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the Exchequer, and the other the Bur- 

 gefles Gate. The firft was on the weft 

 fide, and in it the Lords' courts were 

 held ; and the other, on the north, had 

 the Burgefles' courts holden in it. Be- 

 fides thefe there were only four towerg 

 in the walls, from one of which, about 

 eighty years before his time, Leland 

 relates that the lead was torn in a 

 ftorm, and carried through the air for 

 near a mile, almoft as far as Whit- 

 church. 



Richard II. made this place into a 

 free borough, and Oueen Elizabeth 

 formed here a body corporate, con fitt- 

 ing of two aldermen, two bailiffs, two 

 coroners, and twenty-five of the higher 

 clafe of burgefles, which were called 

 capital burgelfes, a recorder, and infe- 

 rior officers.*: 



Whitchurch, about a mile diftant, is 

 a white- wafhed ftruclure, dedicated to 



* Pennant, II. 45, St, 



