John Dryden black plaque
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# Rose Street, Covent Garden On a bitter December night in 1679, the alley beside the Lamb & Flag tavern became the stage for one of literature's most notorious acts of violence, when the celebrated poet John Dryden was ambushed and brutally beaten by hired assassins—an assault widely believed to h...
Location
Rose Street
Inscription
On the 19th December 1679 in the alley by the Lamb & Flag the poet John Dryden was nearly done to death by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester