Show TOWER HILL H ILL A noted london spot the scene of ef many famous occurrences tower mil Is berh perhaps ats both the most important eminence and the most notable spot in till all london few of us think what great persons have hato quietly lived there and what others equally great have wept and died upon it to it or rather to great tower street came rochester to pursue his 1311 trade as an italian fortune teller while the bedizened bedizen ed buckingham often walked thither to consult a conjurer a shrewd farseeing farse cing rogue who when then felton bought at the cullor cut lor shop on oil the summit of tile the till hill foin sit filing the knife with which he killed the ilie dukes father may have known for what purpose it was required william renn penn was born on this hill in a house close to london wall for ty four years later 1 hat Is in A D a poet lay dead choked by a crust which starvation had bad urged him to devour too greedily in an upper tipper room of the bull bill tavern this WR was all the III fated otway at the time when the son of the file muses lay dead betterton the celebrated founder of the stage after the restoration was wringing tears from the eyes of the public not for the be famished dead but at his bis own owl fictitious sorrows in ven ice fee preserved it was in great tower street that peter the lie great used to pass his evenings drinking hot pepper and brandy with his boon companion lord car marthen london standard |