The Traitors' Gate is an entrance through which many prisoners of the Tudors arrived at the Tower of London. The gate was built by Edward I, to provide a water gate entrance to the Tower, part of St. Thomas' Tower, which was designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family.
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In the pool behind Traitors' Gate was an engine that was used for raising water to a cistern on the roof of the White Tower. The engine worked originally by the force of the tide or by horsepower and eventually by steam. In 1724–1726, it was adapted to drive machinery for boring gun barrels. It was removed in early 1866.[1]
The name Traitors' Gate has been used since before 1543, when that name is used on Anton van den Wyngaerde's panorama of London.[2][3] Prisoners were brought by barge along the Thames, passing under London Bridge, where the heads of recently executed prisoners were displayed on spikes. Notable prisoners such as Sir Thomas More entered the Tower by Traitors' Gate.[4]
Although Queen Anne Boleyn is often reported to have passed through the Traitors' Gate after her arrest, the contemporary chronicle of Charles Wriothesley stated she passed through only a "court gate" (in the Byward Tower [de]).[5]
ReferencesEdit
^"Traitors' Gate". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 5 February 1866. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Facsimile of Panorama of London in 1543: 1881, Antony Van Den Wyngaerde". Museum of London Prints. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^MobileReference (2010). London Sights: A Travel Guide to the Top 60 Attractions in London, England, UK. MobileReference. pp. contents. ISBN9781607789314. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
^Wriothesley, Charles (1875–1877). Hamilton, William Douglas (ed.). A chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559 Volume 1. Westminster: Printed for the Camden society, 1875. p. 36.
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