Bloody tower : the diray of Tilly Middleton, London 1553 - 1559
Wilding, Valerie2002
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12th February, 1554. Throughmy roof hole I am watching the final touches being put to the scaffold on Tower Green. It is draped in black, and straw has been strewn around the block to catch the blood. There is no axe yet. The executioner will bring that. I wonder if mother will le tus watch? We usually do, on Tower Hill, but this is the first execution whothin the Tower walls since I was about one and a half years old. Mother says that was a double execution - a queen and her lady - and tomorrow is the twelfth anniversary of those deaths. I do not remember them, of course, but I will certainly remember this... there have been many, many deaths in other parts of the Tower - some we never hear about. This bloody tower.
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Edition:
1st.
Imprint:
LONDON: Scholastic, 2002.
Series:
My story
Notes:
English.
ISBN:
04399549599780439954952
Local class:
JF
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
FictionHistorical16th centuryTudorMiddle ages
BRN:
743982