that William may have tightened up those rules. When the bells rang it symbolised that fires had to be put out to lessen the chances of causing fire to the wooden buildings. Henry goes on to describe how in Norman times the curfew bell rang from St Martin's-le-Grande a church at eight pm. Henry writes that the location of the church is now the General Post Office. "Those bells could be heard far away among the open fields of charing to the west, across the marshy Thames to the south, over the moors to the east and among the forests that lay to the north." He describes the closing of the gates of London which began at the first chime, he writes "There were originally four main gates: Aldgate, on the east; Aldersgate, on the North; Ludgate, on the West; and Bridgegate, to the South bank of the Thames. It was possible, however, for travellers to gain entrance after the first notes of the Curfew by the wicket gates, which were not closed until the last of the warning." At least four bells still sounded at the curfew time every night and they were the bells of Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Tower of London and The Charterhouse. Henry questions why the tradition has been continued, he describes a story from York of a lost traveller who was afraid of being eaten by wolves, heard the bells and followed the sound to safety in Bootham Bar, in thankfulness he donated his money " for the curfew bell to be rung in York forever." Henry describes his visit to Charterhouse at half-past seven, he describes the place as being a slip back through time to the "England of the sixteenth century." "When Carthusian monks were driven from this property, it came at length into the possession of Thomas Sutton, a shrewd Elizabethan soldier who, when on service in the north of the country had foreseen the commercial properties of the Durham coalfield. Coal and marriage with an heiress, made Sutton the richest commoner of his time. It was said that his annual income was £5,000 and his capital over £60,000." Henry writes that Charterhouse was "a school for poor boys and a retreat for old men who had fallen on bad days." Henry describes how 63 old men, bachelors and widows now live here, eat together, attend the chapel once a