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which had been put in the store house of the victualling depart- 

 ment at Dover. They decided that it was " very naughty 

 cheese," — "not worth the value of two-pence," and "too evil 

 to be expressed." The word "naughty" seems to have been 

 a favorite one in those days, for it was applied both to the 

 behaviour of tlie Town Clerk and to the cheese which he 

 inspected.* 



Of the other gates of old Dover, we do not know very much. 

 There is an old print of an exceedingly plain and solid gateway, 

 with a portion of cliff behind it, which professes to represent 

 Snar Gate (though some antiquaries doubt its accuracy). This 

 gate was sometimes called South Gate, as the one in Biggin Street 

 was often called North Gate. It appears, from old records, that 

 a new one was erected in 1596 by the Corporation on the site of the 

 old Eoman one, aud, in consequence, we see sometimes mentioned 

 New Gate instead of the old mysterious name of Snar. Some of 

 the materials used in the construction of this '' Newe Gate " are 

 said to have been brought from the disused Church of St. Peter in 

 the Market Place, which stood on the ground lately occupied by 

 the Antwerp Hotel, and the business- premises of Messrs. Carder, 

 Worsfold and Hay ward, Brown, and Igglesden, all of which are 

 built on consecrated gi'ound, whilst no doubt the spot where so 

 many human remains were lately found formed part of its Church- 

 yard. I may mention here, as an instance of a traditionary name, 

 that an old man now in the Union calls the corner where the 

 confectioner's shop stands, "Peter's corner"; he did not know 

 why he so called it, but it always "used to was" as he said. 

 But, to return to Newe Gate, this did not stand for quite one 

 hundred years, for in 1683 it was taken down by order of 

 AVilliam Stokes, Mayor, as we may read on the stone let into 

 tlie front of Mr. Grossman's establishment. Old men sometimes 

 call this the " town liberty stone." 



As to Biggin Gate, we have no idea what it was like, for, 

 apparently, when it was taken, down no artist had thought it 

 worth while to make a drawing of it, nor have we any record as to 

 the date of its building. The site of it is well known, because 

 a tablet was placed in the side of the E.ose Hotel, recording that 

 " Here stood Biggin Gate, taken down by order of the Corporation, 

 July, 1762." This same august body has now pulled down the 

 Rose, and with it the tablet ; but no doubt the latter will be again 

 placed in position when the new street is formed. In 1636 the 

 Corporation, wishing to turn to use a room in the gateway, where 

 once had lived a watchman who sounded alarms, let it to a company 



* See Jeremiah xxiv. 2. " Naughty iigs" as an expression used in the 

 following reign, " very evil that cannot be eaten." Eds. 



