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THE CITY GOVERNMENT [2] NEWGATE—THE CHAPEL, SHOWING WOMEN S GALLERY it bore at least two older names. The first time we hear of it, in a document which purports to belong to the period of the Mercian kings, but which is probably a forgery of the tenth or eleventh century, it is called Westgate. A little later it is Chamberlain s gate, and we are reminded that William the Chamberlain is mentioned in Domesday as owning a vineyard which must have been on one of the slopes just without the gate. Shortly after the opening of Aldgate the old gate of the Chamberlain became so ruinous that it had to be rebuilt, and, the former names being forgotten, it became the Newgate. The enlargement of St. Paul's eastward Cheap led along a new thoroughfare from the gate. It is perhaps R
