- Sword and Buckler Court
- North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).Afterwards " Horseshoe Court " (q.v.).Name derived from the sign.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Sword and Buckler Court
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