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D E S C R I B E D,   &c.

Click to show Key popup  Those with this mark generally derived
    their name from the ground landlord, who
    built the street, lane, or alley, &c.

Click to show Key popup  From signs.
Click to show Key popup  From neighbouring places, as churches, &c.
Click to show Key popup  From trees formerly growing there.
Click to show Key popup  From ridicule.
Click to show Key popup  From their situation, as backwards, for-
    wards, with respect to other streets.

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ABBEY Church of St. Peter's,
Westminster.
  Many have been the
fables invented and propagated by
the monks, relating to the original foun-
dation of this ancient edifice; but the
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