PRISONERS' SIGNATURES ON THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN TOWER 31 CHOIR STALLS AND ROYAL CLOSET, ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL 72 THE ROUND TOWER FROM THE KING OF SCOTLAND'S LODGING NORMAN GATE QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LIBRARY . SKETCH FROM THE NORTH TERRACE. NORMAN GATE AND LIBRARY, FROM KING JOHN'S TOWER KING JOHN'S TOWER PAGE 91 93 95 95 97 101 ROUND TOWER AND GRAND ENTRANCE, FROM THE QUADRANGLE. 115 GUN COMMANDING THE STAIRS OF THE ROUND TOWER 159 161 REDUCED FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM CHARLES I, TO THE FTEN in the East, as in Southern Europe, and especially in Italy, you see monasteries and convents built on hill summits. These places afforded safety, isolation and quiet, so that, sundered from the world, a life of prayer and meditation could be led within them. The strongholds of feudatory lords also were raised on the peaks of hills, that from those eyries they might overawe the regions |