=Cannon Street= is a corruption of =Candlewick Street=, colloquially styled “Can’lwick Street,” from the candlemakers who congregated in it. =Budge Row= received its name from the sellers of budge, or lambskin-fur, which at one time was greatly used as an ornamentation to their attire by scholars and civic dignitaries. =London Stone= marked the centre of the City during its occupation by the Romans in the year 15 B.C. =Watling Street= is a mispronunciation of “Vitellina strata,” meaning the street of Vitellius, who at the time it was constructed occupied the Imperial throne. This was the great highway of the Romans, running from Dover, through Canterbury and London, direct to Cardigan in Wales. =Walbrook=, formerly written “Wall-brook,” reminds us of the pleasant stream of clear water that once ran along the west side of this street and emptied itself into the Thames. =Crooked Lane= was so called from its winding character. =Swan Alley=, in Upper Thames Street, derived its title from an ancient mansion of the Beauchamps whose crest was a swan. =Boss Alley= calls attention to the fact that the executors of Sir Richard Whittington erected a _boss_, or conduit, hereabouts in the long, long ago. =College Hill= is all that remains to remind us of the College of St. Spirit and St. Mary founded on its site by the same generous Lord Mayor and benefactor of the public. =Fye Foot Lane= is properly “five-foot lane,” the actual width of this thoroughfare at one end; while =Duck’s Foot Lane= is a corruption of “Duke’s Foot Lane,” signifying the private path leading from the manor-house of the Dukes of Suffolk in what is now =Suffolk Lane= down to the water-side. =Queenhithe= was so called because the tolls collected at this _hithe_, or wharf, were claimed as pin-money by Eleanor, queen of Henry II. =Dowgate= is a modern spelling of “Dwrgate” (_dwr_ being Celtic for water), where, in the absence of bridges, the Romans had a ferry across the river to the continuation of Watling Street towards Dover. The =Steelyard= was the place where the King’s beam, or _Steel yard_, for weighing merchandise was set up. Foreigners who landed goods here were, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, known as THE STEELYARD MERCHANTS.