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Title: Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ffoulkes, Charles John, 1868-1947 Parr, Charles McKew donor Parr, Ruth, donor
Subjects: Weapons
Publisher: London, H.M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Brandeis University Libraries

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y de Ros,visited the Tower. The Queen drove in semi-state and PrinceAlbert and the Prince of Wales rode on horseback. The Royalparty were conducted over the Tower by Lord de Ros, Major of theTower, and a guard of honour was furnished by the Warders in fullState dress. 1914. On April 26 Her Majesty the Queen visited the Tower, accompaniedby Princess Mary, Prince Henry and Prince George, and attendedby Sir Douglas Dawson, Comptroller of the Lord ChamberlainsDepartment. The Royal party were received at the entrance byField-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood (Constable), Lieutenant-General theHon. Sir Frederick Stopford (Lieutenant) and Major-GeneralPipon (Major and Governor of the Tower), the Warders forming aguard of honour in full State dress. General Sir Arthur Wynne(Keeper of the Regalia) conducted the visitors over the Jewel House,and the Royal party afterwards inspected the Armouries under theguidance of the present Curator. The King of Saxonys Journey, Dr. G. Cams, 1846.- The Times. Plate IX
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D(o SS II. S4. (^^///,/<Ym^m/£ (^xia^r^/i^^r^J THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. 73 INVENTORIES, GUIDE BOOKS AND WORKS DEALING WITHTHE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER. THE earliest existing numbered Inventory or Catalogue was madeby John Hewitt, the noted antiquary, in the year 1859. In thiswork he quotes an Inventory of 1821, which seems to have beendestroyed with other papers of the Ordnance Office shortly afterthe Records were transferred from the Tower to the RecordOffice. Except this schedule there is nothing extant of a later date thanthe Valuation of 1691 which gives no Inventory numbers. Hewitt dividedthe Collection into twenty Classes, to which Viscount Dillon added anadditional class in 1895. In 1914, as has been noted in the Introductionto the present work, the objects in Classes I, XV-XVII inclusive weretransferred to the British Museum as having no historical connection withthe Armouries of the Tower and this transfer necessitated a rearrangementof the sub-divisi

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