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Prologue.--The builders of the Tower.--Flambard, the first prisoner.--Two royal prisoners of Wales.--Scottish prisoners.--French prisoners of war.--Richard II.--King Henry VI.--The little princes in the Tower.--Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham.--The adventures of Perkin Warbeck.--Sir Thomas More.--Anne Boleyn.--Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex.--The Earl of Surrey.--Lady Jane Grey.--Lady Katharine Grey.--Princess Elizabeth.--The martyrs of Queen Mary.--Robert Devereux, earl of Essex.--Prisoners for a queen.--Duke of Norfolk.--Sir Walter Raleigh.--Arabella Stuart.--Gunpowder plot.--Sir John Eliot.--Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford.--Algernon Sidney.--The seven bishops.--Lord Nithsdale and the bad Lord Lovat.---The last prisoners.--The treasures of the Tower.