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Show Famous Old London Buildint,. The appointment of lieutenant of the Tower of London carries with it tho tenure of the lieutenant's house, which boasts of historical associations, if ever any house 'did. It wns built in the reign of Henry VIII, nnd was used as a prison for More, Surrey, Essex, Coke, Jeremy Taeylor, William Peun and Algernon Sydney. There aro two other .small houses provided for the lieutenant's servants, and in these Lady-Jane Grey was held captive and Sir Walter Raleigh wrote' his "History of the World." In those "good old lays" the feus charged the prisoners added quite materially to the lieutenant's lieuten-ant's salary. |