Lombard street, 1. On the back of Cornhill, extends from the mansion house of the Lord Mayor, to Gracechurch street. Lombard street was anciently, as well as at present, inhabited by bankers, the first of whom were Italians chiefly from Lombardy, whence the word Lombards became anciently applied to all bankers, and this street retained the name of Lombards or Bankers street. Stow. 2. In Coverley’s fields. 3. In White Friars. 4. In the Mint, Southwark.
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- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Some of the illustrations have been moved to be closer to their descriptions.
- The decorative line that separates chapters was missing from chapter “L”. Perhaps because it is the only chapter, after the first, that begins at the top of a page. The decorative line from an earlier chapter was used.
- There is no section for streets and buildings beginning with the letter “I”. They are mixed in with the “J”s.
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.