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by
LVKE
LIMNER
ESQ
GRANT AND GRIFFITH.
SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS
1 CORNER OF SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON.
1851.
The Tinker is swinging his fire-pot to make it burn, having placed hissoldering-iron in it, and is proceeding to some corner or post, there torepair the saucepan he carries.—We commence with the most interestingedifice in our capital,
the fortress, the palace, and prison, in which so many events, connectedwith the history of our country, have transpired. The building with fourtowers in the centre is said to have been erected by William theConqueror, and is the oldest part of the fortress. The small bell-towerin the front of our picture is that of the church of St. Peter’s, (thetower being a parish itself,) on the Tower Green, erected in the reignof Edward I. Our view is taken from Tower Hill, near which was thescaffold on which so many have fallen. To the left of the picture stoodthe grand storehouse of William III., destroyed by fire, Nov. 1841.
The Regalia is deposited here, and exhibited to the public, as is alsothe Horse Armoury. The present constable of the Tower is the Duke ofWellington.{2}
This drug is carried about for sale by Turks, often habited in thecostume of their country. They are Turkish Jews, as Mahomedans seldomtravel. The mode of fixing his caftan also indicates him to be one; itis fastened on t