Note 163 — XXXII.—GREAT QUEEN STREET (General.)
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The two gates are referred to in the petition (ascribed to March, 1632), of the Surveyor-General of His Majesty’s Ways, who complained that on the day before the King and Queen went last to Theobalds, he warned Richard Powell, the scavenger for High Holborn, to cleanse the passage between the two gates in Holborn, where many loads of noisome soil lay stopping up the way; but Powell neglected to do this, and at the time of the Royal passage a cart laden with soil stood in the passage blocking the way. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1631–3, p. 298.)