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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
Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. All of the street was part of Tower
Street Ward
except the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch
streete
, which were in Langbourn
Ward (Stow). Stow notes
that the street was named after tenements there sometime pertayning to
the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete
(Stow). Stow also makes a definitive link between
the lane and London’s commercial history.
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Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. All of the street was part of Tower
Street Ward
except the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch
streete
, which were in Langbourn
Ward (Stow). Stow notes
that the street was named after tenements there sometime pertayning to
the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete
(Stow). Stow also makes a definitive link between
the lane and London’s commercial history. He states in Mincing Lane
of olde time dwelled diuers strangers borne of Genoa and those parts,
these were commonly called Galley men, as men that came vppe in the Gallies,
brought vp wines and other merchandises which they landed in Thames street, at a place called Galley key
(Stow). Stow is critical of the Genoese of Mincing Lane, who tried to use their own currency
in defiance of English Law (Stow).
Mincing Lane, also known as Mincheon Lane, is drawn on the Agas map east of Mark Lane. It is labelled Mynchen Lane
. Part of Mincing Lane is also featured on Benjamin Cole’s
1754 engraving of Tower Street Ward (Cole).