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MARYBON lane, Tyburn road.
MARYBON passage, Oxford street.
MARYBON place, Little Castle street.
MARYBON road, Oxford street.
MARYBON street, near Warwick street,
Marybon.
St. MARY BOTHAW, stood on the east side
of Turnwheel lane near Dowgate hill, and
took its additional name, according to the
surmise of Mr. Stowe, from its vicinity to
a Boat haw, or boat-builder's yard in that
neighbourhood. This church, which
was one of the thirteen peculiars belong-
ing to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
having suffered greatly by the fire of Lon-
don, and not being rebuilt, the parish was
annexed to that of St. Swithin.
MARY CLARKE'S yard, Gravel lane.
St. MARY COLECHURCH, stood in the
Poultry, at the south west corner of the
Old Jewry, in Cheap ward, and owed its
additional epithet of Colechurch, to one
Cole, its founder: but suffering the fate
of most of the other public buildings in
1666, and not being rebuilt, the parish
was united to the neighbouring church
of St. Mildred. Stow.
St. MARY OF GRACE, an abbey of Cister-
tian monks, founded in the reign of Ed-
ward III. on Tower hill, where the victu-
alling office is now situated.
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MARY GRAY'S yard, Gravel lane.
St. MARY LA BONNE, thus called from its
being supposed to signify St. Mary the
Good; though its original name, accord-
ing to Maitland, was Maryborne. This
gentleman gives the following account of
the rise of this village, which is now al-
most united to this great metropolis: the
villafe of Tyborne going to decay, and
its church, named St. John the Evangelist,
left alone by the side of the highway, it
was robbed of its books, vestments, bells,
images, and other decorations; on which
the parishioners petitioned the Bishop of
London for leave to take down their old,
and erect a new church elsewhere, which
being readily granted in the year 1400,
they erected a new church where they had
some time before built a chapel, and that
structure being dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, received the additional epithet of
Borne, from its vicinity to the neighbour-
ing brook or bourn.
This village, if it may be still called by
that name, is almost joined by new build-
ings to this metropolis; and the new
buildings this way are now increasing so
very fast, that it will undoubtedly in a very
short time be quite joined, and become a
part of it. The old church, which was a
mean edifice, was pulled down, and a
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