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colours upon the Port Royal," that is to say the West Gate, are 

 specially named among the booty of Fairfax's men in taking the 

 city for the Parliament in August, 1 645.* 



The East Gate was a little postern towards the river ; it still 

 exists, 'and may be seen in Boatstall Lane, with a small portion 

 of tlie wall extending away to the south, though houses are now 

 built upon it. The piece of castellated wall which we all know 

 opposite the Mineral Water Hospital is another remnant of the 

 wall, though it has been repaired in recent years. Mr. Scartht 

 telle us that " at the back of the circular school building attached 

 to Weymouth House, now the Abbey and S. James's Parochial 

 Schools, it is to be traced, although it has unhappily been cased 

 with modern masonry. It is however traceable between the 

 Weymouth House School and the old school belonging to the 

 Roman Catholics." 



The name Abbey Gate Street, close to Weymouth House, 

 marks the position of the Monks' way through the wall of the 

 city. John Wood, writing about 1749, says that this gate was 

 built in the form of a triumphal arch, and that "the middle 

 aperture and north postern were taken down a few years ago. "J 

 In the wall of the baker's shop at the corner of this street a staple 

 still remains, and fixes the position of the Abbey Gate, called 

 also the Ham Gate, because it led out upon the Ham meadow. 



I said at the oittset that our by-gone walls had a permanent 

 influence on the form of the city. Professor Earle remarks, " As 

 a Town Gate is a point towards which there is a necessary 

 conflux ot the population, it follows that streets on the inside are 

 apt to converge toward a gate, and likewise roads outside radiate 

 jfrom it. "I I You will see how Walcot Street and Broad Street 



* A Fuller Relation of the taking of Bath, by Sir Thomas Fairfax, bis 

 forces, published by Authority, 1645. 



t Aquse Solis, p. 9. 



J John Wood, "Essay on Bath," p. 325. 



II Ancient and Modern Bath, p. 103. 



