 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 856 pages
...Pudding-lane is so called ' because the butchers of Eastcheap had their scalding-house for hogs-there ; and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, were voided down that way to their dung. boats on the Thames.'* In this lane it was that the dreadful fire of 16GG began. On the house... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1853 - 308 pages
...such a sign there : now, 1598, commonly called Pudding lane, because the butchers of Eastcheape have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, are voided down that way to their dung-boats on the Thames. This lane is chiefly inhabited by basket-makers,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 460 pages
...away, • See ante, p. 227. Itis "commonly called Pudding Lane, because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, are voided down that way to their dung-boats on the Thames." — Stow'a "Survey of London," p. 79.... | |
 | Charles William Heckethorn - London (England) - 1900 - 424 pages
...Lane, of such a sign there, now commonly called Pudding Lane, because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scaldinghouse for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, are voided down that way to their dungboats on the Thames. ' Rotten Row most probably is a corruption... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1902 - 408 pages
...the inhabitants of Lon1 It is " commonly called Pudding Lane, because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, are voided down that way to their dung-boats on the Thames." don that the fire of London was a direct... | |
 | Captain Francis Grose - History - 1931 - 412 pages
...Pudding Lane, London, Stow, 1 598, remarks that it was so called "because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, arc voided down that way to their dung-boats, on the Thames." W.] PUDDING-HEADED FELLOW. A stupid fellow,... | |
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Stow, 1 598, remarks that it was so called "because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings, with other filth of beasts, are voided down that way to their dung-boats, on the Thames. 