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of Farringdon Without and the Middlesex parish of St. Clement Danes,
there could not be any gate. The gates of London were in the walls,
and the walls were far in the rear of such outer bulwarks as the Bars
at the Temple, or in Holborn, or at Bishopsgate Without. Temple
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Bar, as we knew it, was a
triumphal arch, erected in
1670, to supersede a kind
of wooden toll-gate which
had marked the city bound¬
ary. The ground outside,
though in Middlesex, was
rented by the city from the
Crown, together with a
forge; and as the ground,
known as Ficketts Field,
was used by the Templars
for tilting, we may suppose
the forge was an armourer’s
workshop. In Wat Tyler's
rebellions the mob which
poured through the Bars
burnt the forge, the very
site of which is now un¬
certain, but the city still
pays annually six horse¬
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ENTRANCE TO MIDDLE TEMPLE LANE