Petty Prance

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West of St. Botolph Bishopsgate with a passage to Moorfields. In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Stow describes it as a quadrant separated from St. Botolph's Churchyard by a causeway (S. 166).

In O. and M. 1677, and in Strype's maps.

"Petty France Alley" there in Strype, I 755-Boyle, 1799.

The site is now occupied by New Broad Street (q.v.), built 1730.

Named of Frenchmen dwelling there (S. 166).

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