Brewer's: Traitors' Bridge

A loyal heart may be landed under Traitors' Bridge. Traitor's Bridge, in the Tower, was the was by which persons charged with high treason entered that State prison.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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