Excerpt from The Tower of London, Vol. 1 of 2
It would be vain to search any other city, Rome itself not excepted, for another such group of buildings, or to match the historic interest and splendid record of the ancient Norman structure. The Tower is indeed rife with interest; the most dramatic events of our country's history during more than seven hundred years have been enacted within or near its walls.
To see it is to conjure up a vision of scenes, some brilliant and stately, some tragic and awful, but all full of deepest interest to the hearts and minds of Britons, to whom the history of their land is dear.
Although several works - some voluminous, such as the two ponderous quartos by John Bayley, published in 182 5, and some more recent, such as the histories of the Tower by Britton and Brayley, and, more recently still, those by Lord de Ros and Doyne Bell - have appeared, I venture to think that in writing the present account of the Tower I have not undertaken a thankless or a useless task.
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