Travel Reference
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“Arundell” into the chimney (graffiti #13) and wrote in Latin: “
Quanto plus afflictionis...”
(“The more we suffer for Christ in this world, the more glory with Christ in the next.”)
Arundel suffered faithfully another eight years here before he wasted away and died at age
40.
Graffiti #85 belongs to Lady Jane Grey's young husband, Lord Guilford Dudley.
Locked in the Beauchamp Tower and executed the same day as his wife, Dudley vented
his despair by scratching “IANE” into the stone. Cynics claim he was actually whining for
his mommy, who was also named Jane.
Read other pitiful graffiti, like the musings of James Typping (#18). Imprisoned for
three years “in great disgrace,” he wonders what will happen to him: “I cannot tell but be
death.” Consider the stoic cry of Thomas Miagh (#29), an Irish rebel, who writes: “By tor-
ture straynge my truth was tried,” having suffered some form of the rack. Thomas Clarke
(#28), a Catholic priest who later converted to Protestantism, wrote pathetic poetry: “Un-
happy is that man whose acts doth procure/the misery of this house in prison to endure.”
Many held onto their sense of identity by carving their family's coats of arms.
The last enemy of the state imprisoned in the Tower complex was one of its most in-
famous: the renegade Nazi Rudolf Hess. In 1941, Hitler's henchman secretly flew to Bri-
tain with a peace proposal (Hitler denied any such plan). He parachuted into a field, was
arrested and held for four days in the Tower, and was later given a life sentence.
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Join the looooong line leading to the crown jewels. Pass time in line reading ahead—it's
too dark inside to read.
