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Tottie (G.R. S.ms -- 1887) "Towre Out, Ben Morts" (S. R.wlands -- 1610)
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Case of the same, conteyneing one Roome above lately used for a lodging chamber, but within these six or seven yeares all the Iron Lead and wood have been taken away and nothing left besides the out walles which are in very good repaire and one Rotten beame which lyeth cross the topp of the said Towre.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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Towre for the further examenacyon of the Abbot, of Glaston ....
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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-- Also upon the Condite in the Croscheping was St. George armed, and a kings daughter kneling afore him with a Lamb, and the fader and the moder being in a Towre aboven beholding St. George saving their daughter from the Dragon, and the Condite renning wine in four places, and Minstralcy of Organ playing, and St. George hauing this Speech under-written. 0 mighty God our all succour celestiall,
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Shops, and the Play-houses, and _Paul's_, and the _Towre_?
Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843
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I, with much pleasure, walked quite round the Towre, which I never did before.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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To Whitehall by water from Towre-wharf, where we could not pass the ordinary way, because they were mending of the great stone steps against the Coronacion.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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So walked home again as far as over against the Towre, and so over and home, where I found Sir
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668
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There was also in the Commons 'House a great quarrel about Mr. Prin, and it was believed that he should have been sent to the Towre, for adding something to a Bill (after it was ordered to be engrossed) of his own head -- a Bill for measures for wine and other things of that sort, and
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Towre, to speak for some ammunition for ships for my Lord; and so he and
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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