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From John Stow, A Survey of London, 2nd ed. (London, 1603; STC #23343):
LAngborne warde, ſo called of a long borne of ſweete water, which of olde time breaking out into Fenchurch Streete, ranne downe the ſame ſtreete, and Lombard ſtreet, to the Weſt end of S. Mary Woolnothes Church, where turning ſouth, and breaking into ſmal ſhares, rils or ſtreams, it left the name of Share borne lane, or South borne lane (as I haue read) becauſe it ran ſouth to the Riuer of Thames, This Warde beginneth at the Weſt ende of Aldgate Warde, in Fenne church ſtreete, by the Ironmongers hall, which is on the North ſide of that ſtreete, at a place called Culuer alley, where ſometime was a lane, through the which men went into Limeſtreete, but that being long ſince ſtopped up for ſuſpition of theeues, that lurked there by night, as is ſhewed in Limeſtreete warde, there is now this ſaid alley a tennis court, &c.
Fenne-church ſtreete tooke that name of a Fennie or Mooriſh ground, ſo made by means of this borne which paſſed through it, and therfore untill this day in the Guildhall of this citie, that ward is called by the name of Langborne, and fennie about and not otherwiſe: yet others be of opinion that it tooke that name of Fænum, that is hey ſolde there, as Graſſe ſtreet tooke the name of Graſſe or hearbes there ſolde.
In the midſt of this ſtreete ſtandeth a ſmall pariſh church called S. Gabriel Fenchurch, corruptly Fan church.
Then haue ye Lombardſtreete, ſo
called of the Longobards, and other Marchants, ſtrangers of diuerſe nations
aſſembling there twiſe euery day, of what originall, or continuance, I haue
not read of record, more then that
On the North ſide of this Warde, is Limeſtreete, one halfe whereof on both the ſides is of this Langborne Warde, and therein on the
Weſt ſide, is the Pewterers Hall,
which companie were admitted to be a brotherhoode, in the 13. of