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I22 THE CITY GOVERNMENT worth while to remark here that the old Roman gate of Lincoln is, for some similar reason, no doubt, at present known as the Newport. Ludgate and Newgate were prisons, the first for citizens only. The Newgate was built just about the time that Henry I gave Middlesex to the citizens, and it was at once appropriated for the use of offenders from that county. There are many complaints in early records as to its inconvenience. So far back as 1419 reference is made to it as "the heynouse gaol of Newgate.” Ludgate had meanwhile also become " heynouse,” so much so indeed that it was abolished as a prison, and city prisoners were sent to Newgate. People are, proverbially, never content, and among other complaints we read that " many citizens’ and other “ reputable persons " died after committal to Newgate, “who might have been living, it is said, if they had remained in Ludgate, uker re abiding in peace EXERCISE YARD IN OLD NEWGATE
