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Bury Street
St. James's. (SW1) Properly Berry Street. Named from the ground-landlord, one Berry, a half-pay officer temp. Charles I. He died in 1733, aged about 100 years. Swift, Steele, Crabbe, and Thomas Moore occasionally lodged in Bury Street. Swift paid for a first-floor, a dining room and bed-chamber, eight shillings a week. "Plaguey dear!" (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 481) |
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