The cause of this uproar was soon manifest. 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. I made a wrong choice, it seems—but my voice remains. We have to hang about in the interval. Curiosity held her by one hand, urging her to recklessness, and caution held her by the other. It was said, that he received an affront from James, in the shape of a public reprimand, which his pride could not forgive. A short way off in the fields he descried a sort of shed or cow-house, and thither he contrived to drag his weary limbs. It was less will than education. I understand.
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