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Starting from the North Gate you will see that the wall followed 

 the line of the Upper Borough Walls and Gascoigne place, 

 and at the angle you will observe that there is what appears to be 

 a tower. It was in fact only a part of the wall raised higher than 

 the rest, though named Gascoigne's Tower. Nothing is known 

 of its origin beyond what is stated in the following sentence from 

 Leland ; but as he writes of the occurrence as within living 

 memory his statement must be taken as reliable. He says* — 



One Gascoyne, an inhabitante of the Toune in hominum memoria, 

 made a little Peace of the Walle that was in Decay, as for a fine for a 

 faught that he had committed in the Cite ; whereof one part as at a 

 Corner risith higher then the Residew ol the Walle, whereby it is 

 communely caullid Gascoyne-Tower. 



The wall then turned down by the Theatre to the West Gate, 

 at the bottom of Westgate Street, passed along New Westgate 

 Buildings into the Lower Borough Walls to the top of Southgate 

 Street, where stood the South Gate. 



It thence passed by two angles to the Abbey Gate, at the 

 bottom of Abbey Gate Street, and thence in a straight line to 

 about the site of the Institution, whence it ran parallel to the river 

 past the East Gate to the bottom of Slippery Lane, where it 

 turned away again from the river to meet the North Gate. The 

 corner near the Orange Grove is the only point where it is sus- 

 pected that the wall has departed from the Roman line, this being 

 to make room for the chancel of the old Cathedral. From the 

 angle of the wall on the west side, near the site of the Royal 

 United Hospital, a wall and a ditch was carried down to the 

 river to add to the security of the city. Leland bears the following 

 testimony to the appearance of these wall in the 1 6th century : — 



The Towne Waulle within the Toune is of no great Eighth to the 

 yes ; but without it is d fundamentis of a reasonable Highth and it 

 Btondeth almost alle, lakking but a peace about Gascoyn's Tower. 



• Itin. II. 34. 



