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converted Jews. Its full history, how
many converts it contained, and its
eradual transfer into a record office,
are things which have never been
detailed.
The visitor will observe, when,
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like Dr. Johnson, he takes a walk
down Fleet Street, that his way is,
literally, downhill. He is, in fact,
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descending into the valley from which
the street takes its name. “ Fleet”
is an Anglo-Saxon word which de¬
notes a tidal estuary. The Fleet
was that part of the Hole-bourne
into which the tide from the Thames
flowed and out of which it ebbed.
This ebb and flow probably extended
almost to Temple Bar before the twelfth century. At Temple Bar there
was a spur of higher ground which was reached from Holborn by Fetter
OLD HOUSE BY TEMPLE BAR
and Shoe Lanes. I do not
know the meaning of the
name of Fetter Lane, but the
other name is a corruption
of Show-well Lane, the show
well being some distance to
the northward. The ‘‘ Show”
may have been of rags and
ribbons, such as are still to
be seen round sacred wells
in superstitious countries, —