The Princes in the Tower

Reference John Knight, Principal Surgeon to Charles II - "..... about ten foot in the ground were found the Bones of two striplings in a wooden Chest, which upon the survey were found proportionable to ages of those two Brothers viz, about thirteen and eleven years. The skul of the one being entire, the other broken, as were indeed many of the other Bones, also the Chest, by the violence of the labourers .... there were pieces of rag and velvet about them ..... Being fully recognized to be the bones of those two Princes, they were carefully put aside in a stone coffin or coffer."

Christopher Wren, then Surveyor General to Charles II in an undated account, confirms that the bones were found " .... about ten feet deep in the ground .... as the workmen were taking away the stairs which led from the royal Lodgings into the Chapel of the White Tower."