October 15, 1999 The Tower of London: Prisoners of the Tower The Tower of London has been many things over the years such as a fortress, a state prison, a zoo, an armory, repository for the crown jewels, a home for Tudor monarchs, and today a museum. Inside the tower walls has been the last sight for many of its prisoners. Although there were some prisoners that have escaped the tower walls and fled to neighboring countries. …
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…sent servants to check the houses out and found all of the gunpowder. There have been many famous prisoners in the Tower of London. Through the hundreds of years the Tower has been a prison there have been many people breath their last breaths, see their last sights in the walls of the Tower. It has been said that if the ravens that live in the White Tower ever leave then Britain has fallen. Notes