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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
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site now covered by the WaterlooBarracks to the north of the White Tower, was commenced in the reignof James II. The dates of its inception and completion are not known,and no reference to it is found among the Domestic State Papers preservedin the Record Office. It cannot have been very far advanced at the endof the reign of James II, for it does not appear in the perspective plan drawnfor Lord Dartmouth, Master of the Ordnance, between the years 1681 and1689. It is generally considered that only the ground floor was built inthis reign, and that the building was completed in the reign of William andMary. According to Maitland (History oj London, Vol. I, p. 163) itscompletion was celebrated by a banquet, at which the King and Queenattended in State, and were waited on by the labourers and warrantworkmen of the Tower, wearing white gloves and aprons, the badges of This cistern was 60ft. by 9ft. by 7ft. deep, and contained when full 22,680 gallons, or about 100 tons,of water. Plate III
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INTRODUCTION—HISTORY AND BUILDINGS. 21 Freemasonry. This must have been prior to 1694, the year in which theQueen died. If this is a historical fact, it is strange that such a minutediarist as Luttrell in his Brief Relation of State Affairs makes no mentionof it. He merely records a visit of the King to view the Storehouse onFebruary 13, 1691-2. Although described by contemporary writers as a noble edifice,the Storehouse was not distinguished in any way architecturally. It wasa plain two-storeyed building, 345ft. by 60ft., surmounted by a turret, and

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