This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. "
To bring down this imperfect sketch of Newgate to the present time, it may be
mentioned, that, being found inadequate to the purpose required, the old jail was
pulled down in 1770. “Have you heard things?”
The tears stood in her eyes. But you want one quality, without which all others are
valueless.
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