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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
Exchange Alley
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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First Reading
in Aqua Scripto • Link
Possible 'change' alley from L&M short popular alley, a short cut from Cornhill to Lombard. A way to get from the Royal Exchange to the Post office
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlates…
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Exchange Alley, the focus of a development project of goldsmith-banker Ald. Edward Backwell (ca. 1618–1683), was described as 'new' in 1662 and after the 1668 post-Fire rebuilding of that part of of London as 'a place of very considerable Concourse of Merchants, Seafaring Men and other Traders.'
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/07/03/#c5340…