EAST-GATES,
tho the gates of the ancient town were,
some years ago, taken down to render the passage more commodious. In the massy wood of these gates were found balls of a large size, which probably had lodged there ever since the assault made upon the town by king Charles’s forces in 1695, when according to a note in the pocket-book of one Simmonds, a quarter-master in the King’s army, which is now preserved in the Harleian library, “Col. Bard’s Tertia fell on with scaling ladders, some near a flanker, and others scaled the horne work before the draw-bridge on the east side.”
We now advance along the