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A New History of London
… was antiently a spring that produced a rivulet or bourn, which ran down the street westward, and through Lombard-street as far as the … of St. Mary Woolnoth. Here parting into several shares, or rills, and turning Southward, it left a name to …
A New History of London
… Book 2, Ch. 24 Lime Street Ward CHAP. XXIV. Lime-street-ward. Boundaries. … is supposed by Stow to derive its name from the making or selling of lime there. This small ward is bounded on the … times to consult about converting Leadenhall into a burse or exchange for merchants to assemble in, as they did at that …
A New History of London
… guild: which grant was afterward confirmed by a charter or deed of Edward the confessor. In the year 1115, the … and the Minories. White chapel. Whitechapel is a fine wide street, and is the principal eastern entrance into London … the east side of the Minories, is a place containing two or three courts called the Little Minories. Here formerly …
A New History of London
… bounded on the east by Dowgate ward; on the north by Bread-street ward and Cordwainers ward; on the west by Baynard's … wharf, stands the parishchurch of St. Mary Somerset, or as Stow conjectures it, St. Mary Summers-hithe, from some small port or wharf so called from the owner. This church was founded …
A New History of London
… Book 2, Ch. 27 Tower Ward CHAP. XXVII. Tower-street ward. Boundaries. Tower-street, which gives name to … parliament, in which alterations are made every year more or less, as commercial circumstances vary. Hence there are … name of The master, wardens, and assistants of the guild or fraternity of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and …
A New History of London
… Vintners hall now stands, and where the antient Vintners or wine merchants, who lived on the banks of the Thames, … by the Thames. The principal streets are, part of Thames street, from Little Elbow-lane in the east, to Towns end lane … part of which only is in this ward, is the flight of steps or common landing place called the Three Cranes; not, as Stow …
A New History of London
… Boundaries. This ward is denominated from its principal street, which leads from the south west corner of the … dedicated to a St. Osythe, but being either rebuilt, or endowed by Benedict Shorne, a stock fish-monger, in the … took its additional name from its vicinity to a Boat-Haw, or boat builder's-yard, in that neighbourhood. London stone. …
A New History of London
… the old Artillery ground by Devonshire square, Bishopsgate street, was inclosed for their use 5: they were formed into …
A New History of London
… southward of St. Botolph's church, and divided Aldersgate street from St. Martin le Grand; which though within the city … beyond Fann's-alley on the east-side, and at Carthusian-street on the west side of Pickax-street. Plan of Aldersgate ward Principal streets. The …
A New History of London
… from Portsoken ward; it is bounded on the south by Tower-street ward; and on the west and north by Langbourn, … street derives its name from a religious house of crouched or crossed friars which stood there; the prior of which being … convenient building, belonging to the company of Fletchers or Arrow makers, from the French word flche, an arrow. Though …