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FALL OF THE WATER GATE.
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CAPTIVITY OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS IN THE TOWER. (From an Illumination in the Royal MS.)
enclosed by a front of stone. The London citizens rejoiced when, in 1240, the Water Gate and wall both fell, under the action of high spring-tides. The next year the Barbican fell again, and people said that the spirit of St. Thomas à Becket had appeared, and, indignant at the infringement of