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62 THE GROWTH OF THE CITy
zens and their amusements
than about their public
buildings or the topo¬
graphy of the city. ‘True,
he says there were in his
s
aa
infer that he does not in¬
clude Dowgate, the Bridge¬
gate, or Billingsgate. We
know that Aldgate was
opened about sixty years
before Fitz Stephen's time.
Aldersgate also must have
been made very soon after
the Conquest, and prob¬
ably Cripplegate, with its
covered way to the Bar¬
bican, cannot have been
much later. These, with
Newgate and Bishopsgate,
only give us five. For the
ONE OF THE ENTRANCES TO LEADENHALL MARKET sixth and seventh we may
choose either Ludgate—a mere postern, as its name denotes—or the
postern towards the Tower; and conjecture that he included the gate on
the bridge, which was, of course, on higher ground than the water gates.
As a fact we know that a full hundred years after his time the following
only are enumerated as being specially guarded: Ludgate and New¬
gate together, Ludgate being still, in all probability, but small; Alders¬
gate, Bishopsgate, Aldgate, and the " Porta Pontis.” But to resume: