Inscription in Latin by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1587 (1803) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Thames Street Fire

Thames Street Fire

At left is a water barrel on a cart

'Young Man with a Book'

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

Inscription in Latin by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1587 (1803) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Thames Street FireInscription in Latin by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1587 (1803). Copied from the wall of the Beauchamp Tower, Tower of London. Howard (1557 1595) became Catholic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He spent ten years in the Tower of London, although charges of high treason were never proved. He asked the Queen, as he lay dying of dysentery, to allow him to see his wife, and his baby son who had never seen. The Queen told him that if he would