Goldsmith's Rents

Goldsmith's Rents
   Seems to have been a name given to Great New Street (q.v.), either to the whole or to some portion of it.
   First mention: L. and P. Chas. II. 1668-9, p. 486, and Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 282.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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