- Bowyers
- Makers of long and cross bows. Incorporated 1620.Hall in Bowyers' Court, Cripplegate. Burnt in the Fire and not rebuilt.No hall now.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.
Bowyers
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