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appertaining to St. Thomas' Abbey. The city, as it greTv westward, 

 "began to encroach on the monastic precincts, for the Abbey, at its 

 foundation, stood at a considerable distance fi'om the walls, and some 

 authoritatiye pronouncement on the extent and nature of the abbot's 

 jurisdiction in this direction must have become necessary. Grilbert's 

 Calendar of Ancient Records of iJvMin (vol. ii.), under the year 1571, 

 mentions houses built on the old horse market in St. Thomas-street, 

 which street Speed's map (1610) shows as then running east of 

 St. Catherine's, and it seems probable that this market lay nearer 

 St. Francis- street and the New Gate. The same calendar (vol. i.^ 

 p. 121) describes ground outside the Ifew Gate, near the Franciscans' 

 convent, the grant of which reserves a place for holding pleas annually 

 during the time of the fair. Another grant is entered, wherein a 

 curtilage in the city land where the fair was held, is mentioned as 

 lying outside the ^Xew Gate, in St. Francis-street. 



