day and that they receive a pension of £1 per week. The bell rings once for each person who lives there, in this instance 63. Henry writes about watching the bell ringer, who asks him to not speak to him once he had started because it was important that he did not loose count. The author ends the chapter "I thought that this curfew is the only one left in England that is really a curfew, because now and then, when it misses a note, it signifies. to all who know the meaning, that a light has been quenched." "Whose Keys" pages 48 - 53 Chapter seven gives an account of the ceremony of the keys at The Tower of London. The author for several years at the request of 2LO would go to the Byward Tower every night to speak the introduction of the ceremony. He writes: "The Tower is not only one of the most ancient buildings in use in England , but it is the only fortress that has been in continuous occupation for over eight centuries. The function of the Tower today is the same as when William the Conqueror founded it eleven years after the Battle of Hastings. It is still a royal palace. It is still a garrison and an armoury." He tells us of how it was customary for kings to spend the night in the tower before their coronation. Henry VII was moved here when Perkin Warbeck claimed to be heir to the throne. The author says that nobody knows when the ceremony of the "King's keys" was first observed, but the first was recorded in the time of Edward III performed by John of London. The ceremony begins "Shortly before ten at night" the Chief Warder dresses in "a long red cloak with his Tudor bonnet", he carries a lamp with a "tallow candle," he picks up the keys to the "Wicket Gate and the Byward Tower" and calls for an "escort for the keys." "One N.C.O and four men fall in with rifles and fixed bayonets. The Chief Warder, with his lantern and the keys places himself in the centre, and off they march towards the Wicket Gate on Tower Hill." He describes how usually the Chief Warder would usually salute an officer, but during the ceremony the roles are reversed. "As they march along, every sentry on the way