Pepper Gale is a gate in the city <>f Chester. It is said that when the daughter of the Mayor eloped, the Mayor ordered the gate to be closed. I Hence the proverb, "When your daughter is stolen, close Pepper Gate''; or, in other words, '"Lock the stable door when the steed, is stolen."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 156, 3 July 1940, Page 13
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