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Fetter Lane ran north-south between
Holborn Street and Fleet Street, in the ward of Farringdon Without, past the east side of the
church of Saint Dunstan’s in the West. Stow consistently calls this street
Fewtars Lane
, Fewter Lane
, or Fewters Lane
(2:21, 2:22), and claimed that it was so called of Fewters (or
idle people) lying there
(2:39).
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Fetter Lane ran north-south between
Holborn Street and Fleet Street, in the ward of Farringdon Without, past the east side of the
church of Saint Dunstan’s in the West. Stow consistently calls this street
Fewtars Lane
, Fewter Lane
, or Fewters Lane
(2:21, 2:22), and claimed that it was so called of Fewters (or
idle people) lying there
(2:39). The
OED defines [a]n impostor, cheat; esp. a vagrant who shams
illness or pretends to tell fortunes
(OED
Kingsford notes that Fetter Lane is
probably the Viter Lane without Newgate which occurs in
(2:363).
See also: Chalfant 76.