cUT TO PIECES - LINCOLN AND> HIS CHIEF AIDES WERE SLAIN IN THE FIGHTING. = WAS PERKIN WARBECK. HE WAS THE SON OF A WELLTO-DO cIiTIZEN OF TOURMAL FRANCE,AND HE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY TALIGHT BY HENRYS ENE - MIESTO IMPERSONATE PRINCE RICHA -~ ) 1 Illflll/g/ ;”{”ll ,// // / 7777 ¢ '7/”///1/ / ) W/LHHIIIALE, (OIS EIIIII IS LIS IS E RV / % RECAPTURED // i é/// 77277777777 6”'7// A i/ LTTTTT777) 27707 [T 2 /| PRISONER l w 4////10/11 77/ / o, /.,,,,,,,mwm,,, e I, J aats77s il bavanraacs al 272 IIII”IIIII[ é / 7 / 3 III/IIIIIIIII/IIIIII// %/ Y/ / A /4”/ ////: 7 4 77 Y VI[[ 7 % 22T UL AT ¢ 7 777 eriTie s aawsrrese s dlIIITIIZLIITITI/ I A AN T IT IO LLLLS /7T TP i / 2 @EACHING DuBLIN, SIMNE). DECLARED HE WAS WARWICK ESCAPED FROM THE TOwWER.A GROUP OF NOBLES, HEADED BY THE EARL OF IALDARE, AGREED> 70 SUPPORT HIS CLAIM TO THE ENGUSH THRONE. SIMNEL MADE A FULL CONFESSION AND;, SINCE HE MAD BEEN BUTATOOL INTHE HANDS OF THE CONSPIRATORS, WAS PAR- DONED. LATER ME WAS MADE A FALCON- ER IN THE ROYAL MOUSEHOLD, —— ¢ E,r.u(m VISITEP FRANCE AND FLAN- DERS,WHERE HE RECEWVED THE SUP- PORT OF MANY OF THE RINGS FOES LINING 1N EXILE IN THOSE COUNTRIES. 1M 1495 THE PRETENDER ATTEMPTED Chapter 151: Two Celebrated Impostures. 1 " \'0,‘ N 1487 SIMNEL WAS JOINED IN IRELAND BY THE EARL OF LINCOLN, THE LEADER OF THE REVOLY. LINCOLN WENT THROUGHM A FARCE OF CROWN- ING THE IMPOSTOR , AND> AT ONCE GATHERED A FORMIDABLE FORCE TO INVADE ENGLAND> . < @T WiLL BE REMEMBERED THAT IN 1483 THE BOY-KING EDWARD Y AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER PRINCE RICH- ARD,MAD BEEN SECRETLY MURDERED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON BY ORDERS [] AN ARMED INVASION OF ENGIAND BUT WAS REPULSED. A REVOLT IN HIS BEMALF IN CORNWALL TWO YEARS s —\ - AU )Y D) Bowae‘ oF J.onpon | Puzzle: - Can You Guipss THE PRISONER - FROM MIS CELL. . (N cenTeR) THROUGH THE MAZE OF SECRET PASSAGEWAYS TO FREEDOM. — * SN L NN KING RELEASED THE REAL WARWICK AND DISPLAYED HIM AT THE COUIRT. TN SPITE OF THIS EXPOSURE THE REBELS CROSSED OVERTO ENGLAND> AND MARCHED TO ATTACK THE KING. =" IN TRELAND> WHO CLAIMED HE WAS PRINCE RICHARD WHO, IN SOME MIRACLILOUS WAY,HAD> ESCAPED> DEATH . HIS APPEAR- ANCE AND> H1S FAMILARITY WITH THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY SEEMED TO BEAR ouT HIS STORY. —* F(arrot— > ANSTELS “—— [Bewr tomiE ToweR, Perin waR- BECK ADMITTED MIS TRUE IDENTITY, AND IN 1499 WAS EXECUTED FOR RIS }u