Petty Prance

Petty Prance
   West of St. Botolph Bishopsgate with a passage to Moorfields. In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Stow describes it as a quadrant separated from St. Botolph's Churchyard by a causeway (S. 166).
   In O. and M. 1677, and in Strype's maps.
   "Petty France Alley" there in Strype, I 755-Boyle, 1799.
   The site is now occupied by New Broad Street (q.v.), built 1730.
   Named of Frenchmen dwelling there (S. 166).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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