astern part is further
subdivided by a wall which cuts off St. John's Chapel, its crypt, and
its subcrypt, each roof of which is massively vaulted. There is no
vaulting but a wooden floor between the storeys of the other part.
There are several comparatively modern entrances.

A short external stair leads to a staircase in the thickness of the wall
on the south side, by which we approach the Chapel. A brass plate on the
right refers to some children's bones found in the reign of Charles II.
They were identified, somewhat conjecturally, with the remains of Edward
V and his brother who disappeared so mysteriously at the accession of
Richard III, and were removed to Westminster Abbey in 1678. Ascending
the stair we come to the passage which led from the palace to

_The Chapel of St. John_ (Pl. VIII).

The chapel is the largest and most complete now remaining in any Norman
castle, and must have seen the devotions of William the Conqueror and
his family. It is 55 feet 6 inches long by 31 feet wide, and 32 feet
high, and is vaulted with a plain arch. There are four massive columns
on either side and four in the apse. The south aisle, as we have seen,
communicated with the palace, and an upper aisle, or gallery, similarly
opened into the

_State Apartments_

of the White Tower, which we reach by a circuitous route through a
passage round the walls, only wide enough for one person at a time, and
a circular, or newel, stair in the north-east turret, gaining at every
turn glimpses of the extensive stores of small arms. The second floor
is divided into two large apartments, not reckoning the chapel; in the
eastern wall of the smaller or Banqueting Chamber, is a fire-place, the
only one till recently discovered in any Norman Keep. A second and third
have of late years been found in the floor below, but the whole building
was designed for security, not for comfort and in spite of the use of
wooden partitions and tapestry must have been miserable as a place of
residence. On leaving St. John's Chapel we enter

_The Armoury_.

In connection with the Armouries, it should be noted that the present
collection of arms and armour had its origin in that formed at Greenwich
by King Henry VIII, who received many presents of this nature from the
Emperor Maximilian and others. He also obtained from the Emperor several
skilled armourers, who worked in his pay and wore his livery. English
iron in former days was so inferior, or the art