THE SOUTH BEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 1, 1833. 



No. 12.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. II. 



THE PERAMBULATOR, No. VI. 

 HOE GATE. 



Hoe gate, of which a view is annexed, is almost 

 the only remaining evidence of Plymouth having been 

 once a walled town, and, as such, we sincerely hope it 

 may long remain a record of that circumstance. Its 

 situation indeed may lead one to hope, that the hand 

 of modern improvement may not reach it ; for few are 

 the relics of ancient days remaining amongst us. With 

 all our love for specimens of ancient architecture, com- 

 memorative as they are of events in our former history, 

 yet we would not carry this veneration so far, as not 

 to give way to the increased demands of modern soci- 

 ety for further accommodation in our streets, and the 

 avenues to our town ; to satisfy an increased popula- 

 tion, using carriages of all descriptions in a way our 

 ancestors neither did nor could use : we have heard of 

 or seen Gasking's gate. Old-town gate, Frankfort 

 gate, Martin's gate, Cockside gate. Friary gate, and 

 Southside gate pass away one after the other, but we 

 deprecate the destruction of structures because they 

 are old, and, to some men's minds, useless ; whilst the 

 historian must lament their loss as so many illustra- 

 tions of the states and conditions of society at the 

 periods of their erection. In one point of view, and 

 that originally the most important, these gates are no 

 longer required, — namely, security. Thank Heaven ! 

 amidst all our conflicts in arms abroad, and political 

 controversy at home, for nearly a century no hostile 

 array of arms has appeared in our land ; and, though 



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