Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London veranda Watling Street and the dome

Watling Street and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the background

The caption refers to dance steps indulged in by the citizen to avoid injury

The idle apprentice plays hustle-cap with some pickpockets and a shoeblack on a tombstone

having attached poles to the box in the manner of a sedan chair have carried it out of its position as far as a mile stone which reads: 1 mile from London

Her sultry looks don't reveal her mood

Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London veranda Watling Street and the domeCopy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London, 1797. The inscription consists of a central circular roundel, containing a coat of arms. Surrounding this are four smaller roundels, one of which contains the date 1622. Above and below the central device reads the inscription T Salmon Nectemere, Nectimore. Many inscriptions left by prisoners in the Tower survive.