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Old Jewry


City, 42, Poultry. (EC2) When the Jews came to London they received this quarter for their residence. Tradition informs us that at the corner of Old Jewry and Cheapside stood the house in which Thomas a Becket was born. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. II, p. 371) .

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