House and Garden 
THE ENTRANCE GATE—EXTERIOR 
have several curious inscriptions and rude carvings 
scratched by the poor prisoners who have been con¬ 
fined therein. There are several votive crosses and 
crucifixes, and amongst others the following verses: 
MASTER JOHN SMITH, GUNER TO HIS 
MAIESTVE HIGHNES WAS A PRISNER IN THIS 
PLACE, AND LAY HERE FROM 1642 TELL TH 
WILLIAM SIDIATE ROT THIS SAME 
AND IF MY PIN HAD BIN BETER FOR 
HIS SAKE I WOULD HAVE MENDED 
EVERR 1 LETTER 
Guy’s Tower was built by Thomas de Beauchamp, 
the son of the builder of the former tower, in 1394- 
The Bear and Clarence Towers guard the entrance 
to the gardens; the former if not the latter, was erec¬ 
ted by the notorious Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 
afterwards Richard III., and beneath it is a subter¬ 
ranean passage. 
We must now “sound the warder’s horn,’’ or in 
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