Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Lime Street.-South out of Leadenhall Street, at No. 159 to Fenchurch Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate, Lime Street and Langbourn Wards.
Earliest mention : “Limstrate,” 12th century (Anc. Deeds, A. 5853). “Lymstrate,” 32 H. III. (ib. A. 1470).
According to Stow the name is derived from the making or selling of lime there, and we certainly read in early times of a messuage there belonging to Gilbert, son of Fulk, and lands of Ailnoth the limeburner (calcerii) (Anc. Deeds, A. 11559, n.d.).
Lime Street
‘There is a side of a shop, ready furnished with all sorts of millinary goods, to be sold, and the said side of a shop to be let, all at reasonable rates; at the “Naked Boy,” near Strand Bridge. Inquire at the said shop, or at the house of Mr. Van Auker, merchant, in Lime Street.’—1680.
(Curious Adverts, The Book of Days)