Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London veranda The caption refers to dance

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

View with figures and cattle in the foreground

A scene from 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott

with horsemen and people out walking in the foreground

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

Copy of an inscription from the wall of Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London veranda The caption refers to danceCopy 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.