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Stub written by Neil Adams, 2011. Edited by Janelle Jenstad, 2012-06. Copy edited by Cameron Butt, 2012-06-11. Reviewed by Janelle Jenstad, 2012-06-19
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. Stow says Mark Lane was so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
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Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. Stow says Mark Lane was so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
Mark Lane, or Mart
Lane, is found on the Agas map west of Herte
Str.
and Sethinge La.
, bearing the
label Marck Lane
. Mark
Lane is also found on Benjamin Cole’s 1754 engraving of Tower Street
Ward
(Cole).