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4 tee, GÉTY AS IE 25 223 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 Pe pe a . = see ee a — ti e TSZ azt — | Pay Be he ee ee ee ee a ösi 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 boundary. 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 uncertain, but the city still pays annually six horsehe a "a “ fe vie ee nya | t. 29. § he "(01 te áll % Ki! th ENTRANCE TO MIDDLE TEMPLE LANE
