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  • - Pedro on Sat 23 Dec 2006, 11:36pm. Flag this

    Shoreditch…Brewers Phrase and Fable

    according to tradition, is so called from Jane Shore, who, it is said, died there in a ditch. This tale comes from a ballad in Pepys’ collection; but the truth is, it receives its name from Sir John de Soerdich, lord of the manor in the reign of Edward III. 1
    “I could not get one bit of bread
    Whereby my hunger might be fed… .
    So, weary of my life, at length
    I yielded up my vital strength
    Within a ditch … which since that day
    Is Shoreditch called, as writers say.”


    Duke of Shoreditch. The most successful of the London archers received this playful title. 2
    “Good king, make not good Lord of Lincoln Duke of Shoreditch!”—The Poore Man’s Peticion to the Kinge. (1603.)

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