Plaque Wording: King Charles I The king Charles Stuart was tried for high treason on this spot by the High Court of Justice established by the Commons of England for that purpose. Saturday 20th, Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd and Saturday 27th January 1649. The King was convicted of treason and sentenced to death on Saturday 27th January and executed in front of the Banqueting House, Whitehall Place at two o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday 30th January 1649.

Plaque Wording: Near this spot on 27th April 1646 King Charles I, when fleeing from Oxford with two companions on his way to surrender to the Scottish Army at Southwell, rested to take a last look at London and to water his horses at the spring which still runs below and has ever since been called King Charles's Well.

Plaque Wording: Corporation of London, Tower Bridge This plaque records the visit on the centenary of Tower Bridge, Thursday, 30th June 1994 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC, in the presence of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Alderman Sir Paul Henry Newall, TD, DL, MA, DLitt
{then a list of sheriffs, aldermen, commoners...}

Plaque Wording: To Carlos III
Founder of this Royal Botanic Garden
Juan March Foundation 1781-1981

Plaque Wording: here rested from May 17 until Interment at Windsor May 20 1910 Edward VII King of Great Britain and Ireland & of the British Dominions beyond the seas: Emperor of India

Plaque Wording: This stone was laid by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor (Sir George Thomas Broadbridge, Kt) on the 10th day of December 1936 in the first year of the Reign of His Majesty King Edward VIII. Capt. George Sampson Elliston, MC, MP - Chairman of the City of London Schools Committee of the Corporation of the City of London Trollope & Colls Ltd - Builders Whinney, Son and Austen Hall - Architects

Plaque Wording: JULY 24, 1534 JACQUES CARTIER OF SAINT MALO APPROACHES THE LAND OF CANADA AND TAKES POSSESSION OF NEW FRANCE IN THE NAME OF FRANÇIS I

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Plaque Wording: {translated from the Latin}At the public expense. By the authority of the British Government, in favour of King George II. The tower erected and repaired higher, with proud honour raises the head, Saint Margaret's hall, sacred to God, in the year of the Lord 1888 Most Honoured gentlemen, and for the benefices bestowed on the parishioners Often not without being named without praise, ARTHUR ONSLOW British Government, by his greatest merit, once again SPeaker, the Most Noble ROBERT WALPOLE of the Order of the Garter, First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man most unwearied of all in counsels and public works, yet equal to many. CHARLES WAGER The Golden Knight head of the seven man of the superior officers of the Royal Navy; And to William Baron Sundon of Ardagh in Ireland, in charge of the five men commission of the public treasury.

Plaque Wording: Under auspices of our most gracious sovereign George III the sanction of His Majesty's government and the patronage of the East India Company these wet docks appropriated to the commerce of India and ships in that employ were accomplished in those eventful years MDCCCIV, MDCCCV, MDCCCVI the first stone being laid March IV, MDCCCIV. They were opened by the introduction of five ships from 1,200 to 800 tons with valuable cargoes.
On IV August MDCCCVI the grand undertaking in the laudable endeavours of the managing owners of ships in the company's service and the important national objects of increased security to property and revenue combined with improved accommodation, economy and despatch were thus early realised....