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had a kind of arcade or bazaar near
where St. Mary le Bow Church stands
now. The names of the streets which
gradually grew up all over the market¬
place enable us to localise the fish¬
mongers, money-changers, milk, honey,
poultry, and wood sellers, the cord¬
wainers or shoemakers, the hosiers, the
ironmongers, the dealers in bread, in
fruit, in salt fish, in hay and grass, and
in pattens or clogs.
All these trades had guilds among
them, which bound their members to
perform certain religious exercises at
Stated periods, and to meet and feast
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BAKERS HALL, HARP LANE