The Cock and Key (Fleet Street)

According to Elijah Williams, The Cock and Key was a tenement building on the east of the Boreshede, belonging to the Prior of Royston, the name of which was in use by the reign of Henry VIII (Williams 1313). Williams also notes that the Cock and Key was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538, when the property was seized from the Carmelites and a large portion of it was relinquished to Sir William Butts, the personal physician of to the King (Williams 1313).

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