ALDGATE HERMITAGE

   In a turret of the City wall near Aldgate built 4 feet without the turret of the said wall in the King's highway (Inq. temp. Ed. I. quoted Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 5).

   Garden on the south side of Alegate called " the Hermitage," 19 Ed. II. (1325). (Cal L. Bk. E. p. 193).

   Brother John, "inclusus de Alegate," 42-3 H. III. was allowed to transfer himself to the hermitage near Cripelgate (Cal. P.R. H. III. I258-66, p. 29).

   There were numerous hermitages in the City in these early times.

   See Anchorites.