Note 40 — THE TOWER OF LONDON By Harold Sands, F.S.A.
Reading edition
Many curious particulars of this menagerie are to be found in Maitland's History of London, vol. i., p. 172 et seq. In 1754 there were two great apes called "the man tygers" (probably orang-outangs), one of which killed a boy by throwing a cannon ball at him!