Petty France
Names
- Petty France
- Petty France Alley
Street/Area/District
- Petty France
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Petty France
- 1720 London (Strype): Petty France
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Petty France
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Petty France
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, 1755–Boyle, 1799.
The site is now occupied by New Broad Street (q.v.), built 1730.
Named of Frenchmen dwelling there (S. 166).
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Petit france, on the E. side of Moor fields, near the E. end of Bedlam, a passage to St. Botolphs church just without Bishopsgate. Stow says it was so called from many French People living there.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Petty France, a large Place, and generally well built. And into this Place is a Passage from Bethlem Street, through Round Court; the West end comes into Moorfields by the Postern Gate: and the East end runneth up to St. Buttolph's Churchyard which fronts one side of it; the other side being a row of nine Alms Houses, of which five belong to Dulwich College; and each House hath four poor Women, of which one in each of the five Houses hath a Gown. The other four Houses, was the Gift of one Mr. Edward Underwood, Apothecary, Grandfather of Mr. Edward Underwood, also Apothecary in Bishopsgate Street living An. 1700.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Petty France, in Bishopsgate Ward, immediately without the City wall, and so called of Frenchmen dwelling there.1 In "the new Church-yard in Petty France, given by the City, and consecrated June 4, 1617," John Lilburne (Free-born John) was interred in 1657 in the presence of 4000 persons.2 Petty France was rebuilt in 1730, and called New Broad Street.
2 Burton's Diary, vol. iii. p. 507.