The gate of a court or court-yard; the gate of the king’s court.
1540. Househ. Ord., 211. Item, the allowance of board-wages to be given to … every of them being lodgd without the Court gate.
1554. in Chron. Gr. Friars, 87. Most traytorys shot at the corte gattes.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. iii. 18. I heare of none but the new Proclamation, That’s clapt vpon the Court Gate.
1659. Rushw., Hist. Coll., I. 165. A Proclamation to proclaim King Charles, which was forthwith published at the Court-Gate at Theobalds.
1676. Sir T. Overbury, Acc. Murder W. Harrison (1743), 5. He did [go] to Mr. Harrison’s Court-Gate.
